investigating. israel shooting down an iranian drone over israeli territory as leaders in jerusalem vow to press ahead with military operations against iranian backed forces in syria. israel confirms losing an advance fighter jet to enemy fire for the first time in 36 years. david lee miller is live in our middle east bureau. david lee? reporter: dana, as you point out, not since the first lebanon war has an israeli war craft been shot down. the m-16 was on an air raid over syria on saturday when it was struck by debris from anti-aircraft fire. the aircraft on the israel side of the border. two man crew e skwrebgtd. the jet was on a mission to destroy an iranian mobile drone launcher in syria. hours earlier israel said an iranian drone crossed into its air space. israeli video shows what it says is the drone being shot out of the sky. a helicopter retaliated.
reporter: help is steadily flowing into this part of the world, the u.s. marine corp is imploring 37 marines to help in this area. they ll be sailing in on 37 warships carrying supplies water and food. and detonating war craft including eight of these of spri planes. the air force, navy and coast guards have all been applying rescue missions for several days now. rescues have been happening around the clock. on wednesday, cvs savage has been allowed among a plane in beaumont. here s a look at some of the dramatic images from that very mission. they are hovering over the city, rising and falling and here we see people being pulled up now.
of representatives who called the lack of consultation disturbing. carney also say what is happening today, as you reported, transfer of the lead role in the right now. carney noting, as noted at the pentagon, majority of the combat missions, airborne combat missions, as of last 24 hours, minority of those missions have been flown by the united states. in other words, the preponderance of missions are being flown by nato allies and other allies involved and that brings us to another point the administration would like to tap, two arab nations joined the coalition by sending war craft, though few war craft. the united arab emirates announcing yesterday it will be sending six to go along with qatar s aircraft it s sending as well. as part of the civilian protection aspect, remember, there s a distinction that s being made, no-fly zone and protecting civilians by
federal budget as i promised in the campaign page by page and line by line and elim 98ing programs we don t need. so how is a taxpayer paying three million for research in the world of war craft as an emerging form of communication? and a million to deepen our awareness of the environment by posting poetry at zoos? or 600 grand to archive grateful dead memor billia. our government is so big and we allow people to make decision that are clueless as to the situation we find ourselves in. it is a killing string that is right here and so much traffic. reptile lovers got 150,000 for a tunnel to stop the needless death of salamanders. and science fougedation to study how americans met their partners since that what the census is doing?
out of control spending? william la jeunesse joining us live. hi, william. reporter: well, rick, if white house did go through the budget line by line the last two years, you d have to say it was blind. but remember, the president doesn t have a line item veto. congress can override specifics. the point is the process right now is broke withen. number two, washington doesn t really have the will to cut spending, and every time someone does try to cut something stupid, someone else tries to save it. when i m president, i will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely. reporter: as a candidate and president, barack obama promised to cut wasteful spending. we are going to go through our federal budget, as i promised during the campaign, page by page, line by line. eliminating those programs we don t need. reporter: so how is it taxpayers still paid $3 million for research into the world of war craft as an emerging form of