we have john wiley who is a former airbus pilot standing by.also have josh levs standing by checking on social immediate kw and susan candiotti is live at the scene of the crash on the hudson river. i'm going to go to josh now because he's keeping an eye on all the social networking sites. where you, our viewers, are helping tell this story of devastating collision. what are you hearing and seeing? >> we've been getting information from people on the ground via twitter and facebook and keeps checking out, too, by the authorities. let's zoom in on the board. this is flicker you're looking at here. jason cohen was in touch via twitter. he took a lot of pictures of the afr ya today. one thing we keep hearing from people who are there is authorities responded very quickly. we see fire rescue boats. police boats. all these people keep telling us it was very rapid response. that says a very good thing about new york authorities and about preparedness in certain respects. i also want to close in on this picture he sent in. can we close way in? i don't

the airbus flight that went down on may 31st, was an a-330. investigators have still not determined what caused that accident, but automatic messages sent before the crash indicated there were inconsistent speed measurements. that has focused attention on external speed sensors called peto tubes. in june, investigators turned up two other speed sensor incidents with a 330s and now the associated press is reporting that a review of data has turned up at least a dozen other occasions where speed sensors malfunctioned, all of them northwest a 330 flights. delta would not confirm the incident but says it is in the process of replacing all peto tubes on its fleet. exactly what kind of remediation is being worked out in concert with european authorities with the goal of making all 625 airbus a330s in service around the globe safe. could that call for the grounding of a330s, it would be extremely unusual for authorities to do that since the speed sensors have not been proven a factor in one crash, but the air worthiness directive will give clues as t

so airbus is leading the race since the beginning of the year in terms of commercial activity. also in focus the, the banking sector after negative starts. the banks are in better shape. just a few days, that's the last trading session before the meeting with the finance minister, christine lagarde on monday to discuss the credit policy in france but also and probably most important, the bonuses, the french government would like the banks to apply in moderation in terms of bonus payment in the country. let's have a look now at the asian markets with saijal in singapore. >> hi, stephane. a lot had to do with more news coming out of china. this time there were reports that the banking regulator there could tighten capital rules. that could mean reigning in lending. reports saying that they're seeking feedback from banks. but again, these were reports. and we saw a lot of selling off in the other markets, not so much the shanghai composite. in fact, that market closing up. very different picture from the h-shares, where we saw the banking stocks in hong kong being very weak, and t

the incident follows two airbus plane crashes on paris mrifligh in june.lled a total of 380 people. one expert says it hasn't happened in 15 years. the russian military posting a pair of attack submarines off american waters. both said to be in the atlantic. for one to come near the united states is unusual in the post-cold war era, but two? almost unheard of. keep in mind the russian military is a shadow of what it once was. steve centanni is in the was washington newsroom. what is the pentagon saying? >> officials say they are not alarm but a little bit surprised because this is the first time in about 10 years russians have operated subs off our coast. they are a similar type of submarine. they are a smaller type that is, not the bigger ones that are equipped to carry the int intercontinental ballistics missiles. here is part of the pentagon reaction. >> so long as they are operating in international waters as we do around the world, and are behaving in a responsible way, they are certainly free to do so and doesn't cause any alarm within this building.

-year-old airbus 310 before it continued on to comoros. in the middle of the night over the indian ocean the plane went down. i felt the water around me. find myself in the other an. i don't know how it happened. i didn't see my mother. in pitch darkness, she clung to debris from the plane and floated alone in shark-infested waters. unable to swim. i heard women crying near me. others were alive in the water. i couldn't see them. i was too far away. the voices soon faded. eight hours later, a small fishing boat spotted the little girl. stunningly, her only injuries were a few bruises and broken collarbone. she lou back to paris to be reunited with her father. in the hop, doctors broke the terrible news. a psychologist came to see me and said i don't think your mother is coming. i was the only one alive. then i understood. stephanie gosk, nbc news, london. >> surveillance video from the home of a murdered florida couple is providing new clues today into their desperate battle with their attackers. byrd and melanie bill wrgs killed last mont

teams of 25 competed to see who could pull an airbus down the tarmac the fastest. each team needed to raise $1,000 to enter. it went to special olympics. >>> i'm dan kloeffler. this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] >> good monday morning. prepare yourself for possibly the hottest day of the year. we're expecting a day of 96. heat indetection going in effect at noon. temperatures are now an indication of the warm, warm air mass over us. it is 79 downtown right now. it is 80 in washington, d.c. we were 92 at the airport yesterday. the warmest start to the day we've seen so far in a while. 98 our forecast high. sunny and hot. slight chance of an isolated thunderstorm this afternoon. as we look at the heat index -- that's a combination of the heat and humidity -- it is going to feel like 100 to 105. more details on this one-day heat wave coming up. back to you. >> wow! >> i'm not looking forward to it. >> here's a look ahead at the news today. >> a plane goes down in ca

a 19-year-old airbus 31 befeonortinued on to the small off can't nation of comoros. over the indian ocean, the plane went down. i fell the water around me, she said. she found herself in the ocean and no sign of her mother. in pitch darkness the girl clung to debris from the plane and floated alone in shark-infested waters. i heard women crying, she says. others were alive in the water but she couldn't see them. she was too far away. the voices would soon fade and eight hours later, a fishing boat found her and then flew to paris to be reunited with her father and that's where doctors broke the terrible news. a psychologist came to see me. he told me my mother wouldn't be coming, she recalls. i was the only one alive, she says. then i understood. the 13-year-old's injuries were only bruises and a broken collarbone. the cause of the crash is still unknown. investigators are homing to recover the plane's black boxes at the bottom of the indian ocean. that's one lucky girl. jim, back to you. >> indeed. michael flynn, thanks, michael. >>> pirates in somalia fired on a u.

john wily, a former airbus pilot with 19,000 hours of experience. he flies jets and he is a contributing editor to -- aviation weekly magazine. thank you sir for joining us. you understand, you said the mayor's response is very modulated, very controlled and perhaps that is because he is a pilot himself. >> it is really important. we talked about in the last hour, accidents are the exception to the rule. 99.9% of the time. all of the stuff works. that .1 of 1% gets our attention as it should. but we have to make sure our response is accurate and measured. bloomberg's comment that he wants to keep the corridor open, that is important. remember last year, two years ago, cory lidell in an aircraft, ended up crashing on the east river. they shut the east river corridor down. hope they will not shut down the hudson. >> imagine they will be looking at this very intently because of the accidents that have happened there recently. you know you have had the commercial airplane that went down there back in january. but that, that is monitored by air traffic c

five months before lockerbie, this warship shot down an iran air airbus over the gulf killing all of the passengers. the u.s. navy said that its radar mistook it for a warplane. blowing up a u.s. airliner in revenge would have had a symmetry. >> he is a victim of a gross miscarriage of justice. i am very glad that they are going to grant him a release on compassionate grounds. >> one result of the trial, libya has been largely rehabilitated. after the bombing, the leader of libya was an international pariah. he offered up the two suspects for trial and they paid reparations. britain and america will both reestablish relations. >> the outside world has been grudging in its acceptance of libya. libya has been grudging the world in giving it what it wants. >> what will happen next? this was a welcome home given to the other libyan suspect who was acquitted 8 years ago. when al-megrahi comes home, he will likely get the same. britons think that a line has been drawn over lockerbie, but others have been not so sure. >> we have a timeline of the bombing and more information on bbc.com. at

. >> there are some new concerns tonight about the safety of the widely used airbus a-330 jetliner when a dozen malfunctions briefly made it impore for the pilots to know just how fast they were flying. those flights, all of them, operated by northwest airlines all managed to land safely but a similar breakdown is said to have contributed to an air crash jet that killed 228 people off the coast in june. they will put out directives next week requiring the airlines to change the air speed meters on the a-330. >> there is some encouraging news on the jobs front. in july the nati's up employment rate dipped slightly. it beat the economic's expectations and i tell first in unemployment in 15 months. just under 250,000 jobs were lost last month. that's an improvement over the nearly half a million that were lost in june. in a speech at the white house president obama said that the figures show that the worst of the recession is behind us. >> today we're pointed in the right direction. we're losing jobs at less than half the rate we were when i took office. >> the president claims his stimulu

the ma'am functions happened in northwest airbus jets. sensors are ned to know when -- necessary to know when planes are working properly. they hope to issue a safety directive soon. >> the metro system that failed sparking a deadly crash in june also malfunctioned months earlier. this happened only after the trans-- the records show officials reviewing computer logs later determine that there had been a problem with the automatic train protection system. the ntsb says investigators with the internet june 22nd crash just learned of the march incident last week. >> president obama is in mexico this morning. he will take part in a summit with leaders from mexico and camera. 11 news reporter nicole killon has more. >> it is being called the three amigos summit. the major topic of discussion -- h1n1. also known as the swine flu. >> what president is going to be doing at the summit is working with president calderon and prime minister harper to discuss what we are doing collaboratively to deal with the virus. >> the virus surfaced just before

. >> this is not going to have a happy ending like wendy airbus went down on the river where everybody survived. >> investigators say as long as it is safe, divers will work into the night. investigators are expected on scene. it could take weeks or months to figure out what caused the collision. >> there is continuing coverage of the collision over the hudson river. it is on our website. you can see more video and hear from witnesses. go to wbaltv.com. you will find it on the homepage. the baltimore city police homicide unit need your help. they're searching for a couple. they believe angeles jones might have been abducted from her boyfriend sherwin-williams. -- sherman williams. if you have any information on their whereabouts, you are asked to call baltimore city police. police are investigating a shooting in east baltimore. a man was shot in the hip and around 9:00 for the last night. the victim was treated at a hospital. the search continues for the shoot for. -- the shooter. >> a pleasant day outside for our saturday. temperatures were kept a little bit cooler than we otherwise w

in fact, wtop radio reports she was trying to tell officials about an issue with airbus. the trait agency is trying to determine if the driver should be punished -- thomas. metro recently implemented a zero tolerance policy and said only in cases of emergency should an operator ever be on the telephone. >>> the ntsb is now backing off of a statement about when it learned about a past problem with the metro train detection system. the ntsb first said it learned about a march failure on the orange line just last week but now acknowledges metro official did tell them about the glitch the day after the june 22 crash. the new chairman of the ntsb tells us the probe could take longer than first thought. debbie hersman was the face of that investigation. like many members of the ntsb who live here and often ride metro, she says this one hits home. >> i have had the opportunity to meet with some of the families. just knowing the devastating impact that has gone on in the lives of parents and children, people who were loved very much. >> within minutes, debbie hersman was driving

teams of 25 people taking part in a competition to determine who could pull the airbus jet a distance14 feet the fastest. all that muscle flexing raised money for the special olympics of southern california. jenna's going to do that on the plaza after the show. >> did you doubt it? of course i am. i'm going to go change. >>> janice will tell us about the weather but i can give you a >> plenty of heat and humidity expected for our day today. temperatures right now moving their way up into the upper 7870's. -- upper 70's. in some locations 91 to 96grees too. now here's jenna. >>> janice, thanks. with the start of the school year right around the corner, are you about to face an empty nest? advice for coping with life after your kids move out right after these messages. to get a good night's sleep, try 2-layer ambien cr. the first layer dissolves quickly... to help you fall asleep. and unlike other sleep aids, a second dissolves slowly to help you stay asleep. when taking ambien cr, don't drive or operate machinery. sleepwalking, and eating or driving... while not fully awake with memory

teams of 25 people taking part in a competition to determine who could pull the airbus jet a distance14 feet the fastest. allhat muscle flexing raised money for the special olympics of southern california. jenna's going to do that on the plaza after the show. >> did you doubt it? of course i am. i'm going to go change. >>> janice will tell us about the weather but i can give you a hint, we are gating splashed on here. >> it's not right here. actually, i just had them get this for me. it just started to rain again. i'm sharing my umbrella with the people on this side who haven't had a chance to be on tv yet. here's your chance. let's check on the weather. we have rain here in new york city. they're about to get a lot of it in hawaii. it is a rare event, but category 1 hurricane felicia is on its way to the hawaiian islands. it's rare to see a hurricane from the eastern pacific cross into the hawaiian islands, but they have a tropical storm watch in effect for the islands. it looks like it will be a to washington, d.c. today at 94. tomorrow you'll be close to 100 degrees and hot in new

teams of 25 competed to see who could pull an airbus down the tarmac the fastest. each team needed to raise $1,000 to enter. it went to special olympics. >>> i'm dan kloeffler. this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. 4:54. we have 80 degrees at this hour in the morning. think about that if you will. look at that moisture in the air right now as we look at a beautiful picture of the washington, d.c., skyline. good morning. welcome to "news 4 today." i'm joe krebs. >> and good moing. i'm bfarbara harrison. welcome back, joe krebs. >> thank you very much. >> we want to start you off with a look at weather and traffic. here's tom kierein. >> good morning. great to have you back, joe. welcome back. today, well, prepare yourself for some son heagtovin mg song w ,ctigfain rht now 80 feels c rl an uwimf opngnr,ra danoinho s n precipitation. ndural areas ow and-7ndur a rres al ouethsnt cie.gi all these counties ianorn re deun ann orange under an excessive heat advisory noon to 10:00 p.m., includes the metro area, southern maryland,

warship shot down an iran airbus over the gulf killing all 290 passengers. the u.s. navy said its radar mistook it for an attacking war plane. iran never accepted this blowing up a u.s. airliner in revenge would have an obvious symmetry but no iranian complicity has been proven and the court found against the libyan man. >> he is a victim of gross miscarriage of justice. i'm very glass that although the scottish executives have granted or might grant a release on compassionate grounds, his appeal will continue. >> one result of the trial, libya has been largely rehabilitated. after the bombing, libya's president was an international pa ryia offering up the two suspects for trial, swallowing the verdict and paying compensation was the price he had to pay to bring libya in from the cold. britain and america have both re-established relations. >> it's been on both sides. the outside world has been grudging in its acceptance of libya and kadaf tinch and they have been begrudging in giving the outside world what it wants. >> so what happens next? this was the welcome home

. >> this is not going to have a happy ending like when the airbus went down in the river where everybody survived. in this case, we believe nobody has. >> and ntsb go team has just arrived on the scene tonight trying to figure out exactly what happened here. we should mention there are cameras up and down the hudson river. so, less ste, they're hoping the fact that it was caught on tape. >> in just a moment, we'll hear about that busy stretch of airway there, but you're a private pilot in general, are there rules to the road as to who has to avoid who? >> there are. it works theame as you're driving on the road, you have to stay it on the right. especially in this corridor of the hudson river. you stay on the right, you pass over planes on the right. in this case, it's important to note that a plane almost has the right of way over a helicopter mainly because a helicopter has more maneuverability, it can stop on a dime, hover and drop faster than an airplane can. >> jeff, thank you. >>> as promised today's accident brings up a host of questions about the safety of skies above new york an

has plan to order airlines to replace the air speed sensors on airbus 330s. this follows reports that problems with the sensors left pilots on some domestic flights unsure about how fast they were going. those planes all landed safely, but investigators believe malfunctioning tubes may have played a role in the crash of air france flight 447 in june. coming up next tonight, another powerful congressman taking loans from a financial giant his committee oversees. we will follow the money. in this box is what i need to control my diabetes, to stay healthy - and get on with my life. it comes from liberty medical. and now, it's not only where i get my diabetes testing supplies - but it's where i get my prescription drugs as well. see if you're on medicare, the cost of your diabetes testing supplies as well as your prescription drugs may be covered. liberty takes care of all the paperwork with medicare and sends the prescription forms directly to your doctor for approval. then, on your schedule, packs up this box and sends it right to your door with no charge for s

. >> this is not going to have a happy ending like when the airbus went down in the river where everybody survived. >> reporter: now, late this afternoon, the n.t.s.b. has dispatched a "go" team to piece together just how this crash could have happened on what should have been a perfect day for flying. jeff. >> glor: dave, as we mentioned off the top, you did just fly this route yesterday. we were talking about this yesterday morning. how difficult is it? >> well, this airspace is tricky even for experienced pilots. you have low-altitude flying-- under 1,000 feet in most cases -- lots of aircraft and high speeds. it doesn't give you a lot of options, room, or time to react. so it's tough. >> glor: all right, david price joining us from new york tonight. dave, thank you for your time. now, two days after winning senate confirmation, sonia sotomayor took the oath today as the 111th justice of the u.s. supreme court. that ceremony was historic on a number of counts. kimberly dozier in washington has more. >> i, sonia sotomayor... >> reporter: sonia sotomayor today became the first hispanic,

if you take the migrating geese of that equation, you don't have a perfectly good airbus slashing downn the hudson river. i think that yes, but generally, this is a very safe system. but human beings make mistakes. and that's what probably happened here every day there are fatal car accidents in this country. they don't make news because it happened so often frankly. so when something unusual like this happens and it appears to me that the doubtful for the further i here. we could be talking about perhaps nine people lost as a result of this midair collision. but it is very unusual that this thing happens -- this kind of thing happens because these pilots are generally well prepared for the job they do, and you know the procedures in handling well the time. >> rick: john, stick around if you would. you continue to watch the watch between the city and new jersey. that's the hudson river the site of the miracle on the hudson only about seven or so months ago when everyone survived that water landing. unfortunately today, after a midair collision between a sightseeing helicopter and a sma

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transportation officials say the recent equipment failures all involve nest e airlines airbus. the malfunctions were all brief and all the flights landed safely. >>> there was another death in our area related to the swine flu, an adult from the d.c. suburbs with underlying medical conditions and the fifth death in maryland associated with the swine flu. students are going back to school. so the government released new guidelines for closing schools if the swine flu does strike. >> reporter: as the nation's 55 million students get ready to return to public and private school classrooms, the government is getting ready to help them deal with the swine flu. >> we absolutely hope no schools have to close but realistically some schools will close this fall. >> reporter: federal officials fully expect swine flu to hit schools this fall but schools should only hit if the h1n1 virus hits in large numbers. >> students getting the flu should actually consider closure. >> reporter: heads of homeland security, education, and the cdc say their new recommendations are based on lessons learn

the airbus jet crashed june 1st on its way from rio to paris. all 228 people on board were killed. this was the second phase of the search for those boxes. >>> now to another big story overseas. poll have closed in afghanistan this morning, but threats and attacks by the taliban kept some voters away from the presidential elections today. if the turnout is too low in the end, it could threaten the legitimacy of the vote. a big problem for the president's war strategy in that country. we have more from capitol hill. >> reporter: we should get preliminary results from the afghan vote on saturday. now just to show you, part of the problem is the roads in a few areas of the country are vulnerable to attack they'll have to bring out some polling ballots by helicopter. despite road blocks, police manning polling stations and 60,000 u.s. forces in afghanistan, death threats by the taliban kept some from polling today. >> no violence. report no violence. >> reporter: the current president hamid karzai is seeking his second turn. he's the favorite to win but may not pass the 50% threshold t

the discovery of faulty air space centers all involve northwest airlines airbus a330s and suggest equipmentbe more widespread than previously thought. they were noticed when officials began investigating a june air france crash that killed 228 people. >>> congressional greed or just necessary expense? depends who you ask. >> get your feathers in a ruffle. some members of congress are defending the decision to buy new corporate jets that often shuttle lawmakers all around. supporter are says they're needed to replace the agency, but as brian todd reports, that doesn't seem right. >> reporter: rush back from congress against recent allegations of overspending. a spokesman for the house prangprangs appropriations committee, asked for only one new jet. >> we asked for what we need and only what we need. >> reporter: but the house added two more jets. price tag for all three, nearly $200 million. but the house committee spokesman says there are a total of seven aircraft that the air force plans to replace with these new gulf stream jets over the next few years anyway, and by paying for these two

but the currents eventually took the airbus 320 miles down the river to the tip of manhattan and the main wreckage from the plane including an engine was not fully recovered until eight days after the accident. >> julie: busy news day today for the crash is not the only big story for you this evening. a surveillance camera catches 'moments after gunman goes on a shooting spree. not everyone gets away in time. new details on the woman: the odds of this daughter of a clergyman spending 11 weeks at #1 on the u.s. singles charts? 1 in 19 million. the odds of going on to win 6 grammy awards? 1 in 1.4 million. the odds of having a child diagnosed with autism? 1 in 150. i'm toni braxton, and i encourage you to learn the signs of autism at autismspeaks.org. >> julie: new video just released horrifying moments after gunman went on a shooting spree a pennsylvania health club. this video comes from a pizzeria just outside of pittsburgh in the video you see women running out of the la fitness center and a complete panic. police say the gunman fired more than 35 shots and last tuesday's massacre.

why and how she is doing it, coming up >>> new concerns about the safety of the widely-used airbus a-330 jetliner much on at least a dozen recent flights, malfunctions made it impossible briefly for pilots to know how fast they were flying. the flights all operated by northwest airlines managed to land safely. a similar problem is believed to have contributed to the air france flight in june. nbc news has learned the faa and it's european counterpart plan to require airlines to change the airspeed meters on all a-330's. about a quarter of a million americans lost their jobs in july, an improvement from the previous month. the nation's unemployment rate dipped from 9.5%, to 9.4%. first drop in unemployment in 15 months. president obama says the numbers signal a change. >> we're losing jobs at less than half the rate we were when i took office. >> the president said the improvement can be traced back to his stimulus package of middle-class tax cuts, massive infrastructure spending and green technology investments. >>> the other big issue on the national radar continues to be the health

shepard: it was just a couple of months ago that we have that awful airbus crash that also came from brazil. was that a result of turbulence, too? >> it is worth noting that rio was the departure city for both flights. the faa said that it is too early to draw any conclusions, but turbulence is being considered as one of the causes for that crash. after that crash, nasa began a project in colorado which tries to identify these areas of turbulence, especially in the ocean, with the idea that pilots could be guided around them. this is one of the things they are trying to grapple with. shepard: thank you. new details about who gets what from michael jackson's estate. a judge made two major rulings today involving michael jackson's money and his children. there are many ifs in your family's life. if your kids can go onward and upward, no matter what. if you get side-lined from work. insuring your family's ifs can be hard to figure out. so metlife removed the guesswork, by combining the most essential insurances, term life and disability, in one surprisingly affordable package. creating

the investigators still don't know exactly where the airbus jet flying from rio to paris crashed andse of the june 1 accident. >>> a libyan official confirms the man convicted of the locker bee bombing is in the hospital. it shows the convicted bomber lay flag a hospital bed in libya. the man was released from a scottish prison on compassionate grounds after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. he was convicted of bombing pan am flight 183 killing more than 270 people, most of them americans. families of victims from the locker bee bombing have criticized the decision to free him. >>> government officials also deny rumors that a lucrative oil deal with libya contributed to scotland's decision. >>> the cbs news correspondent wounded in afghanistan will soon return to the u.s. for treatment. her condition is being evaluated at an army base in germany and will be thrown to walter reed medical center in washington earlier this week. the armored vehicle she was in was struck by an explosive. >>> it has been nearly eight years since the u.s. invaded afghanistan and the number of soldiers

joining me now is john wiley, a former airbus pilot with 19,000 hours of service and i also writes for aviation weekly as a contributing editor. 19,000 hours is a lot of experience. before we got to that, we want to take you through what possibly happened, where the blaen took off from, where it was supposed to go and what have you. but have you ever been involved in a mishap mid air, not collision, because mishap or a close call? >> i've had the windshield fall a couple time, kre. it will get your blood going. in fact, about only three or four weeks ago, i was climbing out of a small field in my own personal aircraft and fortunately we were all on frequency, somebody was calling coming into the pattern and i happened to look up and sure enough to the left, i'm pretty close to another airplane. >> i have a lot of friends who with pilots and from time to time they have to go back for retraining and they're completely getted to whatever time they have to go back for training and what have you because they need to be focused, focused, focused. they all take this very seriously. >> the pro

. >> reporter: to make matters worse a second plane, a northwest airbus, was also stranded for about two hours, but it eventually securea bus back to the twin cities. >> their own company telling them that they can't let those people off? >> yeah. >> probably that captain is going to have to get hold of somebody there to talk to a supervisor because -- whatever information they have is not -- is not correct. i mean, you can't leave the people on there for hours. >> no. you can't. i mean, they -- there are lawsuits about this stuff. >> right. >> reporter: link christian was on the flight and is shocked at what the investigation has revealed. >> surprised that the decision for being -- decisions were being made by this small airline that i've never heard of in rochester who apparently controlled the ramp and when weather we could get off the plane. >> reporter: as the hours went by, express jet dispatchers' frustrations increased for those on and off the plane. >> you have not let the passengers off because tsa is not in the terminal? >> tsa is in the terminal -- the terminal is open.

but the currents eventually took the airbus 320 miles down the river to the tip of manhattan and the main wreckage from the plane including an engine was not fully recovered until eight days after the accident. >> julie: busy news day today for the crash is not the only big story for you this evening. a surveillance camera catches 'moments after gunman goes on a shooting spree. not everyone gets away in time. new details on the tape that's giving us an idea of just how horrifying it must've been. will everyone with constipation please report to gate 17? thank you so much. constipation's uncomfortable enough, so why take a harsh laxative? phillips' caplets work naturally with your colon... for overnight relief without cramps. phillips' caplets. but a whole panel in creating an anti-aging breakthrough. introducing olay professional pro-x wrinkle protocol. as effective as the leading prescription wrinkle brand. challenge pro-x yourself, we guarantee the results. this is my verizon small business specialist, tom. now, i know the catering business but when i walked in here i wasn't sure w

a health savings account which empowers me to not only make decisions but disney incenses to take airbusse than abandoning control of my body to people that i don't know and frankly i don't trust. as for the congressional plan, if you really trust the same members of congress to spend your tax dollars recklessly, unobtrusive dollars in deficits, waste billions of dollars, then you're probably going to like what they come up with. but if you think that you run your business and your family more efficiently than government, you need to say no, and said loudly and clearly. to their plan for your life. you can e-mail me@mikehuckabee.com, click on the fox show feedback. it may remind you, don't miss next week's show. guitar

>> is that i saw flying an airbus thinking it probably would be okay. >> mike: ha ha so you guys arel. you play pranks on each other to do snack too often. >> mike: in fact i think it was a little bit of a prank that josh was playing on the wedding. what was that about? >> well, i acted as if i forgot the ring. so what i did was i standing up in front of the stage there likes of you have the symbol of their love for anna and i'm like well, and just as yet, have a ring. so he turns around me to get the ring, and then i was real fidgety like i didn't have the ring. and then i jumped off the stage and took off and ran out of the ceremony. and they came back with a ring. like your list. no problem. thank you reproduce so. it was awful. >> mike: you owe him. if you get them back to make you get married or these days and i will be there. >> mike: would enjoy you guys have your kids. tell me if there's one thing you could say, this is the reason we had so much pleasure in a large family tobacco boy, there's a lot of things. i guess right off the top of my head i would say when the children

this is not going to have an happy ending like when the airbus went down in the river where everybody survived. in this case we believe nobody has. thank you very much. >> rick: so the mayor of new york city michael bloomberg confirming the 'worst fears. this is a tragedy, he said that twice -- a tragedy on the hudson. nine people dead between a sightseeing helicopter carrying five italian tourists and a pilot. it collided in midair over the hudson river with a piper saratoga a fixed light wing plane. three people on board including a child. two bodies have been recovered which means nine deaths in all. there are still seven bodies that the searchers are looking for. at you can see on the left-hand side of your screen they have been doing that for the better part of the last three hours and 18 minutes since noontime. tom ruskin joins us, tom, what was important in the mayor's initial words, he said the plane ran into the back side of the chopper. from an investigative standpoint talk to us where it goes from there? >> what is happening now, they are trying to secure whatever wreckage

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>> well, thinking back to the airbus, it took them a couple of days.engine, on the airbus is about the size of the aircraft they're looking for here. if he they haven't found more survivors or more people at this point, i think that is a moot issue, but again, as you have said, nobody is better at it than new york city authorities and they will get it as soon as they can, i'm sure. >> and they have been very cautious in terms of releasing information about the numbers of people that they're looking for. as time goes on, obviously, the debris field widens. it has happened on lower manhattan. the good news is that they're close to hospitals on both sides. you mentioned again how new york city springs into action. we're told from our eye-witness down there, charlie gould, that the nypd and coast guard and fire department were all on the scene quickly. this happened about an hour ago. we are getting these live pictures in showing the rescue boats already in place. plus, you have flown over this area. we remember with the usair night that made the miraculou

a health savings account which empowers me to not only make decisions but disney incenses to take airbus sense than abandoning control of my body to people that i don't know and frankly i don't trust. as for the congressional plan, if you really trust the same members of congress to spend your tax dollars recklessly, unobtrusive dollars in deficits, waste billions of dollars, then you're probably going to like what they come up with. but if you think that you run your business and your family more efficiently than government, you need to say no, and said loudly and clearly. to their plan for your life. you can e-mail me@mikehuckabee.com, click on the fox show feedback. it may remind you, don't miss next week's show.

all the malfunctions occurred on airbus a-330 jets and this could help investigators who are trying to piece together what happened to flight 447. >>> let's go now to the weather. a live look at new york city across the big apple. a sigh of relief from the recent heat wave and the hazy, humid conditions but then there's month. nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> good morning to you, alex. two big weather stories, flash flooding from overnight, minnesota into wisconsin and what's go on with hurricane felicia in the pacific, heading for the hawaiian island chain. still a long ways to go. probably get closer to the hawaiian islands on tuesday. as you can see, it doesn't look as impressive as it has the last couple of days. still has a tiny eye. a weakening trend expected, at worst, maybe tropical storm force winds and some gusts through the hawaiian islands. as far as flash flooding, heavy thunderstorms from minneapolis to lacrosse, back over through central wisconsin. a lot of heavy rain existing minneapolis. you're improving. but it's shifting to south inbetween lacrosse, madison. wet mor

all of the malfunctions occurred on airbus jets. >>> today the u.s. economy heading in a new direction. the july jobless rate dropped from 9.5% down .1 to 9.4% while this is the smallest drop in a year the news helped the dow continue its rally now that unemployment is down and stocks are up, are we moving from recession to recover? matthew miller, senior editor for "forbes." it's good news. okay. you're putting it in perspective. give us the perspective. i'm all about saying, yeah, let's hear trumpets. >> you're colleagues on cnbc are doing the same thing. it's a sign of hope. the jobless rate actually slowed. there's less jobs being lost in america than there were in the previous six months according to averages. that's great. we should use that as sort of a barometer as things might be slowing down or stopping the free fall and it's getting worse. i think what you need to look at is not what the stock market has done because it's up 45% since the bottom in march but really look at some other underlying indicators. unemployment will get to 10% this

so the goal, if you're wondering, which team could pull a fed ex airbus 310 along a 14-foot section ofmac. prizes were given to fastest, slowest, and the most creative team. what? >> and there's also a prize to anybody who did not pull their hernia. >> i need some doan's. my back hurts. >> how hot is too hot? would you believe that 150 contestants from 20 countries took place in finland's sauna competition this weekend to see if they could beat the heat. after just two minutes, most contestants were gasping for air. of course, it's about 230 degrees in the sauna. the female winner from russia braved the meet for three minutes and two seconds. you don't just like twist an ankle as a possible injury. you pass out. yikes. >> okay. crossing the line? is that too much of a challenge for people? right? >> wow. >>> this next one, daredevil with the indian military has apparently broken the record for standing on top of a ladder while riding a motor bike. i'm trying to see this video and read this. the previous record holder did it in eight hours and took several breaks. this guy did it for ei

. >> this is not going to have a happy ending like when the airbus went down on the river where everybody survived. in this case we believe that nobody has. >> reporter: while skyline tours over new york stock exchange city bring breath-taking views, critics say they bring great danger. sight-seeing helicopters and small planes are allowed to fly just feet from manhattan without ever speaking to a flight controller, as long as they remain below 1,100 feet. >> this is a very busy traffic lane here. maybe we will have to take a step back and look at the traffic flow here so that we can protect families and our communities as we go forward. >> reporter: want to show you some video we shot just moments ago here on msnbc, this is in fact police and police divers pulling up pieces of wreckage from a raft they have off the boat. we're unsure whether this is the helicopter or the airplane. i can tell you they did take this piece up from a spot they identified as the helicopter search area. they still haven't found exactly where the airplane is. you have to understand the hudson river and you can

this is not going to have a happy ending like when the airbus went down in the river where everybody survived. in this case, we believe that nobody has. thank you very much. >> that was new york mayor michael bloomberg, roughly an hour and a half ago during a press conference there. nine people on board two aircraft that collided shortly after taking off at separate locations, but as you heard from the mayor there, this was an accident, in his words, that simply was not surviveable. we've got your i-reports coming up next. welcome home, man. >>> welcome back. i'm fredricka whitfield in atlanta. now the recovery phase after a mid-air collision over the hudson river. you're looking at the recovery mission under way on both those screens there. a helicopter as well as a small plane, nine people in all, on board those two aircraft collided just roughly after noontime and just about an hour or so ago, the mayor of new york, michael bloomberg came out to say this simply not a survivable crash. they have recovered two bodies but the recovery mission is still under way to locate the other se

this is not going to have a happy ending like when the airbus went down on the river where everybody survived. in this case we believe nobody has. thank you very much. >> new york mayor michael bloomberg there. talking about how this accident, midair collision between a helicopter and a small aircraft was simply not survivable. no longer is this a rescue effort, instead a recovery mission. he came out now three hours after the initial reports of this collision between a helicopter with five italian tourists and a pilot on board. and a small aircraft that took off from the teeterboro, new jersey aircraft with three people on board. pilot and two others. including a child. those two aircraft collided there over the hudson river. eyewitnesses saw it all. taking place. and saw the aircraft descend. the mayor there saying that they have located the wreckage. maybe that of the helicopter. but we are talking about water at least 30 feet deep, visibility for the -- emergency crews there just two feet. they did find two bodies. but the mayor says this simply did not appear to be an accident t