together. live to the white house as soon as the briefing begins moments from now. two of our blackhawk helicopters were involved in a crash during a planned training flight in kentucky that resulted in the death of all nine service members aboard the aircraft. the nine individuals we lost are children of god. they will be mourned and missed by their families, by their communities. sandra: fox news alert, waiting an update from the pentagon as well this hour after nine u.s. service members were tragically killed in the helicopter collision along the kentucky-tennessee border. sandra smith in new york. hi, john. john: john roberts in washington. collision last night around 10:00 local time. sandra: as two blackhawk helicopters, part of a routine training mission, we are told, involving a multi-ship formation with night vision goggles collided around 30 miles from the fort campbell military base where the helicopters took off. john: army officials say there will be a
dizziness, coughing, burning eyes and unconsciousness. the concern was the tank cars with the ethanol could explode. minnesota s governor said it will likely take a few days before the damaged cars can be removed. local command led by the sheriff will make decisions when you can return to your homes. as quickly as possible they will shrink the containment zone based on the best information out there and get you back to home. officials said firefighters from more than 50 departments helped respond to the derailment and went door to door to close to 250 homes at 2:00 in the morning to get essentially the town of 800 people evacuated. as to the cause of this derailment, a team of investigators from the national transportation safety board is expected to get to the scene this afternoon to start their work of figuring that out. john. john: the latest on what s going on in northern minnesota. thank you. sandra: a new report says
dominantly in the beginning a maritime response. so we had joint force maritime component command led by admiral davidson and rear admiral hughes off the coast providing that support. we in the land component provided support to texas for harvey and florida for irma. now that we re going to a dominatedly land-based operation, general robinson made the decision to switch to a land-based operation. i understand. look, the question is only because it s nine days after the hurricane. so we just keep hearing reports and seeing them are our owith o eyes of people december plspera desperate for water and food, supply containers stuck at the port. would it have helped if you, a land-based general were there
jong-un if war to break out between the two countries. cnn s brian todd joins us with more. south korea apparently has been practicing for this? reporter: that s right. practicing, drawing up plans. tonight the south koreans are accelerating those plans. tensions are so high on the korean peninsula tonight that both nations now have plans in place to kill each other s leaders if war breaks out. kim jong-un tonight is dealing with a direct potential threat to his own life, a special south korean military brigade whose mission is to kill him. a south korean defense ministry official tells cnn his country is speeding up plans to create what some call a decapitation unit. the official says the team would be activated only if war breaks out and would target north korea s war-time command led by kim. it s hard for me to imagine a commando raid given the enormous killing power and density of the north korean people s army. likely what we saw in the iraq war against saddam s immediate
have been coordinating on the state level. thank you very, very much. and job well done to help so many people that are in need. this has been a big tragedy for the state. and it s not easy to handle something this magnitude. i know many people have worked around the clock and have put in extremely long hours and dangerous circumstances helpinging our fellow oklahomans and grateful for you. i want to give you a couple of updates on some things. we have a unified command led by the moore fire department. they have done a superb job in working with their local fishes here, certainly with our state and federal officials. they have a plan. they re implementing the plan and have been since yesterday. i have been to their command headquarters. i ve seen them organize their various teams. they have the map of the city