a fiber freelancer. former vice president mike pence joins wolf blitzer, cnn primetime tonight at nine. top of the hour this thursday. i m jim sciutto. great to be with you, jim. hi, everyone. i m jessica dean. and any moment now, officials at fort campbell in kentucky will be giving everyone an update after two blackhawk helicopters collided overnight, killing nine u. s service members that is, according to an army official. we re standing by for that, and we ll bring it to you live as soon as it happens. the governor among those who will speak their plus russia has now arrested an american journalist, it says on suspicion of espionage. even draskovic, a reporter for the wall street journal, detained in a small town east of moscow, the wall street journal strongly defending their reporter, the kremlin says. he was caught red handed, refuses to offer any details their track record on this kind of thing. begs a lot of questions. we re going to have details ahead. we begin this
here. ah, a couple of points, one. the fact that a medevac helicopter was was part of this . what does that tell us and just the danger as well of nighttime operations, even even during exercises. yeah, a couple of things. jim and orange summed it up very well on a black hawk . there are always two pilots and pilot and a copilot. and there are always two crew chiefs both on the left and right doors , so one helicopter had their crew. the other one had an additional passenger more than likely a medic in the back. ahh helicopters have the medevac helicopters. the ones with the big red cross on the side are there to evacuate wounded soldiers, so they were training in the evacuation. and when you had that one other soldier in the back more than likely a medic but in the back of those hh helicopters, there are cassettes that you can load up litters and, uh, that you put wounded soldiers onto and carry
but at that scene where that shooting occurred left a note addressed to my supervisor. and he called himself the son of sam. well, he talked about being possessed by a man he refers to as sam, a man he refers to as his father. and he said that his father requires blood. this got people s attention. i think it was just the sheer randomness of it, the fact that you could be doing something as simple as sitting in a car talking to a friend and someone would come behind you and open fire. it was pretty terrifying. it was frightening. i was in charge of the nighttime operations, part of a task force that wanted to shoot him on site, that was our job. take him out in the street. we flooded the streets of new york. these people died and we re trying to stop it, okay my man? it s everybody. it s not you, it s everybody. that s all we re trying to do. in terms of the victim count, that doesn t place him at the
be mastered before he can get them in there. we organized into groups. we started picking out debris, searching, picking out debris. doing primary secondary searches and then moving out debris off the main site into a temporary landfill once that debris had completely been taken care of. we also head of the resources from city. to help us here as well as other local response agencies in the area. when lexington got on the site, we initiated daytime and nighttime operations. the city of louisville is managing the daytime operations along with lexington. lexington fire department is managing the nighttime operations, along with indiana task force one. several local responders. we have search dogs on site from multiple agencies. not only across the state of kentucky but nationally, they have come into.
biden has shut it dispowrng americans are going to be left behind, and the taliban are going to have a hostage bonanza at anytime of their choosing. it s disgraceful and shameful. maria: look, i know that it was a prior [inaudible conversations] if yeah, go ahead, brian. that inventory that our u.s. service members are now having to fight against, we used those weapons, we carried those weapons across the battlefield. we know what they can mean in terms of harm, not just the improvised explosive devices and the vehicle-borne ieds, but the ordnance, the mortars, the body armor, the night vision that they now have that limit us from conducting nighttime operations that could help give us a little bit of an edge over those enemies, the surface-to-air assets they now have that they can put down our assets that are in the sky. michael and i know as well as anybody, that inventory is the most advanced military weaponry that was given to them by