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Breaking news this hour. as a second night of strikes are happening in yemen as we are learning the u.s. has carried out more strikes against houthi targets there, specifically a radar facility that was used by the iranian-backed militant group. tonights action carried out solely by the united states. its different than what we saw happening last night, which was multinational. its also much smaller in scale than the strikes we saw last night. and it targeted dozens of houthi positions across no...

Breaking news. a new round of air strikes on iranian backed houthi targets in yemen. a day after american and allied forces hit dozens of locations there. cnns oren leiberman is at the pentagon tonight. so whats happened? >> reporter: anderson, a second night of u.s. strikes in yemen. weve learned from a u.s. official that the u.s. carried out another set of strikes. these much smaller than what we saw yesterday where we saw the u.s. target 28 different houthi sites. this specifically targets a ...

20,000 civilians, according to palestinian authorities. joining us now is nbc news correspondent and covering national security and the military. courtney, do you have any intel about why the radar facility was targeted here? >> yeah, so the radars can be used for a number of things, particularly, they can be used to target a ship out in the red sea which is one of the major ways that we have seen the houthis really there and commercial shipping and the southern red sea in recent weeks. weve see...

Previously. the u.s. targeted 30 houthi sites across the country with more than 150 precision-guided missiles including radar sites, command and control nodes as well as storage and launch facilities for anti-ship ballistic missiles, anti-cruise ship missiles as well as drones and those are the sorts of weapons houthis used to target international shipping lanes in the red sea, one of the most critical international water ways in the world. following that series of strikes we saw according to th...

The houthis have also to retaliate after the first wave of attacks and i think what happened overnight was that the us said these attacks were a follow up action following the first wave of attacks, they said these recent strikes targeted the radar facility is being these recent strikes targeted the radarfacility is being used by the houthis in yemen, we havent had any confirmation about the location that has been hit, there are reports from yemen suggesting the capital sanaa was hit. this was a...

Missile attacks on commercial ships in the red sea. phil mud is a former cia counter terrorism official and the author of several books on intelligence and the cia, phil, great to see you. >> thanks. >> so this second strike appears to be aimed at a radar facility that was being used to target ships in the red sea. do we have a sense yet of how much these attacks have actually diminished houthi capabilities? >> i think you used the right word and that is about diminish. this is about deterrence,...

Thursday, and now were seeing even more attacks and more targets. what can you show us here? >> the big thing here is these are the latest attacks. so what we used was the platform of the "uss carne," a cruiser that has tomahawk missiles on board. so they fired the hoo go after radar facility near the capital of sana. this was different from thursdays attacks which had a multination coalition that was basically part of it. from a military perspective, it was the us and uk. rest of these countrie...

Delays and cancellations. theres no question that with all of these storms, including severe storms popping up and happening over some of the key hubs in the country, its created a lot of challenges for the system. >> speaking of what is in your control, though, and in the faas control, there are critical air traffic control facilities that are well below -- im sure you all know what they should be on staffing, including the radar facility in new york. for that one, for example, do you know when...

Now, already a couple times this year, we have heard that memorial day for example, the busiest day at the time since the pandemic. that went quite well in terms of delays and cancellations. but there is no question, with all of these storms, including severe storms popping up, and happening over some of the key hubs in the country, it has created a lot of challenges for the system. >> speaking of what is in your control though, and in the faa s control, there are critical air traffic control fa...

A sudden, six months ago it rapidly accelerated. are the chinese now thinking of weaponizing some of the regional allies theyve built through belt and road initiative? their economic leverage program across the world. its also noteworthy that the chinese have had, based on media reports, a radar facility just south of havana all, you know and thats not coincidental, i dont think. near where the soviet union had a facility, also, up until 2002 and now we understand the russians are talking about ...