Out front next, the breaking news, all eyes on the White House this hour as Biden vows to retaliate

after three U.S. soldiers were killed by a drone strike. And tonight we hear from the parents of one of those soldiers.

Plus Trump's new target tearing into the president of the United Auto Workers, calling him a weapon of mass destruction and a dope for backing Biden.

Tonight, the president of the UAW, Sean Fane, is out front to respond.

And inside Kim Jong-un's inner circle, women are elevated there now, and the powerful men who pose a threat to him, especially relatives, are ending up dead.

Let's go out front.

And a good evening. I'm Erin Burnett. Out front tonight,

retaliation. President Biden, meeting with his national security team, vowing to respond after three American soldiers were killed by an Iranian-backed drone strike in Jordan. 40 more were injured,

and of those eight are still in the hospital, suffering from

their injuries. It is an attack in which we now know three were killed. Forty-six-year-old

Sergeant William Rivers, 23-year-old specialist Brianna Moffitt, and 24-year-old specialist

Kennedy Sanders. In a moment, I'm going to speak to specialist Sanders

parents. CNN is learning that the three were killed after air defenses failed to recognize the

enemy drone, which was honing in on its target. At the same time that an American drone was

returning to the small U.S. outpost, it is known as Tower 22 in the north of Jordan

near that Syrian border. It is the deadliest attack on American forces since the withdrawal

from Afghanistan in 2021. And it follows months of strikes by the Iranian-backed Houthi militants

in the Red Sea, which have targeted American troops and commercial ships. And tonight, the Secretary of State Anthony Blinken,

warning of the situation in the region,

saying it is now the most dangerous moment in more than 50 years.

I would argue that we've not seen a situation as dangerous

as the one we're facing now across the region since at least

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