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reporter: we were going basically to the scene of where that missile strike took place last night on that residential building that killed several people because of course there is still a big rescue operation going on there. and we had just arrived at the scene, left our vehicles when the house in front of which our vehicle was parked was hit by a missile strike. it was a really heavy explosion, very close by. i would say maybe 40 or 50 yards from our location. so we then tried to go into a sheltered building. and as we were doing that i turned around, and you could see the second missile hitting the exact same area. we already know that there were people who were severely wounded on the ground there. it s unclear if and how many people were killed. of course right now there s a big rescue operation going on there. but i think it s important for our viewers to understand this area this was in, there was an active search and rescue operation in a residential area. and ....
Expands its presence in the indo-pacific. we know that the latest u.s. defense strategy is aimed towards china. and this is a broader part of that. you can see why china was so angry looking at that map again. just a few weeks ago the u.s. announced they would put a newly organized marine unit on okinawa, japan. that would have advanced capabilities and some advanced antiship weapons. and now this from china s perspective this puts u.s. forces perhaps on the southern side of taiwan in the philippines. the agreement, which was signed when defense secretary lloyd austin was just in manila in the philippines meeting with the leadership there, allows the u.s. to rotate troops through four more bases in the philippines. now neither the u.s. nor the philippines will say what those bases are. a few months ago a philippine military official said the u.s. was looking at bases in the northern philippines and then on the western philippines which is right in the south china sea, most of which chi ....
Its sovereign territory. it s easy to see why china is so angry about this. from the 10,000-foot perspective, there is also the shift in the alignment of the philippines. the previous president rodrigo duterte had moved the philippines more towards beijing, even threatening to kick u.s. forces out of the country. the new u.s. president i m sorry, the new philippine president has come in and sort of realigned closer to washington a move that has not made china happy. oren lieberman, thanks very much for bringing us up to speed on that. meanwhile, president joe biden s son unleashing a legal fight with key figures on the right. hunter biden is requesting criminal investigations into people tied to the release of private information from his purported laptop. hunter biden s lawyers allege that trump allies including rudy giuliani and steve bannon, as well as a computer repair shop owner, broke the law to weaponize materials to smear his father. let s break this down with cnn s senio ....