on shepherd smith reporting. we ll see you then. dana: emergency teams combing the snowy fielding outside moscow finding data recorders from yesterday s deadly plane crash that killed everyone on board. the moment that russian airliner crashed in a ball of fire caught on surveillance video. you see the jets plunge into a field about 25 miles from the airport just minutes after takeoff. emergency crews are still searching for body parts and debris. russian investigators ruling out terrorism, but otherwise not speculating on possible causes of the crash. also oversea, a major shift in u.s. strategy. vice president mike pence telling the washington post that the u.s. is willing to hold talks with north korea while also keeping up the pressure on pyongyang. this comes after talks between south korea s president and the sister of kim jong-un during the olympics. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palcott is
a court declared the tie yesterday after a recount was held. by law, the winner will be chosen by placing each name inside an old film canister and then randomly drawing one of the canisters from a bowl. if simon s name is drawn it will make a 50/50 split in the house and power sharing agreement will have to be drawn up. another north korean soldier has defected to south korea. the second to flee the rogue nation in less than two months. you may recall last month dramatic video showing a north korean soldier getting shot multiple times as he crosses the dmz between the two countries. greg palcott is live from london. what do you know ab these defecti defection? reporter: i does have analysts looking hard at what is happening inside north korea. the latest one we have been tracking is a 19-year-old north korean soldier. this morning korean time he came
greg palcott is live in london for us. greg? reporter: harris, we re getting a little more information about this new dangerous step forward by north korea. speaking to our contacts. they ve been analyzing what took place overnight in north korea. and it is the longest range intercontinental ballistic missile that they have fired off yet. similar to the kinds of rocket that we saw at a military parade in pyongyang in april but, according to one of my sources, boosted up massively. all similar to the two icbm s north korea launched in july. in that case and this case they sent it far up into the atmosphere. in this case, 2800 miles up and 600 miles down, range 54 minutes in duration, i am told the flight was. what is critical about this, harris, if you flatten out that trajectory to what a missile
that kim jong-un s regime couldn t go a day without talking. he claims president trump is now an houligan and lunatic and he is speaking in overheated war fever. tough words all around. dana: all right, greg, thank you very much. baseball players step up to bat for california fire victims. how teams across the country are rallying around a young fan and his family. - [narrator] the typical vacuum head,
tillerson confirmed the u.s. buildup for that will add 4,000 troops in the country. hours latering secretary tillerson made another unannounced stop in baghdad this time. he is looking to consolidate an air coalition to neutralize iran s influence in the region. defense secretary james mattis talking tough on north korea with ten of his counter parts in the philippines as reports indicate u.s. is preparing to place b-52 bombers on a 24 hour alert for the first time since 1991. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palcott is live with the story. reporter: i think the safest thing to say about this is the u.s. air force is ready for anything. defense website earlier today reported that preparations were being made at a u.s. air base in louisiana to have those armed b-52 at a readiness not seen since the cold war days.