hello, everybody. why the cnn center in atlanta. looking over downtown atlanta. what a beautiful sight with all the lights. the sun will come up very shortly. it's august 9th. i'm betty nguyen. >> this time a month ago we saw a little bit of daylight. summer is almost over. i'm rob marciano in for t. j. holmes. overnight we learned a fourth body has been found one the

hudson river after a tourist helicopter and small plane collided. >> i want you to take a look at this fire. it is inside a california prison where we're getting information about inmates rioting. >> plus the health care debate. >> i read the house health care plan and i found out much of what they are telling me is not true. >> members holding health care town hall meetings are getting an earful. let's start in new york. that tragedy over the hudson river and the search for victims. nine people are believed dead after tourist helicopter and a small plane collided. >> three bodies have been pulled from the water. a body of a fourth victim in the wreckage of that chopper has not yet been removed. the search for missing resumes this. >> reporter: as the sun sets, divers who could barely see in the murky waters of the hudson, promised to resume work in the

morning, looking for victims and wreckage in up to 50 feet of water. >> the ability to see is very limited. two to three feet at most. >> reporter: on a bright sunny day it was hard to understand why a small plane and sight seeing helicopter collided over the hudson river. >> i was very shocked. i was screaming for a few seconds. then two of us, we started calling 911. >> reporter: the small plane with one pilot and two passengers, including a child, took off from new jersey's teterboro airport. five italian tourists lifted off for a tour in a helicopter. >> the helicopter headed southbound. that's 11, 1,200 feet. the plane rolled into the helicopter. hit the side it. the helicopter went straight down the water. there was a poof of smoke and bang. the plane went further down. >> reporter: italian tourists

who stayed behind waiting for friends and family were stunned. >> they told me they have some relatives, not friends. we don't know anything because he asked if they are alive. >> what did they say >> nobody. >> were they crying? >>, no. very sad but they are not crying. >> reporter: the ntsb said just before the accident happened another pilot on the ground saw the plane approaching and tried to radio a warning to the helicopter pilot. >> there was no response from the pilot. he stated he saw the right-wing of the airplane contact the helicopter. he saw helicopter parts and the right-wing fall and both aircraft descended into the hudson river. >> reporter: because of darkness and a strong current the search more victims has been call off for the night. two debris fields and a possible third have been located a

investigators tried to electrifying out why this accident happened. >> so, we're told that all three of the recovered bodies were on board that small plane. they have been identified as the owner of the pilot, his brother and he in from you. >> a live report in the next hour up on sunday morning. our i-reporters are staying on top of this story. this is a photo of the scene. this man said he heard what sounded like a car backfiring or fireworks. didn't think much about it at the time until he heard the crash. if you're an eyewitness to the news, sends it to our address. hot weather and some hot tempers. it's a make or break month for health care reform and for once

the battleground isn't in washington. >> lawmakers are holding tornado hall meetings back home during the congressional recess. some, mostly democrats are finding angry crowds. arizona, texas,way, tennessee, states across the country with similar sense yesterday. >> town hall meetings are usually quiet affairs but it's hard for lawmakers to even get a word out. as tom harkin found out yesterday. >> it reads something that was brought up in the early 1930s in germany. >> it is not good. >> all right. well, it was standing room only for harkin at a des moines medical center and reform opponents were not the only ones in the crowd they were loudest. >> harkin repeated the democrats line on this disruption they are

coordinated efforts. conservatives enkoujed people to come out but the republican party denies any responsibility. many in the crowd will tell you they want their voices heard. >> i think we heard there's a lot of people out here angry that congress proposes bills, doesn't read them and then when the people out here read them, congress gets angry that we're reading the bills. >> i think when people get the right information and they know what we're trying to do and how this will all wash out, i'm not saying 100% of the american people will be for it but the vast majority of the people will see this as a good thing to change the system that we have. >> for the most part town halls are going smoother for republicans but democrats who think they can skip these scenes may find protesters waiting for them in other spots. >> why there may be no escaping the health care debate.

>> reporter: this group outside of representative mitchell's office was there to protest the health care bill. they say the reform is too expensive and too intrusive. >> we're americans and we should be able to make the decisions. >> i'm afraid that obama is going to bankrupt the country. >> reporter: others der manded mitchell host a forum so they could air their concerns in person. >> he may be leaning towards voting for it. please listen to the people and understand we don't want this. >> reporter: the republican representative did hold a town hall meeting in scottsdale. >> fight against it with everything you have. >> reporter: the mostly conservative crowd remained civil for the republican congressman unlike the crowds that confronted and similar town

halls hosted by democrats in arizona and across the country in the last few days. >> they are all in each other's face. another tense scene in memphis, tennessee. police were called in for extra help to handle the crowd of about 500. social security and veterans benefits were the topic but health care wasn't on the agenda button lie thing discussed in the end. >> president obama is heading south of the border for a summit meeting. eaves leaving this evening for mexico. he'll meet with mexican and canadian leaders today and tomorrow. tuesday he holds a town hall meeting on health care insurance reform in new hampshire. >> justice sonia sotomayor took the associate justice oath yesterday and here's part of

that. >> i, sonia sotomayor, do solemnly swear. >> i sonia sotomayor do solemnly swear. smile administer justice without respect to persons. >> that i will administer justice without respect to persons. >> and do equal right to the poor. >> and do equal right to the poor and the rich. >> justice sotomayor held the bible while her daughter was sworn in as the nation's 111th supreme court justice. chief justice roberts condugged tooth. was the first time the court allowed tv coverage of the swearing in ceremony. look at all those cheers. this is a viewing party in new york spanish harlem. she's the only third female to serve on the court. more latino americans are having an impact on our culture and

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weehawken, new jersey into hoboken and turned on to sinatra drive which runs parallel of the hudson snoop you got hudson right here and just to the west of that where the a is, that's sinatra drive. so it makes sense you would have been right there. did you hear something? >> i heard -- i thought i may have hit something on my car. next thing i know my girlfriend and i saw debris flying out of the sky and a big splab in the hudson. 20 feet in front of me, the tire actually fell right on the roadway in front of our car. >> reporter: am i seeing the rubber casing for the tire soirt an actual tire material in there? is it just the exterior? >> it looks like it was just the exterior. i didn't see the rim or anything inside. >> reporter: this fell right in front of you and could have hit your car? >> it could have.

>> reporter: it must have some velocity. you have extra reason to believe this was from the crash >> right. so i do have reason to believe it. i saw the wing spiraling down and maybe the wing may have hit something and shot it my way but there was a lot of debris. >> reporter: we're getting some i-report photos. jason you are in the area, have been in the area. what your seeing, what is it like? what did it sound like? >> yes. we had jersey city cops, weehawken, hoboken fire and ringo starr cue, people on the new york side. they since shut down that main road. i actually ended up leaving and it was just a lot of people very scared and looking at the sky and running. and i don't think anybody really knew what happened. there was one cop that was next to me and i think he was

probably the first to call it in and he didn't see it. not too many people saw it. i didn't see the plane just the wing and the tire. >> you heard a sound. i want to emphasize, the tire we're looking at is not the helicopter at all. >> yeah. it appears as though it would be to the plane. >> right. i just to emphasize that. the images you were able to see later on. all right so, anything like this ever happen to you before? >> no. i'm grateful i've never seen anything like this before and hopefully, you know, they do find more survivors. >> obviously a lot of people are very concerned. what's it like four now being in that vicinity, being a resident of that area, people hunkering down, staying home? >> a lot of people are -- i live right on the water. a lot of people came out of their apartments and looked.

the road is closed. nobody is going back there to see anything. this is in line where the hudson crash happened. everybody is still trying to get over that. very unfortunate. >> indeed it is unfortunate. coming up, we're going to be having more on that story, the latest on the bodies that have been found. this is an interesting story, how can apples, flowers, sugar and butter actually fight foreclosure? well, one woman has the recipe. >> okay. now i'm hungry. let's talk about alabama. yesterday we chatted with news makers there. they will hold an emergency special session. will it help fixing that phil mickelson mess? we'll talk about it.

when it comes to creative ways to save a home from foreclosure, one new jersey woman takes the cake. allan chernoff has today's money on main street. >> reporter: actress has played many roles to earn a living. but when she recently fell into foreclosure on her new jersey home, she turned to baking. >> it was desperation. i thought wow we can sell these cakes. >> reporter: the reason she fell into a cash squeeze that two years ago she hired a contractor to renovate house to. he took her money but only did a portion of the work. to save her home, she set a goal of selling 100 cakes.

>> the hardest part was to say, can you buy my cakes? this is my problem. >> reporter: a local hilton hotel offered a kitchen so she could bake faster. she's baked 200 cakes double her goal and qualifying for make a home affordable program her monthly mortgage is dropping by 20%. other financial americans in a financial bind can find creative answers to their crash crunch. >> find your talent. find something that you can do that will help to pay expenses. >> reporter: almost any talent can generate extra cash. internet retailer, bake me a wish got a whiff of the cake and is greasing pans to mass produce it and share the proceeds with

angela. a whole line of angela's cakes is planned. escaping foreclosure could propel her to a new career as the queen of cakes. back in her kitchen she stills study, knowing from experience never to depend on just one role. allan chernoff, cnn. >> catch a new money and main street this thursday on american this morning starting at 6:00 a.m. eastern time.

♪ an elvis fan? >> it's basically in my dna. we're entering day two of elvis week in memphis, tennessee. elvis fans from all over the world makes the pilgrimage to that area. >> you got to go there at least once. >>it's a lifestyle. >> it really is. >> the bathtub and stuff is a beautiful thing to see. they have stuff going on in conditionton, ohio. at the pro football hall of fame they will have a hall of fame game. it comes after yesterdays

introduction of bruce smith, derek thomas. you get blind sided by those guys and you ends up on a different planet. in ma son city, iowa, pyrotechics guild international has their annual convention. they detonate 1,000 fireworks. in chicago 80th annual bud billiken parade and picnic. he's the founder and manager of the chicago defender, that was african-american newspaper. they created the parade to give underprivileged children a chance to be in the limelight. great music. a lot of smiles. >> people came out to see it. >> ever thought it would be a good idea to combine all the

events, throw in foorks, bring in elvis. >> overload. >> not necessarily a bad thing. always a good time. >> trying to recoup. >> awfully toasty in chicago. >> it has been in parts of chicago. today they will get a chance to cool down. as we go into tropics look at the other big storm. let's go to the source. there's felicia. the storm has weakened. just over the last 48 hours or so, category 1, expected to weaken considerably becoming a weak tropical storm or depression as it makes landfall in hawaii. in atlanta a very muggy, warm day. temperatures going back to 20e9s. looks good for the time being. throw in elvis an you have your day made. >> it's just started. thank you. >> thanks. >> we're going to take you live to the scene of the hudson river

plane crash and chopper collision there. in 30 minutes we'll see the search resume. >> plus a make or break month when it comes to health care and also on the president's agenda this week. we'll take you live to washington.

welcome back. good morning, i'm rob marciano in for t. j. holmes. >> hello, everybody, in betty nguyen. this morning the latest information on that helicopter plane crash in the hudson river. >> poof of smoke and like a bang and the plane went further down. >> differs had located another body as the recovery mission resumes. we'll continue to follow that story. >> your trash emits gas and that can be turned into power. one county is going green. >> let's back to this.

investigators are looking for answers after a tourist helicopter collided with small plane. it happened over the hudson river near new york city. >> no one is believed to have survived. so far three bodies have been pulled from the water, another has been located. the search for the rest of the victims is expected to resume at day break. as for what happened witnesses say the plane's right-wing made contact with the chopper. >> there was a plane, small plane like a cessna cutting back towards new jersey side, helicopter heading southbound, about 11,1100100, 1,200 feet. the plane came down in a couple of pieces. pretty bad. >> what was your thought when you saw it >> tragic. bad. the fact that it happened here. you look up and see all the planes going around here, it's

kind of hectic. unfortunately, you know, this thing happened, but, you know, the fact that it does happen, it does happen more often. >> it was turning and then the head went down first. and then about three, four seconds later i thought it was the wing of the helicopter, no wing of the helicopter probably the blades. so if this is the head i think it went down like this. so, it was quick. i see a lot of people come and tart to try to rescue and then lots of boats start to drive towards the helicopter. i was very shocked. i think i was screaming for a few seconds. and then two of us we started calling 911. >> cnn is in new york and we'll have a live report at the top of the hour. we've been getting a lot of i reports.

this is from robert wagner. he arrived at the scene as police were roping off the area. you can see the searchers looking for survivors in the wreckage. if you have an i-report send it to us at ireport.com. president obama is heading south of the border for a summit meeting and leaving this afternoon for mexico. he'll meet with mexican and canadian leaders today and tomorrow. on tuesday he holds a town hall meeting on health care insurance reform this time in new hampshire. on wednesday the president hosts a white house reception for new supreme court justice sonia sotomayor. so, let's talk a little bit about the president's campaign to make health care reform a reality. cnn deputy political director paul steinhauser is in washington with a preview. pauls health care no doubt front and center this week. all right. we're having audio difficulties

with paul steinhauser. rob, right now i'll hand it over to you. >> remember, we were talking about alabama's county in crisis, jefferson county to be specific. alabama governor has called for a special legislative session tomorrow to deal with the state's deestate financial deepening crisis. some lawmakers believe it's time to tap into unspent funds or risk sinking deeper into debt. i spoke a state representative about the crisis. >> they don't have to do this. they have $84 million in reserves. they are punishing the sheriff. >> so you got $84 million. >> in reserves. >> how do we get it out of

there? >> they don't want to use the money. spend it on the sheriff's department. they are trying to punish folks and put pressure on us for us to do things. >> how are you, your colleagues, the governor and the sheriff going to work together? >> we're going reenact some taxes to bring in $70 million. it would only be for a short while. calls for a vote of people in 2012. the county got time to hopefully realize they will have a short fall of funds in five years if it's not voted for. we'll reinstate it immediately and allow them to get the money -- they have $23 million in escrow. get the escrow money as well as

get the money from taxation. >> right now about a quarter of all jefferson county employees are on unpaid administrative leave. the special session convaccines late tomorrow afternoon. >> all right. let's get back and talk about fortunate's campaign to make health care reform a reality. paul steinhauser is in washington and we believe his mic is working this time. >> can you hear me >> loud and clear. >> let's talk about the president this week. no doubt health care reform front and center. >> front and center for the president but also for members of congress we saw last week with lawmakers from the house of representatives, they were already on break last week and we saw a lot of those town halls across the country and some got very vocal and some outbursts and we'll see more this week because mow the senate is on break. you have lawmakers from both chambers across the country

holding town halls where citizens can speak out about what they like and don't like about these proposals. >> so, those are the town halls meeting, democrats, republicans, all expressing different opinions but how is the president getting his message out? >> he'll be speaking about it every day. when he gets back from mexico he's going up to new hampshire and holding a town hall smimt at the high school in portsmouth, hamm. he's done it before and will do it on tuesday. on tri-when he goes out to montana he may be teaming up with max baucus. >> cnn is staying on top this was. this is a make or break month. what kind of special coverage can we expect to see? >> we'll be covering as many of these town halls as possible with our reporters, our producers, our photojournalists.

we're gassing up the cnn campaign buss firing it up and ali velshi will start down your way. >> he's not driving? >> i hope not. keep him away from the wheel. he's going from atlanta up to iowa through parts of the south and midwest speaking to americans about how they feel about health care reform. >> i love those road trips because you get a slice of what people across the country feel about the issues that are on table and right now the number one issue being health care. thank you, paul, we do appreciate it. >> ali driving that bus is not a good thing. >> isn't that frightening. if you see ali on the roadway get off the side an let him go by. >> reynolds wolf was on the road. doing some investigating reporting. one man's trash is another man's treasure. reynolds wolf shows us how these electric lines have harnessed

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♪ right now ♪ over me >> the masses at a street party, one of music's famous intersection, beatle mania surging on abby road. paul, george and ringo and the gang, john strolling down across this crosswalk, turning the ordinary london street into a musical mecca. the photo was the copy for the abby road album. the photo shoot lasted 15 minutes, that was august 8, 1969. the picture became an enduring rock and roll icon. >> we got a lot of responses from you on our facebook and twitter pages and seeing this anniversary, wanted to hear from you about your favorite beatle song. a lot of people weighed in. greg says "strawberry fields."

kevin says there's too many to choose from. let's see what the twitter folks are saying. one says "i love penny lane." but denise says favorite beatle song that's like asking what is your favorite godiva chocolate. 40 years. keep those comments coming in. we always enjoy hearing from you. reach out to us on twitter and facebook. >> were you a big beatle fan? >> you have to respect them. they are such icons. do you have a favorite song? >> "let it be." >> listen, did you this story, it's kind of becoming trendy. >> garbage, make some power. >> one person's junk happens to be another man's treasure. >> we're talking about a place

up in north carolina has been producing, taking trash and producing power from it since 1999. the trash produces methane which produces gas. it's stinky stuff but it's stinky power. they are making electricity. they get $655,000 each year. the landfill is in newton. >> when barry edwards sees trash he thinks money snoop it makes money. >> he works as director of utilities in north carolina. while it looks like i'm walking on a sunny hillside in north carolina, i'm walking on a landfill and below the ground we have all kind of trash and that trash is creating methane, methane being pulled up by this well and that methane needs to sour. the methane gas powers these

generators that feed to the power company. >> each one of these units are one megawatts each. >> the county sells that electricity, earning about $655,000 each year. >> this concept is new in the united states. it's being driven by the county not by private form. it's a profitable organization to make money and all the profit goes to the county. >> that profit is not only keeping residential waste bills low but funding the start of an 800 acre eco complex. >> we're applying what's known as industrial ecology. trying to make zero waste. >> for instance, next month construction begins on a biodiesel production facility that will harness the heat from

these hand fill power generators. the heat breaks down the seeds from these sunflower and breaks it down into biodiesel. >> what comes into our sight we'll make a commodity out of. >> they are partnering with private industry. the wood waste from these facilities will eventually be converted into electricity. plans are also set to convert waste water to power as well as on site plastic recycling. this entire green initiative has betty nguyen the number one priority for the county's board of commissioners. >> i think the biggest overall benefit will be if we see this facility grow and become an economic development tool that will help create jobs for our economy. >> we improve the cost of service, we improve our environment, we include every aspect of vocation wine our county that we can touch, and

it's a win-win for everyone. >> there's only one other set up like this and it's on the west coast. you think something like that in monterey, california not so much in north carolina. seems a little bit out of place. they hope this will be a real trendsetter. >> we're talking about methane gas and i got to ask you, was it just horrendous? >> it was raunchy. no question about it. you got to look at the end result. sure it smells. but the dollars and cents, the way it will help out. >> does anybody live nearby? >> you know, there were some people that did live by but let's be honest a place that's very agricultural areas. and you have a variety, an assortment of smells. somehow this gets blended in there. >> gotcha. >> are they taking donations?

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the local red cross say families here live on less than a dollar a day. hundreds gather at the shore line. they will take the food, clothing and hygienic supplies back to their huts. some are so small, even a child can't stand up inside it. what's even harder to believe, a family of five live here. she said they have lived here for about three years. in a corner is their makeshift kitchen. they scratch out a living fishing from the same murky canals where they bait and get their drinking water. they can't afford to keep their children in school. her 12-year-old daughter only made to it second grade. when i asked her what she wants

to be? her face lights up and says she wants to be a teacher. it's a heartbreaking battle between hope and poverty that plays out as we go from village to village. this is life for the people who live here. this is a difficult life. no matter how much we bring, and how many times we come, you never leave feeling like you've done enough. so many people in need here. which is why we continue to come back, year after year. proving the poor are not alone in their struggle and maybe in some way it will instill the kind of hope and determination needed to rise above seemingly impossible odds. you've been making the trip for nine years. unbelievable. we appreciate you sharing the experience. how has it changed over the years? what's different this year? >> through the years, you get more people invested in helping

those half a world away and we've been so thankful to our donors. we're able to help more people with more aid which very important because there are millions that live in grass huts that have dirt floors and this aid is so essential to them. during monsoon season it inundates the area and floods the region. i want causes devastation but can be very deadly. it's very important for us to get in there and get the aid to those in need before the monsoon strikes and along with food and the clothing and hygienic supplies we giveaway shoes because many of these children don't have shoes. these schools are very far away. >> how do they react when they get a new pair of shoes? >> the smiles that come on their faces. even more so than the shoes and food, when you give a child that's never had a toy, a toy for the very first time there is

nothing like how they light up and just is smile that comes across their faces. it's like christmas. >> a lot of hard work. >>it's good feeling and we're doing good work. >> donatehelpsthe hungry.org. each word is separated by a hyphen. check out my blog and go cnn/abouty. the story is posted there along with any interview on unicef how donations to nonprofits are down. >> we're following this plane and helicopter collision on the hudson. the sunrising now and a grim mission resumes. we'll have the latest on the search efforts and the search for clues. >> president obama hits the road today. we'll tell you where he's going and why. rs program, a great deal gets even better. let us recycle your older vehicle and you could qualify for an additional $3500 or $4500 cash back

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you have been a busy boy, felicia, heat across the united states. >> up in that part of the world they take the weather seriously. with a tornado warning people take cover. the thing is they could be under the gun later on today. another place that could see scattered showers is new york. right now a nice shot that looks pretty good. little bit of a haze. few scattered showers, rumble of thunder in the afternoon. if you're going out to times square, walking up the avenue of the america, you might need an

umbrella. otherwise should be good. go out and get some coffee and a bagel. we'll be talking about the tropics. we've been watching felicia. it is weakening. she's losing quite a bit of her shape, not quite as significant. category 1. still expected to reach hawaii but will do so as a weak tropical storm or tropical depression. bringing heavy rainfall and surf to the island. we're seeing scattered storms popping up across parts of the nays's mid-section. as we mentioned new york will be dealing with some scattered storms. some could be severe in the afternoon. very hot and humid in parts of the southeast and gulf coast on to the four corners very hot. temperatures a little bit cooler. in fact your high temperatures in phoenix going up to 106. so 106, you're going take it by sky hard birpt.

san francisco, 73 degrees the expected high. memphis with 88 degrees. 97 in washington, d.c. and miami all the way into the 90s. that's a look at your forecast. you're watching "cnn sunday morning." from cnn center here in atlanta yes this is "cnn sunday morning." august 9th. good morning i'm rob marciano in for t. j. holmes. >> glad to have you. i'm betty nguyen. 7:00 a.m. here in the east and gathering new information on that fatal helicopter/plane collision in the hudson river. our ireporters are showing us how close they were to the crash. >> plus congress is on vacation but there's no rest from the health care discussion. >> i don't think people should be penalized because of an illness. i don't. i think health care should be a

universal right. >> people are packing into rooms to hear from their representatives on this very important topic snoop we do want to begin with that hudson river crash. divers are getting back into the water this morning search for the rest of the victims killed when a tourist helicopter and a small plane collided in mid-air. >> susan, what is the scene like this morning? >> reporter: good morning. at this hour, during this hour, divers are scheduled to resume their work in the area that can you see behind me. police say conditions have not improved much. divers can barely see in front of them. as the sun sets divers who could barely see in the murky waters of the hudson promised to resume work in the morning, looking for victims and wreckage in up to 50 feet of water. >> the ability to see very limited, two to three feet at most.

>> reporter: on a bright sunny day it was hard to under why a small plane and sight seeing helicopter should collide over the hudson river. >> i was very shocked. i think i was screaming for a few seconds. and then two of us, we started calling 911. >> reporter: the small plane like this one, with the pilot and his brother and brother's son took off from new jersey's teterboro airport and turned over south over the hudson river. at the same time five italian tourists lifted off for a tour in a helicopter. >> the cessna cutback over the jersey side. the helicopter heading 1100, 1,200 feet. the plane rolled into the helicopter, hit the side it. the helicopter went straight down the water. there was a poof of smoke and a bang. the plane went further down. >> reporter: italian tourist whose stayed behind waiting for friend and family were stun. >> they told me they have some relatives not friends. >> so they are inside >> yeah.

but we don't know anything because we asked. we asked if they are alive. >> what did they say? >> no bodies? >> no. they are very sad. >> reporter: the ntsb said just before the accident happened another pilot on the ground saw the plane approaching and tried the radio a warning to the helicopter pilot. >> there was no response from the pilot. he stated he saw the right-wing of the airplane contact the helicopter. he saw helicopter parts and the right-wing fall and both aircraft descended into the hudson river. >> reporter: so far three bodies have been recovered, autopsies are expected to begin sunday morning. >> as of late last night this new news the body of a fourth victim has also been located, but it is buried under note the helicopter wreckage and so far that victim has not yet been

recovered. >> a long day for you. we'll check back with you throughout this morning. >> obviously there are a lot of challenges to searching. >> we'll hear from some firsthand accounts about that in the next half hour with the ntsb chairwoman. she joins us live just after 8:00 eastern. in the mean time let's turn to josh. >> he's been speaking with people that saw the collision. >> there was a crash between a helicopter and an plane. joining me is keith. you said you heard this and many thought it was a bomb? >> that's correct. >> what happened? >> well, we had just finished playing soccer and hanging out on the field when we heard this just incorrected jublly large crashing noise. i never heard anything like that loud in my life ever.

i flinched, looked up and the helicopter had broken into two and the plane was going down in the water. everyone's initial reaction was just terror because the helicopter came down close to the new jersey side and a few people thought it would actually hit pedestrians on the side of the river. >> keith, i can show everyone where you are. i pulled up a map. you were at sinatra park in hobok hoboken. here's the hudson. you have frank sinatra park. that's where you were playing soccer. you're standing there in a park, playing soccer, look up and see an aircraft splitting in two. what did that look like? what did you physically see? >> well, it happened extremely quickly like a lot of people have mentioned. there's just a ton of debris in the air. the tail section was separated from the cockpit or the front of the helicopter. the front just took a nose dive

from there. the plane kind of -- it went into the water further into the center of the river. >> what a tragedy for these people. before i let you go here, was there chaos on the ground, did people scatter and scream, did people come together and this is what we'll do? what happened? >> there were a few people that were screaming and were having trouble with it. for the most part a lot of people their immediate reaction was to call 911, which was great. >> other than that you saw mostly order. >> yes everyone did the right thing. they gave the emergency service all the room they need. it was pretty calm on the ground. >> this is our top story on cnn.com. check out our website for the latest on the investigation. >> congress's summer recess isn't slowing the president's

plan to push through health care reform. paul steinhauser joins us again this morning. good morning. so we want to hear about the president's calendar this week. what's on the agenda. >> it starts today. he's heading down south to mexico. he has a summit down there with mexico and canadian leaders. canada has a lot on their agenda. they will be talking about immigration, drug trafficking, trade, the h1n1 pandemic. a lot to talk about. when the president gets back on tuesday, health care, of course as you mentioned will dominate a lot of his week. >> yesterday we saw live during our 11:00 a.m. hour sonia sotomayor emotional swerg in ceremony. the president meets with the new justice next week. >> it will be a nice lighter fair.

a reception at the white house on wednesday for the new supreme court associate justice. and, you know, this will be the first time since she has been sworn in officially that she will be meeting with the president at the white house, and you remember that she won 68 votes last week in the senate, nine of those republicans and so this will be an event at the white house. after that, the president is going to do what a lot of families do. pack up the wife and kids and head out with them out west and visit some national parks. they will visit yellow stone and the grand canyon and this is part of a plan to promote national tourism and it comes on a fee free weekend. so next weekend he visits the national park and if you visit you don't have to pay a fee. >> okay. thank you. do appreciate it. >> thank you, betty. >> the u.s. military will wait on dna evidence to confirm

whether the leader of the taliban in pakistan is dead. nuclear weapons reports say that he was killed last week in a suspected u.s. drop attack on his father-in-law's house. yesterday officials say gunfire broke out at a meeting to pick his successor. one of the leading candidates was killed. the taliban denies that. outside los angeles prison officials are trying to clamp down on a rye jot that left several inmates hurt and one build be on fire. local fire crews and police are on the scene. the violence broke out last night and left several inmates injured. the prison is a medium security facility. in massachusetts, the sister of john f. kennedy remains in critical condition this morning. 88-year-old eunice kennedy shriver is the fifth of nine kennedy children and became a founding force of the special olympics. shriver's daughter maria has

traveled to be with her and she's accompanied by her husband and governor of california, arnold schwarzenegger. >> ves levels -- stress levels are going up in emergency rooms. >> then we're going switch gears and show you this small medical practice that's cutting corners to focus on patient care. is there a market? see what you think. we're back in two.

emergency room nurses don't feel so safe these days. in a new survey it finds that more than 50% have had a patient or patient's family hit, kick or punch them. and that's only about how it starts. rita anderson knows firsthand. she's been a nurse for 42 years. in 1999 a young girl punched her so hard it fractured her jaw. good morning to both of you. eye opening survey. rita, you have at least one story to tell. how did a young woman break your jaw and is that something that happens often to nurses? >> it's happening more and more these days. i was working a weekend midnight

is when incidents are the highest. i was making round with another physician, and a patient asked me if i could help her to the restroom, and she mistook me for another nurse. so i wasn't even the entrepreneur that was originally taking care of her. and i asked her if she could get up to the go the bathroom and she didn't want to get up off the stretcher and unfortunately because it was a busy urban emergency department in new york, stretchers in the hallways were very common. so, i went to get her a private place to use a bed pan, and when i went back to the stretcher, i leaned over she just hauled off and hit me knocked me back into the nurse's station. >> fractured your jaw. . you were out of work for a while. >> i was. i was out for two months. >> my goodness, were you able to press charges? this is an assault on you.

were you able to press charges? >> very interestingly enough new york at that time, the incidence happened me in june, but in january of that year, new law went into effect that the emergency nurses association had lobbied for three years to make it a class 3 felony offensive to assault a health care worker. >> bill, you're president of that association. i assume every state has their own laws. how close are we to getting more protection for these nurses? >> well, we have a ways to go. not only in the development of the felony law, which is one deterrent, but also in prevention programs. right now, the federal government to the occupational health and safety organization, osha only has voluntary guidelines. those need to be mandatory standards so that every hospital and emergency department will have a program to prevent and

mitigate violence against health care workers. >> this survey did you, the numbers startling. 50% of nurses reported being assaulted. one in four report frequent abuse. were you yourself surprised by that, bill? >> i was surprised at the magnitude of it. i wasn't surprised at the violence. we see the violence in emergency departments all the time and at the national level you hear about the worse case scenarios where nurses have actually been killed on duty. . but this was quite a surprise to see the magnitude. one in four have had physical violence against them more than 20 times in the three year study period, and more than one in five had verbal abuse, more than 200 times in the same period. >> rita, real quick, what do you think the reason is for. this you've been dhoing for over 40 years. i know emergency rooms are overcrowded. what else >> certainly overcrowd is an

issue. people dome the emergency department very stressed, in critical conditions, very often and the stress of the incident alone can be a problem. patients are drug seeking and there's gang warfare. a lot of those issues come in to play. >> done sound like a safe lays. bill, we have health care reform coming up. we have a shortage of nurses in some places. this done sound like a great item to be recruiting off of. >> not at all. when two out of three nurses reported they are unsafe in their own emergency department, one out of three nurses in the study reported that they intended to leave nursing or leave the emergency department as a result of violence with a huge impenning nursing shortage in the united states this is a very difficult situation. our nurses go to work to help people and we need to assure they have a safe environment to work in.

>> bill and rita, stay safe rita, we're starting to make some progress and we appreciate you if you're going into an emergency room be patient and be nice to the nurses and medical technicians. thank to both of you this morning. >> thank you. >> we're coning with this topic including the complex issues and the mind-boggling numbers. but for this 12-year-old, state health is as simple and as essential as her next breath. we'll tell you about jessica and her story. active naturals wheat formulas proven to target and help repair damage in just three washes. - building shiny, strong... - hair with life. announcer: new aveeno nourish plus. denise! you've lost weight! it's just all these giant things make me look small. i eat this fiber one yogurt. (mr. mehta) it has five grams of fiber, zero fat, and fifty calories. please, this is too creamy and delicious. it's true, only fifty calories. (announcer) fiber one yogurt.

this just in. we're learning there has been an earthquake in japan, southeast japan to be specific and it was quite a large one. >> 6.9 and then being revised to 7.1. reynolds wolf is tracking this thing. was there a tsunami warning posted? >> not yet. let's give our viewers at home an idea where it is. the big red dot is actually the size or actually the center of the quake itself, a little bit of a desuction zone. as rob mentioned in terms of tsunamis no warnings.

this is an area that's southwest of tokyo along the coast. a lot of times when you have an earthquake, there's displacement of water at the top. a big ripple to mount up. for the time being nothing yet. a big window rattler for community on the coast. this is not unusual in this part of the world. this is the pacific relationship of fire that goes around the pacific. not unusual to see that kind of an event occur off the island nation of japan. that's the latest we got for you. >> we'll keep on this. >> 339 kilometers deep which is very deep for an earthquake and that's good news. the deeper it is the less effect it has for a tsunami. >> we'll stay on top of this. a 7.1 earthquake in japan.

in the mean time, though -- the clock is ticking for millions of americans who need health care and they need it now, including a 12-year-old whose life hangs in the balance. >> jessica leone suffers from a birth defect. photojournalist tells us how looming budget cuts could mean the others for this little girl. >> talk about how the health care cuts might affect my 12-year-old she suffers from a die by lie dating disease. she receives home care health care in los angeles. >> good morning, good morning. >> you're looking at a family who when i first met them over a year ago, they were exhaustive, they were being caregivers, doctors, nurses and then get up

and go to work during the day and support their family. >> we were able to find out how to take care of jessica. if we were told 10 years ago we western capable. we don't have the ability or the energy. we wanted to help. >> going the race. who is going to win. >> carmen, when she came, i think i can do this. we were so desperate for somebody to come in. >> call her my angel. my massager. >> your hair is very pretty. >> i've been her friend for so long that i feel that we've just always had a connection together so i've wanted to keep it. when she has a friendship that's big enough like that you're always wishing for the best for her. >> we finally got everything in place where they could be

parents again which is a wonderful thing and that's what scares me a little bit about these budget cuts. frightening to think what would happen if the services were not there. essential to keep jessica going. >> i believe worse case scenario if the services stop coming, physically you can do it, you can 24 hour care give. we wouldn't have the medicine, the supplies that are required to sustain her life. >> jessica would like to thank everybody for coming to her 12th birthday party. >> this is significant because we don't know how many more birthdays she can celebrate with us. it's hard to think of that, not to be able to see her any more and it's sad. >> well, new york hudson river, the setting for a so-called miracle earlier this year, not

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we're coning to follow the story just in into the cnn newsroom. a large earthquake struck japan, south of tokyo. >> 7.1, 200 miles south of tokyo, 100 miles from any land mass. very deep at about 200 miles deep, very deep. that would limit the amount of shaking. at that size they no doubt felt it in japan. probably some damage. no tsunami warning for the west coast of the u.s. >> a lot of information is still coming in but right now we'll take you to house call and dr. sanjay gupta. >> good morning.