in syria, the u.s. war against isis is ongoing. cnn given exclusive access to a plane as it refueled striker jets, coming days after russia suspended communications with the u.s. in protest of the missile strikes and threatened that a confrontation was imminent. cnn reporter on board joins us live. good to see you safer and sound and on the ground. what do you know? >> hi, chris. yeah, there is a lot of tension right now with the u.s. air force flying over iraq and syria and a lot of uncertainty as well. there was a system in place called deconflicting between the russians and americans, and now it seems that system is no longer in place what they are doing is when they are going in syria they fly very, very carefully. they look around a lot.