ireport.com. we'll get your comments on the air. tragedy in midair. >> we heard a loud crash. a small plane collides with a tourist helicopter. >> looked like half the wing was missing. and it was corkscrewing into the river. and we saw the helicopter drop like a rock into the hudson. >> people along new york's hudson river watch in horror. >> like in the movie. and they start, it was turning, and then the head went down first. about three, four second later, i thought it was the wing of the helicopter, probably the rotor blade. >> within minutes. divers combed the murky walters. sadly, mayor michael bloomberg delivers the bad news. there appear to be no survivors. >> this has changed from a rescue to a recovery mission. >> what went wrong? we investigate right now on cnn. hello, everyone. i'm don lemon. following breaking news. a pleasant sight seeing trip in

new york ends in tragedy. you are looking live now at new york's hudson river. where divers and investigators are looking for body and wreckage from a midair collision that happened noon eastern team today. right now, nine people appear to be dead. and all this according to the mayor. they include a child on board the plane, an italian tourist aboard a helicopter. you can see very clear in new york as dusk settles there. thousand out and about in both new york city and new jersey. witnessing all this as it happened. they were simply stunned what they saw taking place in the sky then falling into the river. a small plane and a tourist helicopter in a death spiral into the dark, deep waters of the hudson. >> the only thing i saw was a black helicopter went down. we were all watching. it's look in the movie. and then, it start, it was turning. and then the head went down first. and then about, three, four second later, i thought it was a wing of the helicopter.

but there was no wing for helicopter. probably the rotor blades. so if this is the head. i think it went down like this. so it was quick. >> what did you do next after you saw this? >> oh, we call, three of the girls, we all call 911. i think it was probably busy. it said leave a message. so that was a little bit funny. but very soon. in about a minute. i just see like all other helicopters. and then people coming for the rescue. so it was very quick. >> did you see a plane? did you see a blaen? >> i did not see a plane. i didn't know there was a crash. i thought a malfunction. >> did you see them starting to pull people out of the water? >> i see a lot of people come try to rescue. lots of boats. start to drive towards the helicopter. >> did you see people in the water? were there people swimming? >> i did not see that. i did not see that.

i did not see any struggle or anything. i see a lot try to come and help. >> where were you golfing? >> chelsea piers. >> chelsea piers. >> where were you exactly when you saw it? >> i was on level three or c. i think level d. we were golfing. chelsea pier golf club. >> ma'am, tell me about the rescue effort? what did you see? boats heading to the scene? tell me what you saw. >> i saw a lot of helicopters. >> boats? >> and boats driving towards the scene. trying to help. >> how high in the air was the helicopter when it was going straight down? >> i don't think i saw the whole thing. when i saw it it took about -- i saw about six seconds of it. yeah. >> it was straight nose down? >> i think is was nose down, yeah. >> was it turning? >> i think is was turning, yeah. >> your reaction when you saw it. obviously never seen anything like this? >> i was very shocked. think i was screaming for a few second. and then two of us we start calling 911.

probably a lot of people saw it. that's why the line was busy. then we sought rescue boats. rescue helicopters. just after like a minute. that quick. >> no one swimming. >> i do not see it. >> any flames? >> i didn't see any flames. i saw some smokes like afterward. i didn't see any flames. >> want to show you what it looks like from google earth. as you come into new york harbor you see the statue of liberty, emis island in the lower left. moving up the hudson river. the crash site was in the stretch of river, pier 40 and lower manhattan and hoboken new jersey. cnns susan candiotti on the story. she begins coverage from the banks of the hudson lower manhattan. susan, i am hearing that the ntsb will hold a press conference shortly before the top of the hour maybe. >> all right. we also have some other breaking news to tell you about. i have a confirmed from two different agencies including the new york police department as

well as the medical examiner's office, that three victims have now been recovered. earlier, we had heard it was only two. but now we understand that three bodies have been recovered. and are now at the medical examiner's office. autopsies are expected to begin tomorrow morning. in the meantime, at this hour, don, it appears as though the recovery operation is still going on. we see a u.s. coast guard vessel out there. evidently in the area protecting the scene. and we see that other traffic is going up and down the hudson as it has been most of the afternoon. under escort to make sure nobody strays over into the area where the wreckage is believed to be. in 30 feet of water. it's been a very, very difficult operation. being carried out by divers who are, can barely see about two feet in front of them. the water very, very murky indeed. this is something that the authorities have been talking about for the longest time.

and they said that the operation will go on today as long as it is safe. for the divers to operate. beneath the water. we are still waiting to find out whether they will break off at sun down and resume operations in the morning. or continue to work throughout the night. as you have said, the national transportation safety board will begin its investigation, they brought in a special team from washington, d.c. to assist those who are here in the ground in this area to try to figure out what happened. how is it on a bright, sunny day, that the small plane would have just taken off from small teterboro airport in new jersey. somehow may have gotten into the path of this helicopter. as the sight seeing chopper was just taking off with the five italian tourists on board. it is a tragic, horrific accident and one that investigators will try to get to the bottom of just as soon as they can. don. >> absolutely. susan. again we may learn more at the top of the hour when the ntsb

has planned to hold a press conference. 8:00 p.m. eastern. 8:00 p.m. eastern live from the ntsb. we'll carry it for you right here on cnn. thanks again to susan candiotti following the story. as mentioned part of the issue is lack of air traffic control around parts of the hudson. today's collision happened in a busy corridor often filled with sight seeing aircraft. something mayor michael bloomberg talked about just a short time ago. take a listen to this. >> i think it is really any place you see a lot of traffic together that is not positively controlled. you have to be careful. it's not for me to prejudge whether any body did anything right or wrong. the only definitive answers to your questions will come from the national transportation safety board. that's why air transportation is so safe. they don't jump to conclusions. they carefully work to establish with a lot of investigation what exactly went on. >> new york city mayor, michael

bloomberg. john wily, a former airbus pilot with 19,000 hours of experience. he flies jets and he is a contributing editor to -- aviation weekly magazine. thank you sir for joining us. you understand, you said the mayor's response is very modulated, very controlled and perhaps that is because he is a pilot himself. >> it is really important. we talked about in the last hour, accidents are the exception to the rule. 99.9% of the time. all of the stuff works. that .1 of 1% gets our attention as it should. but we have to make sure our response is accurate and measured. bloomberg's comment that he wants to keep the corridor open, that is important. remember last year, two years ago, cory lidell in an aircraft, ended up crashing on the east river. they shut the east river corridor down. hope they will not shut down the hudson. >> imagine they will be looking at this very intently because of the accidents that have happened there recently. you know you have had the commercial airplane that went

down there back in january. but that, that is monitored by air traffic control. this is such a busy corridor here the i have been hearing people getting e-mails from peel saying there needs to be at least some sort of more control in this area when it comes to traffic. because there are so many planes that go through there. >> again, we have to look at this accident being the anomaly and not being the regular occurrence. this is new york. a highly scripted departure and arrival for these guys. there is a floor for the business jets and airliners that are going into the various airports that are in and around the new york area. the airliners are not descending below that floor. they're talking to air traffic control. the guys that are using the vfr corridor are talking among themselves state sg who they are, where they are, what altitude they're traveling at. so there is a lot of stuff going on beneath the surface. >> want to take our viewers through this, mr. wily, we have got teterboro, believe the plane was going south from teterboro airport, going down the river

hugging on the new jersey side. and from what we are hearing, again, you know as the mayor said we don't know exactly what was happening. we believe that the helicopter came out some where from manhattan. when they got here, on to the pier this is where, you know the accident happened. >> when we look at pa 32. a low-wing aircraft. the problem that you have got is if you are in a turn you have blanked out the area under the nose and it is to your left. you don't have good visibility there. if you are in a turn. the other thing. >> blind spot. >> a blind spot. if we look at the helicopter and the canopy that is on the helicopter, there are possible blind spots there. again, we go back to the unique nature of an evolution of an accident. these guys you can't avoid what you don't see. >> take us forward if you will. i know you have been doing this for a long time. what do you think we might learn from the ntsb at 8:00. hearing from susan candiotti, third body recovered from the hudson river. do you know what they might say at this point. it is pretty early on?

>> they are going to basically go through old high school interrog tiffs, who, what, when, where, why. the last one, why it happened will be difficult to some. it will take some time. they are going to have to look at this. and when we go back to 1549, sullenburger, all it takes a couple minor changes in the variables and the accident doesn't occur. if the pa 32 had taken off maybe exactly 30 seconds earlier. 30 seconds later. this would not have happened. >> john wily, thank you. john wily will stick around. ntsb press conference. we'll carry live for you at 8:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. we are wondering what we are going to learn from that. let's talk about the tour company. liberty on rates the sight seeing helicopter. no comment from them so far. two years ago one of their helicopters dropped 500 feet with seven passengers on board. the pilot was credited with landing safely in the hudson river and evacuated all of her

passengers. in 1997, a rotor on a liberty helicopter clipped a manhattan building forcing an emergency landing there. no one was hurt. our coverage of the breaking news story continues. we are awaiting an ntsb briefing should happen before the top of the hour. and a flight instructor regularly takes students up and down the hudson river. history on the high court. today, judge sonia sotomayor became justice sotomayor. we're taking your comments on facebook, myspace or ireport.com.

this is such a busy corridor for air travel. the ntsb trying to get on top of this to make sure there isn't a problem in this area they need to address right away. we are awaiting a news conference for them. at first told it will be 8:00. they're telling us it could happen before then. stick around on cnn. we'll bring tight you live. from now on it is justice sotomayor. >> i, sonia sotomayor do solemnly swear. >> i sonia sotomayor do solemnly swear. >> that i will administer justice without respect to persons. >> that i will administer justice without respect to persons. >> and do equal right to the poor and to the rich. >> and do equal right to the poor and to the rich. >> and that i will. >> with her mother holding a bible, sonia sotomayor was sworn in this morning as america's 111th supreme court justice.

chief justice john roberts administered the judicial oath during a public ceremony in the high court's conference room. the first time the court has allowed tv coverage of a swearing-in ceremony. in new york spanish harlem there was an enthusiastic viewing party. [ cheering ] >> sonia sotomayor is the first hispanic supreme court justice in u.s. history and only the third woman to serve on the nation's high court. coming in october -- cnn will present "latino in america" how hispanics are reshaping politics, business, schools and culture. only on cnn starts this october. capitol hill may have cleared out for august recess, but the president isn't taking a barack from his health care pitch. he is saying health care reform it is the right medicine for the ailing economy. and cnns elaine quuchlt iano is

at the white house. >> reporter: today in his weekly address the president tried hitting back against what the white house says is misinformation without naming names in his weekly and internet address the president went after those who said are trying to exploit differences for political gain. >> let me start by dispelling the -- the outlandish rumors that reform will promote euthanasia or cut medicaid or bring about a government takeover of health care. that's simply not true. this isn't about putting government in charge of your health insurance. it's about putting you in charge of your health insurance. >> the president also argued again that reforming health care is going to be key in getting the economy back on solid footing. he sounded kau sthusly optimistic in noting the latest unemployment figures better than expected at 9.4%. the democrats' health care plan

is too costly and the unemployment figure 9.2% is still too high. they point out that translates to 247,000 americans who lost their jobs last month alone. don. look and sound more look a pro wrestling match than a meeting of lawmaker and constituents. our gary tuchman has seen awful them and puts it all into context for us. >> reporter: is it democracy? demagoguery. or both? congressional townhall meetings during august recess used to be rather sleepy affairs, not anymore. there are images of president obama with a mustache like hitlers or looking like the joker. also elected representatives hung in effigy. democrating senators like pennsylvania's arlen specter. >> medicare and social security --

and claire mccaskill are hearing it from extremely unhappy americans who don't like the idea of health care reform. >> the same plan they're asking us to do? >> people have been arrested. others have suffered minor injuries with pushing and shoving. democrats like florida's kathy caster have barely been able to get in a word edgewise. at her meeting reform opponents were seething because hundreds of them were stuck outside the townhall because they couldn't fit in the room. protestors held signs on the other side of the window. the congresswoman had to be hustled out. in texas, congressman lloyd dogett tried to talk. he was drowned out. one protestor used it to depict him in an unsavory way. >> the crowd was angry. i suppose some might have had a negative reaction to the poster that said lloyd doggett traitor to texas, devil to all people.

>> reporter: how did it come to this? depends on who you ask. the democratic national committee says the confrontations are orchestrated by the republican party and the democrats released this web video. >> they lost the confidence of the american people. now desperate republicans are organizing angry mobs just look they did during the election. >> reporter: the word mob is greatly insulting to the folks on the other side of the argument. many participants say they are exercising their rights. and a pennsylvanian who attended a townhall hosted by arlen specter. >> i feel like my constitutional rights are being take any way from me right before my eyes. i don't like the direct, that we are going. they're taking away our freedom of speech. and the silent majority is finally fed up with it. >> reporter: now moveon.org sent out an e-mail to supporters saying they have a plan to fight back against these radical right-wingers. the group is raising hundreds of thousand in donations. it is not only the weather that

is hot in august, now the political temperature is boiling too. gary tuchman, cnn, new york. we have some breaking details on the breaking news that we have been telling you about here on cnn. just got it in. this we are being told by nypd deputy commissioner that the divers are now out of the water. in the hudson river. they're going to resume tomorrow. the nypd boats though will remain on the water. the nypd helicopter will be vigilant for any surfaced bodies. the total recovered so far, two adults. one child. the adults they believe are from the helicopter. the child is believed to be from the plane. although the plane has not yet been located. that is the new information. there is also new information coming out. susan candiotti on the scene following the developing story. get her up in moments here. we are also awaiting a press conference. a briefing from the national transportation and safety board. they say it can happen at any

moment now. and in other news, let's talk north korea. sentence to hard labor, then set free, what was behind the sudden change of heart by north korea to free two american journalists? the man who says that he may have contributed to the release of the journalists joins us live. so what do you think?

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new details in that midair crash over the hudson river. we are awaiting a press conference to happen at any moment now. susan cankiotti fdiotti is folle story. laura ling and euna lee spent four months detained in south korea. sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for entering the communist country illegally. didn't look like they would be coming home anytime soon. and yet suddenly this week they were back on american soil with former president bill clinton and vice president al gore by their sides. and it was a bold and daring bit of diplomacy by the obama administration. it paid off. the women were granted amnesty and let go. laura's sister, lisa, spoke with cnn about reuniting with her.

>> my sister is so, so happy to be home. she is still quite weak and exhausted and incredibly emotional. she has been in relative isolation for months and months and you know she doesn't even lock to be alone. you know yesterday she was so exhausted. and she wanted to take a quick nap. she kept asking me are you going to be here when i come back. are you going to be here when i come back. today we took her to the doctor's office. and you you know i wasn't planning on going to go to the doctor. my mom was going to take her. she said will you please come with me. she hasn't wanted to be alonen't i hear from euna's husband michael that, hannah their 4-year-old daughter has not wanted her mother to leave her sight. i mean she just keeps following her around from room to room because she doesn't want her mom to, you know leave anywhere. leave her. >> only imagine the white house

officials say they are happy with the outcome. but they're downplaying it as any kind of breakthrough in diplomatic relations. dr. han park teaches political science and international relations at university of georgia and one of the foremost scholars on north korea now living in the u.s. dr. park has been a frequent visitor to north korea since 1981. he joins us now to explain what happened this past week. what it could mean for the future here. thank you so much for joining us. i want to got to something that you said to me. we'll get to the future. but you said you may have contributed to this in some way, you think. not necessarily just you, you went over, visited north korea recently. >> i don't want to really amplify what i may have done. what i did was actually, july 4th. i went there. and stayed there for four days. >> it's important for people to know that. >> i found out that to the amazement of myself and everyone in the united states, they were

still held in pyongyang and treated well. weeks after the verdict was given. that suggests very strongly to me north korean government is more interested in releasing them than sending them to hard labor camp. but we have to provide some for them. they cannot just release. what i did, i broke the news. i reported to the family as well, state department officials. in the public that they're still held in pyongyang. but they're not going to be kept there forever. so they may be sitting on a ticking time bomb. so why, still they are in pyongyang we must do something. >> to try to get them back home. >> why former president clinton. why him? >> he would have been the only one. because amnesty is only to be granted by the head of state. and no one else would have given the permission to see kim jong-il because that country is

very seriously protocol oriented country. so former president and also who was supposed to be in the mind of north koreans visiting there for summit meeting at the waning moment of his presidency in the year 2000. so that, in other words, probably president clinton may have had a standing invitation from kim jong-il. that was, that really, he was the only one. could have done it. >> the white house is downplaying this as some sort of new diplomatic, you know, opening with north korea what have you. is that an accurate assessment from the white house? is this something new. or are they downplaying this? >> yeah, they are downplaying of course. and north korea itself. since, clinton's visit and domestic media. they are really seeing this as the beginning of bilateral negotiation. you know, i don't know. why we are downplaying it.

it is important to engage and speak with north koreans. >> you think we should be talking. some say we shouldn't negotiate or talking with them? >> we should be talking by laterally, multilaterally. >> why? >> without dialogue we are talking about a nuclear state. and that has exhibited certain attitudes and patterns that could be very dangerous. >> the criticism is that we don't know what we gave up. meaning the u.s., america doesn't know what it gave up by going in and -- and getting these journalists out and by president clinton sitting down and talking to kim jong-il. >> no, bringing these women out is a huge gain. in fact, if they had been sent to a labor camp, probably they would never have gotten out. forever perhaps. north koreans may not have wanted american reporters to come out after having experienced the life in the labor camp. so this is a very important victory, humanitarian.

>> when people say we may, we don't know what we would have, might have given up. what might we have given up. what do they mean by that? >> i mean maybe the legitimacy of the state, respect, self-esteem. there are many systems in the world including north korea that we are not comfortable with. if we decide not to talk with them, we are going to see very volatile international involvement. so we have got to speak with them. >> thank you very much, hand park. a pleasure speaking with you and meeting you. thank you for joining us on this saturday. meantime we, have breaking news to tell you about. tonight. nine people killed after a small plane collided with a tourist helicopter over the hudson river. expecting an ntsb briefing at any minute now. but for now, we can bring you some new details on this. some of which are reported moments ago. susan candiotti has details. she has been following the story since it broke. what do you have now? >> don, additional information

about the victims in this horrific accident. according to the police, three victims have now been recovered. now we hear among them are two adults and one child. the two adult victims were believed to have been found in the wreckage of the helicopter. the child was one of the two passengers aboard that small plane along with the pilot. however, we must note that so far the plane's debris and wreckage has not yet been found police say. at this hour, as we show you the scene of where the divers have been working, we can tell you that, in fact, they have called off the search for the night. you have a u.s. coast guard ship out there. you also have new york police department ships, boats as well. as helicopters. occasionally are flying overhead. they will be here all night long. to protect the integrity of the crash scene. and you also, we are also learning that autopsies will begin on the victims tomorrow morning.

remember, nine people in all died between the sight seeing helicopter as well as the small plane. and the recovery operation has been very difficult because the water is so murky. divers we are told can only see about two feet in front of them. as they work in 30 feet of water. don. >> that is, could be deeper in some areas. the hudson is a bear. the hudson river we all know that. thank you so much. susan candiotti. standing by as well as our expert john wily, former airbus pilot to help us with the ntsb press conference. expect it soon. we are going to speak also with a flight instructor who regularly takes students up and down the hudson river. plus this -- a matriarch of the kennedy clan in critical condition at this cape cod hospital. we'll have the latest on eunice kennedy shriver's health for you.

all right. new information coming in on that crash over the hudson river today. susan candiotti updated us

moments ago saying three body had been pulled now from the river. two adults and one child. the national transportation safety board expected to hold a press conference at any moment. very interesting to learn what is going to happen there. very busy corridor in new york city there. so it will be interesting to figure out what they're going to do with it. right now, at new york's hudson river, divers and investigators are done for the night. they have been looking for bodies and wreckage from the terrible midair collision between a small plane and a sight seeing helicopter. it happened around noon eastern time. nine people apparently killed in all. so far, the body of two adults and one child as we reported have been recovered. joining me by phone is bob miller from over the airwaves.com. and bob you say traffic in the area is very dense and requires very careful piloting skills. you have got to be on your game? >> well that is right, don. it is extremely congested airspace down there.

i should say that it is also controlled airspace. pilots operating along the hudson river can be in contact with la guardia tower or newark tower and receive traffic advisories all up and down the hudson river. there is a way they can do it just without any radio contact or radio contact air to air with other pilots. that is a difficulty. some of the pilots operating will be talking with either newark tower or la guardia tower. other pilots will be talking between themselves and other aircraft. and some pilots may not be talking to anybody at all. >> listen, as i understand it. you take student pilots up and down this corridor all the time. what is that like? take us through that? >> when i say student pilot i mean advanced instrument pilots. trained pilots that are learning to operate in highly congested airspace. we fly into the new york city airports. la guardia, kennedy, newark, and teterboro. part of the training we go up

and down the hudson river. what we are teaching our pilots is to watch few see and to avoid. that's the only way that you can really safely maneuver. and doing that it is not a difficult exercise. there are other aircraft up there. we also have technology on board, most modern aircraft, newer aircraft that actually identify other aircraft on a radar-type screen on our airplane. so again i want to emphasize it is a safe. very safe maneuver to go up and down that. but again because it is so congested we have to watch carefully. >> let me ask you this. because you are saying -- you know, here, it is controlled. others are saying there could be more control, that it might, might help out here. will that be taken into consideration? and if you will move us forward to the ntsb press conference that could come up at any moment now? what do we expect to hear from that. will they talk about this issue that you are talking about? >> they certainly will. we are hopeful that this one

incident does not cause a shut down of the new york, excuse me, the hudson river vrf corridor. the amount of traffic going up and done that every day. i have to emphasize this is an extremely isolated. i can't remember, perhaps your producers can find out, when the last time there was an incident like this along that particular airspace. what they may attempt to do down the road is assign altitude restrictions. for example, limiting helicopters below a certain altitude. and airplanes above a certain altitude. they do that in other highly restricted or congested airspace. we are hopeful we will find a cause for this. but there will be no change in the operating procedures along the river. >> to your point, may your bloomberg said he can't remember anything like this in recent history with this many deaths regarding the airways in this area of new york city and new jersey. >> yes, this is an extremely

isolated incident. has to be looked at from that perspective. >> bob miller, overtheairwaves.com. thank you. >> thank you, don. >> standing by for a briefing from the ntsb on today's deadly collision, a small plane and helicopter over the hudson river. stick around. we'll bring tight you live. a may tree aufshg the k

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jersey home, she turned to baking. >> it was a flash of desperation. i thought wow we can sell the cakes. >> a reason angela fell into a cash squeeze, two years renova house. he took his money but only did a portion of the work. to save her home, angela set a goal of selling 100 mortgage apple cakes in 10 days at $40 each. she ask everyone she knew to buy a cake. >> the hardest part was say, can you buy my cake, this a problem? >> reporter: a local hotel offered a kitchen to bake faster. she's baked 200 cakes, double her goal. by qualifying for the federal make home affordable program, her monthly mortgage payment is dropping by nearly 20%. other americans in a financial bind, she says, can also find creative annerses to their cash crunch. >> find your talent. find something that you can do that will help you.

i can paint fences. who needs one? >> reporter: almost any talent can generate extra cash. teaching a still like playing an instrument. home repairs for those who are handy. even dog walking or pet sitting for animal lovers. >> wow, incredible. >> reporter: bake me a wish got a whiff of the apple cake and is greasing pans to mass produce it and share proceeds, a loin of angela logan cakes i planned. escaping foreclosure could protell angela to a new career, queen of cakes. back in her kitchen she studies nursing knowing from experience never to depend upon just one role. allan chernoff, cnn, new jersey. i would say convenience

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august 1969 was a groovy month for music. we're coming up on the 40th anniversary of woodstock, the

festival that promised peace, love, and all 0 kind of other stuff. one legally blind 15-year-old guitarist will open the celebration jimmy hen direction style. cnn all-platform journalist jon kyls introduces us to conrad oberg. ♪ >> i think jim was the best performance there at woodstock. and then the national anthem was one of the highlights, definitely. ♪ it's to the point now where i almost don't really like hearing it straight. ♪ you know, i hate hearing it like that. i'd rather hear -- in between it, it's a lot more fun. what can i say? you know, it's probably the best version of the national anthem there's ever been.

you kind of added different sound effects to people say that was representative of the sounds of war, you know? ♪ i just think of it him as just going nuts. ♪ i just kind of think i'm paying homage to jimi in a way, you know? i love playing his music and i consider him a friend, you know? i'm stepping in for a buddy of mine, in my opinion. definitely one of the high points of my life, definitely. ♪

we're following breaking news on cnn. if you're tuning in, nine people apparently died today in a collision of a tourist helicopter and a small plane over the hudson rev river. i want told you, before we go to that, looking at -- see the bottom of the screen, the picture at bottom of the screener that's a press conference they're preparing to get ready for a briefing, i should say, bet way of putting it from the national transportation and safety board in hoboken, new jersey. there you see manhattan sky behind you and the hudson river behind that as a backdrop. the hudson river in manhattan is a backdrop as we wait for a briefing from the national transportation safety board. it could happen at any moment. what we know about the nine people who died. three bodies have been recovered two adult swaz child. adults believed to be aboard the

helicopter, and the child believed to be a passenger on the plane. parts of the helicopter have apparently been located in 30 feet of water. the plane has not been located. recovery efforts have been halted for the night because the sun is going down. again, only two feet of visibility in the hudson river and some areas as deep as 30 feet, maybe deeper than that. we expect to learn nor in a few minutes as ntsb holds a briefing. i want to bring john into the conversation now. he's a former criminal investigator and a commercial pilot. he's a commercial pilot and flies this corridor all the time. he's very familiar with it. take us through what we night hear at this briefing, sir. >> well, i think you're going to be talking about the corridor itself. you have a very congested area around the new york city area and there's a class b airspace which protects major airports around there. now, in order to give planes an area for them go down and do the

sightseeing of the statue of liberty, they carved off a small pace, and it's complicated because it's a tight space. let's not forget a few years when cory from the new york yankees on the east river corridor was so tight in the space when he tried to make a u-turn, flew right into a building and killed himself. they made that a permanent temporary flight restriction while the east river remains the bfr corridor and not class b airspace, permits tfr, in and of itself gives it permanent class b airspace. you cannot go through there without air traffic control. river like the lincoln tunnel itself is 1.5 miles long. so we have a river that's a mile and a half long. got to stay below 1100 feet and comply with federal rules and regulations which say you have to stay above 1,000 feet of the highest obstacle in 2000 feet. it's very