exactly what caused the space to crash is under way now what we do know is that the plane clipped treetops as well as severing power lines on its way down below seven power lines triggered a blackout on the runway for several seconds before the emergency power kicked in and we don't know whether those seconds that the lights were out and the runway was in a blackout whether those were the crucial seconds that meant that the pilots had to make a decision to force the. emergency landing now the emergencies ministry here in russia continuing to carry out this investigation to try and find out what happened and they aren't ruling out any possibilities right now. the investigators continue their work at the site of the tragedy that debris there is spread across a three hundred meter radius the flight recorder has already been found communication recordings are being analyzed forensic analysis is being carried out looking into several versions of what caused the tragedy these include the human factor such as an air of the crew or the ground services severe weather conditions technical failure an

the birds are flying high above the treetops. in the forest is a river. we will lift our wrists and lower them to make water waves. very soft. you can hear the water flowing. in this river are fish. we will take the right hand over our left and use our thumbs like fish fins and let your fish swim through the water it takes a big dive. >> and growing next to the river are a bed of flowers. opening one hand onfinger at a time watching the flower petal blossoms. we will take our other hand and turn it into a butterifiy much the butter fly will fly, fly, fly the and land on the flour and watch it fly away. drinking can a deer. take your thumb and the outside a n antlers. the deer hears a noise and in the distance is a hunter with a low and arrow. he sees that deer and aims for it. see your target and takes a shot and he misses and the deer escapes. the hunter's frustrated. i can't believe i missed that. he decides that hunting deer is not a night idea next time he will aim for an apple. thank you participating, you can sit down. give yourself a clap. those ar

johnny mercer's father had built and i had a view of all of downtown savannah historic which was about treetop level, so i had near to medium and a distant views of steeples and cupolas and a tree is coming and i can see summer storms barreling up of the savannah river, big clouds. it is just wonderful. it was on forsyth park, a very beautiful part of the slave trade there looking out at all of this. c-span: on lot? >> guest: on a computer. i have an early apple. i kept up reading as i went along. and that's where i wrote, taking my time. i'd get up, first thing i would do i would have coffee and sat right down, and presentable, no shower -- c-span: what time? >> guest: i get up around eight or nine and by what -- i right or i would organize notes or i would make appointments to see people, but always start some writing and of course every month there would have to do my esquire column. so break away and do research for - quarter, and right that and said that by fedex and later by fax when i had a fax and they became widespread. then i turn back to the book and sometimes it took me two days to

. >> one sheared off treetops and peeled off roofs. this is what is left of townhall. the church steeple was toppled. >> they snapped photos from the backyard and the highway as the twigs terrify went through. >> that was john hendron, "abc 7 news." >> it's mike nicco we want to hear of today because after all. >> are you sure you want to hear what i have to say? >> not really. >> what is going on? >> we have quite a lot coming up for little league and they get washed out. there is a lot of activities going on this weekend. we don't expect the kind of rain we're going to get, but we are looking at clouds hanging around the bay area. they are dropping rain. most of it not making to it ground as you look at live doppler. north bay really covered, sonoma county, so watch out for sprinkles during your morning commute. heading to the southeast, watch out over to napa and even contra costa county may get some over the next hour or so. temperatures in the 40s and 50s, slightly cooler than yesterday morning due to the fact clouds are moving in. around the monterey bay you can

it clipped the treetops and took out a power line before catching fire. aviation officials are not sure what caused the crash. >> the investigators are checking several possibilities in killing a human factors such as an error by the pilot or the ground service. whether it was caused by web dodge bad weather conditions are technical malfunction or in the airplane's equipment. -- whether it was caused by bad weather conditions or technical malfunction. >> the prime minister swapped his for an executive jet citing floss in the poor safety record. >> germany says their joint efforts to bring libyan leader muammar gaddafi to justice. prosecutors have watched invest -- launched investigations and collected statements from witnesses now living in germany. the conclusions will be handed over to the international criminal court in the hague. they are considering issuing an arrest warrant against gaddafi for crimes against humanity. he is accused of ordering his troops to fire on unarmed protesters. it is another five-year term for bond human. the general assembly

can see behind me this is actually the forest where the planes come through and hit some of the treetops but they're still working on the site behind me so based on the the statements made see that there was a low visibility there was bad weather and also a ground control here said that they had asked the pilot to make a second turn so the initial fear we said would come out from this investigation are based on that but the actual blood loss is so big decoded it's a massive you're going to find out more from the front of the patients on. a commercial plane that would have landed on schedule ended up in pieces and inflames this tuple of one three four carrying fifty two people from moscow to northwestern russia crashed on a road around a kilometer from the runway airport officials say the plane hit a high voltage power line that cut off lights on the runway which also knocked out the tiles electricity. at around midnight the lights went off in our house we were going to check the electric transformer and we heard the sound of a huge explosion we arrived at the scene of the accident airpla

only go on the facts that we have we have the footage that we've seen of it of the plane clipping treetops we know it took down power lines and we know it was forced to make a crash landing but the experts who looked into these type of crashes before their initial opinion is that this was caused by pilot error they've actually gone as far as to draw comparisons between this crash and the crash last year which killed polish president lech kaczynski so they are of their opinion off what they've seen so far as this quote could have been caused by an error in the cockpit. you crack at them with which i don't think anything would go wrong with the plane it's in forty years of operation the three four has to do extremely reliable aircraft in previous catastrophes human error was always to blame and the same is true here the pilot should have made a second landing approach this is exactly what happened to the polish presidential airplane board so. we know that eight people have survived this crash what are we hearing about their condition. are they currently receiving medical treatment but there

next installment of its one hundred ten billion euro zone in july athens has promised to implement treetop austerity measures to stabilize its economy a global experience to reach the farm public anger is nineteen over the cots with tens of from others of greeks protesting outside the parliament while opinion polls suggest a majority oppose the plans professor of political science fair game land claim was bailing out countries is a mistake and strategy. europe and the i.m.f. want greece to tighten its belt more and more so there's no. way greece by itself can get out of the crisis because if you tighten your belt more and more you create a recession and if you create a recession this situation get worse and worse and it's harder and harder for you to pay back your gets i don't see how this money can restart the economy if people stranded less and less i think suggested now there's a real danger. greece will have to back out of the euro in order to be able to do their huge currency to have more tourists to sell more products and start originally when the euro was created left in europe was

yesterday, when we were talking about a treetop fire and crown fire and you can see it on the video,rees are on fire and the ground is on fire, too, but when the tops of the trees are on fire there, that is when the sparks fly from tree to tree to tree and downwind. it is the downwind thing that puts the firefighters in so much danger. a lot of resources out there trying to fight this. luckily, there is not big cities in the way yet. you know, but this is not close to being under control at all. not even in a minute. look at the picture of it from space. you can see the smoke. people are actually giving pictures and ireports as they fly across the country taking the pictures outside of the planes and say, look, look at what it looks like. you can go the ireport.com and take a look at it. these are clouds? >> yes, we were talking about the thunderstorms yesterday in albuquerque with a yellow sunset in albuquerque and denver and said from the outskirts of denver, you can't see the mountains anymore. >> and even the live shots are smoky. >> yes, the smoke is in the atmosphere and gettin

the owls fly forth from the treetops, through the air they soar and they sweep, a hot crimson rage fills-- up and sleep. first of all, how did your friends feel about the possibility of this book falling into the hands of their children? i was thinking, okay, this is lying around the end table in a participa parent's home. the kid tucks it into the backpack an off it goes to school. >> yeah. parents should exercise caution with this as with all other matters. >> does it come with safety instructions? >> no. we should put a 1-800 number on the book in case something happens. we trust parents will know this goes on a high shelf. >> you originally planned to publish through a very small publishing company. when word about this book got out, a lot of big companies approached you. they wanted this to go into their arsenal. you decided against that. why? >> because i believe in independent publishers. and i didn't want to be the guy to bet against my own book and put it in someone else's hands and give myself a ceiling. the book was taking off so i wanted to stick with the people who got me th