IN CALIFORNIA.

BREAKING TONIGHT, WE'RE GETTING

THE FIRST IMAGES OF THE

OPERATION TO KILL ABU

AL-BAGHDADI.

PENTAGON OFFICIALS BRIEFING

REPORTERS.

THIS DRONE FOOTAGE SHOWS VARIOUS

PARTS OF THE RAID AND THE

DESTRUCTION OF THE BASE AFTER

THE ACTION WAS OVER.

SIX ISIS MEMBERS WERE KILLED.

FOUR WOMEN, TWO MEN.

THE HEAD OF U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND

SAYS HE EXPECTS ISIS TO TRY TO

RETALIATE FOR THIS MISSION.

NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT

JENNIFER GRIFFIN IS AT THE

PENTAGON WITH THE IMAGES AND THE

BRIEFING.

GOOD EVENING.

>> GOOD EVENING.

WE JUST RECEIVED THE IMAGES.

THE PENTAGON RELEASED VIDEO

SHOWING THE MOMENT THE COMPOUND

WAS BLOWN UP BY WAR PLANES USING

MUNITIONS.

>> YOU CAN THE WAY IT LOOKED

BEFORE AND AFTERWARDS.

IT'S CLEAR THE SUCCESS OF THE

STAND-OFF MUNITIONS THAT WE I'M

EMPLOYED ENSURED IT WOULDN'T BE

A SHINE OR MEMORABLE IN SOME

OTHER WAY.

IT'S A PIECE OF GROUND.

>> THIS SHOWS THE ARMY SPECIAL

OPERATORS APPROACHING ON FOOT

FROM TWO SIDES.

THE 11 CHILDREN INSIDE THE

COMPOUND WERE HANDED OVER TO A

TRUSTED SOURCE AND NOT FLOWN OUT

OF SYRIA.

BAGHDADI GRABBED TWO, NOT THREE

CHILDREN WHEN HE HIT IN THE

TUNNEL.

THE U.S. HELICOPTERS WERE FIRED

AT FROM THE GROUND.

YOU CAN SEE THE ATTACK

HELICOPTERS SUPPRESS THE GUN

FIRE FROM THE AIR.

THE COMMANDERS PUSHED BACK ON

REPORTS THE RAID HAD BEEN MOVED

FORWARD OR RUSHED DUE TO THE

PRESIDENT'S DECISION TO WITHDRAW

TROOPS.

>> SIR, YOU MENTIONED THAT YOU

STAGED FROM WITHIN SYRIA.

IS THERE ANYTHING ABOUT THE

CHANGES ON THE GROUND IN THE

LAST TWO TO THREE WEEKS WITH THE

U.S. FULLING BACK FORCES WITH

TURKEY COMING ACROSS THAT CAUSED

YOU TO ACCELERATE OR CHANGE THE

TIMING OF THE OPERATION?

>> JENNIFER, ABSOLUTELY NOT.

WE CHOSE THE TIME BASED ON

WEATHER, CERTAINTY, LUNAR DATA A

VARIETY OF THINGS LIKE THAT.

WHILE IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN

CONVENIENCE TO USE BASES THERE,

THE U.S. MILITARY CAN GO

ANYWHERE AND SUPPORT OURSELVES.

>> GENERAL MacKENZIE IS A THE

U.S. HELICOPTERS STAGED INSIDE

SYRIA BEFORE THE RAID.

SOMETHING THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN