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the president's speech and the trump versus biden rematch. but first, a united flight from san francisco to japan loses a tire on takeoff and makes an emergency landing in los angeles. is this latest mishap on playmaker boeing or the airline you are watching? getting answers? we start with breaking news. thanks for joining us. i'm kristen sze that breaking news is from san francisco airport. we can now show you the exact moment that a tire fell off the landing gear of united flight 35 from sfo to osaka around 1130 this morning. did you see that? it just fell right off as soon as it took off. and that is a boeing jet, by the way, this video, courtesy of the cali plane's youtube channel. the tire actually landed in an employee parking lot near the runway. the frightening incident forced the plane to divert to lax, where it made a safe landing around 1:30 p.m. with 235 passengers and 14 crew members on board joining us

live now to analyze this mishap that's shaking public confidence in flying. abc news and gma aviation analyst john nance. john, thanks for your time. >> you're welcome. it's good to be with you. yeah. it's not normal i'm sorry. sorry uh. >> let's just show the video again because it is so compelling when you see it that the moment was captured, the tire falling off. help us understand what that tire is a part of its function and how it could fall off. >> well, first of all, the it's not normal to be bombing the area with tires. this is a very unusual occurrence, but when it does happen uh, it has to do with the undercarriage of six tires on each side, on the main struts of this triple seven boeing seven, seven, seven, and there are times when mechanically something in the interface of the tire and the strut uh- interact and it either overheated or something was wrong and broke off. but again, it's a very unusual situation.

and the main problem is if the tire hits somebody, it did not. in this case, thank goodness it ended up hitting a couple of cars. but, that's, that's something that basically every airplane out there has this propensity. it just doesn't happen very often. >> yeah. and there it is, john, as you said, it didn't hit any people, which is great. it did damage a couple of cars in a parking lot, an employee lot, but that is relatively small damage compared to what could have been. how big is that tire and how much does it weigh? well it's a big tire, two of us couldn't pick it up, it's probably standing next to it about four feet in diameter, maybe a little bit more, as i say, there are a galaxy of tires underneath these big airplanes. a 747 has even more, and part of the reason is in the manufacturing aspect of things, to make sure that if a tire does fall off or even two of them, you can still get the airplane safely back on the ground. >> in fact, that's what happened . let's go ahead and show people that video of the plane landing at lax about 130 this afternoon.

united said it can land safely with missing or damaged tires. a point that you just made as well. so let's watch this landing here. and john, you tell us if this is very normal looking, you know. oh, yeah. well and it didn't work, it wouldn't have worried you if you're on that flight. no it would not have. >> absolutely not. we even had one a number of years ago with a different airline with the nose wheel cocked at 90 degrees. and, that was not even really a problem other than the damage to the airplane, this is a normal landing. and the only thing that you would do in the cockpit that's a little bit different is you would make sure to the best of your ability as a pilot to set her down really gently. you know, we try for small, soft landings, smooth landings every time. but in this particular case, you want to make it an absolute, you know, it took two hours about from the time it lost that tire to landing at lax. >> normally, as we know, that flight takes about 50 minutes an hour. was there something that the plane had to do before it could land? >> yeah, it not every aircraft,

but the big aircraft, especially the 777 and 747, if they're fully loaded, headed overseas, fully loaded with fuel, they have to dump some of the fuel to get down to what we call maximum landing weight. now, that doesn't mean that you can't land with everything that you took off with, but it does mean that you're going to have to have really great restrictions on the airplane to make sure you settle in very, very gently. and rather than do that and take the risk of damaging the structure they do, they go out and dump over the ocean or as close as they can get to that sort of a situation and only dump down what they need to be as what we call maximum landing weight. it's clear that the ground crew wasn't particularly worried there. >> you don't see a full on emergency response there. look, this is a boeing 777 200 year or 222 er you tell me, tell us about this aircraft. you know, it's pretty new, right. >> it's. well, they've been around for, getting close to 20 years now, but it's a very, very successful, this particular airplane, i don't know the age

of, but it's a very successful design. as a matter of fact, it's the backbone of international travel, pretty much around the world, two engines, very, very powerful airplane. and, and the history of this from the very beginning has been top quality. >> i don't remember hearing a lot of incidents involving this type of aircraft. but let me ask you a tire falling off, of course, we don't know they're going to do some investigation, but is it likely a united maintenance issue or a boeing manufacturing issue? >> you know, these things are always so complex that anything that looks like that might be the explanation at the beginning usually turns out to be wrong, or only part of it. it'll take an investigation to figure out exactly what happened. it will be pretty easy to figure out over time, but they've got to look at all the different components. it could be a human situation. it more than likely has to do with the material failure of one sort or another. but, that's going to take some time to determine. >> all right. >> no doubt boeing doesn't like hearing about the incident. it's another one for them. we had the boeing 737 max nine flown by

alaska airlines with the door plug that blew out mid-air in january. that led to the grounding and inspections of the fleet. and then they went back in the air. has manufacturing and safety protocol improved at america's only commercial plane maker since then? >> well, i think it's improving on a daily and hourly basis because it was a huge wake up call. a kind of a shot across boeing's bow. and they've taken it with great seriousness, but they've got to change the way they look at manufacturing in terms of, not profit first, but engineering first and profit following. that's the way they always had been. but in the past 20 years, ever since the acquisition of mcdonnell douglas by boeing, that standard had been changed. and i think they've got a good reason to completely overhaul the way they look at that philosophy. >> all right. so if you were investigating this, what are the questions you'd be asking? what will the faa be looking at? >> well, well, it's not going to be the faa. they'll be in the periphery. yeah. the ntsb, they're going to be looking at, at tire at the strut and, figure

out as fast as they can, was there any component that failed here that, that has a history that they should be looking further into, more than likely not. i mean, every single jetliner out there has tires and lands on tires all the time. they all have the same propensity of a tire spinning at about 160 to 170 miles an hour on takeoff. that's a lot of torque, a lot of force. and so when something goes wrong, it can disintegrate. the, part of that that holds the tire on, pretty fast. >> all right, look, when you have a few incidents in a row that does shake the flying public's confidence, what do you think needs to happen? >> what would you like to see happen to restore it? >> i think more than anything else, people need to take time. and i believe they are. actually, i'm really pleased with the response that i've seen over the last number of years to aviation problems. people are listening out there, and i appreciate that as a professional from this industry, because really it is the safest way to travel. you're in far more danger driving to sfo or,

lax than you are getting on an airplane and going somewhere. it is probably. and i know this sounds hyperbolic, but i don't mean it to be. it really is true. this is probably the greatest technology achievement in mankind's history, with the possible exception of the moon landing, and that is that we have taken an industry and made it so routine that there is an almost infinitesimal possibility of getting hurt, we're going to get you there alive. maybe not well fed as in days past, but we're going to get you there alive. >> all right? you're right. not as well fed and maybe just a little more cramped, but hey, it works. john nance, abc news and gma aviation analyst thank you so much for your expertise. >> thank you kristen. >> and of course we'll have more on this incident coming up on abc seven news at five, four five. and well, not 6:00. you know why? because in a matter of hours, president biden will be making his case to the nation during his state of the union address. congressman eric swalwell will be joining us next to talk about the issues the president will address and what

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to be a difficult reelection race against former president trump. with biden's approval ratings at historic lows and challenges domestically and internationally, the stakes could not be higher. joining us live now to preview the speech, east bay congressman eric swalwell, who represents california's 14th congressional district. congressman swalwell. thanks for joining us from washington, d.c. you got to get over to the capitol soon, right? >> yes, yes. uh- big speech tonight. i'm eager to hear from the president. this is essentially uh- in an opening argument with eight months to go

until, the general election. so very eager to hear what the agenda is going to be. >> so what do you hope and what do you expect to hear from him tonight in terms of priorities for the second terms, policy announcements, accomplishments, surprises? >> tonight, the president needs to lay out a freedom agenda. and traditionally you're told, you know, just talk about and hammer home the economy. well the economy is doing great. it's growing. it's come a long way since, president trump, but freedoms are under attack. and so freedom of body, the freedom to marry, the freedom to choose what you want to read, the freedom to go out and come home safely from gun violence, the freedom to breathe clean air, the financial freedom that you want to have breathing room in your finances, and of course, you know, the freedom to vote and have that vote counted. these are all under attack. and i really think you know, he needs to lay that out for the country and draw the contrast between, you know, what he is

doing to protect those freedoms and what the risk is if we don't look, it's no secret that there are a lot of battles between the president and you guys on the democratic side of the aisle and republicans right now. >> there are a lot of issues that you can't get past, whether it's the immigration bill. you know, there are challenges with funding for ukraine almost everything you can think of name it as an issue. and, you know, conflict. do you think the president should strike a conciliatory tone or should he kind of be combative? >> i think he needs to tell my republican colleagues it's time to get things done and join the solutions business, because especially when it comes to the border, the second most conservative senator in the senate, james lankford, wrote a border bill that the president worked on and agreed to sign into law. but when donald trump said it needed to be killed, every republican in the house essentially said, don't bring it here for a vote. and so the president really, i think, should urge the congress to do what people do at home every day, which is work together,

collaborate, and get things done, because we really have no other choice for so many of these urgent and important matters. >> speaking of trump, he did well on super tuesday, apparently going to be the republican nominee and you know, looking at this look, he is only three years younger. but somehow president biden's 81 years of age is a greater concern for voters in polls. you yourself, when you ran for president, called on mr. biden to pass the torch. and that was when he was four years younger. how do you now make the case that biden should keep the torch? >> well, first, you know, a number that is higher than 81 is 91, and that's the number of felony charges that donald trump is facing. but when you look at what president biden has done, you know, bringing us out of covid, bringing the world back together, when donald trump tried to destroy nato, passing the inflation reduction act, which reduced the cost of insulin, a bipartisan infrastructure and jobs bill that is bringing jobs to our district and helping us with the valley link project, which will

take rail from dublin, pleasanton, out over the altamont. there's so much that he's done, and proved me wrong. of course, as a candidate who's candidacy lasted probably about as long as this segment, he has he's got a lot of accomplishments. and again, that's in contrast to chaos, and so we can have, governing and competence or we can have chaos. and i think that's the case he needs to make tonight. >> all right. congressman swalwell, i do appreciate your candor there. but, you know, congressional reps attending always bring a guest whose experience may be policy. you want to highlight. who are you bringing tonight as your guest? >> yeah, i'm excited tonight that i'm bringing, californian emily calandrelli, she is an engineer, an mit graduate, and works very hard to get young girls into stem, but has also worked with me, to work with the tsa to make it a little more friendly for traveling moms who are breastfeeding, my wife has experienced this as a business woman, that you're not treated

so well by the tsa. emily experienced this and wrote about it, in a post that went viral and so she and i are trying to make, you know, a little bit easier for moms to travel and also just to pass more family friendly and more mom friendly policies in our government. >> all right. great you're in d.c. now, but on super tuesday, you're in los angeles. i saw you introducing congressman adam schiff at his election watch party. he was the top vote getter in that primary for the late senator dianne feinstein's seat. he will face off against republican former dodgers player steve garvey in november. how are you feeling about that race, and what is it that you like about schiff being in the senate for california? >> well, adam schiff has delivered, you know, for his constituents and for our democracy. and i've been in the breach with him, having been on the intelligence and judiciary committees with adam during the russia investigation, during both, impeachments, he, does not flinch, you know, when our democracy is threatened and he's going to be just a terrific

senator, you know, filling, the very, very, big shoes of the late senator feinstein. i'm excited for him to be a senator. he's been a mentor and a friend to me, but he's been a heck of a representative to the people who have been privileged, you know, to have his help, over the years. >> hey, back to the state of the union tonight. how how spirited do you expect it to be, especially when you look across on the other side of the aisle. >> so it's going to be spirited, and the president showed last year that, you know, he he welcomes, any debate, especially if you're trying to cut social security and medicare. and he engaged on that, last time. but again, we can be spirited, but also be, you know, civil and collaborative. and that's part of what the president, you know, has run on is to get things done to unite the country. and i hope we see that, a little bit, tonight. got a little guy sneaking into the picture here. >> oh, this is about to become a viral moment. maybe i should

just hang on the shot and let the little guy sneak into the picture. oh, there he is. hi. there you go. is that your son? adorable. >> that's my son. yes. >> do you remember that viral video with the british office? dad and the kid who was crawling and they were trying to get him? >> you're not seeing him here on abc seven? he asked if he's on cnn. i told him it's abc seven. even better. >> even better. exactly congressman eric swalwell, thank you so much. really appreciate you handling babysitting duties while also doing this interview with us to preview the president's state of the union. thanks so much. >> yes, of course. thank you. >> all right. well, president biden's speech, the state of the union will be on here tonight on abc seven. coverage begins at 6 p.m. you can also watch the republican response and then abc seven news at 8 p.m. coming up, ikea. it's no longer just a place to find affordable furniture. maybe some swedish meatballs. it's also a place to work, even if you don't work for the retailer. our media partner, the san francisco standard, tells us about how the retail

employees back to the san francisco mid-market

many hesitant to give up their work from home status. well, ikea thinks it can change that. our media partner, the san francisco standard, reports on a new co-working space brought to you by the group that owns ikea. yep, the swedish retail giant's first ever co-working concept in the us is now here. joining us live is kevin nguyen, business reporter for the standard, who worked on the story. hey, kevin. >> hey, kristen. great to see you again. >> great to see you. so tell us all about this concept called the hey workshop. is that right? i don't know if i my swedish pronunciation correct? >> correct. hey, that's swedish for hello. so hey to everyone on uh- watching abc seven. but yeah, you know, in the face of notable companies leaving downtown san francisco, here you have this furniture company that

a lot of people know and love, doubling down on the area, buying a building with the intention of turning it into a mall and choosing san francisco as the first place in north america to do that for this company. so they've opened up a co-working space which people might associate with, you know, we work, but, you know, they're doing their own version of it. and it's on the fifth floor of this new ikea store in mid-market. >> so how big of it, how big is it? how much square footage is occupied? the working part. >> yeah. so it's 46,000ft■!s, about 127 offices, varying in size, and it can fit about 500 people. >> okay. and do we know how many have signed up? which types of businesses? >> uh? they wouldn't give me exact numbers, but when i was there yesterday, it looks like it's about 20% occupied. they've only been open for six weeks. so yeah, their objective now is to get the word out and get at least asap. >> so you mentioned we work that was not too successful after the pandemic happened and there are

a lot of people who wondered if that concept can work again, with people preferring to work from home and everything. what do you think is the draw here? what is the potential here? >> yeah, you know, i think the failure of wework was, even though they it was a disaster behind the scenes with their, you know, their and how they administrated their business and kept the books, they still proved that a demand for a new type of office work was there. so it all comes down to flexibility. and while co-working is not new coming out of covid, i think we are seeing that this is probably the best time for, co-working to maybe grab hold. and that's space that is ready to use. because even though office rents are lowered now, if you sign a traditional lease, you still have to furnish the space set up your internet, and it's a multi year commitment which people aren't ready to make. >> and can we talk about the esthetics and the appeal of such a space? i mean, for those who like hanging out at ikea just to get inspiration, then there are certain conveniences, right? so tell us about the features, the amenities, the atmosphere.

>> right. so first and foremost, what stuck out to me is that it's an appealing place to hang out. you know, we've all seen those beautifully staged rooms that we all think would be nice to have, but maybe, you know, can't pull it off back home. well, now people get to use actually use these spaces, they serve free breakfast every morning and members get discounts to everything that ikea will open in the building. so buying furniture downstairs, buying meatballs. and then they're going to open a gym in a food hall pretty soon too. >> oh, and of course they had me at the cinnamon rolls. so i'll just say that i saw mayor london breed there. you know, cutting the ribbon when that ikea opened. how is the city? how is she? how are other city officials, optimistic. how with regard to the co-working aspect of this? and do they think it's going to lead to kind of a revival of the whole general area look like i mentioned up top, you know, amid everyone else leaving and all the negative press about san francisco, i think everyone, from the government to the business side is, welcoming this with open arms. >> they, they they're excited

that someone is zagging when everyone else is zigging one way. right? so. yeah, i mean, it still remains to be seen. like i said, they're they're only about 20% leased, they got to fill it up. but so far, i think signs are encouraging. >> before we let you go real quickly, just what kind of reception have you heard from those who use it? and entrepreneurs. >> yeah, well, i found that it's quickly becoming a really cool, artificial intelligence hangout spot. so there's a incubator there that, gets to use the space rent free. so any entrepreneurs who are, you know, on the lookout for hackathons? panel discussions or networking sessions, don't be surprised if you see an invite to the workshop. >> all right. the hedge workshop. get your swedish meatballs and co-working space in one. thank you so much. kevin v nguyen. appreciate it. >> thank you kristen. >> and you can check out kevin's article and more of the standard's other original reporting on their website, sf standard.com and abc7 will continue to bring you more segments featuring the standards, city focused journalism twice a week right here on getting answers at

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plus, ask how to get up to a $800 prepaid card with a qualifying internet package. don't wait, call and switch today! being driven away, taken away from the parking lot where he landed. so flight 35 from sfo to osaka around 1130 this morning was taken off when that tire, just fell off. and then it landed in an employee parking lot where it hit a few vehicles, but thankfully no person. and now it is being taken away for investigation and we have video that captures the moment that wheel just fell off the plane.

take a look. it's going to happen in a few seconds. this video, courtesy of the cali plane's youtube channel. there it is. it just breaks off. this frightening incident forced the plane to have to divert to lax instead of going to japan, where it made a safe landing around 1:30 p.m. with 235 passengers and 14 crew members on board, we'll have a lot more on this story with all our reporters coming up on abc seven news at four. thank you for watching. getting answers today. we'll be here every weekday at three for you answering questions with experts from around the bay area. world news tonight with david muir is next. and the news at four is coming up in a half hour. >> take care. ♪ tonight, the high-stakes speech for president biden. also, the united flight. what came off the plane after takeoff. and the national guard now deployed on the new york city