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fakhrizadeh was on a similar level to ka sqassem soleimani w was commander of the quds force.o respond, right as a new, u.s. administration is coming in. this will certainly complicate things for the future-president biden. biden wants to get the u.s. back into the nuclear deal. israel, meanwhile, which has had a major booster, in president trump, and will have cooler relations with president biden, knows that time is running out. so, this could complicate the israeli relationship with biden as well. iran is vowing revenge for these killings. there is lots of u.s. targets in the region. former cia director, john brennan, he tweeted this was a criminal act and highly reckless. urging iranian leaders to wait for biden to become president. so, that's something they may very well do. we'll have to see. alex marquardt, cnn, washington. >> now, as we just heard there from alex, the killing of iran's top nuclear scientist comes at a critic critical time for the u.s. there are only 53 days left in the trump administration and in january, president-elect joe biden will be sworn in. and

air strike killed iranian quds force commander, soleimani in baghdad. relations between the u.s. and iran and at least getting back into the nuclear agreement are hoping what the trump administration did to finally finish the iran nuclear deal while those in the deal are trying to hold it together, connell. connell: a big issue to watch after january 20th. more so, thank you, rich edson live at the state department. >>> today marks the end of the atlantic hurricane season. what a season, the most active on record as there were 30 named storms. six reached major hurricane status second time in history. the national hurricane center used every name on the preset list, prompting the use of the greek alphabet to name the storms. meteorologists are warning additional storms could develop. forecasters are watching a possible 31st storm right now in the northeast atlantic derriere discomfort. we try to soothe it with this. cool it with this. and relieve it with this. but new preparation h soothing relief is the 21st century way to do all three. everyday. prepa

least as big as what the american assassination of qassem suleiman gnu, the head of the iranian quds forcealign activities throughout the middle east. blake: yeah. if this is as big as you say, i guess the next question might me is there anyone who's a natural replacement who would be able to carry out the duties inside iran as it relates to nuclear? >> there may be. there's -- as was the case with soleimani and the revolutionary guard, this is no obvious success. that's how central he has been to this nuclear weapons program for the iranians. they've got a cadre of nuclear scientists, maybe eventually somebody else will step up to full husband shoes. but this leaves a wide, gaping hole in the iranian covert nuclear weapons program. it's going to talk them a while -- take them to a while to replace him. blake: fingerers are already being pointed. iran, i don't think -- i would think this was sort of out of the playbook for iran, they're pointing the finger ats israel. there haven't been any comments made by western governments. iran clearly pointing the finger at israel at this point, but

peacekeepers will patrol the line of contact between opposing forces and roads linking the region to armenia, history professor peter quds, nick believes that if not for the deal, armenia would have lost a lot more. it's still a very tense situation where everybody is hoping that this ceasefire will hold and that russian peacekeeping troops will be able to do so they've brokered 3 previous cease fires, none of which help part of what this is to ation was that once the azeris then they had a possible way to attack the capital in a corner, and that would have been a much more devastating defeat for the armenians and what they came up with here. so it's not a setback to the armenians, but it's not nearly as devastating as, a total defeat would have been in the u.s., the knives are out for donald trump. supporters media personalities have called for them to be named shamed and sacked by some even calling for the destruction of the republican party. if asked to lose, for all his enablers, have to live. they have to, we have to collectively, in essence, burn down the republican party. we have to level them because if there are

forces on roads linking the region to or media. but i spoke to author and history professor peter quds nic a little earlier. he believes that if not for the deal, our media would have lost a lot more. it's still a very tense situation. everybody is hoping that this ceasefire will hold and that russian peacekeeping troops will be able to do so. they've brokered 3, previous cease fires, none of which helped part of what the situation was that once the azeris, then they had a possible way to attack the capital in a corner. and that would have been a much more devastating defeat for the armenians and what they came up with here. so it's not a setback to the armenians, but it's not nearly as devastating as a total defeat would have been another headline stories. russia is preparing to distribute its coronavirus job nationwide in just a few weeks' time outs. after some highly promising results from phase 3 trials of sputnik 3, my colleagues are discuss the latest announcement from the vaccine developers. the publication of the interim results of the street to street clinical trials to convincingly demonstrate spu