kosik in for christi paul. i m victor blackwell. we welcome you and viewers from around the world. we re following breaking news out of egypt in a passenger jet that crashed in the mt. sinai area in egypt. the washington embassy said bodies are being recovered but no reports of survivors. let s get you caught up. metrojet flight 9268 it took off just before 6:00 a.m. local time. it was headed from the popular resort town of sharm el sheikh in egypt to st. petersburg, russia. but it lost contact 22 minutes into the flight. russian officials say they are sending five rescue planes. those planes scheduled to take off about an hour from now. we ve got coverage from around the world on this, this morning. ian lee, live in cairo. we re beginning with aviation correspondent richard quest in london. and the latest report coming
fantasy. you re not going to take a 777 and take it from 35,000 feet to 4,000 feet in the space of 120 miles and bring it back up to 35,000 feet. it just isn t going to happen. we re hearing from sources that the malaysian air force scrambled the planes, they didn t tell aviation officials or search and rescue operations for three days. does this just add to our concerns? it s not about the investigation, but i think it adds to the concerns that malaysia is not a very safe place because if it takes their air defense that many days to figure out what they had come across their sky, that s incredible to me. and now we hear 30 some days later that they scrambled jets or maybe it was rescue planes and we don t know that. they sent someone allegedly to the south china sea and others to the south and west. i mean, there has just been a
and doing well. another bizarre story. and it s that time of year again. tomorrow at 2:00 a.m., we spring forward and lose an hour for daylight saving time. check your clocks ahead before you go to bed. also a good time to put the new batteries in smoke detectors in your home. to the latest now on the missing malaysia airlines jumbo jet. rescue planes have spotted large oil slicks and a column of smoke off its coastline. but it cannot be confirmed if it is from the missing aircraft. the jet was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members when it disappeared more than 20 hours ago now. three americans, including an infant, were among those on board. let s get right to nbc s tom costello following this story. first of all, the boeing 777, pretty good overall impressive safety record, right? reporter: very good safety record. this is the boeing 777 200 series, the earliest model of this plane. and this one in particular was about 11 or 12 years old. there was one incident with this
out. and urban farming. without water, without dirt or even direct sunlight, we ll show you how. it s today s big idea. but we start this hour with typhoon haiyan. after tearing through the philippines, that storm is now bearing down on vietnam with landfall expected just hours from now. in the philippines, it s a creep u scene of utter devastation. the monitor storm has killed 10,000 so far and wiped out entire towns.the monitor storm 10,000 so far and wiped out entire towns.of utter devastati. the monitor storm has killed 10,000 so far and wiped out entire towns. dr. nancy snyderman is in the philippines. as you fly down, you can see the periphery of the definivastn devastation. where i am is almost a staging area for those who have survive and are making their way north and for rescue planes, supply planes, cargo flights voweded
meteorologist chad myers monitoring tropical storm debby, chad, debby s proven to be pretty stubborn. not moving really at 5 miles an hour. and it s still spinning at 40 miles an hour. so don t get me wrong, it s still there, but it s not moving along, so when it begins to rain in one spot, it rains for hours. in fact one spot in tallahassee picked up 20 meninches of rain. it s still flooding right now. we re still trying to get crews into these areas to see how bad it is. east of panama city, near the panhandle of florida, but not all the way to jacksonville. this is the latest, the 11:00 advisory, east at 3 miles an hour. it doesn t even make landfall until 8:00 tomorrow morning and it s only about 60 miles away from shore. it s going to take a long time to get across the body here of florida, then back out into the ocean and then eventually turning on up into the northeast. and when it gets out here, these are spinning again, because it turns into a tropical storm again,