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We begin this morning with todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. 16 people are dead after a military plane crashed in mississippi. A marine aircraft goes down in a ball of flames. The refuelling plane went down monday night in a soybean field. Witnesses say bodies and wreckage were scattered for miles. The New York Times reported donald trump jr. Was informed in an email that the material was to aid his fathers candidacy. If this is correct the first person that may have found out to try to intervene to help the candidate was the president s son. Authorities in eastern pennsylvania are searching for four men who disappeared over the past week. The bucks County District attorney suspects foul play. Were going to solve this. The fbi say it has arrested a soldier in hawaii for alleged ties to the terrorist group isis. The american soldier offered to provide the terror group with classified military documents. Recordbreaking heat is helping fuel a wave of wildfires in california. A lot of smoke, a lot of flames. It gets scary. An air force recruiting office in tulsa was the scene of an explosion with what appeared to be a pipe bomb, but no one was hurt. A marathon match ending in a stunning upset. Rafael nadal defeated by a 16th seed. And two new studies linking coffee to a longer life. As a doctor, its nice to be able to say instead of dont eat that, dont eat this, to be able to just say enjoy. And all that matters. President trump and Vladimir Putin had a private 2 1 2 hour meeting. Like a date you expect to be awkward then discover you have so much in common. On cbs this morning. Oh, my goodness. The verdict is in. The judge is good at hitting homers. Aaron judge, your 2017 home run derby champion and he made it look easy. Announcer this mornings eye opener is presented by toyota lets go places. Captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning. Military investigators will try to determine what caused a plane crash that killed 16 Service Members in rural mississippi. The kc130 went down yesterday in a bean field. The wreckage burned overnight. The marine corps says only that the refueling and transport plane experienced a mishap. Bodies were found more than a mile away from the main crash site. David begnaud is near the scene in mississippi about 100 miles south of memphis. David, good morning. Reporter good morning. The u. S. Marine corps put out a statement saying this plane originated in cherry point, north carolina. Were being kept about five mile from the crash site and part of the reason why is the wreckage is strewn for miles. Witnesses say this aircraft was on fire as it fell from the sky in broad daylight. Firefighters responding to the scene heard an explosion at the crash site and had to retreat for their own safety. This wreckage burned for at least six hours. When the rescue crews arrived, heavy flames and a smoldering wreckage were all that remained of the Marine Corps Reserve transport aircraft. Crews rushed to put out the fire and search for survivors. At least 16 people have been killed. State acts, local agents, fire department, first responders. We had a lot of agencies out. Reporter fred randle insists the area around the crash site is still unsafe. We dont want nobody out there. We have fuel everywhere so we dont want anybody without responders in the area. Reporter the plane is a kc130, fourengine turboprop plane. It was being tracked by air Traffic Controllers in memphis, tennessee. At 20,000 feet it suffered a catastrophic failure, plunging out of the sky. As it started to fall the plane went radio silent. The kc130 can be used to are refuel other planes in midair and often carries additional fuel as a result. Military plane getting wrecked. Reporter witnesses say the aircraft caught fire and spun as it fell. Bodies were found throughout the surrounding area. Plumes of thick black smoke could be seen for miles. Its just scary because i seen all the black smoke. It was horrifying. Reporter the fbi is on the scene in mississippi to assist in the investigation and the military has rushed since last night to get to the family members of those killed in hopes of telling them before they found out somewhere else. We can kel from aerial photos parts of this plane are still largely intact and aviation experts indicate that it was highlyik brought this aircraft down. A lot of questions about what happened there. Thank you very much. A new report says that president trumps oldest son knew a year ago that russias government was trying to help his fathers campaign. The New York Times says donald trump jr. Was told russias agenda in an email that was sent to set up a Campaign Meeting with a russian lawyer. Margaret brennan is at the white house with the next move for trump jr. Margaret, good morning to you. Reporter good morning. Well, donald trump jr. Has hired a lawyer to help with all matters related to russia and this ongoing fbi investigation. Though he has not been formally asked, trump jr. Said he is willing to cooperate with congress. Rest assured, donald trump jr. Will be somebody that we want to talk to. Reporter Senate Intelligence Committee Vice chairman mike warner called for donald trump jr. To share details with his meeting last june with natalia veselnitskaya, a Russian National who indicated she could offer damaging information on Hillary Clinton. According to the New York Times, donald trump jr. Had been explicitly told via email that the meeting was part of a russian government effort to aid his fathers campaign. In response to that allegation a lawyer for trump jr. Told cbs news quote, this is much ado about nothing. Don jr. Had no knowledge as to what specific information, if any, would be discussed. His father knew nothing about it. This is the first time the public has seen clear evidence that senior level officials of the Trump Campaign met with potentially an agent of a Foreign Government to try to obtain information that would discredit Hillary Clinton. Reporter donald trump jr. s account has evolved since the meeting was first revealed by the New York Times. On saturday trump jr. Told the times the meeting was primarily about adoptions. Later he admitted damaging information about Hillary Clinton was the pretext for the encounter. He insisted it was nothing unusual posting a sarcastic twitter message. Obviously im the first person on the campaign to ever take a meeting to hear info about an opponent. The revelation about the meeting contradicts several accounts from white house officials. This was Kellyanne Conway in december. Did anyone have any contact with russians trying to meddle with the election . Absolutely not and i discussedthat with the president elect last night. Those conversations never happened. Reporter in february when the president was asked directly whether anyone on the campaign had contacts with the russians he answered for himself only. Well, i had nothing to do with it. I have nothing to do with russia. Reporter former Campaign Chair Paul Manafort as well as the president s soninlaw, jared kushner, were also present in that meeting. Something that kushners representatives say he initially overlooked but did recently disclose as part of a background check for his security clearance. Charlie . Thanks, margaret. Cbs news chief washington correspondent and face the nation anchor John Dickerson joins us now. Good morning. Good morning. Lay out the risk for donald trump jr. And donald trump sr. Well, the first risk is on the question of collusion. The big part of this investigation, it doesnt necessarily show that there was collusion in the scheme but it shows that don jr. Was collusion curious. So he was apt and anxious to meet with this person who said they might have damaging information and if the New York Times is right they were coming in at least one of emails propsing it was coming from the russian government. The second big problem is there were these blanket denials that margaret talked about that have now been undone and so it just adds even more skepticism to the official comments coming from the white house. Now, in terms of the president , this is obviously closer to him. He has never been at the center of the collusion story. And this is obviously moves it closer to him, that not only was his son involved but the highest levels of his campaign went to this meeting. Donald trump jr. s lawyer says this is much ado about nothing. What do you make of that characterization . And how unusual is it for a campaign to meet with the Opposing Side to get negative intel . Well, campaigns do lots of underhanded things with opposition research. Thats absolutely true. Usually they pawn it off to lower level staffers or theres somebody who nobody sees out in the daylight who takes care of this stuff. This would be three of the arguably the most top people involved in the campaign participating in a meeting where if you believe the accounts was was set up just as a meeting from somebody coming from russia with bad information. Thats a pretty flimsy pretext for a meeting to get that kind of high level attendance. This doesnt usually happen in campaigns. You go back to 1968 when the Nixon Campaign worked with both sides of the vietnam war to slow things down because they thought that would help humphrey but thats a long time ago. There have been instances in the 2000 campaign, al gores top aide got information that was secret about the bush debate preparation. He immediately turned it over to the fbi. So this has happened but not that often. And thats exactly my question. There are at least three sources in the New York Times who say this was in an email. I mean, there is proof of this that that email said this is part of a russian government effort to aid the Trump Campaign. Thats what this meeting was about. Shouldnt Law Enforcement have been alerted immediately . Well, you would you would hope so. You know, on the other and so thats the point. This is not just any country. This is an adversary or an enemy of the United States offering this information. On the other hand, if there was a collusion that was going on, a connection between the russians and the Trump Administration or the Trump Campaign, youd think they would have had Better Communications than just this email that sort of came in over the transom. So theres much to investigate here, but the the reaction is definitely not the one you would you would expect and not the one you would want if you knew people would someday be looking at it. Is it possible we may see donald trump jr. Testify in congress . He said hed cooperate so presumably that would be the expectation of cooperation would be to testify and answer questions from both parties have asked for that. Thats right. Thank you so much. And also on Capitol Hill Senate Republican Leaders want to vote next week on their bill to replace obamacare. They still have to overcome strong opposition. Dont give up Capitol Police arrested about 80 protesters yesterday who held noisy demonstrations outside senate offices. Ten republican senators say they cannot support the Gop Health Care measure right now. Senate leaders need eight of them to change their minds before the bill can pass. An active duty u. S. Soldier deployed twice to fight terrorists is now in custody on terrorism charges. An fbi swat team detained ikaika kang after he pledged allegiance to isis. He allegedly told an undercover agent that he wanted to kill a bunch of people. Jeff pegues is at fbi headquarters with more on this story. Jeff, good morning. Reporter good morning. According to investigators the 34yearold u. S. Soldier had been inspired by isis over at least a fiveyear period. Army Sergeant First Class ikaika kang appeared in federal court on monday in honolulu accused of attempting to provide Material Support or resources to isis. Court papers described how kang handed over 18 secret military documents to undercover agents that he believed could help isis. On saturday before his arrest he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and made combat training videos that he believed would be shown to isis fighters. Kang enlisted in the army just after the 9 11 attacks and served one tour in iraq. In 2012, kang had his military clearance revoked for making proIslamic State comments but he was eventually reinstated and in 2013 was deployed to afghanistan. Now, this case stands out, but in recent weeks the department of justice has announced a series of terrorismrelated cases and arrests. The fbi has said that it is investigating hundreds of terrorism cases across the country. Charlie . Jeff, thanks. The fbi is investigating a pipe bomb explosion outside an air force Recruitment Center as a possible act of domestic terrorism. The doors of the oklahoma facility were blown open in the blast. It happened last night in bixby about 15 miles south of tulsa. The fbi said the office was closed at the time and no one was hurt. The faa is investigating what could have been a major disaster at San Francisco international airport. An air canada flight was cleared to land friday but the pilot mistakenly lined up the plane for a taxiway next to the runway. It was filled with planes. Kris van cleave is in washington with details of this scary close call. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Experts including a retired Airline Captain are calling this a close call that could have been one of the largest aviation disasters in history. Air canada flight 759 with 140 people on board was making its approach to San Francisco. The air bus a320 from toronto was cleared to land on runway 28 right but instead lined up for the taxiway known as charlie that runs parallel to the runway. There were four other airliners waiting to take off filled with people and fully fuelled. That last pilot you hear on the air Traffic Control audio was the first in line on taxiway c. It was a united 787 bound for singapore. Thats the longest flight made by a u. S. Airliner. That plane has the capacity to carry 252 people. The faa and air canada are still investigating just how close flight 759 came to those other planes. Gayle . Boy, thats scary. Thank you very much. Airline travel around the nations capitol is returning to normal after trouble at an air Traffic Control center disrupted flights for hours. A facility in leesburg, virginia, was evacuated yesterday evening when fumes from construction work threatened employees working there. Temporary ground stops were put in place at all three major airports in the area. Thats reagan, dulles, and bwi. American airlines and united cancelled about 420 flights. Investigators searching for four missing people in pennsylvania have arrested a man. 20yearold cosmo denardo was taken into custody on an unrelated weapons charge. The fbi joined state and local Law Enforcement officers to search his familys property. The four missing men are 19 to 22 years old. They were last seen wednesday through friday of last week. Demarco morgan is here with new details on the investigation. Demarco, good morning. Reporter good morning, nora. Right now investigators are focusing the bulk of their resources on searching a land farm owned by the denardos. The District Attorney says he is hopeful the men are still alive. They believe foul play is involved in their disappearance. This investigation, the leads are incredibly hot. Theyre very fruitful. Were making great progress. Reporter Law Enforcement is focused on this large property about 30 miles north of philadelphia. It belongs to the family of 20yearold Cosmo Dinardo. The young man was taken into custody yesterday on an unrelated weapons charge from february that the d. A. s office refiled on monday. He is being held on a Million Dollars bond. Police also searched the family home in bensalem, where cosmo lives. When asked what the interest is in the dinardo family, the d. A. Was vague. We have reason to believe that there might be fruitful information that could be gained from them. Reporter while hes not considered a suspect, sources tell our cbs station in philadelphia that Cosmo Dinardo is possibly connected to the missing men. All four men disappeared in bucks county. 19yearold patrick vanished on wednesday. 19yearold was seen friday. 22yearold mark sturgis and 21yearold tom meo were last seen together friday night in the doylestown area. Its unclear if all four men know each other or if any know dinardo. District attorney Matthew Weintraub is confident the case will e solved. Some investigations go on till they peter out and theres just were sort of grasping at straws. We are about as far from that as zero is to 100. Costmo dinardo was found in possession of a 20 gauge shotgun and by law he is not allowed to have any weapons because he was ip voluntarily committed to a mepal institution. Authorities say the car belonging to one of the missing men was found but no e