let's get right to this with nbc's megan fitzgerald who is following the story from london. megan, what do we know? >> look, charles, as you just mentioned, talking about a full flight here with 181 people when it crashed into a barrier wall at the end of the runway there. we want to warn you, though, that the footage you're about to see is graphic. so if you take a look at the video here, you can see the moment when the plane comes in for a landing, and it's just skidding along the runway after its landing gear apparently failed before it crashes into the wall and erupted into a massive fire ball. it's incredible to think that just two people managed to survive. sadly the other 179 people on board died. flight radar tracking the journey didn't appear to show anything unusual, but officials said a bird strike may have started the deadly chain of events causing the pilot to issue a mayday warning. investigators are searching for answers, but officials are saying it could take between six months to three years to complete a full investigation. charles? >> that was nbc's megan f

. >>> and joining us now now from london is megan fitzgerald. megan, what have you been hearing out of syria? >> reporter: well, you know, jonathan, look, over the course of the day, we have seen those celebrations from people who are rejoicing in the street and celebrating the fall of the oppressive assad regime that has gripped the nation more than 50 years and we're seeing people being released from the notorious prisons and amnesty international called the prisons human slaughterhouses where mass hangings whand exterminations tk place. where people were tortured. many syrians believe that they are now free. and i want to you listen to a video that a syrian man sent our colleague raf sanchez.co take a listen. >> now, you can sleep. and think of tomorrow. now we can sleep while you know that justice is achieved. now i can understand that my children will not be raised under oppression. now, only now, i can say that we, we're free. syria, we're free people. >> an emotional day for so many and a moment giving a lot of people hope. but the big que

let's get right to it with nbc's megan fitzgerald who is following the story from london. gan, a u.s. official has told nbc news that russian forces may have suffered from confirmation bias after a ukrainian drone was shot down about 70 miles away. what more do you know? >> reporter: well, look, you know, as you mention, what we're seeing right now is rare apology by russian president vladimir putin but stopping short of taking responsibility for this crash. so the kremlin released a statement saying that putin had a conversation by phone with the president of azerbaijan and saying that he apologized for what he calls a tragic incident that occurred in russian airspace, but again stopping short of taking responsibility. but in this statement it also highlights that grozny, which is the russian city where this aircraft was attempting to land, came under attack by ukrainian drones and that russia was trying to repel those attacks, and that certainly is in line with our nbc news reporting from several intelligence officials saying that it was likely that russian air defense wa

megan fitzgerald has the latest with a warning.of the images are disturbing. >> reporter: tonight, horrifying images from a south korean airport with a passenger plane skidding across the runway after the landing gear appears to have failed before crashing into a wall and bursting into a massive fireball. miraculously, first responders who rushed to the scene managed to pull two people out alive, but many of the families of the 179 others waited inside the airport just 180 miles south of the city. screams of agony and devastation filled the airport as south korean officials offered an apology and vowed a swift and thorough investigation. so far the radar for tracking the planes journey from bank, to south korea didn't appear to show anything unusual but officials say a bird strike may have started the deadly chain of events which cause the pilot to issue a mayday warning. >> when you see this video of the landing of the aircraft, what is the tell you? >> this crash was tough to watch and piece together based on what we know so far.

nbc's megan fitzgerald following this from london. good day to you.s was an apology, but he never took responsibility for the plane crash that we had been covering. what is to make of this? >> reporter: look, that is rare to see president putin acknowledging and making an apology here and certainly shocking. as you rightfully mentioned, he stopped short of taking responsibility for the crash and released a statement saying that he called the crash a tragic incident that occurred in russian airspace and the statement goes on to talk about the russian city where this aircraft was heading. it says that it was under heavy drone attacks by ukrainians and that the russians were trying to fan off the attacks that were coming in. that timeline is in line with nbc news reporting from two military sources who said and i want to read that intelligence suggests that russia may have misidentified the airline and shut it down thinking it was a drone. take a look at the footage that is coming in of the aftermath of this aircraft. you can see damage to the exterior t

megan fitzgerald, nbc news, london. >>> all right our thanks to megan for the report.ad on this morning. including an update on the deadly plane crash in kazakhstan. the plane carrying 67 people went down earlier this morning but we are told there are survivors. you're watching nsnbc reports. survivors. you're watching nsnbc reports. ! dawn powerwash flies through 99% of grease and grime in half the time. watching m. grer. watching m. even replaces multiple cleaning products. ooh, those suds got game. dawn powerwash. the better grease getter. prilosec knows, for a fire... one fire extinguisher beats 10 buckets of water, and for zero heartburn 1 prilosec a day... beats taking up to 10 antacids a day. it's that simple, for 24 hour heartburn relief... one beats ten. prilosec otc. >>> good morning, it's 1 11:00 a.m. eastern. i'm christina ruffini. dozens are feared dead after a plane carrying 67 people crashed in kazakhstan but more than 30 survived. the plane was heading to russia from azerbaijan and nbc's kelly cobiella joins us now. do we have any updates on the crash,

megan fitzgerald got a look behind the scenes. >> reporter: for so many children, there's a certain magic safety. do they protect you at night? >> yeah. they definitely do. >> reporter: something 8-year-old albert bowman says gives him comfort. >> it's kind of like they're really important. >> reporter: but albert says these stuffed animals are special. >> they were loved before. >> reporter: what does that mean? >> like, somebody had them before. >> reporter: it's why he's used his allowance to buy two and this one is his third. all of these stuffed toys on the shelves have been donated and upcycled. they get cleaned and patched up to look relatively new. it's a process that happens here in this workshop just outside of london at a company called loved before. >> so, loved before are a totally one of a kind stuffed animal rehoming center. what we do is that we take in stuffed animals that people are ready to pass on so they don't go into the bin. >> reporter: it's a concept that the owner says is really catching on in a way that's helping the environment because throwing these teddies aw

covering all of these new developments, but we are going to start with london's nbc's meghan fitzgerald. megan, what we know about assad's whereabouts, how did he get to moscow, and what can you tell us about how his regime collapsed so quickly after such a prolonged civil war? >> christina, according to russian state media, bashar al- assad and his family arrived in moscow where they had been granted asylum on humanitarian grounds. russia has supported assad and his regime throughout the course of the war, so it is really not a surprise that assad and his family fled there. as far as his offensive is concerned, it certainly appears as though it wasn't much of a fight at all. we haven't seen any evidence of heavy fighting. and keep in mind, these rebels were lightly armed. we are not talking about rebels in armored and heavy tanks rolling through. so, the lack of resistance, allowing them to quickly advance into the capital city of damascus, we are talking about a lightning fast offensive year, which kicked off less than two weeks ago when the rebels captured aleppo, but it really accelerated