TAPPER: Welcome back to THE LEAD. Topping our world lead today, U.S. air strikes pounding ISIS targets in the coastal city of Sirte, Libya. CNN's Barbara Starr is following the latest developments from the Pentagon. Barbara, what can you tell us about the strikes and the targets? Libya?</s>BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Hey yeah. Back in the business of striking Libya here at the Pentagon, Jake, at the authorization of President Obama and in conjunction with his emerging new Libyan government, U.S. warplanes struck a number of ISIS targets along the coast near Sirte. This is the ISIS' strong hold in Libya they struck a tank and some vehicles. It sounds pretty small to start with. But what is really going on here is the U.S. is trying to back up this fragile Libyan government in its efforts to push ISIS out. ISIS has been on the rise in Libya. They've killed a number of ISIS fighters. But there's a good deal of concern that many fighters for ISIS have simply disappeared into the desert, gone into hiding, drifted into other towns and villages, living among civilians all it fight another day. So look for the U.S. to keep up this new effort, a new round of air strikes in Libya, to try and help this government push ISIS out once and for all. Jake?</s>TAPPER: All right. Barbara Starr, live at the Pentagon for us. Barbara, thank you so much. An unprecedented travel warning from CDC inside the U.S. after several new cases of Zika are discovered in Florida. That story, next.
U.S. Airstrikes Pounding ISIS Targets in Libya