. >> i am dick carter. >> i am denise. >> people are talking about tonight. >> those onboard heard a loud boom. they all made it back safely to baltimore but the focus of the baseball sized hole tonight. >> responding to b an inflightier mergence. >> reporter: we obtained video from inside baltimore bound southwest flight 2294. >> this aircraft has 128 souls onboard. >> reporter: after a foot long hole cracked through passengercompartment. >> a roaring noise. you hear a loud bang and then all the oxygen masks dropped. the crew was running up and down the ail. >> reporter: this is the hole from outside. no one on the plane was severely injured. >> we had extreme pressure in that cabin like being deep under the sea, if you will. >> reporter: one third of southwest's fleet uses the same type of plane, boeing 737-700 series. they -- 300 series. they said they inspectedle all of them and found no problem. >> it doesn't appear uh it was the kind of inspection that might detect small cracks, maybe something cat traffic. >> reporter: a lawyer and aviation expert says this appears to be a str

. >> i'm dick carter >> i'm denise koch.are talking about budget cuts. >> state employees and local governments are facing the action. $280 million in cuts must be made. political reporter pat warren is live downtown with more on what's to come. >> reporter: $280

ironically dick nixon a relatively conservative president was willing to do health care. we blew it with carter and kennedy not getting along. we blew it with the clintons not getting along with some people on capitol hill like jim cooper of tennessee. we deep blowing it. the inability to share the responsibility of dealing with health care. will the president going around the country and going on television the next couple weeks change that climate enough to get this thing through? >> look, i absolutely believe that -- i sometimes think we're getting played here a little bit. you know, we've created this drama that he's struggling to get this done, and there's no doubt, this is a tough -- the tough road ahead for members of congress, and they're struggling, and they don't want to vote for this thing, and they're nervous about it. they don't know what it's going to look like a year from now and they're worried about explaining how, guess what, that health care reform bill we passed, you won't feel it for three or four years. they're nervous about this whole thing. but, chris, 15 years ago we ha