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Triggering a full emergency response at the sydney, australia, airport. roads closed as the 787 dreamliner, which was on a flight from los angeles, approached the airport, after -- according to one australian news outlet -- the pilot called in a mayday because of low fuel. >> united 839, sydney, copy m mayday, 16 right. you can expect the ils approach. >> expect 16 right, copy mayday, united 839. >> reporter: the emergency response on the ground, as jets were told to expect delays in the air. >>...

Just above the water, and moments later it crashed on ketron island. well get john back up to talk than. mary schiavo is still with us. mary, one thing i should have asked you earlier. tell us about seatac, seattle-tacoma international. how big an airport are we talking about? >> we are talking about a major international airport with planes operating there from 777, to dreamliner, 787s, airbus aircraft. i mean, this is a major airport. you have a lot of flights landing there from china. its -- ...

And a midair scare for passengers onboard an american airlines flight. the boeing 787 from chicago to tokyo turning back because of a cracked windshield. first responders on the scene at ohare. the flight landing safely. 164 passengers onboard. starbucks tonight has unveiled a plan to ditch plastic straws, citing the health of the worlds oceans. the coffee giant will become the largest beverage company to ban plastic straws by 2020. replacing them with strawless lids that will allow you to sip...

Perhaps the issue that most energizes his base voters, that supporters who have been with him from the start, is this issue of immigration. by talking about the threat from the border, talking as he did as we saw in this hour, talking about open borders and a flood of people who would come over the board fer he didnt maintain his zero tolerance policy, that is a message that will energize, i think, his supporters to get out and vote in midterm elections. and that may be hard. you know we know th...

Passengers on the ground, waiting to take off. heres abcs david kerley. >> reporter: stunning video tonight. an air canada jet mistakenly lined up to a san francisco taxiway. watch its landing lights shine on the fuselage and tail of one of four other jets on the ground. a near disaster with the landing jet within 30 to 50 feet of a united 787, possibly up to 1,000 passengers at risk. the air canada pilots felt something was wrong. >> tower, i just want to confirm. this is air canada 759. we see...

Airplanes. how in the world can this happen? >> and explosions have an aircraft, this particular instance in the database, it never happened. people sucked out of an aircraft in 1988, a flight attendant on a 787 out of hawaii, the cabin peeled back and she got sucked out over the pacific and no one else. taking off out of england, the captains windshield blue out and was sucked out but his feet snagged on the wheel and the copilot made a turnaround, he was flopping around and lived. went back to...

Whats this about. tracee: the newest and biggest dream liner of the 787 aircraft. so this was delivered yesterday, last night to singapore airlines, a big celebration at boeing, south carolina factory, the first of 49, 787, so we will be be seeing them in the sky soon. jillian: possible new emojis? >> apple is proposing new emojis with people with disability, people using hearing aids, canes wheelchairs, the group that organizes and monitor it is emojis, we may see these sometime soon or may not...

Atlantic, a 180. not the only one. one from madrid had to do that. another one diverted to bermuda. a 787 was diverted to albany. the passengers took a bus in new york city but couldnt get their bags off. the bags are now flying back to london. as for this reporter, i just hope that my flight does take off. if it does not, i have to be on tv tomorrow and work for the fox news channel. if i dont make it, youll have to work a double shift. back to you. >> neil: wait a minute! all right. thank you,...

And to defend the truth. >> meanwhile, new analysis shows congress spent the least amount of time in session in 30 years according to c span, both the house and senate hit three decade number low for number of hours spent in session in nonelection year. in session for 1045 hours and house in session for 787 hours this year. the year winding down to a close, taxpayers in high tax states scrambling to prepay property taxes before dedurks ds are capped next year. says he will introduce legislatio...

Not a message problem. its clear by this poll recently that young kids are leaning towards socialism. you know, they have a message problem. you have to go out and sell conservatism. its easy when does freedom get to be such a tough sell? you keep your own money, your own healthcare, pick your own kids schools this isnt a complicated message. we have to stop walking into soup kitchens and talk about freedom and liberty. >> abby: and you need people that are good messagers to be able to deliver o...