a helicopter crash in ukraine killing top officials and some children. the maga king who falsely claimed fraud said he s the one behind the attacks. george santos qualified to serve on two house committees even though no one s sure what his real qualifications are. all right. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin with this breaking news. tragedy in ukraine. devastating helicopter crash. the chopper plunged to the ground near a kindergarten. the crash killing ukraine s interior minister and leadership team and killing some children on the ground being taken to the kindergarten by their parents. cnn s clarissa ward live on the ground. what more do we know about this rapidly developing story? reporter: well, christine, as if ukraine hasn t experienced enough horror and enough tragedy. this morning e s events are tru devastating. you can see the area behind me where the helicopter crashed in. the latest informatio
rapidly developing story? reporter: well, christine, as if ukraine hasn t experienced enough horror and enough tragedy. this morning e s events are tru devastating. you can see the area behind me where the helicopter crashed in. the latest information we re getting is that 18 people were killed including all nine people on board. that includes the interior minister, deputy, secretary of state. six others. we know that at least three children have been killed, but as you can probably see behind me, there s now an enormous emergency services and rescue and recovery response. basically what they re trying to do is to determine whether there are any other children who are still inside that kindergarten because right before the helicopter actually crashed you can see there was some kind of debris or flames or jet fuel
down fast. so, he had a very serious problem. when he executed that left turn, he wasn t continuing on for pushing a button and seeing the nearest airport there. he was turning around to come back. that tells me he had a very serious situation that was ongoing. j.p. we appreciates morning e learn more. we will keep our viewers updated throughout the next fewer hours. sad story. thank you. thank you. 37 minutes after the hour. brand new surveillance video showing the chaotic scene from an indianapolis mall shooting. this week. the man in white running for his life as a suspect dressed in all black waves a handgun around and begins firing. three people were hit. police think this is a separate suspect running through the parking lot, a the 11 caller helps out one of the wounded. there was at least 5 to 10 shots fired. you got shot? okay, come on, sweetheart. i have a girl who has been shot in the leg.
warning. she s ryetrying to reset in iowa and also with the press and these things are intentional and she went with iowa over the press here. amy, what is your takeaway especially since what news was made yesterday happened in a statement from her campaign office, which was a recasting, let s say, to be find of what she said last summer during the book tour on npr about same-sex marriage. she s now affirmatively declaring that the supreme court should grant the constitutional right as a national issue rather than progress state by state. right, and i think they did something similar this morning e releasing something about her stance on giving driver s license to undocumented immigrants. so this sort of trickle of news while you and i are out there sort of killing ourselves to cover the events, i think it it does create a tension. from what i heard from her campaign, they reckognize that. they are trying to figure these things out, but you cannot
the european union, maybe the russians be can be helpful although they have been a big part of the problem because they don t want the ukraine to move into the or bit of the european union. i want to talk about russia in just a second. so the vice president spoke with the ukrainian president saying it s the government s responsibility to de escalate the violence. we now have this morning e leaders threatening sanctions. beyond that, to is a sovereign country. is there much more that the u.s. can do to step in? well, we are per received as leaders there. the ukraine is a great country with great potential, energy, human resources. i think it s very important that we show that engagement. i think the vice president s call was important, standing behind democratic forces. but also urging the president not to have another bloody