kris van cleave reports. >> reporter: you're seeing this house fire the way firefighters did thanks to a helmet camera. whiton, maryland, rescue squad here called the device invaluable. >> i think it makes anybody that wears them a better firefight. >> reporter: this is have had forty-two st. john's helmet of a fire days before christmas. that is russell's call for help after he fell through the floor. >> i looked down and i saw this glow of orange, the fire below me and my initial thought was, one, i'm in big trouble, two, i was convinced i was going to the burn center. >> reporter: with a house full of smoke you can see how hard it was to spot him. but the christmas lights on russell's decorated helmet pierced the darkness. video of his rescue is now a teaching tool. >> every time i watch it, i can think about the time line, what i could have done differently to be able to help him find me even faster than he did. >> reporter: the cameras are becoming increasely popular and more than 300,000 clips have been posted to youtube but many fire departments have concerns about privacy and l

kris van cleave, cbs news. >>> what's moving in tonight is the onnor floor. the marine layer is back and -- the onshore flow. the marine layer is back and we can say heatwave. some great video to show you from earlier this evening of cloud cover rolling in, the west to east flow that will bring temperatures back to normal as soon as tomorrow. give you an update on el nino. today was an important day. we crossed the threshold and gone from a strong el nino to a very strong el nino. that's the first time it's happened since february of 1998, not going to rain soon. oak ladd tonight ticket, fremont 59, live -- oakland tonight 60, fremont 59. we still have too very large strong ridges of high pressure. the key is is that they're moving in location. the ridge that's closest will be to our south tomorrow. clockwise flow around it will bring back the onshore flow. simply by moving the ridge we're able to get a different wind direction and much different weather. that guy will team up with there guy up here low pressure to our north counter clockwise flow enhancing t

kris van cleave has the picture. >> reporter: the panel door fell off.ded on the seventh green of a golf course. the airline said the door is about 15 x 16 inches and weighs a few pounds. it came off a plane leak this one carrying 156 passengers. it konks a hydraulic air yachl it says it would not cause a flight safety issue but it comes as the ntsb is launching an investigation in a close call of another one landing on saturday. they encounter wind shear as seen in a youtube video. is's an abrupt change in direction that can make the final approach treacherous. the plane took out landing lights and came in contact with the runway. the pilots landed safely on their second attempt but the plane suffered significant damage according to the ntsb. one passenger tweeted just had the worst failed landing. they'll look at the black boxes to see if anything could have been done different lunn o this flight. they have investigating 15 wind shears since 1985. two were fatal. kris van cleave, cbs news, reagan international airport, virginia. >>> even bears can enjo

here's kris van cleave. >> reporter: the 90-minute flight from chicago's o'hare airport to knoxville, tennessee, was the worst-performing route last year, not surprising to traveler larsen jay. >> we take this flight a lot. we're always delayed and we're always behind. it's a crapshoot. >> reporter: the flight is a recipe for headaches. the route flies from an airline hub prone to delays. last year 15 of 20 of the least on-time routes came to or from o'hare. it typically uses smaller regional jets, the case for 17 of the 20 worst-performing routes. those regional planes often make several stops a day. josh marks of mass flight says there's a reason for all the delays on short-haul regional routs. >> that's because those regional aircraft are smaller planes. there are fewer number of people that the airlines have to reaccommodate. >> reporter: inside united airline's network operation center in chicago, everyone from maintenance to meteorology is working to keep 5,000 daily flights operating as on-time as possible. >> our key hubs are great. >> reporter: jim deyoung says. the airline t

kris van cleave cbs news, reagan national airport, virginia. >> so here's the advice. if you are connecting check the airport you're going through that's prone to delays. try another route. >> sometimes going to another airport might take a little more time but it might get you there in time in the long run. >>> let's check those skies now with roberta see how we're doing on a thursday. >> i just love my weather watcher because these are people in and around our microclimates it could even be you, that can see things that i can't see so they check in, they give me observations, temperatures, wind speeds, cloud cover, and let's see who is checking in. oh, boy. we got a lot of love out there today. let's take a look at a few of these numbers right now. we have bill in orinda. 77 degrees. 80 sonoma according to willie. robert in redwood city mid-70s. and in pacifica, lindsay says hey, we're having a hard time getting rid of the fog today at 63 degrees. check this out. in addition to the cloud cover that's out there along the coast and the partly cloudy conditions inland,

transportation correspondent kris van cleave has nasa's wake- up call. >> reporter: the 2012 report ofpt secret until now found 61% t air traffic controllers admitted to catching themselves about to doze off on the job. nearly one in five told nasa researchers they'd experienced what amounts to a close call while directing air traffic within the previous 12 months. more than half felt their fatigue was a factor. the report followed a 2006 eocident in lexington, kentucky, where 49 people died when a m mair commuter plane crashed after taking off from the wrong runway. the national transportation fic ty board considered air traffic controller fatigue as a factor. then n.t.s.b. chairman mark rosenker, a cbs aviation analyst, sent a letter to the f.a.a. in 2007 asking them to look at the issue. >> i'm curious to know why the f.a.a., after getting a good study by nasa, which offered 17 recommendations to help prevent the fatigue issues they're being plagued with right now, why that ow m't been made public and why they had not told us how many of these 17 recommendations they implemented. >> r

kris van cleave reports. >> reporter: the 2012 report kept secret until now, found 61% of air trafficllers admitted to catching themselves about to doze off on the job. nearly 1 in 5 told nasa researchers they had experienced what amounts to a close call while directing air traffic within the previous 12 months. more than half felt their fatigue was a factor. the report followed a 2006 accident in lexington, kentucky, where 49 people died when a com air commuter plane crashed after taking off from the wrong runway. the national transportation safety board considered air traffic controller fatigue as a factor. then ntsb chair mark rosenker and nbc news af aviator sent a letter to the faa in 2007 asking them to look at the issue. >> i'm curious to know why the faa, after getting a good study by nasa, which offered 17 recommendations to help prevent the fatigue issues that they are being plagued with right now, why that hadn't been made public and why they have not told us how many of these 17 recommendations they implemented. >> reporter: this memo dated last year said the faa did not a

kris van cleave takes a look. >> reporter: a clear show of force on the new york subway monday. this heavily armed nypd hercules team swept through grand central station as other officer conducted random bag checks. >> i have never had that happen, only at the airport. >> reporter: andrew neilson had his luggage searched. >> i think safety is important. i don't mind sacrificing time for safety. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: the department of homeland security would not comment on security efforts following friday's thwarted attack in france, but it consists of undercover units and visible uniformed police, including this tsa k-9 unit at chicago's union station today, but rail travelers almost never go through screenings at like airports. >> unfortunately in america, we're a big soft target in many, many respects. >> reporter: ron hosko is a former assistant director foiive. he says post-9/11 the focus was on large-scale rail attacks like those in madrid in 2004 and london in 2005. but the rise of lone wolf isis attacks has security teams reassessing. >> there's likely to

here's kris van cleave. >> reporter: after 515 days of searching, today's confirmation of the debris was the first concrete clue about the fate of flight 370. it's believed the flaperon drifted some 2300 miles from the boeing 777's most likely crash site in the indian ocean. the flaperon was flown to france where investigators will study the barnacles and damage for more clues. french prosecutors are also exwhming a suitcase found on reunion. former chair of the national transportation safety, mark rosenker. what types of things you can learn from just this one pieces of an airplane? >> we could end up looking at hothis aircraft may have gone into the ocean, whether it spiraled in, whether it came in as a soft landing, lots of answers in this piece, but we have to spend more time with it so that we can unlock those answers. >> reporter: french prosecutors would only say there were strong indications the piece came from mh370. scott, in a statement, boeing also stopped short of confirming the flaperon was part of the missing 777 saying a technical team is assisting in the analysis. >>

kris van cleave asked the head of the f.a.a. what's being done. >> reporter: so far this year, pilots have reported drones flying near their aircraft at least 650 times, nearly triple all of 2014. in june alone, there were 138 reports, up from 16 last year. this as demand for hobbyist drones weigh anywhere from between two pounds and more than 50 has soared. f.a.a. administrator michael huerta. how concerned about you are the number of drones up in the air right now? >> the the very, very small ones we feel represent much lesof a hazard. we're much more concerned about the higher performance, unmanned aircraft, those interacting in the airspace with commercial aircraft, with private pilots. >> reporter: huerta believes some recreational drone users don't know the rules. and he calls the recent california wildfires a game changer. there have been more than a dozen cases of drones disrupting firefighting efforts. >> if you are flying an unmanned aircraft in a way that is unsafe, we will find you and we will hit you where it hurts.

and here's kris van cleave. >> reporter: you're seeing this house fire the way firefighters did thanks to a helmet camera. wheaton maryland rescue squad fire captains adam st. john and brett russell call the device invaluable. >> i think it makes anyone that wears one a better firefighter. >> reporter: this is video of st. john's helmet of a house fire just days before christmas. that's russell's call for help after he fell through the floor. >> i looked down and i saw this glow of orange, the fire below me. my initial thought was, one, i'm in big trouble, and, two, i was convinced i was going to the burn center. >> reporter: with the house full of smoke, you can see how hard it was to spot him. but the christmas lights on russell's decorated helmet pierced the darkness. the video of his rescue is now a teaching tool. >> every time i watch it, i can think about the time line, what i could have done differently to be able to help him find me even faster than he did. >> reporter: the cameras are becoming increasingly popular. more than 300,000 clips have been posted to youtube, but many

kris van cleave is near racingal national airport outside washington with the outrage over the outage. kris, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the federal safety administration is focusing on the cause of this computer meltdown. it's fairly new and is designed to help air traffic controllers control more airplanes at the same time. this weekend it did the exact opposite. it was supposed to provide them with additional tools to help track flights above 20,000 feet. instead it might have brought east coast traffvel to a halt saturday. it prompted long lines and frustrated flyers. >> freakin' terrible. >> reporter: delays started building saturday morning. a few hours later the skies over washington, d.c., and much of the mid-atlantic were virtually empty. the faa calls the program that failed foundational next to the nextgen air traffic control system. installed last year eram doubles the high altitudes controllers can track. they say there's no indication there's problems with the inherent system but former national safety board chair mark rosenker isn't sure. >> when it went do

. >> but as kris van cleave reports, this is causing concern concerns. >> reporter: you're seeing thisouse fire the way firefighters did, thanks to a helmet camera. [ indistinct yelling ] >> reporter: fire squad captain adam st. john and brandt russell call the device invaluable. >> i think it makes you a better firefighter >> reporter: this is video from a helmet just days before christmas. that's russell's call for help after he fell through the floor. >> i looked down and i saw this glow of orange and the fire below me and my initial thought was one, i'm in big trouble and two, i was convinced i was going to the burn center. >> reporter: with the house full of smoke you could see how hard it was to spot him. . but the christmas lights onerous he will's decorated helmet pierced the darkness, the voefd his rescue now a teaching tool. >> every time i watch it, i can think of the timeline, what i could've done differently to be able to help him find me even faster than he did. >> reporter: the cameras are becoming increasingly popular, more than 300,000 clips have been posted to youtube

kris van cleave reports from hopewell, virginia. >> reporter: rolling down this 2-mile stretch down 295ll, virginia, you'll see why it's doubled the million dollar mile. for years hopew has used this sliver -- hopewell has used this sliver of highway ringing up more than 1 million bucks a year by writing more than 1,000 bucks a month. outraged driver turn to youtube to warn others about hopewell's notorious speed traps. >> there we go. we got one, two. >> it is nothing more than entrapment. >> reporter: waldo, florida, is just 2 square miles and highway 301 runs right through the village, but the highway speed limit changed six times allowing po liceto write thousands of tickets a year. aaa even put up a billboard warning drivers. speed traps prompted seven states including florida and oklahoma to impose limits on the percentage of revenue a municipality can keep from traffic citations. in hopewell the mayor, sheriff and town manager declined our requests for interview, so we went to city hall looking for answers. charles dane is assistant city manager. >> we don't ticket until over 10

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. >> jeff pegues and kris van cleave are in virginia for us including the off air lives of alison parker and adam ward. that's ahead on the "cbs evening news." >>> some brooklyn residents say their street is filled with hornets and they are having a hard time getting the city to help them get rid of them. cbs 2's vanessa murdoch explains. >> reporter: the homeowner and tenant have made at least 30 calls to the city as to have the hornets recalls to the city to -- have made at least 30 calls to the city to have the hornets removed. >> how many phone calls? >> many. >> reporter: mary jane, a residents of dyker heights says hornets occupying two nests in the city's tree right outside her front door are dangerous. >> this particular wasp nest is the wasp nest of a bald faced hornet. >> reporter: a person from the american museum of natural history says about 700 are inside each one. >> they are high up and so they are probably not going to bother anybody. >> reporter: however, they do sting and can repeatedly. a scary thought for those who >> it's wrong. get hurt. >> reporter: cbs 2 news rea

kris van cleave has that part of the story. >> it was yesterday around this time that he went live to alison parker and photojournalist adam ward. they were out in the field. the story was like so many others that they did all the time. >> reporter: a moment of silence marking the void left by anchor kimberly mcbroom was on the air when parker and ward murdered. how powerful was that moment of silence? >> it was powerful to me. we've relied on each other, all of us have. we've held hands. we've hugged. i mean, we're family. we are a family. >> reporter: the tragedy has moved many to pay their respects at a growing memorial in front of the station. adam ward's fiance, melissa ott, posted a touching tribute on facebook. >> your life changes. but in their memory, you want it to change in a way that something positive comes out of it, and that's all you can hope for. >> reporter: parker's parents, barbara and andy, say they will now advocate for stronger gun laws. >> i'm going to do whatever it takes and i'm going to be relentless about it. get change. >> reporter: vicki gardner survived

here's kris van cleave. >> reporter: this n.t.s.b. animation shows the speeding walmart semi did not begin braking until it was just 200 feet from the limo van carrying comedian tracy morgan. truck driver kevin roper had driven more than 800 miles overnight from his georgia home to work. he had been up for more than 28 hours and was approaching his max duty time of 14 hours on the job. dennis collins is an n.t.s.b. accident investigator. >> this crash demonstrates the potential consequences of even one poor decision regarding fatigue. >> reporter: roper had worked for walmart for just 15 weeks but his driving had already generated nine automated warnings from the truck's onaboard computer. he's now facing criminal charges. the n.t.s.b. has now renewed its call for mandated fatigue monitoring and management programs. this follows efforts by congress and the trucking industry to roll back strict rest rules for truck drivers. bill graves runs the american trucking association. >> it's difficult to monitor the behavior of people in their o

we asked kris van cleave to tell us more about them. >> i just can't believe that she's gone. i can't. >> reporter: chris hurst was supposed to be anchoring the news tonight. instead he's mourning the loss of his colleague and girlfriend. >> alson was a marvelous storyteller with so much promise ahead of her. >> hurst and parker had been dating for nine months. he said they planned to get married. >> alson was the brightest light i have ever met. she was the funniest, kindest, most beautiful woman that i ever met, and she just happened to love me back. >> reporter: you lost the love of your life today. >> yeah, yeah, without a doubt. >> i'm alison parker. >> reporter: parker had just celebrated her 24th birthday. a virginia native she attended james madison university. he loved being on the water and playing with the family dog. >> in salem, adam ward, news 7 sports. >> reporter: 27-year-old adam ward had worked at the station since graduating from virginia tech in 2011. he'd also found love at work. he was engaged to morning prosecutor melissa ott. she was in the control room

here's kris van cleave. >> reporter: the panel door in this picture fell off a us airways flight as it was approaching charlotte, north noh carolina's airport this morning. brian francis watched as it landed on the seventh green of a golf course. the airline says the door is about 15 by 16 inches and weighs a few pounds. it came off an airbus a-321 like this one carrying 146 passengers. the door covers a hydraulic servicing area. the airline in a statement says, "it would not cause a flight safety issue. but the incident comes as the national transportation safety board announced it's launching an investigation into a close call involving another us airways a-321 landing at charlotte's airported is. the pilots encountered wind sheer, as seen in this youtube video, that can make final approach treacherous. the plane took out landing light and it appears also came in contact with the runway. the pilots landed safely on their second attempt but the plane suffered significant damage, according to the n.t.s.b. one passenger tweeted after, "just had the worst failed landing. the n.f.s.b. has

kris van cleave, cbs news, wheaton, maryland. >> rose: no one has claimed responsibility for a powerful bomb blast today at a religious shrine in bangkok, thailand. at least 18 people were killed, more than 100 wounded. voice of america reporter steve herman was among first on the scene. [explosion] >> reporter: the blast went off in the heart of a popular dinner hours. the surveillance video from the moment of the explosion shows people being knocked to the ground and others scrambling for safety. we arrived shortly after the grisly scene. bodies littered the pavement of a hindu shrine, many shredded from the force of a blast. rescue workers scrambled to help the wounded. motorcycles were scorched and relegated to clumps of twisted metal. one bystander was shaken by what he had witnessed. >> i saw more than five dead bodies inside the shrine, and i'm... i saw the body all around the place. >> reporter: the damage appeared to be the result of a single pipe bomb wrapped in cloth and placed at the base of the historic shrine, a landmark popular with tourist and buddhist thai worshippers.