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Dark right away, another couple of them went dark soon thereafter. i wondered if the types of monitoring that's done at these stations, could they -- could that data if those -- if those monitoring stations were still live and still reporting the kind of data they usually do, could that shed light on what it was that blew up, what exactly went wrong and what device that seems to have caused this disaster? >> well, the russian government seems to think so, rachel. there are hundreds of monitoring stations around the world to monitor a treaty, a comprehensive nuclear test band treaty that's been...

Went offline. >> is it possible that more than four are offline? do we understand the full universe of data here? >> well, the american government has its own intelligence information about this. but this data is fed into an organization which is supposed to monitor and support this nuclear test ban treaty and they're located in vienna, so thoe they get these continuous streams of information and then office, poof, there is an incident report, that two stations are offline and then another two and i've interacted with the head of that organization and they've gotten to the russians for an expl...

Me, the state nuclear agency would admit five of the nuclear scientists were killed in the blast. today at a joint press conference alongside the french president, vladimir putin told reporters there was no risk of increased radiation levels after the plast. raid jags i yax shouldn't go up at all. no worry, everything is up to date control. which would be great, it would be easier to believe after worrying reports from the "wall street journal" about nuclear monitoring stations, literally radiation detecting monitoring stations in russia that appeared to have been shut off right after the expl...

Blakal joins us, thank you for your time. >> glad to be here. >> let me ask ahmeta question first. i have been covering this the last few days since we learned about it. it's been very, very hard to get information. let alone information you can cross check and get different sources on. has this been difficult to get? >> well, the actual episode is still ollie of the a mystery. president trump has said the system that was being tested was a nuclear powered cruise missile and that seems to be the case. but the russian government has not been transparent and most of what's known about this is in...

Locally by local and at the national level, national secrecy. the russian government has not been forthcoming about what exactly happened at that missile testing site that killed, first they said two people, then they made it seven people. over the weekend, national security correspondent michael gordon at the "wall street journal" reported that two russian monitoring stakes that measure radiation, took two of the stations closest to the blast site shut down mysteriously 48 hours after that explosion. there is a monitoring station that is designed to detect nuclear radiation, radioactivity in ...