Documents case against donald trump. It comes as the former president is being condemned for praising a dictator. Well dig in to both of those stories. And a look at the republican hopefuls campaigning in iowa, as two more names are likely to join the field this week. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, june 5th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day and week with us. And well begin this morning with a deadly plane crash near the nations capitol. Yesterday afternoon the military scrambled two f16 fighter jets to respond to a private business jet that was flying over restricted airspace in dc. The response caused a loud sonic boom that was heard across the region around unsettled many of the residents there. Heres some of the sound Surveillance Cameras captured. The sound was heard across many miles. The cessna was not responding to radio transmissions. It then crashed in the Shenandoah Wall i have in virginia. Officials say there were no survivors. Acco
logs for staff and regular visitors into and out of the west wing. president biden for his part not talking about it. deferring all questions to the secret service. listen. [shouted questions] gillian: mark morgan says someone could be intentionally hindering the investigation. he tells the daily mail, quote, they know who comes in and when they come in, they re checked and are video cameras everywhere? are they able to talk to the people they would need to without any roadblocks? let s bring in mark meredith joining us from the white house. tell us what you know. good morning to you. the white house says it is taking this situation seriously but they are also not engaging in hype that calls over who they believe may have brought in the drugs and whether or not anyone should or could face charges. it began on sunday with hazmat teams were called to a lower level of the west wing where they first saw the powder and investigators determined it was cocaine. the white house c
documents case against donald trump. it comes as the former president is being condemned for praising a dictator. we ll dig in to both of those stories. and a look at the republican hopefuls campaigning in iowa, as two more names are likely to join the field this week. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, june 5th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. and we ll begin this morning with a deadly plane crash near the nation s capitol. yesterday afternoon the military scrambled two f-16 fighter jets to respond to a private business jet that was flying over restricted airspace in dc. the response caused a loud sonic boom that was heard across the region around unsettled many of the residents there. here s some of the sound surveillance cameras captured. the sound was heard across many miles. the cessna was not responding to radio transmissions. it then crashed in the shenandoah wall i have in virginia. officials say ther
tornados tear through texas and louisiana, right now more than 60 million people are still under the threat of severe storms. ammunition on the agenda today. president biden meeting the german chancellor and sending more firepower to ukraine. it is friday, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. just hours from now, tau alex murdaugh will stand in a courtroom to learn his fate. a judge will issentence him for murdering his own wife and son. guilty verdict. verdict guilty. verdict guilty. verdict guilty. the jury heard six weeks of testimony but took less than three hours to convict him. murdaugh now facing a possible 30 years behind bars. justice was done today. it doesn t matter who your family is, it doesn t matter how much money you have or people think you have. it doesn t matter what you think how prominent you are, if you do wrong, if you break the law, if you murder, then justice will be done in south carolina.
reporter: the carnage you re describing sounds like something out of world war ii. yeah. o donnell: in tonight s eye on america, cbs ben tracy on how parts of the mighty mississippi now look like a desert and why that could impact the price of things you buy. and, the new york city bus driver being hailed a hero after a hijacking. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. tonight, we return to a community still in pain, still searching for answers, and still wondering why it took police more than an hour to enter the classroom where a gunman was murdering fourth graders. at a hearing today, families had their first face-to-face confrontation with the texas public safety chief. he s the one in charge of the dozens of state troopers who waited in the hallway during the deadliest elementary school shooting in a decade. today, colonel s