and by reva & david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. committed to raising public awareness. and by the frontline journalism fund. with grants from the from the hagler family and scott nathan and laura debonis. >> it's small town america. it's football games on friday nights. >> everybody gets along, everybody knows everybody. this is a nice country community. >> corsicana is a wonderful place to live, but every town has their bad people in it, and bad things happen in every town. so we're no different from anybody else. >> it was the 23rd of december. "the price is right" was on, that was what i was watching. two or three of the girls went out on the back patio and come running in the house, and said, "mamma, i think sheila's house is on fire." i run to the front and out the door, and that's when i seen todd at his front door, and he started screaming, "my babies. oh, my babies, my babies are burning." >>

and by reva and david logan. committed to investigativemi[Ñ journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. committed to raising public awareness.ç p >> last week, the government presented its final report on the buffalo crash of continental 3407-- the deadliest u.s. air accident in eight years. >> it is the watershed accident. >> it's become the symbol of everything that's wrong with the industry. >> the investigation focused on a major transformation in the airline industry. >> today's regional airlines are really the backbone of the domestic network system. >> tonight on frontline, correspondent miles o'brien journeys into the world of thei regional airlines... >> the major airlines created the regional industry as a way of lowering costs. >> ...investigating the financial pressures... >> if we didn't move those airplanes, they didn't make any money. >> ...examining the experience of the pilots... >> boy, in nine months, you were a captain? >> yeah. >>

and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. committed to raising public awareness. >> narrator: the upper east side is one of the most affluent and powerful neighborhoods in america. even to new yorkers, it seems special-- a world apart of privilege and security. one day, walking across park and madison avenues, i reflected on how far away the country's economic troubles seemed to be from these streets. then i arrived at my hair salon, a place i've been going to for many years. ( telephone ringing ) >> deborah hair designs. can i help you? okay, when do you want an appointment for? >> narrator: i shared my thoughts with deborah. she gave me a wry smile. "you might see things differently," she said, "if you stay here with me and listen." >> how's the boyfriend? >> we actually... we broke up. >> oh. >> yeah, because... >> is that because he couldn't find work and had to go home? >> he couldn't find

and by reva & david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. committed to raising public awareness. and by the frontline journalism fund. with a grant from bill and cile hicks. >> the oil rig deepwater horizon exploded. >> there was growing desperation along the us gulf coast today... >> narrator: it's been called the worst environmental disaster in us history... >> 42,000 gallons of oil a day... >> 210,000 gallons are leaking... >> 2.1 million gallons a day... >> narrator: ... a geyser of oil that caught the government off-guard... >> no more oil spills! arrest bp! >> narrator: ...and threw a spotlight on a company that americans knew little about. >> in washington today, protesters called for the us government to get hostile with bp. >>r. hayward! >> narrator: when two months after the blowout, bp's ceo tony hayward, came to capitol hill... >> the testimony you are about to give to be the truth, the whole truth.