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This evening the state department telling americans to leave iraq for their own safety richard engel is there and has the latest. >> reporter: the aftermath shows an attack that was deliberate and sustained with around a half dozen explosions, the americans firing with drones iran's general, qasem soleimani. he had reportedly just gotten into iraq from beirut and was leaving baghdad airport when he was killed in a convoy of vehicles along with a top iraqi militia leader president trump tonight. >> soleimani was plotting imminent and sinister attacks on american diplomats and military personnel...

Regime change, he is ready to retaliate if iran seeks revenge. >> if americans anywhere are threatened, we have all of those targets already fully identified and i am ready and prepared to take whatever action is necessary. >> reporter: now new fallout here at home. >> this is the equivalent of the iranians asass mating the u.s. secretary of defers. >> >> reporter: democrats demanding details about the strike slammed by some as reckless whe reckless with the concern the president is overstepping his authority. is that a justification enough in your view for this strike to have been carried out...

Coffins. celebrations in syria as president assad's critics express joy over their enemy's death. an exodus of american oil workers from basra in northern iraq, obeying an emergency order from the state department to get out now. extreme caution in israel which deployed tanks to the golan heights bordering syria while u.n. peacekeepers beefed up patrols between israel and lebanon. 3,500 more u.s. troops are being ordered to the region from ft. bragg. the rest of the global response continuing the build-up in kuwait and potentially baghdad. around the world u.s. embassies are on high alert. sta...

Official told reporters today. qasem soleimani was no ordinary general the u.s. officially classified him as a terrorist, but in iran he was a national hero specifically, soleimani was in charge of spreading iranian influence around the world and he was extremely good at it. smart, charismatic, ruthless, strategic and bold soleimani knit together a loyal network of armed groups from iraq to syria, lebanon to afghanistan. any time iran attacked oil tankers in the persian gulls and denied it, or attacked oil facilities in saudi arabia and denied that, too u.s. officials saw soleimani's handiwork...

I appreciate being brought into the orbit. >> reporter: the president's party largely united in praising the strike, arguing the world is less dangerous now after the death of the leader of an organization branded terrorists by the administration. >> this terrorist leadership has been ended. >> the president took decisive action, he took the right action and, candidly, it's one that will save american lives >> reporter: and late tonight here in south florida the president said he believes that soleimani had been planning what he described as a very major attack i'm told by sources close to the...