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>> glor: tonight the investigation. new details about the moments before flight 214 crashed in san francisco as passengers marveled that so many survived. >> what are you thinking? what are you feeling? >> i was thinking i'm dying. >> glor: we have john blackstone, anna werner and former ntsb chair. the runnaway train. a town nearly wiped out by 73 cars careening out of control in canadian. don d arc hler says at least 40 are missing. >> oh, say can you see. >> glor: more than a game, 4,000 from newtown, connecticut, come together for an emotional afternoon in new york. and getting the message. police work up surprising new ways to prevent people from texting wile driving. >> they don't see it coming if they're not paying attention.
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they'll drive right past you while they're texting. captioning sponsored by cbs ews" this is the "cbs evening news". >> glor: good evening, everyone, i'm jeff glor, it was the first commercial airline crash in the u.s. in four and a half years. and tonight dramatic new home video is emerging of the moment the plane came down. you can see the video shows the back of the plane hitting the seawall, then bouncing up and producing a cloud of dust and smoke after that. the boeing 777 was charred and broken off the runway at san francisco's airport on saturday. two people were killed. 182 people injured. including now two paralyzed, we know. in china today two 16-year-old girls who died are being remembered. and the quick actions of the flight crew including the attendants are being praised for saving more lives.
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today more than 300 canceled flights in san francisco after 425 yesterday. we have a series of reports this evening beginning with john blackstone. >> reporter: for crash investigators, much of the evidence of what happened to asiana flight 214 could be found scattered across the runway. photos and video from moments after the crash provide more insight. the so-called black boxes, the cockpit voice recorder and flight-data recorder already being analyzed in the washington d.c. labs of the national transportation safety board, show the plane on approach was below its target speed of 137 knots. ntsb chairwoman deborah hertzman. >> a call from one of the crew members to increase speed was made approximately 7 seconds prior to impact. a call to initiate a go around occurred 1.5 seconds before impact.
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>> reporter: questions are being raised about a runway guidance system that is currently out of service at san francisco. the glide slope indicator that helps pilots judge their altitude on approach has been turned off for weeks during construction at the airport from his home on a hillside overlooking the airport, this man often watches planes coming in to land on the runways that jut into san francisco bay. he noticed flight 214 looked different. >> what caught my attention was it was just a little wobbly coming in for the landing. >> reporter: the flight was on approach low over the water when the tail appeared to hit the rocky seawall at the edge of the runway, spinning out of control as it broke apart. >> we just heard a really loud boom. and before we knew it the plane had come to a stop about 50 yards down. >> reporter: at first the fire was limited giving passengers a chance to escape down emergency slides. >> we then heard a second loud boom or explosion, and all of a sudden we saw a lot of black smoke back up into the sky. >> reporter: firefighters
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reached the plane within three minute, san francisco fire chief.lapsed zones right near the seats. the seats were buckled. >> reporter: while the wreckage remains just off the runway here, three of the four runways are now back in service and that's reduced the average delays here to about 90 minutes. but earlier in the day, jeff, delays were running as much as nine hours. >> glor: john blackstone, thank you. for the nearly 300 passengers on board flight 214, it was a harrowing few moments. anna werner has their stories. >> reporter: the plane was about to land as eugene looked out the window from his seat in business class expecting to see the runway below. >> we were about the same level of the water and i see the runway starts right there and i was looking in this window. they were about the same level. >> reporter: what did you think at that moment?
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>> we're crashing. >> reporter: you thought we're crashing. >> yeah. >> reporter: you knew? >> i knew. >> reporter: what happened next? >> bang, the plane hit so hard and tipped like this. >> reporter: he thought he was going to die but got out safely taking these pictures to send to his daughter. he was among the many survivors who escaped were the burnt, shredded plane with minor injuries. despite the fire on board after the crash, doctors at san francisco general hospital said they saw few burns. >> what we did see are patterns of large amounts of abdominal injuries, a huge amount of spine fractures, some of them which include paralysis. >> reporter: many patients face additional surgeries. kitty's four-year-old son suffered a broken leg. >> i left the plane as soon as possible. because i take my baby to the hospital in the first ambulance. but when i see the picture with
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the fire, wow,horrible. >> reporter: eugene says he feels lucky. but 24 hours after the crash he's still emotional. >> one moment i'm so happy that i'm alive. the next moment so depressing, so sad that, you know, i mean what happened to those other, you know, two minors, it's too much. it's too much. >> reporter: some of the passengers who may have emotional or psychological trauma from this plane crash are kids. authorities say, jeff that at least 30 of the passengers on board were children. >> glor: anna western, thank you very much. we are joined by former ntsb chairman and cbs analyst mark rosenker. good evening to you. we watched this with you, what did we learn. >> tremendous progress, we have only been on the scene 24 hours, they recovered the voice recorder, flight-data recorder, good solid material that they're
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able to understand the beginnings of what happened here? >> glor: was this a pilot's issue? >> jeff, you're asking me to do analysis. much too early before we understand why this happened. we've got to understand what happened first before we get into the analytical phase. >> glor: finally, mark, how is it from your perspective that so many people walk add which from a collision with this violence. >> structural integrity of the aircraft. clearly when it finally stopped, the ability to get these people off, the training that the flight attendants actually displayed really was an incredible advantageous for to us watch these people get off the aircraft, and the first responders were there very quickly to prevent the fire. >> glor: mark, thank you very much, sir. >> the death toll has climbed to five in the canadian town ten miles from maine where the fire from yesterday's run away oil train explosion continues to burn. thousands have been evacuated and dozens remain missing after the train traveled about 7 miles without its engineer on board.
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don dahler has more on that. >> reporter: firefighters including some from the unites states continue to battle the stubborn blaze. the thick acrid smoke and risk of more explosions are making it difficult for police to search for victims. there are people who aren't accounted for, police spokesman said. and we know there are going to be more deaths. but once again, we can't attach any figure to it at this stage. quebec police fear up to 40 people may be missing, but they caution some of the missing may simply be out of town. early yesterday a train with 72 cars carrying crude oil was parked nearby for the night. the conductor said he secured its brakes before going to a hotel. the company says it appears the cars became detached from the locomotive and rolled seven miles downhill, it derailed and exploded flattening much of the downtown at 1 a.m. in the morning. the street was filled with fire this man says. it was a river of fire. 1,000 residents were evacuated
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immediately after the incident with a thousand more forced to flee hours later because of the toxic fumes. >> i lost everything, so hard. i don't have nobody here so i don't knows what's going happen to me. >> reporter: dennis is the town fire chief. >> it's a mess. we lost great buildings, historical buildings that we had. >> reporter: as many as 30 buildings were destroyed including a popular bar residents say is usually crowded that time night. don dahler, cbs news, new york. >> jeff: in egypt it appears mohamad al verdi may not be interim prime minister. he will likely be interim deputy president following the ouster of president morsi last week. funerals were held today for demonstrators killed in continuing street clashes while in washington the talk was about nudging egypt back toward democracy. here's nandy cordis. >> opponents of ousted president
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morsi gathered in downtown cairo today and so did members of morsi's party, the muslim brotherhood who protested his removal from office. on cbs's "face the nation", arizona republican senator john mccain said it was time for the u.s. to take a stand. >> the united states should not be supporting this coup. >> mccain argued the u.s. should reassess the 1.5 billion dollars it gives to egypt each year. >> reluctantly i believe that we have to suspend aid until such time as there is a new constitution and a free and fair election. >> u.s. law requires washington to cut off aid to any nation whose military oust the democratically elected leader. so egypt's ambassador to the u.s. argued today that's not what this was. >> egypt has not undergone a military coup and it is certainly to the run by the military. >> he noted that the military quickly handed power to interim civilian leaders after it removed morsi on wednesday.
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>> the people of egypt have decided that president morsi did not act during his year in office as president for all egyptians. >> the white house has struck a carefully neutral tone refusing to use the word coup, even as it orders a review of u.s. aid to egypt. republican mike rogers who chairs the house intelligence committee said egypt's military needs that aid, whether you define this week's ouster as a coup or not. >> we should continue to support the military, the one stabilizing force in egypt that i think can temper down the political feuding that you're seeing going on now. >> rogers admits there are going to be disputes over the legality of maintaining aid. so he argues president obama should go to capitol hill and make the case for it himself. most of that aid, jeff, goes directly to the egyptian military. >> glor: nancy cordes in washington, nancy, thank you. in arizona today the fall entire fighters from last week's fire came home.
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19 hearses, one for each member of the hot shot crew made the 125 mile trip from the medical examiner's office in phoenix to prescott. american flags draped each of the caskets. and will be turned over to the families at burial. vice president joe biden will be at the memorial service on tuesday. more than half a million defense department employees face furloughs this week. unmarked police cars goes after people texting while driving. and a memorable afternoon for families from newtown, connecticut. those stories when the "cbs evening news" continues. ntinues. and we were out on the streets. [ whispering ] shhh. it's only a dream. and we have home insurance. but if we made a claim, our rate would go up... [ whispering ] shhh. you did it right. you have allstate claim rate guard so your rates won't go up just because of a claim. [ whispering ] are we still in a dream? no, you're in an allstate commercial. so get allstate home insurance with claim rate guard... [ whispering ] goodnight.
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pay for thousands of americans who work in defense jobs. and other affected automatic federal budget cuts. the furlough affects 680,000 workers. for the next 11 weeks they'll lose 20% of their pay. with more here's wyatt andrews. >> reporter: the furloughs will impact operations at every american military base around the world except for some bases supporting combat. >> it's been really tough on a lot of people. >> reporter: maureen campbell who works on the staff of a navy admiral says the furloughs amounts to a 20% pay cut for thousands of workers who can't afford it. >> for them a 20% cut is a lot more money and means a lot more to them in terms of, you know, making those day-to-day payments. >> reporter: defense secretary chuck hagel says that to meet the budget goals of sequestration he had to reduce the 1i68ian payroll or further reduce the military. >> we've already cut in the readiness. you know that we are standing
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down 16 air force squadrons. we're not sailing a lot of ships, no new training in the army. >> in theory the furlough as ply across-the-board but there are notable exemptions. for example military come sears will close an extra day a week but not military day care centers. most shipyard workers building ship force the navy are exempt, and so are the civilian workers at tinker air force base in oklahoma whose homes were destroyed by the f-5 tornado in may. but all of those lost wages will harm local economies. communities near the nation's largest military bases will lose tens of millions of dollars. wyatt andrews, cbs news, washington. >> glor: next up, if you are texting while driving someone you don't suspect might be watching. watching. she's always been able to brighten your day.
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>> glor: it is one of the busiest driving days of the year. and one of the biggest threats on the road remain people who text while driving. to keep the roads safe terrell brown reports police are taking aggressive new measures. >> within minutes of our ride along with new york state trooper. >> yeah, she's on the phone. >> reporter: he found someone
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using their cell phone illegally. that's because trooper isn't in his usual patrol car. >> a concealed car. >> yes. >> no state police markings no stickers. for years it was used to catch speeders but the added height of this suv allows troopers to peer right into driver's cars. >> they don't see it coming. if they're not paying attention, they'll drive right past you while they're texting. >> reporter: new york's governor andrew cuomo hopes the undercover work will help save lives. last week he announced a million dollar initiative to crack down on distracted drivers. >> you know why i pulled you over? no, you're not supposed to be in your hand, you're not suppose be to be driving on the phone. >> reporter: the new law will cost more points on her license, up from two points to five points continuation now carries the same penalty as reckless driving. a study from virginia tech found
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that a texting driver is six times more likely to cause a crash than a drunk driver. and then a federal survey nearly half of drivers ages 18 to 24 reported sending a text message or e-mail while driving. >> what do you see in here. >> another individual talking on his cell phone. >> the reason i stopped you is you are talking on your cell phone. >> this is now two in less than ten minutes. is there any excuse. >> no. i asked why he is on the cell phone, he said he was talking to a friend. >> i feel that every ticket i write is one less person that will do it again in the future. >> reporter: so that means he will be watching drivers' every move, often in places they might not expect. terrell brown, cbs news, new york. >> glor: at yankee stadium in new york today the newtown, connecticut, youth choir sang the national anthem. >> ♪ early light >> jeff: it was called new town day at the stadium with 4,000 people from newtown in the stands.
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>> glor: finally tonight you may recall that the tiny samoa air sparked controversy by putting their passengers on scales and charging them roughly 50 cents per pound for both their bags and body weight. it's a policy that boosted airline profits by 20%. and also helped change the look of an island with the world's highest obesity rate. here's ben tracy. >> this is the front line in american samoa battle against obesity, an early morning exercise class at the island's only stadium. olivia reid gillette comes here twice a week. >> i needed to get healthier. >> i had high blood pressure, type ii diabetes, high cholesterol. >> 75% of american samoans are obese which is why she teaches this class. a nurse, she says almost all of her patients suffer from the effects of being so overweight. >> diabetes and hypertension,
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coronary art rather disease are slowly killing themselves. >> it's very scary. we need to do something, fast. >> reporter: dr. john blames the problem on sedentary lifestyles and on islander's appetite for high fat american food. almost all of the food here is imported and expensive. so fast-food chains are popular because of their fixed low cost menus. but islanders are paying a high price about their health. the obesity epidemic even affects newborns of overweight mothers. >> a lot of the mothers are diabetic. so when they have babies, the babies are usually large and up to 10 or so pounds. >> in fact a recent brown university study found that one in five american samoa babies has an excessive birth weight and more than 39% of boys and 30% of girls are overweight or obese. >> so the island's health department has launched a wellness program tracking the a
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obesity level of young children and pushing older kids to get active. >> adults are also starting to exercise regularly. olivia reid gillette has lost 64 pounds. >> i'm perfectly healthy now. i have no health problems. if i don't come to class, i can feel it. >> in this island obesity battle that's one step towards victory. ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. >> jeff: that is the "cbs evening news" tonight. later on cbs, "60 minutes." i'm jeff glor, cbs news in new york. scott pelley will be here tomorrow. pelley will be here tomorrow. captioning sponsored by cbs captioni captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org
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investigators are saying abt the final se oh my god. new video shows the moment asiana flight crash landed at the sfo airport. >> when i see the picture with the fire, wow, it is horrible. >> survivors talk their experience and we are getting our first look at the inside of the plane at the aftermath. and a mess at sfo. what other travelers are dealing with as the airport tries to get back to normal. kpix news is next ,,,,,,,,
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