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now, lady gaga and the muppets holiday spectacular with elton john will air on thanksgiving at 9:30, 8. 30. send tr. if you are preparing to travel home for thanksgiving. we hope you get there safely. thank you for watching abc news. tune in to "good morning america" tomorrow. and as always we are online at abc news.com. good night, america. >>> they survived the deadly asiana plane crash at sfo, but their injuries took months to heal. >> and a couple month made it out alive shares their story only with abc7 news. good evening. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm carolyn johnson. 143 days after the deadly crash, the couple has finally returned to china. >> abc7 news morning anchor kristen sze has their remarkable story of survival. >> this 36-year-old needs a wheelchair to get around. the i'm mobility is adventurous for the shanghai native. the beautiful accountant and her husband have no kids. their love is traveling. in july they embarked on a dream vacation. this month they met me in burlingame to tell for the first time their nightmare as asiana flight 214 crashed. they have been translated. >> where were y

air force one he medley recognized one of them. senator diane fine stichbility the president and sen tr which which theed for several minutes.e then moved on to greet the others gathered behind the rope line on the tarmac. >> rate here. wished everyone a happy thanksgiving and was very friendly and off he went. >> shook his hand it was great. >>reporter: afterward the president got no a black chevy suburban and headed out to his first stop in the bay area. again as i said he's now in los angeles finishing his california fundraising swing. >> moving on now. new development tonight in the case of 4 white students sues pen from san jose state. 3 of them charged with committing hate crimes against their black roommate. today the naacp joined a crowd of students on campus calling for felony charges against those young men involved. here's david lou. >> san jose state president mohammad didn't apologies but acknowledged it took too long for lead investigators take action. >> our decision-making failed. as part of that i failed that student. and within that we failed all of our students. >>reporter: that wasn't enough for african a

book, this security man claimed he was there and went tr through what they considered a betting process and decided he was credible and put him on the air. i think they needed a new angle. they really needed this guy to be truthful and they were in the middle of this situation where you know, he was saying one thing to his boss and a different thing to them, but it was a credible reason for that, because he had left his villa when he was supposed to not go to the scene and what he told was a dramatic story and that added a lot of drama to what cbs wanted to report. >> even when the issues start to be raised, then on thursday, there's a "washington post" report, it follows this kind of classic cycle, which is ignore, deny, double down. >> yes. and i spoke to lara logan before it blew up and she was very adamant about how credible l this guy was. >> when you talked to her? >> yes, she said she believed in what he said and didn't think he had given two versions and the fbi report would prove that. that he gave the same report to the fbi that he gave to cbs and so, that became really the critical aspect with the fbi report. corroborates it.