Hi everyone. Im Jessica Gene In Washington and we begin with Breaking News, oversees a Frantic Search And Rescue operation is underway weigh in northern iran. After a Helicopter Crash involving iranian president Ebrahim Raisi. Officials say they have now detected the exact location of the crash site after hours of struggling to find it due to extreme fog and bad weather there that crash happening early this morning after the president and other officials attended a ceremony for the open putting of a new near the border with azure by john cnns Nic Robertson ies tracking all the latest developments from london and pentagon correspondent Oren Liebermann is here in washington with us with reaction from the us nic. Lets start first with you. And what were learning about this search the search has been hampered because theres dense fog and thats the reason its understood that the Helicopter Crash in the first place. Its raining. Ive been looking at video thats been posted on social media by
Are having a very difficult time reaching the site Nic Robertson is tracking this story closely and joins us now with the latest. Nick. Now some 12 hours later, what do we know . Confusing and conflicting information. Jessica, from the irans Elite Revolutionary Guard Corps in Eastern Azerbaijan province right up there are northwestern iran. They said just a couple of hours ago that they had a signal from the helicopter they go out and got a Cell Phone Signal picked up from the helicopter as well that they knew where it was. But now we understand from their head of irans red crescent their equivalent of the red cross they dont know Rescue Workers do not know at this time whereabouts that the helicopter is the government and the president of the country the calling on people to pray the Supreme Leader rather calling on people to pray for the president at this time irans government, asked people to pray for their president so they did for hours, faith and the hope he survived or mountaino
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I think that a school like this has to exist. But on the other hand, youre glad that it does. Its sort of the physical embodiment of harm reduction, something that weve talked about a lot. I will tell you, anderson, just over the past few years youve seen drug usage actually go down in the United States. But at the same time, the drugs have gotten stronger theyve gotten deadlier, and they are easier to obtain. I mean, keith was telling me these kids, theyll get the drugs off social media and theyll pay with venmo which is i guess no surprise then that the number of overdoses among adolescents has doubled over the last several years. So its an incredible program, but said that it has to exist at all for sanjay gupta. Thanks so much got it. Thank you sure. To join sanjay this saturday. May 18 at 9 00 p. M. Eastern for the hourlong special champions for change with a look at 12 people making a difference. Again, thats saturday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern its a process. The news continues right
Attack. All right. Max foster, keep us posted on the developments here. Thank you very much. And we have a brand new our with new news coming in and seeing a new central starts right now Donald Trumps former fixer blasted by the defense fiery crossexamination. Trumps lawyers that using a day off today to prepare another round of tough questioning for the man who says the former president plotted a scheme to cover up a Hush Money Payment to a porn star. Now with less than six months to go until the election, President Biden saying the poll numbers arent accurate, but should democrats be more concerned plus, the future of human creativity up in the air, google showing off new ai features that many Online Publishers fear could put them out of business. Im sarah sayyed or john berman, kate is on assignment this is Cnn News Central so this morning, what will Donald Trumps lawyers ask . Next . What will Michael Cohen say next . And how much more explosive could this crossexamination get as e