a tragic end after a mother s trip to mexico with friends to get a medical procedure. now two in the group are dead. two others found alive. how the group got lost and ended up in the hands of armed criminals. plus i m taking over this plane. taking over this plane, he says. terrifying moments on a cross-country flight when a man threatens to hijack the plane. the video as freaked out p passengers tried to react. plus, cnn s upclose look at how the chinese will go to control its country s messaging. welcome to the lead. and we start today with our world lead and new details in tin vest game into those four americans kidnapped in mexico last week. local officials say one person has been detained after two of the u.s. citizens were found d dead. the two others are thankfully alive, though one is severely injured, according to a u.s. official, and those two have returned to the united states for medical treatment and observation. family members say that the four were
ordered the pentagon to shoot it down as soon as possible. they decided without doing any damage to anyone on the ground, they decided that the best time to do that was out over the water within our, within a 12-mile limit. they successfully took it down. maria: but at what cost? coming up, the new chairman of the house select committee on china, wisconsin congressman, former marine mike gallagher, also a member of the house armed services and intelligence committees on how much damage has been done in one week after the secretary of state anthony blinken initially suggests just canceling his trip was enough of a response from america. it s a violation of our sovereignty, it s a violation of international law. and it was very important that we, of course, take the actions we did to protect any sensitive information, to protect our people and to make clear to china that, again, this is an unacceptable as well as irresponsible action. maria: then the surveillance balloon s
pentagon on saturday t it down as soon as possible. they decided without doing any damage to anyone on the ground, they decided that the best withoutot any damage to anyone n the ground. the best time to do that was over water lly took it down. maria: but at what cost? coming up, the new chairman of the house select committee we successfully took it down. but at what cost. former marine also a member of the house armed services and don intelligence committees on how much damage has been done in one week after the secretary ofca state initially suggest just canceling his trip was enough. other response from america. a violation of our sovereignty, a violation of international law. it was very important.s we, of course, take the time to protect our people. this is unacceptable action. large enough to hold three? massive buses.s did it drop and scatter devicesa for unlimitemed surveillance. john radcliffe on the potential capabilities of the a stratospheric balloon.lr was
i m lindsey reiser we have breaking news this thursday morning dramatic video released from the u.s. military showing the alarming moment a russian fighter jet clipped a u.s. drone sending it crashing into the black sea. u.s. officials calling the action unsafe, unprofessional, aggressive nbc news confirming those actions were approved from the government and janet yellen in the hot seat this morning as regulators race to alleviate fears. the treasury secretary set to begin testifying before the senate finance committee any second second plus the new alarm bills about two other banks under massive pressure as the fallout from the silicon valley bank continues. and back off or get banned a source close to the mega popular app confirms to nbc news the biden administration has demanded iktok s chinese owner sell their stakes in the app or face a possible ban in the u.s what does it mean for the millions of tiktok users in the u.s. and a major escalation into one of the i
haven t seen a yet, but i don t anticipate a major initiative on the part of china providing weaponry to russia. if they did, would that be crossing the line for you, mister president? it would be the same line everyone would have crossed. in other words, we will post severe sanctions on anyone who has done it. meanwhile, a group of media organizations, including nbc news, have asked house speaker kevin mccarthy to share 44,000 hours of security footage from january 6th. and at the request comes after fox news host tucker carlson says he has been given access to the videos. democratic congressman j.d. raskin expressed a concern to msnbc of this video being named a public. we have security concerns about turning over the location of security cameras in the u.s. capital that that police used. we have concern about the could escape and evacuation routes that were used on that day. we don t want to just, you know, there are hands up and say we will let everything go. and