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alert and new warning from beijing, and major escalation of rhetoric out of china. suggesting if house speaker pelosi flies to taiwan with a fighter jet escort, the chinese military could shoot her plane down. happy friday, i'm john roberts in washington. hi, sandra. >> sandra: developing story. that is brand-new, i'm sandra smith in new york. that stark warning just came from beijing, it happened moments ago. china state media saying a fighter jet escort for pelosi would constitute a "invasion," but still no word whether pelosi will be visiting taiwan. yesterday chinese president xi...

You're in the middle of a global pandemic. it's not exactly easy and that can lead to significant impacts. >> yeah, good point. tell me this. how does the perpetrators being, it would appear, in russia hamper efforts to get on top of this, even if these aren't government actors and they might well be? but even if they are just criminal, it would certainly seem that vladimir putin and his government isn't acting against them. how significant is that? >> it absolutely gives them air cover. so a lot of these criminals in eastern europe and in russia and other places, their governments don't lock ...

Manufacturing. so disruption to them is very difficult to catch up for, especially if you are in the middle of a global pandemic. it's not exactly easy, and that can lead to significant impacts. >> yeah. yeah. good point. i mean, tell me this. how -- how -- how does the perpetrators being, it would appear, in russia hamper efforts to get on top of this? even if these aren't government actors, and they might well be. but even if they are just criminal, it would certainly seem, you know, vladimir putin and his government isn't acting against them. how significant is that? >> it, absolutely gives...

And state officials, and without the right coordination how does that hamper efforts on the ground? >> oh, you're asking a great question. first of all, what i'm seeing so far is coordination is excellent. it's just what we're looking for. what we train for, how we revamped fema, that whole federal side of the system to work with the state and local government. and i'm very pleased at what i'm seeing. and it is so critical, because if it doesn't work, you see what happens when you have a katrina where that relationship simply was not there. and through the whole system, from the local to the s...

Those, hamper efforts and the fact the whole side is so steep there, the wreckage side is over several hundred meters. that's a concern. access is really only by helicopter. we've seen those helicopters sitting on the ground here throughout the day and the question when daybreaks in the morning, how low is the clouds and will the helicopters be able to fly and get access to the site? the rain has been coming over some of the high mountain passes here. particularly strong also that. falling rain or snow again at the crash site. that also worry, anderson. >> obviously, concern for families is ha...