Breaking news. An airplane in pieces. Tonight search crews look for more rec damage in the waters off breezy point. The small plane is believed to have gone down about a mail and a half off shore. Cbs2s Valerie Castro is live. Valerie, whats the latest . Reporter kristine, right now this is a very active operation. Behind me you can see the search efforts that are now getting underway to look for more debris from that plane and anyone who might have been on board. Initial reports are that the small possibly twoseater plane went down off breezy point just before 8 00. Here are some pictures that were released by the nypd special ops unit. You can see the debris that looks like a portion of a wing that was found earlier. Police sources say people called 911 around that time and reported seeing some sort of flash in the sky over the water. The nypd launched crews to search the area about a mile and a half offshore. Were told the planes flight path was registered as leaving philadelphia wi
Administration expect to vanquish terror if it wont even identify who the enemy is . France your ally in this effort, has put a name on this ideology which he called radical islam. You have bent over backwards to never say that. I certainly wouldnt want to be in a position where im repeating the justification that they have cited that i think is completely illegitimate that they have invoked islam to try to justify their attacks. We have not chosen to use that label because it doesnt seem to accurately describe had happened. Okay. The yemen connection has raised new concerns about transfers of former gitmo detainees to the country country, especially in light of the rate that former prisoners are returning to the battlefields. Republican senators are now introducing legislation that would put serious restrictions on the president s ability to transfer prisoners out of gitmo for the remainder of his term. I just took a look earlier today, i understand the goal and the desire to close gi
And then how come the administration expect to vanquish terror if it wont even identify who the enemy is . France your ally in this effort, has put a name on this ideology which he called radical islam. You have bent over backwards to never say that. I certainly wouldnt want to be in a position where im repeating the justification that they have cited that i think is completely illegitimate that they have invoked islam to try to justify their attacks. We have not chosen to use that label because it doesnt seem to accurately describe had happened. Okay. The yemen connection has raised new concerns about transfers of former gitmo detainees to the country country, especially in light of the rate that former prisoners are returning to the battlefields. Republican senators are now introducing legislation that would put serious restrictions on the president s ability to transfer prisoners out of gitmo for the remainder of his term. I just took a look earlier today, i understand the goal and
that brought down the airbus, killing all 224 people aboard. nbc s tracie potts is live in washington with details. good morning, tracie. what evidence are they basing this theory on now? reporter: well, in part intercepted communications at the airport, but again, dara, this is not yet confirmed. those types of communications can be misleading. but they are definitely raising more questions about the capabilities of isis in that region. this is new video we just got last night, debris still smoking two hours after the crash. now a u.s. official tells nbc it s likely a bomb may have brought down this russian jet. possibly planted by a baggage handler at the egyptian airport where the plane took off. we can t rule it out, but it s certainly premature to say that this is the cause. reporter: great britain suspended flights to and from that airport, calling the bomb theory a significant possibility. perhaps retaliation by a wing of isis in the sinai peninsula. russia rec
captioning funded by cbs good morning, everybody. thanks for joining us. i m betty nguyen. the tables officially turn in washington today. the 112th congress convenes at noon with republicans in control of the house. high republican republican, the new speaker, john boehner, promises quick action to undo president obama s agenda. randall pinkston, what are the republicans planning to do first? good morning, betty. a lot of changes afoot here with a new team in charge. there will be new rules for its members and the new speaker, john boehner s first order of business will be to impose the new rules, which will affect the way legislation and budget matters are handled, then he and the gop will go after what they call obamacare. the new republican majority in the house plans to hit the ground running. i wish them success. i look forward to working with them. reporter: democratic leader nancy pelosi will officially return the gavel to incoming speaker john boehner later