Good monday morning. Im phillip mena and im richard lui in for Frances Rivera investigators are in texas searching for answers after a small plane went up in flames at an Airport North of dallas the fiery crash killed ten people, two crew members along with eight passengers. Just hours ago ntsb officials shared an initial assessment of that crash nbcs Dan Scheneman has that update for us. Reporter sunday morning shortly after take off, investigators say the beach craft twin engine plane slammed into an unoccupied hangar at the Addison Airport just north of dallas in just moments, the aircraft was consumed by flames and the faa says destroyed a spokesman for the town odison board the plane. No one survived. We know two flight crew members and that there were eight passengers. We dont have a lot of detail beyond that at this point. Reporter the hangar was left with a massive hole in its roof and outer wall nbc news has learned the plane was based in addison and traveling to st. Petersbur
Its high noon in the east, 9 00 a. M. Out west, welcome to weekends with alex witt. First came fire and fury in mexico, now its siege, trump under fire. New revelations in a new book about the president s second year in office. Reversing course, the fallout, joe bidens backtrack on a critical abortion amendment. Is he caving to political pressure . New this hour President Trump defending a tariff deal between the u. S. And mexico late yesterday that averted an economic standoff between the two allies. The president touting the agreement can be very successful. Hes also repeating his attack on House Speaker nancy pelosi while calling on democrats to gratify their revised nafta. As part of the agreement to avoid the tariffs slated to start this and mod, mexico agreed to deploy guards to the southern border and expand the Trump Administration program allowing trump to return immigrants to mexico while they wait for their asylum claims to be decided. In a new Statement Today Speaker Pelosi
Surrounding the death of Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy financier accused of sex trafficking and abuse of dozens of underage girls. The New York Times is reporting today that epstein was taken off suicide watch on july 29th. Thats six days after a suspected attempt. Officials have not explained yet why this happened. President trump yesterday using his twitter account to retweet a Conspiracy Theory to his almost 63 million followers casting doubt on the circumstances in which Officials Say epstein died. Nbcs Stephanie Gosk has the latest and the reaction of epsteins accusers. Stephanie, good morning. Good morning, kendis and jo. Jeffrey epstein was an alleged sex trafficker and abuser of children. Hes also the richest and influential people in the world. Today he is dead. The question is how could that possibly have happened in federal custody . Jeffrey epstein was found unresponsive in his manhattan jail cell. He was rushed to the hospital but it was too late according to the federal bu