they aim for the closest air field, sioux city.engers took the crash position. >> i parade frayed for the pilo get strength to get down. >> reporter: but the plane was approaching almost 100 miles an hour faster than it should. and then just feet from the ground, this. >> smashed into the earth, it was incredible. i remember involuntarily closing my eyes and thinking, i just cannot believe that we hit this hard. and that our bones could all still be connected to our body. >> reporter: air traffic controller kevin bachman was working the control tower. >> you think everybody is going to die and then you think they're all going to make it and then in my mind's eye, they all died because i saw it. the plane was gone. >> reporter: 112 people died. miraculously though, 184 others lived. >> somebody in the pile of debris was moaning and i said, relax, i see help coming. >> reporter: at this weekend's reunion, they honored those who were lost. >> renee lebeau. >> denise ben-ben. >> reporter: on friday, captain al haynes and first officer

they aimed for the closest airfield, sioux city. in the cabin passengers took the crash position. >> i prayed for the pilots just to get strength to get down. >> on the ground, emergency crews stood ready. >> wings level, gear was down, nose was up, i had no idea how fast a dc-10 should land. looked like it was going to be a good landing to me. >> but the plane was approaching almost 100 miles an hour faster than it should. and then just feet from the ground this. >> and then we smashed into the earth. it was incredible. i remember involuntarily closing my eyes can't believe we hit this hard. >> 112 people died, miraculously though 184 others lived. >> somebody in the pile of debris was moaning and i said, relax, i see help coming. >> at this weekend's reunion they honored those who were lost. >> renee -- >> denise -- >> yesterday, the captain and first officer walked down the runway that they so desperately tried to safely land on that day still burdened by the memories of those who didn't make it. >> i'm happy 184 survived, but we

in 1989, the plane cartwheeled into a huge fireball on a runway at sioux city airport, scenes eerilyimilar to last year's asiana crash at sfo. they attempted an emergency landing after discovering hydraulic problems with the engines. 184 people survived that crash. now, one of the survivors is a flight attendant, who spent years lobbying for changes to a common rule. >> reporter: in the chilling minutes before united airlines flight 232 cartwheeled down the runway in sue city, iowa, chief flight attendant, jan brown, remembers giving very specific instructions for the impending crash. >> parents with lap children, place them on the floor at this time, and hold them. and i just could not believe i was saying those words. it was the most ludicrous thing i'd ever said in my life. >> reporter: while 184 people survived the crash, among the 112 passengers killed was 22-month-old evan tsao, ripped from the arms of his mother, who confronted brown among the wreckage. >> she looked up at me and told me to put my baby on the floor and that it would be okay and he's gone. >> reporter: for 25 y

he read the law in sioux city and wanted to get back to des moines. the civil war stat started and a partner in a law firm he was interested in went to lead a regimen and he left. cassidy and poke was the name and cassidy left and it became poke and hubbell. he was criticized by some for not volunteering for the war. some democrats did this and were accused of being copper heads or anti-war or pro-southern. but i think he wasn't interested in fighting. and like jd rockfeller, a lot of business man didn't join to fight in the civil war and made a lot of funny. so f.m. hubbell is one of those woo didn't fight and made a lot of money. he made a lot of money buying distre distressed property. he realized if he spent cash on land and foreclosure properties he could make a lot of money. he went almost broke buying up the properties but when the economy turned around after the civil war he made a lot of money. after going into real estate, working for the poke and hubbell with a specialty in real estate; but they realized there was opportunity in railroad de

. >> sioux city. >> that's exactly right. >> tells you he studied the map. >> what's to say chris christie aggressively in iowa. keep in mind john mccain got the nomination in 2009 and barely in iowa. i'm not convinced christie or some establishments on the republican side will aggressively compete. >> let me stop you guys and try this quickly on the democratic side. elizabeth warren was busy this week. hillary clinton did an interview with charlie rose. she asked hillary clinton, if you run for president what will be the big idea? she mentions income and equality. listen to how she says it. >> we have to make a campaign about what we would do. you have to run a very specific campaign that talks about the changes you want to make in order to tackle growth, which is the hand maiden of inequality. >> you got that? growth is the handmaiden of inequality. that's one way to talk about it. here's another. >> the way i see this, citibank, goldman sachs, and all those other guys on wall street, they've got plenty of folks in the united states senate who are willing to work on their side. we need s

. >> reporter: take a look at this video taken by ape k customary wal-mart in sioux city, iowa.ve what he was seeing. that woman in the blagoes to he, puts her hand on the back of the woman in black. the woman was hoping to buy diapers on sale. when told she would buy one at discount price. not four. the other woman, stepped in to pay for the rest. $120. that video now going viral. when we tracked down the woman who helped her, 73 year older carol flynn she wasn't sure what a viral video was. >> i don't quite understand all the particulars, someone told me it had gone viral is that the correct word, viral. >> reporter: carol told us it was quite simple. >> i said paying forward is a neat thing to do. i am sure you will pay it forward some team to somebody else. >> reporter: we found that grateful mom. >> all i could tell her was thank you. god bless you. >> reporter: it reminded us of a moment we read about in a blog in oakland city, indiana. her husband lost his job of 17 years they lost their home. when she didn't have enough money at the checkout the cashier asked do you want

in sioux city, when the uncontained engine failure occur, those tears that were in the skin for that engine created very sharp and clear cuts in the skin. they went right through it. those are made out of titanium. the shrapnel from them is made from aluminum alloys it's a more soft material and greater size. there's more folded in metal on the impact zone. this would indicate to me it came from a missile. >> explain how this system works. the missile doesn't hit the plane. the missile detonates 300 feet from the target and it sends out this cloud of shrapnel. why does it work that way? >> well, carol, it's a proximity fuse and what happens is the shrapnel disables all mechanisms on the airplane, the guidance system, the cockpit, and the rest of it. it makes sure there's a complete total kill of an airplane. and also you don't have to be that accurate. you can get in front of the airplane and that's enough to take it down. these weapon systems are very efficient, very sophisticated and a boeing 777, there's no doubt it was going to bring it down. >> so if the shrapnel penetrated the

bridge in bad shape that is historic london bridge, in lake halve sioux city, arizona the structure movedm london to arizona more than 40 years ago. officials insist the tabloid is wrong and the landmark's fine. they point out the bridge is due to get $600,000 worth of upgrades. mark nixon the may or of lake havasu stip the city's asked the tabloid to retract the article. have they responded to your request? >> they have removed the article from the website, but at this point they have not agreed to print a retraction. >> we mentioned the $600,000 in upgrades that are planned for the bridge. okay, be honest are they upgrades or repairs? >>. >> well, i think they're both. over the last ten years we've spent about 1.5 million to keep the bridge in tip-top shape and we're continuing to do that going forward about another $600,000. but we've made a lot of improvements, such as lighting and some of the pillars and that sort of thing. all in all, i don't understand how they believe the london bridge is falling down because clearly it's not falling down. >> it's safe, you're saying? >> absolutel

this is not indicative of what you'd see like in an aircraft like in sioux city when we had that accident32. in that case the engine had an uncontained failure and pieces of titanium cut through this. theers little plugs, little holes going the other way. now from the other side, you can see from the inside that something came from the outside in. >> it looks like a piece of paper to the viewer. it looks so fragile. >> well, this is thin. this material on the outside of that aircraft is not very thick. we're talking 0.085 of an inch thick. before you go -- >> sorry. >> this is where we find out where it is. this is station 298.5. >> which is each part of the plane. >> each one of these bulkheads. this is 287, so these are the stringers. you can see they're wider here than there, so that tell us which direction it's going. >> this is the video of how a buk would operate. the operator sees the object, then they shoot. we're just going to show this. this is a russian re-enactment of how a buk would work, everybody. this is not actually what happened on this day. the plane is trying along. th

since sioux city there have been more incidents where lap children were injured or killed, includings crash. u.s. air flight 1016 where remarkably 20 others survived. >> the parent can't hold the child, so that child becomes a flying object in the cabin. >> reporter: former ntsb official john golea calls the lap child controversy one of the most troubling unresolved issues from his years of investigating transportation safety. >> if there's not en blood, you don't get a new rule. >> reporter: the faa says forcing parents to buy tickets for their babies, would -- opting for highway trip that is they say are more dangerous and would result in more child deaths. among parents we spoke with, we ard both views. >> flights are so expensive, and to have to pay a full fare for a child, a lot of people would probably drive instead. >> reporter: even if the faa argued that it would be better to hold your child in an airplane than buckle him into a child seat in a car, on their own website they talk about the danger. the safest place for your child on an airplane is in a government approved chi

we have another veteran who was a pilot in the air force, and he's been a college professor in sioux city. and came in second in the race for the united states senate. and has agreed to run for state treasurer, sam clovis. will be a great addition to our executive council. we have an iowa farmer who's a great secretary of agriculture, bill northy. we need to reelect bill northy. and you know, we had a great cpa state auditor, david boudon. he got elected as the only cpa running for state auditor. and he was kind of a voice in the wilderness until kim and i came along and said we're going to put the station's financial house in order. we're going to follow the recommendations of the cpa auditor. the government accounting standards board, which sets accounting standards for all state and local governments said, hey, we need a new chair for our organization, and they chose david boudon. and it pays a heck of a lot more than state auditor. so he is now chair for the next seven years, with the government accounting standards board. even though he's working in greenwich, connecticut, he's commu

remember the sioux city crash united airlines several years ago in the '80s where the plane came in intact and hit the ground and broke up fully loaded with fuel and you had that same time of fireball go up in the air. >> trace gallagher, thanks. now over to gretchen carlson in studio j. >> thanks so much, shep. we have d.j. frost. no doubt you can shed light on what we've been hearing now with regard to that video. what do you make of how this plane was hit? >> gretchen, i also want to allay everyone's fears and to say go ahead with travel plans this summer. it's an isolated incident. keep that in mind. it could have taken off the wing. a plane cannot fly with one wing. that could have had a control of the crash at that point. what i'm very curious about is they were running 30 minutes late. generally flying in that part of the world, you have overflight permits for each country. now, it's going to have to be looked at if malaysia had overflight permits and what time those overflight permits were good for. if they were running 30 minutes late and they weren't expecting them to come throug

when that engine comes apart, and let's look at sioux city, for example. when that engine comes apart, you're sending fragmentation, at least that much. but it does impact the aircraft. anywhere on that aircraft, even if it's an impact like you're talking about away from the aircraft and not through the aircraft, it would cause something to make the aircraft go down. unless it was an electro magnetic pulse or something that was caused by it, it would have shut down all the electricelca systems and thereby the aircraft could have glided down. but in this case, to me, it's just suspect. i'm not saying it's not a missile, rick. i'm just saying it's suspect to me, because if there is something significant enough in a missile or any kind of impact to that aircraft, it would have caused some sort of fire on board, whether it was a true impact or whether it was radar exploded like you said. either way, something to bring the aircraft down would have started some kind of smoke, some kind of fire, if the engines were out, in my mind. of course, i'm not a military e

you saw that in the sioux city accident and a few other accidents we've covered over the years.k of the aircraft tends to tumble and roll. so that would be an area in which people might be totally intact. >> and there's a lot that investigators can determine, even from autopsies of people, in terms of cause of death. that can give you an indication of exactly what happened. >> yes, if there's smoke inhalation, david will agree with me, that will be discovered in the lungs. if there's a hypoxia situation, that's something that's discovered in awe topsy. whether this was, you know, an internal explosion versus an external explosion, all those kinds of things can certainly be determined. >> also, the speed at which the aircraft was moving as it hit the ground, that can be determined by the depth of -- that the ground itself has been sort of moved, correct? >> correct. i mean, the altitude that this -- if, indeed, this was a missile impact, that the altitude can be determined just by how large the debris field is is and, you know, approximately how serious the impact was, you know,

he went to sioux city to work in the land office there in the branched off on his own need he becamea friend agent. he wanted to get back to des moines. the civil war had started and a partner in one of the law firms he was interested in working for went to be in the regiment. the firm became polk and hubbell. he was criticized by some for not volunteering for the support. many democrats did this of course, and some democrats were using copperheads are antiwar pro-sentiment. i don't live fm hubbell was pro-southern. he just wasn't interested in fighting. and like rockefeller for instance, like jay rockefeller, i mean john d. rockefeller, rather, a lot of businessmen did not join to fight the civil war and they made a lot of money during the civil war. so f. m. hubbell is one of those. he does not go and fight and does pretty well. he made a lot of money buying distressed properties, which is true. during the financial crisis of 1857 he realized he could make a lot of money if he spent all of his available cash on land, at sheriffs sales and foreclosed property. a lot of people felt t

sioux falls. here we value prudence, we value caution. >> so prudently the mayor decided to invest in infrastructure. since 2010, the cityor rebuilt 290 miles of roadway. in 2013, sioux falls broke its construction record for a single year. >> to me if your infrastructure is not rock solid, you would go to the more visionial grand things that are hanging out there on the edges. >> like building a talented workforce, sioux falls has an unemployment rate of about 3%. that's good, but it also means there aren't enough people to fill the 2000-plus jobs currently available. the problem is statewide. >> put down your experience. >> so the governor of south dakota actually set up a kiosk in minnesota's mall of america to lure workers to his state. >> i think crews -- >> governor dennis due guard is a republican. >> i'm proud of this state. >> mayor mike is a democrat, but hugheser insists it's a win-win relationship. >> one out of every four tax dollars generated in the state of south dakota is generated out of sioux falls. the governor and i know that when south dakota does well, sioux falls wins. when sioux falls win does wel

city. all this innovation is happening in sioux falls, south dakota, the largest city in the rushmore state, population 164,676. when most people think of the dakotas these days, they think of the energy boom, but there's no oil or fracking anywhere on these 75 square miles. >> we've looked and we cannot find any oil for a long, long way. >> mike huther says sioux falls is a boomtown, nonetheless. we find our gold and our oil in other places, and that's in the hardworking people of this town. and yes, those foundations, finance, health care, retail, construction, that is what creates the boom for sioux falls. >> they first struck gold when citibank moved its credit card operations here more than 30 years ago. mike huther worked for the international banking giant. >> citibank came here because the bank usery laws were more conducive to banks making money. >> due to strict laws, the amount that banks could charge was lower than they were paying to their depositors. with banks unwilling to make loans and the entire country in a recession, south dakota saw an opportunity. in 1980, the state pa

we have another veteran who was a pilot in the airforce and he has been a college professor in sioux cityecond for the race for the united states senate and agrees to run for treasure. sam clovis. he is a great guy. we have an iowa farmer who is a great secretary of agriculture and we need to reelect bill northy. and you know we had a great cba state auditor and he was elected as the only cpa running for state auditor and he was a voice in the wilderness until kim and i came along to put the state recommendation in order and follow the recommendations of the cpa order and we did it. and the government county standards board said we need a new chair for our organization and chose david val and it pays a heck of a lot more than state auditor. and he is now chair for the next seven years of the government of county standards board. the good news is even though he is working in connecticut he is commuting from iowa because i appointed his wife as a district court judge. but the great news is we got another cpa auditor, mary moseman, who i wanted another cpa and we happen to find one that elec

meanwhile, in other news, family of pregnant woman allegedly trapped, sioux the city of philadelphia and the paramedics for her death. blames the ambulance manufacturers and the maintenance company. according to the family, 24 year old joanne rodriguez became stuck inside the ambulance after the door locked malfunction. attorneys say video shows paramedics took 17 minutes to get her into the ambulance. the pair were subsequently cited for violation. but the family says what happened in 2012 is evidence of an even bigger problem. >> a lawsuit won't bring joy ann back, won't heal the loss and pain this family has endured, but hopefully it will make the city realize that anyone who calls 911 deserves better than this. >> xavier rodriques suffered brain damage, requires around the clock care. the fire department told "eyewitness news", they could not comment on pending litigation. >>> well, there is also a renewed effort to catch a killer in south philadelphia. two billboards offer $25,000 reward for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who killed don lee. t

let's go to lily from sioux city, iowa. caller: i heard the lady talking about mexican children.now the american people have big hearts. but i want to not be naÏve about what is going on. i have direct involvement where i found out information. they were using the children, the cartels were using the children to smuggle drugs in their suitcases, and counterfeit money sometimes, on bus trips. these children were supposed to be heading into mexico to spend a couple of weeks with their fathers. they were supposedly from broken families. they were lying about it all. host: david shirk? guest: this goes back to an earlier comment from a caller, are these children being used as decoys or distractions for u.s. law enforcement? i do think children are used by cartels and gains in a number of ways, unfortunately. reference to in what the earlier caller was describing as a vast conspiracy to distract u.s. authorities, i don't think that is the case. but i agree with the sentiment of this caller that children are used by organized crime groups in unfortunate ways. i want to back up to the c

the only type of skin damage was in sioux city in 1982 with an uncontained engine fire. >> so these arethis a smoking gun that this is -- i think it's called a fragmenting warhead is how it is described. it explodes near it shooting out shrapnel rather than going into the plane. >> correct. the missiles were impact missiles before. they had terrible reliability. now what they have is this spreads out more like a shotgun rather than a bullet. so it is sending out all this debris against the aircraft and causing a zipline here. if you look at the line of where these hit, it would have caused the fuselage to fail in that line. and the lines then failed when the aircraft came apart. >> does that lead you to believe that the plane broke up in air or there was still a major impact. >> because the tail is not that far from the main wreckage is that it did break up in air, however the main part of the aircraft stayed together until it was near the ground at that time when the tail came off. so if it had come off at 33,000 feet, obviously they would be much farther apart than they really are. >>

the rapid city journal is not the largest newspaper in south dakota, that goes to the argus leader in sioux falls. the rapid city journal definitely and definitively won the week this week in terms of south dakota journalism. maybe in terms of the whole country's journalism in one specific way about the rapid city journal won this week for the best ending to a news story. it's the kind of ending to a news story you want to like get tattooed on your back. maybe in english, maybe after translating it into latin. there is not an award for journalism -- your story wins the best.

the rapid city journal is not the largest newspaper in south dakota, that goes to the argus leader in sioux falls. the rapid city journal definitely and definitively won the week this week in terms of south dakota journalism. maybe in terms of the whole country's journalism in one specific way about the rapid city journal won this week for the best ending to a news story. it's the kind of ending to a news story you want to like get tattooed on your back. maybe in english, maybe after translating it into latin. there is not an award for journalism -- your story wins the best. if there was an award, this story would get it. this is amazing. the rapid city journal and their coverage of the fact that the down of sweat, south dakota has put itself up for sale. the town of sweat is in bennett county, south dakota, it's about two hours southeast of rapid city. the entire town consists of six acres of land, one house, three trailers, a workshop and a bar. a notable roadside tavern. this is sweat, south dakota, the bar is called the sweat tavern. even though the town is very small, it's population i

they live in sioux city. they live in new orleans, they live all across this land. the board of directors are those people with voter registration cards in their pocket. they are the ones who run this country. to whom we ones are accountable. the president knows. he knew when he was in the senate. he knew when he began his campaign for office. he knew, he knew what george washington told us in his farewell address. which was, only a reverence for the division of powers crafted by the constitution would allow ur country to be strong. he knew it. he campaigned on it. and the pressures of the job, the pressures of this horrible, horrible job i'll tell you that is president of the united states have caused him to lose sight of that constitutional mooring. and we, the board of directors, must bring him back. now, we're goinged to introduce try to do it through a lawsuit here in the u.s. house, the private sector has already done it through multiple lawsuits, through the supreme court, the american people need to do it not at the ballot box, because this president will ne

city landfill. >> the police went out to the sioux falls landfill, a 470-acre property that serves five counties and almost a quarter of a million people. >> it was estimated that there was probably two to three dozen tons of garbage brought out in the days that we had been looking for darlene. >> it's below zero with the frigid windchill. through the trash one foot at a time. >> for the three dozen searchers, the job was difficult and frustrating. it went on for days with no guarantee the body was even in the landfill. >>> she wanted to bring that little morsel of joy into your life. every time i saw a photo, i saw a smile and a big smile. >> three weeks after darlene went missing her friends, family and the deaf community gathered for a memorial service even though investigators hadn't yet found her body. >> we knew we were going to have a challenge ahead of us to locate her body. ♪ ♪ great rates for great rides. geico motorcycle, see how much you could save. she thought she'd feel better after seeing her doctor. and she might have if not for kari, the identity thief who stole jill's social securi

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