of leicester city football club was on board the helicopter that crashed and burst into flames only minutes after taking off from the king power stadium last night. it s understood vichai srivaddhanaprabha had been flying home after watching his team play west ham. leicestershire police have thanked fans for their patience and say they re working with a number of other agencies to get an update out to the public and press . many of those fans have been visiting this ground throughout the day to leave flowers and tributes to the man who bought leicester city eight years ago, pouring millions of pounds into the club and watching it win the premier league in 2016. it s still yet known who was on the helicopter when it crashed. sima kotecha reports. it s still yet unknown who was on the helicopter when it crashed. sima kotecha reports. the scene today. helicopter wreckage after the crash yesterday evening. an hour or so after the final whistle, this. a huge fireball. people stun
the gunman, described as a heavy set white male with a beard , has been named by us media as robert bowers. he surrendered to police after a tense stand off. richard lister begins our coverage. heavily armed police converging on squirrel hill, after reports that a man had opened fire in a synagogue. a peaceful suburban neighbourhood transformed in moments by a gunman. tactical weapon units were brought in from across the city. other officers sealed the area and began moving towards the building and its congregation as the attack continued. it is a suburb with a large jewish population. local media said the gunman shouted, alljews must die, as he began his attack. residents, still unsure of what was happening, were escorted home. right now, we have multiple casualties. we re working on the situation. it is imperative that the neighbours in the community surrounding the tree of life synagogue stay in their houses and shelter in place. do not come out of your home right now,
the bloody weekend with three mass shootings leave two dead and dozens injured. what is leading to the rise in violence. severe weather threats, april nor easter brings rain, high winds and possibly ten inches of snow to pennsylvania and new york. tonight s treacherous travel conditions. but the chilly weather didn t stop the return of the white house easter egg roll. new deadly ride report. tonight the results of the investigation about what lead to a 14 year old sliding out of a harness and falling to his death. and running for history, how women changed the boston marathon. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us as we start a new week together. tonight we have breaking news: for the first time in more than a year, the travel mask mandate is not in effect. on and mask mandate was struck down. that means that tsa will not enforce the rule at a
strikes caused extensive damage to the civilian infrastructure including multiple residential buildings an a school. russian forces launched at least two missiles in dnipro, some railway infrastructure destroyed. no casualties thankfully were reported there at least yet. fighting ramping up significantly throughout the east with ukraine saying that the town of kriminna fallen after a huge amount of equipment and besieged port city of mariupol, rejected a russian deadline to surrender. they said it will be closed for entry and exit today and any men who remain will be quote unquote, filtered out. let s begin our coverage with cnn matt rivers in lviv on the deadly air strikes we were just talking about. matt, what are you seeing there after all of this? reporter: yeah, kate, lviv has largely been spared some of the horrors we ve seen in other parts of the country throughout this war and yet this morning, there were multiple explosions in the city. four different air strikes.
a synagogue in pittsburgh shooting is being investigated as a hate crime. we re expecting the police will update the public on the tragic events this morning in pittsburgh. here in the meantime is what we do know where, that ten people were killed. six others were injured, including among them, four police officers. the gunman is in custody and wounded and made anti-jewish remarks, comments during the shooting. he has been identified. he is 46-year-old robert bowers. cnn has learned that he frequently targeted jews on social media. particularly on a platform called gab, posting just today can t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. screw your optics. i m going in. president trump has reacted to this shooting just moments ago. with one unified voice we condemn the historic evil of
anti-semitism, and every other form of evil and, unfortunately, evil comes in many forms. we come together as one american people. all right. let s get right to the scene, and our sonja mogi, who