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frightening passenger, dropping oxygen masks and forcing the pilot to land short of bwi. once that hole ripped open, the pilot quickly decided to make an emergency landing in charleston, west virginia. a new plane then carried passengers and crew on to bwi. derek ward is live at that airport tonight. derek, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, craig. usually, a flight from nashville to bwi is a rather mundane experience. for passengers from our area, it actually turned out to be quite actually turned out to be quite a harrowing flight 2294. it's a boeing 737 firtecrom llnavi shttoe bwtoi marshall. eol h developed 30 minutes into that flight in the olsefu.gela passengers could see the outside geom their seats. e cabin depressurized and

oxygen masks dropp down. as a perngalnd crew were reported to be okay. we get more from this now from a spokespers from the west virginia regional airport authority. >> they seemed fairly- i think i would have been a little more excited. most of them seemed okay. i think a lot of credit here goes to the outstanding crew of the aircraft. they handled the descent without incident. >> certainly possibly a bad scenario with the best possible ding. we understand those passengers have just landed. we hope to have someone that was on that plane talk to us shortly. that flight from nashville to bwi delayed. after a hole develops in the fuselage and they make an emergency landing in west virginia. live at bwi marshall of the back to you. >> derek ward, thank you very much. as you just mentioned, one of

the passengers on that flight, michael cunningham, joining us on the telephone right now. mike, good evening to you. set the scene for me on that plane, buddy. what was it like? >> it was a normal flight. i was flying back home from visiting the family over the weekend. and i was taking a nap. i had my baseball cap down over my face. about half an hour into the flight, i heard the loudest roar i have ever heard in my life. the first thought that went through my head was simply the flight attendant knocked meovthg iner with aarg t or g.me inth >> rig . in >> i looked up and saw the sky, where i shouldn't be seeing it. eso, thir aheirus rut o ousf th cabin. it got very hot, very quickly and the mafbs dropped down just in time. descent into what we eventually found out was charleston was beautiful. no other problems besides the hole in the plane. >> what was going through your head during all of this, mike? >> the first thing that went through my head were all those tv shows where everybody freaks out and starts screaming.

ng ri duhe tevent, everybody was very calm. there were a couple people that were upset. but the flight attendants held their hand and told them everything was going to be okay. and eventually, everything was.e chweou ted wndo. we all cheered and high fived the captain. a couple of people hugged him, and that was that. we waited in chledoorst fon a couple of hours before our flight back here to baltimore. >> michael cunningham, passenger on flight 2294. thank you for talking to us. congratulations, sir. >> thanks. good to be home. >> get a good night's rest. >> thanks. after the deadliest crash in metro history, urgent safety recommendations were made today. the group focuseded on three thi things to make metro passengers safer right away. metro says one of them isn't possible, because the technology doesn't exist. darcy spencer joins us from their headquarters tonight. >> national transportation safety board is urging metro to install a backup emergency alert

system. as you said, the technology doesn't exist. metro officials say it will have to be invented. they don't know how long it will take or how much it will cost. national transportation safety board is making urgent recommendations to metro, to create an alert system to avoid another crash like the june redline accident that claimed nine lives. metro officials say the system the ntsb is recommending does not exist, and there's no telling how much it would cost. >> we can say that it doesn't matter what the cost is. wht ev ieris, we'reooing t d enspth men oontney i and i get the system lovedeped. >> rorte ntr:vesb is uginrg metro t update the t backup that failed to detect a train oneun j 22nd and evaluate track occupancy data on a reeal tim sibato help detect asi problems. ntsb also wants operators evaluate train control systems and make sure they're safe as well. metro board chair, jim graham,

says the recommendations are diverting attention away from the key question. why was there a failure of the safety system designed to prevent these types of collisions? >> we went to that precise location where this device malfunctioned. we took the device out. we put a new device in and it continued to malfunction. so, we're left with a bit of a mystery here. >> reporter: graham says that's why trains are still operating in manual mode at reduced speed. those who ride the rails say they do support creating the alert system, but they're concerned about the cost. >> if it's going to hurt people also because of the fact that meo is going to raise the prices and they're already getting raised as we speak now. >> it's kind of like a no-win situation. either it's going to be your pockets or your safety. >> reporter: metro's general manager, john cato, is expected on capitol hill tomorrow to testify about the crash as well as get an update on the investigation. the metro is also expected to discuss some of these ntsb

recommendations, as well as the funding challenges. reporting live, darcy spencer, news 4. >> darcy, thank you. naval criminal investigative service has been called in to figure out how a sailor died at ft. meyer. the woman's body was found at henderson hall right next to national cemetery. her body was discovered when she failed to report to work at the pentagon. senior defense official tells nbc news there was foul play involved. no information about the victim has been released. supreme court nominee sonia sotomayor received her first day on the hot seat. she did get some criticism for saying a female latina would be a better choice than a white male. >> my personal and professional experiences helped me to listen

and understand with the law always commanding the result in every case. >> unless you have a complete meltdown, you're going to get confirmed. >> unexpected criticism for sotoyoma came from anti-abortion protesters. four of them were arrested. scrubbed again. bad weather forced nasa to cancel the fifth attempt to launch space shuttle "endeavour" this evening. they'll try again wednesday. it's scheduled to deliver a final piece of the japanese lab to the international space station. two teams of menrriving at the home belonging to a florida couple minutes before that couple was murdered. new treatment of giving patient with his herniated disks in their neck a new lease on life. find out if it may be right for you. big night in washington from the jonas brothers to harry potter. what a night to be out and about, bob. you bet. nice, low humidity, craig.

for folks on vacation out at ocean city, another great one. bob, coming up in sports, wizards guard nick young says he will guide the team during summer league. st. louis slugger albert pujols gets help from his fans at the home run derby and

brutal murders of a couple near pensacola, florida. safety of their 16 children, many of whom were adopted and have developmental disabilities. now investigators say at least seven suspects were shown on the surveillance camera involved in the attack that left parents shot to death last thursday. authorities say it was a well-planned and coordinated time that took less than ten minutes. robbery is one motive. police do not believe it's the only one. elderly couple held hostage in their leesburg, virginia,

home, for more than nine hours friday talked about their ordeal today. bob and frances -- frances made their captors something to eat and then were tied by electrical cords. they tried to calm the man as poce swarmed outside. >> after he realized that the police were here, he was saying how can i get out of here? how can i escape? >> frances says she talked to the man about his salvation. police credit those conversations with helping to bring the hostage situation to a peaceful end. william spencer was arrested. there's more trouble tonight for d.c. council member marion barry, full council is set to vote on full use of contracts, including one he gave to his then girlfriend.

now, david catania is asking the d.c. general to question those contracts, promoted to the d.c. department of health. barry is denouncing catania's move as politically driven venlths a small child gets swept into a river and survives eight-mile wide on an inflatable. we've gone without any significant rainfall for a while. how much longer will we have to wait? from music to movies, a ment up of a big enterin nigh 3ñw)e'c

local doctors are helping people who literally have a pain in their neck. new treatment for a common problem, herniated and degenerative disks in the upper spine or the neck.

>> reporter: three months ago, barry blum could barely walk across this field. >> continuingliness, weakness, and my right side was weaker than my left. it got to the point where it was almost difficult to walk. >> reporter: a herniated disk was pushi on nerves along his cervical spine. that's the upper part in the neck. it was also causing him to lose feeling in his hands. >> the numbness is every day. you had constant numbness. you couldn't feel things, couldn't type. it's very hard to type, getting to the point it's hard to pick up items. >> by the time he saw me again, things worsened dramatically. >> reporter: it became so bad, his only option was surgery. washington hospital center neurosurgeon zachary levine says despite his worsening condition, he was the perfect candidate for a new procedure. doctors could replace his damaged disk with a new, artificial one, that would still allow movement in the neck. >> we're now able to achieve near nmal motion in the neck because, as you c see, it's

like a ball and socket joint. we are able to decompress the nerves of the spinal cord being injured and also preserve the motion. >> reporter: normally, blum's only option would be a spinal fusion where the disk is removed and spacer placed between the vertebrae. that can either leave patients without any mobility in the neck or a different disk could become diseased. but the artificial disk is held together by a special joint that allowed for movement. >> the patients traditionally do very well. they have very little residual pain and actually get relief almost immediately. >> reporter: blum says he was surprised how well, how fast the surgery worked. it's been three months and the pain is now 95% gone. >> maybe go back to my normal activities, everything i like to do, bike, motorcycle and just have an ability to walk normally was just -- you know, it changes your life. it really does. >> eun yang, news 4.

big night in the area for tweens and their parents. jonas brothers to the delight of screaming fans. inside, an elaborate set-up, including a rotating stage. tonight, the 14th stop on a 44-city tour. also, big night for harry potter fans of all ages. uptown theater had an advanced screening of the sixth installment of the series alf-blood prince." it opens wednesday nationwide. stretched for a few blocks in cleveland park. what a night to be out to a concert. >> it was a hard choice for you. jonas brothers or harry potter. >> i stayed in. i sat it out. which one did you do? >> i did the weather. it was, indeed, beautiful, beautiful night. nice, low humidity. our temperature, middle part of summertime. usually, we're talking about 89, 90s. 9:30 and the temperatures in the lo70s.

you just want to say, yeah, i think i'll stay around town, take it easy. our high temperature, 88 degrees. our low temperature, 77. very, very unusual day. and the low is 70. that was our average high and low. those usually don't happen. outside now, after being up at 88 degrees, we are now down to 75 degrees. and the low temperature did get down to 70. look at dallas right now. 94 degrees. our rainfall -- remember how wet it was, april until the early to middle part of june? rainfall then was eight inches above average. since then, more than two inches below average. look at the current dew point. that tells the story. how often do we see in the middle part of july, really dry air all the way, almost down into north carolina? we've had this pattern shift and pattern change. remember back in april and may

how moist it was? we were getting a lot of that rain coming our way. now we're into an overall dry pattern. it's a hot one. some places in texas have seen record-high temperatures, like austin, texas. 105 degrees today. there's the leading edge, that boundary of the showers. and the wet weather, which has just moved now into the tide water area. there's still a few showers just to the south. so, the humidity is not that far away. later on in the week, we'll probably be seeing it, down into the coast of north carolina, around wilmington, north carolina. here is why they couldn't get the shuttle off today, more showers coming through cocoa, florida. look at today, another tenth of an inch. they've had over four inches for the month. as we go through the nighttime hours, tomorrow morning, another beautiful morning. lot of sunshine with a dry, high pressure in on us. that will continue with light north to northwesterly winds right on in through wednesday. by the time we get into thursday, our winds begin to

turn a little bit more into the southwest. humidity comes back. my goodness, tomorrow morning, temperatures in the 60s. even around town, it will be in the low 60s. 50s once again. another july. 50s for you folks out in the suburbs, sparkling blue sky, few puffy, cumulus clouds coming out today. what a week to be on vacation. sunny, warm, dry. temperatures low to mid 80s, more of the same on tap for wednesday and thursday. we're in a dry pattern, so only a chance of an afternoon shower or thunder shower on thursday and friday. temperatures may get to 90, but we're way below 90 in terms of how many we might expect. no sign of a building heat wave at all. small child survives an eight-mile trip down a canadian river all on an inflatable truck. bernard madoff trading placesor the lt time in his

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your world... delivered. a toy turned out to be a life savor. little red truck belongs to a 3-year-old canadian boy, playing next to it by the peace river. he got on that truck. fortunately, it floats. he was able to stay on the truck in the fast-moving waters for two hours, cute blue hat and all. managed to get down that eight-mile journey without a scratch. looks like he got some sun. >> yeah, he did. >> that's it. "tonight show" is up next. we'll see you tomorrow morning. that's your news. good night.