. >>> a local navy veteran and another man are called heroes tonight after a rescue.elderly man fell off the platform and on to the track just as a train was coming into the station. that's when they sprang into action. they pulled him back up on the platform safely just as the train was barreling in. he tells us he didn't trice before trying to save that man -- twice before trying to save that man. >> it was just an instant. if this guy is not off the tracks, he was going to get hit and possibly killed. so sort of we just did it. there was no thought other than just to get him off the tracks as soon as possible. >> now, he did want us to mention that the other guy who helped out this afternoon deserves half the credit for that heroic rescue. >> when we travel abroad on official trips, we are representing the people of this country and we should do so by conducting ourselves in an appropriate manner. >> yes, it sounds great. but in light of that expanding scandal, the secret service has decided expectations are just not enough. and now they have imposed new rules to g

navy official. the jet went down about 12:05 local time, just about an hour ago just off the base in virginia beach. both pilots ejected safely and are on the ground, says the navy official. we don't have additional details about injuries or problems with their condition. the jet was assigned to the 106th fighter squadron, a fleet replacement squadron that train for fleet missions. this was likely a training mission but that is not been confirmed. what we know is it's an f-18 d. we're looking for eyewitnesses which we are going to be reporting on this very shortly. luke, you know that area as well and the tidewater. >> it's such a scary thing because you know, living in washington, d.c., we often see military aircraft flying over the potomac river. often see it from my perch on capitol hill. you can see those jets flying off into the virginia sunset, all sorts of helicopters and such. you always like to think they're there to keep you safe. it looks like in this case, they may have injured somebody or brought a fatality forward. it's something you don't wake up in the morning and think about that on

local boaters are helping navy officials search for the missing crew member.lisions expected in yacht mishaps that killed three. >>> a post baseball game celebration turns deadly after a powerful storm pounded st. louis. 200 people were inside a party tent. massive winds picked up the tent and threw it up against an adjacent railroad bridge. witnesses say the storm came out of nowhere. >>> the republican fight for the presidential nomination will soon be down to two men. fox news confirmed newt gingrich will officially drop out of the case in coming days. >> reporter: it is shaping up to be a two man fight as fox news confirms newt gingrich will leave the race for the gop nomination on wednesday. >> i think obviously i would be a better candidate. but the objective fact is the voters didn't think that. >> reporter: ron paul hasn't won any primaries. according to a tally by the associated press former massachusetts governor mitt romney is hearing that president obama said he won to done the same thing for osama bin laden. not sitting well with romney advisers.

as the navy investigates exactly what happened to the jets, local residents are still marveling at the fact that no one was killed. here's nbc's tom trang. >> reporter: the navy says a catastrophic mechanical failure left the plane crashing into an apartment complex. >> the ejection was just a couple seconds before the impact. >> reporter: the navy is not identifying the two pilots and won't say if error on their parts caused the crash. >> we will not rush to judgment, we will get everything down, we'll examine it carefully. >> reporter: a before and after view shows how the fiery wreck destroyed three buildings and damaged 50 units. the two pilots and only four people from the crash zone suffered minor injury, while some lost everything, many say it's a miracle no one was killed. >> if you want to define a miracle, what happened here yesterday meets that definition for me. >> reporter: larry craig says strangers mull pumed his 87-year-old mother to safety as her apartment went up to flames. >> she told me she would have ran back in and got her purse. >> reporter: for sam, the f-18 hit

local boaters are helping navy officials search for the missing crew member. >>> it's been almost a year since the death of osama bin laden, but the terror threat remains, why counter terror groups are on high alert this week. >> and it's a night of hope in d.c., joel osteen kicks off 2000 at nats park and gives us an opinion on a mormon presidential candidate. >> and later a d.c. hotel hosts the hottest celebrities in the country, but which one misbehaved at the white house correspondents dinner? stay with us. we're back after this. [ banker ] mike and brenda found a house that they really wanted. it was in my sister's neighborhood. i told you it was perfect for you guys. literally across the street from her sister. [ banker ] but someone else bought it before they could get their offer together. we really missed a great opportunity -- dodged a bullet there. [ banker ] so we talked to them about the wells fargo priority buyer preapproval. it lets people know that you are a serious buyer because you've been credit-approved. we got everything in order so that we can move on the next place

daily, this is a very heavily populated area with military families and even local officials here say they train with the navy in case something like this happens. so they are very used to hearing the jets overhead but a lot of witnesses we spoke to yesterday and throughout the night say they just knew something was wrong with this jet by the sound overhead, and one witness says that they also noticed that fuel was hemorrhaging from this jet overhead, something navy officials also admit to and of course, randi, the investigation is ongoing. >> sandra endo, thank you very much. >>> coming up, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a flying car. this is for real. no joke. i'll tell you where you can pick up the car of the future. plus reynolds standing by with the weekend forecast. good morning again. >> good morning. if you're in a flying car you might have delays in dallas and oklahoma, chance of scattered showers, thunderstorm, possible tornadoes coming up. we'll give you the forecast. and let you know what to expect for the holiday weekend. all moments away. of a role in my own life, but with advair, i'm breathing

dozen people are waking up in a shelter after this fiery crash of a navy fighter jet into apartment buildings in virginia beach. localities say residents who were missing after the crash have now been accounted for. navy officials say the plane experienced a catastrophic malfunction. the incident is under investigation. >>> jobs are likely to be a defining issue in the race for president. this week's jobs report didn't have a lot of good news for president obama. jobs atted 120,000 jobs. not as much as expected. >>> president obama tried to put the best spin on the numbers that he could. >> our economy's created more than 4 million private sector jobs in the past six years, more than 600,000 in the past three months alone, but it's clear to every american there will still be ups and downs along the way than we've got a lot more wok to do. >> joining me now to talk about the race for president is robert zimmerman. good morning to you. >> good morning. good to be with you. >> you as well. so let's talk about this. i mean new jobs are being created, but are the job numbers moving fast enough and in a positive direction

overhead daily, this is a very heavily populated area with military families and local officials here say they train with the navy in case something like this happens. so they are very used to hearing the jets overhead but a lot of witnesses we spoke to yesterday and throughout the night say they knew something was wrong with this jet, by the sound overhead and one witness says that they also noticed that fuel was hemorrhaging from this jet overhead, something navy officials also admit to and of course, randi, the investigation is ongoing. >> sandra endo for us there, in virginia beach, sandra, thank you very much. >>> a witness in the trayvon are martin case is offering up in details on the night george zimmerman shot and killed the florida teen. listen but know we altered the witness' voice to preserve anonymity. >> there was two, as i say, yelled for help. the first was a clear loud yell for help, but really the second one that really always will stay with me. it was kind of almost like a yelp, like a devastating desperate type of yell for help, even to a sense it could be a cry. the lead investigator said to

. >> reporter: the navy's housing crisis came to a boil in december when a local tv reporter contactedne wife shelley federico started looking into the allegations. >> after shelley's story spread through the neighborhood, other navy families started coming forward, telling news channel 3 their stories. >> reporter: the floodgates opened. navy and marine wives who had never met before came out by the dozens. at an emergency town hall meeting, u.s. senator mark warner, who himself has a daughter with asthma, listened in disbelief. >> it's been 20 years in business. this is not a way to run a business. >> what struck me was here were these navy spouses with their husbands deployed defending our country. and they were living in substandard housing. i mean, this is not how we should be treating the families of the guys who are defending our country. >> reporter: when lincoln tried to defend itself with its own test results suggesting no mold was present, senator mark warner demanded lincoln fire its mold inspectors. telling the navy to step in and do its job, overseeing its public/private

the we gave them $100 million, and then another $80 million for state and local businesses and then we gave them army and navy contracts to make sure they would make business work. and they go bankrupt, and, now, the russians own all that technology. what are they going to do with that technology? they already trying to steal the technology through illicit it will legal and now we sell it to them. >>neil: as galling as this is, i could almost give it a pass, not formally, if it were private funds involved and this was a private contractor that was the russians took advantage of a weak market, et cetera, but this is something that was funded and fostered along, courtive the united states taxpayers. that is a very big difference. >>guest: if you said to the american taxpayers we are going to invest $200 million in a battery company, it could be bought by the russians would you make that investment, there would be a "hell no," and --. >>neil: the whole idea for us getting into the new technology and all of this technology was, well, the chinese are doing it, the russians are doing it, the indians don't do it and

responding to that crash that might be because the navy recently practiced for exactly what happened today. it was december. the military trained locale crews how to deal with stuff such as burning jet fuel and unexploded bombs. they even practiced putting out flames on a simulated jet fighter. we're told the navy holds these sorts of drills at least once a year. that drill held in that town where this happened. there is word the job market hit a speed bump last month. and the experts were not predicting. this far from it. the unemployment rate actually dropped a bit to 8.2% down a tenth of a point. analysts say that's mostly because a lot of people just stopped looking for work. when you stop looking, the feds stop counting you as unemployed. the labor department reports the economy added only 120,000 jobs in march. you can see that's about half as many as the past couple of months. economists say they were predicting we would keep that previous pace up but didn't. the house speaker john boehner is blaming what he calls president obama's failed economic policy saying and i quote here, unemployment is far too high, paychecks are shri

special forces you a stealth of forces navy seals all the special operations and they're going to be in the villages and towns dealing with the local population which many people i know the next army infantry fellow but a lot of military guys i know say that's the way it should have been fought from day one that is the way it was being fought at the beginning before we withdrew to do the iraqi invasion and really when you think about it that's we're fighting a very unconventional war with conventional forces we didn't conventional forces in conventional tactics we didn't learn anything from viet nam and i mean i was a kid i was a teenager in viet nam and you know people you know may roll their eyes and go over yet and here we go again put if you don't you know those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it and we keep repeating our mistakes these are unconventional wars that need to be fought unconventionally so with afghanistan withdrawing you know cutting its forces by a third you mentioned all that money that they're going to lose and then the american. you know this is this isn't jane fonda you know going in north viet n

fourth time in the past decades that the navy has had two different aircraft carriers operating at the same time in that region. the ships will patrol the local restaurant has threatened to shut down in retaliation for economic sections. a quick break and a live look from our roof camera instead francisco on this monday morning. bay area ! here's big news from verizon wireless and xfinity from comcast. now get the xfinity triple play and verizon wireless together. call 855-704-7400 to sign up and get a free smartphone. choose one of our hottest phones. verizon wireless and xfinity. tv, home phone, internet and wireless together. you're ththank you, sweetie. oh... ♪ ♪ >>mark: we're keeping our eyes on bay area weather. here is a live look from mt. tam. it should be a pretty nice day as high temperatures are expected to crisis mid-70s. then, get ready for the rain. rain all day tomorrow is headed showers and thunderstorms. he's the gas prices are jumping in the united states. san francisco up $4 the 55 bid higher at $4.23. and as they come in and of $4.25. ford says no accidents have been reported related to the issue. orders that are affected

navy jet that crashed into an apartment building there according to reports emergency crews from the military virginia state police and local law enforcement are all responding to the scene of that crash black smoke can be seen rising from the crash site the crew is believed to have ejected safely from that fighter jet no word on the status of anyone in that apartment building ... >>that drifting japanese ship some have called it a ghost ship has been sent to the bottom of the gulf of alaska the vessel was scheduled for scrapping when it was set adrift by last year's horrendous earthquake and tsunami in japan it was sunk when a u.s. coast guard cutter opened fire on it with a cannon the unmanned an unlit nestle posed a hazard to navigation and shipping in the area it took one in four hours for the battered ship to go down in 6,000 ft. of water in greece hundreds gather to pay their respects to an elderly man who committed suicide over his financial troubles the 77 year- old retired pharmacist shot himself of a public square in athens he left a note saying that the government had made it impossible for him to survive the sit

we'll do a full investigation at this point, but right now the navy is working very closely with virginia beach localthis. megyn: do you have any knowledge of injuries of folks in the apartment complexes or on the ground. >> i do not, megyn, i have not heard any updates on thabgt. megyn: it's a disturbing scene at the least. we can all hope and pray on this good friday that folks there are okay. commander, thanks for your time. >> thanks, megyn. megyn: new details emerging on one of the darkest days in american history, the day john f. kennedy was assassinated. a firsthand account of that painful day from a man who was just a few feet away from the president and first lady as the gunshots rang out. jacqueline kennedy's secret service agent seen here has now released a memorandum wary counting the assassination. the new book called "mrs. kennedy and me" by clint hill. mr. hill joins me right now. mr. million thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. megyn: when i've seen you speak about this it seems you really had an a finance a tee for the former first lady and still to this day can recall tha

local investigators are calling this one an easter miracle. from this video, you can certainly see why. one day after a navy jetfighter slammed into a virginia beach apartment complex, everyone missing has been found. and all seven people who were injured are out of the hospital. amazingly, no one of killed. here's more unbelievable video for you -- look at this. smoke and flames just pouring out of buildings while a smoldering plane lies in the courtyard nearby. navy investigators are praising the pilots for handling the situation so well. they say it could have been much worse than this. >> if you look from an aerial view at this area, there aren't any open spaces to put the aircraft. so i think the pilots deserve a lot of credit for staying with the airplane as long as they possibly could. you know, i wasn't an eyewitness, but it appears from where the canopy was and the seats were that the ejection was just within a couple seconds of the airplane impact. i think it's safe to say the pilots were doing everything they could to minimize damage and stay with the airplane. >> the navy says it was a catastrop

when he was in the navy, it's all he talked about, state and local politics around the country. all the indication were from his friends, charlie bartlett, he was headed for a political career. so this was really not true that he wasn't ready and primed to go for it. the minute joe was killed, he was there. >> host: so his father was the ambassador to the court of st. james in london and believed you could deal with adolf hitler, and here is his second son who jackie describes as all of those thing, weak in some respects who said, no, dad, you're wrong. >> host: he did. and brilliantly, i think he caught his father's legs off because his father thought his son would agree with him. he said, yes, britain was justified in not fighting in munich, but he disagreed with the old man and said they should have been ready to fight, and baldwin talked him into not taking the nazi threat seriously. they lost what he called the years the locusts ate. they weren't ready to fight the nazis, and kennedy wrote, basically, they weren't ready to fight, and we darn well better be ready to fight be

local police official said if that bomb had indeed exploded it would have likely killed anyone within 50 yards. the major ira faction denounced the violence. >>> in other news of the world tonight the lebanese navyay the weapons shipment apparently originated inside syria. the weapons included leafy machine guns, artillery shells. there are unconfirmed reports that the syrian army has laid mines along the border with lebanon. >>> in the movement state of tab yanko, a horific discovery when four children who went missing earlier this week were dovered in a shallow grave. investigators say the four of them, ages 7-10, all appear to have been suffocated. three of the children, two boys and agirl were sibling and the fourth a friend who lived nearby. the children disappeared on their way to school on tuesday. >>> and from china surveillance video captures a remarkable survival story, a little girl crossing the street when the truck coming straight at her. the driver swerved and hitle the pole, the little girl ducked and amazingly escaped major injuries. >>> hundreds of concrete barricades have gone down in baghdad. crews pulled down the walls, which were put up back in 200after the u.s. occupation.

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navy jet slammed into an apartment complex just after taking off. what the pilot kept telling people who carried him away from the flames? >> first impressions can make or break you. when a local dry cleaner is doing to help job-,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >> a search for the missing continues this hour after a military jet crashed into several apartment buildings this afternoon in virginia beach virginia. 40 apartment units damaged or destroyed, seven people including the two pilots that ejected from the airplane were taken to hospital. >> everyone but the pilots have been released. >> shortly after takeoff, and initial indications are that the aircraft suffered a catastrophic mechanical malfunction. >> it shook the ground when it hit. initially everyone was running to the scene but there was some large explosions and within seconds everyone was fleeing from the scene. >> several apartment building is in virginia beach or left smoldering after a fighter jet crashed. the navy says the two-person crew ejected before impact, a navy deputy spoke about their conditions. >> the crew is doing well, they suffered minor injuries and the latest report is that they are up and about and doing well. >

when he was in the navy is all he talked about was the state and local politics around the country.ll the indications were his friends, chuck spalding, landfilling, charlie bartlett. he was headed for a political career. he wasn't sure that he wasn't ready and primed to go for it. >> host: his father within london and believed he could deal with adolf hitler. he was the second son he jackie describes according to your boat is all of those things we said no, dad, you're wrong. >> and brilliantly his father thought his son would agree with him. he said yes, britain was justified in not fighting against munich and 38 because they were not ready to fight. here's right disagree with with the old man. they should have been ready to fight and baldwin talked them into not taking the take the threat seriously. by 38 they lost what he called the locus state. they were ready to fight and i'm sure was cleaned up by arthur and he wrote basically they were ready to fight. we darn well better be ready to fight because this could be a world war. the old man was not an peace there. it is fair to say

local chevy dealer today. now very well qualified lessees can get a 2012 chevy cruze ls for around $159 per month. e.p.a. estimated 36 miles per gallon highway. >>> new developments this morni morningas the navywhy a plane crashed into a virginia apartment complex yesterday. the navy f-18 slammed right into the building there. the pilots ejected safely there before the crash. tom costello, give us the very latest as to what's happening there. >> reporter: well, the latest here is that the fire department is reporting there are no missing persons. late last night three people were unaccounted for. in taking a look at the pictures, you can imagine it was quite a scene and search, but they can report this morning that all of the occupants in that apartment complex, the mayfair apartment complex, have been accounted for. everybody is safe and sound. late last night they were trying to search for those three people, but they said it could have been simply a by-product of the fact that is a holiday weekend and those people could have been away for the easter weekend. four people on the ground were injured. and they were treated for minor injuries. the two pilots, as you mentioned, did safely eject.

local area over land. >> can you define student pilot? when you say student pilot -- >> it was squadron 106. they're one of the navy's this is where the navy teaches our f-18 pilots essentially for very first time in the fleet with the representative aircraft. so their syllabus goes from basic flying to advanced tactics. >> you guys train very much for a scenario like this, and you do it with virginia beach first responders. certainly, a lot of that must have come into play today and helped out here. >> certainly, in fact, some month and a half ago we had a full virginia beach fire department happen in coordination with our military dod assets here in the area and we ran every company through how we would operate in this sort of incident and obviously, that training has paid off for us. >> chief, how far have the firefighters been able to get into the damaged buildings? >> we made access to every building for a primary search, we call it. we are now making sure that we've mitigated the debris field as best we can and we're going to do a secondary search operation from there. obviously, first priority was fire control