abc's david wright is in carson city, nevada. >> 911. what's the address of your emergency. >> it's ihop. there's a shooting going on. >> shooting where? >> in the ihop. >> reporter: it's been a long time since carson city, nevada, was considered the wild west. >> ryan, move! he's shooting at us now. >> okay, all right. >> he's shooting at us. automatic weapons. >> automatic weapons, like long weapons? there's one guy with an automatic weapon. he's shooting everybody. >> reporter: but the scene at the local ihop tuesday morning abruptly changed that. that voice on n e 911 call was ralph, who owns the barbecue joint just across the parking lot. bullets riddled his weapons when the shooter started firing at random in a circle. and you have one, two, three, four, five -- >> yeah. we've got so many more holes into the building. >> reporter: they pierced the antique cash register, punched homes in the walls and even punctured the ventilation duct in the kitchen. he showed us his security camera foot ablg of the scene. that's his son trying to

and that's only part of the investigation as abc's david wright reports from reno. >> reporter: think of souped up antique cars flying at 500 miles an hour. high speed, low altitude and no protective barrier for the crowd. that's what made the reno air race so thrilling. until 4:20 friday afternoon. >> this is like a track in the sky without having those protective fences around the spectator stands. >> reporter: these are 70-year-old world war ii fighter planes modified to turn them into drag racers. >> the airplane looks quite a bit different. we cut ten feet off the wings. five feet off each side. >> reporter: in a promotional video, jimmy leeward, the pilot who crashed, described the extensive modifications that made this old propeller plane race as fast as a jet. >> you need those type of speeds. you need jet speeds. >> any time you modify an airplane that has been designed for one function to make it do another function, it makes it less safe. >> reporter: eyewitnesses say they saw pieces of the plane's tail fall off as it made its final turn. the photos support that. and there'

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i'm david wright for "nightline" in hollywood. >> oh.ou can tweet us @nightline and tell us what your favorite worst movie is. >>> a recap of tonight's top story. the tragedy at the reno air races where an airplane nosedived into spectators resulting in multiple fatalities and dozens of injuries. mechanical difficulties are being blamed for the crash. thank you for watching abc news. "good morning america" will have all of the latest tomorrow on the tragedy at the air show. we're always online at abcnews.com. have a safe weekend, everybody. >> dicky: tonight on "jimmy kimmel live" -- >> jimmy: the president said we need to have more products stamped made in america. which -- all right. let's get the chinese to get a stamp that says made in america. >> dicky: khloe kardashian odom. >> smell my chest. >> jimmy: smells good. >> dicky: ron artest. >> jimmy: are you a good dancer? >> i'm very classy. >> dicky: and music from gabe dixon. >> jimmy: i don't wh

but the real heroes of the story are his own children, and abc's david wright is in castaic, california> reporter: 67-year-old david la vau might not be alive today, if his kids had given up hope. driving in the dark on this treacherous mountain road a week ago, his car plunged into the ravine. his kids were so worried, they didn't wait for the police. >> all of us ended up doing an fbi headquarters at my house. >> reporter: they hacked his facebook account and discovered he hadn't used it in almost a week. confirmed with his bank that his last purchase was friday at 3:00 p.m. at a ralph's grocery store in oxnard. the cell phone company helped pinpoint the last tower where his phone checked in, narrowing the search to a desolate wildness highway. this was truly a needle in the haystack-type search. the family members searched every one of these switchbacks, calling out for their father. only when they got here did somebody answer back. >> i thought i heard a cat or a dog and i said, "hello" enough and it echoed down and -- then, that beautiful voice and it was my dad. >> reporter: he ha

and abc's david wright tells us about it. he's in carson city, nevada. david? >> reporter: good evening, diane. this diner is still a crime scene today, as investigators inside picked through all the shell casings, trying to piece together exactly what happened and how. but why did it happen? that's a tougher queueion. and the community has no easy answers. >> 911, what's the address of your emergency? >> it's ihop. there's a shooting going on. multiple shooting. >> shooting where? >> in the ihop. >> in the ihop? >> in the ihop. >> reporter: the last time there was a murder in carson city was three years ago. 911 here never gets cacas like this. >> ryan, move! he's shooting at us now. >> okay, all right. >> he's shooting at us. automatic weapon. >> reporter: ralph sagler made that call from his barbecue restaurant just across the parking lot from the ihop. todada he showed us the bullet holes in the windows. >> bullets were just passing by our heads. >> reporter: he also showed us what his securury cameras captured at the scene. that's his son trying to lock th

abc's david wright has been tracking the clues all day. >> reporter: witnesses say the gunman pulled up at the international house of pancakes around 9:00 a.m. and started shooting while he was still in the parking lot. >> all i heard was about a heavy eight seconds of automatic gun fire. just saw people running. i heard another burst go off and then i was just get the hell out of there. >> reporter: the gunman, identified as 33-year-old eduardo sencion, injured six people and killed three. among the victims, five members of nevada's air national guard, who were h hing a breakfast meeting at the ihop. two of them, a man and a woman, died. >> because the military members were part of this unfortunate, unplanned tragic event this morning, that caused for some extra security measured to be placed on state and military buildings here in northern nevada. >> reporter: carson city is nevada's capital. the state capitol and supreme court buildings were on lockdown for 40 minutes as a precaution. heightened security measures remain in place at all nearby military bases. the police now believe

abc's david wright reports on man, medicine and machine. >> a heartbreaking work of this. >> reporter: he's beaten "jeopardy's" best. >> what is staggering genius. >> that's right. >> reporter: now watson is poised to make crucial decisions about medical care. wellpoint's announcement marks the first time the ibm supercomputer has ever gotten a real job. >> dr. watson has been studying for many months now, and he's gone through medical school, internship, residency. >> reporter: anyone who has ever been a patient knows the pitfalls in our system can put us in jeopardy. insurance companies may not pay claims. procedures can put people in the poor house, and even the best doctors have been known to make mistakes. so is the obvious answer watson? watson can process 200 million pages of data in under 3 seconds giving even dr. house a run for his money. >> mri of the spine. if that's clean, cut her open and biopsy the leg. >> reporter: watson might not need to order so many expend tiff tests, which no doubt is part of his appeal. >> i would hate to see an insurance company use watson to de

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david wright starts us out from los angeles tonight. >> reporter: at the white house, creating jobs is now the number one priority. because the president knows keeping his job may depend on it. that's one reason he's calling this joint session of congress. >> we are at a moment when we need to take significant action to spur economic growth and to create jobs. >> reporter: officially, 13.9 million americans are out of work. but economists say the real number is nearly twice that size, including people in part-time jobs or who have been out of work so long, they're not even counted anymore. here in l.a., more than 10,000 people turned out today for this job fair. >> i just need a job. >> reporter: organized by the congressional black caucus. >> what's happening here, it shows that people want to work. and they need to work. >> reporter: the unemployment rate in the black community, one of obama's strongest bases, is twice what it is among whites. >> how many of you have been looking for work for more than six months? >> reporter: many of them o o of work for months -- or years. you have

david wright tonight, thanks so much. >>> we turn overseas this evening and to those two american hikers jailed for more than two years in iran on spy charges. just last week, iran's president said the hikers could be freed within days, but since then, hurdle after hurdle. one judge, whose signature they need, not in the office. abc's jim sciutto is in the region tonight. jim? >> reporter: david, the americans' release has been held up in recent days by political in-fighting in iran, and now it's a judge's vacation. the lawyer for josh fattal and shane bauer telling us that the final signature needed on their release order can't come until that judge goes back to work on tuesday, at the earliest. now, what's almost certainly behind this red tape is an effort by president mahmoud ahmadinejad's political rivals to deny him a p.r. victory, a diplomatic victory, before he flies to new york tomorrow for the u.n. general assembly. i'm speaking with several people directly involved in these negotiations and everyone believes this release will happen, but it looks like, david, their families are

david wright, abc news, california. >>> and we have an update for you. earlier this week, abc's david muir took us inside the next wave of the biggest humanitarian crisis on earth. it is in somalia, where disease is running rampant on the heels of crippling famine. and a simple vaccine that costs just 24 cents can save lives. well, we're happy to report that following our broadcast, you donated enough money to purchase more than 138,000 doses of measles vaccine. you can still help if you'd like to. just go to abcnews.com. >>> there is late breaking news to report tonight and for details on what is a developing story, we do to abc's cynthia mcfadden. >> elizabeth, a small plane crashed in an air show in reno, nevada. witnesses say that as the planes raced, one crashed into spectators. at least 12 people reported dead and 30 injured. thousands of others are being evacuated from the airport ho holding the event. elizabeth? >>> still ahead on "world news," a six ton hunk of metal is hurtling towards earth. what are your odds of being hit? >>> we take you ins

david wright reports n.t.s.b.gators are were at the event and saw the crash. >> after the shock and panned mondayium of the crash -- pandemonium of the crash now the search for answers. you don't think in terms it's going to happen to you. >> these are our first real glimpse of the crash site. p-51 mustang was traveling so fast when it crashed the fuselage shat sclerd there was nothing that showed it was an airplane. it was big black mess on the ground. >> n.t.s.b. investigators may not have a flight data recorder but invaluable is numerous photos and personal video accounts from speculators. >> it will be a huge help for us. >> the photos appear to back up eyewitness accounts that pieces of the tail started falling off. >> we had three investigators on the ground but initiated the investigation immediately afterwards. >> the tragedy was another near miss mark kelly husband of gabrielle giffords who was shot in the head earlier this year in tucson. kelly was scheduled to fly a picht 51 similar to the one crashed b

here is abc's david wright. >> think of supered up antique cars flying at 500 miles an hour at high speed and low alt altitude and no protective barrier for the crowd. that's what made the reno air race so thrilling until 4:20 friday afternoon. >> this is like a crack in the sky without the protective fences around the spectator fans. >> reporter: these are world war stwo modified planes turned into drag racers. >> it looks different. we cut 10 feet off the length and five feet off each side. >> reporter: in a promotional video, the pilot who crashed described the extensive modifications that made this old propeler plane race as fast as a jet. >> you need those types of speeds. you need jet speeds. >> anytime you modify an airplane that has been designed for one function to make it do another function it makes it less safe. >> they saw pieces of the plane's tail fall off as it made its final turn. the photos support that. and there is this picture taken the instant before the crash. >> there is no pilot's head in that cockpit. it tells me he was likely unconscious and slumped over the con

abc's david wright shines a light on the issue. >> reporter: if you ever wondered what difference one man can make, consider san diego. one guy's mistake meant lights out for 5 million people. one minor screw-up meant 2 million gallons of sewage pumped straight into the ocean. one guy's incompetence cost the economy as much as $118 million. >> doh! >> reporter: yep, we're in homer simpson territory here. >> rolling, lling, rolling. >> reporter: power may come back to san diego residents but they won't soon forget what plunged this whole reason into darkness. >> an unpleasant 24 hours. >> reporter: a single employee of an arizona power company whose repairs to his substation northeast of yuma went so badly wrong he managed to knock out the region's main high-voltage extension cords. there's not just one guy to blame. america's aging infrastructure has something to do with it too. not to mention the deregulation of power. so that comes want to sell you company but precious few want to shoulder the cost of maintaining means of delivery. is it even conceivable we've done everything to def

abc's david wright is in reno this morning with the latest. rning to you. >> reporter: good morning, dan. hard to watch, indeed. the eyewitnesses here tell us that they saw the world war ii p-51 mustang fly uncomfortably close to the crowd. and then, shoot straight up, before coming in a barrel roll back and landing right in the v.i.p. seats. killing three people. injuring many, many more. the air show organizers insist this most likely mechanical failure is to blame here. eyewitnesses told us they're convinced the pilot may have blacked out. no one seemed to be in control of the plane. three people dead. the ntsb is now investigating. and of course, the air show is canceled. >> okay, david. i'll take it. thank you. >>> we're going to turn, now, to the millionaire's murder trial in orlando and a day of dramatic testimony. the wealthy businessman seemed to show little emotion when he was arrested and charged with killing his wife. but that changed in the courtroom yesterday. abc's matt gutman has the story. >> reporter: it was the first time bob

here's david wright. >> witness said gunman pulled up at the international house of pan cake around 9:00 a.m. started shooting while he was still in the parking lot. >> all i heard was heavy 8 seconds of automatic gun for. saw people running. i heard another burst. go off. and then i was just getting the hell out of there. >>reporter: gunman identified as 33-year-old eduardo sent injured 6 people and killed 3. among the victims 5 members of nevada air national guard. having a breakfast meeting at the i hop. 2 of them a man and woman died. >> military members were part of this unfortunate unplanned tragic event this morning, that cause for some extra security measures to be placed on state and military buildings here in northern nevada. >>reporter: carson city is nevada capitol. state capitol and supreme court buildings were on lock down for 40 minutes as precaution. tighten security measure remain in place at all nearby military bases. police now believe the somewhating was an isolated incident at the minimal. >> writ now it appears as though there was one shooter and the shooter l ha

abc's david wright tells us how. >> reporter: if you ever wondered what difference one man can make, consider san diego. one guy's mistake meant lights out for 5 million peopop. one minor screwup meant 2 million gallons of sewage pumped straight into the ocean. one guy's incompetence, cost the economy as much as $118 million. >> doh! >> reporter: yep, you're in homer simpson territory. ♪ rollin' rollin' rollin' >> reporter: today's power may have come back to san diego residents, but they won't soon forget what plunged this whole region of darkness for 12 solid urs. >> with look back at it as an unpleasant 24 hours. >> reporter: a single employee of an arizona power company whose repairs to a substation northeast of yuma went so badly wrong that he managed to knock out the region's main high-volt attach extension cord. of course, there's not one guy to blame, america's aging infrastructure had something to do with it, too. not to mention the deregulation of power, there's plenty of companies who want to sell you plenty of cheap electricity. precious few want to shoulder the cost of m

david wright, abc news, los angeles. >>> and that is what's making news in america this morning. >> stay with us for "good morning amerer >>> in the news this tuesday morning, iran's president tells an american tv network that two u.c. berkeley graduates will be freed in a couple of days. >> california senator feinstein says her campaign are among those that may be wiped out by a democratic campaign treasurer arrested on federal fraud charges. >> good morning. sun koms coming up at 6:50. partly cloudy skies, numbers in the 50s and 60s this morning. >>> sue hall live at the traffic center. live shot of the golden gate bridge. fog free and rest of your tuesday commute. >> 4:30 starting out on great note. i'm chris. >> i'm eric thomas. >> there is light at the end of tunnel for two u.c. berkeley graduates that have been imprisoned in iran for two years. they made a surprise announcement. nick smith mass more. >> reporter: good news, iranian indeed. they told an american news outlet that the two americans have been given eight year prison sentences for spying will be released on two days on

abc's david wright is in los angeles with the latest. david, the cause is unknown, but what has been found out so far? >> reporter: well, so far, the investigation, san diego power officials say there is no indication whatsoever that this was caused by an act of terrorism. they say the most l lely explanation is the line from arizona to california for reasons unknown, has been knocked out. but that's been a major disruption to power across this region. it covers a huge area. all of san diego county, parts of orange county, inland to palm springs and the arizona border and south into mexico, tee yan that and baja, california. the specific cause, still unknown, but 1.4 million customers affected, currently without power. and san diego officials say the out age could last well into tomorrow. as you can imagine, this is causing a major disruption in california's third biggest city, businesses closed, traffic at a standstill. public transportation, the trolley system is out, as well. san diego international airport is operating on generators.

abc's david wright found out even the pilot wasn't sure how the modified plane would perform. >> these are 70-year-old world war ii fighter planes, modified to turn them in to drag racers. >> the airplane looks quite a bit different. we cut ten feet off the length. five feet off each side. >> in a promotional video, jimmy leeward, the pilot who crashed described the extensive modifications that made the old propel lar plane race as fast as a jet. >> you need those type of speed. you need jet speed. >> anytime you modify an airplane that has been designed for one function, to make it do another section it makes it less safe. >> eyewitnesses said they saw pieces of the plane fall off. photos support that. then there is this picture, taken the instant before the crash. >> there is no pilot in the cockpit. it tells me together he was slumped over the controls. >> our mission is to identify what caused it and then make the safety recommendations so it never happens again. >> even some long-time fans of the reno air race now admit in hindsight this was an accident waiting to happen. >> as da

david wright, lucas duda and finally jason bay striking out swinging to end the game. braves win, 1-0 the final. five and a half over the giants with the lead in the wild card. >>> well, stanford plays later tonight against arizona. that one starting at 7:45 in tucson. meanwhile, cal scored 28 in the second quarter alone today trouncing presbyterian, 63-12 in the golden bears' debut at at&t park. how about number 23 texas at ucla? early first quarter. third and ten texas. case mccoy finds a wide open d.j. grant. he'll get in for the 45-yard touchdown. 7-0 longhorns. third quarter now 28-13, texas. jackson shipley taking the end around and throwing it. d.j. grant there once again. this time a five-yard touchdown score. texas rolls, 49-20 the final. how about the wac conference opener? nevada at san jose tied at seven. mike ball punching it in for the one-yard score, 14-7. wolfpack fourth quarter now 17-7 nevada. fourth and goal for the spartans. brandon rutly finds a gap and scores on the one-yard run. spartans now trailing by only three. same score san jose state drivi

here's david wrigh wright. >> heard of wikileak?aling classified state department cable by the gigabyte? well hollywood leak fashion itself as same sort of concept for celebrity. miley cyrus cell phone number? tom cruise latest movie script. >> i want to help you get whatever you want. >> private photo of miss huff of dancing with the star and topless photo of rapper pl and dumped on the internet the same day tl for all to see. hacker group posted this ominous notice on you tube. >> we are anonymous. we do not forget. >>reporter: warner brother sent the hack era stop letter. group posted that too. >> if i were celebrity i would be changing my password. >>reporter: most of the celebrity didn't deem to comment on the sdichbility ra rapper posted this on her tumble page. my twitter got hacked by some anti-hollywood extremist she said. they leak out private photo of me while i was under age. real nice guys. >> we'll probably see more from them as everybody wakes up and realizes how pathetic the security is. >>reporter: unlike the state

with more on the jobs speech here's abc's david wright. >> reporter: the president knows solving therepublicans in congress know that toooo which may explain why the two parties can't even agree on a date. >> we are at a moment when we need to take significant action. >> reporter: officially, 13.9 million americans are out of work. but economists say the real number is nearly twice that size. including people in part-time jobs or who have been out of work so long they're not even counted anymore. here in l.a. more than 10,000 people turned out for this job fair. >> i just need a job. >> reporter: organized by the congressional black caucus. >> it shows that people want to work. and they need to work. >> reporter: the unemployment rate in the black community, one of obama's strongest bases, is twice what it is among whites. >> how many of you have been looking for work for more than six months? >> reporter: many of them out of work for months or years. do you have a family to support? >> yes, i do. >> reporter: tough to support them without a job? >> yes, it is. >> reporter: tell me a

abc's david wright reports from reno. >> reporter: it all happened so fast.me to duck. >> we didn't have time to be terrified. it was just so fast. >> reporter: 59 people were hurt badly enough to be sent to the hospital. five are still critical. ten died. the p-51 mustang that crashed was 67 years old and heavily modified. >> we cut ten feet off the wings. >> reporter: the pilot was 74. veteran stuntman jimmy leeward posted this video on youtube in june. >> the systems aren't proven yet. we think they're going to be okay. >> reporter: one possible problem, mechanical failure. in some photos a thin sliver of the tail, crucial for maintaining balance, appears to be missing. another, that the pilot blacked out. federal investigators are also looking at the broader question. how safe was this race to begin with? the pilots of these experimental planes take their lives in their hands. did the spectators know they were doing so too? pilot john parker is the same age as jimmy leeward and every bit as seasoned. >> the jimmy leeward incident was a tragic accident, bu

abc's david wright has details. >> reporter: witnesses say the gunman pulled up at the internationalstarted shooting while he was still in the parking lot. >> all i heard was about a heavy eight seconds of automatic gunfire. just saw people running. i heard another burst go off. and then i was just getting the hell out of there. >> reporter: the gunman, identified as 33-year-old eduardo sencion. among the victims, five members of nevada's air national guard who were having a breakfast meeting. carson city is nevada's capital. the state capitol and supreme court buildings were on lock-down for 40 minutes as a precaution. the police now believe the shooting was an isolated incident at the mini mall. >> right now it appears as though there was one shooter. that shooter has inflicted himself with a gunshot. >> reporter: he apparently fired shots at a barbecue restaurant, an h&r block office, and a casino across the street. as well as a motorcycle rider who just happened to be driving by. at the h&r block a tax class was under way. the teacher and six students huddled together in the bath

for "good morning america," david wright, abc news, hollywood. >>> meanwhile, here's diane sawyer with you, josh. this is for everyone watching, if you want to make more money, wouldn't a better job even in this economy, tonight, the most powerful woman at facebook has real strategy, real solutions for you and it's on "world news," hope you watch. >>> finally, hard to imagine. this is cruel. you get your newspaper. you check your lottery numbers. and they match. and you don't get a red cent. it's what happened to a california woman. her numbers for the $54 million megamillions jackpot -- she matched the numbers, george. they matched. of course, she started to scream. >> what happened? >> and cry. her son thought she was having a -- she -- the paper had run the wrong numbers. >> oh. >> they ran a correction the next day. >> that doesn't help. >> it's gutting. what would you do? what would you do if you found out? >> i couldn't even -- >> exactly. >> 54 million? >> she thought she won it all. >> she did. the numbers matched. for 24 hours, she was a multimillionaire. >> i would call bruce

abc's david wright is in reno. david wright is in reno with the latest on the investigation. david. >> reporter: that plane was traveling as fast as a speeding bullet when it hit the ground r crowd. more than 500 miles an hour. federal investigators are now making progress in their search for answers. as vividly as these images tell the story of what happened. there's another camera angle that may be even more helpful to the investigators. a forward-facing camera mounted on the galloping ghost. the world war ii era p-51 mustang that crashed. investigators say the plane was equipped with a basic flight data system, recording realtime velocity, altitude and engine performance information. >> these could be critical for us to perform analysis that would allow us to championship certain structural or medical issues. >> reporter: one big question. did a piece of the aircraft fall off as the plane rounded the final turn. a sliver of metal, crucial to maintaining balance. on the final photos taken, half of it seems to be missing. indeed, investigators did recover a damaged elevator

abc's david wright is on the scene once again this morning asking the question, is the thrill of thisport worth the risk? david, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, dan. the death toll from this tragedy has now risen to nine. seven killed on the tarmac and two in area hospitals. the federal investigation into why this happened started immediately. three ntsb investigators were actually here on the scene and they actually witnessed the crash. after the shock and pandemonium of the crash, now comes the search for answers. >> of course, you don't think in terms of it's going to happen to you. >> reporter: these are our first real glimpses of the crash site. the p-51 mustang was traveling so fast when it crashed, the fuselage simply shattered. >> there was nothing that showed it was an airplane. it was just a big black mess on the ground. >> reporter: the ntsb investigators say they may not have a flight data recorder but invaluable in this case are the human numerous photos and personal personal video accounts from spectators. >> that will be a huge help to us. >> reporter: i

david wright, abc news, los angeles. >>> does anything really repce the bedside manner, the human kindtor? >> i don't know, rob, do you think a robot could be a co-anchor. >> a little -- >> or perhaps. $20. did you win that? >> i did. just got done breaking into his hotel room and left. >> drinks are on rob. >> always. always. that's the news for this half-hour. more from abc coming up right after the break. ♪ údúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúdúd

here's david wright. >> it all happened so fast.rs barely had time to duck. >> we didn't have time to be terrified. just so fast. >>reporter: 59 people were hurt badly enough to be sen to the hospital. 5 are still critical. 10 died. p 51 mustang that crashed was 67 years old and heavily modified. >> we cut 10 feat off the wing. >>reporter: pilot was 74. veteran stunt man jimmy leeward posted this video on you tube in june. >> the systems aren't proven yet. we think they are going to be okay. >>reporter: one possible problem? mechanical failure. some photo thin sliver of the tail crucial for maintaining balance appears to be missing. another the pilot blacked out. >> there is no pilot head in that cockpit. it tells me that he was likely unconscious slumped over the controls. >>reporter: federal investigators are also looking at the broaderer question. how safe was this the race to begin with? pilot of the experimental plane take their lives in their hands. spectator know they were doing so too pilot john parker the same age as jimmy

abc's david wright is in los angeles and tells us how it all started. >> reporter: good morning, rober in mexico, and it may have been caused by one unfortunate power company ficial. the outage covers all of san diego county, parts of orange county, all the way into yuma, arizona,a,here the problem seems to have started. as you can imagine, major problems resulted. traffic lights are out, so traffic is at a standstill in much of san diego. the trolley system has been knocked offline. san diego international airport is operating on generator power. that means for now outbound flights have been grounded. california's independent system operator, which oversees the power grid, says that the problem started when the high-voltage lines that connect arizona and california, the main source of power for much of southern california, they were knocked offline at about 3:45 thursday afternoon. and we're now told by officials in arizona that one arizona power service employee was doing repairs at the north gila substation northeast of yuma, and that apparently knocked off the power. it should ha

abc's david wright is in the hospital in southern california where he is recovering at this hour. good morning to you, david. >> reporter: good morning, josh. you know, his family never gave up hope. they went through surveillance tapes and routes. they tracked down his cell phone records. they did an incredible job searching for him. and it's a miracle story of survival. a senior citizen, trapped for six days, after crashing his car into a ravine in the dead of night. 200 feet below this twisting, turning road in southern california, a miracle. >> we stopped at every ravine and looked over every hill. and then, my brother got out of the car. and we kept screaming. and the next thing we heard dad say, help, help. and there he was. >> reporter: 67-year-old david lavau, found alive in the wreckage of his crashed car, by his children, who had launched their own search party, refusing to believe their dad was gone. >> my dad would never not call his kids. there's four of us. and by the time, the fourth day and then the sixth day, we knew something was wrong. >> reporter: lavau apparent

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wright, among many others. i'm particularly proud because at other times politics & prose has hosted writers who are moral leaders in israel. more than once david grossman, amos -- [inaudible] have graced our portals. now, jeremy ben-ami has accomplished in his book a powerful case for a new definition of pro-israel advocacy. and i'm just going to quote three sentences. victory means ensuring the long-term security and survival of israel as the democratic home of the jewish people. victory means defining borders for israel, that the world recognize and gives israel enduring legitimacy in the community of nations. and it means helping insure that israel is solidly rooted in the values, ethics and principles of the jewish people. this is a personal book of jeremy's family, deeply involved as pioneers, builders and fighters. i would say risk takers to create israel. it is also a story of jeremy's personal journey not as a young man alienated from politics or participation in jewish activities, but it's still a journey. jeremy came to this call and passion out of his american experience as an activist and one who came to resolve questions about his

just headed to camp david for the labor day weekend just hours after getting the worst monthly employment report in almost a year. this is america's news headquarters, i'm kelly wright. >> great to ceo, kelly, that's not what anyone wanted to hear. i'm jamie colby, and it's great to see you as well. job growth is at a virtual standstill in august. zero new jobs. that's right, zero, zip. that means the unemployment rate stayed at 9.1%. >> now, the jobs number also raising the stakes for president obama as he prepares to address the nation on a plan to revive the economy and stimulate job growth. late yesterday the white house number crunchers warned that current predictions show unemployment will likely stay above 9% right through the end of next year. our ed henry reporting from the white house right now. ed, these numbers are staggering, but let alone the president -- the white house, basically, saying that this dire straits will last for another year and a half at least. >> reporter: that's right, kelly. the prediction pretty grim both from the administration itself and from this new jobs report. as you mentioned, the president just left for camp david. two things

david, a republican. caller: my feeling on that is the that our president barack obama is a muslim and he professes the teachings of his pastor for many years, jeremiah wright, who has kind of become famous of making the statements of g-d america, and i think as a muslim obama is sworn to bring the u.s. -- u.s. -- usa down. host: you are taking us off track about the discussion about candidates face and your vote. looking into election year, how important is it for a candidate to express his or her faith? caller: i would like to hear that. i think it should be brought out, what their faith is. like i said, obama is kind of, well, disingenuous and lying to us because he is a devout muslim. host: thank you for your call. hills there, michigan. jim is on twitter and he sends us of this message. next is a telephone call from chicago. kathleen, democrat. caller: thank you so much. i listened to your statement about does a candidates faith affect my vote. it should. if you listen to some of these -- and not democrats, but if you look at some of these people running for president now, they say god in one breath but their actions do not stand for what god stands fo