WITH TREY YINGST.
TREY?
>> BILL, GOOD MORNING.
OVERNIGHT THOSE 15 BALLISTIC
MISSILES FIRED FROM IRAN TOWARD
THAT IRAQI MILITARY BASE THAT
DOES HOUSED AMERICAN TROOPS.
ACCORDING TO DEFENSE OFFICIALS,
TEN OF THE MISSILES DID HIT THE
INTENDED TARGET.
ONE OF THEM STRIKING A BASE NEAR
THE CITY OF ERBIL IN NORTHERN
IRAQ.
FOUR OF THEM FAILED.
REPORTS INDICATE THAT IRAN
VERBALLY INFORMED THE IRAQIS OF
THE STRIKES ARE BEFORE THEY
OCCURRED.
THEY ALSO REPORTEDLY NOTIFIED
FINLAND, A NEUTRAL INTERMEDIARY,
WHO LIKELY NOTIFIED U.S. FORCES.
HERE IN BAGHDAD OVER NIGHT WE
SAW ACCENT OF HELICOPTER AND
FIGHTER JET ACTIVITY.
A LOT OF MILITARY MOVEMENT, BUT
NO STRIKE KNEW THE IRAQI BASES
THAT I WAS U.S. TROOPS NEAR
BAGHDAD.
THERE IS CONCERN TODAY THAT THIS
RESPONSE.
IRAQI
MILITIAS DESPITE CONFIRMATION NO
CASUALTIES IN THE STRIKE LAST
NIGHT, THE IRANIANS ARE
CLAIMING VICTORY.
>> Translator: WELL, LAST
NIGHT WE SLEPT.
THESE MILITARY ACTIONS ARE NOT
ENOUGH.
WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS THAT THE
CORRUPT PRESENCE OF AMERICA IN
THIS REGION COMES TO AN END.
>> ALL THE MAJOR INTERNATIONAL
AIRLINES, INCLUDING EMIRATES,
ROYAL JORDANIAN, AND EGYPT
AIR AVENUE CANCELED FLIGHTS IN
AND OUT OF BAGHDAD.
ADDITIONALLY, WE ARE GETTING
REPORTS THAT THE UNITED NATIONS
IS EVACUATING THEIR POST IN
BAGHDAD'S GREEN ZONE OFF TO MY
LEFT.
