Consequences. hi, everyone. it s 5:00 in new york. i m allie velshi. we re waiting for response to the strikes. as you heard from the pentagon press secretary, then there were two dozen attacks on ships in the red sea, which is a critical passageway for commercial shipping worldwide. now to put this area into significance, 17,000 ships carrying $1 trillion worth of goods go through the canal every year. in response to the attacks in recent weeks, serve of the ten companies have rerouted their ships away from the canal adding thousands of miles and over a week of time to their trips. the houthis say they have only targeted ships connected to
If you want that service and if not cancel it right from the app with one tap download rocket money, the money app that works for you alien at the white house, and this is cnn. so this morning, there s some new details about the changes of pentagon is making in the wake of the leaked classified documents online, the arrest of a 21 year old national guardsmen in connection to the leak yesterday is raising questions about how the government categorizes top secret and who has access for explanation of incident. natasha bertrand is on the story for us live from the pentagon with more good morning, natasha. the question the perplexing one, of course, is. how could a 21 year old guardsmen have access to such sensitive material? well, that is the question that reporters were really grilling the pentagon press secretary on yesterday. it s not only his age , but it s also his relatively low rank. he was an e three, which is really one of the lowest ranks as an enlisted person in the military and part
Of the reason why he may have had access to this information is because he was in the intelligence wing of the air national guard in massachusetts . but look, the pentagon press secretary told reporters. that this is not uncommon that it doesn t necessarily have to do with your age. the amount of information that you have access to. it basically has to do with the job that you are entrusted to do. and he said that a lot of people across the military have access to this kind of information at a very young age, because the military in trust people with that, hoping that they have enough military discipline, he said, to safeguard these this information properly and knowing the consequences, of course of what will happen if you do. expose it. and so he was really emphasizing here that it is not uncommon for someone of his rank and his age to have access to this kind of information, but it is going to raise a lot of questions about whether that is appropriate right because the fact that these kinds of documents which are briefed to the highest levels of the military, including including the chairman of the joint staff
Has been arrested in massachusetts he has been named as jack teixeira, we are expecting a news conference from the us department ofjustice shortly. and as soon as we get that we will be bringing that to you. but earlier we were hearing from brigadier general, pat writer, the pentagon press secretary who was answering questions from the press i answering questions from the press . i would say that it is important to understand . i would say that it is important to understand that . i would say that it is important to understand that we . i would say that it is important to understand that we do - . i would say that it is important to understand that we do have - to understand that we do have stringent guidelines in place for safeguarding classified information. this was a deliberate criminal acts, a violation of those guidelines and so, again, ithink a violation of those guidelines and so, again, i think it is important to understand the stuff we will continue to do everything we can to ensure that people who have a need to to know when it comes to this kind of information, have access to that. we will always learn from every situation, but again, this is something that we will continue to look at. ., something that we will continue to look at. . , ., .,
Star reviews who will join your team from her favorite coffee shop. don t forget to tip. expand your team with five or freelancer caitlin poland s in washington, and this is cnn. we want to focus on the situation in syria now where president biden ordered an air strike in retaliation for the death of an american, a deadly drone attack killed an american contractor and wounded five service members yesterday. last hour, the pentagon said officials are confident the drone was targeting u. s forces and that it was an iranian made weapons. cnn s natasha bertrand is following these developments for us in natasha. what more do we know about how all of this unfolded and how that drone was able to get through that airspace? jessica what we did get a bit more of the timeline from the pentagon press secretary last hour he laid out what happened here, which is that around 6:30 a.m. eastern time on thursday, and iranian, a suspected iranian drone, i should say did target a u. s and
Munitions and also using as a base to gather intelligence. now we re also told by by rider there that the pentagon is still assessing the number of militant casualties that actually resulted from that air strike is unclear. how many people actually died there, however, uk uk based human rights monitoring group says that there were at least eight killed as a result of that u s airstrike. but look, there were a lot of questions here about why that couldn t have been that that, um that iranian drone strike could not have been prevented right? because the point was made that these drones don t move very quickly. and that perhaps the base could have taken some measures to try to take it down before it crashed into that facility that was housing, us personnel and the question and the answer that we got from the pentagon press secretary there was that they re essentially assessing what happened here is his understanding that the radar was all operating pretty correctly. and so the question now is. what can they do better to mitigate that potential risk in the future? and he did say that u s central command is
Draw the two countries into a conflict. the pentagon saying that there was no con ffrontation there was no communication while this confrontation. that makes us wonder if the lines of communication are opening operating properly. the u.s. is working to recover this. what is the concern that officials have if russia gets there first? it s unclear whether the u.s. will be able to recover this. we re told that there are no naval assets in the black sea at this moment that are working to recover it. the white house has said that they have taken steps to protect their equities. they would not go any further than that. but implying, essentially, they re taking steps to prevent the drone from falling into russian hands. the pentagon press secretary was asked about this yesterday, whether the russians have been themselves trying to get ahold of the drone which again fell into the black sea. they would not go there. what we re told is that they are
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China s refusal to take a phone call from the pentagon after that balloon was shot down. just moments ago, the pentagon press secretary confirmed that four previous spy balloons were monitoring sensitive locations. we know that they were looking to surveil strategic sites to include some of our strategic bases in the continental united states. and joining us now from myrtle beach, south carolina, where the balloon was shot down is nbc s vaughn hillyard. vaughn, a large piece of that balloon was recovered very near where you are. it s now being analyzed, as i understand it, by an fbi lab in quantico, virginia. what more do we know? reporter: right, chris, the search area that the navy divers are currently working around is about one square mile. the navy divers are using unmanned drones, reconnaissance sonar underneath the water to try to track where this debris is. they are then bringing that debris to where we are here.
The australian tennis star nick kyrgios is due in court in canberra later, charged with an alleged assault of a former partner in 2021. and covid, vaccines, and those conspiracy theories we speak to the microsoft founder and philanthropist, bill gates. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. we start with breaking news from the us where the defence department says it s confident a balloon spotted over montana is a surveillance platform from china. a short while ago, the pentagon press secretary brigadier general pat ryder put a statement on the us department of defence website confirming the high altitude surveillance balloon is being tracked.