Page 70 - 777 News Today

>> reporter: the video is dramatic. passengers bloodied, bruised, some with broken bones. thrown around the aeroflot boeing 777 from moscow to bangok. just look at the mess left behind. 25 hospitalized, four children, including a baby. several passengers undergoing surgeries. the plane slammed midair by something called clear air turbulence. this happens when theres a disturbance between two jet streams and the plane flies in between them. passengers on this flight saying they were hurled onto t...

What bad weather can do. turbulence on board one flight. 27 passengers injured on a flight from moscow to bangkok. some of those people thrown out of their seats. it was a boeing 777 that hit what pilots called clear air turbulence, meaning there was no warning that anything like this was coming. thankfully, none of the injuries, we are told, is life-threatening. >> jenna: want to know why, we do stores like that i remember the rest of my life. >> jon: keep your seat belt on. >> jenna: good advi...

Due to land in bangkok, suddenly without warning, the boeing 777 began to shake violently. passengers were hurled up onto the roof of the plane. back down again. some of them took those videos and the stills immediately afterwards. as you can see, they showed passengers in the aisles, debris scattered everywhere. 27 people in all were hurt. some of them had fractured or broken bones in their hands, their legs and their ribs. one passenger said it felt like the shaking just wouldnt stop, that we ...

Selected carey lam. that are that are they chose a candidate over one with more popular support. ivan watson has been and outside hong kongs government officers. given the way she was elected. she won the election with 777 sloets to govern a city of more than 7 million people. how is that possible? in hong kongs system you have an electoral commission and a committee of less than 1200 people who are the actual people who do the voting. it is precisely that system that

Less than 1,200 people who they voted between three previously vetted candidates and the one who got the most votes to now govern the city of more than 7 million people was carrie lam, the second highest ranked officials in the out going administration. she got 777 votes to govern a city of more than 7 million people. does that make for a democratic re-elected official with a strong popular mandate. i think a lot of people would argue, no, since her election had much higher polls results in popu...

Million people who really had no say in electing their new leader. ivan? >> it is really striking, christie, when you consider the fact she got 777 votes to get this job out of a population of some 7 million. it doesnt make for much of an electoral mandate. christie lou stout live from the election campaign center. thanks very much, christie. >> chances of severe weather continue across the united states and meteorologist, derek van dam, joins us with the latest. what can you tell us, derrick? >...

Committee. she received 777 votes. this election committee is said to be made up of people in hong kong who are broadly representative of the territory but it is really pro-business, pro-beijing interest. so chapginging this system was key demand. the 2014 pro-democracy. that, in the end was not granted. earlier today, as the ballots were being cost and as the ballots were being counted, a number of the pro-democracy umbrella movement figures we were right outside and protesting saying they are ...

Executive carrie lam, standing on the stage of the bohemian man peoples republic of china and the hong kong and the pro-democracy leader unfurling a yellow banner and the yellow umbrella asking for universal sufferage. >> 777 votes electing an new official out of a city with a population of around 7 million. i can see where some of the criticism would come from. tell us more about carrie lam, who used to be the number two in the citys administration. >> reporter: carrie lam is a devout catholic,...

This day has seemed like to me since the moment i hit the door this morning, it was reminiscent of tarp, the troubled assets relief program in september of aw the markets go down in synchronicity 20 the role call vote. 777 points. it never seemed like they had the votes that day. this morning about being in the whip operation, never quite felt right. >> chad pergrin live on capitol hill. a lot of new information coming in all at the same time. we want to get to some new information thats coming ...

Down 777 points in synchronicity with the vote on tarp. the troubled assets relief program. what i want to leave you with real quick, i talked to one senior aide this afternoon. they said nothing fatal happened today. nothing fatal happened today. they dont have the votes yet but this isnt something that they contestant get everybody to yes. >> neil: history suggests, j.f.k., ronald reagan survived. thanks very much. again, those guys started out with bumpy rides and more than survived. the hous...