. >> live at new county police, dan ciewl are, "action news." >> thandann cuellar, "action ne" >> president trump is briefed with his security team saying seeing these pictures pushed him to do this. 59 to tomahawk missiles fired at the air base where pictures showed substantial damage. runways were destroyed. ambassador nicky halee said this. >> the united states took a measured step last night. we are prepare today do more. we hope that will not be necessary. >> russian forces have been propping up syria's asaad in his civil war against rebels, a war claiming half a million lives. russia issued a statement saying this hurts u.s. relations already in deplorable shape. >> this is not something to be tolerated, going after airplanes that delivered the horrible, lethal assault. >> this is finally now the time for the united states to act and decide what our policy's going to be before we end up sleepwalking into a larger war with russia. >> the local syrian community living in allentown believes last night's attack was a series mistake. the strike came as a shock to many because trump said he