the passengers are leslie's son and alexander garrett. they start gaining some elevation, then the nightmare happens. >> they're getting too close to the trees. >> oh, no! no, no, no. >> oh, no. >> the video goes to black. >> is everybody okay? >> you can hear people writhing in pain. you hear them trying to get out of the plane. according to their youtube video, they said that after takeoff they had a hard time gaining altitude, maybe because of the warm weather. they believe they hit an air pocket and that made them lose altitude quickly and that's where we see them hit into the trees. there's actually another angle that appears from the back seat of this plane. sheriff's deputies also say that their landing gear may have clipped one of those treetops, causing them to flip over. eventually in the video, we see somebody pick up the camera. >> gosh, he seems unharmed. >> miraculously everybody survived this plane crash. the man who suffered the worst injuries was the pilot, 70-year-old leslie gropp. he was rushed to the hospital of course

that's been here, david gregory of course, andrea mitchell, kelly o'donnell, luke russert, garrett haake, peter alexander jamie gugell helping mind the scenes. this is a team effort here at msnbc news. we have been covering that mitt romney is taking his vice presidential nomination today at 9:00 a.m. in norfolk, virginia. our coveragehere. our coverage will continue. >>> breaking news at this hour, sources tell nbc news that mitt romney will announce wisconsin congressman paul ryan as his running mate in a campaign event 9:00 eastern time today. good morning, everyone, welcome to the special edition of "weekends with alex witt." the announcement is expected three hours from now when mitt romney will hold an event at the uss wisconsin. a seven-term member of congress, paul ryan is the chairman of the house budget committee and senior member of the ways and means committee. joining me right now, nbc news campaign, garrett haake. how did all of this come up last night? >> good morning, alex. the actual news announcement came out 11:15. the campaign sent out a blast e-mail. it will be not be a traditional c

course, andrea mitchell, garrett hague, peter alexander, jamie gangel, behind the scenes helping us the entire team, we've been covering the big announcement, mitt romney's big vice presidential announcement is taking place 9:00 this morning in norfolk, virginia we'll have it live here on ms c msnbc. our coverage will continue live. >> well, good early morning at least here on the east coast. we have breaking news. the mitt romney vice presidential short list is looking a lot shorter tonight. sources tell nbc news he will pick congressman paul ryan of wisconsin. the announcement expected at 9:00 this morning, about eight hours from now in norfolk, virginia. the announcement will be made in front of the uss wisconsin, which some speculate may be a nod to ryan's home state, of course. mitt romney told me he would be looking for a running mate that would indicate that he had a vision for the country and for romney, paul ryan may be that man. let me bring in andrea mitchell. andrea, setting it up, who knows if people are staying awake, or just coming home from dinner, but as we know, in eig