Targeted News Service provides Washington Bureau coverage, federal contract and contracting information for awards and for subcontracting opportunities, a congressional vote chart, federal and congressional press releases.
following for you this morning. seven marines and four soldiers are missing after their helicopter crashed off the florida coast. we ve been trying to get the latest on this. we re learning weather may have been a factor in the crash. heather childers joins us live with the latest on this. as we follow this, we ve learned a massive search is underway. happening at this hour for the missing military members coast guard units are now getting involved. now, the seven marines and four soldiers were running a routine nighttime training mission when the blackhawk helicopter crashed. the area where the chopper went down was under a fog advisory and a visibility due to that is still very low as the search intensify. a second helicopter running the exercise was not involved in the crash. all on board that aircraft are safe and are being interviewed about what could possibly have gone wrong, what they know about the crash. a director of team eglin public