Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. I'm the Navaz is away. On the news hour tonight, more details emerge about the deadly U.S. strikes on alleged drugboats off the Venezuelan coast as tensions rise across the region.

An exclusive interview with Mohammed Ibrahim and his father, after the teen, who was a U.S. citizen, spent nine months in an Israeli jail.

He even asked us, am I dreaming? Am I really out? We told him, yes, you're out. It's done. It's over. You're back safe with your family.

And our conversation with music power couple Alicia Keys and Swiss Beats, who are spotlighting

giants of contemporary art in a new exhibition drawn from their private collection.

There are sculptures in here.

There are all these incredible different mediums, and all of them will take your breath away.

Music incredible different mediums and all of them will take your breath away.

Welcome to the News Hour. It was the first attack in the Trump administration's new campaign in the Caribbean, and it has become the most contentious.

A U.S. official tells the PBS News Hour tonight the U.S. military struck an alleged drugboat four times on September 2nd. And today, President Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth defended the attack, but also distanced themselves from the follow-on

strike that targeted people who weren't killed by the first strike. Nick Schifrin joins us now.

So, Nick, what have you learned about what happened on September 2nd?

Well, exactly what you just said, Jeff. The U.S. military struck that boat on September 2nd

four times, according to a U.S. official speaking to me today, the official said that

after the first strike, there were people on board who were not killed, the second strike targeted

them, the third, and fourth strikes were designed to sink the boat. Now, why is this important? As of

last week, all we knew from President Trump is that there had been a single strike on a boat that he said

carried 11 narco terrorists.

Then last week, we learned of a second strike was reporting in the Washington Post and others,

but we didn't know until today that the military needed four strikes to destroy the boat,

which will be crucial when it comes to the legality of these strikes.

And also, as you said today, President Trump's Secretary of Heggseth, speaking at the White

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