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SunStar P8.7M worth of marijuana uprooted in Asturias village UPROOTED. Around 22,000 stalks of fully-grown marijuana plants are uprooted by operatives of the Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) in two sitios in Barangay Kaluangan, Asturias town on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. The uprooted marijuana stalks have a total worth of P8.7 million. / Contributed (Contributed photo) February 24, 2021 AROUND 22,000 stalks of fully grown marijuana worth P8.7 million...

The deployment of the two US Navy ships, along with a refueling ship, is the largest American presence in the waterway in three years.

were about ready to go. i said, i want a better -- >> planes in the air? were planes in the air? >> no, were about ready to go. no, but they would have been pretty soon. things would have happened to a point where you couldnt turn back. so they came and said, sir, were ready to go. wed like a decision. i said, i want to know something before you go. how many people will be killed? they said -- came back, said, sir, approximately 150. and i thought about it for a second. i said, you know what?...

Showed restranint amid the stan off. what are you hearing? >> reporter: its exactly what they are saying. the iranians today in form of the revolutionary guard aero space commander came out and while they were displaying what they say is the wreckage of the drone that they shot down, all of a sudden said we could have shot down another plane if we wanted to. this time it would have been a p8. the iranians were saying that plane was in the same vicinity as the drone while the iranians were tracki...

Agreement that the u.s. remove from. also missile actives and supports for terrorism. >> the u.s. was only minutes away from launching some sort of retaliatory strike. >> reporter: the iranians said they would be ready if there was a retaliatory strike from the united states. its something they said they would have a firm response to. it was interesting to see the iranian aero space saying we could have targeted another american flaen wplane that was air space. this was a p8. the iranian command...

>> p8: u.s. down. >> when do we want it? >> [bleep] >> you, donald trump, all your [bleep] uses of power [bleep] ed: griff jenkins has gone from the border to i dont know what that was. he takes us inside the march straight ahead. pete: did the obama administration fail to address early warnings about the fentanyl crisis? the former drug czar under george w. bush here to explain what he calls a massive institutional failure. rachel: but first, more from the new york metro pipe band and those awe...

Reporters the u.s. navy told him there was some sort of engine trouble, but the u.s. navy is not confirming that. saying, continuing to say its under investigation. you mentioned, ali, there were 11 passengers on that c-2 aircraft commonly called a cod. it lands and takes off on aircraft carriers, brings passengers. brings mail for the sailors out to sea on the aircraft carriers. there were 11 passengers. eight have been rescued. picked up by helicopters and taken to be "uss ronald reagan" as yo...

Water and taking the best bite of the apple so far, down for a full 16 hours, a massive, massive data dump that they will now pore through and try to figure out exactly what it saw down there. it will be up for four hours and then it will go back down again. it may already be back down there. the p-8, the poseidon aircraft, a very sophisticated u.s. aircraft, there are two of them here on scene. each one is flying each day. they are also searching at the same time over the surface of the water, ...

High-resolution pictures over enormous areas and detecting tiny pieces of anything floating. australias hmas, success is one of several ships investigating on the oceans surface what the p8 sees from the air. now with the "cesar chavez" in play, the search on the surface and beneath it can continue non-stop. >> youre here for the foreseeable future. >> were here as long as were tasked by seventh fleet. its a 24-7 operation. >> reporter: like a massive floating 7-eleven, the "cesar chavez" alread...

The toad pinger locator kind of in tandem with the blue fin side scan sonar, so we were hoping to move in, get a fairly precise location with our t.p.l., and then once you have that, the searching with your blue fin side scan sonar becomes so much more easier, because you have a more defined location. without that location from the black box, it is extremely difficult to get this get location of where to put in your blue fin side scan sonar, so it kind of was a series of steps that ideally you w...