Trafficked route, when it disappeared from radar early this morning about 170 miles from the egyptian coast. The flight takes just over four hours. Search and rescue crews have been deployed in the Mediterranean Sea. Our elaine cobb is at Charles De Gaulle airport. Good morning. What can you tell us . Reporter good morning. The flight took off from here and disappeared [ inaudible ] crossing into egyptian airspace. A distress signal was received by the jet before it disappeared, but its unclear if it was from the pilot or if it was an automatic signal. The a320 [ inaudible ] egyptair says there were 56 passengers on board including were going to hopefully get a chance to come back to you. Your signal breaking up just a little bit. Elaine is in paris right now. Well bring in cbs News National Transportation Safety board expert and former chairman of the ntsb, Mark Rosenker from london. We know 56 were on board, ten crew members. The flight had crossed into egyptian airspace and had a wa
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Rose good evening. Scott is off tonight. Im charlie rose. And we beginre begin with a mystery. What happened to egypt air flight 804. The air bus a320 crashed into the Mediterranean Sea some time after 8 00 eastern time last night between the greek isle of crete and the egyptian coast. There were 56 passengers and a crew of 10 on board, none of them american. The United States has joand the search for the plane, and the National Transportation safety board is assisting egypt in the investigation. We have extensive coverage, beginning with Mark Phillips in paris. Reporter this was the second egypt air plane to leave paris in the past day that no one wanted to be on. This flight was taking grieving family members to cairo. Their relatives, who had left on last nights flight, never made it. Egypt air flight 804 had been at its normal cruising altitude over greek air space over the eastern mediterranean, when some time after 2 00 a. M. Local
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Extend plans along the northeast line. Good morning, this is nbc 10 news today. Im tracy davidson. Im vai sikahema. Dry for now but clouds move in a little bit later. Wet weather is moving our way. Villanova not taking any chances. Theyre going to move their graduation indoors to the pavilion. Right. Were starting out cloudy and mild. Thats all expected to change. Take a look here, a live look at the city. Pretty. Sun just coming up. Looks beautiful. Good morning, bill. Those clouds are helpingous out to stay warmer this morning at 60 degrees right now in philadelphia. The winds have just died down. Well stay in the 60s to start with. Well warm up ahead of showers and some thunderstorms. We could see the first of the showers by 11 00 this morning. That being said, there is sunshine to be found, too. Clouds on the increase in easton. Those clouds will be taking over as the day progresses. Leading to some late morning and afternoon showers and a chance of some thunderstorms. 66 degrees a
Clouds are already in easton and theres a chance of a sprinkle or a light shower moving through at 7 00 this morning. By 10 00, 64 degrees. And climbing. But mostly cloudy to start with. In fact, most of the area will stay cloudy through the day. Its this afternoon well likely see showers and thunderstorms roll through the area. Afternoon temperatures in the lower 70s. 72 degrees for philadelphia. As of this minute, the rain is to our west and it is dry in our area. But those showers are on the move. Those first showers you can see a few sprinkles heading towards harrisburg. We can see scattered light showers in the Lehigh Valley in the suburbs, later this morning and then the storms for this afternoon. Ill take you through it hour by hour with the futurecast when im back in ten minutes. Its a friday. Lets see how the traffic is looking on this friday morning. Jessica boyington has first alert traffic. Route 202 around route 29. No big problems or delays in our cameras here. You can se