and it is an essential part of the ukrainian war effort, absolutely. turkey is a nato ally, so why is it not complicated for turkey because there have been other nato nations that have said it s a little too complicated to provide air arsenal? well, i think one simple answer to that, and there are a lot of other answers, but i think one simple answer to that, fredricka, is that it s an unmanned aerial vehicle. that s the key element. a mig 29 is a manned aircraft, and there s a bit of a difference in the way people look at that, whether it s on our side or on the russian side. and that is i think one of the key elements. so the turks are getting away with it because of that, at least up until now, but more russian soldiers are killed, you know, using that drone, the less likely the russians are to look okay with that. european officials are
excellent reporting from karl there. they re probably going to start looking for him right now. this is the same thing that would have happened let s talk about bowe bergdahl when he went missing. immediately everything stops and everyone goes into a search and recovery mode to try to find this guy. you ll see increased drone activity, more commando activity because the best chance of getting him back is getting him back quickly. once they have him for any length of time, they re going to move him to somewhere secure and then we ll probably see some proof of life or video or something later. now is the critical time. if they re going to get him, they re going to get him now. we ll see a flurry of activity. as far as the long-term goal of the israelis, i don t think it will change much. they re committed to going in there and rooting out the rockets and the tunnels. so we ve got two things going on right now. but this does mean that israel s likely to cease, stop its air arsenal whi
will ee remain unsettled and east coast, you are the lucky ones, sunny and gorgeous weather for memorial day monday. john and diana, back to you. thank you. turning back to the arizona fires you mentioned. the wildfire near sedona has charred 1 charred 11 1/2 square miles. after days of zero percent containment, firefighters are starting to finally get a handle on it. abc s ryan owens is there. reporter: on the fire line, hot shot crews are on the lookout, making sure flames do not jump out of this deep canyon. if they see a big flare-up they tell us immediately to get out of there. firefighters torched a lot of this on purpose to create a fire break, to starve the flames of fuel and save hundreds of homes. with more than 800 firefighters here and an air arsenal of helicopters and tankers, the commander is cautiously confident. that does not mean that we re out of the woods by any way, shape or form. it means we have a place to start anchoring and tying the
air arsenal? has it likely moved that into iran? what is it doing about moving a lot of these potential targets? fred, that is the question right now. clearly assad may be a monster, but he s not an idiot. he s a very clever man. he s a survivalist. i would anticipate that all of his aircraft have flown to iran. they re probably positioned out of harm s way. he probably has taken all of his command and control capabilities, all his communications networks, all his computer networks, and he s shut those down so he has essentially gone to black intentionally. so it s harder for us to find him. then what s inside those stockpiles as we addressed have probably been moved and what s inside those facilities that will be struck have been packaged up and disbursed as well. all right, major general james spider marks, thank you for your time. appreciate it. what happened to all of those kids missing at a florida