Newsom says no imminent threat to CA of possible Iran drone attack; White House rejects reports

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom said determination was nary imminent menace to the state, contempt a informing from the FBI that Iran could nonstop drones to the West Coast successful retaliation for war.

Newsom said drone issues "have ever been apical of mind."

"We've been alert of that information. ... It's each astir a posture of preparedness for worst-case scenarios," the politician said Wednesday.

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The FBI precocious warned constabulary departments astir Iran and a imaginable California strike, though the alert besides said it was "unverified information."

"Iran allegedly aspired to behaviour a astonishment onslaught utilizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) from an unidentified vas disconnected the seashore of the United States homeland, specifically against unspecified targets successful California, successful the lawsuit the U.S. conducted strikes against Iran," the alert said.

"We person nary further accusation connected the timing, method, target, oregon perpetrators of this alleged attack," the alert said.

The alert was posted connected X by an FBI spokesperson aft a study by ABC News. Separately, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said connected X that the connection to instrumentality enforcement was a extremity based connected "unverified intelligence."

"No specified menace from Iran to our homeland exists, and it ne'er did," Leavitt said Thursday.

President Donald Trump was asked astir it Wednesday astatine Joint Base Andrews.

"It's being investigated, but you person a batch of things happening. All we tin bash is instrumentality 'em arsenic they come," Trump said.

Police successful Los Angeles and San Francisco said they were monitoring satellite events for immoderate risks to their cities. Both said they're moving intimately with authorities and national authorities.