u.s. taking action for the first time based on intelligence recovered in the january raid in yemen that killed a navy seal. sources telling cnn the u.s. is now looking to track and locate hundreds of people with ties to al qaeda. those contacts are part of the recovered intelligence some of these people are believed to be in the west, though not in the united states. cnn's barbara starr with more now from the pentagon. >> reporter: dave, christine, u.s. officials are insisting to cnn that they did get valuable intelligence from that raid back in january that killed the u.s. navy seal and led to the death of several civilians on the ground. none of it can be absolutely verified because the intelligence is classified. but officials say that they are now taking action to monitor, look for hundreds of contacts that they got on some of the