a storm delayed the two front runners. took them eight and a half days to finish the thousand mile race, beating the old record by five hours. >> that's growing to wrap it up for us today. i'll read your tweets and facebook posts tomorrow. time to check out shep. >> the mystery of malaysia air flight 370. new reports that the plane flew way off course for an hour or more after its tracking system suddenly and for in known reason stopped working. plus, the relatives who say passenger cell phones kept ringing for days after the disappearance, and you'll hear from a woman who says she doesn't want you -- who says she doesn't know what to tell her young son about his father, who was on he plane. also, what a fisherman says he saw the night the jet disappeared. it's the mystery of the week and maybe the strangest disappearance of its kind that aviation experts have ever seen. so let's get to it.

>> good tuesday afternoon from the news deck. there's word that the jumbo jet missing for four days now flew to an area where it should never have been, without any word from the pilot to explain why. nothing. that as the cia contradicts his own counter-port at interpol and says it's too soon to rule out a possible act of tar -- terror. there is now evidence that ma shahan airlines 77 made a sharp turn from the flight path. it is headed to beijing. yet right here, over the water, just between vietnam vietnamese and malaysian waters, the transresponders go off north one but two, and makes a you turn and heads back over malaysia, and the last time anyone hears from it it's on a tiny island with a ping from a military radar.

made this turn without any word prom the pilot. something experts say would never happen in modern aviation. the turn came as the plane disappeared from radar screens. the original thing that could be where the plane went down. but the military says it's apparent the plane kept flying, and not a short distance. hundreds of miles, for more than an hour, after the transresponders went dark. that could indicate the signal went down, not in a crash but didn't crash of here, kept flying. somebody potentially turned it off on purpose. or there was catastrophic power failure or something we have not thought of. it's an incredible twist in the mystery to what happened and what happened to the 239 men, women and children who went missing. days of searches along the plane flight path turned up nothing but false leads because they were looking in the wrong place. much of the investigation

centers on two men, both from iran. investigators say the men planned to travel told using what turn out to be stolen panters and one -- parts and one-way tickets they bought with cash. that may sound nefarious but there's more. no indication they had anything at all to do with the missing plane or simply trying to travel undetected. one of them's mom was in asigh resume and he wanted to be with his mother. each day without answers is more agony for the families. one mother in new zealand is struggling to give answers to her son who is waiting to talk to her father on skype. >> he is going to skype. dad's going to be there, and so now he says, when is dad going to skype? so, at the moment i --

>> so many difficult situations for so many parents and families. and it's not clear which country is in charge of the investigation. normal hill the country where the plane went down, but nobody knows where the plane went down or why it made a turn or why the transresponders went off or why they account -- didn't call. self governments are wrestling for control. catherine herridge on the mysteriy. does this investigation seem to be heading? >> investigators are sharpening their focus on the transresponder that went silent an hour into the flight, and reports from the military the jet may have turned around and was flying low for some distance. the cia director saying nothing is being ruled out. >> this issue of the transponder, a number of very curious anomalies about all of this, and still a mystery at this point. did it turn around? were the individual with the stolen passports involved? what about the transpond center

why did it just disappear? there are a lot of unknowns at this point, and so which -- which leads to rampant speculation about the reasons and causes, but i think at this point we have to be patient and wait. >> meanwhile, interpol released images of the a iranian tuesday traveled to malaysia on the passports and then switched to stolen documents before boarding the flight together. >> we know that once the two individuals arrived and n kuala lumpur, on the 28th of february, they boarded flight 370. using certain identities. two storm parts. we're asking countries roped to the world to provide us any initial information. >> fox news was told these names and limited biometric data was

shared with u.s. authorities and run through u.s. databases but there have been no pings on any potential terrorism issue. >> here's the biggest of the weirdness. it takes off from kuala lumpur. everything is normal. every communication, every ascent. they get up to 37,000. until they hit that point right there. the transponders go off. there's no more talk, going from 37,000 feet down to a very low altitude, unspecified how lowe but very low, and fly for more than an hour. hundreds and hundreds of miles with no contact. they have to be considering the possibility of hijacking here. >> for the first time today publicly the malaysian authorities told reporters they're are following four threads, including the possibility the jet was taken over. >> we are looking into four areas.

one is hijacking. two, sabotage. three, psychological problem of the crew. >> an fbi investigator told us that raising the prospect of hijacking was not done lightly because it takes significant expertise to disable the jet's transponders insuring this case two of them, and also requires access to the cockpit. so this was not likely to be some kind of mechanical failure. >> all right, thank you very much. want to focus on one major development right now. the claim by this malaysian general that the military installation tracked the plane after it fell off the civilian radar. the general told reuters the plane made the u turn -- here's kuala lumpur. it takes off and is headed this direction and going to china. by the time it get here's it's been flying about, they tell us, an hour, or a little bit more.

it's up to 37,000 feet, and right here is where weirdness starts. it makes this u-turn and heads back. comes in this direction, and there's a tiny island here somewhere. it's so small that when we zoom in on goingle, its doesn't page it up. but it's a tiny island and on this island they have a military radar station. the last time they saw the flight was right in the middle of that. how high was the plane? they haven't told us. at what altitude, what speed, we have no information except to say they caught it there. now, if it had kept going it would have headed like this. this was the general direction it was traveling. if it kept flying, it kept going in that direction, could have gone down here. we're also hearing that transponders sending the plane's location was switched off. not one but two of them. that's what they're saying about this flight path. the question now is, where is

it? and who is at the controls? why didn't they make a call? and where are all the people? i asked for two good reasons. one, some of the families say they kept calling their family member's cell phones and in multiple cases the phones would ring and wouldn't be answered. if they were underwater or the battery was out they wouldn't ring. and the second thing in china there's a text message service that says, as of yesterday, lots of these phones, dozens of them, were still in operation. a commercial pilot is with us on the phone. none of this makes sense. help me. >> okay. while there's several possibilities, either crashed someplace or whatever, i believe what may have happened as one of the possibilities is that these people -- remember, 9/11, people became very familiar with the aircraft and the operation of the aircraft. they would have known about the

transponders, shut two off. so would no longer be transmitting its squawk code or altitude. the squawk code that commercial pilots can use to squawk 7500 which would identify a hijacking. disabled both of those, get below radar and bring the airplane and all the hostages to someplace where you can then -- >> okay, john, what you jug suggestedded is there are terrorists onboard the plane and we have no idea they have any terror ties at all who are good enough to get in the cockpit, turn off the devices, even everyone from making any communication, fly the plane for more than an hour to an uneven known location, -- unknown location, land the thing, take the hostages and they're planning for something. >> that's one of many possibilities that could have happened. and the more i'm hearing, the more that is more becoming a possibility, although one of many possibilities. >> i guess there's also the

possibility that they had a power failure, but we know that even if there's a catastrophic power failure there's a backup power system that will give you power from anywhere from an hour to hour and a half, which is about the amount of time when they heard the last ping in the strait. so that's a possibility as well. >> could be a possibility but why didn't the pilot actually transmit -- >> no clue. >> i have to believe that maybe one of several possibilities, that is a very strong possibility, and the more i hear, the more that's becoming a stronger possibility. >> not talking about some kind of regional jet. a ' 77 is the biggest bird in the sky almost, a long-haul plane, can carry more people than were on it, and to maneuver that thing at an altitude below the radar -- apparently they're flying so low that only military radar stations are picking them up. that's a tall order. >> yes, it is. that's exactly what hoped in 9/11.

>> yep. and now -- on 9/11 we know these people were on watch lists and we in fact the two people who have stolen passports, it seems clear to interpol and our investigative services neither people had ties to terror. i've read chapter and verse about one died, 18 years old, been seeking asylum. his mother is already in a political asylum and he was just trying to figure out a way to get there. he got this passport -- what wonder is what was on the plane in n something in the cargo hold? something about which we have no knowledge that somebody might have wanted, that somebody now might have. i don't know. >> right. it was suggest earl on that maybe the general wanted to travel unidentified. that was so, then why did they travel to kuala lampur, identified, and then switch their identities when they got on this airplane? that is what makes it a very different scenario than just going unidentified. these people didn't want to be identified. they wanted to be up identified on that flight.

>> john cusack, nice to talk to you. there's word the copilot of the flight once did something quite unusual during a flight. ahead, what he reportedly hit two women do in the cockpit. we have photos. not that. and malaysian air conspiracy theories are lined up inside your internet. which ones are actually possible and which ones are way too far out there, where the buses and trains do not run. we'll investigate. well, actually, we'll talk to people who know things. we aren't actually in a position to investigate at the moment. because the plane took a u-turn. it flew low for hundreds of miles and nobody ever offend home. this one is weird, as weird as anything we have ever seen. life with crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis

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continuing coverage of the new information. we're learning a lot of weird things as we investigate the history over the people involved here, the parts involved here. one thing is one of the pilots of the missing ma jet once let unauthorized people into the cockpit. it was security breach in theday after the terror attacks on 9/11. he got written up. airline safety officials are investigate the report the plane's copilot once invited two

women into the cockpit for the entire flight. a woman released photos of herself and her friend with the o'lot. she says the pilot let the women smoke in the cockpit. another major violation of airline rules. ha is on the news deck. what are you hearing about the report of chicks in the cockpit? >> well, apparently the copilot -- this is according to a south african woman -- the copilot invited her and a friend to join him in 2011. she saidded happened as she was getting ready to board the flight. this is a picture she says was taken the day. she told "the wall street journal" warm they took pictures while they were flying from thailand to malaysia. malaysia airlines says they're shocked and have not been able to verify whether these are valid pictures. as for the pilot, he is not said to have been on that night, and the airline says he is a highly skilled pilot with more than

18,000 hours in the cockpit. >> as for this particular jet, this flight that is missing, it has had incidents giant one happened on the ground in 2011. it collided with another airplane while taxiing on the ground. here's a picture of right now. the 777 broke its wing when it clipped another plane's tail. of course there's no indication that the two incidents or in any way connected. the 777 is known for its safety record, and for its ability to fly long legs. it's two rolls-royce engines make it more efficient so it can go more than 7,000 miles nonstop, and in 19 years of flying the only fatal accident on record was last year, and i'm sure you remember, they asiana flight that crashed in san francisco short of the runway and three people were killed in that crash and aftermath. >> that was ruled cockpit error, not a problem with the plane. >> that was cockpit error.

>> so as far as mechanical or anything about the vehicle itself, nothing, ever, with this 777. >> the -- >> that involved pay fallities. >> it had an incident in the past where the computer tossed -- caused it to pitch up. the pilot took control and was able to land. >> a lot of theories out there about what might have happened. we all have them. we'll get to more of enemy this newscast. we'd likefrom you. what do you think happened? what's on your mind before the this? you can tweet us, twitter is back up, you'll be happy to knowful twitter was down for a while and i thought many people might lose lives over there. we'll go through all the theories out there about what might have haven't. why did the transponder goes off, while the u-turn, why was there a ping from an island in the middle of the sea?

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a former top aide to the new jersey republican governor chris christie went to court today in connection with the george washington bridge scandal. former deputy chief of staff bridget kelly is refusing to turn over documents lawmakers subpoenaed. her lawyer says she doesn't have to under the fifth amendment. kelly sent the e-mail, time for some traffic problems in fort lee, before officials shut down two of the lanes to the bridge in september, causing big traffic problems. that town's democratic mayor had not endorsed governor chris christie's re-election bid. the governor denied any involvement in what appears to be a political payback scheme, and we have no evidence he took part in it. eric sean is there in trenton. what happened in court? >> bridgetable kelling sent the e-mail and will have to wait longer to learn the judge's

decision whether investigators well get more of her e-mails. she arrived for these legal proceedings and did not say anything. the now fired deputy chief of staff for governor christie said nothing when i asked if she would apologize to the people of new jersey. she wouldn't answer any questions. in court she sat silently and seemed emotional as both sides sparred over the issue, whether the committee has the legal right to have access to the e-mails and texts and other documents. the defendant's lawyers say no because of the fifth amendment. her lawyer says by law she does not have to give up anything. >> her life has been affected dramatically, which today the court was going to discuss a issue of significance that affected her life and she wanted to be here to show she felt it was important for hearing and seeing, and that she is not someone running away, living a life of a her mitt. -- hermit. >> the judge is expected to

issue a ruling in a few weeks. >> what did prosecutors have to say? >> the special counsel who is investigating this, says they have no right to withhold any e-mails, and the special counsel is reed sharp, he put rod blagojevich in prison. he suggest thread could be a coverup because he noted that officials switched their e-mail accounts when discussing the bridge closings from the official government accounts to private accounts at home, and the cochairman of the commitee said there are even more e-mails. >> it's safe to say that there are additional e-mails, that have bridge jet kelly's name on it. i'm not going to get into the quantity. >> legislative hearings on this are still expected sometime this spring. >> eric, thank you. ukraine's fugitive president says he is, quote, still alive,

and the only legitimate president of ukraine. which is not true. i mean, he is alive but not legitimate. he held a news conference in russia today. and warned that ukraine's new leaders want to unleash civil war. >> translator: as soon as the circumstances allow, i'm sure i will definitely return to kiev, and one should not wait for that long. die declare the elections of the president scheduled for may 25th, by a quick would seize power to an unconstitutional coup are absolutely illegitimate and illegal. >> none of that means anything. it's but the second time we have seen the fugitive president in public since protests forced him from his palace last month. meantime, ukraine's acting leader is asking parliament to create a national guard and send in reserve troops to fight back against the russian military. lawmakers in crimea voted to declare the region an independent state and if voters on sunday approve a referendum to split from ukraine and join

russia, that also means very little except possession is nine-tenths of the law and vladimir putin is in possession. officials say that vote would violate international law. officials in moscow say the foreign minister told john kerry the crimean's people to determine their own future must be respected. where are we here? >> well, i think a lot depends on what happens on sunday's vote. >> well, it's going to pass. it's going to win. >> the question is, what do the russian does then? they can either move forward with making ukraine formal done excuse me -- crimea formally a part of russia proper insuring which case we have a big problem, or they can let the status quo sit where it is now. it's my expectation that's what is going to happen, because that is essentially the playbook that russia has been following in the former soviet union since the yeltsin era. a former soviet state moves a.

from russia. the russians gin up unarrest among the ethnic population, and allows russia to send in troops under the pretext they're protecting their people, and then the troops say. and you have seen that in georgia z georgia and armenia, and they have created de facto russian protectorates to weaken governments trying to get away from them. >> does this pattern suggest where l he would move into -- whether he would move into the eastern ukraine or is the thinking this might be what he wants, just the warm-water port. >> that's my assumption. i thick if he could get away with it he would move into easternian -- eastern ukraine but that's a much bigger pill to swallow. >> his market went down 12% in one day. wondered if he wasn't going to continue this thing and move it into eastern ukraine and when he

saw his markets drop and his oligarchs start breathing down his neck, i wonder. >> it's definitely part of his calculation, and this decline in the russian economy is going to continue, especially if we put real sanctions -- >> you take down to the oligarch's money, they'll take down putin. that's what the experts tell us. >> none of that will happen soon which is why the sanctions the u.s. and europeans are talking about is not very eeffective. >> good luck getting angela merck toll get in the way of her energy, and good luck getting the london banks to do anything. we're talking money, and nothinger is more important. >> ironically the russians need the germans long term more than the germans need the russians but doesn't look like merkel is going to make that calculation. >> no chance. >> the search for the missing ma slay should airline -- some theories are stupid. some are actually plausible. analysts say they react from reasonable to impossible. we'll break down the theories

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continuing coverage of the breaking news on our top story in the search for the missing malaysia airlines flight. there's word at least two men in northeast mall malaysia thought they saw low-flying lights around the time the aircraft disappeared. a fisherman says the plane was so low the lights were as big as coconuts, and that's a quote. another person reportedly said he saw bright lights descending at high speed, heading towards the south china sea at the time. there's evidence that the plane made this sharp turn. the malaysian military says they

got it on radar, but day one, day one of all of this, they told us, we have reason to believe it might have turned back. they never explained why, they never gave us a sense who was saying this. now we know. they've known for days this happened. why they are they just now telling us? no clear sign what happened or whether the plane was in trouble before it vanished. so conspiracy theiriey ises if having a field day. everything from pilot error to equipment malfunction, hijacking, and the ever-present alien involvement. earlier we asked you to send us some tweets. that was after twitter got back up and working. when twitter crashes, the world ends. ryan got some tweets.hat -- then twitter with this. >> it's blowing up twitter. so, military says, gps jamming from inside the airplane, hacks into onboard commuter. >> there are multiple opinions

where l you can do this. we checked with expert and some are convinced this can happen. some are convinced this cannot happen. so i don't know. we'll report. you decide. >> that's just one of them. then john saying, it's obvious, it did not crash, so it was taken somewhere we would not think to look -- >> it is not sound it did not crash. >> douglas says maintenance records, check them out. probably for a publish. >> no it's not. the maintenance record are crystal clean, the one problem, clipped another jet on a runway but never any problems of any kind, and the maintenance records are in flawless. >> one more saying, shep, i don't think there was even a plane. hash tag malaysia airline. how does it go undetected. >> somebody either turned off the transponders, lea is a pielet for the military and is if they had a fire or something in the cockpit the last thing

you do is call in. you want to fix the problem first. they could have been on backup could have lost communications, could have flown really low. another possibility. we don't know. >> adding to speculation, some relatives of the people on this flight said when they dialed their loved one's cell phones instead of it being dark and then going to voice mail, they started ringing, one person claimed her brother's cell phone rang yesterday. others pointed to this chinese instant messaging service indicating the passengers' phones are still active, and not just a couple. dozens and dozen of passengers who worked with the instant messaging service. they said their phones are still active. there's lot to get to here, trace, and the conspiracy theories are all over the place. >> and because there's little hard evidence you can't discount anything except for maybe the alien thing or the fact the plane didn't exist. but if you look first at mechanical failure that would explain the total loss of power and the fact the pilots tried to

turn off course and went 100 or so miles off course but would not explain, experts say, the transponders being turn off. even in a catastrophic power failure the transponders have redone -- re done -- redundance sunday, and if ways suicide or terror jim that i would explain the transponder ares being switched if but doesn't explain why commuters don't send back automatic messages, and the pilots and the terrorists have no way to turn that system off. >> i have not understood for a while, the first day i was covering this -- i was overseas -- the first day i was covering this they sent out a notice, not sourced, except to an official, with the malaysian military, they have reason to believe the plane might have headed back and never said another word about that until today. clearly they knew it, didn't tell anybody, and they were searching in the wrong place.

makes no sense. >> and it also makes no sense, if you look at the totality of the thing, why they didn't give us the information about the system onboard the plane. every 777 automatically sends back this information to their flight bases and the question was asked in the initial press conference, did this send back the information? we didn't get an answer for two or three days. as to why the pilots never radioed in, we have examples of that. air france, those pilots were on board the plane, fighting it, because they had blocked air send are sos -- sensors and kept pulling up in plane stalled and crashed. they fought the plane for almost four minutes, three different pilots. never declared an emergency one time, instead of sending back a call for help they were trying to save lives, which is the first rule of aviation, aviate, navigate, then communicate. they didn't have time to do the latter. >> this plane from the time the transponders for whatever reason went off, flew a minimum of one

more hour and a minimum of 350 more miles. >> at least. and if you fly a minimum of hour, you're on loss of par -- they're at 35,000 feet and went very low. if you're on the backup battery power you lose altitude quickly could fly for an extend period of time but the reason they don't go over land and water might have because they were run out of time and altitude. >> next we're going to get to a former faa senior official. a former senior official with the federal aviation administration, and i'm going to ask him what makes sense to you, and why in the world is none of this adding up? if they thought the plane had turned around two days ago, why did they keep searching in the wrong place. for days they've been searching over here. 40 different vessels, dozens of planes searching here. but they told us two days ago this thing turned without

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so what happened? why did the transponders go saginaw why did the plane lose altitude? why did it make a u-turn. why did the military not tell us it made the u-turn until today and they searched in the wrong place. i know we don't know what happened. and i guess they could have had some sort of catastrophic failure in the cockpit, made the u-turn, and crashed into the sea. i guess that's possible. >> sure, absolutely. i mean, everything is possible at this point. i think the only thing we don't know where is the aircraft is. you brought it up in your last

segment. that early -- right after the plane went missing we heard from somebody in the military said we have a radar track that shows they may have turned back. well, radar tracks are kind of a definite thing. you either have a track or do not. and if you have a track going out and turns around, then you have the track going back. as soon as i heard that, that started to raise a lot of alarms with me. >> so for 95 hours they've been search neglect wrong place? the military was aware of it and let them do it? forgive me but that makes me wonder, what was on the plane that somebody wanted? i hate to think like that but it's weird. >> why did the government not want folks to know this could be poem terrorism? that's my -- potential terrorism? if i'm a government and have a track that shows the aircraft turning around, turning off the transponders and flying somewhere else? that's clear that either somebody in that cockpit or one of the pilots has taken that

aircraft and taken it somewhere where they're not supposed to be going. >> what else doesn't make sense, this chinese text-messaging service, it all goes through -- any text messages, of you have a certain phone company they go through this service and there are dozens of peoples phones are still active and relatives say day make a call and it rings. that stuff by itself, well, okay, but when you've put it together with the rest of it, i'm like, are these people alive on some island? and some hijacks rerepainting it before they they fly it? i don't have a clue. >> we're basing it on that we believed them this time and we didn't believe them the last time when the military said they had a radar track. it's hard to hide a a 777, and even if you turn off the transponder and the -- that air plane has a signature, and if it's flying over the country somebody will see something possible up, and for nobody to

have it other than the military, seems all -- it gets more curious and more curious every day. >> specially as it was flying at a much lower altitude and very quickly. if you descend rapidly, within ten or 15 minutes, you get down to 10,000-foot level or whatever, maintaining that level requires power so if you had to have power to do that. they flew 350 to 400 miles before the last ping of a radar. so we know they went that far. >> correct. i just got off the phone with a pilot and i asked him, how long can you fly without power? he says i can fly as long as i've got gas. so it does make it interesting. you may not have power but that aircraft can go as long as you have fuel in the tank. but navigation is kind of -- becomes more challenging when you have no idea when you're flying, except maybe a compass in the cockpit. >> this is a 777 and these transponders in a 777, if your primary power goes down, backup

power kicks in for an hour to hour and a half. the transponders work off the backup power and shouldso does the communication system. i don't get it. one of the former investigators who worked on twa800 says i've never seen anything like this. >> i'd have to agree. these aircraft are so well-made and built with so many redundant systems. transponder does not fail unless someone turns them off. >> one theory is somebody turned it off. the question is why. scott brenner, hopefully we'll know something soon. good to see you go feel for the families. for us it's a mystery. for 239 families this is hell on earth. are you kidding me? the text-messaging system says what and the phone is ringing. is my relative alive or dead? what die say to the kid and they didn't tell us it made a u-turn, except hinting about and it now

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kitty kats can be cute and they can be, well -- i guess they can be not so cute. like when they trap you in your bedroom and you need to call 9-1-1. case in point from a family in portland, oregon. >> 9-1-1. >> i have a particular emergency here. my cat attacked our seven-month-old child, and i kicked the cat in the rear and it has went off over the edge, and we are not safe around the cat. a very large himalayan, and we are trapped in our bedroom. he won't let us out our door.

he's charging us. he is at our bedroom door. >> one moment, okay? >> kitty, kitty is charging us. police say they later captured the 22-pound feline. no one has been seriously hurt. dad says the seven-month-old had only mooner scratches and the family is not giving up their pet. they're going to keep the cat and get it medical care and therapy. guy who called 9-1-1 is in for a lifetime of ribbing. i could -- i have a word for somebody who does that. i like cats but i can't say it because my bosses will kill me. we're getting more tweets on the airline thing and ryan is getting them. >> they keep on coming, lauren says hijacked, flying low under radar, dump fuel, make phony oil slick, land on runway. >> you saw lost 2. >> yes. shep, could be all the cell phones and message services are

active because was flown to yemen or iran. >> you would think there would be radar from that. >> and one: maybe the delay in disclosing the flight was to allow the plane to be hidden. >> i don't know. i guess it's entirely possible that they'll get to the right spot where they think this thing was ask they'll find some debris, and we'll be able to put a sad chapter of this long point behind us, or they won't. it's been 95 hours and now they're looking in the right place.

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on this day in 1958 the u.s. air force -- oops -- dropped a nuclear bomb on south carolina. mars bluff south carolina. the plane was flowing over the area when a crew member mistakenly pulled the release lever. it plunged into a family's

backyard. the explosion destroyed the family holiday house, damaged others, injured six people but the u.s. dodged the nuclear disaster 56 years ago today. i'm shepard smith in new york. when the news breaks out, we'll break in, here comes neil. >> hit the brakes. the potholes could soon be hitting you in the wallet. welcome everybody, i'm neil cavuto. the rough winter weather doing a number of the nation's roads and bridges, potholes popping up, and now looking to pump up gas taxes to fix them. six states door that. another four considering it to rick leventhal on which drivers are willing to pay. >> neil, anyone who has been on the road in the last couple months knows the potholes are bad this year mostly