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Breaking news this hour. as a second night of strikes are happening in yemen as we are learning the u.s. has carried out more strikes against houthi targets there, specifically a radar facility that was used by the iranian-backed militant group. tonight's action carried out solely by the united states. it's different than what we saw happening last night, which was multinational. it's also much smaller in scale than the strikes we saw last night. and it targeted dozens of houthi positions across northern yemen. all of this is going on as something the white house is watching closely. the houth...

Breaking news. a new round of air strikes on iranian backed houthi targets in yemen. a day after american and allied forces hit dozens of locations there. cnn's oren leiberman is at the pentagon tonight. so what's happened? >> reporter: anderson, a second night of u.s. strikes in yemen. we've learned from a u.s. official that the u.s. carried out another set of strikes. these much smaller than what we saw yesterday where we saw the u.s. target 28 different houthi sites. this specifically targets a radar facility according to a u.s. official use by the houthis. also worth noting last night's st...

20,000 civilians, according to palestinian authorities. joining us now is nbc news correspondent and covering national security and the military. courtney, do you have any intel about why the radar facility was targeted here? >> yeah, so the radars can be used for a number of things, particularly, they can be used to target a ship out in the red sea which is one of the major ways that we have seen the houthis really there and commercial shipping and the southern red sea in recent weeks. we've seen what these launch of one-way attack drones, smaller drones that are packed with explosives. the g...

Previously. the u.s. targeted 30 houthi sites across the country with more than 150 precision-guided missiles including radar sites, command and control nodes as well as storage and launch facilities for anti-ship ballistic missiles, anti-cruise ship missiles as well as drones and those are the sorts of weapons houthis used to target international shipping lanes in the red sea, one of the most critical international water ways in the world. following that series of strikes we saw according to the pentagon the houthis launch an anti-ship ballistic missile into the gulf of aidan. it didn't hit a...

The houthis have also to retaliate after the first wave of attacks and i think what happened overnight was that the us said these attacks were a follow up action following the first wave of attacks, they said these recent strikes targeted the radar facility is being these recent strikes targeted the radarfacility is being used by the houthis in yemen, we haven't had any confirmation about the location that has been hit, there are reports from yemen suggesting the capital sanaa was hit. this was a much more targeted operation but again it shows the american —— the americans are still going ...