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CBS News correspondent Nicole Valdes is standing by in Louisville with the very latest. So, Nicole, what else have we heard about this investigation thus far? Hi, Vlad. Well, Mayor Greenberg now telling reporters that the number of people missing has dropped from initially 15 down to nine. They have located at least six people at this point. That is likely very good news in the wake of this tragedy for so many families who are waiting for any update on those loved ones after, again, a horrifying and, of course, deadly crash. The number of dead still 12 people. And later today, we will see this community, the city of Louisville honor those victims at a vigil later this afternoon. But the NTSB and their investigation is still, of course, very much top of mind as they work to determine, really, the root of the problem that caused this plane to crash shortly after takeoff. They confirmed they were able to locate the two black boxes on board that plane, and the image that you're actually looking at here is a piece of the plane that they have actually been finding pieces of across the crash site. This is the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder recovered from the wreckage. You could see it looks like they are damaged by the heat, which is no shocker when you look at, again, a reminder of the image of that long burning fire shortly after that plane came crashing down here. The NTSB has confirmed that the left engine actually detached from the wing during takeoff, and you actually can see a bit of an image of that. In several of the social-media videos that we've been showing you, when that plane tried to start taking off, you could see there was already a portion of the left side of the plane that looked to be on fire, maybe minutes before the crash. So at this point, the NTSB is hopeful they'll be able to extract critical data from those black boxes, Vlad, that will hopefully give them a real answer as to what went wrong here. Yeah, all right, and as we should just note to our viewers that we understand that the NTSB will be briefing reporters at about 3:00 PM Eastern Time. So we'll bring that, of course, live to our viewers right here on CBS News 24/7. Nicole Valdes reporting from Louisville, Kentucky, for us this morning. Nicole, thank you.
