And at 70, hes not slowing down. Meet the pilot with a fistful of speed records and a handful of hand built planes. All this and more on cbs this morning saturday, may 10th, 2014. Captioning funded by cbs and welcome to the weekend. We also have a great lineup of guests for you this morning including chef zack polaccio from the food network. Hes become a leader chef. Plus a very talented mom. Shes here with a mothers day performance and her grammywinning son. Thats ahead. First, the top story this morning. A fiery crash of a hot air balloon in virginia. Witnesses say they took photos and saw flames and heard screaming screaming. Police say the balloons gondola caught fire after it hit a power line. Police worked overnight to try to find the wreckage. Good morning. Reporter good morning. At daybreak the search zone expanded for the crash site as well as the pilot and the two women aboard. The area here is h out the day, making memories with their family and then not coming home. Reporte
The veterans anniversary scandal standing his ground as the leader of the Veterans Affairs gets ready for a grilling. You cant do anything. A mother struggling to support her family on a minimum wage family is part of a fast food workers strike today. Anger gripping turkey after a coal mine fire kills hundreds. Violent clashes rereputing in several cities, the death toll from that disaster now rise to go at least 282. Police used tear gas and Water Cannons to disperse thousands of protestors angry over the government privatizing mines and ignoring safety warnings. The first if you know release underway, mourners attending the services in the western part that have country. The relatives of at least 100 miners still trapped underground are wait forego news about their loved ones. We have the latest from turkey. Its become quite a solemn scene here in the mine. We were down, behind me, you can see the entrance to the mine, we were down there speaking to people, some feeling very distraug
Matters. The sudden firing of the first woman to run the New York Times. We are family my interview with nile reasonabliers, what he did rogers, what he did in the wake of 9 11 that is changing the world. We begin with a war against wild fires. More than 2,000 firefighters battling the flames. These images give you a sense of how dangerous the situation is. Within two days some 10,000 acres of burns, homes, schools and neighbourhoods threaten. Tonight Police Confirm the fire claimed its first victim. Lets go to brian rooney, live in san marcos with more. Brian. Reporter its sup down here, i sundown here. I can see for miles. I see no active fires at the moment, which is fairly typical. The winds come down, temperatures down, but its been very busy. Reporter fires popped up faster than firefighters can knock them down. Swirling black smoke car i the embers straight up. Wind and heat create tornados of fire. Firefighters had to tackle nine different fires over the past three days. Thousa
Obama white house. President ial address by the first lady to talk about the plight of the kidnapped Nigerian School girls as the world tries to find them today, saturday, m may 10th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a saturday. Im lester holt. And im erica hill, alongside jenna wolfe and dylan dreyer. We do want to get to todays top stories for you. That is the search this morning for the three people inside a hot air balloon that crashed in rural virginia. Witnesses and Police Describe frantic moments when that balloon caught fire. Luke russert is on the scene for us this morning. Luke, good morning. Reporter good morning, erica. Virginia state Police Say Three people are still unaccounted for after a tragic accident last night. A hot air balloon went up as part of the beginning of the threeday festival here. Around 8 00 pm, the basket became separate
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