arleigh burke. on the arleigh burke, 2 sailor shooting the video you can see here is watching the missiles -- watching while the missiles are being fired while the sailor stands on the deck of the ship. and as the sailor follow it is trajectory of the missile taking off from the ship the sailor kind of spins around which creates this really rare perspective. >> again, that is navy footage released from the u.s.s. arleigh burke. they shot multiple camera angles from these missiles being launched in the middle of the night. just watch this one. >>> it's all footage shot on u.s. navy vessels, more than 40 of them fired last night from a guided missile cruiser and a guided missile destroyer. one in the red sea and one in the persian gulf. >>> the pentagon, also, today, released three very short pieces of video that they say was visible from the air as u.s. pilots bombed other tar gets inside syria. here are those targeting videos that they released today. the first one that they released shows a buildin

the sea assets include the arleigh burke, which is in the red sea. what can you tell us?can you con tex youize for us in terms of the scale of this attack and its likelihood of success. >> it will be quite substantial. the thing is we've known where all of this stuff has been for quite some times. we don't have a lot of human intelligence on the ground, and whether or not it's going to be successful will be easy to tell after the strikes occur. how that's going to affect overall the campaign for isis by what it's doing in syria and iraq, that remains to be seen. logistical facilities and other troupe concentrations, the easiest to dispurse are the troupes. they're going to be hit -- the loss of them is going to be most telling on isis. we'll see what happens after the bombed damage assessment comes out. i don't think that you can expect that just those 20 strikes are going to be launched. other movements to hit subsequently, there's a plan to do that. >> colonel jack jacobs, jack, if you would bt mind staying with us for a moment, i want to go live to the pentagon right n

look at might we demonstrate coming off the arleigh burke or george w. bush or uss philippine sea.ng command position from the bridge which demonstrates what we're capable of doing. martha: you're so right about that. and, leslie, as david rightly points out, this reaction we're seeing it is possible it might not have happened at this point had it not been for awful videos we saw of beheadings of american and british citizens. that element of this has been extremely powerful for this enemy as well. >> oh, definitely. david, one cocktail together and now we're in agreement 100%? >> you finally come over to the right side. >> no, no. i think this is what we're, seeing here, this morning we have a united states of america on this issue and we have united world against this enemy. and i think, when you have isis tweeting with people and 20-somethings worldwide perceiving these murderers being cool, if you will, it is essential that this imagery is out. not only showing that the united states does what it says, regardless who our leader is, quite frankly. look at the might of our milita

there were three waves of attacks, the first missiles fired came from the "uss arleigh bur burke" in red sea and persian gulf. according to the pentagon 47 tomahawk missiles were fired at command and control headquarters of an al qaeda offshoot called the khorasan group. that u.s. officials claim was plotting against the u.s. arab nations did not participate in the initial part of the operation. pentagon officials say this will not be a short mission. >> could this take years? >> i would think in terms, yes. >> the significance of the pilots participating in the air strikes cannot be overstated. five arab couries joined this coalition including qatar which flew but did not drop bombs, gretchen. >> the significance of striking the khorasan group, this is the al qaeda off shoot, it's separate from isis, it's interesting because today, in the briefings, they were saying that they were an imminent threat to the united states. what more do you know about that? >> well, it's interesting because they weren't saying it was an imminent threat a week ago when testifying on capitol hill. buried