of the pub filled with friday night revelers in glasgow, in scotland. a local member of parliament, jim murphy, said he arrived moments after the crash. most of the helicopter appeared to be inside the pub. there was only part of it protruding from the top. reporter: murphy says he saw at least ten people who were injured, including people who were struggling with consciousness, and others with bleeding wounds to the head. christina o neil, who saw the crash from her apartment across the street, said she heard what sounded like a low-flying airplane. back in for a couple of seconds, and then i heard a massive crash. reporter: after the sounds of the impact, she saw smoke and people running from the pub. one witness, who was inside, reported not hearing the crash, because there was a band play g playing, and all of a sudden, there was a whooshing sound and a lot of dust that came down from the ceiling.
inside the pub. the helicopter smashed into the roof as a concert was going on inside. richard quest has the latest from glasgow. reporter: miguel, according to one of scotland s most senior politicians, this was the news they had been dreading but expecting. having spent most of the day with only one person confirmed dead, everybody knew that the number of fatalities would rise, and now they re saying eight people perished last night. nor are they able to say whether that is the final total because, as the head of police scotland put it, the helicopter is in the middle of the building. and until they can remove it, they don t really know what s underneath. removing the helicopter will be an extremely difficult, complex, and intricate operation. the building is unstable, and they want to ensure maximum safety before they try any further operations. finding out what happened, why the helicopter fell out of the
is that a scenario? i think it went through the roof. i was speaking to the scottish engineer a couple of moments ago and he said that actually the fact that it s such an old pub and a solid structure that that may have sort of been the saving grace than having more people injured because it held up the helicopter a bit. i see. because i understand that the pub was quite crowded at the time of the crash, correct? oh, it s a very, very popular pub. there was a great local band playing. so i think it was packed to the gills. right. okay. well, we wish for the best and hope that serve out of there alive. i sounds like they re still doing rescue work. we ll keep an eye on it. liberty vitert, thank you. thank you. the u.s. government offered to help destroy some of the most dangerous parts of syria s chemical weapons stockpile. that word from an international chemical weapons watchdog group. the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons says that the u.s. is offering
wild, wild west. i m miguel marquez. these are the top stories we re following in the cnn newsroom right now. eight people dead so far after a police helicopter crashes into the roof of a pub. now the search for survivors. hear what witnesses say they saw in the moments before impact, coming up next. it s the obama care s own midnight deadline to the web site. can it be fixed and will it work for everyone? a live report moments away. and china scrambling fighter jets to monitor u.s. activity in its newly declared air defense zone. the pentagon saying it s not going anywhere. the latest between the face-off between washington and beijing, coming up. at least eight people have died after a police helicopter crashed into a pub in scotland. investigators have been searching since the crash last night for any survivors. they said people were trapped
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