They were5 a. M. , informed that Traffic Control lost contact with the plane. A Ukraine Interior Ministry spokesman, they feel it was shot down by rebels. The rebels deny that at this point. According to Ukrainian Air Traffic Control, the plane was flying at almost 34,000 feet, and so it would take a fairly sophisticated surfacetoair missile to do that. Members,ngers, 15 crew a total of 295, according to the Ukrainian Government, all of them have been killed. There is an unconfirmed report that 23 of them were americans. Again, no confirmation of that. United states had closed the airspace to u. S. Carriers in april, and why the europeans did not close it, they made a basically offlimits, telling pilots because of the war zone they should avoid the area, so that was a question why the plane was in the area at the time. Russians say they close the airspace because they have to fly into russia out of the ukraine. Ukrainian see the airspace was open today. That is the very latest. We are
bret baier will have a live report from washington on the toughest question that kagan will face. right now, take a look at our newsroom. that is where the breaking news is coming in from across the country and around the world. jon: we are awaiting an update from coast guard admiral thad allen from the gulf oil spill, here is the latest on day 67 of that disaster. bp now says it is catching 700,000 gallons of leaking oil but the government says up to 2 1/2 million gallons are still escaping. meantime, a few hours from now, a public meeting set to begin on claims for oil spill victims. rick leventhal is in grand isle, louisiana with us, he has more on that. this big public claims meeting today, what s expected to happen? well jon, we will be there, it starts a couple of hours from now in larose, louisiana, it will be attended by senator mary landrieu and by ken fein bg, the obama administration person who s been appointed to oversee that $20 billion bp fund. and they re e
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