south carolina were kidnapped shortly after crossing into mexico. what authority is have called a case of mistaken identity. we want to warn you that the video we are about to show you is graphic and disturbing. you can see men and bulletproof vests brandishing long guns, shoving the americans into the back of the pickup. a woman shoved into the flat bud while the bodies of two others are limp and dragged him beside her. the minivan they were traveling in riddled with bullet holes, one of the windows shut out. family members have identified as batavia mcgee, her cousin seen here and their friend and eric james williams. we don t know which of the victims have been killed at this time. martha, again, we don t know who has been killed. we know reportedly to the sustained press it was an individual going for a tummy tuck and that individuals mother saying she got a call saying we are 15 minutes away from the procedure and then just never heard back. it is a terrifying story, i
le learned about you is how hard you are on yourself. sometimes there is nobody that holds the leader accountable. it was not always about winning and losing for me. it is about being worthy of winning. and good morning, everyone. we re covering a lot today. we begin with tensions on the rise after the pentagon says a russian fighter jet hit a u.s. spy drone and forced it to crash. two russian jets intercepted the drone over the black sea yesterday. u.s. says one of them dumped fuel on the drone and then collided with its propeller forcing the drone to go down. putin is about to make a public appearance in moscow. we re waiting to see if he weighs in on the incident. following the crash, russia s ambassador was summoned to the state department. he claims there is no collision and that drone crashed on its own. here s what the white house had to say about that to our very own jake tapper. well, it won t surprise you that we refute that the russian s denial. i think any
provocation in the skies. the u.s. says the wreckage of the unmanned drone may not be recover. but russia commits to finding it. top biden administration officials lashed out, calling russia s actions recollectless and escape. russia to says it shouldn t have been flying during a special military operation. natasha, what are we learning about this incident and also the wreckage? the race is on, really to find this wreckage. what we are told is apparently the u.s. does not have any navy assets in the area that could readily go and pick up that wreckage, so it would be difficult to large a rescue mission for the drone. it s appearing more likely that it will not be covered by the u.s. russia is now saying they intend to try to find the drone s well. with the secretary of security council, saying they do intend to launch a mission to try to find a drone, landed in the black sea after being harassed by two fighters jets on tuesday. however, we told the u.s. did take steps to er
marquardt. new hope for more than two dozen premature babies evacuated from a decimated hospital in gaza as israel tries to make the case that the medical facility was a hamas command center. plus, tech madness. openai now in turmoil after a chaotic 72 hours seeing its ceo fired and quickly hired over at microsoft. hundreds of workers at openai threatening to follow him. a heated courtroom showdown right now. donald trump fighting his gag order in the federal 2020 election subversion case. trump says it s about the first amendment and free speech. special counsel says trump is trying to intimidate witnesses. following these major developing stories and many more coming in right here to cnn news central. we begin this hour with more fighting at gaza s hospitals. israel s military says its troops target add group of militants after they opened fire from inside the indonesian hospital overnight. the head of the world health organization says he is appalled by the attack,