good morning to you, a sad morning in the news. i m jim sciutto. a sad morning, one that s become all too familiar, i m erica hill. for the third time now in as many days california rocked by mass shootings. in oakland at least one person is dead, seven injured. seven people also dead after a gunman opened fire in half-moon bay, and 11 of course were killed over the weekend in monterey park. police say a 67-year-old man attacked two separate locations in half-moon bay, this morning one person remains in critical condition. it s a big rural location, so people are working, it s spread out, there s people that live at the location as well. so, you know, it s it was in the afternoon when kids were out of school and for children to witness this is unspeakable. we can say the regularity of this kind of gun violence is not normal, perhaps more accurately it s not normal anywhere but this country. in that shooting right now the can you say spect is in custody, his arrest cap
Drone is first of new wave of lower-cost autonomous weapons the Pentagon is funding through its Replicator programme – an effort to field new systems by August 2025 to help counter Chinese capabilities.
2.4 billion in military aid to ukraine bringing the total u.s. military assistance to ukraine to more than $32 billion. less than 4% of the annual pentagon budget. including in today s announcement, additional ammunition for high mobility rocket systems. additional 155 millimeter artillery rounds, four types of drones including switchblade 600 for the first time. and then the other kinds of drones include the jump 20, counter drone and electronic warfare detection equipment. the u.s. army plans to ramp up ammunition production 500% producing 17,000 shells by 2025. the defense department said they re working with the defense
0 february 24. always, the story goes on. look forward to seeing you here monday. stick around. watch the judge on the five. it s going to be a great show. neil: all right. there has been a break in the murdaugh trial. it is supposed to resume in the next ten minutes or so. this will give the defense a class to cross examine alec murdaugh who handled himself nicely if you like that sort of thing. questions to the prosecution going over everything, the physical evidence to his financial predicament. when they resume, we ll go back to the courthouse. meantime, i want to remind you of other big developments that has been having. the one-year anniversary now of the ukraine war. growing indications it could go on awhile especially with signs that china is looking to get cozier with russia. this comes at the same time that we re getting word that china has out there a 12-point peace plan that has gotten the interest of president zelensky. let s get on all of these developing issues with
what they ve been asking for desperately is long-range drones. this is a switchblade 600 drone, it s held up in the department of the army in some sort of foreign military sales pipeline. if they had this they could disrupt the ammunition and so forth behind them. they need the leopard tanks, they need self-propelled artillery, they probably need 300 to 500 main battle tanks. they are talking about maybe getting 100 leopards from these other they re in a really tough position, jim. yeah, that s the concern, right, is that the numbers germany in total has 200 leopard tanks in storage right now, poland is talking about spending 14. even if they do get them given the numbers the many hundreds of tanks that russia has and russia s very capable anti-tank weapon systems one u.s. military official said to me the u.s. concern is that ukraine will have tank grave yards if they try to fight russia in this style, much like we saw russia