boost. these supporters want to see more urgency from washington. what are you hearing? absolutely. they see this as an opportunity they had never seen before. but when you look at the floatilla here this morning it s a very small number of boats because the u.s. coast guard urging them not to go. firing flares is a sign of distress, they should not be doing that, so only a few boats left there this morning. and the concern is if they drift into cuban space they can run into problems there. among the issues being presented is how cuban americans here can send money to their relatives on the island without running into what is essentially part of that
one sign of that today before the attack, iraqi security services had allowed militia members to flood this diplomatic area normally off-limits. by nightfall, a show of force. two american apache helicopters firing flares over the embassy, in a warning to protesters. more than 100 marines have now arrived to reinforce security at the embassy and we re learning hundreds more u.s. troops would be deploying to the middle east effective immediately. so, let s get right to james longman. and james, right now, there are still no plans to evacuate the embassy? reporter: no, that s right, whit. and tonight, the situation outside the embassy has calmed, but those militia groups have repeated their vow to retaliate against the u.s., demanding its withdrawal. tensions with iran still at an all-time high. whit? all right, james longman, our thanks to you tonight. meanwhile, back here at home, the new year s eve storm on the final day of 2019. drivers facing heavy snow and icy roads near
the next north korea if we don t do something to stop it. heather: donald trump decertified the nuclear deal in october but congress failed to pass any further sanctions. dangerous close call between american and russian fighter jets nearly colliding over syria. two russian planes agreed to the off-limits area. the us air force jets firing flares sending a strong message known as headbutting but one russian claims close enough, so close almost crashed into an american jet. they left the area 40 minutes later. donald trump and russian president vladimir putin taking a rare phone call to talk about north korea. no word on what was said to but we do know they are trying to de-escalate tensions over the
fire when something went tragically wrong. no other details have been release you had. a dangerous faux pas between american and russian fighter jets nearly clyde colliding over syria. two russian planes flying in agreed off limits area. u.s. air force jets firing flares meant to send a strong warning known as head butting. one russian plane flew almost so close it almost crashed into an american jet. the whole incident lasted about 40 manipulates. nfl quarterback marcus mayor oat that apologizing to the media because his mom told him to. the signal caller was brief with reporters after sunday s loss. it was the first thing he brought up with them this week u. i was rude and inappropriate and, you know, i just want to say i apologize for that i got an ear full of it from my mom. that s how i was raised and, you know, i appreciate you guys. i understand. jillian: for what it s worth the reporters said they were not offended. i never met him but by all
administration, past officials there disputing this idea that this was actually a sort of joint operation, as it were, between the outgoing operation and the incoming administration. david rohde i want to get to you now because there s been some tough words flying around, the president saying nothing is off the table in response to iran s ballistic missile testing. what are your national security sources telling you? well, that line that nothing s off the table, many presidents have said, that but this is a critical issue. this is the persian gulf, obviously it s a critical area in terms of oil supplies. so the rhetoric is dangerous because the iranians have this habit, they ve been having these speed boats sort of come very close to american warships in the persian gulf in the past. the obama administration would respond by firing flares at these boats. if the u.s. were to fire on those small iranian boats you could see an escalation on both sides. it s a dangerous situation and a