Moment but first of all, let me tell you where i am. This is the very landing area in order to get to Ketron Island where the 29yearold crashed that plane. Now, to give you an idea of how sparsely populated that is, the last census said theres only 17 residents living there. We now know theres dozens of investigators at that site. They would have left from here in order to get there. It is about a 10 minute ferry ride. The first as well as the data recorder. Ultimately, what evidence they could yield . We dont know. Of course, we do have a lot of conversation between air Traffic Control and the horizon employee. As for the pilot himself, obviously, he went through extensive needs means to get that. He had to taxi it and take off. Here, theres a lot of questions how this person who seemingly had no fliying experience was able to get that aircraft airborne. He played a lot of video games. Maybe that gave him the wherewithal to do this but still, so many questions as to how he got that ai
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Lets go to Geoff Bennett joining us live from the white house. Geoff, tell us about the president s reaction to omarosa. You saw the president during a photo op at his bedminster estate and asked by members of press pool to respond to the Bombshell Allegations by her new book and you saw his response there was to call her a low life. Although we should make clear that she was one of the president s first hires here at the white house. And she had a highpaying and highprofile job following her allegations that the president then a private citizen, but he could be heard on tape using the nword during the making of The Apprentice and let go from her position at the white house when officials learned that she was close to getting her hands on this tape. She then further alleges that the Trump Campaign offered her a 15,000 a month contract to stay quiet about her experiences with
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emergency because of this anniversary. let s get right to correspondent kaylee hartung in charlottesville. we know there are events planned there. kaylee, how are police planning to keep the peace? reporter: well, ana, so much of the violence that we saw in charlottesville last year right here in these downtown streets, the downtown mall area now secured by a perimeter. metal and concrete barricades stopping any vehicles from crossing the downtown streets. entry points for pedestrians just two of them, just like this one behind me where bags are surged and the implements of riot are taken. we ve been told that a couple of cans of aerosol spray and brass knuckles have been taken but no one denied entry on to the downtown mall. everyone i have spoken with today said their purpose for coming down here is to heal. last summer, charlottesville became a battleground. erupted between white supremacist and protesters. terror in virginia.
washington, d.c. a counter-protest is also scheduled. today president trump tweeted this, the riots in charlottesville a year ago resulted in senseless death and division and we must come together as a nation. i condemn all types of racism and acts of violence. peace to all americans. nbc news cal perry joins us live from charlottesville. good afternoon. reporter: good afternoon to you. you could hear that police helicopter overhead. it has been overhead all day. you could see the outer cordon of the check point behind me, a thousand police officers in a very small part of charlottesville, unprecedented and the state of emergency we ve been talking about all day. here is what it looks like if practice. the check points are how people get into the downtown mall area. you have to cross through one of the two check points. the list of banned items is pretty absurd in not only its length but the items you are not allowed to bring. no hairspray.