his home in bahrain. so, let s get right to abc s chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz with us live tonight. martha, what have you learned? reporter: well, david, this was such a shock, not only for his family, but for the 20,000 forces he has commanded since may. this is one of the most critical positions in the navy, in the persian gulf region, where u.s. sailors have faced off with iranian revolutionary guard boats, weapons smugglers and pirates. admiral stearney was a decorated f-18 pilot, a former top gun instructor with more than 1,000 carrier landings. he had also served in afghanistan. but despite what appeared to be a stellar career, sources who know stearney tell abc this was an apparent suicide with no warning, and for now, david, no explanation. all right, martha raddatz in our washington bureau across town. martha, thank you. also tonight, here in the nation s capital, as robert mueller keeps his next move under wraps, president trump is
notre dame in 1982. he went through top gun training. he flew f-18 super hornets. made more than 1,000 aircraft carrier landings, even served as a top even served as a top gun instructor, really among the most skilled, the most dedicated and a highly decorated admiral as well. we understand he was married with two children, described as a dedicated husband and father, a good friend, certainly a lot of people this morning are asking why this happened with this man. and hans, i mentioned many of those people are in the building you re sitting in right now. i know that his death has reverberated through the halls of the pentagon. what s the sense of where this goes next? they need to figure out who s going to take over the command next. this is such an important position, you likely need to have senate confirmation. you can put someone in there in an interim position, but likely this needs to be a senate
bahrain are being investigated. he was in the persian gulf and the red sea where missiles were fired are a concern to u.s. security official. the navy is so concerned about this command they are sending the deputy chief of naval operations admiral jim malloy to fly out there. sterney was a senior naval officer who has on a f-18 fighter pilot before taking demand of fifth fleet. his death as a major stock to the naval community today. ryan brown, cnn, the pentagon. at 9:00 p.m., fareed zakaria investigates impeachment.
eyes and ears and made possible the strong left hook that destroyed the iraqi army and retook kuwait. it was the power built up under ronald reagan with george bush as the vice-president that enabled overwhelming victory in the iraq war. we had 104 operational squadrons and today there s 312 and the world is a much more dangerous place. and it was in front of an f-18, a naval jet and he was a naval aviator. how has air was it different when he was shot down over the pacific. you think about in world war ii, it took a thousand aircraft to deliver nine bombs each to get a few on a target. today, with precision weaponry and cells, it would take two-aircraft and we d get precisely on target as we did in
that includes lexington. this seat is currently held by a three-term incumbent republican named andy barr, he s being challenged by democrat amy mcgrath. you may recognize her from her campaign announcement, which focused on her role as the first female are mean to fly in an f-18 into combat. results from that kentucky race will be among the very first things we see when the results start coming in tomorrow. what will happen in that race, we don t know, it s considered a tossup. but one of the things we ve been trying to get our heads around in general is how early we re going to have an idea of how things are going around the country. there are high-profile races, including the indiana senate race, including that exciting kentucky house race. that s going to happen right away. but substantively, when are we going to know which way the night is going overall? joining us to talk about some of the early returns, bellwether races we should be watching is patrick murray, director of the mo