This is real life. This is stranger than fiction. Im going to hand it off to my friend chris jansing. Wow its a deluge of news. I am chris jansing. We have more on that bombshell news in the Mueller Investigation. Right now in manhattan federal court, President Trumps former personal attorney and self proclaimed fixer, Michael Cohen, entering a new plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller. He is Pleading Guilty to lying to congress in closed door testimony about his contacts with the russians during the president ial campaign. Remember, this is a man who was once who once said he would take a bullet for donald trump. And now hes given more than 70 hours of testimony to the mueller team. It would be tough to overstate the significance of cohens cooperation because for more
than a decade, there was, perhaps, no man closer to donald trump and his businesses outside the family. This Breaking News after another dizzying day of developments in the Robert Mueller investigation and as Pre
show? reporter: well, jake, the fact that we re seeing them is extraordinary because these are declassified. just a short time ago high resolution imagery, the pentagon doesn t like to show how much they can really accomplish can imagery and how much they could see but because there is so much public doubt about this and so much public concern, they have really made an effort here to show these images, to show the world as much as they know at this point. newly declassified images of what the pentagon said was an iranian attack on two oil tankers last week. one extraordinarily clear image taken by a u.s. navy helicopt helicopter overhead shows a boat moments after those on board removed an unexploded mine from one tanker according to the pentagon. more images of the leftover mine and a hole in the hull from additional blasts. the pentagon acknowledged two things.
about emergency preparedness, how to be ready for things when they happen. how not to be caught off guard, how to teach people how to react. this will all become part of the enormous book that is what to do when crazy things happen. all of a sudden in the early part of the afternoon, a helicopter crashes into your building, that qualifies as a crazy thing that has happened. what we don t know is the back story. we ll hear from the police in just a moment. the police are gathered around, the fire commissioner, the major, the governor is there as well. they ll all speak in just a moment. one of the things we ll later later is if this pilot did a major service. this pilot, is he processing this, realizing i cannot keep this ship in the sky. i have to put this ship down because it s coming down. here we are, here s the top of a building. do i try to hit the top of this
in. we re not saying the cause of this chopper crash was weather. we re just giving you the facts as we know them surrounding the time that this happened. ten minutes till 1:00 or ten minutes till 2:00, you could see 1 1/4 miles. 17 minutes later, at 7 minutes after 2:00, visibility was down to half mile. was weather a factor? we don t know. was weather a mess? it absolutely was. trace gallagher with us with more details now. trace? yeah, we have the helicopter. it s an augusta a-109 e. this is a very high end helicopter. this thing is really the fastest in its class. it can carry up to seven passengers. we think it was just the pilot. we re talking about a helicopter that is a twin engine, very high end. these things run in the millions of dollars. so the person that was flying
i want to say thank god for that. this could have been a much worse incident. thank god no other people were injured in this absolutely shocking, stunning incident. i want to say the first responders performed an extraordinary effort here. want to thank the fire department, police department, everyone. buildings department. all the agencies that responded here. oem, everybody. this was very challenging situation. you ll hear from the fire of the roof that had to be dealt with immediately. fdny did an exceptional job. with that, i want to turn to the fire commissioner. at 1:43 this afternoon, we received a call through 911 that this helicopter had crashed on the roof of this building our local units responded in a