welcome back to cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. new this hour. dramatic new details about the unidentified object shot down by fighter jets just miles off the coast of alaska yesterday. unlike the chinese spy balloon last saturday, this demanded more immediate action yesterday. officials say it was flying much lower at 40,000 feet making it a dangerous potential threat to civilian aircraft. now we are learning u.s. military pilots who approached the craft have given conflicting accounts of what they saw. this new report coming in from cnn national security reporter natasha bertrand. this is interesting. this is kind of unusual that these pilots saw different things and that is sort of, i guess, adding to the mystery of all of this. not even the pilots were able to identify what they saw. just to take you back for a sec. on thursday the u.s. defense officials sent f-35 fighter jets to try to figure out what this object was flying around near alaska. those pilot
wall street journal editorial page talking about how even by donald trump standards this was dangerous, violent rhetoric. we ll have the latest on that in light of everything that s going on. cpac tweets out russian propaganda, and then backtracks claiming the post was not authorized. we ll tell you what the conservative group is saying now and a lot of news in the sports world but we re going to begin this morning in florida where historic rescue and relief efforts are underway, five days after hurricane ian battered the state and left massive devastation in its wake. the u.s. death toll is now at 87 people according to an nbc news tally. first responders are searching the hardest hit areas for survivors. florida governor ron desantis says more than 1,000 rescues have been made across the state since the storm hit. fema officials say this is the largest search and rescue effort they have ever launched in florida and that u.s. federal response is likely to be unprecedente
The Israeli Military kill seven aid workers in gaza, including three britons, the Prime Minister calls it appalling, the opposition says this war must stop now. The israeli pm says the attack was an unintentional tragic incident, but western allies want answers. Why were three clearly marked humanitarian vehicles that had just delivered 100 tons of aid to alleviate potential famine in gaza targeted . And what was already agreed by the Un Security Council as a catastrophic humanitarian situation for palestinians will get worse now as Aid Organisations suspend their deliveries, and an aid ship turns back, amid safety fears. Why did this happen and what will the consequences be . We talk to a spokespeson for the Israeli Government. It looks like there was an accident and a convoy was accidentally hit and a convoy was accidentally hit and that are subject to a full investigation. And an oxfam co ordinator in ramallah. Also tonight. A Special Report on families struggling to access special
And youngest president s can take a look at the challenges facing it. Takes off the im feel welcome to the program is really Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has responded to international outrage. A beginning of 78. What is in gaza . I have missing was the cold on unintentional is riley strike the food chat with the world. The central kitchen announced that one of its convoys had been hit after leaving the warehouse in central garza, which obviously has now suspended operations in the territory cypress, which has played a key role in trying to establish a c routes to bring in much needed a says that means ships carrying more than 200 tons of supplies to gaza. Now turning back, well start off consideration of International Reaction by hearing from us secretary of state and to me blinking of the victims of yesterday strike joint. A Record Number of the amount of trained workers has been killed in this particular conflict. These people are heroes. They run into the fire, not away from i
The hello, im terry martin, and welcome to the program. Syrian Officials Say it is really air strike is destroyed. Part of the ranch diplomatic compound in damascus lorenz revolutionary guard says, one of the senior commanders was killed along with several officers and the suspect it is rarely airstrike a foreign ministry. Spokes person into around says its considering a response and punishment for the attack. This is whats left of the rain in conceal it in damascus. Official say, and these railey stripe on the building killed several people, including members of the runs is lumnick, revolutionary god of the well deed which strongly condemned this criminal act carried out by the zionist enemy. Which led to the death of some innocent citizens who are passing by the streets and you almost. So again, we emphasize out position, besides brothers in the Arabian Embassy and the as why mac republican be around it. And we can assure that syria and d is lemme career public. Dont forget the enemy