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conflicting information. there may have been eight or nine people aboard. the faa says five people have died, four are injured. that would be nine people in total. but there are still some reports saying there are eight people. we do know that the air national guard is on the scene in alaska. we also want to talk to you about another story that tony was just telling you about, and that is democratic representative charlie rangel of new york speaking on the floor of the house of representatives. defending or explaining himself in the ethics charges that have been levied against him. t...

so that's not debilitates visibility. >> rob, stay with me. real quickly, melanie whitney, a desk producer on the phone with us and talked to a family friend of ted stevens, the former republican u.s. senator. melanie, have you been able to confirm if indeed ted stevens was killed in the plane crash? >> they would to the confirm to me that he was on the plane. he said no one really knows for sure. what he could tell me was about those good samaritans that we heard about that were at the crash site after it happened. i was told that one of them is a team may doctor and has been with t...

military honors. his remains finally recovered and identified. anne makovec in colma at the site. ceremony. >> reporter: i have to say, allen, this was the least sad funeral service i have been to because there was a sense of relief that finally this was happening. burial just wrapped up behin me in colma. he has been dead almost 7 decades. the sergeant is believed to have died in germany fighting in world war ii in 1944. he and serve other crewmen were flying a bombing mission over berlin when their plane a b-24 similar to this one crashed near a small german town north of han over....

that all ahead unless breaking news changes everything. >> a spokesman for the family of senator ted stevens said today the former senator died in a plane crash in alaska at the age of 86. senator stevens of coursed the longest serving republican senator in the history of the body before he lost his bid for reelection in 2008. we're told his plane went down in the southwest part of the state of alaska near the town of billing ham, about 300 miles southwest of anchorage. nine people were on the plane including the former head of nasa. it's not clear the condition of the former head of...

alaska that is the aleutian island chain that extends down there and you can see that they are really out there on the outer reaches of alaska. so, communication is a challenge. the terrain is a challenge. the weather has been a big challenge, as you see there. and what we are expecting or hoping is that the national guard and the coast guard will eventually be able to radio back exactly the conditions of the patients that they have. we have been hearing from government sources, i personally have heard we may have, may have five dead that there were a total of nine passengers on boar...