closer with our stakeholders and as well as law enforcement and i would like to introduce mr. tabb from the fbi. thank you, good morning, my name is jay tabb, i m the special agent in charge for the fbi in the state of washington. first, an expression of condolences and empathy for alaska and horizon airlines and in this loss and i also want to talk a little bit to the king county and pierce county residents who i m sure had a scare last night. i want everybody to know that we are diligently investigating this matter, we will get to the bottom of it. we are doing so with a very long list of partners right now including pierce county police department, pierce county fire department, ntsab, of course, and some fire rescue folks from the joint base corridor assisting us right now. i have dozens of personnel out at the crash site right now, i have 30 to 40 folks involved overnight out interviewing
happen again at alaska air group or at any other airline. before i turn it over to gary, i want to acknowledge and express my deep gratitude to faa air traffic controllers to washington and oregon international guards and to the first responders from peter s county. they had a very strong and professional response to this incident. so with us here today we have as bobby said we have horizon air ceo gary beck, we also have jay tab who is leading the investigation for the fbi and we have mike gales, director of operations, these folks are going to speak for a couple of minutes and then we will able to answer your questions. thanks, brad, at 7:32 p.m. local time horizon air ground service agent departed in a horizon air q400 without
threats, but there was at the time to suggest that this particular missile test was unusual within the context of those exercises, the scale and the nature of those exercises to be similar to those held by iranian military in the past, there some are questioning and iran is angered about the u.s. decision to pull out of iran deal and limit iran s nuclear activities specifically, iran also unhappy that washington has decide today reimpose those stiff economic sanctions earlier this week, the country signed up to that deal including germany that meanwhile iran has also ruled out direct talk with the u.s., particularly at high levels saying now not the time for those talks, eboni. thank you so much, kitty. mike, mike: let s bring back daniel, former cia station chief who served in moscow, iraq and
soon after the u.s. imposed sanctions on iran. this anti-ship missile was launched dur iranian naval drills. the test-firing happened within iranian waters. iran has confirmed it has been holding military exercises in that area over the past few days. it says these war games are intended to prepare for what it describes as possible threats. there was nothing to suggest the missile test was unusual within the context of these exercises, but just similar to those iran has held in the past. but it does raise questions about whether this was designed as a message perhaps to the u.s. iran is of course angered about the u.s. government s decision to pull out of the iran deal which was agreed in 2015 and limits iran s nuclear activities. the government in tehran is also unhappy that washington decided to reimpose stiff economic sanctions earlier this week. and while u.s. iranian relations appear to continue to
address on tuesday where, he s expected to call on democrats to pass immigration reforment the president wants the senate to take up a white house proposal that would protect nearly two million so-called dreamers in exchange for border wall funding and dramatic cuts to legal immigration. democrats are calling the offer a non-starter. the president responding on twitter molly is live in washington. molly, where are the democrats at this stage? reporter: hi, rick, we heard from a few democrats today on the president s immigration plan. some of them are open to what comes out of the legislative process. but most seem to want a more