a fiber freelancer. former vice president mike pence joins wolf blitzer, cnn primetime tonight at nine. top of the hour this thursday. i m jim sciutto. great to be with you, jim. hi, everyone. i m jessica dean. and any moment now, officials at fort campbell in kentucky will be giving everyone an update after two blackhawk helicopters collided overnight, killing nine u. s service members that is, according to an army official. we re standing by for that, and we ll bring it to you live as soon as it happens. the governor among those who will speak their plus russia has now arrested an american journalist, it says on suspicion of espionage. even draskovic, a reporter for the wall street journal, detained in a small town east of moscow, the wall street journal strongly defending their reporter, the kremlin says. he was caught red handed, refuses to offer any details their track record on this kind of thing. begs a lot of questions. we re going to have details ahead. we begin this
Preferred, better science, better results by more than liebermann at the pentagon and this cnn cnn Breaking News hello, and welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Im paula newton and we are following Breaking News out of orawn or state media has now confirmed the deaths s of president Ebrahim Raisi and the countrys Foreign Minister after a deadly Helicopter Crash. Now rescue crews are now at a staging area. Those are live pictures where they are trying to assess where exactly the wreckage is and to begin, their recovery efforts. Iranian Officials Say the Helicopter Ran into trouble amid heavy fog on sunday afternoon. Images of the crash site in her ons East Azerbaijan province show the remote mountainous area where the aircraft went down. And you were looking at a photo of it right there. The president and other officials had been attending a Ceremony Morning for the opening of a new near the border with azerbaijan, rescuers faced difficult Weather C
That was being shipped . Oh, yeah. And thats because ijust inspect certain areas. So in totality, with all the inspectors, if you total them out, yeah, youd be over the hundreds. Now, you were picking up on these faults, you were highlighting them, you were flagging them up to be repaired. What kind of response did you get from your managers . Did they support you . My managers werent always there. The Production Managers always made a fuss about why i was finding it, why i was looking at it, and they made a big fuss about everything that i ever found. And it was because of the stage of where the plane was. If im looking at a plane thats supposed to be getting shaped and im the last person to see it, i shouldnt be finding missing fasteners, missing parts and things like that. So why were they not thanking you for picking up on these things . They just wanted the product out. They werent focused on the consequences of shipping bad fuselages. They were just focused on meeting the quotas,
Soldiers on board one of the helicopters for on board the other and he said, that s typical in terms of the crew that would be on board these black hawk helicopters, helicopters that are specific variant of the black hawk. for medical evacuations in terms of the crew, that would be a pilot copilot, a crew chief as well as some medics onboard the blackhawks themselves when the crash occurred now it s unclear what the circumstances were. that led to the crash, whether it was a collision between these two helicopters that were flying in a two ship formation, whether they collided with something else at low altitude or whether it was some other circumstance that led to these crashes. that killed the nine service members on board the helicopters. there were no survivors. we learned a short time before the print press conference, according to a u s army official. he did say he hopes that we learn more soon because there will be an investigative team or investigations team coming from fort ru