apathy and play games with. this is a storm that we want all of our residents to not be on the road, lock down, be ready and let s ride out this storm. reporter: be ready, your plans needed to be made already. stay safe over the next few days. mayor, thank you very much for being with us. you please stay safe as well. thank you, sir. thank you very much, john. reporter: all right, we re getting periodic communication with patrick ottman who was in freeport on grand ba hahama. patrick, what are you seeing? just the wind coming in sideways, it really is incredible. it s incredible because we are on our i don t know what, 12, 14, i ve lost track, the storm came in last night in the middle of the night and it sounds like a plane taking off. here we are all these hours later and you re watching the rain go sideways like this.
they the expected it to last over four hours. it s a routine run taken by hundreds every week. flight tracking data shows the plane taking off. heading over eastern pennsylvania. climbing to an altitude of just over 32,000 feet when about 20 minutes into the trip every passenger and the pilots worst nightmare happened. there was an explosion when the engine went. i hear this noise, and everything shakes up. and i look outside, and it s totally broken apart. folded bag on itself. the masks came down, and people were putting them on. and basically i think all of us thought this might be it. there was so much commotion from the passengers at that time. and from then on, we kind of thought that that was it. take a look at this picture. as the plane was in the air, the left engine exploded. when one of the engines 24 fan
okay. the russians call that what about-ism. you are attacked on one level and point out the same error in another. we are following some breaking news. at least 16 marines have been killed after a u.s. military plane crashes in mississippi. the fbi is now on the scene trying to determine what went wrong. cnn s barbara starr is live at the pentagon. what have you learned, barbara? well, good morning. president trump just a short time ago tweeting his condolences on this situation. and let me just read that for everyone here. the president saying, marine plane crash in mississippi is heartbreaking. melania and i send our deepest condolences to all. that from president trump a short time ago. what we are learning is this crash occurred about 4:00 yesterday in mississippi. the plane taking off, originating out of cherry point, north carolina. a u.s. marine corps kc-130.
has landed at the tel aviv airport, ben guidon. three u.s. carriers, delta, united, and u.s. airways suspended flights to israel on their own even before the faa issued its notice. so we have cnn s atika shubert who is standing by live for us. also, our aviation correspondent richard quest is standing by. atika, since you are there, let s begin with you and tell me if you re seeing, what you re hearing, flights coming and going or not at all? reporter: no, we ve seen plenty of flights coming and going. the airport seems to be operating as normal. having said that, a few seconds before we were live, the sirens went off, there was a red alert and we saw a rocket interception in the air just above the airport and a few seconds later a plane taking off. so that perhaps goes to show the reality here that the airport is
this latest bit of animation that we have is very telling, if we can run that again, because it shows the plane taking off, and just as you said, and we ll watch it as it goes here, it gets to vietnamese air space, or to the air space in vietnam. just as it s about to approach land, according to the information that we have from this malaysian official, it makes that u-turn. and then it goes back over land, and then heads across the straits of malacca again. and that s the last anyone has heard of it. can you think of any reason that anyone would turn a transponder off or for a transponder just to stop working? all right, two things. i can t think of any plausible reason for anyone to turn both of those transponders off. that s the first thing, unless it was something deliberately being done or whatever.