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quote, it felt like armageddon. "the lead" starts right now. a new baby, one of the thousands of innocent people killed earlier today in that catastrophic 7.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked turkey and syria. the scramble to reach the people buried alive beneath crumbles buildings. then, we're learning more about china's suspected spy balloon shot down over the united states, including the concern that it may have had explosives onboard. plus, arrests in a neo-nazi plot to completely destroy an american city by targeting electrical substations. the details coming up on the wild ...

Seeing. as for lawsuits, i would just first of all, because there's active litigation, i'm not going to comment in a way that would affect that litigation. i would only say that the secretary, the health and well being of the wire force is his paramount concern. this is still an active pandemic. people are still dying in the dod family are still dying from this. so we believe that the vaccine literally saves lives. it's still a mandatory vaccine here in the department. it's a lawful order to administer that vaccine and we're going to continue to administer that vaccine to our troops and our ci...

It's significant. they're killing thousands in the process of it. but the ukrainians, with what they have, they're being very smart about marshalling their reforces and defending. also, again, we need to be careful how much information we're putting out there, too. we have to be observant of the ukrainian's ability to defend themselves that doesn't mean that we are actively putting out information out there that could act to their detriment. travis? >> looks like the last time that dod publicly reported their covid case numbers march 11. i wonder if you're going to continue reporting that. sec...

These people are so dedicated and we're so grateful to help for the help that they gave to ben and to get him out of the country with the help of the other people at dod and jennifer griffin who she talks about absolutely indispensable in this incredibly important mission to get him out. so for more information and all the works that they do, this is one example of all of what they do, please visit saveourallies.org so you can be part of that commendable mission. so as we mentioned at the top of the hour, we're waiting for the pentagon's live briefing. a lot of important developments today on ...

Time for just a couple more. >> thanks. a couple of clarifications and then a question. >> i don't think i need to clarify anything. >> is dod ready to confirm if russia will fire hypersonic questions in to ukraine? >> you want me to answer that first? we have seen the russian claim that they used a hypersonic missile. we're not in the position to refute that claim. we're also not able to independently verify it. >> wanted to follow up on carla's question. you talked about you're not going to say what systems are in ukraine. is dod talking to turkey about transferring s-400, one follow up. i'd...