Nuclear Monitoring Stations in Russia Go Quiet after Blast
BALDWIN: To an update now on that mystery in Russia that had many U.S. officials worried about radiation levels. Today, 4 Russia based nuclear monitoring stations have gone quiet. Just 11 days after a deadly explosion at a missile testing facility at least five scientists were killed. CNN's Barbara Starr has this reporting. And so Barbara, what are officials saying about the four monitoring stations?</s>BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Well, what we know at this hour, Brooke, this is a group of stations that run under an international organization based in Vienna. And that organization is telling CNN that four of the five nuclear monitoring stations inside Russia went silent in the days after that August 8th mystery explosion in northern Russia of the so-called sky fall missile. This is what the U.S. believes is a Russian attempt to build a nuclear-powered cruise missile codenamed sky fall. Something exploded in northern Russia and in the days after that four of these five stations that would detect radiation in the atmosphere have gone completely silent. The Russians say there's no problem. The organization is telling us they are talking to Russian authorities trying to get an answer from them about what happened and to get these stations back online. But earlier today in France, Vladimir Putin said there is no nuclear radiation. There is no problem. Nobody needs to worry. But as you pointed out, five Russian workers died in this explosion. Whatever it was -- Brooke.</s>BALDWIN: Barbara, thank you very much. Coming up next here on CNN, Democratic Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib break their silence after being banned from Israel at the President's urging. Stand by for their news conference coming up.