rita nissan, wjz eyewitness news. >> back in 2009, a ship fended off an attack in the same area where the ship is stranded. >>> disturbing new information tonight on what happened to some remains of 9/11 victims who could not be identified. the pentagon says those unidentified remains were sent to a landfill. the number of victims involved is clear. but it involved some victims of the attack on the pentagon. and also the plane that the terrorists hijacked and crashed in shanksville, pennsylvania. the revelation comes as they handle the mishandling at the dover air force base. >>> dozens of delegates at stake as michigan and arizona hold their primaries today. polls show a very tight race. danielle nottingham reports for wjz from michigan with more. >> reporter: mitt romney posed for pictures at his michigan campaign headquarters and kept up his attack on rick santorum. he says his chief rival does not have the skills to be president. >> i think he's an economic lightweight. i don't think he understands the process of job creating. >> thank you all so much. >> reporter: santorum was al

rita nissan reports for wjz. >>> paramedics wheeled away an injured man, as police tried to maintain.looks like a subway attack. but it's an emergency response test as the city prepares for summer olympics. officials say they're taking every precaution possible. the drill will last for three days. >>> the challenge here is for the duration. goes over a long period of time and of course to scale. >> another challenge is communication. emergency workers had trouble talking to each other. officials want to make sure that doesn't happen again. >> one of the key things that we're testing today is how those communications hold up when there's obviously a lot of increased traffic on the system. >> reporter: officials say the training is not in response to a specific threat. and part of the goal is to make people feel safe about coming here for the game. >>> 2500 people took part in the drill, including 100 volunteers who were made up to look like victims. emergency workers didn't know what this drill would involve. the element of surprise was used to keep everyone on their toes. crews say th

rita nissan reports for wjz.y officials are preparing for the worst by staging a mock terror attack. >> reporter: paramedics wield a -- wheeled away an injured man, as police try to maintain order. this looks like a terrorist attack on london's subway system. but it's an emergency response test, as the the city prepares if are the summer olympics. the games are a potential target for terrorists. and officials say they're taking every precaution possible. the drill will last for two days. >> the challenge for us here is the duration. goes over a long period of time. >> reporter: another challenge for emergency response crews is communication. when suicide bombers hit london subway and bus system in 2005, emergency workers had trouble talking to each other. officials wanted to make sure that doesn't happen again. >> one of the key things that we're testing today is how those communications hold up when there's obviously a lot of increased traffic on the system. >> officials say the train being is not in response to

rita nissan, wjz eyewitness news. >> nato troops plan to leave afghanistan in 2014. >>> the sex scandal involving a los angeles elementary schoolteacher reaches the courtroom. today, mark berndt entered a not guilty plea to allegations that he took lewd pictures of his young students. police say they have seized more than 600 images taken by the 61-year-old. berndt's attorneys claim he is targeted in prison. he's being held on $23 million bail. a second teacher from that school is arrested on child molestation charges days after bernts's arrest. >>> french police are questioning dominique strauss- kahn about a prostitution ring. police say prostitutes told them they had sex with the head. imf over the past two years. strauss-kahn resigned his position after being accused of assaulting a hotel maid in noancht he was later -- in new york. he was later cleared of any charms. >>> romney's ads are being paid for by a super pack. super packs are quickly turning into one of the most powerful forces in the 2012 campaign. >> reporter: mitt romney tried to win over voters at a town hall meeting a

rita nissan reports for wjz. the ship's owner also operated the one that capsized off the coast of italy last month. >> reporter: rescue crews are towing a crippled cruise liner in the indian ocean. hundreds of passengers are crowding the deck of the costa alegra because there's no power. a fire in the generator room on monday left the ship why with -- ship with no air conditioning or food. >> we have reports of no one being sick or hurt. as far as we're concerned, the situation is very calm, that the captain is in control of the boat. >> reporter: emergency generators are only powering the ship's control room, and its communication equipment. helicopters are dropping food, satellite phones and radios. it's taking longer- than-- longer than expected to to the ship off the coast of tanzania, because the ship is so heavy. but most of the 1,000 on board, including eight americans, should be back on land in the next 24 hours. families of those on the ship are worried. >> i haven't heard from her yet. >> reporter: thi

rita nissan, wjz eyewitness news. >> now, carnival is also flying in engineers and technicians to try to repair the generators. >>> if federal regulators get their way, pilots will have to be a lot more experienced before flying commercial airlines. new regulations proposed by the federal aviation administration. >> the faa wants to raise the minimum experience level for the first time in 40 years. the proposed legislation would increase the minimum time required for copilots to 1500 hours. this is just the latest in a string of faa changes. supporters say the moves are long overdue. >> these are absolute rock bottom minimums. what we really need in the long term is to have a healthy enough airline industry that we have people who have more experience in that, than to take these entry level jobs. >> there are two exceptions to this change. former military pilots will need only 750 hours to fly for an airline. and graduates of university flight schools only need 1,000 hours. denise? >> thank you, kai. airline officials say the rule change could force them to raise wages to attract more

rita nissan for cbs news. >>> let's turn our attention now to the republican presidential race. the candidates are preparing for primaries in arizona and michigan. those elections are exactly one week away. former pennsylvania senator rick santorum is leading in the polls and lately he's been focusing his attacks on president obama rather than his gop competitors. >> whose side is he on is the question. we need someone that's on your side. >> both mitt romney and newt gingrich have the financial backing to catch up to santorum in the polls. supporters gave romney and gingrich more than $5 million each last month. >>> police are still working to identify the 29-year-old female driver who died last night after her car crashed into a kentucky fried chicken store. this morning crews replaced the windows and doors that were shattered when the speeding bmw slammed into the restaurant on martin luther king highway at sheriff road in landover. police say the victim was traveling at more than 100 miles per hour when it lost control nearly 100 yards away. four people were also injured in

rita nissan, wjz eyewitness news. >> nato troops plan to leave afghanistan in 2014. >> controversy iseating up again, surrounding the president's healthcare bill and birth control. kai is in the newsroom with more on what is happening now. >> thousands of protestant pastors are joining catholic leaders to denounce the requirement. more than 2,500 passengers and evangelical leaders have signed a letter, asking president obama to reverse the mandate. critics are calling it a violation of religious freedom. the president recently offered a compromise, in which insurers would pay for the contraceptive instead of the relig out-- religious groups. >> president obama says there is no more room for compromise on the issue. >>> jury questioning starts tomorrow in the trial of the rutgers student, accused of using a web cam to spy on his roommate, tyler clemente. the teen later committed suicide. darvin raffy could face a list of charges that could land him in jail for up to 10 jeers. >> reporter: years. >> reporter: like so many teenagers, darvin communicated mostly online. now, the e-mails, t