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republican were asked what matters more to you in a candidate for president-electability or their position on the issues? when they can win the electability 18 wehrs wehrs. their position on the issues 73%. give credit to voters. they are paying attention and want certain issues to prevail and others to fail. >> bill: much more to go over in time. trump is up 11, not nine. my math was poor. nice to see you today. thank you, kellyanne, more to talk about soon. breaking news with jacque. >> sad headlines now. army official confirmed to fox news that all nine service members aboard the two blackhawk helicopters were killed in that crash last night at fort campbell near kentucky's border with tennessee. the 101st airborne is the army's only attack division and the focus is on the soldiers and families who were lost.

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routine training exercise. the helicopters involved were hh60 blackhawks. they can transport a dozen people at a time. >> fort campbell is the army's only aerial assault division. number of casualties is not known but there are several. we expect to learn more when they address the media under 60 minutes. a big area in southern kentucky goes up along with border with tennessee. the 101st airborne division sent out a tweet minutes ago. this is the latest we have. we can confirm two aircraft from the 101st were involved in an accident last night resulting in several casualties. the focus is on the soldiers and their families who were involved. that's the latest as of this moment. >> knowing it happened on 10:00 last night. those families are -- >> bill: the bulk of that information will come out in the

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the army is saying now. we're trying to find out more details about how this all happened and we're waiting on anything new. >> bill: the blackhawk has been a work horse in the american military for 20 years. something else to see in performance. the location is trigg county, kentucky. the 101st airborne division is based out of fort campbell. very important to the community and u.s. military. i would expect to see the governor at the press conference. we'll carry that live. two blackhawk helicopters last night in some sort of incident in southern kentucky. that is tough news for the families watching this now. stay tuned. more coming up on that shortly. >> reports now that the covenant school shooter's manifesto will be made public. nashville council member said the police are doing an analysis of the shooter's life.

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again. you were getting an update there on that helicopter crash what they called a truly tragic loss. we know that nine service members were killed, they were flying two blackhawk helicopters, five soldiers and 14 in the other. getting more details. it was it happened at night. they were using night vision i want to bring in cnn's oren liebermann, who is still with us from the pentagon, cnn military analyst lieutenant general mark hertling, former commanding general for the u. s. army europe and seventh army. great to have you both with us or in let's start first with you walk us through what we've learned now about the training and what was going on. when this collision. this crash happened. this crash of these two h h. 60. black hawk helicopters happened last night as part of a training exercise we learned from brigadier general john lucas there he is the deputy commander for operations for the 101st airborne division, and he gave us some more information about what was happening here. as you pointed out, there were five

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black boxes what we would look at from a civilian aircraft crash, which would be something like a car. cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder. and he was looking to those who give some more information about the circumstances that led to the crash or the moments before the crash. he said. emergency responders actually was governor andy bashir, who said emergency responders from a number of different services and a number of different areas near fort campbell in kentucky, right by the kentucky tennessee. lying arrived on scene very quickly after the crash. ah but at that point late because of the circumstances of the crash as we learned again, nine service members killed in the crash nine soldiers members of the 101st airborne division, there were no survivors. and now the question what happened that led to this and of course, the efforts on the part of the army to reach out to the family members of those who were killed here, jim and jessica gallagher in fort campbell. we also have general mark hertling, who's of course, served for many years and flew many times in black hawk helicopters. mark general hertling in your experience

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a safety team coming from fort rucker, alabama, who specialize in aircraft safety and specifically these investigations. we hope to have them on the ground sometime later today. and they're bringing a very diverse and talented team that will look at every possible contributing factor. and i think in a short time, we will have a much better understanding of what may have contributed to the to this accident. yes, ma'am. morning helicopters based here in fort campbell. yes ma'am. thank you. they were all based at fort campbell in 101st airborne division. yes, ma'am.

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[ inaudible question ] >> yes, ma'am, thank you, they were all based at fort campbell in the 101st airborne division. yes, ma'am. [ inaudible question ] >> yes, ma'am, they were a variant of the blackhawk. these specific aircraft were medical evacuation aircraft. however, we believe that they were -- the accident occurred when they were doing flying, not deliberate medical evacuation drills. correct. yes, ma'am. yes, ma'am. at this point we don't know. we're hopeful that when we get the team from fort rutger here and they're able to pull some of the data out of the onboard

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specialize in aircraft safety and these investigations. we hope to have them on the ground stimulates today and they are bringing a very diverse and talented team to look at every possible contributing factor. and i think in a short time we'll have a much better understanding of what may have contributed to this accident. yes, ma'am. >> [inaudible question]. >> yes, ma'am, thank you. they were all based at fort campbell in the 101st airborne division. yes, ma'am. [inaudible question]. >> yes, ma'am, they were a variant of the blackhawk. in these specific aircraft, they were medical evacuation

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able to go down in a field and the term able to maybe indicates there was some intention on their part when they knew it was going down because it avoided a residence across the street. heartbreaking news. every family that has someone attached to the 101st division is hoping and praying they don't get that terrible call. these are a precision group. screaming eagles is their nickname. terrible news. >> bill: our prayers are with them today as the families are notified there in kentucky and pretty much around the country and maybe around the world. back to that story when we get more. tough news this morning. 13 past the hour. cartels sparking chaos on the border spreading rumors on social media claiming the border is open sending nearly 1,000 migrants rushing into el paso to find out the border is not. >> jacque: border agents are telling them to move back. this is reminiscent of the skeen

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>> no more time for questions conclude the press conference. brigadier general lewis. >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. thank you for being here. i would like to provide a summary of the training accident that occurred last night involving aircraft from the 101st airborne division. at approximately 10:00 p.m. last night two of our blackhawk helicopters were involved in a crash during a planned training flight in kentucky that resulted in the death of all nine service members aboard the aircraft. on behalf of major general mcgehee and command star major knapp currently deployed to southeast europe i would like to express our deepest sympathies to the families of our fallen soldiers. we are currently in the process of notifying their families. until these notifications are

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