2 Dead in Seattle News Helicopter Crash

Two people are dead and one person is in critical condition after a KOMO News helicopter crashed just feet from Seattle's iconic Space Needle. KOMO is reporting on its own tragedy, which it says happened this morning as the chopper came in for a rooftop landing; the AP notes that it may have instead hit the side of the building and slid down. It hit two cars on the street below, and exploded into a fiery inferno as fuel from the helicopter burned over more than a block. One man was seen running from one of the cars with his sleeve on fire, but was extinguished by emergency responders. (More Seattle stories.)