Coming home. And the life of beau biden. New condolences coming in for the Vice President and his family. Im christine romans. Im john berman. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. Breaking overnight, counterterror programs run by the nsa expired overnight at midnight. After the u. S. Senate could not Reach Agreement sunday on extending Legal Authority to continue them for now. Senate leaders are dropping opposition to any changes in existing programs and setting up a vote on surveillance reforms already passed by the u. S. House. Cnns athena jones with the latest from capitol hill. Reporter good morning, john and christine. Several provisions expire a few hours ago at midnight because the senate failed to pass a bill to extend the law. Take a listen to some of the debate from the senate floor last night from the two republican senators from kentucky. Mitch mcconnell and rand paul. These are not theoretical threats, mr. President. They are with us every day. We have to face up to them. We shou
Philadelphia five people five People Killed. Officials say another 53 hospitalized. There are six people six of those passengers right now in Critical Condition. Amtrak northeast regional number 188 from washington, d. C. To new york crashed around 9 30 last night, derailed around 9 30 last night, carrying 238 passengers and 5 crew. Seven cars and the trains engine overturned crushed and torn apart by the force. The pictures really really spell out the devastation there. Now, the cause not yet known. This is how the citys mayor and fire chief described the scene. We do not know what happened here. We do not know why this happened. There is no information about that. Were not going to speculate about it. Ive never seen anything so devastating devastating. Theyre clearly in bad shape. You can see they completely completely derailed from the truck. Theyve been destroyed. The aluminum shell has been destroyed and theyre overturned completely. Again, i dont want to speculate on the cars but
The defense secretary telling cnn three bodies have been found in the charred wreckage of the helicopter. Six u. S. Marines on the helicopter helping on an aid mission when the pilot radioed about some kind of fuel problem, then contact was lost. Cnns will ripley will join us with details in a few minutes. That helicopter has been found and Officials Saying three bodies in the charred wreckage. We will bring more as we get it. There is new information on the crash of amtrak 188. The engineer driving the train has been agreed to be interviewed by the ntsbational Transportation Safety board. 32yearold Brandon Bostian was at the controls when the train derail in philadelphia. Eight People Killed and more than 200 injured. Ntsb officials hope bostian can answer the remaining questions. Among them why the train accelerated from 70 to over 100 Miles Per Hour in the moments before the crash. We are also learning this morning that amtrak was just months away from installing a Safety System tha
Welcome to early start. Im john berman. Christine romans is off today. And happening now, the Obama Administration is fine tuning its isis strategy in iraq. Pent goneagon officials are looking to bring sunni tribes into the fight. One possibly under consideration, the u. S. Could arm sunni fighters directly. That would supplement the Current System going through the shiite government in baghdad. This is happening as they are trying to exhume 499 bodies in tikrit which isis claim it is killed last year at a military base. Iraqi officials and foreigners stayed in a hotel where bombs hit. We have our correspondent arwa damon with us. The idea of arming the sunnis directly is not without controversy. Reporter it is not. Thats because of the ongoing secretarytarian issues here. They have yet to do that. Then of course you have the various different dynamics of the battle field where you end up with more unconventional forces armed fighting alongside each other in the battle against isis. At
Im christine romans. It is friday may 8th. We have breaking news from the United Kingdom. Forecast as a close election but returns show solid gains for the conservative party. Prime minister David Cameron will keep his job. This as the Scottish National party makes big gains at the labour party. We have the latest with Erin Mclaughlin. Reporter good morning, christine. Shocking and unprecedented. All words used to describe the election. You know going into this many thought british Prime Minister David Cameron would struggle to hold on to downing street. The map simply did not look like it was in his favor. The polls showing people thought a hung parliament. Those polls seeming to be wrong this morning. His conservative party on track according to some projections to win an outright majority in parliament and if not that then enough seats to at the very least, form a workable government. Prime minister cameron could not be more pleased. Take a listen. Some people say, in fact i often s