were on the plane. there is an active search underway as you can see behind me for those people and the aircraft. they did find some parts but crews are using sonar devices to find the rest. the police chopper started scouring from the air this morning as soon as the skies brightened over the titicus reservoir near the new york/connecticut border, looking for any sign of the missing 1971 cessna. the new york city department of environmental protection says it did not take long for them to notice something. >> we were able to see a sheen on the reservoir. we were also able to find some debris, specifically a seat and a wheel were found. >> reporter: the search for the aircraft and whoever was onboard started yesterday. state police say danbury airport reported losing contact with the plane as it approached the runway around 4:30 south of the reservoir. it was coming in from mississippi according to dep

and crews searched the water here for hours, ultimately stopping until this morning because of the weather. new york city dep police patrol the reservoir since it supplies water to new york city. they say the crash and the search will not hamper the water system at all. >> there's no threat to new whatsoever. and right now, obviously the police who are working onsite, the dive teams are concentrating on finding debris and the airplane, and finding anyone who may have been aboard. >> reporter: and there is no official word yet on the identities of those who may have been onboard. the ntsb is on its way up here to investigate and figure out exactly what caused this plane to go down. reporting live from north salem, westchester county, andrea grymes, cbs 2 news. >> thank you. and now the developing story out of mali. 18 people are now dead after a hotel attack this morning.

u.s. forces were involved avoids lammic extremist stormed a hotel popular with foreigners. craig boswell has more. >> reporter: freed hostages ran for safety in mali's capitol after 10 suspected islamic extremist ambushed the radisson blu hotel. the group stormed the hotel and took 170 people hostage. all are now safe. witnesses say the men shouted god is great in arabic during their assault. a senior u.s. official told cbs news americans were registered at the hotel including employees of the state department and testimony bah single digits. mali is a former french colony and today's violence comes just one week after the terror attacks in paris. president barack obama was asked about the siege during a meeting in malaysia. >> we're monitoring the situation. >> reporter: u.s. and french forces stationed in the west african nation helped mali's military free the hostages. the hotel is popular with foreigners. employees with air france were staying there.

qaeda are claiming responsibility for the deadly siege. craig boswell, cbs news, the state department. >> after al-qaeda extremist took over in mali, france launched a military intervention in 2013 and hundreds of french soldiers remain in the country today. an american is now in new york city who was arrested three decades ago. >> reporter: this exclusive video shows 61-year-old jonathan pollard arriving at federal court in lower manhattan just hours after getting released from a life sentence in a north carolina federal prison. something he's eligible for and was granted now that he served 30 years behind bars. what do you have to say about your release? >> no comment. >> reporter: pollard walked in with his wife where he checked in with the probation office. he is not allowed to travel outside the country for five

years and his computer will be monitored. his attorney called the conditions oppressive and he is challenging the terms and filed a petition to ease restriction, something he wouldn't talk about outside of court. pollard's release comes 30 years after provide classified u.s. government information to israel. until the mid-1980s, he was a navy analyst who had access to secret documents. he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit espionage and it's divided public opinion and relations between israel and their closest ally. supporters said he was unfairly punished for helping an american ally. >> for decade, the case has been of deep interest to people in israel. there was a period of time where israel was not acknowledging that mr. pollard had been a spy.

he is now recognized widely in israel as somebody who could be looked at as a hero. >> reporter: in fact, his name has been used as a bargaining chip in the mideast peace price. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said the people of israel welcome the release of jonathan pollard. as someone who raised his case for years with american president, i long hoped this day would come. so again the federal government granted the release on parole. we're told that pollard does have a job lined up here in new york city as well as housing been released. in manhattan, ilana gold, cbs 2 news. >> the white house said today that it had no plans to alter the terms of pollard's parole. the city's homeless population has indeed spiked and the de blasio administration should have acknowledged it. those comments came from a perhaps unlikely source, new york's police commissioner. police commissioner bill bratton was speaking on quality

of life issues. >> i think a mistake that the administration made early on was not, if you will, validating what we all were seeing. the problem was increasing. >> bratton said that while his department was addressing the problem, he says police are constrained by court decisions protecting the rights of the homeless to remain on the streets. it's been one week since the attacks on paris. as parisians pay tribute to the dead, the search for a key suspect is extended. the man hunting for salah netherlands. the terror suspect slipped away after the attacks in paris. french officials admit they have no idea where he is currently. investigators used a cellphone to track down suspected ring leader abdelhamid abaaoud. he was killed in a raid wednesday. despite progress in the investigation, some worry paris will be hit again. >> i think it's not finished because one action and again and again and again.

>> one week after the attack, many parisians stopped by to pay tribute to the victims. one person wounded in the attacks has died bringing the death toll to 130. new information on a string of fires in queens. sources tell cbs 2 news six fires in and around forest hills may have been deliberately set since october. cellphone video shows the flames shooting from the burning construction site on 66th avenue in forest hills tuesday. officials say they have video of a man going into the building right before a fire erupts but they never see him leave. the latest laser light incident in the area involves not a pilot but a city bus driver. the mta bus driver kenneth johnson says he has head pain and impaired vision. he says a passenger pointed a raiser into the rear-view mirror. >> it was like looking into a bright light. i was blinded by the light so i couldn't identify who the passenger was that was shooting it. >> the passenger took off.

he looks forward to returning to work once cleared by his doctor. we learned that a long island teenager was part of a group targeted in a deadly israel. authorities say a palestinian man fired shots from a car, hitting a van. the teen was on a study abroad program. the gunman then crashed into pedestrians. two other people were killed. in tel-aviv, another palestinian stabbed two people to death. both attackers were arrested. there's still much more ahead here on cbs 2 news. the government green light to sell genetically engineered salmon. the suspect says the government wants him because of what he saw at ground zero. plus this -- hello from the other side >> adele takes control. how she's limiting who can listen to her new album out today. well, from gray to blue, wet to dry, and warm to cool,

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year -- be on the table in a few years. >> reporter: a great new source of healthy food, the fda is officially calling genetically modified salmon fit for human consumption. >> i'm not too keen on that. >> i think it's weird. >> reporter: it will couple from a which a fade -- will come from a canadian company. they'll hatch the eggs in canada and then ship them to panama to be farmed and then sell in the u.s. >> it's changing or altering the genetic material in a way you couldn't do with traditional breeding. in this case, it's taken from an eel, another type of salmon and putting that in a third type to supposedly make it grow faster. >> it's about time. >> reporter: gregory of the center for science of the public interest says the modified salmon has been studied for years and there's no evidence it poses a health risk. >> science today seems to

suggest that it's no different than the conventional counterpart. >> reporter: but even he admits that the company should make it clear to consumer, something that's not required by the fda. the genetically modified fish do not have to be labeled. >> as a consume e i want to know what i'm getting. >> it's sneaky. >> if they're going to buy salmon, look for wild salmon because that's one way to know for sure that it's not genetically engineered. >> and to keep the fish from breeding with wild salmon, the only place they are allowed to grow the fish is in a lake, high in the mountains. as we ramp up for the busy holiday season, there's a consumer warning. your personal information may be at risk. everything from your email and home address and future travel plans and all thieves need is a free app a bar code you leave behind. >> used to be just products and now it's every piece of information that we have for almost everything we do in life. >> with a little digging by the

right person, they can reset the password to the account. >> find out how the to avoid becoming a victim tonight on cbs 2 news at 11:00. a murder suspect hiding in plain sight in argentina. >> he went so he didn't have to face trial in colorado. >> he says he's innocent and he's wanted by the u.s. after taking pictures of ground zero. and a dip in the

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okay. time for your cbs 2 news forecast. let's bring in john elliott. >> weekend chilly. weekend's going to get new the mood for stuffing and gravy. hi everybody. can make. 1 to 1.2 to 1.4 inches of rain yesterday and now cooler 57 northshore. valley. the 40s. love the pictures if the weather watchers. beautiful blue skies here and there. daniel, appreciate this, the again. this after many locations over an inch of rain. and i got to tell you that's i know.

turkey in my 1941 model a1 ford. we appreciate that. and nice enough to get out a classic today with the nice skies. we are going to see chilly temperatures though. 56 now. but over the weekend, numbers will dip. the reason why, it's a northwest wind. kind of that area of high pressure building in and the wind cooler. so there you see, 52 in sparta to 52349 the hamptons. the numbers compared the to yesterday, it's not surprising. two to about 10 degrees colder than we were. hit 64 yesterday. and now 64 technically is going to go down for the high today because it was at midnight into the 1:00 a.m. hour. but now we're already cooler than that. 52 is the normal so we're above 99. sunsets at 4:44. it's quiet here. high pressure building in. that's our next system. and models still have that pushing through on sunday mornin night, fine. just a little cooler for your iday night fun.

and saturday, chores are fun. clouds in the morning, quiet in the afternoon. and here comes the front, builting of the energy to the north but sunday morning, you do see a line of showers push through. relatively quick mover. much of the day salvaged. just cooler. highs sunday and monday, only in the 40s. the jet stream has pushed to the south. so it's a lot cooler. looks like monday potentially the coldest yet. the day today, 57. overnight tonight, quiet, that's 40 in the city. and obviously cooler for the suburbs. and the day tomorrow, cooler still but mary was asking me about next week. a lot of folks entered in travel. looks good for get-away think you will like thanksgiving as well. right now, a little milder for the trip to the mall on friday. and but remember, if you're going, chris. but sunday and monday, highs in the 40s. >> know i love malls. >> i'll be there. a husband is wanted in the

u.s. for murdering his wife but he is living in south america with his new familiar lynch police say he's a killer but he says the government wants him for what he saw at ground zero. 48 hours has the strange case. >> reporter: he is a wanted man in the u.s. but he lives openingly and freely in argentina, raising twin daughters with his second wife. >> he is innocent. there's nothing else to say. >> reporter: his first wife nancy died of a gunshot wound to the head new year's day 2002. he insisted it was a suicide. a retired detective -- >> we realized really very, very quickly that this was not a suicide. this was a homicide investigation. >> reporter: before he went on trial, prosecutors suddenly dropped the case, citing

a year and a half later, they refiled the murder charge. but he was in argentina. >> he went there so that he didn't have to face trial in colorado. >> reporter: when u.s. authorities tried to have him extradited, he began telling reporters in argentina the u.s. really wants him back to silence him. for what he saw at ground zero as a fema camera man. >> do you think that the government knows? >> yeah. i'm 100% sure of it. >> reporter: he claims the u.s. knew about the attack yet he has never offered any concrete evidence. >> i believe that he has built a persona as a marter and hero and i think the politics of argentina have protected him from a murder charge. >> we are live now from the 48 hours news room.

and how strong a case does the district attorney have against him for murdering his wife? >> reporter: you know, mary, this is a very unusual case. and any time when you have a question between homicide and suicide, that's a very difficult case to prove. shot. you don't know whose hand was on the gun but it's clear there's a lot of evidence to indicate that he's not telling the full truth about what happened that morning. >> any credibility to his claims that the u.s. government was involved in the world trade center attacks? >> reporter: well, chris, let me first point out, he never made any of these claims until almost three years after he worked at ground zero. and at one point, i saw him in this interview in argentina saying, i saw from day one where the government was destroying evidence but he doesn't mention that he didn't even get to ground zero until a week later. so i think there are some real questions about many of the claims he's making.

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i'm sorry for everything that i've done but when i call you >> adele's new album "25" debuts today but you won't be hearing it on streaming services. she was permly involved in the decision. it can only be purchased from places like itunes. it's still expected to be a record breaker. the biggest release if years. coming up on cbs 2 news tonight beginning at 5:00, a long island man car goes up in flames and the danger that sparked it. how autumn leaves could lead to danger. and at 6:00, suspicious fires in queens destroy several homes. the clues left behind by a possible arsonists.

and the city is marking a milestone when it comes to trees. today mayor de blasio is joined by former mayor bloomberg in bronx to celebrate planting the 1 millionth tree. 1 million new trees have been planted along streets and parks across all five boroughs. >> good to see. that's it for us at noon. for john elliott and the entire cbs 2 news team, thanks for join us. i'm mary calvi. >> and i'm chris wragge. cbs 2 news is back at 5:00. we will see you monday morning at 4:30. have a great afternoon and a wonderful weekend. look how beautiful it is...

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