Republican convention getting underway later today with the theme of a land of opportunity. But last night some of the biggest names in the party made the case for President Trump as the proamerica candidate and accused the democratic ticket of wanting to fundamentally change the country. Good morning, im sandra smith. Hello, trace. Trace good morning to you, im trace gallagher. Melania trump and mike pompeo speaking tonight. President trump will be there. Rnc speakers delivered a dark warning of the future of the nation if the president is not reelected. Our side is working on policy. Joe biden and Kamala Harris want a cultural revolution. A fundamentally different america. Joe biden is the loch ness monster of the swamp. For the past half century he has been lurking around in there and sticks up his head every now and then to run for president and disappears and doesnt do much in between. Joe biden and the democrats are still blaming america first. Donald trump has always put america
About russians having to do with my campaign. The fact is you people wont say this but ill say it. I was a much better candidate than her. You always say she was a bad candidate, you never say i was a good candidate. I was one of the greatest candidates. Nobody else could beat that crooked machine. I was a great candidate. Someday you are going to say that. Sandra john roberts is in switzerland this morning. Good morning, john. Good morning. The president is scheduled now to be having his first bilateral meeting with theresa may. We have not yet gotten notification he has got into that meeting yet. We should have video of that for you sometime within the next 20 minutes to half an hour. After that he meets with the israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On the agenda for both of those will be north korea, iran, isis. He will also talk clearly with theresa may about trade as well. Later on today the president is going to host a dinner with the ceos of a small group of european compa
The whole minute, no one came out, nobody knew what was happening. There were six people on the helicopter. The pilot freed himself. The other five did not. So police and fire divers entered the water and removed the other five. Great tragedy that we had occur here on an otherwise quiet sunday evening. Bill what do we know about the investigation, laura . Good morning. Reporter good morning, bill. The National Transportation safety board is sending a fourteam member go team. They are in route now to find out why this helicopter reportedly lost power sending that chopper into the icy cold waters and trapping all five passengers inside. We have the dramatic video of what took place. Witnesses saw the red helicopter come down around 7 00 p. M. Some reports seeing the copter. Horrified bystanders say after the splash down it quickly flipped over as the rotating blades began chopping into the water. We didnt know what was happening. There were like seven of us there. We were all calling 911
But almost half, almost double that, i should say double he was not. Next up we ask about the integrity of our elections. Another Hot Topic heading into the caucuses. Just over half of Iowa Republicans say they have confidence in elections on the national level. And now to the State Level . We are seeing something quite different when it comes to that when we ask voters. Its a slightly better note. Iowa republicans are much more confident with the integrity of elections in their own state. 90 percent said yes. Those are just some of the preliminary results that we have for you dont. We will have much more as the night goes on. Laura, back to you. Laura sandra, the integrity of the Iowa System is fascinating. Sandra yeah. Laura of course its all handwritten ballots. Votes on pieces of paper. So, people love paper ballots. Sandra there is lots of confidence in it, yeah. Laura that is fascinating