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SunStar P8.7M worth of marijuana uprooted in Asturias village UPROOTED. Around 22,000 stalks of fully-grown marijuana plants are uprooted by operatives of the Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) in two sitios in Barangay Kaluangan, Asturias town on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. The uprooted marijuana stalks have a total worth of P8.7 million. / Contributed (Contributed photo) February 24, 2021 AROUND 22,000 stalks of fully grown marijuana worth P8.7 million were uprooted by operatives of the Cebu Provincial Police Office (CCPO) in Barangay Kaluangan, Astu...

The deployment of the two US Navy ships, along with a refueling ship, is the largest American presence in the waterway in three years.

we're about ready to go. i said, i want a better -- >> planes in the air? were planes in the air? >> no, we're about ready to go. no, but they would have been pretty soon. things would have happened to a point where you couldn't turn back. so they came and said, sir, we're ready to go. we'd like a decision. i said, i want to know something before you go. how many people will be killed? they said -- came back, said, sir, approximately 150. and i thought about it for a second. i said, you know what? they shot down an unmanned drone, plane, whatever you want to call it, and here we are sitting...

Showed restranint amid the stan off. what are you hearing? >> reporter: it's exactly what they are saying. the iranians today in form of the revolutionary guard aero space commander came out and while they were displaying what they say is the wreckage of the drone that they shot down, all of a sudden said we could have shot down another plane if we wanted to. this time it would have been a p8. the iranians were saying that plane was in the same vicinity as the drone while the iranians were tracking both of them. they're trying to send a clear message to the united states. that the shooting dow...

Agreement that the u.s. remove from. also missile actives and supports for terrorism. >> the u.s. was only minutes away from launching some sort of retaliatory strike. >> reporter: the iranians said they would be ready if there was a retaliatory strike from the united states. it's something they said they would have a firm response to. it was interesting to see the iranian aero space saying we could have targeted another american flaen wplane that was air space. this was a p8. the iranian commander said the listen why he told reporters