all in a no-touch design. >>> the national transportation safety board is holding a meeting today. tion on the scope of just how bad this problem is and any solutions out there. >>> president bill republicanton and zorj bush are scheduled to host a benefit in d.c. today for the night 93 national memorial. flight 93 crashed in pennsylvania on a field back in september 11th. >>> and l.a. galaxy and they are going to be guests of the white house reception today. the first lady michelle obama will be there on the let's move initiative. >>> if you have kids you know taking them to the doctor to get their shots can be really unpleasant not only for them but also for you. >> you cried when you told me this story. >> very upsetting. >> a look at five ideas and tips, what you need to think about to make them a little less painful. >> and firefighters rappel down a wall and into a river to save man's best friend. the whole thing caught on camera. >> and one town there say it was a nasty afternoon weather wise. >>> rain, patchy fog and humidity. when it all gos bye bye. details coming up. >>>

the governing body to sit on the board? >> right. that is exactly the issue they want you to focus on on. the national transportation safetyoard you say look, we wouldn't let the safety of airplanes be governed by the airlines themselves. why would we do this? >> well, there was a deal done between woodrow wilson and the bankers, and this is the deal. it changed a little bit in the past, and it can change again. the bankers could become part of an advisory committee. have some genuinely independent people on the board of the feds. >> the ceo of ge was in fact sitting on the board of the new york fed at the same time that ge was getting tens of billion dollarses of dollars of commercial paper. so this biplay seems to be continuing, and has been continuing for some period of time. >> it actually has gotten worse recently. since the very big banks got this unconditionable guarantee. we now call them too big to fail for a reason. >> i want to make it clear to folks -- it is starting to lightning and thunder at the very time you suggested this. is that because your idea is shaking the foundations of our financial system? >> abs

members of the national transportation safety board on the scene after two small planes collided in mid-airkilling two people. it happened yesterday afternoon at 4:00. now we know the identity of the pilot who survived the crash. we get the details from john gonzales. >> seconds after the planes collided in mid-air, t.r. corbin landed his plane on robert taylor's fra arm. >> severely damaged but mostly intact. grass and tree branches litter the inside. amateur video capture the second plane, a slightly larger plane about a mile away in a backyard involved in claims. ntsb investigators recovered the body of the passenger and pilot. the victims in the first plane have not been identified. the nearby red it was out in his yard around 4:00 this day afternoon when he noticed a plane hovering over histories. trees trees. >> this piper landed only 70 feet from the large tree line. it actually had to fly right through it to land safely. even bringing with him parts of the other plane. >> it the enginef engine had been running that usually means it was all. the surviving pilot was taken to mary wash

. >> when i think of the national transportation safety board and the good work they do, actually the remarkable work they i do, and all they do is take recommendations which can or cannot be actually taken up by the industries that they are investigating. i don't know what we can do as a committee. i think it's a waste of taxpayer funds if all of these recommendations that are being made and the potential savings that are rejected in the $87 billion range, if we can't force these departments to take the actions of the inspector general. >> i thank the young lady without option. mr. miller, the additional papers that you refer to. additionally, we will take the collated recommendations we have been taking for years from inspectors general directly available to you and include them in the record. it has been the policy under both chairman townsend and myself to collect those catalogs even if they don't have the authority, we do have the authority to see that the administration adheres to them and so i would love to work with the gentle lady on that. so in closing, we will go to the cha

they say they have made progress in putting in recommendations outlined by the national transportation safety board. after the 2010 pipeline explosion. improvements include pressure testing and automating dozens of valves. they also note they have upgraded their emergency procedure. >>> a airman killed during a security exercise involving an atomic bomb was laid to rest today in san francisco. rob roth talked to his daughter about the cold war tragedy. >> reporter: here in the national cemetery the staff sergeant was buried with full honors finally. he died when his plane crashed while in a secret mission during the cold war 62 years ago but his funeral was today. his daughter was only two at the time. today is a celebration. >> to be able to honor my father in this way and to have so many other people coming together to honor him. it's just -- a great gift. >> reporter: he was last seen on valentine's day in 1950 parachuting out of a bomber like this one over british could lue why. he was just 28. the military said he and his crew were in a secret training exercise practicing in ais of war. the pl

and now the national transportation safety board is asking its canadian counterparts to assist because one pilot worked for the ntsb and the other worked for the faa. bruce leshan has more. >> the pilot of this beach craft is thomas provin. an faa employee from broad run, virginia, near manassas. you can see that there's very, very little damage here to the propeller. it may have been stalled. he may have been gliding in and he was both lucky and skilled because he threaded the needle between those trees. one of the trees sheered off his right wing, but he still survived. i talked to his wife in their hospital room. she said he was okay, but not yet ready to talk to us. investigators not talking at this point, but look at this very interesting damage. this hole right here with red paint around it. and then the damage down here to this wing. the back of the wing and the tearing of the metal like that. those are st kinds of things that investigators are going to be looking at to see if they can pinpoint this midair collision. investigators head deep into the woods to examine the remains

duncan was a doctor who worked for the national transportation safety board and previously worked for nasa as a flight surgeon and served as the lead for the nasa team rescuing the 33 trapped miners in chile in 2010. >>> and jerry sandusky will go to trial for child sex abuse charges next week. a judge denied a request for sandusky's attorney to delay the trial and starting the trial is best for sand of you thinket and alleged victims and he's facing a total poof counts and is accused of abusing 10 boys. >>> the former baseball great is accused of lying to congress in '08 when he denied taking performance-enhancing drugs. the defense called on witness whose described his worth ethnic high school and college saying that hard work is what turned him into a great pitcher. >>> and still ahead here, saying goodbye to the godfather of go go this week and you can't help his memory, you can. how to donate the chuck brown memorabilia for a new public display. sue. >>> and it was a beautiful day here locally. not too far away and including the beaches. they got a taste of the tropical depressio

the pilots were employees of the faa, the national transportation safety board has now asked canadian transportation officials to conduct their investigation. >>> maryland's recently passed same-sex marriage law is going to be headed for a public vote in november. opponents to the law have submitted more than 113,000 signatures to get the measure on the ballot. now that's more than double the 55,700 they needed. maryland state board of elections says they have 20 days to verify that those signatures are valid. if they are, the law will be on the november ballot. >>> barring a bizarre upset, which isn't going to happen, mitt romney clinches a nomination for president tonight. the former massachusetts governor needs 58 delegates to wrap up the bid and 152 are up for grabs in today's texas primary. rewards delegates for the number of votes candidate gets statewide. that means romney will need just 38% of the vote to win the nomination. he received at least 67% in the last four primaries. >>> the latest polls show romney's next race, the one for the white house is still pretty much up for

the other was with the national transportation safety board. e small planes collided yesterday over fauquier county. the ntsb pilot and his passenger were killed. >> you can tell that whoever was in that probably did not survivor. >> i'll never forget that site. >> i'll never forget that, especially on memorial day. >> the pilot and the other plane was hurt, but he is recovering. his name thomas provin of virginia. an accident investigator for the faa. >>> facebook stock has been floundering ever since the initial public offering this month, but today their price fell below $30 for the very first time. it finished the day at $28.84. that's down more than 9% for the day. >>> pack up your things and get out of town. that's the message from the united states to serious top diplomats here in washington. the ousting is because of last week's fighting in syria. they senselessly killed more than 100 people, many who were women and children. the obama administration right now opposes any military action saying that can just add to the chaos. >>> well, t

the other was with the national transportation safety board. the small planes collided monday over caulk year county. the ntsb pie -- fauquier county. the ntsb pilot and his passenger were killed. >> we could tell whoever was in that probably did not survive. >> i'll never forget that sight. >> especially on memorial day. >> the pilot in the other plane was hurd but he is recovering. -- hurt but he is recovering. >>> the canada transportation agency is investigating how debris fell from a troubled airliner and whether it slammed into the ground it damaged vehicles all across southern ontario. the air canada flight took off from toronto headed for tokyo. this is monday afternoon. on the ground below, police say chunks of debris fell in several places near the airport, including a gas station parking lot. some windshields were smashed but luckily no people were hurt. >> i came back pretty shocked to see this obviously. yeah, just really, really strange, not something i expected to happen today having airplane debris on my windshield. >> i was surp

for example, if the national transportation safety board goes to a crash site to uncover what went wrong with an aircraft that is performance based. if after doing that they make recommendations on the safety of that particular type of plain then that is transactional based. and i believe that we should ensure that there is transactional based oversight especially with our nuclear facilities. performance based oversoithd is good for acquisition, for budgeting, for personnel programs but health, safety, the security, the oversight of all of these in particular nuclear safety and hazardous operations i believe requires transactional based oversight to relybly reduce the risks of accidents. examples of catastrophic accidents that resulted from inadequate overnight, three mile island. fukushima dai-ichi, performance based oversight allows a shift to more self-regulation by contractors and is i believe inappropriate for an industry using ultrahazardous materials and technologies. this amendment was also to ensure that the administrator cannot limit the oversight fromd seeing nsa. in other wor

when i think of the national transportation safety board and the good work they do, the really remarkable work they do, and yet all they can do is make recommend dag dagss which can or cannot be actually taken up by the industries that they are investigating. so i don't know what we can do as a committee. but i think it's a waste of taxpayer funds if all of these recommendations that are being made and the potential savings that are suggested in the $87 billion range, if we can't force these departments to take the actions that the inspector generals suggest. >> i thank the gentlelady. without objection, mr. miller and mr. weems, additional papers you referred to will be placed in the record as soon as received. additionally we will take the collated recom

planes involved are owned by employees of the federal aviation administration and the national transportation safety board. that crash happened in southern faulkier county yesterday. two people from one of the planes died after it crash landed in a wooded area and then caught fire. the pilot in the other plane survived. he's still in the hospital tonight. >>> there are new developments in the same-sex marriage fight in maryland. opponents of legalizing same-sex marriage say they delivered double the necessary signatures to force a referendum on the issue in november. the state now has 20 days to verify the signatures before deciding if the issue will go to the voters. gay marriage supporters say if it goes to a referendum, they believe the measure will pass. >>> the presidential matchup is now officially set. mitt romney won enough delegates tonight to become the republican nominee. right now he's in las vegas, hoping to raise millions of dollars alongside donald trump. brian moore has our report. >> reporter: a win in the texas primary gives mitt romney enough delegates to clinch the republican president

. >>> today, the national transportation safety board released video that captured that deadly crash in philadelphia two years ago. 35 passengers and two crew members were on that boat when it was hit by a barge being pushed by a tug boat in delaware river. two people died. lawyers for them say they plan to use the video at a civil trial to highlight that the crew didn't do much to help the passengers before or after that accident. >>> a cab driver behind bars accused of running over a man and racing off. we have to warn you. this video is disturbing. the video shows a group of folks yelling at the cab by, throwing things at him. one man kicks the taxi door. another man climbs on the roof and stomps the roof. the cab driver hits the gas and then runs over a man. there he goes. that man is now in critical condition. the cab driver charged with assault, his lawyer says his client feared for his life. >>> one airline wants to start charging passengers for their bags more than what they pay for the ticket. spirit airlines currently charges $45 for a carry on. starting november 6, that go

so is the national transportation safety board. live in montgomery county, pat collins. >> the accident comes on the same day that metro said it completed key safety improvements. the special rail guards had been installed to help trains move between the tracks reducing the rick of derailment. the ntsb recommended the guardrails after a train jumped the tracks at mount vernon square in 2007. metro has been on the safety enhancements for the past five years. the project cost $57 million. >>> a prince william county high school baseball coach is behind bars. he is accused of sending inappropriate messages to an underage student. police say richard teller has been communicating inappropriately with a 15-year-old female in the high school since february. police were tipped off on friday. no physical encounter took place between teller and the victim but after investigating, police arrested and charged him with indecent liberties. >>> take a good look at the man in this surveillance video. the d.c. police are calling him a person of inte

registered to an employee with the national transportation safety board. pilot and passenger in that plane died. given the size to the ntsb and faa, the canadian transportation safety board will now conduct into that mid-on air collision. >> local governor throws his controversial a use of military drones. virginia governor bob mcdonnell them for local law enforcement. brianne carter joins us live with his comments. good morning. >> good morning. that's right. governor bob mcdonnell speaking out on wtop, saying over the next couple years he believes drones could be the right thing to do. many in thee of area throwing their support behind the drones in the commonwealth. while he is open to looking into new technology that could officers saved comic more effective, .nd save money usehink it's great to technology to make law- more productive, cut on manpower in the air, and safe.ore that's why we use it on the battlefield. >> a number of virginia issuents have raised the of privacy. governor addressed yesterday, saying that l be something to address, maintain

in a letter to the national transportation safety board, pg&e said, quote, public safety remains highest priority in the operation of our natural gas system. >> there is a judge turning down a request by ross mirkarimi to modify a restraining order against him for him to be allowed to call his wife who is now back in her native convenient swaila. dan noyes spoke with illian. traveling last weekend to interview her about the abuse case that turned into a public scandal. and mirkarimi has not spoken with her for more than four months because of the restraining order. >> i was suspended without pay, or due process, made unable to provide for my family. so that we're just trying to survive. >> prosecutor says if there is any change lopez would have to appear in court under oath and requesting it be lifted. now to see the abc 7 news interviews with mirkarimi and his wife go to abc 7 news.com. >> three heart transplants in three days in packyard childrens hospital. a place that normally performs about 15 a year. young people have been given a new chance at life at almost exactly the same life

we have been able to learn the pilot is an internist who recently took a job with the national transportation safety board as the chief technical advisor for medical issues. officials say dr. duncan was at the controls of the plane when it collided with a single- engine piper that just took off from culpeper airport. according to online records, the beachcraft was built in 1979 and co-owned with a woman identified as candace duncan. it indicates it was in compliance with federal regulations. with the doctor's connections to the ntsb, the investigative agency asked the canadian transportation board to probe what happened. the pilot of the piper, 70-year- old thomas probin, survived the collision and was able to land in a field. he walked away with minor injuries and he is an investigator with the federal aviation system. the weather was clear when the planes collided on monday and one of the planes caught fire after the impact. at the bethesda and buc homes, people who -- burke homes, people who came to the doors to comment, we reached the surviving pilot and he declined to comment. >>> a soldier from nort

duncan worked for the national transportation safety board as a medical advisor. he worked as a flight is your jan for nasa. he headed the nasa team that helped official rescue the 33 miners trapped in a chilean mine. thomas proofman was at the control of this plane which lost part of a wing and tale >>> the wing of a cargo plane taxiing at chicago o'hare clipped a it commuter plane. passengers had to be removed from the american eagle commuter jet. passengers and crews on both planes were checked out 0 as a precaution. no one was hurt. the f.a.a. is investigating. >>> a springfield, virginia, family is mourning the loss of a loved one in afghanistan. chief warrant officer john pratt was one of two people killed in a helicopter crash on memorial day. fox 5's tom fitzgerald talked to some of his fellow coworkers. >> reporter: john pratt used to work at the haley company, a real estate developing firm in silver spring. he flew helicopters for the company going to various companies. but he said he announced it was time to leave them and serve his country. >> reporter:

a doctor with the national transportation safety board. duncan on the far left and others were honored by the president after leading the medical team that inspected the site where 33 chilean miners were trapped recommendations that helped save their lives. back at the crash site, investigators are trying to figure out who was at the controls. >> we'll be looking at the man, the machine, the environment. after we collect this information, we'll begin the process of analysis, writing draft reports and in the end a final report. >> reporter: because the owners of the planes work for two government-related agencies, canadian transportation safety board officials are handling the investigation. in warrenton, jane watrel, news4. >>> we're track have the remnants of tropical depression beryl tonight. the storm spawned a tornado that destroyed homes today near the north carolina coast. emergency officials say 40 to 50 homes were significantly damaged, two to three home were destroyed. so far there are no reports of injuries. doug has a look at thi

and the second plane that plummeted into a wooded area is owned by an employee of the national transportation safety board. the two people on board that plane both died. bringing in canadian investigators will help prevent any interagency conflict. >>> thousands of d.c. music fans lined up yesterday to pay their respects to the late chuck brown. the viewing for the godfather of go go took place yesterday inside the howard theater while a block party of sorts went on outside to celebrate his life. while he was in prison in lorton, virginia, brown swapped a case of cigarettes to get a guitar and that changed his life. a decade later his fusion of several music styles had a name. it was called go go. and lots of loyal fans around washington. generations of fans in fact looked up to brown. >> his work is what d.c. is all about if you're from washington. >> brown died two weeks ago. he was 75. last night's viewing was interrupted by a major thunderstorm. but after the rain passed, the remaining fans got their wish and they were allowed back into the theatre. tomorrow on 9news now, we'll have live coverage of a

the national transportation safety board confirm the twin engine plane lost contact with air control.lane went down shortly after leaving oklahoma. the victims were on their way to a crestian youth rally in iowa. >>> to afghanistan, word of two deadly drone attacks against al-qaeda. still no confirmation from washington. military officials saying it it happened in the southern part of the country. the first strike reportedly killed six mill and the second strike took out another five insurgents. >>> i'm elizabeth prann in new york. now, back to "justice" with judge jeanine. harris faulkner. now, back to "justice." >>> if somehow he is seeing this we want you to come home, baby. we love you. our world is not right without you. be safe. >> gavin smith is a successful movie executive. married and the father of three boys but where is he? he disappeared 11 days and go and the los angeles sheriff's department is looking for him. steve whitmore is the spokesman. steve, are you with us? >> yes, judge. i am. thank you. >> thanks for joining us. we know how busy you are. all the circumstances

metro is investigating and notified the national transportation safety board about the incident. >>> house says the president misspoke when honoring a world war ii hero. >> before one trip across enemy lines, resistance fighters told him the jews were being murdered on a massive scale. and smuggled him into the warsaw ghetto in a polish death camp to see for himself. >> that comment angered many polish people who say the president should have referred to the camps as a german death camp in occupied -- nazi-occupied pole ant. poland's foreign minister even called the remark a matter of ignorance and incompetence. the president made that comment while awarding the medal of freedom to jan karski, a former georgetown professor and resistance fighter against the nazis in world war ii. he died in 2000. the obama administration later apologized and said the president misspoke. >>> in decision 2012, the ballot is officially set. mitt romney has locked up the gop nomination with an easy win in texas. the milestone is being overshadowed by a romney supporters. angie goff now with more on that.

they point out the filmmakers didn't invite the faa, the national transportation safety board, or theis would have been a perfect, golden opportunity, to allow the industry to collect valuable data. and i don't think discovery or any of the folks that may have participated in this really were equipped to collect. >> reporter: discovery insists it was not a stunt. that the team included leading scientists and veteran crash investigators, and that the project underwent a full safety review by pilots and mexican authorities. still, this is the first such experiment since 1984, when nasa and the faa crashed a jet into the mojave desert in california. the resulting inferno helped establish new rules on fire prevention. but when fox planned to do the same thing for a tv special in 1999, the network scrapped the idea. >> the faa doesn't want people just out there crashing airplanes for sensationalist reasons. >> reporter: as for this latest crash, discovery says it won't release the official footage until the documentary airs later this year. viewers may then decide whether the plunge was in

joining us to discuss this, the former managing director of the national transportation safety board,er, joining us, look, an important situation going on out there. what's your assessment of the new report about the continuing episodes of air traffic contollers failing to pay attention on the job? >> well, the key words that you've got is continuing. this is not the first time that we've heard of this. this seems to be a repeating story, and it's two parts of it. one is, you've got problem behavior, continuing in our air traffic control system and secondly, you've got administrative oversight that simply isn't doing anything about it. and it's a big problem. and you know, it comes back to the fact that the complaints are pretty much the same as we've discussed, people falling asleep and here is one that's disturbing, emergency service helicopters used by first responders, peter, nationwide, nationwide incorrectly fitted for night vision and says the pilot's ability to read the instruments. what's that about and what does the f.a.a. need to do about it? >> well, they were putting in a

. >> but an investigation by the national transportation safety board finds the crash could have >> in case, we obviously had a healthy live pilot to be able to talk to so that's where we're going to center in on. >> the ntsb determines the reason for engine failure, pilot error. the pilot ran out of gas and didn't switch over to his reserve fuel tank. >> in the hospital, he came up and i thanked him for saving our lives, because he did. he landed the craft, everybody walked away for the most part. however, in the same breath, damn, i wish you wouldn't have crashed our plane. >> in the years since the plane crash, the fisher brothers have recovered from their injuries but neither has set foot in a small plane again. the accident has given them a new lease on life. >> it made us both realize that time is more important than anything. time and your family, time goes fast. i want to use it the best i can. >> mark and ron spend that time together. since the crash, they're closer than ever. >> it's definitely made us tighter. i still don't like him a lot but i like him more than i did. he's

metro is investigating and has notified the national transportation safety board about this incident. things have gone from bad to worse for facebook shareholders. the social network's stock took another tumble yesterday. fell about 9% to hit a new low of $29 a share. that's down about 23% from its ipo less than two weeks ago. facebook's market value has plummeted about $20 billion since that initial public offering. that's according to reuters. >>> one week and counting until a casino dubbed one of the largest in the country opens here in our region. news4 got a sneak peek inside maryland live at arundel mills. listen to the stats here -- it is $500 million, the cost of the complex, the size of three football fields. it includes 3,200 slots, six restaurants, plus it has retail and live entertainment space. the casino will have a late night opening wednesday at 10:00 p.m. maryland live will close regularly at 2:00 a.m. during the week and 4:00 a.m. on the weekends. >> that's when we come to work. who can stay up that late? >> i couldn't do it. >> all right 5:36. 67 degrees. keeping st

. >>> the national transportation safety board is investigating a deadly plane crash in fauquier countyinia. >> two planes collided in mid area over the community of bealeton. there was a surviving pilot. he was able to make an emergency landing in a nearby field. that was despite losing a wing off his plane. he's hospitalled in fredricksburg right now. both people on the second plane however died when that plane crashed into a wooded area and then caught fire. >>> expect big crowds around the howard theatre today. the viewing for chuck brown starts later this morning. generations of fans are expected to pay their respects to the godfather of go-go. 9news now reporter delia goncalves is live at the theatre with a preview. how many people are they expecting throughout the day? >> reporter: we're told they're hearing anything from 3,000 to 30,000. and it could exceed that number so certainly lots of folks are coming in. we know family will have a private viewing from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. and then 11:00 a.m. the doors open for his thousands of fans who will come to say their final goodbyes.

metro says it is simply following recommendations from the national transportation safety board to upgrade its system. it does, however, plan to add extra trains on the red and green lines to move the expected large crowds. attention metro riders. every metro line will be affected this weekend as a result of scheduled track work. >> okay. let's get to know it. >> reporter: good to know because the weekend will be bus wi the caps' playoff game, nationals game, and breast cancer walk. four stations on the green line from fort totten to green belt will be closed with buses running as metro installs what is about to be known as a number # switch, a safety measure that prevents derailments. >> it can only happen over three-day weekends because it is so complex you have to take both tracks out of service to bring in the heavy machinery and start ripping out tracks on both sides. >> reporter: already riders are making plans like these verizon center workers. >> leave hours early. that is the best i can think of. several hours early. it's going to be one tracking because i do ride the subway. >> r

the national transportation safety board said there were no distress calls before the crash. >>> they are now looking at the summer and long term options for the piece of farm land in albany. they are facing a looming deadline. occupy protestors said they would take down the tents inside the gated property. two demonstrators are camped outside and not leaving. they set up a slide for chirp to make their way over the fence. >> our focal point is access. access for the farmers and the community. we are committed to maintaining access. we are not the ones looking the dates here -- locking the gates here. school said important agricultural research is scheduled to begin this week. >> 25 homeless moms in san francisco are going to be given the star treatment. they will enjoy a brunch in the francis drake hotel. >> this is the 18th year they will be pampered for mother's day. >> they deserve it. all you mothers deserve to be pampered out there. happy mother's day to all of you including lawsuit deny and rosemary. >> everyone should be celebrated. you know a mom, love a mom. have a mom. >> w

safety board has been asked to take over the investigation. why? because the crash involved employees from both the national transportation safety board and the faa.at. rick? >> reporter: that's right, jon. this disaster hits particularly close to home for those two federal agencies, and that's why the ntsb which would normally take the lead on something like this asked canadian officials to get involved. they wanted to avoid any potential conflict of interest, and the decision to ask canada to jump in came after the head of the ntsb consulted with the acting administrator of the faa. now, one of the two victims who died in this crash is a pilot, james duncan. he worked for the ntsb and also provided support for nasa. he and his passenger's plane collided with another small plane, this was on memorial day over virginia just about 50 miles or so from the nation's capital. both people onboard that second plane did survive, though they were injured. the pilot on that second plane an inspector with the faa, and the planes ended up going down just about a mile from each other, spreading wreckage across terrain that was very tough for investigators to g

mayor gray will be joined at the ceremony by first responders and chairman of the national transportation safety board all its o rye en6 buses from service. >> metro says the fires were in the hydraulic system and caused by two different hoses in the buses that were not properly installed. no one was hurt in the incident, but after the second fire, metro took all 95 of the buses out of service. metro's bus chief says the design is too dangerous to put the buses back on the road, and metro' gm says it makes more sense to replace them rather than fixing them. >> we didn't want to take the risk. if we had made all the modifications, it probably would have been okay. this is a faster thing, will give us better and safer buses and more efficient buses, too. >> the buses were due to be replaced in a few years. metro is using its fleet of reserve buses until the new replacements begin arriving in september. >>> 8:24 now on this friday morning. coming up next, the first lady taking time to honor military moms and wives with a special afternoon at the white house. >> also ahead, redskins hall of famer monk fil

because this is key, an intense extensive investigation by the national transportation safety board eventuallymined that the probable cause of the accident was two-fold. the failure to the mate of the caribbean sea, which was the tugboat to maintain a proper lookout due to his decision to operate that vessel from the lower wheelhouse. also distraction and intensiveness as a result of his repeated personal use of his cell phone. also turns out that the driver of the duck boat was anchoring his vessel in an active navigation channel, something he shouldn't have been doing. martha: looks like he was smack in the middle of that channel when they shut down the engines. julie, thank you, what a story. that is awful. bill: never get a view like that before. but it really drives it home too. >>> there is fresh fallout in this diplomatic crisis. why china is now demanding an apology from us. we'll explain. martha: plus a new security agreement now with afghanistan. what exactly does that mean? and who will fill the vacuum once u.s. troops are out of there in 2014? will the taliban fight its way back to

the national transportation safety board is investigating just what happened. they said there was no distress call and the pilot lost control with the air traffic control shortly after descending to a lower level. right now the focus is on hope. hannah is expected to get out of the hospital in two three weeks and make a full recovery. >> it's amazing. absolutely amazing. >> it really is. thank you so much. >>> first check of the weather now with sam. >> good monday morning. robin, george, linsey. hello, everyone. we're going to start with pictures of strong storms. these storms we've had this spring have had an awful lot of hail with them. imagine, you just step out the front door and get a picture of some hail. now imagine, like this. you're taking a shot of the hail outside. >> oh, my gosh, right near my freaking house, people. >> you look up, you see that coming over the neighborhood. the signature, when you see hail it doesn't necessarily mean there's always a tornado. but it's a sign of severe storms. so you need to be very, very careful when you're out loo

to land in a strong wind but crashed quarter of a mile short in a marshfield the faa and national transportation safety board are looking into that crash >>a strong round of spring storms brought heavy rain and hail stones to the chicago area overnight it caused extensive damage and flooding in some parts these pictures are from the northwest suburban niles the rain caused flooding in parking lots lawns and streets some of the northern suburbs cut as much as 2 in. of rain just a few hours and in some areas residents reported hailstones the size of golf balls here's how it looked and sounded in northwest suburban harwood heights is rain and hail storms pounded neighborhoods people there also reported hailstones the size of golf balls as did some residents in the northwest side of the chicago the bulls and the philadelphia 76ers' playoff series resumes tonight and joakim noah and company have to find a way to win without derrick rose ... dan roan is live in philadelphia ... >>to come back and reassert control of the series the team will have to make changes before game 3 tactical and emotional >>with or withou

the other, a national transportation safety board employee. the canadian transportation safety board has been called in to the crash site to investigate. >> because of the denseness of the woods in that area, the remote location, it is a challenge to access. the troopers have encountered snakes and everything, trying to go through the wooded area and locate every piece of debris and pieces of the plane they can. >> reporter: the goal of canadian safety investigators will be to figure out what caused the mid-air collision. they will have a media briefing on wednesday. jane watrel, news4. >>> a steady stream of people lining up at the howard theater. they're there to pay homage to the go-go legend chuck brown celebrating his life and music. the viewing started this morning. it will continue until 10:00 tonight. in the meantime, the d.c. library is asking residents to donate old pictures, video and newspaper articles to help them create the chuck brown archive. >>> the u.s. supreme court says it will not review how police departments across the c

you went on to work with the faa and then national transportation safety board. how did those opportunities arise for you? how did you find out about the openings and move into them and what did you do? >> quite by accident. probably be at the right place at the right time. i was chief pilot for a company out in california. i took a lot of wealthy people back and forth to vegas, at all times of the night. interesting enough men made their decision making and shook hands over deals in the airplane that i was carrying them in going to vegas and back. not necessarily so much coming back but going. i was applying for a professorship in the university of alaska and i used an faa chap's name that i had known and he said, wally, what is this? you be in my office at 9:00 monday morning. oh, okay. i was there and he said you're set up for an interview next monday morning because we want you to be an investigator -- i mean, an inspector for the faa. i said, oh, my goodness. well, that takes an awful lot of education. i don't know if i can -- of course i can do that. caught

the city spent 450 miles of roadway. >> national transportation safety board is investigating a man's claim he was maimed by his hyundai. the yorn says his ear was sliced off by a metal bracket after the side air bag inflainted. hyundai says there is no reports of similar incidents. >> california job outlook is looking brighter and that is encouraging for people trying to find job autos but bad news for those who cannot find one. >> there is unemployment this week less this week because of new regulations mandating cuts as a state employment picture improves. instead of mailing out checks 99 weeks only offering benefits 79 weebs, the rate is just a tad mer than 8% here in california unemployment is hovering around 11%. since our rate has gone down, we're losing benefits. and there are eight other other states cut their benefits saturday as well, bringing cut backs to 27 states. with 400,000 not receiving checks. >> and bank rate.com says top rate is being offered at 1.05% followed by barclay. rounding out top three banks with a rate of.91%. you'll never get rich with a 1% or less return but bank rate.com says these acc