York. Iranian state media is reporting there are no signs of life seen at the crash site of a helicopter that was carrying president Ebrahim Raisi and others. The news of reeses death comes nearly 15 hours after the helicopter crashed in a remote part of the country during dense fog. Rescue efforts have been hampered by bad weather and tough terrain. A number of other top officials, including the countrys Foreign Minister, were also on board. The chopper was heading back to the countrys capital when it reportedly went down. The crash comes at a fraught moment in the middle east, with the War Raging In Gaza and weeks after iran launched a drone and Missile Attack on israel in response to a Deadly Strike on its diplomatic compound in damascus, Hardliner Raisi became president in an historically uncompetitive election in 2021. Previously, the chief justice, he has overseen a period of intensified repression of dissent in a nation convulsed by Youth Led Protests against clerical rule. Agai
state blinken back in israel to deliver president biden s message for humanitarian pause to benjamin netanyahu. we believe that each of these efforts would be facilitated by humanitarian pauses. that was an important area of discussion today with israeli leaders. how, when, and where these can be implemented ultimately we believe this can be a critical mechanism for protecting civilians while enabling israel to achieve its objectives of defeating hamas. israel s prime minister is still unwilling to give an inch without the release of hostages, instead pressing forward with a massive military operation. and in lebanon, a leader of the iran backed hezbollah defends the actions of hamas and threatens an escalation in their rocket attacks on israel, warning all options are on the table. also an update on americans and other foreign nationals making it safely out of gaza and the efforts to free the 242 remaining hostages. plus, we ll recap another week of trump family legal
Get a handle on this as so many of these groups have metastasized. lone wolf actors who act because they re inspired by these groups and create a lot of damage without ever being linked to the terrorist apparatus. i didn t think it would be over quickly and that it would be vanquished in a short period of time. it looked like a much longer struggle. and on that day, of course, shannon, as i m sure you all remember, we could not know that further attacks of similar magnitude would not soon follow. and we lived in fear of that every day for weeks thereafter. it is a striking fact and accomplishment that no such attack of this magnitude has struck our mainland since then. we ve had terrorist attacks, to be sure, and they re terrifying and they are happening still around the world, but nothing on that scale.
Now is one person is dead, 12 others injured, although there are reports that there were many others, many more than that injured in all of this. this all happened at about noon. can you tell us a little bit more about what happens now? they ve got someone in custody, what is the process by which they re going to go about determining if this was an accident or intentional? here s how it goes from here. now you see the extremely robust and while running machine of the nypd s investigative apparatus kicking into gear. along with the terrorist apparatus. they will decide who is individual is. they will do a deep dive on his friends, acquaintances, ml, past involvements, claims to allegiance, if any and who exactly he is from both his kind are garden maiden names to what he had prerequisites morning. that s extremely important to