good morning, everyone. this is andrea mitchell reports in washington. as ukraine says, they have dealt a major blow to russia s naval fleet in the back sea. ukrainian officials say the flagship vessel is sinking after taking missile fire. but russia is saying the damage was caused by an ammunition fire and officials say the ship is still afloat. this is how admiral stavridis characterized the blow. the first thing at annapolis, the first thing they teach you is never let your ship blow up. it s like the navy said, wait, hold my beer, let me show you what we can do. and the brooklyn subway shooting suspect frank james
in satellite images, sank in the black sea today after ukraine said a missile struck and badly damaged it. russia blamed it on an unrelated ammunition fire. despite the conflicts claims, the demise of the russian flagship, better known as the vessel that demanded the surrender of ukrainian forces on snake island early in the invasion, to which they were told to go f themselves, is significant, symbolically and tactically, as russian forces regroup for an assault in the east. and more tough talk from russia today. former president medvedev threatened russia would deploy nuclear weapons to the baltic it is sweden and finland joined nato. those two countries could be weeks away from requesting admission to the military alliance in response to russia s invasion of ukraine. it comes as the biden administration is readying an additional $800 million military
explanation, there are questions about what the setback means for russia s ability to wage war in the south and east. joining me from ukraine is ali arouzi. reporter: they said this was a ammunition fire that caused the damage, and they say what the ukrainians are saying is credible, this was hit by an anti-ship missile, and it s a significant blow to the russians. this was their flagship, and it will not hurt their capabilities here but it will complicate things for russians, and the russians are saying it s an accident and the ukrainians are saying it s they hit it.
she suffocated from tear gas. most, however, of the injuries and specifically the people who were killed yesterday were killed by live ammunition. we have not seen live ammunition here used very much. i can t confirm we ve seen it at all. i ve heard a few things that sound like live ammunition fire. but we ve been told in other parts of the strip there have been some uses of live ammunition, but certainly not the scale that we saw yesterday where there were large crowds in the area where i m standing right now rushing that border fence, and being shot at. today it is mostly tear gas, although i can tell you i ve heard some sounds that sound like gunfire, but we re not seeing the kind of victims that would indicate a mass use of live fire. what we re seeing right now is a dangerous situation. what happened yesterday is what s happening right around now. the tear gas is used to keep people back away from the israeli border fence. and when they get on to the border fence itself, that s wh
seriously. but you can t forecast by analogy. that doesn t work at all. leading indicators say it s premature to say we have a new recession. we have to stay tuned. you can t predikt the predictors. you are the guy to study this. thanks very much for being with us. the managing director. all right. listen, this is an interesting story. it started on a yuton national guard shooting base and blown off base but so far machine gunfire destroyed four homes and forced people out of 2,000 more. apparently sparked bayh ammunition fire during a training exercise. an emotional evacuee giving his side of today s story. these fires are an occurrence that happen occasionally during training. that s why we have on-site equipment in order to fight the fire with trucks and tanks and black hawk helicopters as