the boeing 707. >> and that is it for this week's "a second look."i'm frank somerville and we'll see you again next week.

and i think we cannot talk about biofuel without talking about boeing because boeing is being selected for many, many years and moving this subject of biofuels forward, that we, 50 years of cooperation last year, and now 51 years already, we are very much impressed about the leadership that boeing is taken on a worldwide basis. not talk about domestic or u.s.a. only but on a worldwide basis to believe attract airlines, to step into the subject, and as a follower of this track, i can say we in europe, we are operating a company that's basically operated by boeing manager who is talking to us every day. so i must say to a certain extent that i love it to say, europe is being ruled from seattle. >> thank you for the kind words. >> let me put this in your head as you are with us on this panel. about five years ago, biofuels will not work in jet airplanes. it won't be -- it will meet technical standards, they can't make enough. et cetera, et cetera. by three years ago we have proven it was possible. but probably unlikely. you can do it technically but too many open questions. today we are r

the new inspected ordered for boeing jets around the world. >>> good morning, it is tuesday, april 5. i'm sydnie kohara. >> hi, everybody. i'm frank mallicoat. time now is 5:00. let's check weather and traffic. julie, it's beautiful. but i guess you better get the coats out later in the week? >> break out the parkas. you might need them especially at the coast later this week. hey, maybe not that cold but definitely chilly. we have one more day with relatively mild temperatures although you will notice they are significantly cooler than yesterday in some spots. 5 to 15 degrees lower depending where you live. 64 san francisco, 69 today in oakland, 71 san jose, 72 concord. mostly sunny skies, but breezy if not downright windy by the coast. i have details coming up. but first a check of traffic are elizabeth. >> earlier roadwork on 880 at the bay bridge and 580 has been picked up. we're good to go there. crossing towards silicon valley, westbound 237, you're fine. top speeds all the way out towards san jose. you can see one of our sensors there pick up speeds about 66 miles per hour. and

>> couric: tonight, boeing calls for special >>> tonight, boeing calls for special inspections of 737s as cracks are found in more southwest planes. and the airline cancels hundreds of flights. i'm katie couric. also, tonight, an about face for the obama administration. the 9/11 conspiracy trial will be held at guantanamo. top universities is accused of turning a blind eye to sexual harassment and assault. and assignment america, a home built with love, the kind only a grandmother can give. from cbs news world headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: good evening, everyone. the f.a.a. is about to order airlines that fly older boeing 737s to check them for hidden metal fatigue. this, of course, follows the emergency landing of a southwest jetliner on friday after a hole suddenly appeared in the fuselage. southwest, which carries more passengers on domestic flights than any other airline, has canceled hundreds of flights as it inspects its fleet. it's found cracks in three other planes, but 57 of the 79 it grounded since friday have passed in

the southwest flight, a boeing 737, had taken off from phoenix around 3:45 p.m. local time. 118 passengers on board. flight attendants had just taken drink orders when passengers reported hearing something unusual. loud pops. several minutes later, the roof opened up. astonished passengers saw a gaping hole. perhaps three to five feet long. and a foot wide. right next to the luggage compartment. aviation sources provided abc news with these photos of the damage. the plane suffered a rapid decompression. >> top of the plane was ripped off and all of a sudden the masks came down. it was pretty frightening. >> reporter: the southwest pilots radioed air traffic control. they declared an emergency and began a rapid descent. quickly diving to a lower altitude so passengers would be able to breathe on their own. the jet plunged from 36,000 feet to 19,000 feet in just one minute. within five minutes, it had reached the safer altitude of 11,000 feet. but some terrified passengers clearly thought this was the end. pilots though are trained for just such an emergency and th

it is now sparked a nationwide inspection of all boeing 737. we begin our team coverage with kate thompson. >>kate: oakland international airport is a huge hug for southwest, many flights canceled today as well as all over the nation. they have been checking into the safety of those planes. at some of them have been checked and returned to service. southwest airlines has found three more planes with cracks similar to the one believed to be part of the reason a five-foot hole tore through a plane last week. the airline grounded 79 of its boeing 737 for inspection and expects all inspections to be done by tuesday. the three plants found the cracks will undergo further testing and repairs before those plans to put back into service. today boeing issued a service bulletin to check the riveted lap joint which runs above the midsection of the plan for any cracks. previously these rivets were not extensively tested because there were not believed to be susceptible to fatigue. the plane never opened friday had undergone a complete so-called, have you c

here we are talking about boeing employees. we're not talking about moving up the value chain and asking our suppliers who maybe don't have the skills of value chain to do that and i'm talking about boeing employees. >> jim albaugh. you are a star and you're fabulous to be here today. we appreciate [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] so i hope this will be a lively and interesting panel on sensible security solution and with that, i turn it over to you, don. it is all yours. >> all right. thank you. when carol asked me to do this, i'm going to tell a little secret i hope doesn't get her in trouble, but i said, but carol, i haven't flown from a u.s. airport for five years. and it is all because of the t.s.a. i just had all i could take. i may not be exactly fair, as hard as i want to try. and she said i knowwwww. but this will be a little lively. but anyway, i intend to do something that i probably will fail at miserably and nobody here is going to beli

officials will order emergency inspections for older model boeing 737s.t order comes after a five foot long hole ripped through a southwest flight. nicole collins is in our washington d.c. newsroom with more on what inspectors will be looking for today. nicole. >> reporter: well, this safety mandate comes from the f.a.a. and what it says is basically operators of about 175 older 737 boeing aircraft need to inspect these planes for wear and tear. these 175 aircraft have landed and taken off about 30,000 times. so there is some concern here that they're just getting very old and this new problem that's arisen with the southwest flight from last week where the fuel sill lodge ripped in a five foot long one foot wide hole appeared in the fuse ill lodge in the body of this plane. so what happened though here this plane didn't have any outstanding safety issues. it was inspected back in march of 2010. so what's really going on here is that there's a problem with the way the inspections are done as these planes get older is what the f.a.a. is realizing. so what

boeing is now considering recommending airlines do closer inspections on more models of the 737, some 1800 airplanes worldwide. randall pinkston, cbs news, laguardia airport, new york. >>> the radiation in sea water near japan's crippled nuclear power plant is reportedly 7.5 million times the legal limit. the plant has been pouring radiation into the ocean ever since last month's earthquake and tsunami. for the first time since the disaster, japan is setting the standard for the a radiation allowed -- amount of radiation allowed in fish. a recent plant caught offshore between the plant and tokyo showed elevated levels of radioactive iodine. >>> toyota may close plants in north america because of supply problems caused by the earthquake. a spokesman said a gap in the pipeline would force the production to be suspended but toyota on its website says it's working with suppliers in north america to minimize any disruptions. >>> that dog rescued three weeks after the tsunami in japan has been reunited with his owner. that's bon. he had been staying in a temporary relocation center since be

>> the f.a.a.and boeing would have to mandate it. more the f.a.a.because it's going to be an expensive proposition to do that. to map the older fleet of the defects so that you can use that mapping on the younger airplanes to get in front of it. it would take an awful lot of backbone inside the f.a.a., and i don't know we've had that kind of backbone this that agency for a while. >> woodruff: for those people who are listening who fly-- and a lot of us do, a lot of people fly-- how does one know when a plane is safe and when it isn't? what kinds of questions should the flying public be asking? >> there's no questions. i mean, i can't ask any questions of the airline. i just know that there's an awful lot of good people in southwest. there's an awful lot of good people in the entire industry that put their heart and soul in making sure that the airplane will fly to its destination. we get caught with surprises and we get caught because of money concerns and to keep the airlines flying. so there is a little balance act that those goes

today federal investigators investigated the boeing 737. don is at oakland international airport where dozens of flights were grounded. don. >> after that potentially disastrous this flight failure grounded, 79 boeing 737's, southwest passengers arriving and departing oakland international today, or at least trying to, expressed concern about safety, but seemed concerned about delayed and missing flights. >> a southwest flight arrives at oakland international this evening. about 30 other southwest flights to and from oakland were canceled. leading to delays, shuffled schedules, and annoyed passengers. >> they are not handling it really well and i'm about 7, 8 hours waiting to get on a flight that is not going to be a direct flight and hopefully i will be able to make my cruise ship tomorrow. >> system wide, southwest canceled 300 flights following yesterday's explosive decompression of a boeing 737 at 36,000 feet. it left a hole in the top of the fusil lodge. this passenger's cell phone video shows the hole in the ceiling of the phoenix sac

they want make sure that they spread the blame here saying that boeing designed these planes, boeinguilt these planes and so if there is anything they need to take that into account. the faa issued this emergency order to inspect all 737 300s and 500s, as well. southwest says that the testing they did last week pretty much says the faa's orders at this point. what they're looking for are the overlapping joints visited together on the planes that have taken off and landed more than 30,000 times. now, the southwest plane that had the problem last week had a busy life taking off and landing 39,000 times in just 15 years. that's about twice the average. and so some older boeing 737s must undergo electromagnetic testing for hidden metal fa team. the inspections are behind of that -- fatigue. the inspections are because of that hole in the plane last week. southwest owns the majority of the 737s. southwest planes take off and land more often than other aircraft. >> every time you take off, you blow up the airport when you pressurize it. when you land, you relax it. then the next take-off,

we hope that you and they boeing co. and airbus and others will take the lead in helping us, with new ways where we can do the necessary financing beside taxes for the infrastructure of the future. that is not just airways and waterways and highways. it is broadband and the electric energy grid and other aspects. >> that is something we agree on. a lot of limiting factors to the airlines. i mentioned some of them. atm, airports, environmental questions. you look at the threats we have in europe. they are building a high-speed rail and plugging in nuclear reactors. >> to we have any questions? right over here. -- do we have any questions? rudder bourhill. -- right over here. here we go. down here. >> you talked about moving towards engineering areas offshore where engineers might be more available. in 2001, 2003, a lot of the engineering resources were being allocated offshore. would you say that is a symptom of the demographic changes or the cause? >> clearly we are a u.s. company. we have a design center in moscow and w

. >>> the faa is expected to issue an emergency order today requiring immediate inspections for boeing aircraft. the order would apply to about 175 boeing 737s worldwide to search for tiny cracks related to weak metal on the fuselage. concerns originated with an incident last friday involving the rupture of the aluminum skin and the sudden appearance of a five-foot long hole during a flight to sacramento. 80 of the planes' meeting inspections are in the u.s. most are operated by southwest. now, the order is not -- now, the order is not expected to include the boeing for southwest because those were inspected. these inspections caused delays for passengers around the country over the past three days. in the bay area, 12 flights were cancelled but southwest says operations are back to normal today. this morning, passengers at the oakland airport were concerned about plane safety. >> i'm nervous. this is my first time ever catching a plane. it happens to be southwest. >> yeah, it's definitely a concern. boy, i mean, nobody wants to put their family at risk. >> southwest says it's now maki

the crack a sparked a nationwide inspection of all boeing 737. kate thompson it is at oakland airport tonight and joins us live with a look at the investigation. >>kate: there's been a lot of of talk about how safe the 737 are. we have a copy of the mandate given out by the faa months ago that additional checks had to be done on these planes. southwest was the only airline that spoke up and tried to get those safety checks delayed. a new mandate was handed down by the faa in february requiring boeing 737 planes to be inspected for cracking in fuselages frames. the faa said the cracks would reduce the structural integrity of the plane and could result in rapid decompression of the fuselage. similar to the cracks suspected in last week's incident. southwest tried to have the inspections delayed but was denied. the airlines in the schedule for inspections was too demanding and said that completing the safety checks posed a burden to them. half of its 737 planes will be requiring an additional scheduled maintenance visit. our team coverage continues

southwest airlines has 80 other boeing 737's in the fleet. the task is to make sure no other planes have the same problem. this morning we spoke with passengers on the canceled flights here at oakland international airport. coming up you'll hear what they have to say in the next live aren't. >> thank you. >>> another plane-related incident. a delta airlines jet landed safely after striking a flock of large birds. it caused a gaping hole in the nose of the plane and the engine covers were dented. the flight was headed from little rock to atlanta. >>> a santa cruz father remains in the hospital this morning after being attacked at dodger's stadium. he was attacked behind in the parking lot by two men wearing dodger's clothing. joe's brother-in-law says the beating left him with a fractured skull and swelling on his brain. >> pray for him. that's all we can do. pray and hopefully he'll pull through this and they catch the guys that did this. >> los angeles police say the attacks was unprovoked. they tried to ignore the hecklers before being jump

they operate many different types of boeing 737s.nd over the weekend, boy, it was a mess for the traveling public. about 600 flights canceled nationwide as the inspections happened on those particular planes. today southwest airlines says that it's canceling about 100 flights as they have put about 19 of the planes that have passed inspection back into service. but quite frankly the discount carrier saying they don't know how long this is going to take before they're able to get fully back up and operating. but, of course, safety is key here. and you know you talk about how scary this was. we heard from a lot of passengers over the weekend who say that people lost consciousness when this plane opened up because they were at such a high altitude. it got extremely windy in the cabin. and they could see the clear blue sky and the sunshine through this five foot long hole and about a foot wide hole in the plane. you know it's just really difficult to wrap your mind around and just miraculous really that no one was seriously hurt. only on

emergency inspections -- the faa set to issue a safety order this morning calling for boeing 737s to be checked for weaknesses after a southwest airlines 737 was forced to land with a five-foot gash in its fuselage. should those inspections, though, have come sooner? we'll speak with a former faa official. >>> faceoff -- president obama inviting top leaders in congress to the white house in an effort to stave off the government . president obama inviting top leaders in congress to the white house in an effort to stave off the government shutdown, this as the gop prepares for the worst and makes a late-night effort to keep the government running for one more week. >>> and national champs -- >> the huskeys are the top dog in 2011. >> connecticut wins the ncaa men's basketball title as the huskeys beat back the butler bulldogs and spark wild celebrations at home. early, this tuesday morning, april 5, 2011. >>> good tuesday morning to you. i'm erica hill. good to have you with us. >> good morning to you. good morning to you, erica. i'm chris wragge. coming up this morning, the government

boeing says this plane has taken off and landed some 39,000 times. it should be 60,000 times before you check for metal fatigue. and for manufacturing issues, the company says it won't speculate. while this is a preliminary report and says its own engineers are look at the damaged part of the plane to draw their own findings. southwest airlines, it had a similar issue two years ago with another jet. and when this incident happened, it grounded 80 737's. five of those were found to have cracks, and actually been fined previously. it says it's confident its fleet meets all safety standards. >> thank you very much for that. rajesh in los angeles. the shock of what the afghan president has called a disaster is still being felt in the country and the nato command. almost 500 taliban fighters and commanders have escaped from a prison in kandahar through a tunnel dug from outside the jail. it's the second mass breakout there in three years, despite millions of dollars spent on improving security. a report now from the afghan capital. >> it's the second-bigg

the f-a-a orders new boeing inspections, after southwest's mid- air emergency.ne's successful formula could be putting planes at risk. a muni train caught on tape riding with the passenger door wide open. what the agency admits it did wrong. plus.. a secret recording shakes up the barry bonds trial.,,,, >>> on the "cbs morning news," a look at the day's weather. dangerous thunderstorms will roll through the southeast and head toward the east coast bringing strong winds and heavy rains. cooler and drier conditions are on the move in the midwest. the southwest is warm and sunny, >>> here's another look at this morning's top stories. fast-moving spring storms are causing all kinds of trouble through the south. tornadoes, high winds, and drenching rain has knocked out power to tens of thousands. and today, federal aviation officials are ordering emergency inspections of certain older 737s. their planes that are similar to the southwest jet that had a fuselage tear late last week. >>> in health news, the soaring number of children having c.t. scans in the emergency r

>>catherine: a nationwide inspection of all boeing 737.in the roof of the southwest plane friday night. boeing has said all their 737 should be checked for metal fatigue. the faa is expected to warm off for an emergency tomorrow that will affect 175 planes over the world. a year were not registered in the u.s. and most of those are operated by southwest. our team coverage begins with kate thompson portia's lot of the oakland airport with a look at the investigation. >>kate: some very good news for people who are holding tickets to get on southwest planes tomorrow. hopefully they will not deal with any cancellations. the airline said everything should be completely back to more normal. but questions remain about safety on the planes. southwest said they have done and completed many of the inspections. what had been done in the past which may have led to this problem. they found three more planes with cracks similar to the ones that may have been part of the reason why five-foot hole course raw plane last week. the airline grounded 79 of its

on latest on this boeing inspection. thank you for that update. >>> passengers on board a san francisco bound flight that made an emergency landing in new orleans say there were signs of trouble from the beginning. the pilot reported smoke in the cockpit and equipment failure shortly after takeoff. passengers tell us here at ktvu that the plane made strange noises and that reading lights and the public address system stopped working. now the plane landed back at new orleans airport, but veered off the runway after blowing a tire. >> by the time we got down, which was not a pretty landing, we were just all glad to be on the ground. then we thought it was over and they said no you have to get out of the plane, go down the slide and run. >> no one was hurt. and the passengers did arrive safely at sfo around 5:00 last night. the federal aviation administration is investigating this incident as well. >>> the streets of san francisco are clear this morning. but that's after a day of action brought out more than 1,000 protester

boeing says testing were not expected to crack until after 60,000 flights. the southwest jet that was force today make an emergency landing last week had only made 40,000 flights. as a result of that incident, the f.a.a. has ordered electromagnetic testing for older boeing 737s. >>> tomorrow cal train could approve a plan to have riders more and operating less often. 64 weekend trains, but a cost cutting schedule that's been tentively approved would eliminate ten weekday trains, close three stations and increase fares and parking fees. they face a $30 million budget gap in the coming year. coming up at 4:50 we'll tell you about another bay area transit looking to come up with ways to make up its deficit. >>> time now is 4:35. head right back out to sal who is watching our early morning traffic for us this morning. hi, sal. >>> hi, claudine. good morning to you. traffic is moving well around the bay area. no major problems 80 westbound. a nice drive coming out to the macarthur maze. if you're driving any time soon toward the bay bridge it should be a very nic

and airbus and boeing seven eight seven and a three fifty means that we have our own approach which is inevitable we certainly keep working on the avionics system which will have an open design work which will allow us to develop an all purpose platform that can be customized to the aircraft tasks for its lifecycle without affecting its key functions i think this is also a step forward which complies with the most advanced requirements of the industry i could talk more about the projects we're working on or the main thing is that we make it our goal that all of cortex comply with tomorrow's rather than today's level of models because the rules for what kind of impact will iraq will of the fifth generation of fighter jets have on the concept of mentoring action in the air we are the most. i'm sure it will have a serious impact since the fifth generation of the jets one will have a new level of stealth and higher military capacities with a range to act where an ad to surface missiles these jets will be able to fight the enemy while staying out of the killings or i'm sure the introduct

boeing tells us 75% of those have been looked at. only five have cracks, all southwest jets, and, diane, sources say the five that have cracks were made about the same time -- many of them, about the same time as the plane that came apart. >> and that is a change in what we thought caused this. thank you, lisa. >>> and now we turn to the latest powder keg in the middle east, syria. a bloody day, at least 75 people were killed during pro-democracy demonstrations against the government of bashar al assad, the 45-year-old doctor, educated in england. i met him in 2007. his wife, a former wall street banker. and today, there was a political earthquake in the streets of syria against his government, as martha raddatz reports. >> reporter: the crowds were enormous, gathering all across syria for the first time since a nearly 50-year-old state of emergency was lifted by syria's president, bashar assad. protesters demanded the end of the regime, ripping down a statue of the president's father, bracing to see the reaction of heavily armed gov

they want emergency inspections on 80 more boeing 737s like the one that had a piece of fuselage peelrlines has almost completed inspections of its fleet of 737s, all but three are back in service. abc's larry jacobs has more. >> reporter: fatigue cracks caused this gaping hole of a southwest airlines jet. the section will undergo a detailed analysis in washington. the ntsb concluded its on-scene investigation in arizona where a boeing 737 made a safe emergency landing on friday. >> all required aircraft inspections were up to date and no discrepancies were found. >> reporter: the faa is ordering special safety inspections for fatigue damage on some 175 boeing 737s worldwide. 80 of them are registered in the u.s. >> we can't allow planes to be blowing holes in the roof while people are at 30,000 feet. we just can't. >> reporter: age and wear from repeated take-offs and landings can cause metal fatigue. mechanics look visually or use specialized technology which sends an electrical current through the metal to detect problems. not cracks but smoke in the cockpit forced the united plane

we know southwest has grounded its 737 boeing fleet so they can do inspections.ill unclear is what's next, and if they figured out what caused that to happen. we're waiting on this press conference to begin. when the vice chair gets to the podium, we'll check in with that, and keep you updated. >>> in libya, this is video that shows rebel forces moving toward the town today. the show down comes as the rebels grow slightly stronger. gadhafi's forces are continuing to use air strikes against the rebels. >>> in the ivory coast, a charity group using machetes killed 1,000 people during the last three days. the united nations says that death toll is 330. it's not clear which side of the ivory coast civil war is responsible for the killings. >>> president obama is offering his condolences after violent protests in afghanistan turned deadly. those protests happened friday after response to a florida church that burned a copy of the koran. mr.obama called the burning of the koran an act of extreme intolerance, but isn't responsible for the killings. the pastor of the chu

cancellations are to inspect boeing 737-300 aircraft. boeing took that out of service after a 5-foot hole opened in a passenger cabin roof after a flight that took off from phoenix. small cracks have been found on at least three planes so far. >>> kit is at oakland international which has an entire terminal for southwest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. oakland international certainly has been bearing the brunt of the bay area airports when it comes to flight delays and cancellations. we are still awaiting word on the break downs of the various impact on all the airports. if you have a flight it may very well be cancelled. there are 79 planes left to inspect here over the weekend southwest is conducting intensive testing. so far the company has found cracks in three jets the company has a large fleet of them, 548 like the one with the problem friday. a plane headed from phoenix to sacramento had a 5-foot hole tear out of the roof of the plane. oxygen masks deployed, the plane landed safely in yuma. it has been a frustrating week

the operations returned to normal after grounding 79 boeing 300s. and a hole ripped off during a flight. in all, southwest cancelled 700 flights from saturday through yesterday. and officials plan to offer attacks and there is a jet forced to return to oakland after take off this morning and a light came on signaling a problem with a flap on one of the wings. the boeing 737, 700 has been pulled from service for inspection. 103 passengers on the flight were put on to a different plane. >> research shows the cost of owning and operating a vehicle in the u.s. is on the rise for a second straight year. the 2011 edition of your driving cost study estimates the cost for a typical sedan driven 15,000 miles in a year is $8876, up 289s frdz a year ago. that might be low. the study based on late 2010 gas price of $2.88 a gallon. last month, there was an 84 cent increase. >> two million childrens' products were recalled last month. baby monitors and kids watches. so could there be an unsafe product in your home? people actually do little to protect themselves.

all boeing airliners have the construction but the 737 is vulnerable, he says. >> it's more prone to cracks in the 737 because of the high frequency of the landings and take offs in a fleet. >> the failure is not a new new phenomenon and in 2005, there was another hole in jet another jet. the faa thought it had resolved this problem, now, more hard looks at middle aged airliners in the fleet. southwest airlines says the inspections should be complete and service returned to normal. the airliners boeing is concerned about are those that have been flying with what they call middle age. about 30,000 cycles, they call them, they didn't think that area would be vulnerable after this so-called middle age of an airliner. but there is now a different idea among the airline that's will be affected is alaska airline autos thank you very much. and there is a united air lines flight had to make an emergency landing when smoke started to fill the cockpit. the plane reportedly lost electronic capabilities with tire blowing out and the plane skidding off the runways, passengers had to evacuate usin

southwest is not the only airline that flies the boeing aircraft in question. other airlines will soon receive word their planes, too, may need to be grounded. an mtsb board member says boeing is developing a service for all with comparable flight cycle times as the southwest jet. the jet was 15 years old, 39,000 take-off cycles. 288 in the u.s. operated by southwest, u.s. airways and continental. >>> the pilot of a small plane died when his world war ii era plane crashed. it happened just off a trail that wraps around alameda. not far from the airport runway. witnesses say the single engine was 200 feet in the air when the engine appeared to quit. the plane wrashed into the shore. the pilot who flew around at the time of the crash says the weather conditions were mild. >> you know, the national transportation safety board is going to investigate this. it takes several months to come out with a preliminary report. the main thing is for people not to jump to conclusions as to what actually happened. we don't know. >> the name of the pilot has not been released.

. >> southwest is inspecting dozens of boeing 737 airplanes and cancelled another 300 flights nationwide. we're live at the airport where we found plenty of unhappy passengers. >> you can see why. 600 flights grounded so far this weekend, and we found some people today who have been stuck trying to get home for two days now. so far the best advice is if you have to catch a southwest flight, call ahead before you dom the airport. this is the unlucky half of the high school jazz band trying to get home to nebraska. they're holding tickets for a cancelled southwest flight and are stranded in san francisco. and these kids laughing are in the lucky half of the band. they booked their tickets on a different airline and are headed home. >> trying to charter a bus. be $9,000, and you know, we're a public high school. it's not like we can write checks. >> other passengers on cancelled flights had no choice but to pay pick bucks to buy last-minute tickets on different airlines. they couldn't wait another day so she went to the delta you can. >> they were doubling and tripling the price. we spent $

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. >>> the faa is expected to issue an emergency issue today regarding boeing planes. now, this order would apply to boeing 737s, the same jet model where the five-foot hole ruptured on friday. the emergency inspections will search for tiny cracks. most of the planes that need inspections are registered to foreign carriers. now, southwest says the new faa order probably won't cause them any delays. southwest cancelled hundred of flights over the lax -- over the last few days. operations should be back to normal today. >>> 7:12. in 90 minutes, testimony will resume in the barry bonds's perjury trial. judge is thinking about entering in tape, into evidence. the tape could prove once and for all whether or not bonds ever talked about -- ting ever talked about bonds's alleged truck use. tear-- drug use. tara moriarty will have more live. >>> averting a shutdown. who the president is calling to the white house today to try toy avoid a government shut down at the end of this week. >>> chilling delivery. the bloody item sent to a member of congress who recently held hearing a

well, new safety inspections start today for older model boeing aircraft. our reporter nicole collins standing by live in washington d.c. with more on what's leading to this new emergency audit. good morning, nicole. >> reporter: good morning, dave. that's right. the f.a.a. demanding these more intense safety inspections on these older models of 737s and with good reason. we had the incident last week with the southwest jet that had a piece of its fuse ill lodge essentially the skin of the plane tear off about a five foot long one foot wide hole resulting in mid flight they had to make an emergency landing. i just got off the phone with someone at the f.a.a. and she told me that the reason that these inspections are being demanded is because of that incident but as they've looked closer they've realized that the older planes have taken off and landed about 30,000 times each. and what that does essentially is it pressurizes and depressurizes that plane and it leads to metal fatigue. they think that is what happened in the case of that southwest jet. now sout

boeing is now ordering all 737's to be inspected at 30,000 cycles. a line of powerful spring thunderstorms and tornadoes pummeled the southern u.s. overnight, killing at least eight people. most of the deaths were in georgia. the storm system was wide, starting at the mississippi river and stretching all the way across to the carolinas. the national weather service received reports of at least 20 possible tornadoes across the region. high winds gusting up to 60 miles per hour toppled trees and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers. today marked the first anniversary of a massive explosion at a west virginia coal mine that killed 29 miners. the blast happened at the upper big branch mine owned by massey energy. it was the worst u.s. coal mining accident in 40 years. today dozens of mines owned by massey idled production to honor those killed. two workers survived the explosion. state and federal regulators have yet to announce the complete findings of investigations into what caused the disaster. congressman debbie wasserman shultz.

because boeing never thought this would be a weak spot. the inspectors were never even really looking for this. now that federal specters need to go back, look at the book and that's what the issue that emergency mandate today. to make sure all planes are looked at for this problem specifically. >>pam: thank you kate. new details this evening in the attack on a giants fan and los angeles. tonight we're learning more about the victim's condition. kron 4 is here and he has the latest. >>reporter: doctors say brian stowe, shows signs of brain damage and remains in a coma in critical condition. it take a look at this video, you can see his doctor said the entire left school of the victim had to be removed to relieve pressure off of the brain. his doctor said it's going to be a long recovery process for brian and he may never be able to breathe on his own again. the victim's cousin was emotional when he spoke to the media in l.a. today. his said his wife had been in touch was still before the game. >> my wife received a text message from brian

its fleet of boeing 737 aircraft will be inspected over the next several days. >> a scary experience, we got to read i'm glad to be here and home with my family. reporting live, kron 4 news. >>vicki: since southwest had grounds of its planes, that led to a number of cancellations and delays that bay area where airports. if we begin our coverage at the airport. >>reporter: it was quite a mess at the southwest terminal at oakland airport. take a look at those a red cancellations, there are quite a few. about 30 cancellations and a lot of folks are still stuck in the bay area. they cannot get a the another flight out of this area. it was a difficult day for some passengers at the southwest terminal. >> stressed out and frustrated. >>reporter: some flights were canceled and many more were delayed up to two hours. this family's vacation to mexico cugot off to a rocky start. their flight was canceled in the life like it could get was to arizona. the plan is to fly to phoenix and drive to new mexico. >> we thought we'd be there in the afternoon, now were going to get there by 3:00 a.m.. and

>> in this model, the 737 300, i believe the boeing company is going to put out a service bulletin. the faa is going to look carefully at how they are doing oversight and making sure the maintenance and inspection is done in the proper way. this may turn out to be that we need to step up our inspection process to guarantee that we have the safest aircraft we can be flying. >> i want to ask you about this southwest plane. 15 years old, it's recorded 39,000 take-offs and landings. eight cracks were discovered in 2010. i guess the big question is when you hear all this, why was this plane still flying? >> well, an aircraft like this with about 40,000 cycles is still what would one could call in its mid life. when you start to get into the numbers that we saw, for example in the aloha accident in 1988 where you had close to 90,000 cycles on a 19-year-old aircraft flying an environment conducive to corrosion that's when you have a plane that needs to be reteared. >> all right. good to talk with you. thank you so much. now here is erica. >> i want to turn to the latest from capitol hill w

southwest airlines grounded 79 of boeing 737s so they could inspect them. found cracks in three other jets. nationwide, 300 similar jets to the ones that southwest is taking a close look at. they are waiting to see if they they are going to order inspections of the other jets. >> kristen: also word of an unrelated emergency landing. a flight from oakland to san diego, landed safely in los angeles international after an electrical smell in the cabin. passengers continued to san diego after getting on another plane. carrier only flies 737s. >> eric: alameda coroner is identifying a man killed in a small plane crash near oakland airport. he is richard manual of san mateo county. his plane went down in the marina yesterday inch and will remain there until investigators wrap up initial assessment later on today. they say he had taken off from oakland international and was the only person on board the plane. witnesses say they heard the plane's engine cut off and saw the pilot try to make a crash landing. witnesses say he appeared to be trying to avoid a family s