and good morning to you. it is tuesday, december 13th. i feel like it s a homecoming. a long time since the three of us have been together. good to see you. as usual a busy, busy news morning. breaking news now. four soldiers are dead after two army choppers went down during a training exercise. it happened a joint base lewis-mcchord in washington state. crash investigators are trying to find out what went wrong right now. pliv on the pholive on the phon crash site. what do we know? i m watching the lights of the recovery teams that have been looking throughout the night to go in the grim task of recovering those bodies of the four aviators that lost their lives. still don t know what went wrong. at about 11:00 p.m. eastern last nim, sometime after 11:00 p.m. two helicopters crashed killing everybody aboard both helicopters. these are small observation helicopters, ali. the eyes and ears of what s on the ground. flying maneuvers over a training area when this crash to
these are all organizations opposed to the death penalty. but what this case different from others in the past as we approach the 11th hour there are hundreds of thousands of people. you saw their signatures on those petitions that were delivered. these are people, a lot of these people may not typically be against the death penalty. these are people who are looking at the case thinking that there are doubts here and that an execution needs to be stopped. there s a lot of people pushing to have his sentence commuted and not have him set free. you don t see a lot of people coming right out and saying this man is innocent. speaking of those who do think he should be set free or at least the case looked at, some names might surprise you. the former fbi director william sessions who wrote an op-ed in the newspaper in atlanta yesterday saying, the evidence in this case consisting almost entirely of conflicting stories, testimonies an statements is inadequate to the task of co
in new hampshire. not an official candidate, but certainly by all accounts stepping his toe into the water. what are we to make of his stop in new hampshire? well, jon huntsman is going to be testing the waters now in new hampshire. not officially testing the waters, but he s going to be rolling out a little bit of let s see what happens in new hampshire the next week or so. he s going to be up there. he s delivering the commencement spch at the university of southern new hampshire also this weekend. you know, he s going to really kind of be tagging along with mitt romney. he s going to be seeing if he can kind of take down romney, different steps there in new hampshire. he s hoping for a triple bank shot. he s hoping he can win new hampshire, maybe two different candidates win iowa and south carolina, maybe he gets a better showing in south carolina than some people expect. he s going to play there as well and maybe take it on a longer course because if mitt romney loses in new hamp
seriously considering a run at the white house. we ll have more on the growing christie drum beat with jon hutsman later on morning joe. the latest installment of the funding fight in congress may come to an end. last night the senate approved a deal to fund the government through mid-november it will help avoid a shutdown, we hope, and provide much-needed money to cash-strapped peopfema. the funds have shrunken to historic lows with $114 million remaining, that s down sharply from the $1 billion typically held as a string of natural disasters nearly depleted the agency s resources. fema announced it had enough money to make it through the week was a crucial turning point in negotiations. the bill now heads to the senhe.