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name is more than just a name, there is a legal battle in the bay area in california over proposed renaming of an airport. >> commissioners in charge of oakland international airport just got approval to add ten the cisco bay in front of the airports name, oakland officials argue that it's hard to get people to fly into oakland because actually don't know that it's in the bay area but san francisco is suing with officials. they're claiming that the new name infringes on their own airports trademark san francisco international airport or sfo the final vote on the name change comes next month giving air traffic controllers more time to rest between shifts. that is one of the many recommendations by an expert panel following a string of near-collisions on runways across the united states the federal aviation administration announced this week that it will soon require controllers to have at least ten hours off between shifts and 12 hours off
scene and global affairs analyst kim dozer. kim, the foreign minister, you've heard the words he's spoken that it would be immediate how does the united states, now, i'll go about managing what does obviously now been elevated to the next level one of the scary things that we've been talking about this evening is the fact that the iranians are closing airspace and closing all those different airports because they could be doing that to keep civilian aircraft, say they could be doing that to prepare for immediate retaliation, which is why at this point, i imagine us diplomats western diplomats are reaching out to anyone who has neurons number to say, we've got to stop this now, we're going to try to hold israel back friends iran tried to hold them back because this is something that can tumble. >> write down that escalation ladder as we've been talking about& lead to something really dire, an all out back-and-forth
airport. —— isfahan. iran reports that flights to tehran, isfahan and shiraz and airports in the west, northwest and southwest have been suspended. an iranian source tells reuters that its air defence system has been activated in the region. it was activated against, quote, "an object suspected to be a drone". in newsagency telling officials there had been three explosions heard near an army base in the city's north—west so we are getting more details coming in and we will continue to update the story as we get it. joining me live is mark kimmitt, former us assistant secretary of state for political—military affairs. it's great to have you on tonight with us as we get these details about a potential what we believe to be an israeli missile strike on iran. as you are hearing these reports coming in, what details stand
explosions have been reported, not far from a military airbase in the province of isfahan and central around according to iran's fars news agency defense systems on the base where activated in response to what may have been a drone attack targeting the basis radar, the city of this hand is believed to be home to around illicit nuclear weapons program as well as the country's biggest nuclear research facility, which operates three small chinese supplied research reactors or flights to its for hand tehran entrez have been, have resumed rather are doing suspended for several hours according to a spokesperson for around airports, one us official confirmed to cnn and israeli strike inside around adding the target was not nuclear and israel informed the white house on thursday and attack was just days away. ready officials say air defense systems in several regions were activated and the explosions heard& isfahan were outgoing fire from those air defenses well, for the very latest, cnn's nic robertson are standing by live in jerusalem, but we're going first to cnn's paula hancocks in beirut important for days tehran has been warning of an instance
i'm allowed explosion could be heard near the city of isfahan& central part of the country. they say it was caused by quote, air defense firing at a suspicious object is unclear at this point what that object was, but and iranian military official reportedly said there was no damage from the strike now earlier, iran's fars news agency said the explosions were heard near an army base and it's for province, where fighter jets are located that caused flights to be suspended at several iranian airports. >> but we're hearing tehran's two major airports have since reopen let's go now to beirut, where cnn's paula hancocks is and paula there's been enormous concern in the region about an expansion of the war that's already been going on for for some months. >> in gaza. we've had these strikes traded between israel and iran. now, what is the level of fear there now that this is apparent, israeli strike retaliation once again
an army radar. you have very deep experience in iran and in this region. how do you assess this attack i think it could be several things. >> laura& radar site is the perfect area to go after because that it once you get the radar site, than blinds the forces that are using them radar picture of for their activities. so weeds, a perfect site for the israelis to go after. the only thing to keep in mind is we've been talking about are fields and won. one of the reasons that a lot of the airports have been shut down as nick was mentioning in his reporting, is because what iran does is it doubles the use of their civilian airfields as airports as also being air force business for the radiant air force. so in the case of isfahan, the airbase is co-located with the international airport in isfahan, and it's the home to iran fleet of f 14 fighters, which they had acquired during the time of the shas. so those aircraft are of course quite
all the explosions in iran's and oil prices surging nilly 4% with us oil prices is climbing above $85 a barrel prices then recovered a bit as you can see. but now brent crude& the world benchmark outline there for you, they are about 0.2% meanwhile, the news drove us stock futures lower with the dow futures sinking 480 points earlier. but there's some improvement there as well a dow futures are currently down, but only about 0.4%. and you can see there the texture as similar as are the s&p 500 flights resuming of the two major airports in tehran, officials had suspended flights following the israeli airstrike that included flights to to iran, isfahan, and shear as due to reports of explosions, the number of flights bound for a run with diverted or canceled officials that also put a no fly zone in the west of the country. he airspace was also closed iraq, it's now being
is reporting that civil aviation's that had suspended flights this morning announced that flights are resuming in iran. the situation there is normal for aviation. currently, there are no restrictions on domestic and international flights at any of iran's airports. i want to go to jerusalem now, where nbc news chief correspondent, richard engel is standing by. it is mourning in jerusalem, it is morning in tehran, and richard, you made an interesting point here, that you do not have air sirens in jerusalem, very unlike last saturday. you do not have guidance, from home defense in israel for people to seek shelter, and the iranian are talking about how it is business as usual. there seems to be some effort to telegraph, for both countries, that, perhaps this is not the thing that is going to set us on the brink of a major regional war? >> reporter: well, i can tell
—— isfahan. iran reports that flights to tehran, isfahan and shiraz and airports in the west, northwest and southwest have been suspended. an iranian source tells reuters that its air defence system has been activated in the region. it was activated against, quote, "an object suspected to be a drone". in newsagency telling officials there had been three explosions heard near an army base in the city's north—west so we are getting more details coming in and we will continue to update the story as we get it. joining me live is mark kimmitt, former us assistant secretary of state for political—military affairs. it's great to have you on tonight with us as we get these details about a potential what we believe to be an israeli missile strike on iran. as you are hearing these reports coming in, what details stand
the hour. >> welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm john vause, you watching cnn newsroom a quick recap now, or the israeli strike on iran's the international atomic energy agency is confirming there's no damage to iran's nuclear sites or any of media report. three explosions in the istvan province. hours ago, a us official told cnn, israel launched attacks on iran. but israel's military still, no official word to iran's to airports. now, back up and running flight suspensions across a ran have been lifted so lifetimes to jerusalem and you have cat senior columnist and editor with the jerusalem post. it's good to see you hi john. what's your assessment? first of the strike by israel and what about the rounds decision they seems not to respond i think is real. it's been trying to balance everything at once which is not always easy on the one hand, it