A truck carrying highly Radioactive Material was sitting at a gas station in mexico when thieves seized it and drove away. As of this moment the truck has been found and a mexican official says so has some of the Radioactive Material. Lets get the very latest on what is happening at this hour from abcs senior justice correspondent pierre thomas. Pierre . Reporter mexican officials have told us tonight that the truck has just been found with at least some of that extremely dangerous material. All day u. S. Officials had been on heightened alert concerned about the highly Radioactive Material stolen in mexico. This medical device used in the treatment of Cancer Patients had been missing for two days. Inside it, cobalt 60, a Radioactive Material described by authorities as extremely dangerous, potentially lethal. The device was stored in a truck that was stolen on its way from tijuana to a radioactive waste Storage Facility not far from mexico city. On monday at 2 00 a. M. , two armed men
You almost never get footage of these things right as theyre happening. Even if get footage of these kinds of confrontations, its often from some great distance or through some grainy surveillance interface, and you kind of need a narrator to figure out whats going on. In this case, we got something very rare. We got up close like cinema varitae you are there footage. Not only from an eye level footage. You could even hear the russians swearing in the background. Russias navy chasing three ukrainian ships. This video appearing to show the moment of impact. One ship rammed, shots were fired. The ship seized. Two dozen ukrainian sailors captured russian war planes threatening above. The ukrainian ships were hit at the Narrow Strait between russia and crimea which it illegally annexed. Russia now claiming these waters as its territory and blaming ukraine for provoking the incident. That was a report from nbc correspondent bill neely right at the time that this happened. We also got public