Helicopters that were in this aerial convoy and only one of them crashed. But yes, it was carrying the president. It was carrying the Foreign Minister hossein amir of the law at least three crew members, the governor of Eastern Azerbaijan province. Thats again where the ceremony had been taking place on the border with azerbaijan is separate country. Of course and then the friday prayer, imam who leads the friday prayers in the city of tabriz. Thats the Major Metropolitan Center in that part of iran paula, i have done a road trip through this part of iran to the border, to turkey from tehran and i can personally attest to the fact that this area is rugged. It is very sparsely populated as well. We perhaps explain why you would have such a high level delegation traveling by helicopter because any kind of trip by road would have taken hours and hours and also been on potentially the dangerous roads. But this is a rugged and remote place and an indicator of perhaps why the iranian authori
Operation is underway in northern iran. After a Helicopter Crash involving iranian president ebrahim raisi. The aircraft went down early this morning after the president and other officials attended a ceremony for the opening of a new near the border with azure by john. At this time, raisis condition is unknown and rescuers are having difficulty reaching the crash shite because of the heavy fog and the bad weather russia, a close ally to iran, has announced it will send to advanced aircrafts and 50 additional Mountain Rescuers to help with those search efforts. Thats according to Iranian State news, seen as nic robertson, ies tracking the story closely, he is joining us now with the latest nick. It seems like were entering about our 13 now. Since this chopper went down, what more do you know . Yeah. And a couple of hours since we had conflicting information from the Islamic Revolutionary guard corps in East Azerbaijan province there in the very northwest of iran. They said that they re
Middle of the president s address. So well talk about that also, a new low for diddy, a new concerns for what Cassie Ventura went through after the video of him assaulting her. Will there be any legal accountability . Well discuss that in this new cdc shut study shows that theres an increase in people drowning especially people of color. The first black woman to make the Us Olympic Swim Team now has a mission to teach kids of color to swim Marissa Correia mcclendon is going to join us coming up in the next hour event just to have a good show. Thank you very much. Lets get started right now well first of all, black Voter Turnout influences president ial elections and well, Atlanta Influences Everything President Biden seems to recognize that. And this week, we saw a surge in outreach targeted ad buys interviews with black radio stations, a speech at the National Museum of africanamerican history and culture immediate with leaders of the divine nine Historically Black sororities and frat
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