7th avenue high rise. the crash causing this scene on the roof of the building. the pilot identified as tim mccormick, the only person in the chopper killed. what did you hear? like a big explosion. it was shake. i got nervous. reporter: evacuations unfolded immediately in the 54 story building below known as the ekwiquitable tower. we saw debris. we arrived on the scene in five minutes. within. half an hour we had water on the fire and most of the fire extinguished. reporter: a swift response, the top brass, fire department, mayor s office descend on the scene. even the governor happened to be in the city at the time learning quickly what happened. as soon as you hear an aircraft on the building, my
stanton. that went away. these chasers were to the east of that tornado, thinking they were in very good shape. all of a sudden, we saw the new tornado signature on the radar. the storm regenerated a tornado about four miles east of that first one. separated from the first one and moved there. this one you re looking at right now is a very large max i tornado. we re looking at ef-3, ef-4 damage that moved through that town. we saw debris in the sky from that town. it is now north of u.s. 275. and the one that you re looking at, you just can t see it to the right if they pan to the right a little bit, that one would be moving towards wisner, nebraska right along highway 275. you need to be taking cover now. this is open country, but these are major tornadoes on the ground. wind speeds in excess right now, wolf, i m going to going 175 to 200 miles per hour. paralleling themselves. hold on. and in northeastern nebraska.
coming up. thank you. jon: it is hard to describe how massive an area of the ocean, really the planet they are searching and even if they find parts of the plane, we might be left without enough information to know exactly what happened to this airliner. let s bring in ken, aviation analyst and president of i understand grated aviation solutions. also with us, the managing partner of aviation weekly. the mystery continues, seth. they think they know where this plane went down but nobody has any idea yet why and it could be a long, long time before we find the black boxes and even then we might not know. a very long time, jon. five years ago aircraft flight 447 crashed off brazil. we knew more or less where it went down. we saw debris that was certainly associated with that plane crash just a few days later along with some bodies from it and yet it took nearly two years to find the wreckage at the bottom of
down in at least two states, leaving a path of wrecked homes behind. s.w.a.t. team rescue. police storm a home, guns blazing to save a group of firefighters held defect. new overnight. four different automakers recalling millions of cars because something meant to protect passengers could hurt them instead. out guns but definitely not outdone. take a look as a store owner takes a bullet fighting off a gunman with a baseball bat. this is really incredible video. we re going to show you so much more of this. the guy keeps oncoming back. it goes on and on. good morning. welcome to early start. so happy you re with us this morning. i m zoraida sambolin. i m john berman. it s thursday, april 11th. 6:00 a.m. in the east. up first, thousands of people without power after fierce tornadoes touched down in at least two states. the first one hit around 8:00 p.m. in hazelwood, missouri. we saw debris in the streets, trees toppled over. 24 homes suffering major damage.