i want to now bring back in our rene marsh. rene, i know you have been following the march of these black boxes from that plane, and presumably, that runway back to washington. what can you tell us? >> right. well, candy, we can tell you we spoke about this right off of the top, that they're in the lab. and here's the proof here. we just pulled these pictures down from the ntsb's twitter feed. so, this is a realtime look here at this photo as we show it to you. you're looking at one of the investigators pulling out these flight recorders out of those brown paper bags there. and this is a process that is happening as we speak. they are downloading critical, critical information. we're talking about the beginning, the middle and the end as it relates to how this all unfolded, how it came to be that this plane had to make this crash landing. that that you're looking at on your screen there, that is going to be so critical in this investigation. candy? >> and there is -- first of all, black boxes are not black. second of all, what i

rene marsh is in washington. dr. todd francis joining me here in new york. he is an aviation expert and also the founder of air safe.com. also in washington is robert francis who is the former vice chairman of the ntsb and investigator and dinah magna is in seoul, south korea. i want to go to robert francis. we've been talking to you and to mr. -- dr. curtis here about the people who are fanned out across the air field still looking for debris although two of the runways at the airport have been reopened. >> well, the debris is going to be on the territory of the runway that we have. the runways are separated by water. so the debris from this aircraft will not be in a position to interfere with operations on the other runways that they've opened. >> okay. so mr. curtis, dr. curtis i should say, the runways that are opened he says are far enough away where it won't disturb this but there is a lot of blowing and big engines and to reopen this quickly some people may question that. >> well, the san francisco airport has a layout with two parallel runways that c

let's go to rene marsh who is following the developments for us from washington, d.c., where that ntsb press conference will be held in washington just over an hour, an hour and about 15 minutes we'll hear from the ntsb what new information, if any, are you getting, rene? >> well, don, what we want to do now is kind of flesh out where they go from here. we are going to get some initial information from the ntsb, of course, they're en route, they'll be making their way there to the crash scene. but how this will all work is the first thing they're going to do when they get on the ground is they're going to want to talk to those local officials, find out what kind of information they have and know about the people who were on board as well as the debris field, things of that sort. also, as you would imagine, they'd want to inspect the damage, and it will be broken up, the ntsb team, will be broken up into different groups that specialize in different things, so you'll have your weather group that will look at weather conditions. we just heard earlier that it was a perfect day for flying,

renee marsh, thank you very much. now that the jury decided, when's george zimmerman supposed to do? the man some call the most hated man in america begins a life that's completely different than the one he had a year and a half ago and his brother told cnn's "new day" this morning that life is going to be an adjustment. >> he is adjusting. that's really the best way i can put it. i think he's been caged in. he had the constraints with gps and showing up to court every day and having this weighing on him. freedom is kind of a new concept to him all over again. as beczar as it sounds. he is free to move about this country for the first time in a long time. >> robert zimmerman also says his brother must learn to move around in a low profile way and keep to himself, as well. zimmerman's defense team scored a huge virkt ri late last night and didn't stop the defense attorney don west from ripping the prosecution. listen to this. >> i think the prosecution of george zimmerman was disgraceful. i am gratified by the jury's v

cnn's rene marsh is covering the story. rene, we now have these firm offers from venezuela, potential offer from nicaragua. any comment from the obama administration? >> reporter: well, i will tell you, victor, pamela, so far all is quiet here in washington, d.c., no comment from the white house, and no comment so far from the state department on both venezuela and nicaragua's offer of asylum to nsa leaker edward snowden. now, the president is spending the holiday weekend at camp david but it's likely going to be a working vacation. and he's likely following these latest developments. now, these two countries making statements on the same day it appears to show a sort of united front against the united states. several leaders in latin america, they were angered after recent incident where the president of bolivia's plane was not allowed through european airspace this week, and because that was simply because of suspicions that snowden may be on board that plane, so they had no clear path to their destination. they were force

look here, cnn's rene marsh looks at what the trail of debris can show us about the deadly crash. >>ly re-created the crash scene based on what we have been able to see in the pictures and the video so far. so, follow me from the left side of your screen to the right. on the far left you can see debris in the water and a deb brie trail where the land meets the water. in the same vicinity the wheels of the plane and the tip of the tail. shift your eyes to the right a little and that's where the vertical stabilizer fell and this is what is the vertical stabilizer, this part of the tail. to the right of that is the horizontal stabilizers, and that's this second of the tail here. and when you look to the right of all of that you can see the landing gear. and then shift your eyes to the far right and that is where the fuselage ended up. now this is what the ntsb investigators are going to be looking at. they're going to look how close these parts are together in relation to each other, which part came off first, which part came off second, and really no detail will be too small in trying

renee marsh, thank you very much. we appreciate that. >>> we have been talking about protests happening in florida and -- not just in florida. acquittal of george zimmerman sparked rallies and protests all across the country. >> not one more. not one more. not one more. >> that was the scene in chicago. demonstrators taking the street shouting. many held pictures of tray skron martin as they marched and a dozen people gathered in downtown dallas following the verdict saying no justice, no peace. not all the protests were peaceful. this one took place in oakland, california. protesters smashed in the windows of a transit police car in the street. >>> well, church leaders across the country pushing for peace. many of them changed their sunday smons after this zimmerman verdict and john zarrella went to antioch missionary baptist church in miami gardens earlier today and a church that trayvon martin's mother usually attends. how was service there this morning? >> reporter: don, in fact, this whole area of miami gardens w

let's go to rene marsh in washington. rene is in washington, robert francis is in washington as well. rene, still the press conference has not started. it was supposed to start about 13 minutes ago. hasn't happened yet. are you getting any word? >> right. we did get some word that they've pushed that back to 6:00, but that's not even a hard time. that could change again as well. i would imagine they are gathering their go team, they're getting ready to go over there as well. but the last check we got was that this press conference will happen at 6:00, but, again, that could change. and, you know, one of the folks on our air, one of the experts, they hit it right on the head, we don't expect anything groundbreaking to come out of the press conference. nevertheless, it will be information that we will hear directly from the ntsb who is leading this investigation, so we will be listening very closely to that. and, don, i just want to talk a little bit about that recording that you just played there. i mean, it was a little ha

. >> renee marsh, cnn, washington. >> what is amazing is that almost everyone on board lived.res show just how quickly many of them were able to get away from the jet as it burst into flames. more than 180 others were hurt, some critically. the two who died were 16-year-old girls from china on their way to a church summer camp. authorities are looking into whether one of them was hit by a first responder vehicle on the runway and may not have been killed in the crash. >> we are hearing voices from some of the survivors now. among them, eugene raw. he made the flight several times and he worried as they were coming in for the landing. >> i looked out through the window and i knew something was wrong. it's because, you know, we were too low. at one point, i kind of, you know, felt this is not right. it's because i see water right there. right there, right outside the window. i should not. i knew. i knew it was going to happen. so, i tried to hold on to whatever i could. i was like bang. the impact was so powerful. >> when you fly a lot, you can tell when something is different.

>> ren rene marsh reporting liv this morning. >>> signs the anthony weiner campaign is imploding. now communication director has apologized after bashing and i mean bashing a former campaign intern. in an interview with the liberal blog talking points memo barbara morgan called weiner's former intern and forgive me for saying this, she called that intern worse, trust me, i can't say the rest on television. morgan was upset the intern spilled inside information to "new york daily news" and thought her mean comments were off the record. in the meantime, weiner released a new campaign ad insisting he don't quit. >> sometimes people say, this campaign is pretty rough. you may want to quit. i know there are newspaper editors and other politicians that say, boy, i wish that guy weiner would quit. some don't know me. quit isn't the way we roll in new york city. >> cnn's rosa florous is live in new york to tell us more. and, yes, there is more. good morning. >> carol, you know, just when you thought all of the bomb shells had dropped in this story, nope, yet we are here, again. another di

i want to bring in rene marsh. she's been following this investigation. the latest with you, rene. >> reporter: we know that at least about an hour ago, i was told that they were in their first operational meeting. so we're essentially waiting for that to wrap up before we get a briefing from them. but what's happening here in d.c., they're working in san francisco and also hard in d.c., as well. we know that they're downloading data from the flight recorders and i'm told that they're expecting a preliminary readout of the information found on those recorders by this afternoon. so we'll start to get a small picture of what was going on at least by this afternoon. we do know that. so we know that that is happening at the lab right now and again, there are two you just saw the photo there, two flight recorders, one of them is called the data flight recorder and the other is the cockpit voice recorder. they both have data on totally different things, one of them has the type of data that would allow them to know the position of the plane, how fast the plane w

rene marsh is joining us. what is the procedure now that the flight data voice recorders and the go team is on the ground? >> they have had the flight recorders i would say for roughly about four hours now. so right now they're downloading the data from the flight recorders. and those are actually located in the back of the plane, the back area around the tail. so we have some video of the flight recorders, the ones shipped over from san francisco right there in the lab. so once again, you can see a little bit of soot on them. but the process of trying to figure out exactly went what went on moments before the crash landing, they can provide a lot of information. we're talking about the data recording that holds information like altitude, speed, position, cockpit voice recorder is capable of picking up back ground and warning signals that may have gone off. >> how long does it take to sift through those recorders to get some kind of information in which to piece together some sort of idea of what happened? >>

. >> cnn's rene marsh is following this angle of the investigation. estigators will focus on today? >> that's right. well, pamela, victor, good morning. you know, no detail will be too small. and what we've done is we've highlighted some parts of the crash scene based on what we've been able to see in both the pictures and the video so far. so, here's what we know. going from the left of your screen to the right, we have debris in the water right there on the left, and we also know there is a debris trail where the land meets the water. we have a graphic, a map that shows you all of the debris that we're talking about here. now, in the same vicinity, a couple of wheels from the plane and then the tip of the plane. now, shift your eyes to the right. that's where the vertical stabilizer, that's the up-and-down part of the tail, that fell off. and to the right of that is the horizontal stabilizers. that is the left-to-right part of the tail. next, we're going to move on over to the right again. one of the landing gear sections. and then, finally, move you

rene, marsh, cnn, washington. >> that diagram helps you understand what happened, now we are getting more eyewitness accounts from those waiting inside the terminal. watching the smoke bill owing and from those inside the plane, they experienced it first hand. we came in early, and saw the smoke. >> were you trying to go to florida? >> yeah, we are trying go home now, all of us are waiting outside now to go back to florida. >> so hopefully later today. >> listen, my heart is with the people, all i care about is that the people are okay. >> what happened to your flight? >> nobody is telling us and nobody can help us either, so we don't know. we are stuck here? or are we moving on? or what? >> a little frustrated? no one is telling you anything? >> yeah, yeah, seriously frustrated. >> you have a 15-year-old son with you? >> yeah, both in hospital, and really i feel bad. right now i'm fine. >> as it landed, like, there's a hard like loud noise and then like, the masks fell down and like, i don't know, a severe stuff started to fall down on people and they started screaming. >> what was

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back to you guys. >> rene marsh in washington for us.ctures this morning. take a look. a train carrying crude oil headed for maine has derailed and exploded in canada's quebec province. look at this explosion in this video posted online. an afill rat reports that some of the fuel on that train has spilled into a nearby rivers. flames can reportedly be seen for miles away. that fire sent locals scrambling for safety, and authorities evacuated neighborhoods near that crash. still no information at this time about casualties. of course, we'll keep you updated on this story. >>> you know, it's been a wet and rainy holiday break for a lot of the u.s., but the good thing is sparklers are pretty resilient, and they stay lit in the rain. >> do they? did you try that out on the fourth of july? >> many years ago. but yes, i learned they do stay lit in the rain. >> unfortunately the weather is not getting much better as we head into the weekend. karen mcinnis is here with the headlines. where is the rain? >> we've got plenty of it, pamela. thanks f

rene marsh, cnn, washington. >> remarkable images coming in and many of them from social media. to be passengers running and some walksing and some toting bands. i just crashed landed, sfo, most everyone seems fine, surreal. within moments of the crash, the crews were on the scene dousing the seen with water and foam. a man who saw it from his hotel said he saw a large brief fireball that came from underneath the aircraft. cnni reporter was also in a nearby hotel when he heard a large crashing sound. he said this is unnerving, we have a long flight home on monday. go to ireport.com to host and share what you saw today. you have heard of the blacks boxing on planes that record all the information, next, an expert what may be on the box what investigators can learn from it. out there owning it. the ones getting involved and staying engaged. they're not afraid to question the path they're on. because the one question they never want to ask is "how did i end up here?" i started schwab for those people. people who want to take ownership of their investments, like they do in every oth

re rene marsh from washington. >>> now to that deadly train accident in a canadian town near the u.s.ad and missing after it rolled seven miles down a hill. it exploded and leveled a small town in quebec. more deaths are likely. cnn's jason carroll is covering the story. what are authorities saying? >> reporter: disturbing watching these images coming in. some sections still too dangerous for emergency crews to get there in and search. officials say they are expecting more deaths as they continue, unfolding early saturday morning when a crane pulling 70 tankers of crude oil crashed and went down hill in the quebec provi e province, "lak" megantic. more than 2,000 people, one woman works at a bar and many people unaccounted for says she is still searching for her friends. lac-megantic. >> reporter: i have no news from my friends, she says, i haven't heard from any. i can't say more than that. we're waiting for confirmation. >> some are calling it the run away train, confirming the train was locked down by the locomotive engineer and then left for a crew change. according to the company

here's cnn's renee marsh. >> you see how low he is over there?ure that you would have out of the cockpit window should not be looking at the runway like this, but you should be looking -- he should be seeing down here. >> reporter: mark weis, a retired commercial pilot for more than 22 years, looking at asiana 214 crash landing frame by frame. the asiana airline pilot who was behind the controls has been flying with the airline for nearly two decades, but only had 43 hours of experience flying this type of plane. do you think experience or lack thereof played at all in this scenario? >> well, certainly going to look at that. experience, not necessarily. remember, he had already been qualified through the simulators and his testing to fly the airplane. there perhaps was a comfort factor that may have come in to something like this. >> reporter: how does that translate to potentially what we saw? >> it translates to the fact that i don't want to say something because i don't want to look like i can't handle the situation. it potentially could boil

renee marsh is here with the latest. >> earlier this morning we stole e told you that those flight recorders to washington, d.c. now we have confirmed that they are now at the national transportation safety board's lab here in washington, d.c. we're told they're in good shape. they will begin the process of annual sizing the information on these flight recorders. we should get a preliminary readout on the information on these recorders that could happen this afternoon. lots of critical information that could piece together and pain president picture of what happened in those final moments before that crash landing. >> renee, i know you are hanging out for us and following every step of this situation. thanks. >>> i'm joined now by congressman mike rogers. mr. chairman, thank you for joining us. i do want to talk to you about esd ward snowden and his options. but first i want to pick up on things that i talked about earlier. and one of the things both of them said was this is a really good time for the u.s. to exert some of its influence. and by influence, i think sometimes we think the money

rene marsh has this "outfront" investigation. >> reporter: the list includes everything from forgery,l misconduct to physical fighting and using abusive language. >> there's not even a proper way to report some of the offenses. this may be the tip of the iceberg of some of the offenses. >> reporter: offenses like a tsa screening supervisor at newark airport, who admitted accepting bribes and kick-backs from a co-worker who stole money from passengers at check points. at orlando international, a screener pleaded guilty to federal embezzlement and theft charges for stealing more than 80 laptops and electronics valued at $80,000. and at new york's jfk airport, this tsa employee pleaded guilty to stealing $40,000 from a checked bag. the new report also notes in a three-year span, more than 9,000 cases of tsa misconduct were documented. 56 screeners were involved in thefts and more than 1,900 incidents that could hurt security, like sleeping on duty and allowing family and friends to bypass security. >> if you look at a population the size of a small city, 56,000 people in this work force,

let's get to aviation correspondent rene marsh. the investigation is still going on. does this open the door to pilot error? >> we spoke, erin, to a few pilots when we just got this information a short time ago. the pilots we spoke to say it is too early to know for sure why the plane landed this way but they say it does suggest human error could have played a role. here's what we do know. this plane landed nose gear first. then the main gear. but in a successful landing. it is supposed to be maybe gear and then the nose gear. that's because the nose gear is not built to withstand the weight of the plane. again, main gear, then nose gear. that's the base igs of landing a plane. they'll be looking into why did this happen? why did this sequence of events happen the way that it did? >> what else did we learn from this investigation? that is a crucial clue. what else did you find out? >> we also found out in the final four seconds of the flight, the plane essentially, the nose of the plane went from two degrees upward to three degrees downward. that should not have happe

cnn's renee marsh has more now from washington. >> reporter: don, if it were only that simple.e's believed to be hiding out in the moscow airport, but there are a number of hurdles edward snowden has to get over before he's in another country. hurdle number one, he's got to get out of that airport and on to a plane, but he has no passport. the u.s. revoked it. then there's the logistics. it's believed his most likely destination is venezuela, but there are no direct flights to venezuela from russia, so he'll likely go through cuba. that raises the question, what will cuba do? will they hand him over? so it's not an easy trip, but here's the bottom line. if he does make it to venezuela and they refuse to extradite him, the u.s. simply can't do very much at that point. no official comment coming from the white house and the state department is only speaking in general terms saying they've been in diplomatic talks with other countries urging them to arrest and extradite snowden if he steps foot on their soil. of course, these three countries welcoming edward snowden certainly does

renee marsh is live in washington taking a look at this report and what it means.ow that hearing is set to get under way in just about two hours from now. we all know in any organization with some 56,000 employees, you may expect some rotten eggs in the bunch and the tsa is no different. some of the misconduct is commonplace, excessive absence or tardiness and some is down right troubling and could have a major impact on security. the list includes everything from forgery, sexual misconduct to physical fighting and using abusive language. >> there's not even a way to properly report some of the offenses, so this may just be the tip of the iceberg of some of the offenses. >> reporter: it's the agency some fliers love to hate. posting their pat downs. >> if you touch my junk, i'll have you arrested. >> reporter: now, criticism from the government, not for pat down procedures but for incidents like this. tsa screener supervisor admitted accepting bribes and kickbacks from a co-worker who stole money from passengers at checkpoint at new jersey's newark airport. at newa

rene marsh is live in the washington bureau with details. what do we know about this crash? >> chris, first of all, i should tell you the ntsb go team is expected to be headed there in a matter of minutes. the scheduled time is 6:15, and they're en route to that route on the screen. it's too early to know what caused the plane's crash here, and also the plane went up in flames. so we don't know what caused all of this. what we do know is this was an air taxi. when it comes to faa regulations, it comes just under commercial planes. commercial airliners, they're heavily regulated. this would be a middle tear. again, we're expecting a briefing from ntsb when they get on the ground. chris? >> all right. thank you very much, rene. all these crashes happening right now makes it seem so scary. remember, you have a 1 in 45 million chance, 1 out of 45 million of being in a plane crash. being struck by lightning, 1 in 750,000. it's still a very safe way to fly. we'll take you through that crash in san francisco even more in the coming hours of the show. >> so much happening really in

cnn's rene marsh is live with the latest. >> good morning, chris. scary stuff indeed. flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the plane are in the hands of federal investigators in washington this morning. the good news, there was no loss of life but the damage was extensive. this is what it looked like on board southwest airlines flight 345 as the nose of the plane hit the runway at new york's laguardia airport on monday. passenger on the plane shot this video as the boeing 737 crash landed and stided for more than 2,000 feet. the national transportation safety board says the front landing gear collapsed on impact, causing the nose of the plane to smash on the tarmac, sending sparks and flames shooting up from the bottom of the aircraft. >> i thought it was just bounce, a terrible job with the pilot. i didn't realize what happened until i left the plane. >> it was like getting smashed in a car wreck. >> very chaotic, no one knew what was going on, flight attendants crying. >> reporter: 150 people were on board the boeing 737, nine of whom suffered non-life-threat

rene marsh has a look at must-see video from inside the cabin of the plane-- as it smashed down. >>: shot this video as the boeing 737 crashed when it and skidded for more than 2,000 ft.. the national transportation safety board says the first landing gear collapsed on impact causing the nose of the plane to smash on the tarmac sandy sparks and flames shooting up from the bottom of the aircraft. >>: i didn't realize what happened until >>: it was like getting smashed in a car wreck. -car wreck. >>: 150 people were on board the boeing 737. nine of whom suffered not life- threatening injuries. we spoke with an aviation expert. he describes what could have gone wrong. >>: you have a stretch that comes down to the wheels so perhaps something in here when the the plane touched down and the forces that are on the plane touched down, may have decided to fill at that particular time. the gear maybe could have filled backwards or in may have collapsed up this way. >>: the damage was extensive. ntsb investigators have already started examining the flight data and cockpit voice recorder. southw

new information now, rene marsh is checking with the faa and from the national transportation safety board. what do you know, rene? >> well, don, we're still waiting for more information about the folks who were on board this plane, but, again, we do know that at this point the ntsb saying that they plan on getting on a plane from here, washington, d.c., heading with the chairman of the ntsb debra hurstman and she will be leading the investigation there at the airport there in san francisco. so, of course, they're going to have to go through this piece by piece to figure out exactly what went wrong, was this something mechanical, was this pilot error. those are all questions we do not know the answers to at this point. of course, those ntsb investigations, they tend to be quite lengthy. it could be some time before we get any true definitive answers. but we hope that the picture will become a little clearer as the day goes on, but what we really want to know is how the folks are doing on board. again, we just know, again, just based on the pictures here from the people that we've spok

cnn's rene marsh is joining us now. she's been investigating what is going on. ing? >> this weekend was a deadly weekend for people traveling. today we're looking specifically at bus safety after two crashes in the u.s. and a third, one overseas. in indianapolis youth pastor chad phelps, his pregnant wife and a chaperone were killed returning from a church trip. >> the bus just flew into my vision in an instant. >> reporter: the driver told investigators his brakes failed. in italy, this bus plunged who are than 100 feet. police suspect brake problems. and floodwaters swept away a bus but everyone survived. three bus crashes in just two days a and earlier this year bus crashes in oregon and california killed nine each. it's enough to make passengers question bus safety. the federal government regulates commercial carriers like tour buses but privately owned noncommercial buses for private schools or church groups like the one in indiana fall under looser regulations. >> there are people crawling out of the bus, there were people who were severely injured, people

rene marsh, thank you. >>> up next in the newsroom, by hi side and behind his wounded political campaignl talk a look at huma abedin and her decision to stay behind her emballotsed husband. [ male announcer ] let's say you pay your guy around 2% to manage your money. that's not much, you think. except it's 2% every year. go to e-trade and find out how much our advice and guidance costs. spoiler alert: it's low. it's guidance on your terms, not ours. e-trade. less for us. more for you. >>> good morning. i'm carol costello. thank you very much for joining us this morning. the stories we are watching right now in the newsroom. we have to head out to brazil. inside that corolla with the window rolled down is pope francis. he's on his way to a poor neighborhood in brazil to talk to those who are in need of his blessing, or in need of so much more. the pope's whole purpose on this visit is to convince people they should get to the poor and support them more. as you can see the window is down in that he corolla, and the pope is sitting in the backseat just like a normal guy. many, many security

rene marsh reporting. let's take a look at the other top stories in "the situation room" right now.son mandela is in a so-called vegetative state. the former president remains in critical, but stable condition. however, court papers released today filed more than a week ago say the mandela family was advised to take him off of life support rather than prolong his suffering. >>> there are surprising developments right now in the mysterious disappearance of a british girl during a family vacation in portugal back in 2007. british police say they believe there say possibility madeleine mccann is still alive and they've identified 38 people of interest as they describe them they want to question. the george zimmerman trial is taking the day off, but our jeanne moos is not. her take on the trial's technical troubles, that's next. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour reli

rene marsh reports. >> a deeper look shows that there was a problem. >> a report alleged that serious under reported. the report stated that 959 serious crimes have been reported to the fbi but only 31 are posted on the website. the database only disposes' crimes that are no longer under investigation. >> consumers have no way of knowing their risk before they take a cruise. >> we will be right back as the kron 4 morning news continues. here is a live look outside. the traffic is still backed up at 680 south bound. >> welcome back. the time is 9:30 a.m.. we would not get a update on a hot spot. >> conditions have improved for the walnut creek interchange. we are definitely in recovery mode. this was backed up into pleasant hill. these backups are starting to one wind. the ride on 1 01 into san francisco has also improved. >> we are still dealing with areas of fog along the coastal area. it is a mile start to the day. as we head into afternoon we can expect plenty of sunshine the temperatures will be pretty similar to what we saw yesterday. i will break down your afternoon high coming

cnn's rene marsh is here with a closer look at this woman, deborah hersman. attention and we asked you to look at her and tell us a little bit about her. >> you've seen her. she's been all over national tv as a result of the crash investigation, but if you're not part of the aviation or transportation circle, you may not know that much about deborah hersman. for starters, people who know her call her debbie, but formally, she goes by deborah. and in case you wondered about the title, well, she uses chairman, not chairwoman. deborah hersman is the face of the investigation into the crash of asiana flight 214. >> we're not reaching any conclusions. we're gathering factual information. >> reporter: she is a triathlete, a wife and mother of three. hersman has also competed in races like the warrior dash. its website bills it as a 5k mud run complete with obstacle course designed to test your strength and stamina. and friends who watch her criss-cross the country leading ntsb crash team investigators say she's an expert multitasker. >> my guess is that when she ge

rene marsh is following the story for us in texas. >> reporter: good morning, chris.of the deadly accident that happened here at six flags in texas. the iron rattler, that's in san antonio at the six flag there is. according to dallas affiliate wfaa, they've temporarily shut that roller coaster down simply as a precaution, because it is the built the same way as this ro colore oe eoe eor -- roller coa. it is a hybrid of wood and steel. and the manufacturer of the roller coaster will help in the investigation. >> the corner said rosie esparza died from multiple traumas. since 2008, six flags reported 14 injuries involving the texas giant. critics think safety loopholes in the amusement park industry puts riders at risk. senator ed markey is calling for more oversight saying a baby stroller is subject to tougher federal regulation than a roller coaster carrying a child in excess of a hundred miles per hour. most parks are regulated at the state level and amusement park reps say that's enough. since flags ceo told investors so far the accident hasn't affected attendance.

cnn's rene marsh is live in washington with more. good morning, rene. >> good morning, chris. the bottom line at this hearing was to fight for the consumer, the people who take these cruises the focus was making sure that they're safe on board and if and when things go wrong, it's clear what their rights are. the stench on the carnival poop cruise, the fear on the "grandeur of the seas" the tragedy on the ""costa concordia"" all displayed on capitol hill. >> i have been assured by the industry things will get better. look at the events over the past 16 months and tell me if this is what you think better looks like. >> reporter: memories of february's carnival "triumph" cruise when thousands of passengers were stranded for five days on the steamy gulf of mexico on a ship lacking power and adequate toilets lingered at the hearing. >> it smelled like sewage and human waste. >> we seriously put our guests in an uncomfortable position and that bothers us a great deal. >> reporter: the cruise industry says its new passenger bill of rights addresses the problem but critics disagree.

rene marsh is in our washington bureau with details. what is the ntsb recommending?ar sligss in the sky the national transportation safety board is making recommendations to the faa. the recommendations are based on five near collisions in recent years. three in las vegas, one in new york city and one in charlotte. in all cases, planes were coming in for a landing and for various reasons, they had to aboard landing, initiating what's called a go around, and that means exactly what it sounds like, where the pilot essentially goes around and takes a second try at landing. the problem in all of these cases, those planes flew right in the flight path of other planes taking off from other runways. here's one example from jfk last july an american airlines 737 was coming in for a landing, that's the blue you see there and the pilot needed to execute what's called that go around so they circled the airport and while doing that the plane got dangerous close to a pinnacle airlines jet the plane in the red taking off from another runway. the ntsb says that the faa needs to cha

rene marsh has more on the investigation. >> reporter: when it comes to the 737s the front wheels touch wheels couldn't withstand the weight of the landing. >> normal a normal approach is coming in like this and touching down like that. >> i saw you tip that nose up a lit. it should always remain upwards? >> the nose gear should be the last to such down. >> reporter: in the final four seconds before touchdown the ntsb said the plane shifted to two degrees note up to 3 degrees nose down. southwest tells cnn the landing the ntsb is accordance with our proiting procedures." >>> u.s. park police say someone splattered green paint on the statue of the former president and the floor of the memorial. the memorial will remain closed until the mess can be cleaned up. there are sur violence cameras but no word on whether they caught whoever is responsible for that. >>> an 84-year-old powerball winner is using some of her winners to help out her hometown high school. she won a record $590 million jackpot and going to spend almost $2 million of her win to repair the school's leaky roof in maine. th

cnn's renay marsh has been following the story for us, some serious allegations of misconduct, rene? serious stuff here, wolf, tsa officers screen some 1.8 million travelers every day at 450 airports across the country, so when this new report found bad behavior within the agency is up 26%, lawmakers on capitol hill have lots of questions and concerns. today's hearing lasted about two hours, one of the main questions, what will the tsa do about the misconduct? well, there are four things the tsa is working on improving as a result of the report, including better recordkeeping when it comes to who is behaving badly, what punishment they face and what is the outcome of the investigation. the tsa a says working on more consistency, so the process of dealing with misconduct is the same essentially at any airports that you go to. >> well, how are they responding to tsa? in the face of what is described as thousands of cases of misconduct on the job. >> that's right. so they have their chance to respond at this hearing today. the tsa both and the union for the screeners, they maintained th