Forms. In a statement jackson offers no excuses for his conduct and fully accepts responsibility for the improper divisions hes made decisions hes made. Another big story tonight. Where the blinding flash and a booming shock an event straight out of a scifi movie. A meteor blazed across parts of the skies in russia and exploded with the force of an atomic bomb. Many sent to the hospital and hundreds were hurt. We begin the coverage at 5 00 with a look at what happened from foxs greg pal cot. Reporter this amateur video catching the meet yore speeding to earth at more than 33,000 miles per hour. Turning to a massive fireball overhead in just seconds. The explosion lightings up the Early Morning sky cameras from all across this russian city 1,000 miles from moscow catching the rare event. On their cell phones including a sonic boom breaking through earths atmosphere. The amazing event also a destructive one. Explosion of the meteorite showering the city below with fireballs. Shattering w
Good evening. For the first time in recent history, the faa is prohibiting u. S. Airlines from flying into or out of telavivs airport. And once again here tonight, the news has to do with commercial planes flying over war zones. This comes at the height of the summer tourist season, after a hamas rocket landed near the airport just today. While some airlines are still flying into israel, among them, can Israeli Airline elal. Adding this element of danger to an airport may be the biggest victory hamas has scored thus far. We have two reports tonight. Tom costello has been looking into how many flights are traveling over conflict zones. Kate snow is at the airport in tel aviv with some frustrated american travelers. Kate, good evening. Reporter brian, good evening, from tel aviv. Behind me, the middle of the night here, yet there are a lot of passengers trying to find a way out on any of the airlines that are still serving america and europe. After the faa decision today, air canada, air
New day joins us live from Eastern Ukraine. A haul to get there. Not easy to get to that crash site. When you got there, what struck you most . Reporter well, thats hard to answer, christi, because this is such an usual situation. You have the obvious tragedy of this plane being taken out of the skies, and everyone onboard gone and laying in the field around us for the most part, but it has happened because of, probably, and in the middle of, an outright civil war. Theres no question about accounts of people hearing gunfire. Theyve used gunfire here today to move journalists when they dont want them to go beyond a certain point. These are local militias intent on making a definite show of force, of blaming ukraine for the tragedy of taking this plane out of the air. The checkpoints show such indications of heavy fire, i havent seen anything like it in quite some time. Trees completely stripped, some 40, 50 feet up by big artillery shells. Men hiding in these very shallow trenches. They
Court in another case, a surprising turn. Im wolf blitzer. Kro youre in the situation room. Lets get right to the breaking news. U. S. Jets strike in syria at khorasan. That comes amid growing concerns that a new terrorist supergroup is being formed in a merger among isis and al qaeda factions. The leader of isis is back days after reportedly wounded in an air strike. The audio message calls for the group to defeat its failure and will face destruction. Standing by, our correspondents, analysts, newsmakers, including the head of the u. S. Military retired anthony. Lets begin with the u. S. Air strikes against an al qaeda spinoff which was targeted at the tart of the u. S. Air campaign in syria. This comes amid a concern of a merger between the faction and isis. Lets go to our pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr. What about these air strikes are you learning . There have been now a third round of air strikes against the socalled Khorasan Group in al qaeda. This is a hardcore al qaeda o
What does that mean for euro europe and Global Economy . I have an allstar panel for you. Also is freedom around the world in retreat . We have the numbers. Then bill and Melinda Gates on their big bets for the future. Their take on American Education, how women are transforming the world and the next technological breakthroughs. Think about a cloud that knows how you speak and write. And finally, mr. Putin goes to cairo. You wont believe that he brings with him. But first here is my take. The deal announced thursday to end the fighting in ukraine will face the same obstacle the previous such agreement faced, how to ensure that russia will abide by it. Frustrated by moscows continued support for ukrainian separatists, western statesmen have begun discussing military assistance for the ukrainian government. In trying to decide what would actually deter moscow it might be worth listening to what seems to scare russians themselves. It is not military aid to kiev. When asked recently about