From paris to cairo, a heavily trafficked route, when it disappeared from radar early this morning about 170 miles from the egyptian coast. The flight takes j four hours. Search and rescue crews have been deployed in the Mediterranean Sea. Our elaine cobb is at Charles De Gaulle airport. Good morning. What can you tell us . Reporter good morning. The flight took off from here and disappeared [ inaudible ] crossing into egyptian airspace. A distress signal was received by the jet before it disappeared, but its unclear if it was from the pilot or if it was an aat signal. The a320 [ inaudible ] egyptair says there were passengers on board including were going to hopefully get a chance to come back to you. Your signal breaking up just a little bit. Elaine is in paris right now. Well bring in cbs News National Transportation Safety board expert and former chairman of the ntsb, Mark Rosenker from london. We know 56 were on board, ten crew members. The flight had crossed into egyptian airspac
It sounded like an attack. All of the sudden, people were screaming in the streets and they were running. A terrorist attack in nice claims more than 80 lives. From baa still day. A father and a son. All the babies screaming, shouting, all of this. It was horrendous. This is a war against these terrorist gr,oups radical jihadist groups. We need to be smart about how we wage it. Hillary cli antonband oma want to allow more people into our country, what are they doing . Donald trump postponed announcing his choice for running mate because of the attack in france. He selected indiana governor mike pence as his running mate. Imbaltore Police Officers who fatally shot a gashting say he was firing at them with an assault rifle. Nearly 200,000 customers are without power. Power is out now. All that i ask for your help to unite all the races. Working through these issues so that things did continue to get better and its going to take some time, but im confident they will and part of the reason
Will be that someof the most important business of the Republican Convention is unfolding right now. The people who make the rules are hearing from dissidents who want to derail trumps expected first ballot nomination. Obviously we did not stand adjourned for three hours because of a jam here. Reporter a printer problem became code for a last minute effort to prevent a messy nomination fight at the Convention Next week. Rnc officials and donald trump stayed huddled behind doors. Sean spicer is with the rnc. I think we want to make sure we have a sign of unity coming out of this convention. Reporter theyve b to unbind delegates from voting for trump on the first ballot. But tonight they told cbs news theyre confident they dont have the votes to prevail. Whether the stop Trump Movement will still get the 28 votes needed to create a minority report, airing gop infighting for all the cameras to see. The long awaited list of speakers did highlight the gop divide. Glaringly absent are many o
Truck rammed enter a crowd in the city of nice. People had gathered to celebrate bastille day, the start of the french revolution, much like our fourth of july. There is no solid count of the dead or injured. One french official has described this as an attack, but with this chaotic scene still unfolding, the information is not as reliable as we would like. Elaine cobb is joining us now on the phone from paris. Elaine, what can you tell us . Reporter scott, it was exactly two hours ago as people crowded on to the promenade to watch the bastille day fireworks. A local reporter on the scene saw a large transport truck drive directly into the crowd. People scattered in panic. The local mayor tweeted that dozens appeared to have been killed. Local police say several dozen, as well. And local police have called on the public in nice to stay calm and avoid t they say an Emergency Operation is under way. Ambulances and emergency doctors are on the scene. Pelley elaine, the Associated Press sa
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