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Sea this week. newly declassified pentagon video from the drone's camera captured a russian warplane spraying jet fuel directly in the path of the pilotless drone. one of several close passes by russian fighters according to the pentagon, one of which resulted in a collision. part of the american aircraft's propeller sheared off forcing the drone to crash while american officials allow the russian pilot may have accidentally bumped the drone, they say there's no question where the orders to harass the plane came from. courtney kube has more for us now from the pentagon. >> reporter: the dramat...

It was struck by the russian jet. the $32 million drone was then downed in the black sea. the u.s. says two russian jets made 19 passes over the drone in international airspace before the collision. the russian government denies any aggressive action or impact occurred. the biden administration saying they declassified the video to prove russia is lying. >> given the reckless and dangerous behavior and to demonstrate publicly what type of actions the russians had taken, we felt that it was important to provide this imagery. >> reporter: the u.s. assesses the actions of the pilots were approved...

Nasa officials tell us they may use a plane like this one, which is an er-2 aircraft, which handles a wide variety of environmental science and atmospheric sampling. that's a plane is that has a human crew. or they might send up a pilotless drone, spending on what they think is going to be best and safest. whatever they send up there over porter ranch, nasa is going to have plenty to look at, in addition to the methane, this thing is apparent glifing up tons and tons and tons of carbon die oxide. the leak is releasing what amounts to a million metric tons of carbon dioxide per month now. it's ...

Near the leak so they can try to measure this thing themselves. nasa officials tell us they may use a plane like this one, which is an er-2 aircraft, which handles a wide variety of environmental science and atmospheric sampling. that's a plane is that has a human crew. or they might send up a pilotless drone, spending on what they think is going to be best and safest. whatever they send up there over porter ranch, nasa is going to have plenty to look at, in addition to the methane, this thing is apparent glifing up tons and tons and tons of carbon die oxide. the leak is releasing what amounts...