republican candidate in new mexico visited homes of democratic officials before targeting those homes with gun fire. this morning, still no word on how lisa marie presley died. the coroner deferred a ruling asking for more time to investigate. a busy wednesday but first the tragedy on the outskirts of ukraine s capital. 16 people are dead after a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten and residential buildings east of kyiv. three children are among the dead with 15 more being treated in the hospital. the mayor of kyiv now reacting. this is a tragedy. i m not ready to give we inves investigate what happens. let s get straight to clarissa ward live at the scene in ukraine for us. good morning, what s going on? what s the latest there? reporter: don, you can probably see behind me the smoldering wreckage of that kindergarten where the helicopter hit this morning, tragically killing 16 people, all nine people on board the helicopter were killed, including the interior
midterm elections. kristen holmes joins us with more. what s happening and what s the shape of this lawsuit looking like? reporter: there s a lot and one of the interesting things we see is it not only accuses matt schlapp of sexual battery but it accuses matt schlapp and his wife, who served as former president trump s communication director, of defamation and conspiracy to discredit the accuser. what are those accusations? as we said we reported this last week. these are brought by a republican staffer in his late 30s who alleged that schlapp fondled his groin without consent when he was driven back to a hotel last october. an attorney for the schlapps denied the allegations. he said the complaint is false and the schlapp family is suffering unbearable pain and stress due to the allegations from an anonymous individual.
floridian can make it out of that primary. so completely right. en froms and politics, there s not many friends in politics that was going to be short lived. i knew it when jeb bush said we re friends, yes, you can be friends but when you have to compete and you re trying to win your state, you ll do what you can and you ll have to knock the other candidate down. that s just the way it works in politics. so i think that, you know, with senator marco rubio doing better in the polls, they re keeping a close jeb bush s campaign is keeping a close eye on that. you re seeing that with trump, too. they re ready to knock him down. senator rubio, i expect he ll do well in the next debate and, again, he s rising. so it s something to be watching carefully. the schlapps, thank you very much to both of you. thank you. we ll check in on the next event when we need perspective. thank you. let s get to the other stories this morning.