Scramble fighter jets to follow the plane. After passing over cuban airspace it crashed after the jamaican coast. Joining me now is nbc news correspondent mark potter. Mark, whats the latest this morning . Reporter well, hi, melissa. The search is under way again this morning for the wreckage and the victims of that plane that went down jed. Jamaican authorities are telling us that they believe that 28 miles off the north coast of jamaica now weve lost mark potter in port antonio, jamaica. Hopefully well be able to turn back to that story. For now were going to turn now to the story actually it looks like we do have mark pack. Mark, are you there . Reporter yes, i am back. Ill continue on. Im presuming you heard the jamaicans believe that they found a debris field about 28 miles off the north coast of jamaica. They say it seems consistent with pieces that could have come off the aircraft. They have released some fphotos to nbc news showing that debris field. They will be out there agai
Two major fronts at the annual nato summit in wales. Leaders say they are building a coalition of nations to take on the threat of isis in iraq and in syria. The leaders also came down hard on rushia for supporting rebels in eastern ukraine. Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson has our report. Concern here from nato leaders that while there is a ceasefire agreed in ukraine, that this hey not become a reality as the peace is implemented. They note from the statement over president poroshenko here that important for him in his 12step plan is the independence territorial integrity and sovereignty of ukraine. That is something that the leaders here say wasnt present in what president putin had talked about in his sevenpoint plan for peace, that he had talked about a cessation of who is at this times, a removal of Ukrainian Forces from the southeast of ukraine, essentially ceding territory to the prorussian rebels annexation of that area. That according to the nato leaders here
The plane had been found but that does not, repeat does not appear to be the case. Just moments ago, we spoke by phone with a major from the Jamaican Defense force. Give us the latest in the search efforts. Like you said, the latest information i have, is we spotted an oil slick in the vicinity where we suspect the aircraft went down about 14 miles. An oil slick. Any debris of any kind . The information i have, which was up to about 5 00 p. M. , oil slick. The situation may have changed but unfortunately, i dont have that update. An oil slick. Are you confident this oil slick is connected to this plane . Were fairly confident, yes, sir. Were fairly confidenconfident. In fact, we have a search and rescue dive team now trying to carry out the well, at this point were not even sure if its going to be a rescue operation anymore, more like a recovery operation based on the length of time that the aircraft would have gone down. We do have Aerial Assets on location as we speak. Will they work
Marine corps pilot, retired Airline Captain and aviation consultant. Jp, it does not sound good. Lets just say that right off the bat. Obviously, john, you pegged it with windows iced up and you have pressurization failure and you have unresponsive person and if there were other people in the cockpit, obviously they would be responding. So probably the worst case scenario, lack of oxygen and they have succumbed. We understand it was flying at 25,000 feet. If you lose pressure at an altitude like that, you have seconds or minutes where if you get to a lower altitude quickly enough, you can maintain control. Of course. 25,000 feet is not like 31,000 feet, but you would have not much more than maybe 2 1 2 minutes of cognitive response. You may be alive but unable to function or you are drifting off. You would not exactly wh know e was going on. The fact that the windows are fogged over, it suggests a pressure release and not just a pilot heart attack or Something Like that. My first thoug
To see how this woman is treated. So ray rice has already admitted to what youre about to see. Weve never seen what happened back in march inside this Atlantic City casino. Watch this with me. They are entering the elevator. Ray rice and his then fiance. Punches thrown back and forth and he clocks her to deem her unconscious. Playing it again. This was obtained by tmz. Tmz got this. You see elevator doors open. Unconscious. Dragging her. Elevator door is closed. Grabs her again. And pulls her out. Leaves her on the ground. Doesnt cover her up. And that was that. The nfl would later fine rice and give him a short twogame suspension without pay. It was a penalty that was widely criticized for being too lenient. The couple is now married and they say they are going through counseling. We have a lot to talk about. Let me bring in a lot of voices. First to you with reporter hat on with me. This whole thing went down tell me if this was choreographed, calculated, first ravens termination and