Personnel are headed to heal soon air force base in alaska where is that to say come on ill show you heres an air force base in alaska this is interesting that this move is taking place right now its right there at the base that the have 30 fives are going to be drawing meaning the 6 teams and what else do they have there they have 169 air refueling units so its a big operation that theyre going to have there now whats the reason for any type of enhanced u. S. Military presence in this area the 1st thing obviously to look at is russia right why well geography and history both play into this story look at how close sometimes we forget just how close russia and the United States are to each other maybe as close as any other country out there when you really zoom in and thats what i want to do i want to zoom in for you take a look at the thing that we just discovered there are 2 little. Why lands right here in between the edge of russia and the edge of alaska one of those islands is called the big di i mean island and the other one is called di i mean island or little diabete island so this is big this is little di made this one belongs to russia this one over here belongs to the United States you know what the distances between those like to one half miles thats like 40 football fields or approx with that many fields thats how small the distance is between these 2 countries so thats the geography now lets talk about the history which is predicated by a way by a cat and mouse game thats been bitterly played out by both sides in fact you want to see what im talking about ive got video i want to show you take a look at this video here it is look at this video that you see right here canadian fighters u. S. Fighters all a part of norad chasing away a russian surveillance plane thats the one that you see right there right thats called a t you 142 but norad fighter jets there f. A. Teens and f. 22 and as you can see in the video the smaller planes are chasing away the bigger planes theres another one coming right here this video was put out by norad by the way in this area which is called the alaskan own by the way this is very recent its not like this happened a long time ago and the whole thing lasted about 4 hours lets go back to the map now if we possibly can because i want to talk a little bit about the history and speaking of the history this type of thing that i just showed you this is been going on for more than half a century during the cold war and after the cold war someone asked why after the cold war we still doing this kind of stuff the answer gets a little complicated but were going to be joined by an expert whos going to take us through this in just a little bit so is it really about tensions with russia though the key word here is new new tensions maybe not remember this area right here has been americas bastion of oil production. And alaska relies on the price of oil always being high why do you think sarah pailin for example was such a popular governor when all this was filled with oil wells the price of oil was 120 dollars a barrel was it hard to be popular today theyre lucky if they get 0 were also going to drill down on that coming up so is the u. S. Creating a military industry in alaska to bolster the states lackluster economy that it has right now thats one opinion or one way of looking at it heres another one heres another one a look at alaskas remoteness with so many u. S. Military personnel cramped quarters all over the world many of them right now succumbing to covert 19 years alaska a perfect respite for the u. S. To put many of its military personnel this is important with a map this out were going to drill down on this story right here on the news with rick sanchez where you know we say this all the time and we mean that we work hard because we believe. It really is time to do news again. What do you say we ask the questions that you may be asking tomorrow and here we go what is the reason for the United States increase military presence in alaska does it have to do with russia well europe soon implement kobe had 19 immunity passports you heard that right immunity passports and my pants without a mask in a hospital. What does larry king think of this. Lets go ahead and get right to our top story what the u. S. Military moves more fighter jets into alaska 1st the background details of the story as we know it right now here 1st is hard to correspondent john hardy. The 1st 4 f. 35 fighter jets landed this weekend i also an air force base in alaska deployed from the 354th Operations Group in utah the air force says that prior to the deployment the alaska wing was sending its pilots and personnel out for training at other bases but the code 19 pandemic ended that program the Associated Press reports that the base expects to receive 54 jets and in additional 1300 personnel by december 2 10212 squadrons of f. 35 days will join the reactivated 356 Fighter Squadron with the 18th Aggressor Squadron of f. 16 and the 168th air refueling wing u. S. Senator Lisa Murkowski of alaska said in a statement that the addition of the jets is a milestone for the arctic writing quote the importance the squadrons of f. 35. 00 will play in our National Defense while also providing our a man with incredible real world training is unparalleled while the kobe 1000 pandemic has reportedly played a part in the reason the jets are being deployed to alaska it also comes as russias military has been conducting continued exercises in the arctic region this video of russian Army Paratroopers jumping from a transport jet at close to 30000 feet above the arctic during a 3 day military exercise recently went viral Russian Spetznaz Special forces also took part in the training and earlier this month f. 22. 00 fighter jets and Canadian Air Force jets intercepted russian reconnaissance planes over the bering sea north of the Aleutian Islands the russian planes never entered u. S. Or canadian airspace but theyre part of a string of intercepts according to norad over the past few months senator dan sullivan of alaska added in the statement senator mitch koski that quote alaska is the most strategic place in the world and. Now with these 2 squadrons of f. 35 days our state will soon be home to more than 150 Generation Fighters americas adversaries will certainly think twice before engaging our country when faced with this unparalleled force and fire power war games and warnings aside i also an air force space has been gearing up for the addition of f. 35 since 2016 when the program was 1st announced so far more than 500000000. 00 has been appropriated for construction at the base located 26 miles southeast of fairbanks related to the addition of the f. 35. 00 squadrons for the news of the Rick Sanchez John hardy. Thats great stuff thanks so much for hustling get that story to us lets go over now to. Former president official what do you make of all of a sudden this increased u. S. Presence there that has a lot of people saying oh it must be theyre doing some offensive against russia or something is it. Necessarily 2 points id like to make number one there has been increased surveillance by the russians in that area for quite some time actually thats nothing new the more critical of the more strategic reason i think is that for some time now the russia has really paid very close attention to the importance of the strategic importance of the arctic and now the United States has finally come around to realize that alaska is our most Northern Point to watch over the arctic because that whole area has opened up because the melting of the ice that has become a transport area or a member of countries not only russia but also china and russia is way ahead of the United States in establishing bases in the arctic particularly in the russian area that adjoins to the to the arctic and its looking over their areas that theyre now claiming for resources very vital resources for mining and minerals and what have you so that whole area is not only strategic. Keep in mind too that the arctic is when you look at it look downward and if you miss it is the arctic is the closest point. In the world the shortest point to all the peoples in the world if you were a missile a Strategic Missile and youre wanting time would be negligible. Everythings r. C. And. No i was just paraphrasing what youre saying it goes back to Global Warming it goes back to the fact that suddenly there are going to be resources and lanes that never existed before russias touted is that theres already d theyre looking at it in the United States wants to tap into whatever russia is tapping into this is fascinating the way you just laid this out for us mike what an amazing you know what were coming back to this is something that you and i are going to drill down on some more thanks so much for for joining us mike maloof explaining putting it in perspective something that perplexed a lot of people thats why we have a god thats great part there is big news coming out of new york today from both the governor and the mayor Governor Cuomo lashed out at the white house from the federal government for only being interested in helping Corporate America leaving states like his to barely have enough to protect police and Health Care Workers his words and for his part mayor de blasio is taking on hasidic jews in his community telling them that he will arrest them if they continue to violate rules against large gatherings we have all of this covered for you but theres also a big story thats coming out of berlin where the European Union is now announcing new rules as far as how you can travel from one place to another and it means get ready to have your temperature checked lets begin there heres peter all over. 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Is your media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe from. Isolation or community. Are you going the right way or are you being less. Direct. What is true what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or a maid in the shallows. Seemed wrong. Why dont we all just dont call. Me. Yet to shape out this thing comes to advocate and engagement because betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. There is a really important story taking place right now in the world of sports steve chris tacos is here by golly to take us through this this really this really is important by the very cool and it doesnt have anything to do with coronavirus right although it may impact it at some point of course because were talking about College Sports right so the end c. W. A. Is now moving towards the board of governors adopted officially they met yesterday with this name image and Likeness Working Group and this morning they announced they released a statement saying that they have a move towards adopting recommendations to allow players College Players so amateurs to accept money for their name image and likeness they can be compensated now every man for himself basically you know theres a reason for those of you who may be watching who are either a not sports fans or dont understand the game and ive stayed because youre watching us from some other part of the world there are guys in the United States young men 1819 years old who have lost their scholarships lost their livelihoods not been able to play in the n. F. L. For example professional football because somebody bought them a free cup of coffee because they had a meeting with an agent that he bought him a soda seriously. For years guys like you and i i dont know have been laughing at these rules and saying this is this is not overreach its madness because they should be able to if they can profit off their own value they shouldnt have an asterisk by their name for the rest of their life it ruined some careers like some of the superstars were suspended for the last few games of their College Career because they signed an autograph for a 1000 bucks let me ask you a question just to give our audience a perspective of what were talking about a College Athlete lets say the star quarterback at alabama one of these schools how much money do you think he makes for the university exactly millions of. As specially the millions of millions dollars itself is a 1000000000. 00 industry and he makes about 7. 00 an hour if that way before they get free tuition is what some people say oh they get through to about 7. 00 an hour that i dont know if its not ok so tell us im sorry i got excited about it i want you to tell us whats the ruling what will be absolutely they still have to write the rules its just the board of governors has agreed with this and i owe working groups to move forward with these but they still have to write the rules back to over 31st and then an official vote in january but its expected to go through now how athletes could be paid lets go through basically 1st 3rd Party Endorsement such as promoting a product through t. V. A radio or advertisements now we know the kids are big social Media Influencers is a big thing if you want to be a social media influence on twitter instagram tick tock whatever it may be then you can you can do your own work or Business Activities through you tube or streaming it Digital Content using your own money will pay you for your autograph or your name that youre allowed to take money at your name you on it right personal promotions with memorabilia its your name you can do that through meet and greets and there is no cap on the amount of money that you can receive but what were not talking about just to be clear is right were not talking about them being paid a salary exactly what theyre going to pay every athlete or not employees know many College Athletes most will make a dime from this but i superstars well as they should because theyre valuable yeah and you like it like everything in life right i tell this to my kids you should be paid for your value exactly what is your value right if a guy wins in millions of fans deserves millions of dollars actually the guy who plays on the you know womens. Softball team and nobody actually womens softball very popular to take another choice but in those cases no maybe the the golf team might not you dont really know about college golf that much theyre not going to make as much in endorsements but until they go to the masters as an amateur and then suddenly and i said for the ones that are going to play the day thats a great story im so glad that you brought it to us nice t. V. Thats awesome all right lets go over now to our global coronavirus of theyve got our own superstar he was somehow missed by the n. B. A. And the n. F. L. Here that has won. Not by Major League Softball but you go couple of really interesting stories out there in this is probably the biggest one is going to impact people youll really notice it on friday there is plans right now for a kind of joint strike to take place between amazon workers walmart workers insta cart workers target employees are plenty all together in solidarity to strike together on friday at noon to say theyre going to walk out of warehouses and walk out of supply chains because they say essentially that those Big Companies are making a lot of money right now putting them at risk keeping them working in warehouses which they say are unsafe now obviously this affects a lot of just the average person out there w