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It was carried out by three u.s. c warships and a u.s. submarine. the french launched from a ship. in the air two b-1 bombers launched strikes along with french and british fighter jets. it's located in damascus. missiles made it past heavy air defenses without being shot down. >> it does not exist anymore. we believe they have lost a lot of equipment. they've lost a lot of material and it will have a significant effect on them. i think the words cripple and degrade are good, accurate words. >> reporter: as bashar al assad calmly walked into work today, it's unclear if he's hearing those words...

Him from doing this again. >> reporter:-shortly after these horrific videos emerged of an april 7th chemical weapons attack in a damascus suburb that the pentagon began planning for military strikes. the target list, a chemical research center in damascus and two chemical weapons in equipment storage facilities located west of homes. the pentagon said there were no reports of civilian casualties and all the military objectives for this strike were achieved. >> i believe we took the heart of it out with the attacks accomplished last night. i won't say they will be unable to conduct a chemical a...

The fact the turks was supportive as well and their foreign ministry came out with a show of support on this. turkey has been a tricky partner. they have been tricky. they had recent conversations with the iranians and the russians. the fact the turks are getting on our side. the fact the syrian missile defense did not work is a pretty significant change in our cunniku understanding of the battle space. the fact that one of the strikes was inside damascus and their missile defense shot after our attacks with over. not only are the syrians scratching their head about maybe we aren't as protecte...

New today leaders of france and britain say they've spoken to president trump by phone. they say they discussed last night's missile strikes on syria's chemical weapons facilities and that they were all satisfied it was a successful mission. joining me is independent journalist danny mackey, who is inside damascus. danny, were you able to hear the strikes and have you been able to see any of the damage? >> actually, incidentally yesterday evening in the early hours, i was not able to just hear the strikes but the strikes actually awoke me. it began with 10 or 11 different rockets in different ...

This battle in the skyline of damascus. it was something which is really out of a film because you don't expect to be in this situation where you're actually coming very close to a u.s. tomahawk missile. so in the initial hours of the strike, it was pretty traumatic, it was quite shocking from the perspective of many civilians in damascus, after the previous 48 hours where it seemed this was going to turn into something between russia and the united states. after the attack, which lasted for about an hour, it became clear that three different military targets were struck around damascus and ot...