coverage of the breaking news out of the middle east and the u.s. strikes continues with ac 360. good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight with breaking news. american-led air strikes in one of the most volatile hot spots in the world right now. mitts is some of the first video of explosions tonight in yemen s just north of the capital. iranian backed houthi fighters from yemen have been attacking commercial ships in the nearby red sea. there s been dozens of attacks. tonight u.s. and british forcevise struck back using air and naval assets. both surface ships and submarines with one houthi official moments ago saying multiple cities had been hit. cnn s oren leiberman at the pentagon for us tonight. m.j. lee at the white house where the president has just weighed in. i want to start at the pentagon. oren, what do we learn so far about the targets that have been hit? reporter: more than a dozen different targets were hit by u.s. aircraft and assets. it was also
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the importance of the red sea cannot be denied. if you look down here this is the strait which an absolutely critical narrow area that ships go through into the red sea and then up to the suez canal. there were more than a dozen strikes across yemen from north to south across a variety of targets. we re learning more and more by the minute really of what these targets were, but they were in five different locations if not more in and around the capital, and then in several other locations up and down this north-south axis in yemen. we are hearing both from the coalition that carried out these strikes as well as the houthis. the houthis have said a number of air bases and airports were hit along with several camps.
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