strengthens alliances with adversaries. vladimir putin meeting with syrian president bashar al-assad and a planned meeting with chinese president xi shipping next week. lucas tomlinson life in washington, good morning, lucas. good morning ashley and todd the russian warships may be spending hours looking for peace is at that $32 million rack andy will find much according to the u.s. military top brass. the russian seem to agree saying, i don t know if we can recover it or not, but we will certainly have to do that. we will have to deal with it. still not sure if the russian fighter jet meant to collide with the american drones and crashing down into the sea 75 miles south southwest of crimea. we know it landed in the plexi. probably 4,000 or 5,000 feet of water. the recovery efforts would be difficult at that depth. there is a pattern with aggressive actions being conducted by the russians. we know the intercept was intentional. we know that aggressive behavior was inte
ashley: good morning, everyone. that is thursday. we have a lot happening at the weather department. cold air across the west come across the east as well in the wake of nor easter. we have freeze advisories for parts of the southeast this morning where it will be below freezing. you can see the next storm system developing over the southwest coming into the plane states giving us the potential for heavy rainfall, hail, damaging winds and tornadoes today. you see the area shaded in maroon pier the darker shade of red very likely. we see the potential for some damaging storms, including dallas up towards little rock down to the houston area. tomorrow a greater risk for the houston area. there is the flash flood threat today through friday. that system moves eastward to the panhandle to the southeast friday. the heavy rainfall and potential for severe weather really from houston all the way to