reverend franklin graham, good luck, we will let you get to work. >> thank you, griff.h: we also want to get to breaking story affecting our troops in syria where iran-backed militias launching a series of attacks of coalition bases in the region after the u.s. launch retaliatory strikes following death of american contractor from a suspected iran-made drone. lucas tomlinson live on the latest of the biden administration's response which, lucas, is already facing criticism. >> no question about that, aishah. another american soldier wounded in syria after iranian-backed soldiers launched more strikes against them after retaliatory strikes. first green beret says the u.s. needs to strike back harder. >> why did we wait until someone was killed to then take action? iran is going to push until it meets steel and the problem now with the administration's policy is iran will trade some of these local militias. lucas: forces launched pair of eagles to destroy sites in eastern syria used by iran's islamic revolutionary guard corp which were used to kill american contractor and

. >> let's bring in president of samaritan's purse and billy graham association, franklin graham.ds and thoughts and prayers as we grapple with so much tragedy there and also what are you guys doing on the ground? >> well, first i would ask people to pray for the people in this area. they're just devastated. this is going to affect them for the rest of their lives and we can replace buildings and homes and cars but you can't replace life and so i would just ask people to pray for those that are grieving, that have lost life. samaritan's purse, we have responded. we'll be set up today at two churches serving three communities, the one that you just were showing just a few minutes ago, we'll be there this afternoon. we'll be working for the next probably two months or so in that area. so we're there to help had. a lot of people don't have insurance and these are the people that we want to he focus on, people that just have nowhere to turn, nowhere to go, no hope. and i want them to know that god loves them and god sends his people in times of storms to help and do it in his name. an

robert appreciate it that help is come manager of them are coming in the form of vegs but also franklin graham on because samaritan purse is one of them and hear from him a little later on in the meantime download the fox weather app. or stream fox weather, on any tv connected device. >> meanwhile, vice president kamala harris is heading to africa ghana to, quote, deepen u.s. ties with africa. now why would that be of interest? let me show you the global chart of annual cobolt production. cobolt as you both know is -- one of the primary minerals used in creating batteries. >> that's right. batteries that are in many ways connected to global climate change movement green movement, for example, in creating electric vehicles. you can see africa is the source, the major source the world source in metric tons of cobalt. the u.s. and china are also pictured on that chart -- >> real smart. very small, and about a third there for the rest of the world. just showing the importance of africa. >> interesting to note she did not go to the congo and i think there's a lot of optics involved in why she avoid

when we arrived the organization that was hosting us samaritans first run by our friend franklin graham said we just got word from the ukrainians that you could go in to a relief center just across the border, if you want to. so karen and i made the decision to go. we had a small convoy and we drove across the border roughly ten miles in and i saw sites i never thought, i never thought i would see in my lifetime. i mean, i knew that, that ukraine had sent the word out that t men ages 18-60 had to sty in the country to fight but when you some of these throngs of women of every age, children of every age, people carrying all that remained of their possessions on their backs, haggard looks under phase, many of them having traveled all the way across the country to reach that relief center, , it just broke our hearts. and, and i left with a determination that america was in the right spot giving them what they need to repel this russian aggression. make no mistake about possibly this is an america's broader strategic interests. and that is i've met vladimir putin. i i stood closer to that i