U.S. Service Member Killed in Raid on Al Qaeda
KEILAR: All right. We have some breaking news to bring to you. This, coming to us from some reporting out of the Homeland Security Department. They're actually going to be easing the way for green card holders to abide by this executive order, this travel ban put in place by the Trump administration. There have been a lot of co confusion about whether green card holders could either leave the U.S. and be able to make it back in; or if they were out of U.S. as this was put in place, if they would be able to return. So this is what we are hearing, this clarification coming from Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly. This is a statement clarifying this. It says, "The status of these green card holders that lawful, permanent resident status will be a dispositive factor in our case by case determination." So another official at Homeland Security telling CNN that green card holders who are returning back to the U.S. are still going to be going through additional security screening. They'll be going through these national security checks when they land, but the government is trying to ease their entry back into the U.S. So a signal that they are aware this was perhaps creating unforeseen problems, these green card holders who could not either leave and be sure they could come back, or were being detained and it was confusing whether they would be able to get back into the U.S. We're going to keep following that for you. Meantime, U.S. Central Command announced the first American combat death under President Donald Trump today. And this actually happened during a raid against al Qaeda in Yemen, one of the seven countries included in the travel ban. Three other U.S. service members were wounded in this raid. And we have CNN Pentagon Reporter Ryan Brown with us to tell us more. Ryan, what can you tell us?</s>RYAN BROWNE, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY PRODUCER: Hi, Brianna. You're right, this service member was killed during a targeted raid against an al Qaeda headquarters in Yemen. This raid is what's called kind of -- they're trying to gather additional intelligence, so it's not targeted at any specific al Qaeda leaders, but it was a raid looking to get more intelligence about potential plots. Three additional service members were wounded, as you've said. Now, we were told just now that those wounds are not serious and that some of them have actually returned to duty. Additionally, the V-22 Osprey aircraft sent to support these troops crashed in what's called a hard landing. The U.S. decided to destroy it to prevent that from falling into enemy hands. Three additional service members were injured during that crash, but it's called minor injuries and they're since returned back to duty. Yemen is considered al Qaeda's most successful kind of dangerous franchise, and we're kind of seeing some ramped up strikes and drone strikes at Donald Trump's first day in office against the terror group. So this group was behind the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris. So we're kind of seeing an increasing amount of targeting strikes against the terror group in the first week of Trump's presidency -- Brianna.</s>KEILAR: All right. Ryan Browne, thank you so much for that report. We have much more ahead. Stay with us.