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That will be looked into. the mayor today boris johnson went to visit the crash site. he said it was, quote, deeply disturbing. >> it's a scene of -- a tragic scene of a -- the wreckage of a carbonized helicopter and, of course, great deal of damage done to an adjacent building. it doesn't take a great deal to imagine what could have happened had that helicopter crashed into a bus or a heavily occupied building. >> bill, 12 people were injured. a center was set up to deal with victims of shock because obviously the scenes were very dramatic. also, there were lots of very close calls. we heard ...

New u.s. embassy compound which is still under construction. hear lots of stories of very close calls this morning, including apparently that crane operator who was late for work this morning because if he had been atop that crane, he, too, likely would have been a casualty of this terrible tragedy that happened in the heart of this city this morning. gretchen. >> gretchen: all right. amy kellogg in a sad situation right in the middle of downtown london. it's a chopper goes down and two people have been killed. thanks, amy. >> brian: 21 minutes before the top of the hour. other stories making ...

The ground that were kind of directing them. and there was a gentleman on top of the crane that was waiting for all this to happen. i remember even at the time i was pretty impressed with how cautious they were being. >> we're going for liftoff. >> with two workers poised on the tower, the container begins its delicate 100-foot climb to the top. >> the tank being lifted was a pretty laborious process. very slow, very deliberate. seemed to have taken maybe 5 or 10 minutes to get it a hundred feet off the ground. once they did, probably another 10 or 15 minutes to get the tank oriented correctly...

His top where the crane slammed down. the twisted wreckage is scattered across the neighborhood. >> you could recognize that the tower was a water tower or the remains of a water tower, but a lot of the metal was twisted, dented up. and at about that point i realized the crane had come down as well. and that was completely crumpled. the rigging on the crane was twisted beyond recognition. >> the 24-year-old crane operator suffers critical injuries, but survives the accident. one of the worker on the tower, protected by the cage surrounding the ladder is in good condition. tragically, the other...

>> it's not every day that you install a continuous motion pool. they're not very common. and it's not every day that a crane lifts it up over the house. >> peter pulls out his phone to catch the process on camera. >> the main reason was just to show my son the clip. i thought that he would get a kick out of it. >> at first everything goes swimmingly. but as the crane operator is guiding the pool over the garage, peter can't help but call out a warning. >> watch out for the chimney. >> it looked like he was getting really close to the chimney. he couldn't hear me call anything out to him. the ...