we continue breaking news coverage this evening of u.s. air strikes against iran-backed militias in iraq and syria. the military action is a sharp escalation in the administration s effort to stop the rising threat from the iran- backed groups across the middle east. earlier this evening, u.s. central command released video of one of the c1 bombers used to carry out the air strike. and in a call the national security council spokesperson laid out the details of the attack. the u.s. military forces struck more than 85 targets and seven facilities utilized by iran s islamic revolutionary guard corps who was responsible three of the facilities in iraq, four of them are in syria. numerous aircraft, including b1 bombers, dispatched from the united states were involved in this operation, firing more than 125 precision guided munitions over the course of about 30 minutes. target facilities included command and control centers as well as headquarters buildings and intelligence
terrorist attacks are not made in kyiv but in washington. kyiv is executing what it is told to do. such attempts to disown kyiv and in washington are absolutely ridiculous. to be clear, ukraine has vehemently denied any involvement in the attack but moscow insists ukrainians were trying to assassinate putin. overnight we saw russia unleash a wave of its own drones on kyiv and other ukrainian cities. they had handwritten messages on them reading for the kremlin and from moscow. matthew, such an escalation. the biden administration has been adamant it is not helping or encouraging ukraine to carry out attacks inside of moscow. these baseless claims without evidence from the kremlin in the last 24 hours are striking. yeah, well, striking perhaps, yes, but also typical of the kremlin to say that the attacks against the are not necessarily orchestrated by ukraine, but someone else is pulling the strings. of course, it s the united states and it s the sort of broader west
hurricane ian. 76 people were killed, after the storm tore through the state, governor ron desantis says more than 1,600 rescues have been made since the storm struck. this left some communities unrecognizable. littered with wrecked homes as well as boats, as as you saw there. more than 628,000 customers are still without power and the destruction may just be coming to light. governor ron desantis is defending officials in lee county where half of the storm related deaths have been ann announced. they re facing criticism for issuing evacuation orders a day later than the neighboring county. here s what nadia romero was told. is that one of the things you ll be reviewing once we get out of the i can t aftermath. lee county should have had the evacuation order sooner from what we reviewed? the issue is they informed people and most people did not want to do it. that s the reality. you re in a situation, are you going to grab somebody out of their home that doesn t want to
Ukraine, but someone else is pulling the strings. of course, it s the united states and it s the sort of broader western alliance. i mean, this has been the narrative that the kremlin has tried to put across from the outset since launching its war more than a year ago. what is it, 14, 15 months ago now to conquer ukraine. it s doing that too stop ukraine falling into the hands of the western military alliance, specifically under the sway of the united states. and so through the prism in moscow, all of this action, these dramatic images we are seeing here again of these apparent drones exploding over the dome of the senate palace inside the walls of the kremlin, that was all orchestrated, the material was supplied by the targeting information was given by the united states. that s the kremlin line. of course, as you mentioned, the united states is, obviously,