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good morning, everyone. you can see poppy and don are in new york. were going to begin this hour with breaking news. minutes ago we just got dramatic new video from the pentagon released by the military where you can see a russian fighter jet approaching the back of the american drone that has now been down for about 4,000 to 5,000 feet in the black sea. in this video, you can see where the russian fighter jet is going up to this american drone. it is dumping fuel on it. thats what you...

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price hike for the covid vaccine. senator bernie sanders calls it outrageous. he joins us live. this is what were watching this hour. thank you so much for being here. im kate bolduan. two big stories were tracking. first, a major outage is causing huge flight disruptions. thousands of flights are delayed or canceled. rue now the faa did lift the ground stop that par liesed domestic air travel. the cause still unclear right now, even as airlines are starting to get flights back up in t...

Length of the other. >> thats right. >> i think its amazing that this lasted 30 to 40 minutes. >> yes. when these things happen, when an intercept occurs, what the aircraft comes up to the target that its looking for and it takes a while to identify the target, in this case the russian pilots said this is a drone. they could have identified it. they would have then reported back to the ground controllers. the ground controllers would probably have directed them to go back to circle the drone. th...

This wasnt perhaps just one or two rogue pilots, that this order may have been given from the top of the military command there. >> yeah, thats right, brianna. in fact, when you study the russian air force, the way in which they do business, they are very much controlled by their ground controllers, who are, of course, in turn controlled by the commanders of the various units and all the way up -- all the way to moscow central. these guys do not act on their own. they are very much a force that ...

>> thats the great question, there have been many studies, some asked by include cybersecure, though theres no indication this was a hack or an attack, but the problem with these massive government computer systems, theyre run by contractors. almost always, when you have a contractor-run system there are criticisms, for the people in charge in government not understanding it, not being on top of it. so youre at the mercy of these glitches. the good news in the vulnerability in our air traffic co...

Of the fighting for us. this seems to cut not only against everything rational, everything american, everything patriotic, but also everything that trump says he wants. >> yeah. these are very small footprints on the ground. we probably have at any given time not more than a thousand troops inside syria, air force ground controllers, its been an incredible leveraged position because the kurds did the ground combat. same situation takes place now in iraq that basically 7,000, 8,000 troops there. ...

Tonight, washington officials downplaying concerns about security, insisting that all protocols were followed before an airline employee stole a plane from the seattle international airport, which is frankly pretty terrifying if true. kyung lah is "outfront" with the latest. >> on runway 1-6-center. holding on runway 1-6-center. >> reporter: new audio from the first moment ground controllers realized they had a big problem rolling down the taxi way. a ground controller repeatedly tries and fails...

Ground operations and they have their own dispatchers and own ground controllers. and so the tower might not have known. there would be no reason to tell the tower that they are moving and repositioning a plane on the ground. there was not someone in that aircraft. they -- two different functions. you have ground control and then you have the tower that controls the takeoffs so tower probably didnt know it was just one guy moving the plane around. >> now that somebody has seen this, is there con...

Taxiway. other than things like employee assistance programs. and alcohol detection programs. most mechanics do have to take peer odd alcohol and drug test thousands. once somebody decide. a mccannic they will fake an aircraft. they are sophisticated enough to talk to the ground controllers. quite quickly get the aircraft out into a position where it could take off. i dont think, i dont think they would have had much time to react. before you move tult other point. we will get to it. if i can st...