were killed in all. u.s. forces surrounding him early thursday morning in the syrian village not too far from the turkish border. witnesses describe a standoff pun khau waited by a blast. john kirby briefed the press on the raid a short time ago. we have no doubt that his death will have a blow on isis and their potential to conduct future operations. i do want to remind that they are still a threat, and we re not nobody is taking a victory lap here. we re going to stay at this. they still remain a threat and they still espouse this extreme ideology and intent to kill, to maim and terrorize. he was named the top leader of isis in 2019 after his predecessor was killed in a u.s. raid. the president addressed the special forces operation from the white house earlier this morning. this operation is testament on america s ability to reach out and take out a terrorists no matter where they hide around the world. a strong message to terrorists around the world. we will come an
along with the coordinator in africa. brett mcgurk, both interviews live this hour. and president biden in new york city meeting with state and local leaders on gun violence, and exclusive nbc reporting as we re coming on the air. the chunk of change the president is throwing out to prevent a breakdown. i m hallie jackson. courtney is at the pentagon, and kristen welker is at the white house. there have been a lot of new details since early this morning when we heard about this strike, when we heard about this raid. so let s talk about the timeline here because we have new pieces of that. at first, we know it was about a two-hour mission, months in the making according to spokesperson for the pentagon, john kirby, and once u.s. special operations forces arrived, they secured and isolated the compound. they got on their bull horns and they were asking people inside to get out. not too long after that, the isis leader sit off a bomb on the third floor, and then a bun fight st
it s saturday, 13th january. our main story: the united states has confirmed it s carried out a fresh strike on a houthi target in yemen overnight, a day after both the us and uk carried out a series of raids on the iran backed group. the operation follows an attack by houthi rebels on commercial shipping vessels in the red sea. the group have said attacks in yemen will not go without punishment or retaliation . graham satchell reports. before and after satellite images show the impact of the american and british bombing raids. the americans say airfields and weapons storage depots were destroyed. the raf didn t take part in the attack overnight, but both the british and americans say the raids are vital to keep shipping routes open in the red sea. houthi militia have been targeting container ships off the yemeni coast for weeks. sometimes, like this, they have boarded vessels. in other attacks, they used drones and missiles. they say they are disrupting this key shipping
that s where you would normally see a famous bridge there, but we re going to go right now to nbc s jesse kirsch, who s in grand rapids for us. welcome, chevy. how bad is it where you are? how much worse is it going to get, not only there, but across the nation as well? yeah, alex. i don t know if you could hear it, but it is the wind that s hitting us hard right now. we are in grand rapids, michigan. the western part of this state. this part of michigan, as well as western new york and the buffalo area, could be seeing a lot more snow over the next couple of days. there s a possibility in the buffalo area, because of lake effect snow bands, that we could be seeing three more feet of snow in the buffalo area in some parts, stretching into monday. the bills were supposed to have a big game this weekend. that game has been postponed because of the weather conditions that are expected in that parts of western new york. over the next couple of days. it s just these wind gusts h
elton, lovely to see you, lovely to talk to you. congratulations on the book i ve thoroughly enjoyed it. there s something that s not in it. i came to watford with leicester city a long time ago around 79 80 and one of our players got a terrible gash in his leg and was carried off and had to have stitches in the dressing room and you went down to comfort him. do you have any memory of that? i don t. that was me. really, i don t. that was me. it was you? it was me. and you came down in the second half to see if i was all right, and that s something that s always stuck with me. and it was a very special moment, yeah. you ve got the book, watford forever. why now? why are you doing that book now? i was approached byjohn preston, who wrote the book, and said, it s a really interesting subject and i thought, yeah, it has i haven t really talked about it and i wanted to get my side of the story out because i think we weren t given enough credit for what we did. and als