Greg Myrie

Yeah, the U.S.

targeted several sites along Iran's coast.

These were military facilities in and around the Strait of Hormuz.

These are the places where Iran fires missiles and drones at ships in the Gulf and neighboring Arab countries.

U.S.

Central Command said the U.S.

operation began a little after midnight here in the region, and it lasted for nearly four hours.

Now, toward the end of that, President Trump spoke with Fox News, said the U.S.

had fired 49 Tomahawk missiles.

There were also jet fighter planes involved.

And he said this was taking place was because, as we just noted, Iran was taking too long to negotiate.

Yeah, I'd hate to make a sort of definitive call on that right now, but this began a couple weeks ago with regular shooting incidents, and now we're seeing a significant fire in both directions.

Just to recap the president this week, on Monday he told Iran and Israel to stop trading missile fire.

He said he was close to a deal with Iran to end the war.

Then an Iranian drone took down a U.S.

Apache helicopter.

Now, we've had two consecutive nights of the U.S.

and Iran trading fire.

And Trump is saying more will be coming tonight if Iran doesn't reach a deal.

So we're definitely moving up the escalation ladder.