right now on msnbc, we re following several breaking news stories. any moment now we re expecting police in rochester, new york, to give an update on a deadly crash yesterday outside a concert. the concerns it could have been an act of terror. plus, dramatic video out of japan, terrifying moments as a passenger jet bursts into flames. take a look at that after colliding with a coast guard aircraft on the runway. and miraculously hundreds escaped alive. also ahead, new year, new legal challenges for the former president. the high stakes hearing one week from today as he tries to claim presidential immunity. there is now just 13 days until iowa caucuses. we re live as republicans barnstorm the state ahead of the first in the nation contest. hey, everybody. good morning to you. happy new year. it is 10:00 a.m. in the east. i m yasmin vossoughian in for ana cabrera. we bring with dramatic video out of japan, showing a passenger jet engulfed in flames after colliding with a
video shows a passenger jet collides with a coast guard jet. any moments upstate new york police will give updates of a deadly car crash that is being investigated as a possible act as domestic terror. and hundreds of people linked to jeffrey epstein could be made public today and details of who could be on the list ahead. i m rahel solomon with john berman and kate and sara are off today. this is cnn news central. we want to begin this hour with the latest on the breaking news out of japan. an investigation is under way this morning after a japan airlines plane collided with a japanese coast guard aircraft on the runway in tokyo and then burst into flames. look at that video. it is showing the moment of impact after the passenger jet landed at the airport. you can see the apparent collision, and the coast guard plane is in a fireball. the japan airlines plane is on fire as well as it goes down the runway there. five crew members on the coast guard plane were killed.
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cnn s will ripley joins us live from tokyo. will, i want to talk to the crew. we ll get to evacuation efforts. the crew who died, they were on their way to help, correct? can you give us more? reporter: yeah. so this haneda airport is in the heart of tokyo, 20 minutes from where i m standing right now. there s also a coast guard base nearby. the whole airport sits on the bay. it s a beautiful approach when you fly in there. it s probably my favorite airport when i fly into tokyo. my camera man john flew in a few hours before this happened. but in this case, this coast guard aircraft somehow ended up on the same runway as this japan airlines jet was flying in, packed plane coming from the tourist hot spot of sapporo in northern japan and these two planes had an incredibly fiery collision. we know that, according to nhk, japan s national broadcaster, five crew members were killed. the captain was able to escape. but he is currently being held, currently on life support. i ve