. >> could bunton did a new alternative to heathrow? the british government is looking to increase the number of flights to and from the united kingdom. >> with more than half a million people -- takeoffs and landings, and heathrow airport is one of the busiest in the world. plans to build a third was shelled by the government. the mayor of london says ministers are showing increasing interest in plans for a new airport outside london. >> david cameron had been very interested in the idea of a long-term sustainable solution for the aviation needs. the trouble with heathrow is that it is a great airports, but you cannot keep expanding it. it is in the wrong place. >> this is one vision of the future, a new hub close to the capital. this could be one way of dealing with the growing demand. environmental campaigners are likely to challenge the idea, the airport would present the rivers wildlife. ken livingstone is against the plan. he is fighting boris johnson in the upcoming election. other parties of also voiced their concerns. >> it is

the trouble with heathrow is that it is a great airport. but you cannot keep expanding in the wrong place. >> this is one division of the future. a new hub close to the capital. passenger numbers at london's airports are expected to reach 400 million per year by 2015. this is what it to do with the growing demand. environmental campaigners are likely to challenge the idea, saying the airport would threaten the rivers and wildlife. ken livingstone is against the plan. other parties have also voiced their concerns. >> i do not think that the estuary airport is the right idea. >> it is a preposterous idea, particularly coming from the government which still has aspirations to be the greenest government ever appeared >> the government's consultation on aviation is due to be launched in march. the 10's as jury plan is likely to be just one option on -- the thames estuary plan is likely to be just one option on the table. >> this is newsday on the bbc in singapore. >> in london, the headlines this hour pared the search on the c osta concord has b

. >> at heathrow this morning, the relief of the rescued. rose metcalf, a dancer on the ship, feared she may never see her mother again. >> when i saw the wall was horizontal, that was the end. i am here now. >> we are very lucky to be home. >> derek and viv should have been in barcelona tonight. they are happy to be back in tewksbury. they were having dinner when they felt the impact. >> a barrel on to the table. there were chairs, and noise, liquid over the floor, very panicky attendance. >> the couple, who are grandparents, say the evacuation of the ship was chaotic. they say there was little discipline and no sense of order as passengers and crew fought to get a place in the lifeboats. >> there was selfishness. there was not a lot of thinking about disabled people and children. >> everyone was trying to get to the nearest lifeboat for themselves. >> but at heathrow, james thomas is united with his mother. fearing the worst, he phoned her to say goodbye. >> i could not be happier to be home. >> but the british survivors say their thoughts

. >> at heathrow this morning, the release of the rescued. rose metcalf, a dancer on the ship, feared she may never see her mother again. >> the wall had gone horizontal. i thought it was the end. [laughter] but i am here now. >> we are lucky to be home. >> eric and viv should have been in barcelona tonight. instead, they are happy to be back in tewksbury. they felt the impact. >> crash. shares, people, glasses, noise. >> all over the floor. >> very panicky. >> the waiters were in shock. >> the couple are grandparents and retired teachers. they say the evacuation of the ship was chaotic. there was little discipline and no sense of order as passengers and crew fought to get a place in the lifeboats. >> there was a lot of selfishness, a lot of not thinking about the safety of people and children. -- disabled people and children. >> people in realtors were ignored. everyone was trying to get to the nearest exit for themselves. >> back at heathrow, james thomas is reunited with his mother. friday night, fearing the worst, he phoned her to say goo

flying on delta, for example, from atlanta to london heathrow will cost you a total of $899. the ticket price is $308, but the taxes and fees are $591. fly chicago to dallas on american, $360, taxes and fees make up $21. >> this isn't going to stop people from traveling. it's just going to make it more clear how much they are paying to do that. >> reporter: travelers seem to like the idea. >> this way you know exactly what you're getting when you're buying it. you're not surprised when you're pushing the button. >> at least i won't feel like i'm being fooled. this way i'll see what it is, it's what i get. >> reporter: airlines must compensate customers who are bumped, notify passengers of delays or cancellations and give customers 24 hours to cancel a reservation without penalty. >> it's about respecting passengers. >> reporter: respect in the air and on the ground. tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> when we come back, a possible explanation for why pat and vanna seemed so jazzed about the alphabet. >>> game show fans are reacting in mock horror after we all learned this

and tonight we were moved by this photo from london's heathrow airport, a young woman, a passenger, reunited now home with her mother. the nightmare behind her, and in the wake of this disaster, there are new questions about the safety of these cruise ships. more than 11 million americans go on a cruise every year, and in the case of the "concordia," there is growing focus tonight on the safety drill that never happened and what the crew failed to do. abc's lisa stark tonight with that part of the story. >> reporter: the first mistake by the captain and crew was repeatedly telling passengers not to worry, that the ship had a minor electrical problem. in fact, the ship had suffered a horrific gash, something the captain later admitted. a former cruise industry safety executive tells abc news captains are trained to tell passengers the truth so they can prepare and are less likely to panic. that did not happen. as for reports that navigational gear was knocked out because of a power outage, that too shouldn't have been a problem. >> cruise ships have a redundancy of backup systems. they don't

passengers on board british airways flight 206 were actually half way from miami to london's heathrownounced over the overhead not once but twice that their plane could be about to crash. that taped message, played by accident, prompting screams in the cabin as the message repeated. one passenger is quoted as saying it was about 3:00 a.m., an alarm sounded, and we were told we were about to land in the sea. i thought we were going to die. my wife was crying. and passengers were screaming. then they played an announcement telling us to just ignore the warnings, end quote. another passenger said, quote, when we landed, they were handing out letters apologizing, but it was the worst experience of my life. i don't think b.a. should get away with this. and that was an end quote. and most likely an apology isn't going to cut it, a b.a. spokesperson has released a statement and i'm quoteo he quoting, the cabin crew canceled the announcement immediately and thought to reassure customers that the flight was operating normally. we apologize to customers for causing them undue concern. i should

after losing to ole miss 31-30 went on to win the national championship and yesterday not only did heathrow also averaged 31.6 yards per pass. spooky! according to television ratings reports 31.6 percent of homes were tuned in to see tebow's touchdown. but the numbers may not be so kind when the broncos head to new england, tom brady and the patriots are looking tough and

this was happening out of london's heathrow airport. fortunately, the plane did land safely.g to figure out what caused both pilots to become light headed at the same time. >> all right. it stood for 60 years and it was gone in seconds. >> the 20 story texas medical center demolished by more than 1,200 splo 1,200 explosives. they were put there on purpose. they had cracks in their foundation and were too expensive to repair. new cancer center is being built in its place. >> a nightmare comes true for an australian woman bungee jumping in zimbabwe, the rope snapped in mid air. >> she says instincts immediately took over. she put the arms over her head breaking her fall into the water. >> straight away and i felt like i had been slapped all over and i had to come down and yank the bungee cord out of what it was caught on to. >> amazingly, she was able to free her legs as she was carried downstream. she swam for some rocks and waited for rescue crews. she suffered a broken collarbone and massive bruising and she's going to be just fine. you can see her injuries on her arms in wh

isaac, an endangered african cheetah, was seized at heathrow airport because he was missing an identityfight illegal animal trade. isaac was enroute to russia from a south african safari park. it's unclear whether the missing microchip was in error or if there were other reasons for that. >> when we come right back on news 4, for a new side of casey anthony emerges after a judge unseals her mental health records. >>> for all your news be sure to follow news 4 online. just search nbc washington on facebook and twitter. >>> newly released court documents are giving us insight into the mind of casey anthony. the florida mother was cleared of charges that she killed her 2-year-old daughter caylee last july. >> we the jury find the defendant not guilty. >> reporter: seven months after the not guilty verdict stunning new details about what casey anthony told mental health experts before the trial. a judge in orlando has unsealed the depositions of psychiatrist jeffrey danziger and psychologist william white, two medical professionals who evaluated anthony. according to whites she talked about

law-enforcement agencies of canada and mexico and portugal and from the scotland yard that caught him, yet heathrow where he was boarding a plane trying to get through the show where he wanted to become a mercenary soldier. this book is largely based out to be vincent hughes collection. there is a cop in that they insist and infused with a dispatcher and to do that night. this event touched his life in a profound way and changed him forever and decided to go to his entire retirement to collect t-man digitizing all the documents he could get on the kingston nasa station. some 20,000 documents and counting. i found out by accident thursday curator in memphis and that there's this guy named vince you might want to talk to them he's pretty cool. some gaming fans, that sounds -- that's not to have been. put that in my back pocket. the midst of the trips to memphis and then they found out that ends with this amazing guy, if i learned gentleman who had been assembling office staff. annie's not produce or see her and taken years the. he's pretty much right down the middle. his idea is to create the definit

says if dubai continues the grow that way, it will be the world's number two airport, behind london heathrowat is why it is call ed the middle east. and apple crushing earnings bringing in $7 billion more than anyone expected. it is hard to explain the scope of beating estimates by that magnitude. that is pretty incredible. apple's first order of 2012, the best in the history of the company said it sold a record 37 million iphones and 15 million ipads and that is the first quarter that the company has operated without steve jobs. it has been 172 since america lost the top credit rating, and what are we doing to get it back? well, the international monetary fund is warning that if the european monetary situation is worse, it will affect the u.s., and they kept the forecast for the u.s. at 1.8% growth. that is not great, but it is not a negative number, and the difference of a 1.8 and negative number in terms of jobs is hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands. >>> we are getting a preview of president obama's state of the union address. the president will be calling for an economy in a

this british passenger, a dancer on the ship arriving at heathrow airport today. >> when you're considering whether you're going to survive, you're worrying not... other people are worrying about you. >> reporter: on land extraordinary developments. the cruise line bosses blaming their own captain for the wreck without waiting for any investigation. >> we believe it has been a human error here. the captain did not follow the authorized route which is used by costa ships very frequently. >> reporter: yet navigation decisions are never taken alone. the bridge is a joint operation. this ship, this company, maybe a very public tradition of steering close to this reef. june 2011, fog horns blaring, super structure lit, here she is close to the rocks. passengers in sight loved it. local fishermen publicly complained even then she was coming too close, far too close. shipping sources told channel 4 news it tacitly is accepted that few giant cruise ships with meet the legal safety requirements to abandon ship within 30 minutes. passenger video emerged today inside a life boat. they discuss what's j

challenged under competition rules what assurances can the premise to give at the landing slots at heathrow and other regional airports will be protected if this is allowed to go ahead of? >> the honorable gentleman makes an important point so i'm sure it's important his constituents as well. i will look into this issue about landing slots. i know how important this issue is a regional airports and i will get back to him. >> can ask the prime minister why he wants in a just hospitals to hand over over half of the beds to private patient's? [shouting] >> that is not what the reforms do at all. [shouting] what the reforms do is ensure that you can have some private sector and voluntary sector activity going on within the nhs. and before, before -- why doesn't he dashed across the leading opposition should quiet down for a second and listen to what his own health secretary said. is health secretary said this. the private sector puts its capacity into the nhs for the benefit of nhs patients, which having most people in this country would celebrate. again, that is what he said in government, but

[laughter] and so i knew about heathrow and travel and jet lag and all of that is a little boy. with rock 'n roll i was able to travel and when you travel with music you often see kind of the tougher part of the city. you see the part of the city where the lucky make noise and throw beer cans. not only in america but all over the world i got to see kind of the tougher part of the town and see kind of how people live when they are not all that well looked after and that made me want to know more. i would meet people, what are you doing? i'm in a band. you get to talk. rock 'n roll is all cool and you are everyone's friend if you are in a band. i would hear a lot of stories all over the world and i would say to myself, i am well-traveled but i've never been to africa and one day i'm going to change that. i was raised on "national geographic" magazine. my mother had a subscription since i was a little boy. seeing the pyramids, one day i'm going to see that. one year ahead money finally. i'd save some money and i said i'm going to now bring africa into my travel and i would go to af

challenged under competition rules what assurances can the premise to give at the landing slots at heathrow and other regional airports will be protected if this is allowed to go ahead of? >> the honorable gentleman makes an important point so i'm sure it's important his constituents as well. i will look into this issue about landing slots. i know how important this issue is a regional airports and i will get back to him. >> can ask the prime minister why he wants in a just hospitals to hand over over half of the beds to private patient's? [shouting] >> that is not what the reforms do at all. [shouting] what the reforms do is ensure that you can have some private sector and voluntary sector activity going on within the nhs. and before, before -- why doesn't he dashed across the leading opposition should quiet down for a second and listen to what his own health secretary said. is health secretary said this. the private sector puts its capacity into the nhs for the benefit of nhs patients, which having most people in this country would celebrate. again, that is what he said in government, but

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. >>> and from london, the guardian headlines, british airways jet makes emergency landing at heathrow the stories said both pilots nearly passed out in flight and had to put on oxygen masks before landing the plane. frank mallicoat ... >>> good morning, everybody. it it is 7:26. get you caught up on some of the bay area headlines. san jose firefighters keeping a waufful eye at the scene of an overnight fire at a senior center. five people sent to the hospital. 16 in all were displaced. the cause remains under investigation. >>> extra patrols in marin county after two dozen fires were set in novato since saturday night. three last night, and there are no injuries and no suspect description. >>> new san francisco sheriff ross mirkarimi attends a law enforcement leadership event today at usf this morning. it is his first major appearance since being sworn in over the weekend and since he was accused of domestic violence as well. >>> traffic, weather, coming up, right after this. >>> good morning, we will start you off with a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza, where the metering ligh

british airways jet makes an emergency landing at heathrow.h pilots nearly passed out in flight. they had to put on oxygen masks before landing the plane. >>> the detroit press reports on beyonce and jay-z's daughter. it's a huge twitter copy. their twitter friends have been tweeting. a cloudy sky. sharon has traffic after the weather. >>> we have a pretty cloudy day today, with rain moving in to the region. rain for the remainder of the evening in time for your drive home. mostly cloudy, with a little rain in the evening. we send it over to sharon gibala with traffic control. >>> good morning. a little busier. bel air, blocking the intersection. thomas run road, an accident on the outer loop. on the shoulder, a car hit a discarded christmas tree. watch for an accident, inner loop beltway 295, delays on the bellway. 40 40 miles per hour on the topside. brought by bills carpet fair. bills has it all for you. >>> here is the howard county school advisory. bowman is closed, because it has no heat. in the news, more traffic cameras could be going