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What we re going to see is terrorist activity, pinpoint targeting. they re going to go after the morale of those nations and corporations, erin, as you already indicated. 90 plus percent of the world s commerce pass through the suez into the red sea. so the message that the houthis want to get across with these kinds of pinpoint attacks very consistent, they re not going to give up on it unless, of course, this is successful is those organizations are going to say i m going to go elsewhere, which means you re going to bear the cost of my rerouting my distribution requirements. so the houthis that demonstrated what they re up to, but there s not going to be a magnificent change in terms of their capabilities. we re not going to have the images that we have right now of what we see in gaza. and oren, as we look at this video and there s going to be more, we understand here from houthi official posting on twitter, which is where some of this plays out that there were raids in four plac ....
From it. this targets the capabilities and tries to degrade the capabilities they have used to attack international shipping lanes over the course of the past several weeks and months, anderson. and oren, talk about the coalition that the u.s. has has involved in this. reporter: this is quite interesting. the u.s. and the u.k. from what we understand took part in the kinetic part of this operation in terms of firing the missiles and carrying out the strikes. but they were backed by a number of other countries here including austral you, bahrain, canada, and the netherlands. the u.s. was making sure this wasn t a unilet ral action and that they had international support. part of that was a diplomatic effort. there was a u.n. council resolution passed warning the houthis to stop international shipping in the red sea. there was also a joint statement put out by a number of countries in the u.s. effectively warning the houthis of the same thing that clearly didn t do anything to stop ....
Respond and is it enough or will the u.s., the uk and others feel compelled to act again. lots of questions left. thank you so much, oren, for that reporting. let s talk about it more with cnn s jim sciutto, cnn s national correspondent. and dan la moth, national security reporter for the washington post. nice to see you all. jim, put this in context for us. listen, the u.s. was already involved as a player here in that they were a target. u.s. ships as well as ships from countries all over the world in the red sea, u.s. forces in iraq and syria, all by iran-backed proxies and the houthis are one of them. so it is clear that basically u.s. patience ran out here. what u.s. officials were telling me last night it was tuesday s attacks that were the straw that broke the camel s back. it was some 20 drones fired specifically at u.s. ships in the red sea, including a ship carrying jet fuel. the concern was had one of those ....
These strikes certainly do carry a real risk of escalation right now. give us your reaction. yeah, wolf. the big situation here with these strikes is that, first of all, they are going to hit some of the targets as oren mentioned a highly likely target. there are a lot of anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles located in that area. as far as the escalation, the possibilities of escalation are concerned, what can happen here is that the houthis are going to respond first to the u.s. ships and british ships in the red sea. then they could possibly target installations in saudi arabia. that could very much inflame tensions throughout the southern arabian peninsula at this particular point. so i think we re going to see some major activity in the next 24 hours or so. yeah, i think you re absolutely right. oren, i know the u.s. had sought to avoid this escalation, this ....
The pentagon to release a statement on the secretary of defense, lloyd austin, and his hospitalization and the pentagon is still facing questions about why it took so long to inform the white house and other security leaders that the defense secretary had been taken to the hospital in an ambulance. oren, tell us what is happening at this point? what is the pentagon doing to make sure this doesn t happen again? reporter: the key effort there is to make sure that this 30 day review of notification procedures is moving forward, that was ordered by the defense secretary s chief of staff to make sure this doesn t happen again. a situation where austin is in the hospital for an extended period of time, he was under general anesthesia when he came in and though there had been a delegation of responsibilities, no one knew that he was under general anesthesia, it seems and it took days the second time when he went back on new year s day, for others to find out, including president biden. an ....