first images of u.s. strikes on syria and iraq. this is from alkhine in the western province. that orange fireball in the distance appears to be a weapons depot, one of some 85 iranian-linked targets attacked by a variety of u.s. aircraft including long-range b1 bombers like this one which flew nonstop with aerial refueling from here in the u.s. president biden says that today s strike is only the first part of a larger operation being carried out in response to sunday s drone attack on american troops in eastern jordan, which you ll remember killed three soldiers, wounded dozens more. caskets burying those three, the remains of those three returned home today. the president also signaled the united states will not strike targets inside iranian territory and does not seek a wider conflict in the region in what is already one at war. reporting for us tonight from all across the map m.j. lee at the white house, natasha bertrand, ben we hadman in jordan. let s begin, though, at
uk that the unthinkable notion of adding salt is not official united states policy and never will be. thanks for joining us. anderson starts now. tonight, nikki haley s moment to republicans, including the former president, pressuring her to drop out of the race after her defeat last night in new hampshire. president biden s prediction he will be facing donald trump in november and what the new hampshire result sut suggests a the former president s strong and weak points. new reporting that the house ethics committee reached out to the woman matt gaetz alleged lid had sex with when she was a minor. we begin with nikki haley. she s making a case for staying in the race through her home state primary in south carolina a month from now. we will have that shortly. governor haley is speaking in the wake of her second place finish in new hampshire or crushing defeat as the former president put it last night where he is referring to his former u.n. ambassador as nikki bird b
by fire and sparkles of light, and just debris falling all around. cameraman jeff nichols captures the yellow/orange fireball. the explosion blows dangerous chunks of concrete and other debris into the air. you can see in the left corner of the screen that this panel of debris just kind of floats down from the sky and hits one gentleman in the back. nichols arrives at the scene 20 minutes before the blast, expecting to capture utility workers fixing the leak. as a news videographer, you ve done these stories before. it s usually nothing much. you might smell a little bit of gas or propane kind of smell. doesn t ever really amount to anything. this, however, was a different time. nichols sets up his camera at what he thinks is a safe distance, until he realizes the utility workers are not actually sure where the leaking gas is coming from. there was a hesitation from everyone, just an unknowingness of what was happening, of where this gas was coming from, am i in a safe area
location. as you see smoke is starting to dissipate. a first is the huge orange fireball that we saw the very thick black and gray smoke moving an easterly direction beer now the winds have died down a looks like the smoke has died down as well. the crees and have continued to burn and as many pockets of smoke s going on in that area. farquhar s to be here all night. people will still one of their home survived not. one woman on her way to a hospital hours ago to the dismay of the house just- in-time. we re gonna talk to the gentleman who heard the explosion. he is telling us that he had heard and small faction i say natural gas for three weeks in this area and did not know what pg and he had done about it. he told us that the one crew told him to shut his crotch but he does not know if there s any fall back to that. do not know that is connected to the situation. the fire crews are still in this area and they re