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>> hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states, around the world and streaming us on cnn max. >> i'm morris mukherji, just ahead, after weeks of mysterious drone sightings in the u.s. north east, there are still no real answers. >> and frustration is growing. a step toward normalcy in syria. schools reopen a week after bashar al assad was overthrown. the challenge now rebuilding the country after more than a decade of civil war. and israeli authorities say they have arrested multiple spies working for iran recently. but to their surprise, many of them are israeli live from atlanta. >> this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church good to have you with us. >> the us government is facing growing pressure for answers as

swarms of mysterious drones have now been spotted across six northeastern states over the past month, federal agencies have drawn bipartisan criticism for downplaying the concerns from state and local governments, even as they've acknowledged the unusual nature of the reported sightings. still, the homeland security department insists there is no evidence the drones pose a threat to communities. senate democratic leader chuck schumer says he will co-sponsor legislation to give local authorities more drone detection tools, and he urged homeland security officials to deploy drone tracking technology to the region. in new jersey, former governor chris christie says he's even seen drones hovering over his home. >> here in new jersey. resident. >> have you seen any drones? >> yeah. >> two mornings ago, over my house at 615 in the morning. i saw them myself. so did my wife. and so, yeah, they're there. and i've been traveling

around new jersey as i normally do all week. and i can't tell you the number of people have come up to me concerned about it. >> massachusetts is one of the states reporting a growing number of drone sightings, and one such incident happened over the weekend near boston's international airport. cnn's gloria pazmino has more on these sightings, which are keeping so many people on edge well, first, let's start with boston, because the police department there tells us they arrested two people who were found to be flying drones dangerously close to the airspace over logan international airport. >> now we are still waiting to hear more about what was behind these arrests. but what we do know so far is that an officer spotted the drones and then was able to deploy drone detection technology to identify the drone history. the owners and the locations from where they were being operated from that led the police department to

boston harbor island. this is a largely uninhabited part of boston, and once police arrived there, they were able to arrest two people. they initially tried to flee on foot, but they were eventually captured. one of them had a drone in their backpack, and another is believed to have fled using a small vessel. a third person, who the police are still looking for. now we don't know how much we are going to learn as a result of these arrests just yet, and whether or not it will explain some of the sightings that have been reported in boston. but the fact that the police department was able to use technology is certainly something that a lot of law enforcement officials and representatives across many of these different communities are talking about. many of them are asking the federal government for more resources, for more information, so that they can take a more active role in detecting and

intercepting some of these drones that are being reported. now, we have also heard from the department of homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas speaking this weekend about the drone sightings and acknowledging that what people are reporting are definitely drones. take a listen. >> there's no question that people are seeing drones, and i want to assure the american public that we in the federal government have deployed additional resources, personnel, technology to assist the new jersey state police in addressing the drone sightings. >> so the secretary says that he is sending resources to new jersey, where many of the sightings have been reported. but here in new york, governor kathy hochul also telling us that the state is receiving some additional resources from the federal government after some drone sightings resulted in an airfield having to be shut down over this past weekend because of drone

sightings over airspace at a local airport. now, governor kathy hochul issued a statement on sunday saying in part, in response to my calls for additional resources, our federal partners are deploying a state of the art drone detection system to new york state. this system will support state and federal law enforcement in their investigation. now, something we're not clear on just yet is exactly what kind of technology new york is going to be receiving. if it's going to be anything like what boston deployed and helped them, uh, it helped them to find the drones and conduct those arrests. i have been asking about this technology, but i've been told that because this is now an issue of national security, the state is not going to share more information about what the technology is or where it will be deployed. however, i am told by sources familiar with the conversations that the governor and the

secretary of homeland security, alejandro mayorkas, held a few phone calls over the weekend to discuss the need for for more resources. in the meantime, still a lot of frustration and a lot of questions being asked by local officials across the northeast who want to do more and to make sure that their local governments have more resources to respond to these sightings. gloria pazmino, cnn, new york. >> earlier, i spoke with retired fbi special agent daniel brunner, who talked about some of the things federal agencies can do to keep people informed about what's happening with the government of the us. >> us government is failing to do is properly address this. this clearly is an investigation that has been going on for a number of weeks now, because the reported drone sightings have been going over new jersey for a number of weeks. it's moving into connecticut, new york, maryland, and over many military facilities. now, the

pentagon came out a few days ago and said, these are not us. department of defense drones. okay. then the very next statement was, and these are not adversarial. well, we don't know what they are. you can't say that. they're they're not an adversarial nation. the us government just doesn't know. and that right there is the failure that they don't know. what this is is clearly shows a large vulnerability to the us infrastructure and the the national airspace. the clear we clearly see the war in the ukraine and the combat development of unmanned aerial vehicles. and utilizing these. and we know that foreign adversaries have ships and vessels that can deploy drones into different air spaces. we don't know what these are, and it's showing a clear vulnerability. a good percentage of these, yes, are manned aircraft that people are mistaking for a uav, but there is definitely a lot of unanswered activity going on in the northeast.

>> and you raise the big problem, don't you? because homeland security secretary, he's been saying here that they're not aware of any direct national security concerns tied to this uptick in drone sightings in the last four weeks, saying they don't believe there are any foreign governments involved. but how can they be so sure of that if they don't appear to know what they're actually dealing with, or if they know they're not telling the public? presumably that's that's another point, isn't it, that they may know, but they're trying to basically tell people it's nothing to worry about, but we need more details, don't we? >> right. well, it's the job of the government to make its people feel safe. i understand that i worked for the national, for the u.s. government for 29 years. i understand about national security and that there are certain things that the public doesn't need to know because of ongoing investigations or national security. completely understandable. but this is getting national and international attention. and there clearly seems to be a

lack of understanding at the national level of this, of the government figuring out what it is, being able to shoot down or neutralize these threats, these unidentified aircraft are flying over u.s. military installations, over the homes of governors and the governor of maryland. his home is getting flown over. u.s. coast guard cutters are getting followed by 12 unknown aircraft in flying in formation. this is not normal. this is not just some hobbyist. this is a someone who is operating aircraft in the u.s., in the northeast and is unknown if the u.s. government does not know, they can't make the statement. that is, the u.s. people are safe. we don't know what's on these aircraft. we know that from the war in ukraine. there clearly are capabilities of deploying, uh, different munitions, different ways of attack. this is also showing a lot of our adversaries, terrorist groups, organized

crime means to attack how they want to conduct future terrorist attacks. this is literally a blueprint for isis, showing that there are vulnerabilities in the united states. this needs to be addressed quickly. this needs to be addressed now. and the government, the current biden administration, needs to get a handle on this. getting on the networks by, uh, secretary mayorkas and walk and talking on sunday morning is not the answer. there needs to be action and there needs to be some sort of action. >> now, turning now to the us politics, donald trump's key cabinet picks are looking to build support ahead of senate confirmation battles. a source tells cnn that the president elect's choice to lead the country's top health agency, and his pick for defense secretary are expected back on capitol hill this week. cnn's steve contorno has more monday kicks off another critical week on capitol hill for donald trump's cabinet picks. >> it's the last expected week the senators will be in dc

before they head home for the holidays. and on sunday, we heard from senator thom tillis of north carolina, who urged donald trump's allies to knock off the pressure campaign, trying to get republican senators on the hill to support his picks blindly. >> pete hegseth had a good week this week on capitol hill. i'm working with kash patel. the members are not really swayed by these. if anything, they could create a structural problem for future nominees if they overreach. but i don't believe that it's coming directly out of mar-a-lago. i think it's coming out of groups sometimes they're there. they have good behavior, other times they're out there to make some change and and get their name out there. >> trump's pick for defense secretary pete hegseth, will continue meeting with senators this week. it comes after a weekend where he had a public display of support from president elect trump. when the two appeared side by side at the army-navy football game. and on sunday, south carolina senator lindsey graham revealed that in his conversations with

hegseth, hegseth told him that he would release from a nondisclosure agreement a woman who accused him of sexual assault. >> he told me he would release her from that agreement. yeah, i mean, just think about what we're talking about. i'd want to know if anybody nominated for a high level job in washington legitimately assaulted somebody. i've known pete for years. i met him in afghanistan. i've heard nothing but good things about his service over there. >> hegseth has denied the accusations, saying it was a consensual encounter. steve contorno cnn, west palm beach, florida. >> now to syria, where the country and world leaders look toward a new chapter. more than a week after the ouster of bashar al assad in damascus, university students toppled a statue of late syrian president hafez al assad, the father of the ousted leader, before standing on it and dragging it through the street. the statue had been standing at the university for decades.

meantime, christians in the syrian capital attended mass on sunday, expressing hope that a new government would respect the rights of minorities in the country. though many said the future was still uncertain and a return to normalcy for students in damascus. as schools reopen their doors. students and school faculty are expressing optimism for the future. the world is watching to see if syria's new government can stabilize the country and move toward a smooth transition. and in the hours ahead, syria will be on the agenda at an eu foreign affairs council meeting in brussels. the un special envoy for syria, who met with the new caretaker government on sunday, says he supports the lifting of sanctions on leading rebel group. it's we need to see that this is quickly. >> we will hopefully see a quick end to sanctions so that we can see really rallying around, building up syria

again. >> and then my last point, we need to see, of course, justice and accountability for crimes. >> and we need to make sure that that goes through a credible justice system and that we don't see any revenge the israeli government has approved a plan to expand settlements in the golan heights, a strategic plateau in south western syria that israel has occupied for nearly 60 years. >> the plan, put forward by prime minister benjamin netanyahu is drawing condemnation from saudi arabia and qatar, who say the move could derail syria's chances of restoring stability and consider it a violation of international law. the israeli leader had this message about syria and we have no interest in a conflict with syria. >> we will determine israel's policy towards syria. according to the emerging reality on the ground earlier, i spoke with ibrahim al acyl, a senior fellow at the middle east

institute, who joined me from damascus. >> and i asked him how difficult it will be for syria's new government to stabilize the country. >> the task is really difficult. >> the state virtually has collapsed across syria and there is high level of poverty across the country. people just need some security, electricity and water, and they just want to be able to send their kids to schools. these days. however, there are also other challenges on the political level. what you just said as a transitional government. many people now are starting to question that. how transitional is it? is there really a roadmap? there hasn't been real talks about a roadmap to see some milestones or some dates of what will happen next, and if there is, if there will be any sort of a national dialog to probably include other political parties and other political actors in this government. >> syria will be top of the

agenda at an eu foreign affairs council meeting in brussels in the coming hours, the un special envoy for syria says he supports the lifting of sanctions against the leading rebel group, bts. how critical is that that these sanctions are lifted, and how likely is it that that will happen it's very crucial for for the country, because there is no way for syria to move ahead and to move forward and to be able to stabilize itself without support from the international community. >> and for that support to arrive in syria, sanctions need to be lifted. but we're not only talking about sanctions, we're also talking about delisting hayat tahrir al-sham from the terrorist list. and now the talks are on these two paths about lifting the sanctions and also about delisting. uh, the hayat tahrir al-sham from the terrorist list so they can talk to other international actors. but of course, there are different

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can be seen in this video circulating on unofficial ukrainian and russian telegram channels. cnn has been unable to independently verify the location, the ministry says. a helicopter rescue team responded to a request for assistance after one of the vessels ran aground and was damaged, it says. one person out of 27 people across both ships is known to have died. there's no suggestion the incidents are related to russia's war in ukraine. south korea's constitutional court is reviewing the impeachment of president yoon suk yeol and announced the first pretrial hearing will be held on december 27th. the court has up to six months to decide whether to uphold the impeachment and remove yoon from office, or reinstate him. yoon was impeached saturday, nearly two weeks after refusing to resign after his sudden declaration of martial law. he's been barred from leaving the country and

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>> in this low income building in the city of haifa, apartment five looks just as ordinary as every other until you notice the spot where police broke in. >> israeli authorities say the man who lived here, azis nisanov, was the leader of a group of iranian spies i wasn't surprised, i was shocked. >> it was like thunder amid clear skies. >> his next door neighbor, leonid gorbachovsky, was home when police pried the door open with a metal bar. he says they turned the place inside out and found piles of cash. israeli police say nisanov led a seven person cell of israelis who gathered intelligence for iran for more than two years and are now awaiting trial. and the haifa seven are allegedly just one cell. israeli authorities say they have uncovered multiple spy rings in recent months. >> if you go check the last years and the last decades, we can count on two hands. how

many people got arrested for this? last six months we have over 30 israeli citizens that got arrested. >> so that's unprecedented. yeah. >> of course. >> superintendent maor goren, who oversaw the investigations, says the arrests foiled multiple assassination plots as well as ongoing intelligence gathering efforts. while some of these alleged iranian spies were accused of plotting to kill senior israeli officials, others had a different task photographing israeli military bases like the nevatim airbase right behind me. and israeli officials say those photographs that information actually helped the iranians carry out those ballistic missile attacks in april, as well as in october missiles struck nevatim airbase in both of those attacks. and while the base's location is known to iran, police believe zoomed in photos and videos provided additional targeting intelligence. >> some of them got recruited

by the iranians by using the social media. >> many of those telegram messages provided by israel's shin bet security service are wildly unsophisticated. spam style messages offering interesting and exciting jobs that pay a very high salary. in one series of messages provided by the israeli police, an alleged iranian handler writes we just need brave men. are you brave for a lot of money before tasking their mark with buying gasoline and setting off forest fires it worked, and based on the theory of the big numbers, oded ailam, a former top mossad official, says iran is more interested in casting a wide net than in recruiting skilled operatives. >> and they said to themselves, okay, if we fail here, we'll go to the next one and they don't really care of the outcome. >> unlike previous iranian intelligence efforts in israel, which have largely involved

palestinian recruits, the majority of those arrested in the last year have been jewish israelis, many of them new immigrants, according to the police. they were also often poor or had criminal histories. people like slava gushchin, who lived in this apartment and was allegedly part of the haifa cell. for neighbors like riki and moshe, who saw him struggling and had given him food and clothes, shock, shock, no, one, no one could believe it. >> people here that know him, that also brought him food and everything. >> they want to kill him. >> a sense of betrayal for the accused spy next door. and iran did not return a request for comment about the spying allegations. as for azis nisanov, the alleged leader of the haifa seven, i spoke to his attorney, who did not deny that nisanov photographed these military bases, but said he did not know that he was working for iran. he said that his motives were purely financial and that he did not believe he was harming israel's security.

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magazine. >> and a warm welcome back to our viewers here in north america. i'm rosemary church, new york's governor is organizing a virtual business leaders summit to discuss safety protocols following the killing of unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson was shot and killed on the streets of new york nearly two weeks ago, and a suspect, luigi mangione, has been charged with second degree murder in the case. the safety meeting comes as experts warn of hostile references to the major health care providers on social media, and that copycats will likely feel emboldened after this attack. the unitedhealthcare case has sparked a national conversation about the country's health care system, and outrage is growing, with some people even defending the man accused of killing brian thompson. cnn's brian todd has details. >> along a seattle area highway. a digital sign says one less ceo, then many more to

go. >> in new york city, posters were put up praising the murder of unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson with a red x across his picture. other posters singled out another executive in florida. police say a woman who was on the phone talking with blue cross blue shield about recently denied medical claims, said to the representative, quote, delay denied depose you people are next. those words were written on the shell casings found at the scene of brian thompson's murder. the woman has been charged with threats to conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism. >> what we're seeing has been unleashed on social media and elsewhere is just all of this pent up anger and frustration. >> i mean, we're talking about people's health. this is a life and death situation. >> the head of the health care conglomerate, brian thompson, worked for unitedhealth group ceo andrew witty, tried to address some of the growing frustration with an essay in the new york times. he praised thompson as a brilliant, kind man who was working to make health care better for everyone and wrote, we know the health system does not work as well as it should, and we understand

people's frustrations with it. our mission is to help make it work better. witty said his company is willing to partner with anyone to deliver better care at lower costs, but acknowledged. quote, clearly we are not there yet. witty did little to appease thousands of people who replied to his op ed with comments, one person writing to think that the health care providers do not also seek to maximize their profits is simply naive. another saying i don't know how he sleeps at night on his bed of blood and suffering at this point, social media is now the jury and it doesn't like what it sees. >> so if you're an executive, you know, in interim management, unitedhealthcare or any other health company, you've got to read the room. >> unitedhealth group is a for profit company that reported over $100 billion in revenue in the third quarter of this year, and is the largest provider of health insurance in the united states. it has been facing a class action lawsuit since before the thompson shooting, accusing one of its subsidiaries of using algorithms to deny care to seniors. united says that

assertion is false, but the horror stories seemingly never end. arete tsoukalas tells cnn she needed a specific drug to treat the leukemia she was diagnosed with. she said her insurer, one of the nation's largest, refused to pay for the drug entirely at first, then said it would pay part of it, but she'd have to pay a $13,000 a month copay. sacoolas says she went without the drug for three months, then got it with financial help from the drug manufacturer. >> no one should have to fight cancer and insurance at the same time. some aspects of the cancer treatment felt a lot easier to deal with than insurance. >> cnn's tami luhby says she spoke to several health policy experts who told her the most effective way to bring about real change in the industry is if the current consumer outrage is sustained. she says they told her if that dies down, the insurers will have less incentive to make changes. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> a shocking car crash in houston, texas, where a man drove his car through several

businesses in a strip mall on saturday. at least three people were hurt. cnn's ivan rodriguez explains how it happened. >> first of all, it truly is a miracle nobody was killed saturday afternoon. >> surveillance footage from inside a barber shop shows a black suv crashing through the business. as people try to get out of the way. here, you're looking inside the barber shop right before the crash. houston police say the 61 year old driver told them that as he was backing out, he accidentally hit the gas pedal and kept it down. in doing so, he initially hit a car in the parking lot and then continued on into the building, damaging some of the suites inside. the strip mall owner told our affiliate ktrk he spoke to the suv driver, who said he had just come from treatment at a nearby dialysis center before the crash. the owner of the barber shop tells us they're aiming to reopen by thursday, and that his employees are okay, except for one who has a gash on his leg. now, in addition to the 11 year old boy, police say two other

women were also injured. police told cnn that the driver, who was uninjured, will be cited for being at fault and that he did not show any signs of impairment. ivan rodriguez, cnn, atlanta. >> the weekend finished with back to back days of severe weather in california, where a rare tornado hit the state just south of san francisco. the national weather service recorded winds up to 90mph, or nearly 145km/h, and it only lasted about five minutes. but that's all the time it took to uproot trees, downed power lines and damaged vehicles. cnn meteorologist elisa rafah has more on that storm, and the next one that's expected to hit the western us this week. >> we had an incredibly active weekend of weather in california. >> we had an ef one tornado confirmed in scotts valley that sits about an hour south of san francisco. >> we had 90 mile per hour

winds in that twister, and it was able to snap trees, downed power lines and overturned cars, injuring some people. >> now, this is incredibly rare for the bay area. i mean, we're talking only nine tornadoes on average happening here in california. the storm was so powerful, we had winds up at 78mph in monterey, 83 mile per hour gusts at the san francisco airport that was clocked during a tornado warning that was triggered in the san francisco bay area. their first ever tornado warning in history. no tornado was confirmed out of this, but those 80 mile per hour gusts did do some damage to trees and power lines there as well. that storm working its way east. but we have another one that's already on its way in, and atmospheric river will develop as we go into the week. so more rain and snow is likely. we're looking at a level four out of five when it comes to impact for the atmospheric river, meaning it could be potentially hazardous. some of that rain will be beneficial, but with the amount of rain coming in a short amount of time, we could be looking at some hazardous

conditions. i mean, look at how healthy these rain chances stay as we go into the workweek, especially monday, tuesday and wednesday. for a place like eugene, oregon, 2 to 4in of rain is likely some isolated totals up to six inches possible. you can see all that moisture starts to move in as we go into the workweek. starting on monday. rain and snow from washington down towards oregon and northern california, even as that clears, another round comes in. going into tuesday as the atmospheric river continues to pump in some of that moisture. overall, rain totals will be about 2 to 4in, some of those totals up to six inches are possible. and we're going to add to the snow depth in the mountains as well. another 1 to 2ft of snow possible on top of what they already got. winds will also be gusty as well. that could cause some problems with power outages researchers at the university of sydney in australia are working on building the world's first smart cow. >> they believe their ai powered robot will help cattle

farmers keep their fields green and their herds healthy. lynda kincaid shows us how it's not something you see every day. a bright red cow sized robot against a green backdrop of rolling pastures. but despite looking out of place, swag bot mission complete is the field worker of the future. >> once the animals, once the cattle are used to the robot, they will follow the robot around. >> and so if you move to certain parts of the pasture, the animals will follow through. >> and and if you stop, then they'll stop and they can graze that particular part. and why that's important is because, um, if you over graze, then you ruin the pasture. and so you don't want to over graze. so you want to move the animals to the right part of the pasture where there's good protein, good carbs. >> when it was launched in 2016, swag bot's only job was herding cattle. now sensors and i give the smart cow the power to do much more. >> you can actually measure the property of the animal's motion as it's moving along. so what we call its gait. so how it's actually moving. and if you measure that information

over a number of different days, you start to build up a characteristic profile of that animal. and from that you can determine whether or not the animal is healthy or not healthy at a particular point in time. along that, along that path. but also we can sense it. we can sense collection of animals and where they're moving as a, as a herd. and that tells us also information about the herd characteristics and why those two things are important is that if the robot's going around and measuring pasture and measuring quality of pasture, it can actually determine where the best part of the land is for the animals to move to. >> australia is a top global producer of beef, but overgrazing can hurt already poor pastures. swag bots creators hope to eliminate that issue. >> the population of the world is growing and we have the same amount of land to feed that population. and so maximizing how much food we deliver for the same amount of inputs, even less in terms of the inputs, is what's important. and the only way we can do that is with precision agriculture. and doing that on such large scales

needs robotics, lynda kincaid. >> cnn guinness beer has skyrocketed in popularity. celebrity influencers and marketing campaigns have sparked a growing shortage of proper guinness pints across the uk. many british pubs say the social media craze has spiked their guinness sales for the past two years. it may be good for business, but locals fear it may be bad for britain as more guinness taps start to run dry. the dark irish stout has now become the, quote, cool drink among the younger crowd and women, as well as the world counts down to christmas, santa claus is making brave appearances in all types of places around the world. in washington state, this jolly diver can be spotted swimming in the seattle aquarium as part of a 15 year old tradition. in barcelona, thousands of santas traded their customary

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