Happening now, new U.S. air strikes.

The Pentagon targets what it says are ISIS terrorists in Nigeria, where President Trump

says Christians are being attacked.

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Southern California is now bracing for life-threatening floods and mud flows. Welcome to our viewers

here in the United States and around the world.

I'm Wolf Fletzer. Pamela Brown has the morning off, and you're in the situation room.

Do this morning, we're learning more about deadly strikes the United States has now launched.

It says the target was the terror group ISIS in Nigeria. The Pentagon says multiple ISIS terrorists,

their words, multiple ISIS terrorists were killed. President Trump announced the attacks on Christmas.

For months, President Trump has accused the group of attacking Christians in the country.

The strikes were carried out in coordination, we're told, with Nigeria's government.

Here with us right now is CNN senior White House reporter, Kevin Liptack.

He's joining us live from West Palm Beach in Florida.

That's where the president is spending the holidays.

Kevin, the president has been talking about taking action against ISIS and Nigeria for some time now. Does this fit into

what he has been saying? It certainly does. Remember, it was just in November. The president

said that the U.S. would go, quote, guns ablazin into Nigeria unless the country did more

to stem what he has called a slaughter of Christians. And the president saying that those strikes,

which took place last night, were perfect strikes. I'm told this morning that it involved more

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