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Put this into context for us. we think north korea could be preparing for this first nuclear test under the trump administration. sixth nuclear test overall. what could really happen in the next 48 hours? what is your reporting? >> my reporting, hallie is that the intelligence community believes this test could happen at any time with no warning. youre absolutely right. the military has deployed a number of air assets to the region in recent days, but consistent for the past few weeks and months...

Did he picks firing intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear war heads at what appears to be san francisco, and the crowd goes wild. and ultimately a few seconds later theres kim jong-un clapping along, yay. north korea loves the united states, thats not new. theyre making this threat that they might be about to test another nuclear weapon in real life. nbc news reporting that u.s. planes are deployed right now watching for potential underground detonation in north korea. that includes an ai...

Its then guided to a target by a gps. it can be dropped from about three miles in the air. when the explosion happens it looks like much like a nuclear explosion. his campaign promise was bomb the hell out of isis. it was in nangarhar province. barbara starr is "out front" tonight at the pentagon. barbara, what new details are you learning? >> reporter: what we are learning, erin, is that this strike had been planned by the military over the last couple of weeks as they saw isis move into this a...

Strike on north korea if the threat from kim is elevated. >> with all the discussion about how the u.s. is focused on dealing with north korea, preparing sanctions, potentially other moves, i think what kim jong-un is doing is hes not testing, hes signaling. he might be doing this in preparation of some kind of pushback. >> reporter: the video also comes on the heels of recent missile and rocket engine tests by the north koreans. u.s. and military intelligence officials are not commenting tonigh...

Director level staff of the national security council, those jobs are all empty. and then there are the key national security roles where we just dont know whats going to happen as of tomorrow at noon. heres one thats been keeping me up a little bit. a couple of weeks ago it was reported that the top officials at t national nuclear safety administration, the agency that keeps our nuclear stockpiles safe, that collects loose nuclear material from around the world, the people who prevent there fro...

At the national nuclear safety administration, the agency that keeps our nuclear stockpiles safe, that collects loose nuclear material from around the world, the people who prevent there from being a dirty bomb or a rogue nuclear explosion on earth? yeah, a couple weeks ago it was reported the top officials of that agency had been told by the trump transition that theyre out. they need to pack and leave 12:01 p.m. on inauguration day. and of course nobody has been named to take their places. und...

There from being a dirty bomb or a rogue nuclear explosion on earth? yeah, a couple weeks ago it was reported the top officials of that agency had been told by the trump transition that theyre out. they need to pack and leave 12:01 p.m. on inauguration day. and of course nobody has been named to take their places. understand this is unusual. when president obama started he kept on the people who were in those jobs under the george w. bush administration. he kept them on for a while until his own...

Back in the nuclear era, we had mutually assured destruction, so one of the superpowers never struck to begin with because they knew that the pain was going to be so much in a counter attack with a nuclear explosion. so weve got to face the same kind of thing today. we cant keep going on with russia, china, iran, north korea continuing to attack and attack, invade our privacy, not only our personal privacy but the governments privacy as well. otherwise, to do so, were going to lose the ability a...

A half century ago, lyndon b. johnson shocked the nation by releasing a tv ad that is still considered one of the most powerful political attacks in american history. the spot was called "daisy." it was run in 1964 against republican barry goldwater and it contained footage of a little girl picking flower petals, just before a nuclear explosion. now the good people to have the bucke buckeye state are getting their own trump-focused daisy-style ad. the spot is called "careful." take a look. >> on...

Missiles and shot all the way across the world. north korea set off its first nuclear explosion during the george w. bush administration in 2006, they set off another one in 2009, set off another one in 2013. they have built nuclear bombs, they have caused nuclear explosions but the bombs they have built have not been particularly good ones and the explosions theyve set off have not been particularly big ones. all three of their nuclear explosions thus far were thought to be the product of fissi...