Four people are dead and dozens hurt after a bus crashed on i70 for today in rocking him. Good evening thank you for joining us. That bus was carrying a football team. Cbs North Carolina janavel is live on the scene. This happened hours ago. I understand the road is still closed in crews are still there . Reporter thats right bus was actually still here behind me a few minutes ago. If you can see, it was just picked up by the tow truck a few minutes ago and move. Crews are picking up some of the shrapnel from the bus and putting it inside. If you look at the front, it is that is where Law Enforcement say it crashed into the median. We have not here all day with Law Enforcement in they tell us this is one of the worst accidents theyve seen. This is probably one of the most tragic accidents because i put in this context. You have young people. Reporter a bus carrying 46 students in Football Players from Ramah Jucco Academy crashed. They were on their way to play university of gods chosen
Then, data shows it climbed and descended quickly several times. Contact was lost. No distress call. An isislinkedroup claimed responsibility. Intelligence officials s they dont have theissiles to shoot down a plane that high. And the exwifef the pilot told russianv hat he regularly complained about the status of the aircraft. Back in st. Petersburg this morning, anguished families, like these parents of a 29yearold who ed, now going to t the morgue to try to identify loved ones. Russia says the Recovery Efforts at the crash site will end today. The bla boxes have been recovered. Theyre in good shape. Were told they been sent to cair for analysis. The best hope for sheddining light to how this tragedy unfolded. Thank you, alex. You heard inalexsreport, external forces. What do you think snrgts at this point, we cant rule anything out. For ar airplane to come apart many midair for no good reason is why this is such a mystery. There are a couple of things we can look at. Perhaps a bomb.
With scott pelley. Pelley well start tonight with breaking news. We have learn that a u. S. Spy satellited detected a flash of heat over egypts Sinai Peninsula at the moment on saturday that a russian jetliner vanished from radar. David martin at the pentagon reports the infrared satellite recorded the flash, but it is not known whether the flash was caused by Something Like a failure in a fuel tank or perhaps a bomb. The metrojet wreckage is spread over miles, indicating that it came apart at high altitude. All aboard, more than 200 people, were killed. They were mostly vacationing russian families en route from a seaside resort in egypt to st. Petersburg. Today u. S. Intelligence director James Clapper said its unlikely that terrorism brought down the airbus a321. Investigators hope the flight recorders will tell them what did. Allen pizzey is in egypt. Teams have finished combing a eightsquaremile area of the sinai december ertd where the widen the search. Most of the bodies have be
The players still had the goggles for the champagne. A great party. Congratulations to the royals. Comeback kings. Beating the mets in game five to win their first world series since 1985. It was a rough weekend for new york sports fans. Yes, it was. The mets losing. And who dat, the saints, with the wild game. The royals would not be denied. Setting a brand new record for comebacks. They were trailing going into the ninth. Proving that last year was no fluke. We begin with the mysterious plane crash. The wreckage in egypts sinai desert. All 224 people onboard were killed. Investigators on the scene. Theyll ruling out plane failure. Pilot error. Theyre not ruling out terrorism. Alex marquardt is there. Reporter the executives of the airline, metrojet, gave a press conference a short time shape. Saying the causes could only be due to external forces. Early this morning, a plane landing in russias st. Petersburg. Carrying many of the bodies of the 224 who died in the crash. Investigators
Airbus a321. Investigators hope the flight recorders will tell them what did. Allen pizzey is in egypt. Reporter Sunny Isles Beach teams have finished combing a eightsquaremile area of the sinai december ertd where the airbus went down and will now widen the search. Most of the bodies have been found along with the planes two flight dataecorders. Decodingnghem toiscover what caused the plane to suddenly breck apart in midair is expected to begin tomorrow, after the arrival of experts from ireland where the a321 was registered and had its last safety check. The airbus and other experts examined the twisted metal of the fuselage today. A neat arrange. Of luggage in the deser rather than a airport carousel was a reminder how much those clues matter. Isis based in the sinai claimed it brought down the plane, and while there is no evidence of direct terrorist involvement, the possibility the sinai militants are responsible cant be dismissed according to the u. S. Director of National Intell