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. >> joining me is amy barnes and felisha sonez. >> good morning, girls. what are you hearing in d.c., and any other names being mentioned besides hackle. >> the white house as you mentioned is staying mum on this. not giving any suggestions of whether this might come next week, but the earliest it could come would be monday or tuesday, because the president isn't coming back. and there are a couple of names being floated out there, former undersecretary for defense, and the current deputy defense secretary, the head of the navy. so you have a lot of names being thrown out there. members of both sides of the aisle. what's interesting here, have you chuck hagel, the former republican senator and the opposition is coming from his own party on capitol hill, if you thought that the fight over susan rice was over and that would be the last nomination battle you would see, it looks like another one could be ramping up in the in excouple of weeks. >> pick up on that there is opposition to chuck hagel from his own party and the other side of the aisle. what's it a

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amy? >> yeah, bill, captain peter barnes was one of britain's most experienced pilots. had clocked several thousand hours and had flown choppers and filmed such as die another day, saving private ryan and tomb raider. he was referred to by a colleague as a very dashing, charming man and, frankly, could have gotten the role of james bond himself he had even auditioned. captain barnes worked for reporter motion boutique helicopter charter business. the other person killed today has just been named. 39-year-old matthew wood from london. wood was killed on the ground. and, bill, at this point, the only clue we have as to what may have gone wrong is that barnes did indicate that he wanted a diversionary landing just before he crashed because of very poor visibility. bill? >> bill: you have talked with officials in the city of london. what are they telling you tonight, amy? >> bill, you know, you would think it would be a little easier to get to the bottom of this one but they are not giving us any indication as to when we will know what caused the crash. already, there is an