i'm a senior air safety investigator with the national transportation safety board. i want to begin by thanking major hughes of the maryland state police, his officers, his troopers, frederick county, their response in securing what will certainly be vital evidence in understanding this tragedy. i have only very, very preliminary information as mr. shipley explained. the accident occurred at 3:39. it involved a cirrus sr22 registration november 122e sierra and a robinson r44 helicopter november 7518q. at this point i've only done a cursory exam of the two sites just to see where each aircraft was located, their condition, what we're going to need to do to effect a safe examination of each. as we speak i am assembling an increasingly larger team to work this accident. so far we have helicopter specialists en route. we have an air traffic control investigator enroute. we may expand the team to include an operations specialist. i don't know that at this point. i haven't had an opportunity yet to speak to any of my supervisors, but i am the investigator in charge and if

i got the transportation board to come out here. i got them to come to minnesota bsff andorders to canadian pacific and to make sure they would get fertilizer to our farmers. then i got them back out again. it is not just grain. it is coal for our utilities. i don't want to get rid of coal. one thing we are using for electricity is natural gas. that came from this renaissance in fracking, which was developed by the department of energy. that is why we like to do energy research. i am chairman of the energy subcommittee, and this is something i love talking about. >> with all due respect, your lack of energy policy and lack of energy policy from president obama has caused a railcar shortage. you haven't approved any pipeline. the keystone pipeline has been under review process for six years. that is crazy. that is too long. pipelines are proven to be the most efficient, most environmentally sensitive way to transport oil. until you start passing pipelines we are going to have a rail car shortage. i know how to get us on the road to g

. >> now the australian transportation board is searching again with xhchief commissioner dolan in chargehigh confidence if we have the right hay stack we'll find the needle in it. >> friend and family members can only hope that's true. [ indiscernible screaming ] >> easy to forget the plight of the families. imagine the roller coaster of emotions that goes with this. go through all the stages you go through. including denial. wondering if it happened at all. in this case there is no wreckage. you can imagine how people would say, well maybe they are alive they are some where. how much would that add to your torment. >> dolan believes he has the the tools to find the answers. >> this is no easy task. but we think we have the best vessels and the best crews to carry it out well. >> and experts have continued to refine the search area. but that doesn't mean it's easy to reach. >> it's six days out from the coast of australia. and so, again, in terms of duration we have some challenges. we are operating in the range toward the limits of the equipment, which is the best equipment available. >

regulatory obstacles may stand in the way-- the u.s surface transportation board has a history of interveningand national security officials both companies refused ton. comment about the "rumors". >> and we have a beautiful weekend. hopefully it will continue >> the beautiful weather will be gone. now it's going to be wet. a lot of our beautiful color in the trees will be disappearing. boat right now we just have car the skies. 57 degrees. it will warm up. look for the chance of rain to go up as well. temperatures topping in the upper 60s. grab the umbrella for the evening commute. how are things so far this morning? >> we will get erin in just a bit. she's speaking with her producer. but coming up, we'll live with breaking news. three dead in the small plane crashed. >> the death of a child is blamed on that it respiratory virus. >> and the mayor makes changes to add police officers to in the southwest suburbs, a small plane crashes over night killing three people on board. >> the faa center in aurora reopens after being sabotaged by a suicidal employee. >>and jay cutler and b get the big wi

i just reached out to the ntsb, the national transportation safety board. it will likely be up to their investigators to look into what happened. they go into these things with a clean slate. you don't jump to any of conclusions and take into account all of the factors. i'm hearing right now, i just got an e-mail from someone with the national transportation safety board and yes, they are sending an investigator to this scene. i'm told investigators are already on the way. >> when you talk about safety at an airport, you think about air traffic controllers and towers, but apparently frederick has no tower. how does that affect safety and how are they able to help guide planes into that airport? >> reporter: this is something unusual, which is why we're covering it. so we'll just have to see before jumping to any sort of conclusions. i know that there have been some complaints about the fact that the tower issue has been rather controversial in that area, but obviously investigators will look at that. they will look at weather factors. they will look at the

. >>> the national transportation safety board spent the day getting a closer look at debris left by a mid air collision that killed three people. it hit a chopper that was taking part this a training exercise. all three men in the chopper died. his wife spoke about him tonight. >> don't know how i'm going to get through it. he was my best friend. we did everything together. he talked to me all the time. he would text me early in the morning even if he didn't have to get up early he would get up with me. we were always together skbl she says her husband from recently recovered from a severe motorcycle accident that happened seven months ago. >>> the secret service making more changes around the white house. a second fence has been moved further out to keep people away. that coming after a second man jumped the shorter fence and made it onto the lawn yesterday. he was quickly taken down by two dogs and secret service agents. >>> well, he's accused of secretly recording women in a georgetown synagogue, but we now learn he may vary been spying on college students as well. police discove

. >> the national transportation safety board wants sleepy drivers off the road.y held a day long forrum in the district called awake, alert, alive, to focus attention on just how dangerous it is to drive drowsy. craig boswell looks at some of the risks and the warning signs. >> hey safety officials say drowsy driving is impaired driving and it's deadly. i'm craig boswell with more on the warning signs coming up. >> all right. so the centers for disease control and prevention says someone who has been awake for 24 hours has the same driving impairment as someone with a blood alcohol content above the legal limit in all 50 states. we'll try to bring that information back when we get it. >> coming up at 6:00, a followup to a report that got a lot of attention. we checked in on a local teenager whose mother shipped her off to siberia with little hope of ever coming back. >> also bruce johnson talks to some african immigrants who share their stories about loved ones in the mist of the ebola crisis back home. >> and next, we look at the ma challenges residents face as

saw the bill passed i express our appreciation in leading this initiative so you as the transportation authority board are the commissions of the new treasure island mobility agency and this roll will be bringing you a plan to put together the guns with the policies and procedures and thank you to supervisor kim we're excited about the treasure island project on cap & trade the comments we provided for the california environmental protection agency stressed did revisiting the business critical definition that will help to distribute the revenue for affordable housing using the cap & trade funds we're ascertained because the formulas are unfavorable to urban areas and don't help with the voosht in the southern california so we cooperated with the governor's office including our metropolitan transportation to advocate for a fair and appropriate standard for the distribution of disadvantaged community funds for example, under the proposed metrics bayview hunters point is included even though it's a vulnerable community with respect to social and environmental efforts weight keep i posted the under the la

surface transportation board has to approve any kinds of mergers like this and they have to demonstrateto crimp competition and also enhance competition on the rails. how high a standard is that? how difficult does that make further consolidation in the railroad space today? >> kelly, you're right. they changed the rules. but i think to really understand what would be required, i think better source to ask the surface transportation board and commissioners because they interpret that clause. >> but that's not nearly as much fun as you asking you while we have you. understood you can't say much more of canadian pacific and a potential tie-up there. the question, as well, go back to the oil price then. 70% of your rev noous, that's what one of the analysts estimated derived from this, the shale boom in this country. houston and interior looking at the gains of jobs and wages and wondering if all of this, michael, in your view is in danger of being snuffed out. >> kelly, i don't know if i agree with that interpretation of 70% from the oil. we saw growth against all of the markets, ag shipm

i got the surface transportation board to comedy. i testified before them, got hae them to come out to minnesota and give orders to bnsf and canadian pacific to make sure that they would get fertilizer to our farmers. and then i got them back out again, and gave them rules to clear up this backlog on grain shipment. that it's not just green. it's taconite now we know. it's cold for our utilities. yes i have worked with our rural electric co-ops. i don't want to get rid of cold that one of the things were using for electricity now is natural gas. that came from this renaissance in fracking which was developed by the department of energy. that's why we like to do energy research. so this is -- i'm chairman of the energy subcommittee, i'm the energy and natural resource committee and this is something we will talk about. >> thank you both very much. mcfadden: excuse me. with all due respect, your lack of energy policy o of the lack f an energy policy for president obama has caused a rail car shortage. there's not been one pipeline built

. >> the national transportation safety board? >> correct. they have a team headeded in that direction to investigate. the faa is investigating this. as far as what happened, according to the faa, things went wrong at around 10:00 pacific time. that would be 1:00 our time here. they say ground control essentially lost contact with spaceshiptwo. we should remind folks at home that this is an experimental flight vehicle. on board were two pilots. we have the unfortunate news that one of the two people on board did not survive this. a little bit more about this vehicle, it's intended as you mentioned off the top, the big picture here is to eventually take people who want to go and who can afford to go to space. >> space tourism, it's called. >> exactly. this specific vehicle could fit about six passengers and two pilots. that was not the case because we know this was a test flight that was under way when things went wrong here. again, what exactly caused this to happen, we do not know. that is why we have these two teams, ntsb and the faa going

. >>> national transportation safety board is investigating a train accident in north western arkansas. freight train collided with the sight seeing passenger train injuring more than a dozen. passenger train was carrying 50 tourist on a fall foliage tour in the mountains 56789 people were hurt including the conductor. it is unclear whether the trains crashed head honor whether they were using the the same track. national transportation safety board is investigating. >>> meanwhile two thieves burglarized a home in arizona and getaway with thousands of dollars of valuable but evidence was priceless. their surveillance cameras captured the two suspects breaking in the home through a rear door. camera inside shows them walking around apparently looking for things to steel. they took electronics, jewelry, cash and they took something else. they stole one of the actual security cameras but now police have a very clear view of the face of one of the sus pecks. >>> fbi director is urging data accompanies against encrypting smart phones. james comey says doing so could stall criminal investiga

the national transportation safety board is sending a team of investigators to the area to determine the cause of the crash. >> let's go out to the weather the trick-or-treat forecast. >> parents across the region, of course, want to know what to their as they take children out. so let's go right to our chief doug hill.st, dou >> 52 outside right now. a fewtake you up the road blocks, give you a live look at the rooftop camera. a few breaks in the overcast. that's about all we'll see for the evening. it's 50 degrees in gaithersburg. 52 in washington dulles. 55 in quantico. airport.gan national temperatures will fall tonight and winds will increase a bit because of this developing storm will bring rain to our area tomorrow, along with gusty winds. definitely not a pleasant outdoor weather day. we'll fill in the details, but going to head to alexandria to steve rudin. he's been checking the trick-or-treaters. steve, you've got good weather. what's it looking like down there? >> what a difference over the past hour to hour and a half. before, about an hour ago, we could walk up and down

tomorrow, the highway and transportation district's board of directors.meet to talk about possibly charging pedestrians and bicyclists. to use the sidewalk along the golden gate bridge. bridge officials are exploring the idea of something they are calling a "sidewalk access fee." they released the proposal monday. however, the idea is still considered in the concept stage. officials say. the sidewalk toll would help alleviate the 33- million dollar deficit the bridge currently faces. at the almost friday, here is a live look at the camera above our studios looking at the beautiful studio hall all lit up and torn to there is a very slim chance of things stand try tomorrow saturday rangs and showers some, they mainly dry great baseball weather tomorrow with lots of sunshine during 5:00 at the first pitch rejected 68 degree temperature we have a little drizzle up to the north bay, but further way for mass is where the showers mainly come from temperatures are mild in the mid-60s, temperatures were in the '60s '70s and '80s today friday night looks to be dry

. >>> in late of a massive airbag recall, the national transportation safety board is issuing an apology. its website was down much of the day right around the time people wanted to find out if their car was part of the expanded recall. it includes 50 makes and model that's have takata airbag which could send shrapnel flying when they inflate. so far the de effect has killed at least four people. gm and toyota said people should avoid sitting front passenger seat of affected cars until they've been repaired. >> not all dealerships have the parts to fix it immediately. and it may be months or weeks. >> if your car is on the list, head to nbc washington.com and search airbags. >>> we've learned the nfl commissioner roger goodell will be forced to testify at the ray rice appeal hearing. he usually acts as judge and jury for nfl disciplinary digs. rice was punished twas for knocking out his fiance. the hearing is scheduled for november 5 and 6. >>> next, a deadly hit and run near capitol still unsolved. >> it was a dream job. have the mother of a senate staffer speaks out. >>> freight fest r

officials say they'll work with the national transportation safety board to determine what caused the crash. >>> lawyers for adrian peterson are expected to enter a not guilty plea in court today in connection with felony child abuse charges. the minnesota running back is accused of hitting his 4-yeild with a switch. the nfl allowed the vikings to put peterson on a special exemption list until his legal issues are resolved. >>> the washington nationals pennant hopes this year are over. their inability to hit in a 7- inning bull pen meltdown led to their season-lending loss to the san francisco giants. kristin burr set is at a it. t park with more. >> reporter: it is another heart break postseason for the nationals. we've been here before. and they did it again. they went from the best record in the national league to getting bounced in the first round of the play jaufsz. the nationals offense struggled throughout the series but ult my game 4 came down to one too many mistakes. misplayed balls, miscommunication and wild pitches. many are critical of manager matt williams for his select

. >>> investigators from the national transportation safety board are on the ground in frederick, maryland, trying to figure out what caused that deadly midair crash out there yesterday. the collision between a helicopter on a training flight and small plane left three people dead and two injured. andrea mccarren has an update tonight from the ntsb. >> reporter: right now that wreckage will be removed from the crash sight. it will be put in storage for a careful piece by piece review. >> airplane down and helicopter down. >> there were no distress calls from either aircraft and i don't have any reason to believe that there were any maintenance difficulties. >> reporter: teams of federal investigators fanned out across the wreckage of the violent collision between a cirrus sr22 airplane and a robinson r44 helicopter. >> it's likely that we will get flight information from the airplane itself. >> reporter: all three men aboard the helicopter were killed, 29-year-old chris parsons, an experienced flight instructor, will jenkins, 47, also an experienced helicopter pilot, and passenger 35-year-

. >> cal fire has secured the crash site and will be cooperating with the national transportation safety board on the investigation. >> as for the fire itself. as for the fire itself there is no word on the cause for containment. abc7 news. >> thank you, sara. and we will have continuing coverage of the yosemite fire on air and on-line. our breaking news reporting continues on twitter at abc7 news bay area. >>> look at the size of this big cat. this mountain lion is doing a little car inspection at a home in san jose. itit is taken on echo drive in the wee hours of the morning. alan wang is live. can't imagine that in my driveway. >> pretty scary which is why i keep looking on this hill to make sure the cougar will not come back. it looks like he was imitating that old commercial about the chrysler cougar car. remember that one? he was on top of a toyota camry. just this morning he was standing right on top of this car, and he is probably somewhere still around here after the motion detector alarm went off he reviewed the video and saw this mountain lion standing on his car. >> people walk aro

and katie higgins, former national transportation safety board. thanks to both of you for speaking with us. >> yes, hello. >> kitty, you've been on the seen for many crashes. what are investigators going to be looking for? >> reverend al, at the beginning of the investigation, they'll look at everything that might have happened with this accident. they will look at the pilot's training and experience. they will look at the maintenance records of the vehicle. they will look at the fuel source. apparently there was a new fuel being used on this particular flight. they will rule everything in until they can system atically rule things out. so at the beginning, everything on the table and day by day, as they go through it, they will take things off the table. >> kenny, how is a rocket like this different to investigate than, say, a commercial plane? >> well, in some ways, it's the same. remember, the safety board has investigated, for example, the challenger accident. so they are familiar with the workings of spacecraft. i think the mechanics are diff

. >>> investigators from the national transportation safety board have arrived on the scene of a deadly plane crash in kansas. four people, including the pilot, were killed when the small plane lost power and slammed into a building at the wichita airport. as we report, it will be some time before the investigators can even get to the crash site. >> reporter: federal investigators have already gathered flight paperwork and interviewed a few witnesses, but they haven't been able to walk around the actual wreckage because the building that the plane crashed into is not structurally safe. the twin-engine plane fell from the sky moments after takeoff thursday landing on a training facility in witch tashgs cchita. four people were killed including three inside the building. the pilot 53-year-old mark goldstein also died. the former radio traffic controller radioed for help just before his plane went down. >> we just lost the left engine. >> reporter: the plane was bound for arkansas and full of fuel when it crashed. the building was so severely damaged by the impact and resulting fire, it co

in mariposa, flags were at half staff, and the national transportation safety board is investigating the cause of the crash. >>> the 72-year-old woman who was stabbed during an attempted car jacking in berkeley, family members say nancy joe mccleland has been removed from life support at a berkeley care facility. her accused attacker was arrested the day of the assault expecting a murder charge. >> just stunned and shocked and helplessness. there's nothing you can do. >> police say mccleland was attacked after leaving where she was a head gardner. >>> bazar excuse case, 32-year-old nesbit admitted to sexually abusing young male students and trying to hire a hitman from testifying against them. he faces a possible jail term after agreeing to a plea deal last month. >>> a golden gate bridge could be a sign with the automatic toll-taking system. peter contacted 2 investigates when he was are ordered to pay the toll for a car that isn't his. the car has the exact same personalized license plate, but a different make and model registered in a different state, nevada when he pointed out th

. >> cal fire has secured the crash site and will be cooperating with the national transportation safety board on the investigation. >> as for the fire itself. as for the fire itself there is no word on the cause for containment. abc7 news. >> thank you, sara. and we will have continuing coverage of the yosemite fire on air and on-line. our breaking news reporting continues on twitter at abc7 news bay area. >>> look at the size of this big cat. this mountain lion is doing a little car inspection at a home in san jose. itit is taken on echo drive in the wee hours of the morning. alan wang is live. can't imagine that in my driveway. >> pretty scary which is why i keep looking on this hill to make sure the cougar will not come back. it looks like he was imitating that old commercial about the chrysler cougar car. remember that one? he was on top of a toyota camry. just this morning he was standing right on top of this car, and he is probably somewhere still around here after the motion detector alarm went off he reviewed the video and saw this mountain lion standing on his car. >> people walk aro

theinateser problem is -- the national transportation safety board is leading the investigation. the weather was clear and winds were calm at the time of the accident. calcal fires air tankers remain grounded as they look into mechanical problems. >>> wildfire continues to threaten a thousand homes in the foothills it is burning near applegate. the fire has destroyed 5 homes. it started yesterday afternoon and burned 420 aches. evacuation orders are in effect in the area. the fire is burning in steam terrain. the location and the windy weather conditions are giving firefighter as tough time. they are concerned the flames could jump across the american river canyon in the direction of more homes. >> homes therein. the resources, that is a huge water shed area. that is water people use. there is other things we have to protect. >> the fire is 20% contained and investigators are trying to determine a cause. >>> new at 6:00 p.m. the family of a man shot and killed by san francisco police in 2006 lost their federal lawsuit. the family accused officers of illegally entry. police entere

. >>> investigators from the national transportation safety board are on the ground in frederick, maryland, trying to determine what caused that deadly midair collision yesterday between a helicopter on a training flight and a small plane that left three people dead and two people injured. andrea mccarren is live now with an update from the ntsb. what have we learned, andrea? >> reporter: right now a few minutes ago we watched a long flatbed truck maryland state police and other construction equipment pull down this rural road and head to the crash site. the wreckage will be removed and put into storage tonight for a careful piece by piece review. >> airplane down and helicopter down. >> there were no distress calls from either aircraft and i don't have any reason to believe that there were any maintenance difficulties. >> reporter: teams of federal investigators fanned out across the wreckage of the violent collision between a cirrus sr22 airplane and a robinson r44 helicopter. >> it's likely that we will get flight information from the airplane itself. >> reporter: all three men aboard t

its staff members say they have talk to grief counsellors, the national transportation safety board could have a preliminary report on the crash as soon as tomorrow. >>> if d.c. voters legalize marijuana next week, the city stands to make a nice piece of money from taxes and fees. finance officials estimate that legal sales could bring in $130 million a year. that would likely add up to $20 million a year or more from taxes. if it is approved, it could take until 2016 to see stores open. congress would have to review the bill until next spring and then d.c. officials would take another six months to write regulations. >>> a local woman is turning her painful battle with breast cancer into something positive, something she hopes em pours n . >> the idea for the brags bra was born out of sore rebut also out of hope. hope that a local woman and her sister could help others, others just like them, others wanting to look and feel like themselves after battling breast cancer and reconstruction with implants. these two women never thought of themselves as inventors. mother, wife, sure. but inven

. >> cal fire has secured the crash site and will be cooperating with the national transportation safety board on the investigation. >> as for the fire itself. as for the fire itself there is no word on the cause for containment. abc7 news. >> thank you, sara. and we will have continuing coverage of the yosemite fire on air and on-line. our breaking news reporting continues on twitter at abc7 news bay area. >>> look at the size of this big cat. this mountain lion is doing a little car inspection at a home in san jose. itit is taken on echo drive in the wee hours of the morning. w. can't imagine that in my driveway. topretty scary which is why i n this hill to make sure the cougar will not come back. it looks like he was imitating that old commercial about the chrysler cougar car. remember that one? he was on top of a toyota camry. just this morning he was standing right on top of this car, and he is probably somewhere still around here after the motion detector alarm went off he reviewed the video and sawn lion standing on his car. >> people walk around here at nighttime and walking with the d

the national transportation safety board is investigating the cause of the crash. >>> fire danger will be heading up this weekend because we have a warming dry weather pattern developing. today though a bit of a cooldown, a bit of a temporary dropoff in temperatures. here's our live camera in san jose showing you clear skies here but we still have stubborn fog near the coast and near san francisco near parts of the bay. that could be a factor for the blue angels practicing this afternoon, at least delaying them by a couple of hours. solid overcast towards ocean beach, golden gate park and basically covering san francisco. extending across the bay, in fact here's a closer look towards the sunset district. out toward the richmond district as well with lots of overcast, over golden gate park. lingering fog there. but up in parts of the east bay and north bay you can see temperature beginning to recover, with the clearing skies. fairfield now 76 degrees. san jose in the upper 60s. 67 san francisco and halfmoon by a still trapped in the 50s with the fog deck nearby. in fact here's our live

course remains under investigation but i can tell you the lead investigator for the national transportation safety board told me tonight that plane's parachute sure did its job. live in frederick, abc 7 news. >> thank you. stay with abc 7 and wjla.com for updates on this developing news and "good morning washington" begins tomorrow morning at 4:30 a.m. out of new york city tonight, a doctor tested positive for ebola. dr. craig spencer was working with doctors without borders in western africa when he contracted the disease. he returned from guinea more than a week ago. right now spencer is in isolation at bellevue hospital in manhattan. the hospital is a designated ebola center. the c.d.c. dispatched an ebola response team to new york and they are tracing the doctor's contacts to identify anyone who may be at risk. >> we've been preparing for months for the threat posed by ebola. we have clear and strong protocols being scrupulously followed and were followed in this instance. >> spencer's fiance is also in quarantine at this hour but she is not showing symptoms we are told. in bethesda tonight a dallas

representative of the people felt sunset district as a member of the county of the transportation authority and a member of the board of supervisors someone that understands the importance of making the investments focused on transportation and pedestrian safety and works on the board and the blue print for the district and emerged for the board of supervisors to get this 5 hundred general obligation measure into the ballot so, please join me in welcoming district 4 supervisor tang >> thank you a special recognition to the mta and to tilly changing and accident police department and walk sf and, of course, all the community members and resident who have been so patient serving as an advocate and working to make sure our city vice president hears us loud and clear we need those along sunset boulevard so all our intersection have signals and so in the past evidently years we've worked to slowly being able to install the traffic signals by the end of the 2015 we'll have the safer in place and several years ago when i was work as a protective stiff aid i worked the volunteers as we plant and installed those mediums you

. >>> tonight investigators from the national transportation safety board are in frederick, maryland, trying to determine the cause of yesterday's deadly midair crash. the collision between a small plane and a helicopter on a training flight took place near frederick city municipal airport. all three on the helicopter were killed. the two people in the small plane were injured. the wreckage of both aircraft will be moved from the crash site and placed in storage. after that there will be a careful piece by piece examination. >> airplane down and helicopter down. >> there were no distress calls from either aircraft and i don't have any reason to believe that there were any maintenance difficulties. >> killed, 29-year-old chris parsons, 47-year-old will jenkins and 35-year-old brendan macfawn. injured on the small plane, scott graeves and gilbert porter. >>> a kabob shop and repeat violator combo coming up. >> and a lady of good council high school cheerleaders are in the house for tonight's edition of game on varsity. are you ready for tonight's high school football highlights? plus th

investigators from the national transportation safety board are on their way as well to help determine the cause of the crash that is likely going to be an extraordinary stet back for the budding commercial space industry. after years of delays and technical issues, virgin galactic thought it was dloas finally launching its commercial space business. had this test gone well here today, scott, they planned to do it as early as next year. that now is very unlikely to happen. >> pelley: ben tracy in the mojave desert for us tonight. ben, thank you. it turns out a self-destruct signal was sent to that rocket that malfunctioned tuesday. the rocket builder, orbital sciences, says the command was radioed as the anterez rocket was falling back into the launchpad in virginia on tuesday. we don't know what caused the unmanned rocket to fail. it was bound for the intirnld space station with 2.5 tons of cargo. today, in wichita, kansas, crews were notably to recover the remains of the dead from yesterday's plane crash. four people, including the pilot, were killed when a small plane slammed into a

national transportation safety board member mark rosekind says driving fatigued can be just as dangerous as driving drunk. >> people think, oh, i pulled an all-nighter. i've been awake for a week. well, one night not getting enough sleep is enough to impair your performance. >> reporter: about 100,000 accidents a year are believed to be connected to drowsy driving, but today during an n.t.s.b. forum, experts warned the numbers are likely much higher. brian tefft is with the a.a.a. foundation for traffic safety. in at least 400,000 police- reported crashes each year involve drowsy driving as a contributing factor. approximately 115,000 crashes resulting in injuries involve drowsy driving, and at least 5,000 people each year are killed in crashes involving a drowsy driver. >> reporter: and this is another number that may go higher. until law enforcement has the tools to determine who is fatigued and who is not, it will be difficult for investigators to determine the scope of this problem. >> pelley: jeff, thanks very much. all politics is local. president obama banters with the locals at t

tonight, the national transportation safety board says we need to wake up to drowsy driving dangers do americans underestimate how tired they are sometimes? >> one of the biggest part of the problem. humans are just horribly inaccurate if. we have to self-diagnose fatigue, we are usually way off. >> reporter: 40% of drivers admit falling asleep at the wheel. losing two hours of sleep just one night can cut your attention reaction time, decision-making by 20% to 50%. all that adds up to one of the most underreported problems on the road. one study suggests that 20%, 1 out of every 5 accidents, involves a tired driver. at virginia tech's test track, researchers are assessing drivers like me for alertness, signs of fatigue. do i notice a box falling out of a truck. whoa, bhwhoa, whoa. or a pedestrian on the side of a road. >> do you know what color hat he was wearing? >> reporter: red. they're testing cameras, looking for signs of a lack of sleep. a problem that only worsens as you try to fight off nodding off. tonight, the best advice? stay out of your car if you haven't had enough sleep

. >> plus the national transportation safety board is investigating what went wrong in he's been called a super lobbyist, the ultimate washington insider. ed gillespie paid millions to lobby for the oil companies for a student loan company that overcharged taxpayers. his firm even lobbied for five foreign governments including a dictator now awaiting trial for war crimes. and then there's enron. gillespie lobbied for them while they committed the largest corporate fraud in us history. ed gillespie. the million dollar lobbyist whose never looked out for you. >>> four people are confirmed dead and four others unaccounted tonight after a plane crash in wichita, kansas. a small plane slammed into a building right across the street from wichita's couldn't mental airport this morning. investigators from -- continental airport this morning. investigators from the faa and the ntsb are on the scene tonight. >>> a small hawaiian town at risk of being buried under molten lava under less than 100 yards from homes in pahoa. the lava advanced forward barely moving today as it pools in low spots on th

tonight the national transportation safety board started to arrive at these two scenes and have taken over the investigation from the maryland state police. first thick tomorrow morning ntsb investigators will begin combing through the two separate crash scenes. you have the crash scene behind me where the plane landed as well as the helicopter crash scene at a nearby storage facility. investigators will try to piece together exactly what happened that caused this midair deadly collision. owning a business next to an airport, timothy flannery is used to hearing planes fly by all day, but he's the used to hearing them collide in the air. >> heard a plane fly by. then it sounded like it was slowing down. then you just heard a loud boom. that was a single engine plane and a helicopter colliding. flannery had a view where the plane landed after the crash and saw a parachute tangled in the tree line. >> we drove across the field, found a plane hanging in the trees, ran up to it, started asking if they were okay and they said they were oak and we helped them get out. -- okay and we helped t

the highway and transportation board of directors will meet to talk about charging cyclists and pedestriansg this a sidewalk action sees fee. they released the proposal on monday. it is still in the concept statements. the sidewalk toll could help alleviate a $3 million did he have sit that the bridge is facing. >>> only on kron 4. quick action helped police and an attack on the streets. >> his name, patrick treber and he took photos of the getaway car after he saw a man get mugged. >> they helped track down and arrested the suspect. >> radioed in the license late number to dispatch. one of the police officers told me that within 20 seconds, they had pulled the car over in the tenderloin and and relended all four suspects. it feels good to help out o. i was mugged for the first time and on vacation. and thanks to a witness they were able to catch those guys. it feels good to pay it forward a bit. >> wow, he was obviously okay. something weird about saying i was mugged for the first time. >> that implies that we will all be mugged. >> he did the right thing. didn't chase them down and took t

. >> the national transportation safety board is trying to piece together the moments before a helicopter and plane collided near frederick. the aircraft came crashing down not far from frederick airport. live at the scene with what federal officials are saying about this investigation. >> what they are saying is very little at this point. they are just gathering data and haven't started piecing all of it together yet. they are interested in finding out how it is these aircraft came together. that is where the airplane came to rest. you can see it much better from news chopper seven and we can show you video of how the aircraft came to be nosedown in those trees. it was carried fairly softly by the emergency parachute. lies about ar quarter-mile away in between storage buildings and it had a much harder fall. three men killed in a helicopter. the instructor with jenkins, a man who was a licensed pilot was checking out and just along for the ride. it seems clear what we are hearing from sources that the helicopter and plane collided top to bottom. beestigators are going to listening to som

the national safety transportation board is here trying to determine what went wrong. >> we'll want to go in and look at the aircraft and do a layout of the aircraft. we want to make sure all of the aircraft is accounted for. the pilot did report that he had a left engine problem, so we're very interested in what that may be. >> reporter: the ntsb will be collecting information on the pilot's background, the engine's maintenance log and any video that can help in the investigation. an initial report is expected next week. >> thanks. >>> a nervous waiting game continues this morning when hawaii's big island, a river of lava threatens to block the road into the village of pahoa. dozens of people who could lose their homes don't know when to get out. carter evans is in the town of puna outside of pahoa village. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the national guard is here to secure the area. troops are helping with roadblocks and other safety issues as the lava makes its flow but sure approach. lava from the kileuea volcano. it's went downhill in fits and starts. >> this particular

the national transportation safety board is investigating. >> is the millions of money being well spent? we dug into find who is really getting flagged for flying into restricted airspace. look through pages and pages of violations issued against pilots, checking to see who is really in the faa radar. pilots, commercial students, instructors, even members of the military have fined for flying into restricted airspace. cap is more than you think. -- it happens more than you think. the hundreds of enforcement actions taken in just the last four years by the faa and found that violations are not ultimately classified as a security issue. former military person, i can understand concerns, especially in the downtown area. athink that there needs to be reasonable theory, it should not be black and white. >> he will show you what it costs to cover this protection and b will hear from some who think the system needs a second look. >> prince george's county police are investigating a deadly crash that happened just before 7:00 this morning. investigators say three cars crashed on route 193. the