Poland Looses President

Poles on Saturday were laying flowers and praying in front of the presidential palace in Warsaw as they began to mourn the deaths. Churches around the country announced services to commemorate the dead during a week of national mourning.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, and Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk, left lay flowers on the site of the plane crash near Smolensk, western Russia, Saturday, April 10, 2010. Vladimir Putin, personally assumed charge of the investigation, went to Smolensk to meet with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and some of the country's most prominent military and civilian leaders died Saturday along with dozens of others when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in thick fog near Smolensk in western Russia.