washington s mt. rainier. helicopters searching the area detected pings from avalanche beacons buried deeply in the snow, but recovery teams spotted the hikers climbing gear thousands of feet below the group s last known location. searchers believe the slide swept that group some 3,300 feet down the face of that mountain. air and ground teams are unable at the moment to try and resume that search because of the danger of continued falling rocks and ice. the missing group includes two guides from alpine group international, the group that led that expedition. today marks the first day of the atlantic hurricane season, so how many storms can we be in for over the next six month, and how bad are they expected to get? meteorologist janis dean live in the weather center. how is it looking j.d.? below average, we think but take the seasonal forecasts with a grain of salt because it takes one hurricane going back to
here s what s topping the news now. a private plane became a fireball after crashing with seven passengers and crew onboard. all are dead. the gulf stream 4 plane was leaving massachusetts. the philadelphia enquirerer was one of the people onboard. he just bought the paper with a business partner last week with an $88 million bid. the crash happened about 20 miles or so from boston. the ntsb is now investigating that crash. six mountain climbers are believed to be dead after a massive fall from mount ranier in washington state. they saw no sign of the climbers. they also picked up pings from several avalanche beacons. those beacons and the climbing gear and everything else came down over 3,300 feet, down almost a shear cliff.