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Highest ranking ukrainian official. so many children just arrived at school when a helicopter crashed into it. residents woke up to the sounds of terror, explosions thinking that they were being attacked outside of their homes. preliminary investigations suggest that this was a pilot error in the information. they're not ruling out russian interference. >> one part of the helicopter crashed into the kindergarten. the other part landed near the complex hundreds of feet away. victims are being brought out of the school in body bags. >> 25 people are hospitalized. 11 of them are kids. the death t...

Zelenskyy then urging the west to move faster to arm ukraine against russia. >> tragedies are outpacing life. the tyranny is outpacing the democracy. the supplying of ukraine with air defense systems must outpace russia's next missile attacks. >> so, let's bring in matt gutman from inside ukraine again tonight for us. and matt, ukraine saying it is considering several possible causes of the crash here? >> reporter: david, this was a french-made helicopter. we'll told with an experienced emergency services crew. now, we know it was foggy around kyiv this morning. but ukrainian authorities sayin...

Russian on slot in the eastern part of the country. and dozens were killed when a massive russian missile hit a residential building . now ukraine is also mourning the lose of more than a dozen people including some of the country's top officials. jake, those search and rescue operations lasted for nine hours today. that's what the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy said. some of the other possible causes they're looking at is they are also looking at possible pilot error. when you do also understand there was a good deal of fog in that area when that chopper came down. they don't at this...

At about 8:20 a.m. local time just as parents were dropping their kids off at school that helicopter came crashing over in this direction. it landed at a site over there. we know that at least three children were killed here on the ground along with a number of adults. nine people were onboard that helicopter, including the interior minister, his deputy and several other very serious members of his department. president zelenskyy has been leading a wave of tributes this morning, but is now also scrambling to fill a hole at the top of the ukrainian government. the investigation into this crash ...

The ntsb is investigating what caused the bell p-63 king cobra to fly into the boeing b-17 flying fortress. michael graham is with the ntsb. >> do we think there was a mechanical failure or pilot error as part of this? it's too early to tell. >> reporter: video captured by spectators will be vital to finding out what happened says former ntsb chair and cbs aviation safety analyst robert sumwalt. what did you think? >> it appears that the p-63 is approaching the b-17 at a steep bank angle which prohibit that pilot from being able to see the b-17. >> reporter: among the six killed, terry barker ...