incident. as part of a pattern of aggressive, risky, and unsafe actions by russian pilots in international air space. i just got off the phone with my russian counterpart, minister shoigu. as i have said repeatedly, it is important that great powers be models of transparency and communication. the united states will continue to fly and operate wherever international law allows. in a news conference with the defense secretary joint chiefs chairman general mark milley said retrieving the wreckage will be very difficult and that it is now in 4,000 or 5,000 feet of water. the u.s. military said on tuesday a russian jet dumped fuel on an mq-9 reaper drone which officials say was doing routine operations in international air space. the russian jet then hit the propeller of the reaper forcing its remote pilots to bring it down in international waters. let s go to cnn s national security analyst and senior white house correspondent. the general said that it is not clear that th
contractor was killed and five u. s service members injured when an iranian made drone struck a base in northeastern syria. the us then retaliated with an air strike to the south. this is video posted online that reportedly captures the strike on one facility linked to iran s revolutionary guard in syria. cnn s natasha bertrand is at the pentagon for us, natasha what more are you learning? brianna will we are learning that those wounded u. s service members are now in stable condition and we are told that this drone the suspected iranian drone that targeted that coalition military base in northeastern syria, it was a quote suicide drone. it was used as a one and done type drone just to attack and then depart. and we are told that the us did retaliate. of course they did target facilities inside syria that they believe that the iranian proxy groups were using in order to store munitions as well as gather intelligence. and this is not the first time that the us has targeted ira
john: begin america reports this thursday afternoon with 19 days to go now until the midterms. president biden out on the campaign trail today as the pennsylvania senate race comes down to the wire. hello, i m john roberts in washington. sandra: 19 days out, hard to believe. here we go. sandra smith in new york. the president travelling today for his only campaign stop of the week. he ll talk infrastructure before heading to philadelphia to stump for john fetterman. john: happening as polls show republican dr. oz closing the gap against john fetterman, and republicans also gaining ground in contests thought to be democratic strongholds. sandra: our panel standing by. mollie line is standing by in deep blue rhode island. so first to bryan llenas on the ground in philadelphia, expecting to see the president a short time from now. hi, bryan. hi, sandra. $167 million have been spent in the pennsylvania senate race. it s the second most expensive race in the nation beh
but germany won t cocommit to s the commitment. president zelenskyy addressed allies saying the time for talk has passed. the war started by russia does not allow delays. and i can thank you hundreds of times and it will be absolutely just in fear given all that we have already done. but, but hundreds of thank you are not hundreds of tanks. earlier today germany said it will take an inventory of its tanks, but again did not commit to sending them. and in ukraine the battles rage on. russian missile strikes hit friday killing at least one person. cnn s ben wedeman is there. what is the latest, ben? reporter: well, overnight the town south of here was struck by about 12 russian missiles. no word on casualty there. what we know is that there is mounting frustration among the ukrainians because, as the germans dither over whether to give the country the tanks it desperately needs, the front line is burning. in the trenches outside becahmu hoping to rappel russian forces on
a pretty low lying area. that storm surge they re preparing for, what exactly might that look like when it comes to the businesses and the homes in that area? reporter: well, to give you a sense of howe things look where we are right now, we re at a park that s surrounded by three bays, the old tampa bay, the tampa bay and then that third bay. what they re worried about, especially the folks in pinellas county, that storm surge is going to flood things no matter what. even if that forecast track ends up having ian moving parallel to tampa bay and the tampa area, they still believe we re going to see a lot of that water making its way inland. so they want folks to go ahead and come out and get these sandbags. the lines at these three locations were pretty long. it s our understanding they re going to continue to do this today and tomorrow and most likely into wednesday. however, emergency officials again have been telling folks, try to get this done early because we could