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good morning, everyone. you can see poppy and don are in new york. we're going to begin this hour with breaking news. minutes ago we just got dramatic new video from the pentagon released by the military where you can see a russian fighter jet approaching the back of the american drone that has now been down for about 4,000 to 5,000 feet in the black sea. in this video, you can see where the russian fighter jet is going up to this american drone. it is dumping fuel on it. that's what you're seeing on the video as it's approaching here. then the jet goes away. it comes back and dumps ...

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price hike for the covid vaccine. senator bernie sanders calls it outrageous. he joins us live. this is what we're watching this hour. thank you so much for being here. i'm kate bolduan. two big stories we're tracking. first, a major outage is causing huge flight disruptions. thousands of flights are delayed or canceled. rue now the faa did lift the ground stop that par liesed domestic air travel. the cause still unclear right now, even as airlines are starting to get flights back up in the air. we're also keeping a very close eye on the deadly storms in california. at least 17 peopl...

Length of the other. >> that's right. >> i think it's amazing that this lasted 30 to 40 minutes. >> yes. when these things happen, when an intercept occurs, what the aircraft comes up to the target that it's looking for and it takes a while to identify the target, in this case the russian pilots said this is a drone. they could have identified it. they would have then reported back to the ground controllers. the ground controllers would probably have directed them to go back to circle the drone. they may have also directed them to do these passes. and that is key. if we can find out whether or...

This wasn't perhaps just one or two rogue pilots, that this order may have been given from the top of the military command there. >> yeah, that's right, brianna. in fact, when you study the russian air force, the way in which they do business, they are very much controlled by their ground controllers, who are, of course, in turn controlled by the commanders of the various units and all the way up -- all the way to moscow central. these guys do not act on their own. they are very much a force that does the bidding of the higher-ups, and rogue pilot in that military is a very rare thing. it does...