>> GOOD-BYE!

>> Sandra: FOX NEWS ALERT NOW

FROM BAGHDAD WHERE I RAN BACK TO

MILITIA SUPPORTERS HAVE ATTACKED

THE U.S. EMBASSY IN THE IRAQI

CAPITAL.

PROTESTERS SEE AND THEY ARE

SMASHING THE MAIN GATE AND

STORMING INSIDE WITH THE SOUNDS

OF GUN FIRE AND FLAMES RISING

FROM INSIDE THE COMPOUND.

PRESIDENT TRUMP NOW CALLING ON

IRAQI FORCES TO PROTECT THE

AMERICAN EMBASSY.

GOOD MORNING, I AM SANDRA SMITH

SANDRA SMITH.

>> Eric: GOOD MORNING, I AM

ERIC SHAWN IN FOR BILL HEMMER

THIS MORNING.

THAT VIOLENCE ERUPTING IN

BAGHDAD TWO DAYS AFTER THOSE

U.S. AIR STRIKES AGAINST IRANIAN

BACKED MILITIAS IN IRAQ AND

SYRIA.

RETALIATION FOR THOSE ROCKET

ATTACKS THAT KILLED AN AMERICAN

CONTRACTOR AND WOUNDED FOUR OF

OUR SOLDIERS IN NORTHERN IRAQ.

IN HER >> GOOD, SANDRA.

PEOPLE IN THE U.S. EMBASSY SAID

THERE IS NO EVACUATION DESPITE

REPORTED CLAIMS FROM IRAQI

OFFICIALS, BUT THERE ARE

THOUSANDS OF PROTESTERS THERE.

MANY FROM IRAN BACKED MILITIAS

INTO BAGHDAD HEAVILY GUARDED

GREEN ZONE WHERE THE U.S. HAS

ITS LARGEST DIPLOMATIC FACILITY

IN THE WORLD.

THEY REPORT THEY SMASHED A MAIN

DOOR AND SET FIRE TO A RECEPTION

AREA.

THE PROTEST BEGAN AFTER PRAYER

SERVICES FOR TWO DOZEN I RAN

BACK TO MILITIA FIGHTERS KILLED

IN U.S. AIR STRIKES OVER THE

WEEKEND.

PRESIDENT TRUMP TWEETING "IRAN

KILLS AN AMERICAN CONTRACTOR AND

WOUNDING MANY.

NOW IRAN IS ORCHESTRATING AN

ATTACK ON THE U.S. EFFICACY IN

IRAQ.

THEY WILL BE HELD FULLY

RESPONSIBLE IN ADDITION WE

EXPECT IRAQ TO USE ITS FORCES TO

PROTECT THE EMBASSY AND SO

NOTIFIED.

THE AMERICAN AIR STRIKES IN

SYRIA AND IRAQ STRUCK AN IRANIAN

BACKED MILITIA.

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SAID

THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR A

MISSILE ATTACK FRIDAY ON IN IRAQ

HE MILITARY BASE THAT KILLED AN

AMERICAN CONTRACTOR.

SENIOR STATE DEPARTMENT

OFFICIALS SAY AFTER SO MANY

ATTACKS, I RAN BACK TO FIGHTERS

AND THEIR SIGNIFICANT PRESENCE

IN IRAQ, UNITED STATES HAD TO

RESPOND IN A WAY IRAN

UNDERSTANDS THE AIR STRIKES.

THE IRAQ HE GOVERNMENT CAUGHT

HERE BETWEEN AMERICAN AND

IRANIAN INFLUENCE PROTEST AT THE

AMERICAN AIR STRIKES AS A

VIOLATION OF IRAQI SOVEREIGNTY

AND WARNED THEY WOULD INVITE

TROUBLE JUST MOMENTS BEFORE

THESE PROTEST BEGAN.

MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE

BEGINNING TO REACT TO ALL OF

THIS.

SENATOR MARCO RUBIO SAID THE

GOVERNMENT AS A RECIPIENT OF