on going fighting outside. a senior u.s. defense official calling russia s actions the height of irresponsibility. as cnn first reported, new satellite images contradict russian claims that ukraine has been systematically shelling the area around the plant. both sides are accusing each other of endangering the facility. cnn sam kiley is there. where do things stand right there? reporter: they stand as a very, very dangerous moment. that is something that the international community, the russians and ukrainians are agreeing on. they disagree who to blame with demands from the ukrainians and international community to demilitarize europe s biggest nuclear power station that has when at full capacity six reactors functioning at the moment it has less than that and there is no question either that the russians are using it as a fire base to attack civilian and possibly other targets in government held territory on the other side. that is exactly what we found when we visited a
what he s doing now. in essence, he can bring the ia, ea, people from the energy watchdog into the plant and say everything is fine here and they may even make a show of how everything is operating and that, you know, is something that will give putin a potential propaganda. but the people from the ia, ea are smart so they will try to protect the facility as much as they can. back to that u.s. backed arsenal. the pentagon says it s sending $775 million in arsenal aid to ukraine including anti tank equipment and perhaps more importantly, mine clearing equipment. how much of an impact do you believe it can potentially make? oh, that can be pretty huge, actually. you know, for the one thing, you ve got these artillery rocket systems we re seeing
joplin, missouri. officials under fire for the slow process of identifying victims of last weekend s monster tornado. right now, 232 people are still considered unaccounted for. secretary of state hillary clinton is in pakistan this morning for talks aimed at mending relations between the two countries following the u.s. raid on osama bin laden s compound. meantime the cia has been granted access by the pakistani government to return to that compound and conduct a bigger search. the agency plans to use highly-sophisticated equipment to look for documents, possibly hidden inside the walls or buried underground. there is no word yet on when that search will take place. and with minutes to spare, president obama used what s known as the auto pen to sign a four-year extension of the patriot act. the provisions of the law passed after the 9/11 attacks deal with legalizing terror surveillance tactics like roving wire taps, you re looking at wire tank equipment there.
and welcome to american morning. it is friday, may 27th. the beginning of a long holiday weekend for many in this country. that s right. hopefully the beginning of some nice, calm, summer weather which we have not seen. we haven t seen. it s not going to be a great weekend for those in joplin, missouri. the search for the missing there continues. the state officials are releasing a list of 232 people who are still unaccounted for, a list they concede may not be entirely accurate. the death toll right now stands at 126. we re getting a look at some dramatic new video when just after the tornado struck. watch as aaron cox and his fiancee brook mckinsey watson race to find aaron s sister amid the destruction. let s take a look. look at this. oh, my gosh. oh, my gosh. oh, my gosh, aaron. oh, my gosh. right through here. i don t know i don t know where we are. i don t know. i don t know where to go. we have to keep going this way. don t step on any of this. c