saturday night with pictures posted to social media just hours before they were killed sometime around 3:00 or 4:00 a.m. they are ethan chapin, hits give, madison mogan and caley gonglabs. the university of idaho went on lockdown as well as nearby washington state university. that only lasted about an hour. the mayor of moscow called it a one-off crime. today the city released a statement saying investigators believe this was an isolated targeted attack and there is no i ment threat to the community at large. the police still have not held a news conference to confirm that and there s a lot of fear on campus and with the parents of the 11,000 students here. our parents are understandably concerned. they re worried, they re scared.
russia is still continuing to deploy troops in to the main toe east and to the north. they re coming out of the southern military district and also the western military district. they re bringing troops all the way from the eastern military district into belarus. that is still ongoing. that won t be complete for a week or so. the ground conditions are frozen now. they ve had a mild winter there, but finally got frozen. they re in an ideal situation for heavy armor maneuver forces. i don t think an attack is i ment. we have belarus situation for those troops to arrive to get prepared. that will take a couple weeks, maybe three at the month. putin is off to the olympics february 4. i don t think he will conduct a
if they can make them pay enough price, i think that it could slow the pace of this whole thing. charles: general boykin, thanks very much. the dow dropping over 600 points today. this is as new fears of a possible invasion being imminent. investors looking for safe havens, money in gold and bonds. gold topping 1,900 an ounce for the first time in eight months. the ten-year yield seeing a lot of action. we ll keep watching action. migrants encounters in january surging. releases at 62,000 and counting. we ll ask a top texas official where migrants are going. first to the border up north. police are pouring in as truckers say a crackdown is i ment. alexis mcadams is on it.
finally john, can you hear me? i got you. roger. while the strike cell reported the presence of two adult males, one inside the vehicle and one outside the vehicle at the time of the strike, the cell initiated a review of the footage immediately following the report of civilian casualties and determined that a few partially object cured forms were briefly visible moving in the compound. this led to my initiation of an investigation within 24 hours of the strike. a comprehensive review of all the available footage and reporting on the matter led to us a final conclusion that as many as ten civilians were killed in the strike including up to seven children. at the time of the strike, based upon all the intelligence and what was being reported, i was confident that the vehicle had averted an i ment threat to the forces at the airport. based on that assessment, i and other leaders asserted the
over-the-horizon strike, which is what the u.s. is going to be relying on from now on in afghanistan. so what does this incident say about the reliability of future strikes against terrorist threats in afghanistan? i ll take the first part and begin with that. is a point 1 on the map, we assess associated with isis-k. in fact, less than 24 hours later, rockets will be launched. we had really good intelligence to think that point 1 is where isis was centered. that was a very good intelligence in support of that belief. now, the second part of your question about whether this is whether this will affect future operations. this is a self-defense strike taken under self-defense rules of engagement based on an i ment threat to attack us.