Greg Myrie

Reports of shooting in and around the Strait of Hormuz.

of the U.S.

and commercial ships on the move.

It was hard to make sense of it.

We finally got some clarity when Admiral Brad Cooper, the head of Central Command in the Middle East, held a hastily arranged conference call with U.S.

journalists in Washington.

So he said multiple U.S.

Navy destroyers passed through the strait going into the Gulf itself and assisted these two U.S.

flagged commercial ships coming out of the Gulf and going through the strait in the other direction.

Now, these commercial ships and the new U.S.

Navy ships all came under attack from Iran.

Cooper said the U.S.

forces shot down the incoming drones and missiles and that U.S.

helicopters sank six Iranian small boats.

Iran also fired across the straight and hit the United Arab Emirates.

It fired missiles and drones.

It set off a major fire at the country's largest oil storage facility.

This was the first time the Emirates had come under attack since the ceasefire.

Yeah, Cooper said the military has set up what he called a defensive umbrella across the Strait of Hormuz.

Now, we've heard a lot of talk about a possible U.S.