disney magic how the company and an outgoing florida oversight board quietly stripped away power from governor ron desantis . this is what we re watching at this hour. thank you, everyone for being here. i m amra walker in for kate baldwin. we begin in kentucky, where nine u. s service members are dead after two black hawk helicopters crashed overnight. these photos from local radio station w. kedzie show the crash site and trick county, which is just north of the kentucky tennessee border. now, in these photos, smoke and flames and what looks like to be a piece of the wreckage. can be seen. officials say the choppers were on a routine. what was supposed to be a routine training mission with night vision goggles when they collided. let s get straight now to diane gallagher live at fort campbell, kentucky. diane what are we learning? i know. officials just held a news conference. that s right, aymara and look, they ve said that they have a safety team coming in from fort rucke
gonna wrap our arms around these families. and we re going to be there with them, not just for the days, but the weeks and the months and the years to come. we re gonna let them know that they are loved. they are special. and if they ll allow us to carry some of their grief. we ll do that for as long as we can. my faith teaches me that while while the body is mortal soul is eternal, and we will see them again. the crash itself happened in a wooded field area we are told in trigg county, kentucky, on the other side of the installation here on the kentucky side of fort campbell. they said that they began next of kin notifications early this morning, but these are military . these are members of the military. their next of kin isn t necessarily here locally. for many of them. they said that they are across the country and in some cases they are out of the united states. this is something they say they re