mike pence admits that he too had classified material at his house. will the justice department appoint another special counsel as lawmakers react now to the pence news? and california s three mass shootings in three days. the latest, a case of workplace violence. what led a gunman to allegedly target his co-workers as we learn the identities of 19 killed in less than a week. plus reversing course. sources tell cnn the u.s. is now ready to send its abrams tanks to ukraine as germany also softens its opposition. so what changed? welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown. jake tapper is on assignment. we start in our politics lead with a story first reported by cnn. roughly a dozen classified documents found at former vice president mike pence s house. a lawyer for pence found the papers at pence s indiana home last week, according to sources, and turned them over to the fbi. the documents were not stored in a secure area of pence s home and the discovery directly contradic
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been hijacked or what was going on. the two fighter jets escorted him and they would trail behind him i don t know what they were trying to do at that time. like i said i was unclear of what was going on. he headed down towards where eventually crashed at and pulled the nose backup again and i thought he s going to stall again. he made his way down and i looked again and he was in a nose dive and he went into the ground. i saw a brief flash of flames and big plume of smoke and the sound of explosion. i just had a bad feeling that it was not an exercise or anything. i knew he had crash at that point. cnn transportation analyst, and on the phone, renee marsh,
from mh-370 and the german wings crash that there are something like cameras in cockpit and other types of recorder that can be implemented but the industry rejects those in many circumstances. there is no guarantee of what can be determined as preventive measure
Of nearly 30 sites hit in those attacks. officials say they were in response to repeated houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the red sea. the houthis now vow to retaliate against u.s. and british assets. [ speaking in a non-english language ] translator: the american and british enemies bear full responsibility for their criminal aggression against our yemeni people. it will not go unpunished or unanswered. the yemeni armed forces will not hesitate to target threatening sources and all hostile targets on land and sea in order to defend yemen, its sovereignty, and independence. we have developments from beirut. nada, what s the latest on these new u.s. strikes and how the houthis might respond? ro reporter: as you heard the rhetoric from the houthis appears to be intensified. it remains to be seen to what extent they are able to retaliate. we ve seen more than two dozen
More under advisory warnings after officials declared a state of emergency this weekend in response to the wildfires. o reporter: the situation with the wildfires here in canada not as critical as it has been in the last couple of days. authorities say that they had luck with the weather, but there is still a very challenging situation in two specific places. again, this really comes at the end of what has already been a very challenging wildfire season in canada. i want you to look at this map. so the first challenge was in the northwest territories in yellowknife, the capital there. this was a city of 20,000, now evacuated. their fear was that the wildfire was moving closer to that city. some luck with the weather, change in winds, cooler weather means that authorities on the ground have had a chance to try and stem the tide of that fire, if you will, the actual flames
Pam. fred, cnn is also reporting western allies have urged ukraine to shift from the eastern battles and focus on a southern offensive. how is ukraine taking that suggestion? ro reporter: well, the ukrainians say they are not going to do that. the vibes we are getting from ukrainian officials is they don t plan to give russia an inch of their territory unless it s unfeasible for them to be there. the main focal point we ve been hearing about is where there have been tough battles of attrition between the ukrainian forces on the one hand. on the russian side you have the private military company with its very brutal tactics that it using and very high own losses trying to take that place. the u.s. apparently has said that it believes the ukrainians would be better off leaving there and trying to organize their defenses some where else but the ukrainians are saying that is absolute ly not going t happen. the vibes we have been getting