Word out. And spiderman is bigger than ever, thanks to the biggest movie format of all, imax. The companys ceo will take us inside the expanding imax empire. All that and much more on cbs this morning saturday, april 12th, 2014. Captioning funded by cbs and welcome to the weekend. We also have a great lineup of guests for you this morning including chef asha gomez will be prepareing dishes from where she grew up. But we begin this half hour with our top story, the terrible highway crash in california. Ten people, half of them High School Students were killed and Dozens Injured what ena fedex big rig crossed the median and smashed into a tour bus. It happened about 100 miles north of sacramento. Teri okita is at the hospital in chico, california, east of the crash site. Good morning, terri. Reporter good morning. Two victims from this tragedy are still being treated here at enlowee men cad center. The good news is theyre being upgraded. Its upending theories of what caused this tragedy.
Airasia flight 8501. It was en route from the city there on the bottom part of your screen surabaya to singapore when it lost contact with air Traffic Control early undsunday morning. It was a short flight just under two hours long. The pilot at some point well into the flight i believe asked to change routes because of the weather. And soon afterwards contact with that airport airplane was lost. This is a picture of the plane were talking about. Its an airbus a320. We do know how many people were on that flight now. 162 on the flight manifest. Thats 155 passengers and seven cry. Most on board were indonesians with three south koreans, one singaporean, one from malaysia and one french person on board. We have also learned of the passengers 17 were children and that includes one baby. The ceo of airasia tweeted this short statement thank you for all your thoughts and prayers. We must stay strong. We havent heard from them in a while. If we get any updates from the Airline Company itself
Isis is under attack in its last major iraqi stronghold. The Iraqi Government says it has made progress in its offensive to retake person mosul. They release third down video showing air strikes on isis facilities. The targets included factories used for booby trapping vehicles. On day one of the offense i they killed 71 isis fighters. They destroyed weapons facilities and regained control of ten villages but they warned civilians could be caught in the cross fires in the months to come. The United Nations says as many as 800,000 people still live in mosul. O ben wedeman live in us stan ball. Looking back the fight for northern mosul took longer than expected. Youve been on the ground. How might the fight for western mosul be different for these iraqi forces . Reporter for one thing the geography is different. In western mosul you have this old city. You have this market. The alleyways, the passages are much narrower than in the east. And, therefore, for instance, its harder for tanks