U.S. unleashes massive wave of attacks as President Trump issues new warning to Iran

And good evening. We begin tonight with the escalating battle over one of the world's most vital shipping channels. The US and Iran trading new threats around the Strait of Hormuz, sending gas prices skyrocketing here in the US. This new video just into our newsroom showing strikes on more than a dozen Iranian vessels, including what the military said were ships that could have laid explosive mines in the strait.

The president warning if Iran attack ships there, the U.S. would hit back even harder. That comes just hours after the defense secretary vowed, in his words, the most intense day of strikes yet. That intensity on full display in these new videos. Launchers firing and intercepting Iranian missiles in the sky. Iranian launchers the US says were hitting in tunnels and under overpasses blown to bits. And this Iranian boat after boat after boat going up in flames. All of it

as we're learning more about the toll this war is taking on our service members. The Pentagon announcing some 140 wounded in addition to the seven that have already been killed. Our teams are covering the latest and we start with Garrett Haake at the White House tonight.

Tonight a massive wave of US and Israeli strikes on the Iranian regime and a wild ride for oil prices due in part to this post from Energy Secretary Chris Wright that quote, the U.S. Navy successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz. Wright quickly deleting the post.

I can confirm that the U.S. Navy has not escorted

a tanker or a vessel at this time.

President Trump warning Iran to stop threatening oil tankers from traveling through the Strait.

I will not allow a terrorist regime to hold the world hostage and attempt to stop the globe's oil supply. And if Iran does anything to do that, they'll get hit at a much,

much harder level and oil prices tonight plunging down to around $86.00. A barrel all as inside Iran, the Pentagon says it struck

over 5000 targets today will be

yet again our most intense day of strikes inside Iran, the Pentagon says it struck over 5000 targets. Today will be yet again. Our most intense day of strikes inside Iran, the most fighters the most bombers the most strikes including taking out

hidden missile launchers.

Ballistic missile attacks continue to trend downward 90% from where they started and one way attack drone as have

decreased 83%. Though Iran still launching attacks on its Arab neighbors. This video showing an Iranian drone chased by a United Arab Emirates fighter jet. In Bahrain, the government says a woman was killed during an Iranian strike on a residential neighborhood. Tonight, new questions over the war's timeline, with President Trump saying the U.S. is, quote,

very far ahead of its initial four- to five-week schedule.

That's gonna be finished pretty quickly. But also... We've already won in many ways, but we haven't won enough.

And the president has also suggested he should have a role picking the new Iranian leader. We pressed the White House. Is the ending of this war also contingent on Iran selecting a leader that the president finds acceptable? And if so, how is that not the definition of a regime change war?

Look, as President Trump has blatantly and frankly stated, it's obviously within the best interest of the United States and the West to no longer have a radical terrorist in charge of Iran. We have objectives that we have laid out that the commander in chief wants to see achieved.

And now a new image of the five members of the Iranian women's soccer team just granted asylum in Australia. Iranian state TV branded them traitors for protesting the Iranian regime by refusing to sing the national anthem. Yesterday, on the team bus, players had flashed the sign for help as crowds chanted, save our girls.

They are safe here, and they should feel at home here.

Gary joins us tonight again from the White House. So I know you have new reporting on the U.S. service members who have been injured in this

war.

That's right, Tom. The Pentagon is saying 140 service members or so have been wounded, most of them with minor injuries, and they've returned to duty, but eight are considered severely injured. Last night, the dignified transfer ceremony for Army Sergeant Benjamin Pennington was held. He's the seventh service member killed in this war.

Tom?

All right, Garrett.

All that uncertainty over the shipping channel as well in the Middle East. The price of oil may have gone down today, but the price of gas still skyrocketing. Camila Bernal now on the impact those prices are having.

Fallout from the war, plain to see at every gas station across the U.S. The price of a gallon of gas now up 55 cents since the war began.

It definitely makes us second guess some of the financial decisions that we make.

In California, with the country's highest prices,

gas is well above $5 a gallon.

200 miles, 200 to 300 miles a day.

Yasha Timanovich drives for ride share and delivery services for about 10 hours a day. What is it like for you when like fo around and you see gas at sick, wild swings in crud hitting hard for farmers

planting season. I have a

100 gallons of diesel fue

it cost me $469. John Boyd grows soybeans, corn and wheat at his fourth generation family farm in Virginia. He says his fertilizer supplier can't even deliver

what he needs due to the war and the bombing through that area. The fertilizer isn't moving which means it won't be readily

me right now. And Josie's Fernando Ayala has alread deliveries by 20%. If I h

every time, it's gonna, i

gonna hurt. And people ar and $15 dollars on average in comparison to last week to fill up their gas tanks. But with pressure on the oil markets, those prices could continue to go up.

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