amarillo, texas, where is judge will decide whether to expand a ban on a drug used as medication abortion more than half the women who terminate their pregnancies do itwith this drug it is extremely low risk fewer than half a percent of patients experience complications, which means almost no one. medication abortions are illegal in 13 states, and that does include texas, where the arguments in this landmark case just wrapped a group of doctors who do not support abortion brought this suit they want to go beyond the texas ban and take this off the market nationwide they claim the fda did not evaluate its safety before it was approved in 2000 and argue it should not have been made accessible to women via telehealth during the pandemic the public found out about today s hearing monday after the judge initially delayed releasing the details. we ll fill you in on why he says he delayed and why others argue his motivation was personal. the hearing was not broadcast, but we have re
unintended conflict. our concern is that these types of encounters, these types of reckless maneuvers on the part of the russians have the potential to lead to something more dangerous they have the potential to put the united states in direct contact with russia. no one wants to see that we certainly don t want to see that it is the first known physical conflict between u.s. and russian forces since the war in ukraine began it s fueling an escalating war of words between the countries u.s. and russian officials are telling two different versions of what happened, whether there was even a collision at all and why the drone was there in the first place. joining me now is courty cuby. reporter: katy, they should release the video that according to officials shows the russian
ukrainian people and also the amount of assistance we have flown into ukraine to help them defend their country. what do you think is an acceptable level of risk? for a long time the idea of handing over these drones that we are going to hand over to the ukrainians, and courty cuby was saying the american government didn t want to comment on it and didn t want to go there. now we are. how is this intelligence community and this administration deciding what is an acceptable risk right now in terms of how we are aiding the ukrainians? here s what we decided the united states strategy ought to be, and that s supporting the ukrainian in any way, and that s security assistance, and that s $2 billion total since the
this is a regular thing that the u.s. military s doing. so this is a very common practice by the way. pete williams. he s here with me. and our national security and pentagon reporter courty cuby joins me on the phone. pete, let me start with you. what new have we learned? well, he s a second lieutenant or was a second lieutenant in the saudi air force who came here for flight training. there are sort of three groups that come. very junior officers, very senior ones. he was in the middle. beyond that, we don t really know much about him. there are some pretty fundamental questions like how did he get the gun? the sheriff s office says he did the shooting today with a handgun carrying it out in a classroom building at the naval air station. now, this is a training base. so it has a lot of classrooms. but the sheriff s office says that when the agent or when the officers came in, the deputies came in to encounter the shooter. it actually played out over two floors of that classroom bui
there were other u.s. navy sailors hurt or missing in this incident. we know that japanese coast guard and the u.s. navy have both been very actively involved in what is a pretty beg response effort. but just in the last few minutes, a u.s. military official excuse me, a u.s. official has told nbc s courty cuby that in addition to that u.s. navy sailor who was medevaced off the fitzgerald after this incident happened, an additional seven u.s. sailors are unaccounted for. and that is very worrying news. again, this happened off the coast of japan, about of 60, of 5 miles off the coast of japan. it happened in the middle of the night local time, about 1:30 p.m. east coast time in the united states. we are several hours into this rescue effort now. you can see some of the damage. you can see the damage. it appears clearly on the container ship. the damage on the fitzgerald is both above and below the water line. it s turning into a large response. again, that very worrying news