afghanistan. they won t say whether it s the type that contains highly classified information. security experts say if it is that drone, the u.s. military has lost a lot. the important point to take away here is that the iranians now have a very sensitive piece of american military technology in their hands. i hope that there s a self-destruct button attached to it. after months of bloody crack jouns against protesters, syria now says it will let observers into the country to monitor what is going on but only if the arab league agrees to drop sanctions against syria. the u.n. says more than 4,000 people have died in sirrian protests this year. once again, southern california is bracing for powerful, dangerous santa ana winds. we re talking gusts hitting 60 miles an hour in the mountains. that s happening today. 50 miles an hour in los angeles, ventura counties. what has it been like to deal with santa ana over the past week? cold, number one. scary and going to bed re
park. police said, tear the structure down, get out. they are refusing. and so our athena jones is live there at the site of the protesters. number one, athena, why did they built it? earlier, you said they built it because of the cold weather and they wanted some place to go in and keep warm. now this. what s going on where you are? reporter: well, that s right. i just wanted to update you. we saw, as you said, a few minutes ago, someone somersaulted off the edge of this structure on this giant inflatable cushion that the police have blown up, right next to the structure on the backside. a few minutes after that, another protester jumped on to the cushion, so there are now four people left atop this building, as you can see. now, they said they built it because it s getting colder and they want to be able to have daily meetings inside, their general assembly meetings, they call them, to make plans and to talk about what they stand for. this is a group, occupy d.c. proteste
i m going to be 85 years old and weigh 85 pounds. claiming the tsa agents at jfk airport pulled down her pants and strip searched her. now she s talking about taking action on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com all right. good morning, everyone. it is monday, december 5th. ali and carol are both off this monday morning. i m christine romans along with alina cho on this american morning. nice to see you. good morning. nice to see you. a highly classified u.s. stealth drone may be in the hands of iran. iranian officials are claiming that they shot down the drone after it invaded its airspace. american military officials confirming one of their drones is missing. now iran is vowing an aggressive response. here is pentagon correspondent barbara starr with more. reporter: christine, alina, iranian authorities say they shot down a highly classified u.s. unmanned spy plane over their territory along the eastern border with afghanistan. iran sa
time. next up, lots to talk about with our gps panel this week. from syria to egypt, iran to iraq, and of course asia. finally, why egypt went way retro this week, back to the age of the pharaohs. i ll explain. first, here s my take. you wouldn t have thought anti-americanism in pakistan could get any worse, but last week, nato attacked a pakistani army post, killing 24 pakistani soldiers. even before this episode for which nato expressed deep regret, you couldn t have found a country on the planet that was more anti-american than pakistan. in a pew survey this year, only 12% of pakistanis expressed a favorable view of the u.s. populist rage and official duplicity have built up even though washington has lavished islamabad with aid totaling $20 billion over the last decade. i think it s time to recognize that the united states pakistan policy is just not working. supporting islamabad has been premised on two arguments. the first is if we don t, the pakistani governme
iran says the drone was an rk-170. that s one of the most secret drones in the u.s. military and intelligence arsenal, essentially a stealth drone, flies undetected, gathering intelligence and targeting information. what is the u.s. say something so far the u.s. is using the alternate aplooins lines in afghanistan to issue a statement is only saying the uav which the iranians may be referring to may be a u.s. unarmed reconnaissance aircraft that had been flying a mission over western afghanistan last week. the operators of the uav lost control of the aircraft and had been working to determine its status. that is what the u.s. is saying about all of this, a loss of flight controls before the drone went down. but what the u.s. isn t saying is that it was shot down or one of the highly classified drones. the key question is do the iranians have their hands on classified u.s. intelligence technology? let s talk more about the pentagon s concerns. how concerned is the pentagon a