Are now ghost towns as firefighters try to get the upper hand. Today is saturday, july 19, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester hold. Im erica hill alongside dylan drier. We want to get the latest in the downing of Malaysia Flight mh17. There are growing concerns over the security of the debris field. Many investigators are held back from the area under rebel control. We are learning more about the 298 people who were on board that flight. 80 of them children, and one, a 19yearold american citizen. President obama warning of new sanctions against russia saying the downing of the plane should be a wakeup call for europe and the world. We are covering this from the pentagon and ukraine. We want to begin with keir simmons in ukraine. Reporter good morning. They are being accused of not letting investigators get near the crash site. Th
189 of the passengers were from the netherlands including an Indiana University student. She was going on vacation with her boyfriend. Im just in disbelief and expecting her to pop up on facebook and tell everyone shes okay. Also dead is Quinn Lucas Schansman attending, Business School in amsterdam. The u. S. Has offered n. T. S. B. Assistance in the investigation. Kris van cleave, abc~7 news abc~7 news the victims on board that plane hailed from 12 different countries. Most from the netherlands and then malaysia and australia. According to the numbers provided there were some children on the plane including three infants. A candlelight vigil will be held in the district as a show of support for those lost in the plane crash. A group has started their march to the malaysia embassy. This should be a very emotional evening. The Dutch Embassy is in a quiet neighborhood in northwest washington. Certainly a a marked contrast to the plane crash. There is a small memorial, flowers, teddy bear
Contaminated or compromised. The real key here is to get to the site and to look at the forensic evidence on the skin of the aircraft. President obama called for an immediate ceasefire in eastern ukraine. So a credible International Investigation can get underway. Reporting from washington, karen travers, channel 6 news. Thank you. The local Ukrainian Community is set to gather tonight on the ben franklin parkway to remember the victims in the Malaysia Airlines crash. Chad pradelli is live there now with more. Chad . Shirleen, roughly 100 people are expected to gather here for tonights vigil. It begins at 7 00. There will be flowers, candles, and then a march. The march will begin under the ukrainian flag and ends at the flag of netherlands. We are expressing the range of feelings from shock, sadness, to anger, to terror, to determination that this be stopped. These ukrainian americans have been dealing with turmoil back home for months. Worry has been mounting about loved ones and fri
New day joins us live from Eastern Ukraine. A haul to get there. Not easy to get to that crash site. When you got there, what struck you most . Reporter well, thats hard to answer, christi, because this is such an usual situation. You have the obvious tragedy of this plane being taken out of the skies, and everyone onboard gone and laying in the field around us for the most part, but it has happened because of, probably, and in the middle of, an outright civil war. Theres no question about accounts of people hearing gunfire. Theyve used gunfire here today to move journalists when they dont want them to go beyond a certain point. These are local militias intent on making a definite show of force, of blaming ukraine for the tragedy of taking this plane out of the air. The checkpoints show such indications of heavy fire, i havent seen anything like it in quite some time. Trees completely stripped, some 40, 50 feet up by big artillery shells. Men hiding in these very shallow trenches. They
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