and neighbor wars. when the kids on the block toss a football into this man s yard, he allegedly comes out firing a gun into the air. is this taking get off my lawn to a whole new level? hey, good morning, everybody. and happy easter. bianna is off enjoying the eighth day of being a new mom. we met her baby boy are you counting? i m counting. i m good at math. not really. we met her baby boy on the air yesterday. and we re happy to have the effervescent paula faris back at the helm this morning. i m going to throw a new adjective at you every day. just to keep us all on the edge of our seat. that s right. today s newscast is brought to you by cadbury egg. happy easter, everybody. we re going with the pastel look. we are, we are, happy easter on this holiest of weeks for those in the christian faith. the pope is leading the joyous celebration. benedict xvi just finished celebrating easter sunday mass at the vatican, and he offered a blessing as well and a m
captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning, everyone. welcome to today on this sunday, easter morning. i m lester holt. and i m jenna wolfe. let me see if i understand this. the pope gets 100,000 people to see him and tim tebow not far behind with 20,000 people expected to show up. not quite as many as in a typical sunday game not at all. but still a big draw. yeah, we re going to start with some relieving news today for the folks in tulsa, oklahoma. early this morning, police acting on a tip actually arrested two people in connection with a series of random shootings that left three people dead and two others wounded. they are expected to be charged with murder, and we re going to have the latest on that, coming up. then, new images and eyewitness accounts from that spectacular navy fighter jet crash in virginia beach. people there are calling it a holiday miracle that no one was killed when the f/a-18 slammed into an apartment complex. toda
crews to vouch for everyone on the ground. crews had to go door to door. yes. okay. police. anyone in here, get out! let s bring in cnn sandra endo in virginia beach. you just came from that news briefing, the officials said they were pleased that they were able to work so cohesively together, and in the end, no one was killed. remarkable, from that crash. reporter: yes. absolutely, fredricka. the mayor of virginia beach and also the governor of virginia releasing a statement calling this an easter miracle. you mentioned, there were no fatalities and everyone has been accounted for, despite the fiery jet crash, into five apartment buildings here, off the coast of virginia. just two miles from the air strip where that jet took off. now, we have brand new video taken six minutes after the crash, as you mentioned. some of that video showing first responders going door to door, checking for residents. also that video is showing the flames shooting of you out of the buil
navy fighter jet in virginia. the good news today is that every single person is accounted for. moments ago the navy called this a miracle. when you look at the damage done after the f-18 hornist slammed into an apartment complex in virginia beach and burst into flames, you can see why the word miracle is being used. so much damage. it took until today for rescue crews to vouch for everyone on the ground. crews had to go door to door. yes. okay. police. anyone in here, get out! let s bring in cnn sandra endo in virginia beach. you just came from that news briefing, the officials said they were pleased that they were able to work so cohesively together, and in the end, no one was killed. remarkable, from that crash. reporter: yes. absolutely, fredricka. the mayor of virginia beach and also the governor of virginia releasing a statement calling this an easter miracle. you mentioned, there were no fatalities and everyone has been accounted for, despite the fiery jet cr
oklahoma. the shaken community in tulsa is realing from th reeling from this event, which left three people dead and two others wounded. all victims were black. the shootings took place in a single day on tulsa s predominantly black north side. both suspects arrested this morning are white. charged with three counts of murder and two counts of shooting with intent to kill. mr. dewey bartlett, tulsa s mayor joins us. good morning. i know this is undoubtedly a tough time in your community. can you tell us this is obviously a pretty quick arrest. what happened that led to such a fast arrest? we had several press conferences yesterday, the media was a huge help. we wanted to elicit the assistance of the community, we knew there were some people in the community that would probably have an idea of somebody that might be involved with something like this, or would have seen something.