Carrier Itself News Today

Its been around 20 or so years. the carrier itself, flight 9268 was the flight number of this aircraft that is believed to have had a lot of russian holiday goers on board heading back to st. petersburg this morning. 23 minutes after it took off, it disappeared on the flight path over the sinai. >> nic, reiterate for those just joining us, the name of the plane and how many passengers on board. >> reporter: 224 people total on board. of those, 217 were passengers. the other seven were crew membe...

I dont believe just a carrier itself. i would like to see an amphibious ready group, more helicopters and marines. >> fighter jets on the carrier could be used to strike isis targets. the u.s. has increased drone surveillance over western and northern iraq in an effort to gather more intelligence to share with iraqi forces for targeting isis on the ground. but a former u.s. commander in iraq says it will be very tough. >> its the same reason it was so hard to target them when we had 160,000 troo...