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>> welcome back. the headlines this hour. a new poll shows a tight race in the u.s. presidential election if they were held today. in a hypothetical matchup, an nbc/wall street journal survey shows front-runners ben carson and hillary clinton tied at 47%. meantime, republican donald trump who slipped to second in the national polls, he's out with a new book. it's call eed "crippled america" russian state media says no traces of explosive devices have turned up so far in the debris of metro jet flight 9268. meantime, as a precautionary measure, the u.s. embassy in cairo has told employees to st...

The same with iran, the more they may look to favor of a transition away from assad, but we are not there yet. >> and we are hearing that u.s. and russian aircraft successfully carried out what is called a communications test today to make sure that they avoid each other in the air strike, and accidentally knock off one of their respective a aircraft. what can you tell us about this? >> well, this is certainly in our interest and the russian's interest, because we don't want a direct confrontation that is a proxy confrontation in syria, but to have the american plane shot down or the russian o...

Middle east. >> for the first time since russian war planes began air strikes in september, u.s. and russian pilots carried out a communications test over south-central syria to avoid any unintended encounters. the test lasted three minutes according to a pentagon spokesman thises as the u.s. army chief outlined what he thinks is the greatest threat currently facing the united states. >> is russia a greater threat to the u.s. than isis right now? >> i consider russia the number one threat to the united states. in terms of capability, russia is the only country on earth that has the capability ...

The communications exercise that took place today between pilots from russian warplanes and american warplanes. we learned it was the first time that russian warplanes, since russian warplanes began air strikes in syria in september, that these u.s. and russian pilots had carried out a communications test over south central syria to ensure they could communicate in the event of an unintended encounter. the test was 3 minutes, according to a spokesman. it not sure we can talk in flight if we have a safety issue. this is a day after the army chief outlined what he thinks is the greatest threat c...