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Situation from the national desk. jon: at the national desk with assignment manager tim gaughan and he has sort of a visual look at the weather conditions in the area where this plane went down. >> you can go right to my computer screen, talking about the conditions we're facing and damages, we're talking about the c-130 in the air that's going to take survivors out. chad pergram just put in that they're about to lift off with some of those survivors out there, we think there are four total but you can see from the weather conditions here, very difficult to even see the ground. there's very lo...

senator in congress and he was ten years into that term when thinks wife was killed in a plane crash in which he survived. that went down at the anchorage airport. this was a dillingham which is about 325 miles southwest of anchorage. it was a small plane that he was apparently in. again no confirmation. we do know that he was going to the gci lodge and this was the plane owned by gci, and this plane went down apparently into a mountain. we have reports from people from the ground that they were flying lower than norm am because of the poor visibility. this is a lodge owned by a gian...

And if there are more headlines, i'll bring it to you. jon: there's been a push in the african-american community to get more swimming lessons for kids because 70 percent of african-american kids in this country don't have swimming skills. >> a study released by the u.s. swimming found that 96 percent of black children did not have the ability to swim or were rated low on swimming ability, so that study being highlighted today to go along with this tragic story. jon: tim gaughan, thanks. jenna. jenna: just in, jon, we have more information on the fate of beth favre -- brett fa favre, farve has...

All six of them, children from two families, drowned. tim gaughan, our assignment manager srgs keeping an eye on it. what do we know, tim? >> reporter: extremely heartfelt news conference, we have the fire chief assistant, fred sanders, describing behind him, before him, the shreveport mayor, saying they've never seen this before, a tragedy like they've never seen before, six teenagers from two family that is drowned in the red river, they stepped off the ledge from a shallow water, to an area 20 feet deep. there was only one life jacket and that's what makesta worse tragedy, there were family...

jon: a fox news alert for you now, a deadly workplace shooting in connecticut, a man opening fire at a manchester beer distributor. police confirmed the gunman killed multiple people, but the shooter is now dead, the gunfire is over, and the investigation just beginning. laura ingle joins us live on the phone from manchester, connecticut. what do we know about the shooter? >> reporter: good morning, jon. we are waiting on an official confirmation of the suspect's name, but they do confirm the shooter, you mentioned, is dead, but they will not say if it was a self-inflicted gunshot wo...