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newsroom mounting questions with few answers. us state officials and members of congress alike want to know what the federal government is doing about the spike in drone sightings? the cleanup continues. people near san francisco are picking up the pieces after a rare tornado hits the area. and the international community meets to try to figure out what comes next for syria. after the fall of the assad regime live from london. >> this is cnn newsroom with max foster. >> well, we begin this hour with the mysterious drone spotted over six u.s. states and the growing pressure on the biden administration to release more information about what is going on. state and local officials have been critical of the federal response, as well as the lack of clarity. homeland security officials, as well as the fbi, have

downplayed any security concerns, whilst also acknowledging the unusual nature of these sightings. the senate's top democrat, chuck schumer, says he'll 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. despite the government insisting these drones aren't a threat, communities are still on edge. that was evident in massachusetts over the weekend, where authorities responded to a drone incident near boston's international airport. cnn's gloria pazmino has the details 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 and 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, 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. >> joining me from los angeles, gregory mcneal, a law professor at pepperdine university. he's also an expert on the use of drones, as well as the rules and laws regulating them. um, obviously, the issue we've got here is in the absence of hard information, conspiracy theories abound, and people

are, you know, largely questioning who these drones belong to. is there any, you know, intel on that? from what you've seen yeah. >> so we have seen a lot of information come out so far that sort of put things into a few categories. one category are those drones that have been misidentified as drones when they're really, in fact, manned aircraft. so they're not even drones. it's people looking up in the sky thinking that they're seeing a drone. it's just an aircraft that's far enough away that it's moving slowly. so there was one example on twitter or x recently where someone thought it was a drone. it was a united airlines flight. so we have that sort of category of misidentifications that's a known known. we also have a category of identifications where people have said, i believe that's a drone. turns out that it is in fact a drone. but flying a drone is not illegal. just flying it in certain places makes it illegal. and then i think the last category is this curious category. it's very small of

aircraft that are just not able to be identified as drones. they might be or are not able to be identified as manned aircraft. they might also be those or they could be something entirely unknown to us. i think that's the category that has ignited this social panic. >> if i can just ask you head on, you know, people are saying the government doesn't know anything about these drones and lots of people saying they do. how do we differentiate the truth there when we're not actually being told? >> yeah, i think we want to look a little bit at the numbers. so there are over 1 million registered drones in the united states. there are more than that number of drones, because many people choose to not register them. then the white house recently had a call with the fbi, sponsored a call, had the fbi on the line where they created a tip line. they received 5000 tips over the tip line. they determined that only 100 of those were even worthy of investigating. and the reason for that is that a lot of the aircraft that people are identifying as suspicious or as

drones are ending up being aircraft that are following the exact same approach patterns as manned aircraft that are landing at newark airport or jfk or wherever else. and so you start to see this funneling down to the categories of drones that are really important for us to care about. and then you have another category or another series of instances that are happening where people are going out to try and track down the drones they see in the sky by taking their own drone and flying it up in the sky, which then puts more aircraft in the air. so those are all sort of the possible things that could be going on without me disregarding the fact that something suspicious is happening. right? we do see credible reports of aircraft that are flying over military installations, for example, as well as two individuals who are arrested for flying them near boston airport. >> how does the government address this? do they just come out with all the information they've got or what? because it's starting to, you know, you know, you've got a different issue here beyond the

drones. it's the, you know, public concern about what's going on here, which needs to be calmed. >> i think you've really hit on the most important issue there, which is the the public concern, the sense from elected officials in new jersey and throughout that tri state region, as well as the as well as their own constituents who feel like the information they're getting is not information they can trust. now, maybe that's something that's just embedded in the discourse in american politics right now, but it certainly is a fact that that both elected officials and citizens feel like they are not getting good information from their government. it's not necessarily the fact that it's inaccurate. they're just not believing the details that they are being provided by the government. part of that might be like, if you go all the way back to the chinese spy balloon that was flying over the united states, there was a long period of time there where not much information was being put out. then the american public didn't see much action. then after the fact, the information

that they got ended up being incorrect from the department of defense. so you have a lot of people who are mistrusting the government using that one example as one of many reasons why they don't trust the information that they're getting at. >> the spy balloon was a spy balloon. that was all confirmed in the end. it became quite transparent, didn't it? we're not getting the same transparency on this. i mean, how easy would it be for a foreign player to put these up? and why would they do it in such a visible way? >> yeah, i think they wouldn't do it in such a visible way. right. if you're trying to surveil a military installation, you're probably not going to have red and green blinking lights and a strobe light on your drone. although there is a circumstance here where maybe an individual or a group of individuals will purposely test it in an obvious way to make their drones seen so they could see what the response mechanisms are, to see what the government does and how it responds to a known visible threat, which would then give them some insight

into what they could do if they didn't have those lights on, or they weren't broadcasting remote identification. so that is a possibility. i think that the intelligence community is talking about. but for the most part, if someone wants to do something harmful, they won't do it with lights on their drones. they'll fly them surreptitiously and at a high rate of speed into sensitive areas. >> okay, gregory mcneal, really appreciate hearing from you today. i think everyone looking to the authorities for some more information as they get up on this monday morning. thank you. now to 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. >> still to come, a rare tornado hits northern california over the weekend, but more winds and rain are on the way as recovery there begins. we'll have your latest forecast for you. plus, it's the worst storm in almost a century to hit the french territory of mayotte in the indian ocean. we'll bring you the very latest on cyclone

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says it's deploying more than a thousand emergency workers to help. cnn senior international correspondent jim bittermann joins us from gilles in france. i mean, one of the issues we've got here is that communications are out, so we don't know how bad the situation is. but this is a very poor island and quite densely populated in areas. >> absolutely, max, that is one of the problems, as we see oftentimes with earthquakes and with the hurricanes and whatnot, communications go out and then officials can't really get a handle on to what extent that the disaster has taken place. in fact, it seems like this is going to be quite, quite extensive in its damage. the government is mobilizing, as you mentioned. they have got 1600 gendarmes on their way into maintain security, another 800 rescue workers are on their way. one of the problems is that this island is so far away from anything. i mean, it's not the closest it is to any other landmass. is madagascar

another island? and the coast of africa. and the french are using their island of réunion to ferry in supplies, kind of an air bridge from réunion, but it's 900 miles away, so it's a disaster in kind of a remote place. there's about 300,000 people on the island. it's mostly agricultural. about half of the people live in in a rural areas. and because of that, it's very difficult to get to them because of all the damage that's been done. the roads are blocked, that sort of thing. so it'll be a while before we get a real handle on exactly how bad it is. the president, macron, said he's going to hold a disaster meeting or crisis meeting this evening at the interior minister next. >> i mean, they're described as chanty towns, the urban areas. you describe, the rural areas, but the the urban areas, you know, weak structures. we're seeing that in the images right now. so they weren't protecting people in

the way they would have done. they would have been protected in other parts of france exactly. >> that's right. i mean, it's one of the poorest areas of france, if not the poorest. and because of that, one of the poorest territories in the european union. as a matter of fact, it is a lot of chanty towns, a lot of metal structures, very weak metal structures that things have just been totally wiped out in those rural areas, particularly, but in, in the cities as well, there are these chanty towns as kind of slums around the cities where a lot of the people live. so it is a it's a disaster that is going to grow over the next few days as we learn more and more. >> thank you so much for the update there. now, two russian cargo ships carrying oil were in distress between the country's mainland and annexed crimea during bad weather on sunday. that's according to russia's ministry of emergency situations. what seems to be a large russian cargo ship that snapped in two can be seen on

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>> i'm clarissa ward in damascus, and this is cnn. >> with drone sightings now spreading across six states in the northeastern us. federal agencies are drawing bipartisan criticism for downplaying the concerns from state and local governments, even as they've acknowledged the unusual nature of the reported sightings. officials and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are becoming increasingly frustrated with the lack of transparency from the biden administration. on sunday, the head of homeland security again called for calm and said federal agencies are pushing for new measures to help counter drone activity. >> we are working in close coordination with state and local authorities, and it is critical, as we all have said, for a number of years, that we need from congress, additional authorities to address the drone situation. we want state and local authorities to also

have the ability to counter drone activity under federal supervision. that is one important element that we have requested, and we've heard it echoed by the state and local officials themselves. >> we'll keep you updated. syria's transformation is slowly taking shape amid uncertainty on the week after the fall of the assad regime. the us embassy there is encouraging american citizens to leave the country because of the volatile and unpredictable situation in damascus, university students toppled a statue of late president hafez al-assad. al-assad, the father of the ousted leader, before dragging it through the streets. meanwhile, christians in the syrian capital attended mass on sunday, expressing hope that a new government would respect the rights of minorities. but many said they are still uncertain about what lies ahead and schools reopen their doors in damascus as students and teachers expressed optimism for the future. one student even raised a flag adopted by the rebels. the eu

is sending an envoy to the country today to talk to the new leadership, and the un special envoy says he supports the lifting of sanctions on leading rebel group bts we need to see that this is quickly. >> we will hopefully see a quick end to sanctions so that we can see really a 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. >> joining me now from london, jasmine el-gamal, a middle east analyst and former pentagon middle east adviser, of course. thank you so much for joining us. um hldgs is under a lot of pressure right now, isn't it? because obviously there have been infringements from israel they're having to contend

with. then they've got all these diplomats flying in trying to work out what sort of relationship they can have with the people in power right now. and these are people there's a lot of distrust with considering their background. >> that's right. i mean, there's there's such a huge spotlight on the group right now, and obviously for good reason, because they're now leading the charge in the transitional government. they're going to have a very big role to play in syria's future. and that role is so far unclear. we've seen positive steps from them. as you and i have talked about before. they're they're saying a lot of the right things. they're talking about respect for minorities, for the kurds, for alawites, for women. they're talking about disbanding various military units and factions and uniting under one syrian military authority. they're engaging in positive outreach with representatives from syria's neighbors, as well as international

organizations and global players like the us. so secretary blinken stated that the us has been in touch with bts to talk about the the efforts to recover and find austin tice. who's the missing american journalist who's been missing for several years? i think 12 years now in syria. and also you can see the us and other countries trying to start to shape the future steps of hf, bts through that engagement, france is sending sending a delegation to syria to to have these to start these discussions, qatar announced that it's opening an embassy in syria. so you really do see not just the regional players, but also international players and actors, including the un, trying to get in there early, start these conversations, make their expectations clear for continued engagement and trying to shape that future a little bit to the extent that they

can, in a positive way. >> the the leader of hgs hasn't got a mandate yet, has he? so presumably that's what other countries will want to see him get before they give him, you know, a place on the world stage and really start negotiating hard right? >> well, i don't know about mandates specifically because obviously there haven't been elections. he's talked about governance and he's talked about a future path that does include elections. i mean, we have to remember that this is just a transitional government and a transitional period. i think what countries are really focusing on, and this is something that was discussed during the aqaba summit in jordan a couple of days ago, where countries like france, germany, the us and then regional countries as well like bahrain, qatar, turkey and the uae, they got together and they spelled out their expectations of this transitional government. they talked about a nonsectarian and representative government. they talked about the protection of human rights, unfettered access for

humanitarian aid, and the safe destruction of chemical weapons and, and, and a commitment to combating terrorism. so those are the things that those countries are going to be looking at. >> how much sway does america actually have here? obviously, it's a big economic power, and they can be useful for syria to have an economic relationship with them. but there are other players who are much more entrenched in the country who can probably, um, have a bigger say right now. are they all coordinating? i mean, what's your understanding absolutely. >> that's a great question because it's not just the us that has, you know, in fact, there are other countries that have had much more influence in syria over the years than the us, partly because they were closer to syria and partly because they were inside of syria operating. so you have countries like turkey, iran, russia, the arab states, the gulf states, and those are all countries that are going to have quite a bit of influence potentially moving forward. um, qatar, like i said, is sending

an embassy to syria and so has indicated its willingness to start to engage the uae has, um, the senior advisor to the president of the uae, anwar gargash, has said that the uae wants to be supportive of the syrian people moving forward, but they've expressed concern over the islamist nature of the government and potential ties to the muslim brotherhood. past ties to al qaeda. so they're kind of putting the government on notice, saying that we're ready to help, but we're also going to be watching what you do and say because of the history and because of your past. and of course, we can't have a discussion about syria's regional uh, neighbors without talking about israel, because as we've discussed before, israel, um, very quickly after the fall of assad, went in and started taking an additional buffer zone in syria, trying to secure its own safety. but the way that they've been going about

it has really upset people in syria, because they're seeing it as a sign, as basically the opposite of a sign of goodwill. on one hand, you can understand the israelis being concerned about their safety. given the nature of the new government. but the way that they've been going about it with this buffer zone, the government declaring that they're going to expand settlements in the golan heights, the israeli occupied golan heights, and then also bombing military assets and chemical sites, most recently in the coastal city of tartus. it's really putting syrians on edge and creating a lot of bad will, ill will towards israel very early on, which is something that i worry about. >> okay, jasmine el-gamal, thank you so much for your insights today. as ever. now in central gaza and al jazeera, photojournalist was amongst five killed after an israeli airstrike targeted a civil defense service office. that was on sunday. al jazeera is condemning the attack and says

ahmad al lu was killed whilst covering rescue efforts after an earlier bombing. the israeli defense forces alleges the 39 year old was a terrorist who had previously served with the islamic jihad. however, they did not provide any proof of these allegations. the idf also claims the site was being used as a command center by hamas and islamic jihad terrorists. israeli authorities say an unprecedented number of israelis have been spying for iran. dozens have been arrested over the past year, accused of carrying out missions like photographing military bases and even plotting government assassinations. our jeremy diamond reports now on the fallout following the arrest of one alleged cell leader 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. >> but 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's 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 guschin, 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, no, 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. jeremy diamond, cnn, tel aviv. >> from a coalition collapsed to a parliament on the brink of dissolution. ahead, we'll look at why a german chancellor, olaf scholz, faces a confidence vote today. and what could follow that

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than a financial mechanism. >> all three parties contributed to why this coalition fell apart by provoking one another by publicly fighting leonie von randow is a political reporter at welt. >> she's covered the coalition since it was formed. she says the euphoria of this government ended abruptly, triggered largely by the war in ukraine. >> the government had to take on a huge debt to kind of put more money into defense and into the army and also the economy started to really stumble because we were so largely dependent on russian gas and oil. so that's kind of where it all went downhill by throwing out the liberal party in its traffic light coalition, a reference to party colors, olaf schulz was forced to call a vote of confidence in himself. >> his suggested timeline was a vote in january and elections in march. the opposition saw their moment to pounce. this is not behavior that does justice to this office, and above all,

it is not behavior that does justice to the situation of the country. parties forced him into a reversal. the confidence vote on december 16th and federal elections on february 23rd. the polls put the conservative cdu, the party of former chancellor angela merkel, way ahead of schulz's party. the spd, and a surging far right afd coming in second place. >> the election is probably coming at a very good time for the afd. this is just a moment when many people are generally very unhappy with the government, so they kind of want to make a point and vote for an extreme party to kind of show how unhappy they are. >> a crucial vote then beckons for germany, as this coalition has been unable to right itself. sebastian shukla, cnn berlin a stunning result from one of football's fiercest rivalries. >> when we come back, the highlights from sunday's nail biter manchester derby on cnn

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has not been an easy season for them either. but city weren't just heartbroken, they were utterly shell shocked i don't have defense, so i'm the boss. >> i'm the manager. i have to find a solution and i don't find the solution. so this is a big clap and big clap when you lose 8 to 10. something wrong has happened. so i said, yeah, i can say the schedule is tough. yeah, uh, the injured players. yeah. but no. so yeah, we give away again and what they have to do keep working. but i'm the boss. i'm the manager and i'm not good enough. it's as simple as that. i have to find a way to talk to them, to the train, to them, to the way you have to play, the way you have to press, the way you have to build up and i'm not good enough. >> he is one of the greatest football managers of all time. i never thought i would hear pep guardiola say i'm not good enough. you know, this club used to be one of the most feared teams in all of europe,

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