Good evening. I'm on the Navas and I'm Jeff Bennett on the news hour tonight.

An uptick in food, housing, and energy prices complicates efforts to lower the pace of inflation

and interest rates.

A judge hears closing arguments in former President Donald Trump's months long civil fraud trial.

And before an international court, South Africa accuses Israel of committing genocide

against the Palestinian people.

This is going to make continuing military support, certainly for Israel, maybe even

for an assistance of various kinds to Israel news hour. The United States and Britain are launching strikes

tonight against hooty targets in Yemen. The strikes are in response to numerous

attacks against shipping vessels in the Red Sea in recent months.

Nick Schifrin joins us now for the latest.

Nick, so what do we know at this hour about these US strikes?

Amina, U.S. official confirms that more than a dozen strikes have been hit inside Yemen with tomahawk

missiles fired by ships in the Red Sea as well as jets that were flying off of

those ships. The targets include logistical hubs, air defense systems, and weapon storage

site. And the weapons storage sites that we're talking about are the weapons that the

huthies have been using in order to attack U.S. ships and commercial ships in the Red Sea, that means drones,

ballistic and cruise missiles.

Before this strike, I talked to former military officials who told me that the US does have

intelligence that they believe that can degrade huthie capabilities,

degrade the ability for the huthies to attack these ships, both commercial and military,

and even earlier a few months ago try and attack Israel.

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