we begin with a weather alert and it s not good. more severe storms and flooding threatening parts of the south already devastated by a deadly tornado outbreak over the weekend. rachel: at least 26 people are confirmed dead and several towns are left in ruins. will: look at those images over rolling fork showing the images. on the ground in mississippi. robert has the latest. good morning to you all as a very swift wind is coming in here into rolling fork. a cool temperatures this morning and you could see the destruction behind me. unfortunately. this is a home, a large wood beam that has smashed to the ground from this ef-4 tornado. 166 mile-per-hour plus winds. mile and a half long this town of rolling forks is in shambles. it will need to be completely rebuilt. over 2,000 people live here. 24 people have lost their life in the state of mississippi one dead in alabama. federal, state and local on the ground yesterday. talked to governor tate reeves listen to what h
happens. let s go to mcallen, texas, on-site hearing, a field trip, if you will, at the highest level at the southern border after what you saw broke off on sunday. a bum rush in el paso, texas. some of them had already booked travel, democrats are pulling out of this unique opportunity to get hands on after the border crisis. again, the white house with a familiar line today calling the hearing itself a stunt. any news and we ll bring it to you immediately. get to this. tensions escalating. united states and russia blaming each other after a warplane crashed into an american drone over the black sea. it is first known encounter between the two militaries since the start of the ukraine war a bit more than a year ago. i m harris faulkner, you are in the faulkner focus. flighter jet clipped propeller of the reaper drone as it flew over the black sea yesterday. the hit forced american operators to bring down the $32 million drone. national security council spokesman john kirby
concerns of russia and the united states, a russian fighter jet a drone over the black sea yesterday, the kremlin claims the surveillance drone was lying too close to its border and crashed into the water on its own following an encounter with russian fighter jets. but the pentagon maintains that the drone was operating in international airspace when the russia war plane clipped its propeller. air force general james hecker denouncing the attack on the united states drone saying this. this unsafe unprofessional act by the russians merely because both aircraft s to crash. defense secretary austen saying this is a part of russian aggression, while u.s. officials call it a violation of international law. here is john kirby this morning. we brought the ambassador end that the state department yesterday at washington, d.c., and conveyed a very direct message to him about our concerns over this reckless and unprofessional unprofessional behavior by russian pilots, we have commu
bret: breaking tonight the effort to avoid a disaster involving commercial airlines. there have been several very close calls lately we told you about them yesterday. today the held a safety summit to come up with solutions. mark meredith leads us off from reagan national airport. good evening, mark. bret, good evening to you. the top aviation the skies are safe. after a number of near misses and close calls, including one at this airport just last week, the government is also examining if more can be to avoid potential disasters. we have seen an uptick in serious close calls that we must address. transportation secretary pete buttigieg kicked off today s aviation safety summit with a warning. more mistakes than usual are happening across the system, on runways, at gates when planes are pushing back, in control towers and on flight decks. the government says it s investigating six runway incursions this year alone, including one at washington s reagan airport 8
lawyer is testifying in a matter of hush payments in a federal court in west texas behind closed doors, no cameras, no audio recordings. we start there because what happens in this courtroom and this judge decides could ultimately have consequences for every single woman and every single family in america oral arguments took place in a case brought by anti-abortion groups challenges the completely legal, completely safe long-ago approved routine and decades old use of medication for abortion those groups today asked a judge to order a stop to the use of an abortion pill as their case makes its way through the courts it s reported at the hearing the judge, quote, asked government lawyers on wednesday about what he characterized as an accelerated process for approving one of two drugs used in most pregnancy terminations nationwide in response the justice department lawyer said there s tremendous evidence showing this pill as safe, even when a doctor does not administer it it s