Mary Louise Kelly

time, the U.S.

and Israel launched military strikes.

Those strikes targeted Iran's top leaders, Supreme Leader Khamenei and President Massoud Pesachkin.

trying to kill them.

That is according to a person briefed on Israel's operation who spoke to NPR.

Iran has responded, launching missiles at Israel, also at Saudi Arabia, also at Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, a whole list of countries that host U.S.

troops.

Here with me to talk this through, Greg Myrie, who covers national security, and Daniel Estrin,

NPR's international correspondent based in Tel Aviv.

Hi, you two.

So we're going to take a deep breath.

We may take more than one as we go.

I just want to walk step by step through what we know and acknowledge what we don't.

Daniel, kick us off.

Where were you?

How did you learn in the wee hours of this morning that these strikes were underway?

You were filing hours before I woke up into all of our newsroom channels.

You were filing those air raid sirens going off.

Just to be clear, you're safe.

You're talking to us from a safe place.