the tiny school pulling off a stunner in its first tournament appearance in 40 years announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and welcome, everyone the u.s. tonight offering compelling evidence that russian fighter jets were the aggressors in a confrontation with an american air force drone over the black sea this week. newly declassified pentagon video from the drone s camera captured a russian warplane spraying jet fuel directly in the path of the pilotless drone. one of several close passes by russian fighters according to the pentagon, one of which resulted in a collision. part of the american aircraft s propeller sheared off, forcing the drone to crash. while american officials allow the russian pilot may have accidentally bumped the drone, they say there s no question where the orders to harass the u.s. plane came from courtney kube has more for us now from the pentagon. reporter: the dramatic new video showing the midair showdown all c
deeper trouble, and two credit firms downgraded first republic bank to jump status. though they gave back some ground by the close the dow industrials and s&p 500 still ended the day down significantly. shares of regional banks including first republic were down sharply, in first republic s case by more than 21%. big banks which are more tightly regulated also took a hit with citi group shares down 5%. we ll have more in a moment on what this means to markets and the economy. chris tone romans and phil mattingly with me for that. first we re joined by senator bernie sanders. senator sanders, how much confidence do you have in the banking system right now? and should people watching be worried about their bank and their savings? well, i think we re all concerned about what happened at silicon valley and we re looking at other banks around the country. and i think our hope and our prayer is that there s not going to be contagion. and i think it s imperative that the congress
good morning, everyone. you can see poppy and don are in new york. we re going to begin this hour with breaking news. minutes ago we just got dramatic new video from the pentagon released by the military where you can see a russian fighter jet approaching the back of the american drone that has now been down for about 4,000 to 5,000 feet in the black sea. in this video, you can see where the russian fighter jet is going up to this american drone. it is dumping fuel on it. that s what you re seeing on the video as it s approaching here. then the jet goes away. it comes back and dumps more fuel. then it hits the american drone. it clips the drone. that is when you see the color bars there ultimately, of course, this is what led up to the downing of this drone that we have been following all week since this happened thcht interaction that happened on tuesday lasted for over half an hour. now, of course, that u.s. drone was forced to be downed in the black sea. general millie sai
russia drowned our u.s. drones. we won t tolerate this kind of provocative action. what you are supposed to be doing. i have the privilege of serving with joe biden he intends to run and if he does i will be running with him. you see like this momentum about them trying to pull kamala off the ticket? aaron rodgers says he will leave the green bay packers for the new york jets. i made it clear my intention was to play and my intention was to play for the new york jets. steve: all right. good morning, everybody, we are starting with a fox news alert. brand new video just in from the pentagon shows that russian fighter jet clipping an american drone earlier this week over the sea in europe. ainsley: it was going straight for it. who do you believe russia or our military? we will take a look. watch as the jets are buzzing by the drone over the black sea before striking the propeller and sending the $32 million drone plunging down into the black sea. the russian na
we begin with brand-new video from the pentagon, showing the moment a russian fighter jet collided with a u.s. drone over international waters. the stunning footage shows the jet approaching the drone, dumping fuel as it gets closer. then striking the drone s propeller before it plunged into the water. the defense department also released these images, one first showing the propeller attacked, a second photo showing the damaged propeller. the kremlin had said the u.s. downed the drone. well, we know that s not true. the video clearly is a receipt for why that didn t happen. almost immediately following the crash, russia sent ships to search for debris. we don t have warships there anymore. biden took them out. our top military brass is doubtful they will find anything, recovering usable intelligence, because that part of the black sea is some 5,000 feet deep. still the incident is very troubling. here s general mark milley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. so so was