thanks for joining us here in the cnn newsroom. i m don lemon. we begin this hour with new information about a deadly crash at a nevada air show. crowds have been going to reno, nevada for decades to watch incredible acts of courage in the skies. the national championship air races draw up to 200,000 people every single year. planes have crashed and pilots have died in the past. but until now, no spectators have been killed. here s what happened. one witness called the sound of the impact unbelievable, and you can certainly see why. veteran pilot and hollywood stuntman jimmy leeward was killed. eight people in the crowd also died. photographs taken right before the crash show a piece of the plane appears to be missing. a piece that would have had a major impact on the pilot s ability to maintain control. cnn s dan simon is in reno, nevada tonight and he has more on the pilot and the investigation into the crash. reporter: he was an aviation all-star, at least here in reno
thank you for coming back. i can only imagine it s been a hideous few weeks for you. how are you and the family holding up since amy died? very difficult, piers, very, very difficult indeed. we have each other, a wonderful family. and extremely wonderful friends. and we kept each other strong and, of course, we ve got the foundation that we re working on. so we re doing okay. under the circumstances, we re doing okay. obviously you knew that amy was incredibly popular. have you been taken aback by the sheer scale of the reaction to her death? i have. i didn t realize how popular i knew she sold 20 million albums but the sheer depth of feeling that people have had for her has been extraordinary. the love and the messages she s getting and how she changed people s lives, it s just wonderful. are your feelings ones of anger, frustration, sadness. how would you describe how you ve been feeling since you heard the news? all of those, all of those. very angry. i would s
collect. from the cnn center in atlanta, georgia, this is your cnn sunday morning. thank you for being with us. as always, we like to say good morning to all of our forces watching us on the american forces network. thank you for all you do. let s start with a picture from the air race crash in nevada. could give investigators information about exactly what happened. see this? this is something, it appears, breaking off the tail of that plane that crashed. this was just after the plane veered out of control and crashed into the crowd. federal investigators are checking this out. a component has been recovered in the area where that was observed, but i think it s critical that we have not identified the component. it s been examined. so we don t know what the component is or even if it came from this particular aircraft. we are clearly going to focus on that, and that s part of the informational gathering that s going on right now. nine people died in that crash. seven
cannot forget that in the midst of this executive order, there was a big drug company that made millions of dollars because of this mandate. we can t deny that. what are you suggesting? what i m saying is that it s wrong for a drug company, because the governor s former chief of staff was the chief lobbyist for this drug company. the drug company gave thousands of dollars in political donations to the governor. and this is just flat-out wrong. the question is is it about life or was it about millions of dollars and potentially, billions for a drug company? i will let senator santorum respond to that hold off on that for a moment. you have got to respond to that yes, sir. the company was merck. and it was a $5,000 contribution that i had received from them. i raise about $30 million. if you re saying that i can be bought for $5,000, i m offended. mr. perry says he cannot be bought but keeping them honest, he doesn t answer whether he can be influenced by this man.
the end of her presidential campaign. she took rick perry to task requiring girls to get the hpv vaccine. then she did this. i ll tell you this, i had a mother last night come up to me here in tampa, florida, after the debate. she told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter. it can have very dangerous side effects. the mother was crying when she came up to me last night. i didn t know who she was before the debate. this is the very real concern. and people have to draw their own conclusions. that was bachmann on the today show recounting what some stranger actually said to her. now, we have no reason to doubt someone says this to mrs. bachmann, but it s incredibly irresponsible for her to repeat this as part of her argument against the hpv vaccine and then throw up her hands and say, make of it what you will. keeping them honest, the cdc says there s no evidence that the hpv vaccine has any link