good morning. welcome to "new day," tgif. it is friday, we made it, december 27th. 6:00 in the east. we have breaking news, a car bomb takes out a former ambassador to the u.s., a powerful explosion in beirut killed at least five people, 70 more injured. who was behind the plot to kill the official and why? mohammed jamjoom is live in istanbul with the latest. what do we know? >> reporter: well, chris, this is a very disturbing development at a time when lebanon is already on edge. this happened in the last few hours, an assassination targeted today was a former finance minister in lebanon, a former lebanese ambassador to the u.s. nobody has yet claimed responsibility, but all indications seem to show that this was yet more spillover of violence from the syrian civil war, which is raging right next door to lebanon. now, in the last few months, you've had several car bombs in different parts of the country, some targeting militant shiite