Very blunt memo to National Security adviser susan rice expressing very direct concerns about the administrations policy regarding syria. Very few details, obviously, made available. Hagel is very private about these matters. What we are told is that the secretary has some concerns that the Administration Policy is not sharply focused enough on how to deal with assad, the syrian leader, Bashar Al Assad, and how to get him out of power and that he feels there is a potential that the gains being made with air strikes in syria, could be at risk unless the u. S. Can better deal with the question of how to get rid of assad. Okay. All of that said, this is not coming out in public. There is no way this memo is likely to be made public by the pentagon. They wont even talk about it. But what we know is this is coming out as there is at lot of political chatter in washington this week, last week, going up to the midterm elections that white house politically is unhappy with hagel, secretary of
Stories. Chief among them, the midterm elections. Weve transformed the situation room into cnns election center. Theres a final whirl of campaigning with the first polls opening just seven hours from now. The entire house of representatives is up for grabs, along with three dozen governorships and a huge array of state and local posts. But all eyes right now are on the u. S. Senate. 36 seats are being contested but just a handful will determine whether the senate stays democratic or if republicans gain control. The gop needs to pick up six seats. The latest poll suggest that goal is certainly within reach. Our correspondents and our analysts are standing by. Well go live to the key battlegrounds and hear Gloria Borgers exclusive interview with the still optimistic Vice President joe biden. But lets begin in kentucky where the Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell has a chance to become the Senate Majority leader if he can hold onto his own seat. Lets go live to our senior Political Co
Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news, just days after the catastrophic launch failure of an unmanned rocket, Virgin Galactics spaceshiptwo has crashed in a california desert, killing one, injuring another. Its the same spaceship thats supposed to take paying customers on brief rides into space. The former astronaut mark kelly is standing by with our correspondents, our analysts, our newsmakers and others. Lets begin with cnns tom foreman who has the latest. Reporter the ntsb and faa are investigating what happened at here and the catastrophic failure far up in the air. Something went wrong inflight. And that is a very big deal right now. Ground control lost contact with the experimental spacecraft around 10 00 pacific time. The 500 million rocketpowered craft could seat six passengers. But during this test flight, only two pilots were on board. The spaceship is carried into flight beneath an airplane. That launch vehicle returned to the ground safely, but not the
Cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed. This was that earth shattering moment, the one that led to the deaths of more than 140,000 lives, seven decades ago. President obama stopped short of apologizing for president trumans decision to drop the become, but called for a World Without Nuclear Weapons. We stand here in the middle of this city, and force ourselves to imagine the moment the bomb fell. Mere words cannot give voice to such suffering. But we have a shared responsibility to look directly into the eye of history. And ask what we must do differently to curb such suffering again. And after his speech, an emotional embrace, hugging this 79yearold hiroshima survivor. Michel michelle is in japan, and who is the survivor. Reporter hi, pamela, right, yeah that was one of the emotional moments here. That was 79yearold mr. Mori, working for 40 years trying to get recognition for 12 prisoners of war who died in that blast here at hiroshima. So for a long time
He was charged along with three other suspects currently in custody. That includes osama krayem, who Authorities Say was at the maalbeek subway station during that attack. Lets go straight to brussels. Bill neely has been following the developments. Bill, what can you tell us . A sharp contrast to 24 hours ago where the prosecutors statement was saying they werent sure yet if he was the man in the white hat. Today they are confirming it is in fact Mohamed Abrini. Reporter yes, the mystery has been solved, the mystery that in a sense has kept brussels and the authorities here on edge, because they didnt know who the man in the hat was. He clearly escaped. You remember two days ago they released new video, new images of the man in the hat. People here were worried that he would be connected to another attack. The city of course has been braced for that for weeks now. So within the last hour, the Belgian Prosecutors Office confirming, number one, that Mohamed Abrini is the man in the hat,