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Takes a long time to put a fire out. >> reporter: we have new aerials to show you, of the blast site and took 7 hours to get the fire completely under control and caused the evacuation up to 600 people. and the weather also complicated things as we know, it has been extremely cold and utility workers struggled to dig through the ice and snow to shut down the ruptured gas line underground and there were several natural gas lines fires reported in the last two months in the country and the map sho...

London. thats the tropics. thats like the streets here in london. but seriously, talking to weather, theres a really serious tragic side because massive flooding in sri lanka has killed at least 11 people and displaced more than 320,000. our meteorologist is at the cnn weather center with the latest on the situation. this is very serious, jen? >> absolutely. 1.2 million people have been affected by recent flooding acrossous acro across sri lanka. and to give you an idea of the area hardest hit, ...

>> thanks to the tax cuts we passed, americans paychecks are a little bigger today. >> that is not quite true, mr. obama. while the payroll tax break in the tax cut deal will result in bigger paychecks for most americans, people making less than $20,000 or couples making less than $40,000 may actually see a drop of about $210 on average in their take-home pay. thats because of a tax break called making work pay for lower income earners has expired. guys. >> the republican or the second republica...

Media today. at number three, a rue mar than 16-year-old that sailed around the world on her own in 210 days, jessica watson sailed all in the face of criticism, but shes just become australias young person of the year. so congratulations to her. at number two, lots of twitter chat about the world tennis number one. caroline wozniacki. the danish tennis player just beat the italian francesca and that means she moves into the australian open semifinals. in the previous round she played the longes...

Professional quarterback. >> come on, bounce and throw. >> im luke fauk and im a high school quarterback. >> hi. im steve clarksson and im the quarterback maker. >> reporter: nfl quarterbacks like leinart and roethlisberger and others. his latest client? luke fauk, a 16-year-old. >> he has a certain skillset. what is that? >> his skill set is he has the mental attitude but hes physically gifted. hes the rt 63, 64", 210 poundz. a former college quarterback who did a short stint with the denver br...

At 0919 central time the coast guard received a phone call from a platform in vermillion block 371. that platform 380 was on fire and engulfed in flames. platform 371s helicopter, owned by bristo, flew to the scene and confirmed the fire, and 13 people in the water. this was 80 nautical miles south of vermillion bay. the coast guard then launched five helicopters from air station new orleans. two helicopters from air station houston, one fixed-wing c-144 from the station in mobile, four patrol b...

Be putting things in place to get them more days in the classroom, more specialized instruction to meet their needs. >> and on that point you made about how much time spent in the classroom. lets look at what other countries do. the u.s. 180 days. look at japan, kids spend 243 days in the classroom. in germany, 210 day, and in south korea, 220 days. can you agree whether we do year-round or not, can we all agree that you know what, maybe our kids should spend more time in the classroom? mr. higa...

210 pounds. hes on the run from very serious charges against him. jenna: well keep an eye on that. jon: happening now hot, dry weather complicates firefights across the country. wind-whipped flames igniting a string of homes in ash land, oregon. houses burning to the browned there. in southern idaho, a fire racing across 328,000 acres. crews hope calmer winds will help them gain ground on those flames. some southern california where firefighters are planning an aerial attack against a wildfire i...

Trained as well as any police force in the country, or the world, for that matter, on stopping these events, and bringing them to a resolution before anyone gets hurt. we havent seen a police car right now in view of this, but rest assured, theyre trailing him. not far behind. martha: about to get sound from the chopper, which will give us more information. lets listen in: >> on the 210, west to the 605, on to the 60, and again, as we just noted, we just passed the peck road and went under that ...

>> [interruption] >> he was like motioning the drivers to move out of the way, i got to go, and at one point, he even bumped or almost bumped one of the vehicles. but again, hes really picking up speed, going about 90 miles an hour, again, an hes going eastbound on the 10 freeway. to recap this, started a good 40 minutes or so, some time ago, and it started on the 10, 210 freeway, moved on to the 605 to the 60. he got off the 60. and at that point, thats when he lost some of the officers who wer...