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Up next, Mark Mellinger with today's news.

Two American Navy pilots have survived a friendly fire shootdown over the Red Sea.

The U.S. military says the USS Gettysburg mistakenly fired upon and hit the F.A. 18 Sunday

with both pilots aboard the plane. They ejected and are okay, though one has minor injuries.

The U.S. has stepped up its military presence in the area over the past year, conducting

airstrikes to counter attacks on commercial ships

by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in nearby Yemen.

That is Houthi military spokesman Yaya Sari, claiming responsibility for Sunday's shootdown,

saying without evidence that Houthi forces, quote,

foiled a U.S. U.S. U.S. U.K. attack on Yemen.

Sari has made several false claims about striking U.S. military assets in the past.

The Pentagon won't say what the shot-down pilot's mission was

or how their plane could have been mistaken for an enemy

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