OA Correspondent Elizabeth Arrott arrived in Crimea Friday and described the scene at the airport where about a dozen people in unbranded military uniforms are keeping watch at Simferopol airport in the southern Crimea region.
A Mississippi man, 87-year-old Walter "Snowball" Williams, was declared deceased on Wednesday night after his hospice nurse as well as a family member reported him dead. The coroner and a Holmes County funeral home was called and responded to the scene to retrieve his remains at 9 pm. But, his death was short-lived.
Tensions are rising between Russia and the west as armed gunmen take control of two airports in the Crimea region of the Ukraine on Friday. Russia is denying that any of their forces were involved in the seizures.
South Korea's defense ministry says North Korea has launched four short-range missiles off its east coast.