let me play intel. let s play the game. we could do this for three hours here. the intel picture, we heard about the russians being sloppy. the first thing you re looking at is communications, if they re sloppy. you can see a change in communications in a city around a command post and a specialist says that kind of change in communications may be including someone talking in clear speech, n nonenciphered, that suggests there is a change in the building and in is a command post there. you have a new piece of intel, dwell time. you get a drone up and can say based on what we re seeing in terms of trucks, movements around that, that say command post. you hand that over to the ukrainians, tactical stuff, maybe including photos, they say we have people on the ground who are seeing this, we have our own specialists listening to different communications on the ground, we re seeing that, we re going after that location based on what the americans said and based on what other stuff we re a
that s a huge problem for the russians. that doesn t count people who have been captured, soldiers captured or soldiers who are wounded. otherwise, out of commission. the russians are going to have a major personnel crisis on their hands. i don t see them replenishing those forces with forces from other areas in significant number numbers to overcome this deficit that they have. professor, you mentioned equipment. all these pictures, the piece fred did where you saw the destruction, you talked to a drone captain, he said our job was to fly the drone up, find out where the equipment is and they just go in and take out one after the other. now we see this equipment littering the streets. these are destroyed. as of today, ukraine says when you look at the numbers, russia lost 684 tanks and you have done the numbers. you say that s half of the tanks they went into ukraine with. they lost 50% of their tanks. i can t even comprehend such a
the bottom. reporter: that 3457bman ther just one of who will be majorly inconvenienced by the loss of this bridge. ntsb arrived friday afternoon and first order of business was to send a drone up over the incident scene to be able to map it out. they are also doing that on the ground. more than a dozen members of that team have passed right behind us heading into the ravine. they want to map it out so that they can have a record of it before they start moving any structure structural pieces. and on the street there are several cranes pre-positioned to begin that removal process. and they say that it could be 12 to 18 months or more to determine what caused the collapse. athena jones, thank you so much. so the recent rash of these high profile shootings of police
and we expect safety officials to give an update on the investigation later on today. the collapse sent several cars and a transit bus plummeting in to a arravine early friday morning. no deaths were reported. and athena jones is live for us. every time you look at those images, it is miles per hour rack could you laws that more people were not impacted. good thing. what schools the schools there were delayed by two hour so is that probably is a contributing factor. reporter: thapd a at and als weather. there are usually people jogging under the bridge behind me. and you see the work has begun on trying to figure out what led to the collapse. the national transportation board, their team arrived here friday afternoon and their first order of business today once it got light enough was for send a drone up over the scene to map out the scene.
expected to make their way from tanawan, new york, to buffalo. what are you seeing in terms of that movement and what it s going to grow into or become? reporter: well, fred, the situation in buffalo is a bit fluid. i want to start actually, i m on the american side of the peace bridge behind me, the bridge between the united states and canada. i want to start on the canadian side of that bridge. i have a drone up so you can see what s happening on that side of the bridge. police have shut down a major highway that leads into fort erie, canada, the town where their side of the bridge is located. police shut that down in anticipation of a convoy heading that direction. they haven t seen it yet, hasn t tried to shut down that part of the bridge yet, but the police stress the bridge is currently open, but they are closing that highway in anticipation of that. mean meanwhile, back on the american side of the bridge, we re seeing two things happening. one, we re waiting for that