Every weekend join me at john. Com. I had to montgomery and tokyo. And this is cnn cnn Breaking News good morning. Im kasie hunt in washington. This is cnn this morning. Its 5 00 a. M. Here on the east coast and we begin with Breaking News. A helicopter carrying iranian president Ebrahim Raisi crashing early Sunday Morning in a remote area of the country. Iranian state media reporting overnight that he is dead, the Foreign Minister and other Government Officials were also onboard after attending an event near a rons border with azerbaijan rescuers reached the crash site overnight. There are no survivors prompting or rons government to convene an emergency meeting. Cnns Paula Hancocks is tracking the latest developments for us from abu dhabi polo. Good morning to you. What is the latest here . Okc. We know at this point that the conditions at the time of the Helicopter Crash were bad. We know that the weather was challenging. We have been told that the fog and low cloud reduced visibili
Government immediately calling an urgent meeting russias invasion, and America Struggle to defend the west. David good morning. Im very grateful to have you here this morning at big picture. Lets talk about who this man was, what he meant in the region, and what this turn of events means for all of the tensions that have been swirling in recent months well good morning casey obviously, a great tragedy that this helicopter went down and it was pretty clear by late yesterday, just from the silence of the iranian officials that they had very little hope that there would be any survivors raisi himself was a very conservative cleric who came in very close to the Supreme Leader of a country, the president of garan is the number two official. Obviously, the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khomeini is this the most important decisionmaker, but the two were very close and he came in to basically run the crackdowns that we have seen on dissent and human rights. He accelerated the support for Terror Gr