we begin this hour with celebration turning into tragedy at the university of georgia. just hours after the football team was honored for winning a national championship one of their key players, 20-year-old, was killed in a car crash along with a member of the football staff, 24-year-old chandler lacroix. cnn is live in athens, georgia. what do we know about what happened? reporter: we just got a statement indicating this happened at 2:45 early this morning. that car was traveling southbound on this road behind me just past this curve right here and then, fred, for some reason that car left the roadway, struck this power pole right here. we saw utility crews in the last hour or so replacing and fixing this power pole, and then the car continued, fred. you can see the debris, the fallen tree limbs where it struck a tree. as we make our way over here i will show you the exact spot where this car came to rest continuing past this slope right here and ending at this location r
we begin with tragedy in nepal. at least 68 people are dead in the country s worst plane crash in 30 years. search and rescue teams were at the site and will be back there at daylight on monday. four people are still unaccounted for, and now the search for answers begins. this is apparently just moments before the crash. take a look at this. the plane rolling on its side while flying low over a populated area, and then this. we re following the story, and we re joined now. that video shows some really unusual movements by the plane just before it crashed. what more are you learning? quite a bit. you barely see such videos just before a plane crash, but that was caught on camera. we believe that is just moments before the plane crashed. now, according to officials, 68 bodies have been recovered. four yet to be recovered. and search efforts have stopped for the day. and they will resume monday morning local time in nepal. the prime minister has ordered a probe in nepal, and a
of situation, you have to think about yourself, think about others. and you know, just a matter of survival and just doing the right thing and being respectful. tell me about that sense of the feeling of family there in buffalo. you know, we saw it. you know, with damar hamlin, how buffalo really came together after his cardiac arrest and the prayers and all of that. that was on display. you displayed it in a different way by saving people. tell me about what it is about the town of buffalo that makes you all feel the way you do. buffalo is a city of good neighbors and great neighbors actually. i don t know if it s something in the water over here, but we re all just a big family. everyone sticks together. and we re resilient. you can t put us down. that s fantastic. that is on display. you say you re feel good, feeling a big win for the buffalo bills. this is a big day for buffalo,
too, and people s expectations of damar hamlin, what are your thoughts about what might happen today at the bills/dolphins game? i think we re going to squish the fish today. with damar and with the storm, with everything, you know, you can beat us buffalonians down, but you ll never stop us. this is coming together as a big story that buffalo is a city of good neighbors and we re unbeatable. we re a different breed over here. jay withey, very fun chat with him. have fun going to the super bowl. thanks for joining me today. i m fredricka whitfield. the cnn newsroom continues with jim acosta right now. you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington.