also, we have been warned about the possibility of russian forces completely encircling the city, cutting off all humanitarian aid, food, and beginning what one would program to be a much uglier bombing campaign. so you re seeing a lot of strength and defiance but there is also still a sense that things could get much worse, jake. we also saw residents of one central ukrainian town seemed to block a russian convoy earlier today. tell us about that. reporter: this is just one of many examples that we re finding on social media every day, in geo locating. this was in a town in central ukraine. you can see the men basically blocking this column of 40 armored vehicles with their cars. they re telling them in unison that they are united together. that they will not move. eventually, what is amazing is that those russian vehicles, the drivers get out and the russian vehicles actually are forced to reverse.
it s also really important that we understand the footage is real and accurate and current and so one of the ways we ve been doing this is by geo locating that footage. here is an example of how our investigative team has been doing that. reporter: it was an alarming scene, russian helicopters flying low over a few kilometers over kyiv with large dark plumes of smoke rising. the man filming said 20 of them were flying over. when this started on february 24th, it was not yet confirmed the russians were anywhere near kyiv. our investigative team began looking to verify it. the most important thing is to establish this footage is recent. we checked to ensure it had not been circulating. with that confirmed, we needed to establish the location.
that s where on our social news gathering team comes in. they re an amaze aing, talented team and she s going to start by verifying where this happened. this is geo locating to cordinates in kharkiv. this is a street map view, a tool you might have at a home. this building with the red roof. look, you can see here right there. in the same video. so, we re able to match that and we know from ukrainian officials the russian military entered kharkiv. we ve also seen the videos in other ukrainian cities with the russian tanks again. the letter z painted on them. this was verified by our team showing ukrainian people pushing against these vehicles and you ll see them laying down in front. it s actually not clear what this z stand for or how it came to mean what it does but it is definitely clear it s become a pro-russia symbol and it s not
around midnight, that evening, we had moved a significant number of assets towards them. so, secretly watching this person and his accomplice? correct. utilizing cell phone analysis, geo locating where their cellphones was, where they were, and stuff at that nature. but by 3 am, investigators had ruled them out. so, based on maybe where they had been, at the time of the shooting? correct. investigators also looked into judge salas s most high-profile case in recent years. the sentencing of real housewives of new jersey reality tv stars teresa and joe giudice. for financial fraud charges. joe was pretty upset. he got deported to italy from all of this. did you think that there is any chance that a relative was seeking revenge? we took a look at all of the high-profile cases, but they really did not produce any evidence that led us to believe that. judge salas also doubted anyone from that case would be
the yesterday at this time when we were all talking together from new york and the west coast as well as b. how the fbi was focusing in on the mail stream at the fedex location in schertz, texas which is about 40 miles south of where i m sitting right now. and that is they were able to get some images of this guy, the suspect, dropping off these two packages at 6:30 in the morning, just he dropped them in at fedex location. there was nobody behind the counter. but they were able to use geo location and cell phone technology to figure out, okay, whose phones were around there right then? and so they were able to then track them down ultimately to the road side inn tout five miles north of where i m sitting. terry, going forward, will they be able to use that same technology of geo locating the phone to figure out all the stops he made so that if he did drop other