Iran War Death Toll Rises
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown
CNN
3.2 • 865 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Happening now, breaking news. Americans killed. |
| 0:05.0 | The U.S. military is confirming that four U.S. service members died after an Air Force refueling plane crashed in Iraq. |
| 0:12.0 | Eleven American troops have now been killed in this war. |
| 0:16.0 | Terror attacks. A man drove into a Michigan synagogue in a targeted attack against the Jewish community. |
| 0:22.6 | Authorities are now investigating reports that the man told people he had multiple family members who were killed in an Israeli air strike in Lebanon in recent days. |
| 0:31.6 | And in Virginia, a deadly shooting at Old Dominion University. |
| 0:35.6 | A convicted ISIS supporter opened fire inside a classroom of ROTC students killing one person and injuring two others. |
| 0:45.3 | Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. |
| 0:48.3 | I'm Wolf Blitzer. Pamela Brown is off today. You're in the situation room. |
| 0:57.0 | This is CNN breaking news. |
| 1:03.0 | We start with the breaking news. At least four U.S. troops have been killed after a U.S. |
| 1:08.0 | Air Force refueling plane crashed yesterday in western Iraq. U.S. Central Command confirms a second military aircraft |
| 1:14.6 | was also involved saying the crash was, quote, |
| 1:17.6 | not due to hostile fire or friendly fire. |
| 1:20.6 | Photos taken of the plane after it landed in Israel |
| 1:23.6 | shows significant damage, including part of its tail fin, missing entirely. |
| 1:29.9 | Here with us now, CNN National Security correspondent, Natasha Bertrand, who's working |
| 1:33.7 | in the story for us, Natasha, Secretary Pete Hexeth, the Secretary of Defense. |
| 1:37.6 | He spoke this morning. |
| 1:38.6 | What did he say about this, and what more are we learning about this crash? |
| 1:42.2 | Well, the Secretary and General Kane, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, they didn't |
| 1:45.5 | give a lot of new detail about the crash or what caused it other than to confirm, as |
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