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Your day with us, lets get started with at fox news alert, the death toll rising in a horrific military plane crash. >> 16 people reported that after a marine corps refueling plane spiraled out of control crashing into a field in mississippi. kelly wright joins us with the latest on a terrible story this morning. >> reporter: a horrible tragedy especially for the marine corps. military plane experienced a mishap before going down. no other details at this time are being released but here is what...

Being released but here is what we know about this tragic crash taking place at 4:00 pm monday. one person on the ground reported hearing a loud boom, looking up to the sky, you see a large plume of smoke as the plane began cork screwing to the ground, at least 16 people confirmed dead after the praying crashed in mississippi. the marine corps now with the incident on its twitter account but did not provide details or circumstances of the crash. officials mourn residents to avoid the area. >> no...

The train until the crash was actually happening. there wasnt any hint that there was any lack of control prior to the actual crash taking place. >> yeah. that surprised i think all of us you no. retrospect, its the fact that the 60 miles per hour zone, more than doubled, you know, you just dont pay attention to it. its a -- we now know that these happened and what frequency. theres a lot more to be done about safety openings we have had have in these rains. a lot of people talking about seat be...

Other victims of the crash last night, other people who were on ta train with you, is when we talked about speed, no one felt anything unusual in the speed. they felt nothing unusual or threatening in the motions of the train until the crash was actually happening. there wasnt any hint that there was any lack of control prior to the actual crash taking place. >> yeah. that surprised i think all of us you no. retrospect, its the fact that the 60 miles per hour zone more than doubled, you know you...

Is not my son. what do you think of that? boy. a california neighborhood on high alert. a mountain lion killing a german shepherd and that mountain lion was huge, three times the size of that dog. the dog weighs nearly 100 pounds but he was no match for this mountain lion, refusing to back down even when police were ten feet away and firing bullets. >> i never thought a mountain lion could jump over a fence like that. just a freak of nature, you know. >> the people are in a city 50 miles east ...

eyewitness. this is bes bessi murphy, a nur far west virginia. what did you see? >> i was further away. i was in the pits area. at the point i did not see the actual impact. what i had heard was all call for medical personnel as they were asking for people to leave. so i responded, and when i got on the scene, they were quickly within just a couple of minutes from my time to get to the area, they already had the people triaged, had the ambulances available, had the situation pretty muc...