captioning funded by cbs it's wednesday, june 14th, 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." in my 29 years being a firefighter, i have never, ever seen anything of this scale. >> breaking news. several people are dead and dozens hurt after a london high-rise erupted into flames. according to rwitnesses, residents tied sheets together while others begged for wall. >> just like a water fall on the side. >> they were called

continues to smolder with concerns it could collapse. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. well, early this morning a massive fire engulfed an apartment building in london. fire officials say several people are dead, but the scale of the disaster is still unclear. >> at this time i am very sad to confirm that there have been a number of fatalities. i cannot confirm the number at this time due to the size and complexity of this building. >> the 24-story building contains 120 homes and nearly every floor of the building was affectedet affect affected. at least 50 people were taken to

people crying inside the building with people doing anything they could do to escape. >> it is about a five-minute walk away and we could hear people screaming help me, help me and adjusting their phone lights to let people know they were there. >> the gren well tower is located in london and that's where jonathan vigliotti is this hour. good morning. >> reporter: anne-marie, good morning. we're about a block away. from where we stand, we can feel the mist of the firefighters' hoses. you can see the smoke billowing from the building. the fire his being put out. you see the firefighters on the inside trying to douse those flames from within. just a shorthi

video with firefighters pulling out a survivor six hours after this fire. it started according to police before 1:00 this morning. many people in this building, families. we spoke with one girl, 16-year-old. she told me she was woken up by her father. they managed to escape through the fire well. the firefighters were telling people to initially stay inside their apartments and put towels under the door to prevent smoke from getting in. initially it was centralized to one apartment on the fourth floor but within an hour it quickly spread throughout the entire building. firefighters told those inside to put things over their head, any material and try to escape. down here on the ground people watched all of this from the safety of the street. people on the inside on the

floors with flames behind them as they dangled out windows trying to get attention with clothing, any kind of means from firefighters, persons on the ground. one person i spoke with said she saw somebody trying to jump out the window to get to safety. those who managed to make it out are now at a community center. we have seen countless people crying as they desperately trying to reach those inside. one woman breaking down in tears saying her family and friends were inside. she still has not heard from them. still no word what caused this fire. it appears to have started in one apartment on the fourth floor, but we don't know why it all so quickly escalated to the entire building. firefighters, about 200 of them remain here on the scene. we hear an occasional explosion from the fires crackling inside the apartments as they try to desperately continue to contain the situation. anne-marie. >> jonathan, i

burning. the building lacks utterly destroy and from some of the shots, i can see the residential area. there are other shortser buildings surrounding it. is there a concern this structure could come down? >> reporter: it's a good question. there is a concern structurally it looks incredibly unsafe. police have cordoned off several blocks surrounding this complex. the train station that surrounding the billiuilding ha been closed off. from where we are, we see inside where the firefighters have been going. firefighters still remain here on scene which leads us to believe as we look at this that it is structurally safe enough for firefighters to continue to carry out that work, but, of course, that concern about the safety of this building, whether or not it could collapse, a looming threat and a concern for those in this medial area

jonathaning you're going to continue to cover this story. we'll see you a little later on on "cbs this morning." thank you so much for the update. jonathan vigliotti in london. an american college student who has been serving a 15-year prison term in north korea is home in ohio this morning. but there are concerns about his health. otto warmbier arrived in cincinnati last night. his parents are in the hangar. he has been in a coma. he was arrested after being accused of trying to steal a poster. they claim by holding interest in his empire he's violating constitutional restrings on taking gifts from foreign leaders. it's the largest group of lawmakers to sua president in u.s. history. the law requires the president g

before accepting gifts. attorney general jeff sessions said it was a detestable and appalling lie to suggest that he was aware or participated in any collusion between the trump campaign and russia. many more than two hours of testimony before the senate intelligence committee, sessions was pressed on his conversations with the president and the firing of james comey. weijia jiang is in washington. good morning, weijia. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. it was clear some of his former senate colleagues were not buying it. >> i have never met with or had any conversation with any russians or any foreign officials concerning any type of interference with any campaign or election in the united states. >> reporter: during 2 1/2 hours of testimony, attorney general jeff sessions insisted he has

contact with russians or interfered with the investigation. >> i recused myself from any investigation into the campaign for president, but i did not recuse myself from defending my honor against scirolous allegations. >> mr. comey said there were matters with respect o the recusal that were problematic and he couldn't talk about them. what are they? >> i -- that -- why don't you tell me. there are none, senator wind. >> at times, sessions seemed to feel the pressure. >> i'm not able to be rushed this fast. it makes me nervous. >> reporter: focus briefly shifted to talks that they considered firing robert mueller who's leading the investigation.

sessions insisted he would play no role in his dismissal. >> i wouldn't think that would be appropriate for me to do. >> reporter: the white house said late tuesday night president trump has no intention of letting go of mueller even though the president, quote, has the right to. arguing he could not talk about their private conversations even though the president never ored silence around this hearing, which he could have done through executive privilege. anne-marie? >> weijia jiang in washington. thank you so much, weijia. ahead on "cbs this morning," we'll talk with john dickerson, cbs news chief correspondent and moderator of "face the nation" about sessions' testimony. jury deliberations resume this morning in the sexual assault trial of bill cosby. as he was leaving the court cosby mimicked one of

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this morning, a horrible scene in london where an unknown people have died in a high-rise fire which consumed an apartment building. a lot of democrats in congress are filing a lawsuit today against president trump. >> and while we have unofficial winners in rg

there hasn't been a concession in one of the races. >> the good news is, it's not going to be nearly as hot today. the bad news is, we're in a yellow alert. allison alison rae is looking at the forecast. >> you'll notice a bigger change by tomorrow, and we are going to see storms come on through today. this is day one of an unsettled pattern. we'll have storms in the forecast for several days and today just kind of kicking off. we had some yesterday as well. this is going to impact your drive home. check out these temperatures. 80 degrees. we have slight improvement with the dew point. we're into the 60s thanks to a northerly wind. you will feel it as soon as you step outside. we're headed to the upper 80s today. yesterday, we reached 95 degrees, just one degree shy out at reagan national. 79 right now. these are current temperatures for least burg. 68 for ma

we'll stay dry, sunny, this is very limited to the afternoon and into the early evening. this is 3:00, we're still dry out there with temperatures into the mid 80s. it's going to be humid, feeling 90 today. by 5:00 to 6:00, for your drive home, it could impact the nats game briefly. as far as severe weather is concerned, i think the heavy rain would be more of an impact than any other component. i think those threats are much smaller than the amount of rain we could see. our threat for rain is not over. we'll talk about that in the next couple of days. >> you know how it's 4:27, when i'm talking about accidents that just happened that are cleared already. if you're on route 50, between route 202 and columbia park. that is finally gone. so didn't last very long. outer loop of the beltway, route 50, georgetown pike, i- 66, we had a crash that has cleared

heading northbound on 95, looks pretty good. we did have an accident by fairfax county parkway. now 14 minutes, starting further north from there, lorton area, it's 7 minutes. thanks so much, 4:28 now. breaking news from london. firefighters still not sure how many people have died in a high- rise apartment fire. >> this is big. about 24 stories. the building is a big smoking ruin this morning. it broke out in the overnight hours. the victims were in their beds. 50 people have gone to the hospital. it appears the fire started on a lower floor and look at the flames. this is video from overnight. it went straight up the building. london's mayor tweeted a major incident has been cleared. >> the family of a university of virginia student will hold a news conference later today, now that he has been brought back

carried off a plane when he landed in cincinnati and taken to the hospital. the 22-year-old was serving a 15 year prison term for alleged acts against the state. he was arrested last year on a trip to north korea and confessed to trying to steal a propaganda banner. >> jurors in the cosby case go back for their third day of deliberations and submitted four questions to the judge for clarifications. cosby is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting andrea. you see her on the left, back in 2004. this is wake up washington on wusa9. >> and good morning, everyone, i'm mikea turner. >> hump day, all right, still hot. glad you're with us, we're going to talk heat. we're going to talk yellow alert. we're going to talk storms headed our way. alison rae has

>> afternoon, early evening event. this could impact your drive home. that's why we have this yellow weather alert. your drive home will be wet and hard to dodge. but with that said, that doesn't mean everybody is going to get stormed on. however, for the next few days, our rain chances are going to kip sticking-- at least you can save water with the sprinkler system. right now, we're at 75 for frederick. 17 for martinsburg. really, we're going to wait all day for these to occur. this is 11:00 in the morning, still hot and humid today. we get out of the 90s. a big 6-degree jump down. it's not going to be as hot as it has been. it's uncomfortable with that humidity factored in. 2:00 in the afternoon, certain storms develop and they flourish during the late afternoon, right from 7:00. between the hours of 3:00 and 8:00,