Address to deal with a breaking development in the persian gulf. Iran seized two small u. S. Navy boats and took 10 crew members into custody. Cbs News National security correspondent david martin is following the story at the pentagon. Reporter the two small boats were on route from kuwait to bahrain but ended up on irans farsi island in the persian gulf. U. S. Officials believe the boats and the 10 sailors aboard were picked up after they had suffered a mechanical breakdown and drifted into iranian territorial waters. Officials do not know if shots were fired, but say irans foreign minister has personally assured secretary of state kerry the sailors will be allowed to continue their journey. It would seem a harmless incident, except that two weeks ago, Iranian Revolutionary guard ships fired off rockets within a mile of the american Aircraft Carrier truman. The rockets were aimed the other way, but firing live munitions in the middle of crowded shipping lanes drew a strong scott, u.
10 January 2021 • 3:51pm
The actor Gary Oldman was among the star-studded cast performing David Bowie classics and obscurities
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There was something suitably sci-fi about this weekend’s A Bowie Celebration, broadcast from Los Angeles in the middle of a dystopian pandemic (delayed 24 hours “due to difficulties in the world”). Musicians were projected onto life-sized screens arranged around other socially distanced musicians on a sound stage, then beamed by the power of the internet into the computer devices of a global audience. Somewhere, in another dimension, you could imagine Ziggy Stardust nodding his approval.
All the old dudes (and dudettes) in the backing bands assembled by pianist Mike Garson had played with the late Starman at some point in Bowie’s six-decade career. They included guitarists Gerry Leonard, Carlos Alomar, Charlie Sexton, Earl Slick and a guest spot from Bowie’s former school mate Peter Frampton, delivering a rocking blast thr