Of the white house. What are some of the holes that the white house is waiting for the dod to fill, randall . They are doing the afteraction estimate of the damage, as the general indicated earlier they would be doing. Undoubtedly they are probably drones with lookdown capability, trying to see in the targets were completely destroyed and probably identifying more targets to strike. We dont expect them to inform us of that, but expect that is what will be going on with our Defense Department and its Coalition Partners. We also expect some details about the nature of the targets that were struck today and the kind of equipment that was used to strike them. Keep in mind that as far as we know for the most part if not totally, they were using manned aircraft, not drones, and also tomahawk missiles, so we had a lot of manned aircraft, none of them shot down, indicating that the Syrian Air Defense system was not used against the Coalition Forces in part because destroying isil also helps as
Restricted zone at the moment. Still so many questions to be answered. And theres going to be a lot of fingerpointing over the next several hours, days and even weeks as this investigation begins to intensify. Lets take a kind of a look back now at all we know. At the top of the hour, thank you very much for joining us, it is 3 00 here on the east coast of the United States. We are following breaking news this hour. Right now it is 10 00 p. M. In ukraine where earlier today the horrifying scene was captured on camera, the moment a Passenger Jet falls from the sky, exploding on impact. The tragedy without a doubt. But was it an accident . Right now it appears very likely this plane may have been intentionally shot down over Eastern Ukraine. We dont know for sure. Theres a lot we dont know. Heres what we know right now. This was Malaysian Airlines flight a boeing 777 traveling from Amsterdam To Kuala Lumpur in malaysian. On board, 295 people, 280 of them passengers. 15 of them crew membe
The countrys transport minister says it is inhumane if investigators are not allowed at the site in the war zone. The bodies are still lying in fields patrolled by rebel gun men. So far, international monitors have only been allowed at the site by the gunmen for just 75 minutes. Malaysian officials will go to ukraines capital to retrieve the bodies. So that they can be laid to rest. U. S. And malaysian officials suspect prorussian rebels used the Missile Launch system that may have come from russia. Ivan watson joins us now from ukraine. I understand you have been speaking about the troubles the investigators are having at the crash site. That is right. I spoke with the Prime Minister and asked it there are any negotiations going on with the government and rebels to ensure safe access to the crash site. This is what he had to say. The key problem is these russianled guerilla blocked the access to the crash site. We cannot hold an investigation. Even more, they have taken 38 bodies to a
The Malaysia Airline flight 17. Transport minister says it is unhumane if investigators are not allowed in the war zone crash site. So far, international monitors have only been allowed at the site by the gunmen for just 75 minutes. Malaysian officials will go to ukraines capital to retrieve the bodies. Suspected prorussian rebels used the missiletoair launch system missile. I understand you have been speaking about the troubles the investigators are having at the crash site. That is right. I spoke with the Prime Minister and asked it there are any negotiations going on with the government and rebels to ensure safe access to the crash site. This is what he had to say. The key problem is these russianled guerella blocked the access to the crash site. Even more, they have taken 38 bodies to an undetected spot. We need to recover the bodies and to start a fullfledged investigation, but russianled terrorists do not allow us to do this. Reporter michael, in addition, the Prime Minister and
going to also enter a new phase with the support for the ukrainians. so i think that it is just as much of a slippery slope for putin to actually use those weapons as it is for the west to increase our support at this point for the ukrainians. because really it is going to this war could go on for years. yeah. if we continue the level of support now or potentially we up it, this could, you know, reach some kind of turning point. that actually was a really big deal, and that s what i want to go back to the master sergeant on. the blowing up that flagship vessel is a pretty big, symbolic moment. just a week ago i was talking to a retired military official who said, you know, we need more anti-ship weapons to be going to the ukrainians. what does it tell you about their capacity that they were able to blow up such an important vessel? again, very impressive because it takes radar acquisition, it takes electronic