holds a safety summit today. gio benitez reporting. here in new york city tonight, the mysterious fire breaking out in a luxury building, just hours after the fbi arrest of an exiled chinese billionaire. and a one-time close ally of steve bannon. and what authorities have just revealed tonight. aaron katersky in new york. this new cross-country storm moving east tonight. 18 states now on alert from california all the way to michigan. the midwest and south bracing for this. and then the northeast. rob marciano timing it out. your money. and the growing concern tonight beyond u.s. banks. one of europe s largest banks, credit suisse, and the stock price plunging to an all-time low. authorities here with the reality check tonight on the safety of your money. and erielle reshef on wall street. the disturbing scene. seven sheriff s deputies arrested and charged with murder following an inmate s death in virginia. some punching him and using pepper spray. the deputies then a
gio benitez reporting. here in new york city tonight, the mysterious fire breaking out in a luxury building, just hours after the fbi arrest of an exiled chinese billionaire. and a one-time close ally of steve bannon. and what authorities have just revealed tonight. aaron katersky in new york. this new cross-country storm moving east tonight. 18 states now on alert from california all the way to michigan. the midwest and south bracing for this. and then the northeast. rob marciano timing it out. your money. and the growing concern tonight beyond u.s. banks. one of europe s largest banks and the stock price plunging to an all-time low. authorities here with the reality check tonight on the safety of your money. and erielle reshef on wall street. the disturbing scene. seven sheriff s deputies arrested and charged with murder following an inmate s death in virginia. some punching him and using pepper spray. the deputies then allegedly holding him down for 12 minutes while han
Defense secretary lloyd austin today in a rare call with his russian counterpart, the first since october, delivering a strong message. the united states will continue to fly and to operate wherever international law allows. it is incumbent upon russia to operate its military aircraft in a safe and professional manner. reporter: which was not the case in this incident. over a period of about 30 minutes, two russian fighter jets made 19 close passes around the drone, sprayed fuel on it multiple times, and then one of the jets on a final pass approaching the drone vertically and colliding with the drone s rear propeller. we know that the intercept was intentional. we know that the aggressive behavior was intentional. the actual physical contact, not sure yet. reporter: but a u.s. air force official said they do not think the pilot hit the drone on purpose, saying the russian pilot was simply
incompetent and flat out dumb. russia denies the fighter jet collided with the drone, but u.s. officials say video evidence confirms it. as for the recovery of the drone, chairman milley said that may be difficult in 4,000 to 5,000 feet of water. it probably broke up, then probably not a lot to recover, frankly. as far as the loss of anything of sensitive intelligence, et cetera, as normal, we would take, and we did take mitigating measures. so we are quite confident that whatever whatever was a valu. that was really interesting today. let s get to martha raddatz. we heard general milley there saying if the russians recovered this drone, the u.s. is very confident they will not gain access to any valuable u.s. intelligence here. reporter: right, david. the drone operators were able to gain some control of the drone, even after the collision, and were able to wipe out or scrub all the sensitive information remotely and render the drone
With david muir is next. see you at 4:00. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. the u.s. inand russia in a raceo find that downed american drone. and here in the u.s., another close call on the runway. the air traffic controllers urging a united flight to cancel takeoff clearance. first tonight, russia and the u.s. scrambling to find that multimillion dollar american reaper green intercepted by two russian fighter jets. the u.s. says one of those russian jets colliding with the drone. tonight, defense secretary lloyd austin and his message to his russian counterpart. martha raddatz standing by. here in the u.s., that new close call. at least seven incidents now so far this year. a united flight forced to abort takeoff from reagan national airport. what happened on that runway? and it comes just as the faa holds a safety su