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operation is underway in northern iran. after a helicopter crash involving iranian president ebrahim raisi. the aircraft went down early this morning after the president and other officials attended a ceremony for the opening of a new near the border with azure by john. at this time, raisi s condition is unknown and rescuers are having difficulty reaching the crash shite because of the heavy fog and the bad weather russia, a close ally to iran, has announced it will send to advanced aircrafts and 50 additional mountain rescuers to help with those search efforts. that s according to iranian state news, seen as nic robertson, ies tracking the story closely, he is joining us now with the latest nick. it seems like we re entering about our 13 now. since this chopper went down, what more do you know? yeah. and a couple of hours since we had conflicting information from the islamic revolutionary guard corps in east azerbaijan province there in the very northwest of iran ....
at right now he is headed to detroit to speak at naacp events. earlier the president give a keynote address to the graduating class at morehouse college morehouse, or the historically black universities in atlanta. the president is seeking to fire up his coalition to bring home traditionally reliable democratic voting bloc in november hello everyone i m eric shawn this is fox news live. hi arthel. hi eric hello everyone i am arthel neville but president biden s visit to atlanta is the first time he has been on a college campus since they became the staging grounds avert massive protests over the war in gaza. we are reporting less than a dozen students at the commencement turn their backs to the president during his speech seemingly in a protest. this comes as the president is also seeing his numbers a road with black voters new fox polling shows approval among the key groups slipped seven percentage points since before the 2020 election but meanwhile president trump ....
carrying iranian president ebrahim raisi what tv called a hard landing. the helicopter is believed to have crashed in a rural forest as iranian officials are fighting difficult weather conditions to reach the site welcome to fox news live i m rich edson. let s turn to trey yingst to his track in the details on this breaking story. trey, what do we know this hour? good afternoon. we are following this breaking story out of iran. where according to reports the country s president ebrahim raisi along the country s foreign minister are both missing following a helicopter crash in the northern part of the country. we know very limited information about what is taken place. we do understand at this hour and there are dozens of rescue teams deployed in the northern part of iran along the border of azerbaijan. searching for the helicopter for itearlier in the day president ebrahim raisi was meeting with his counterpart and azerbaijan along the border there is a convoy of th ....
unequivocably. we are here today to give israel what they need to do the job of destroying the modern day version of nazis, hamas. we are here today to tell ironic we are watching you. cooks all countries that identify as hamas as the perpetrator of these atrocities. the immediate release of the hostages to make it clear to the enemies of israel if you try to take advantage of this situation, we are standing ready. don t even think about it. eric: it you just herded america 70 years ago standing strong against the not the threat. now we face it again. this time under hamas. americans at standing tall with our mid east ally moments ago the bipartisan group of centers including lindsey graham and ben cardin as you saw in tel aviv voicing united support for the jewish state as this ground war against the terrorists of hamas is looming. israeli military now claiming a senior hamas commander was killed in an overnight strike in gaza for the jewish nation masses tens of thous ....
country s president suffered a hard landing earlier today. iran s foreign minister and other officials were on board. the helicopter was flying in an remote region. search and rescue operations are still ongoing. let s go to josh letterman in london. josh, phyllis and with the rest of the details phil us in with the rest of the details. what do we know right now? reporter: it is after midnight in iran and has been more than 10 hours as a helicopter carrying the iranian president and also his foreign minister went down. the iranian president was on his way back from a visit to a new dam built near the border when this helicopter went down in what has been described by iranian media as and hard landing. other reports have called it a crash. we know it took place in harsh weather conditions. at this point in time the status of the iranian president and foreign minister are unknown. we know for hours rescue officials have been trying to reach them, trying to figure out e ....