wrote a story of what is going on behind the scenes at the white house. and this one is fascinating. top of the hour. see you then. harris: investigators in missouri are trying to figure out what led to that deadly crash of a military refueling plane. debris, wreckage, spread across three miles. now authorities are saying it could be days before it is all recovered. the marine kc-130 was based out of new york and crashed, killing all 16 service members on board. attorney general jeff sessions met with authorities in las vegas to talk about sanctuary cities. the justice department is threatening, as you know, to pull federal funding from cities that don t cooperate on enforcing federal immigration laws. hence, they are a sanctuary for people to want to go there and stay there illegally. this is a senate judiciary subcommittee discussing another immigration issue, people overstaying their visas. william la jeuness joins us tphp is two prong. they re here illegally and some
june in north carolina. heartbreaking calls from the mississippi delta are still going out to their families tonight. investigators aren t sure what brought the plane the down, but the large debris fields suggests the plane was high in the sky when something went wrong. the plane was moving people and equipment from north carolina to california. the kc-130 refueling aircraft has been a military workhorse for decades. [ playing taps ] near the dusty fields where the police continue to work, a salute to those who were lost. let s get to steve osunsami with this. he is near to crash site tonight. you mention this is a large area they are searching. how difficult has this been for investigators? reporter: well, investigators are going to be working through the night trying to of course, figure out why this plane spiraled out of the sky according to witnesses. we watched them drive down long, dusty roads and get out and search the soybean field by hand looking for some piece of evid
you for being with us this morning. sure thing. riled up on a few accounts. absolutely. very sad news. this is a military plane that has crashed in mississippi. everyone on board was killed. that is 16 people. this morning, they still don t know the cause. pentagon correspondent barbara starr joins us with the latest. good morning. the president tweeting his condolences along with the first lady a short time ago. the marines saying that they do not know what happened here. it was a marine corps kc-130. that s an aircraft that normally conducts refueling operations but also can carry cargo, carry troops, crashing yesterday afternoon. you see the aftermath here in mississippi. it came out of cherry point, north carolina. no indication even so far that the pilot was able to make any kind of radio call that the plane was in distress. that s all part of the
comey s memos contained top-secret information. fox and friends later issued a correction say, comey s memos did not have top-secret info. the report says, half were classified as secret or confident level, not top secret. ten minutes past the hour. breaking news. 16 people killed when a marine corps plane crashed in mississippi. the fbi at the scene investigating. we are told it is a huge debris field. we are told no one survived this crash. at that hour, it is not clear what went wrong. it s a kc-130. went down in rural laflor county, mississippi. it is one of the military s most widely used craft. a local fire chief says the debris from the crash is five miles in radius and 4,000 gallons of foam were needed to put out that fire.
harris: the fbi has joined the investigation into the crash of a military transport plane that killed 15 marines and one navy claimant. the kc- 130 yesterday afternoon. it left a milewide debris field in mississippi, jennifer griffin has more from the pentagon, and jennifer, this crash, everyone can see it paired with tamino? this was all reserved archive make its way across the country. marine special operators. the plane took off from north carolina and was heading to california when it mysteriously fell from the sky and burst into a ball of flame in the mississippi delta. we learned the kc 1-gimmick to