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Vessel's crew saw flying objects before the blast, calling reports of a mine attack false and saying that the crew, they're dismissing any reports that a bomb was attached to the side of the ship. so things are still very murky and i don't think we'll know exactly what's going on until the results of an investigation are given to us. >> ali, thank you very much. ben rhodes, to you first, a couple pieces in "the new york times" this morning about this incident, these attacks, writing the challenges are diplomatic and economic as well as military. in another piece, pointing out there's a deeper ...

Submarines headed out to sea. >> now it's up to the north to act and not simply just make assurances with respect to their own military activities there on the border. >> reporter: u.s. officials tell cnn they had two major worries -- first, the north koreans took the unusual step of giving a specific deadline for threatening to attack the south if it did not stop the speaker propaganda broadcasts. and second, that the south korean government was considering military retaliation in addition to artillery shells it lobbed as an empty field there at the dmz after the soldiers were hurt in a mine ...

It lobbed at an empty field near the dmz after its soldiers were hurt in a mine attack from the north. now u.s. officials tell me they took a couple of additional steps. reviewing the war plan in part to reassure the south koreans, and they did show them the latest intelligence about the north koreans on the move. all of this in effort to get the situation de-escalated. the hope of course is that peace agreement holds. >> let's hope. let's hope it does in fact. barbara, good reporting, thank you. congressman peter king, kim jong-un apparently showed diplomacy in reaching this tentative deal. w...

What are the chances of war? what are the chances of nuclear war? >> the chances of war are higher for a couple of reasons. north korea is facing its worst economic disaster. the worst drought in the history of north korea. kim jong un, the 32-year-old president, has already executed the leader. they have age and experience and he's clearly having a tough time holding on to power. he knows he's on the weaker end of a conventional war. what he's doing is rattling a nuclear sayer. he keeps coming up with the incidents to enhance his own power within his country and to intimidate the world. >> we...

Emergency situation briefing. ian williams is with us this morning. >> this is one of the shelters, a pretty heavy bomb-proof door, now after the exchange of artillery last night, about 60 people in local villages were ordered here around 40 of them staying overnight. some did manage to return home today, but they have been told to come back here with tensions rising this evening across the border area. north korea sits just over the hills behind me. there are lots of reasons why this is a pretty scary border area, but what's most rattled kim jong-un, 11 vast installations of loud speakers whi...