This is CNN breaking news.

Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper, and we do have some tragic breaking news right off the top.

A helicopter has crashed into the Hudson River in New York City.

Authorities on the scene are telling CNN that there are fatalities.

It is unclear how many were killed at this point.

Earlier today, a law enforcement

official told CNN that Cruz had pulled five people from the water, three children and two adults,

and that at least one person was missing. CNN's Bryn Jinn Gras just arrived near the scene of the crash.

And Bryn, what can you tell us from your vantage point?

Yeah, Jake, let me get it right out of the way because you can see behind me there

is a fire rescue crew here in the water and we have actually just saw another one drop off

a bunch of that dive team here to again, the Manhattan side of the Hudson River.

You can see the crew there on board.

Right now, a rescue effort

from our understanding is underway, trying to find a sixth person that was on that helicopter.

According to our colleague John Miller's reporting, there were three children, two adults,

possibly a sixth person that they are looking for. It's unclear of that group which fatalities are involved with this, but we do understand

that there are fatalities.

We're also understanding more about this helicopter.

We're hearing right now it might possibly be a tourist helicopter, but we're still working

to confirm that.

But according to an analysis, this by CNN, this helicopter took off from the Manhattan side near, and it did a circle around the Statue of Liberty before flying up to the Hudson River, so going north to the George Washington Bridge at about a thousand feet.

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