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im scared. for my family. im scared for my town. i grew up here. >> we went to the creeks and there are crews with black and white hoses all over the creeks. theyre not telling us why. the this is daily. im driving my children to school and pass this and theyre asking me questions that i dont have answers to. >> and they need the answers. so many, many questions. good morning, everyone. anger, fear, and many questions in east palestine ohio. two weeks after a train packed with hazardou...

$842 million. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >> hello and welcome. it is good to be back with you. officials in japan tonight are piecing together the tragic chain of events that left two planes on a collision course, ending in a fiery and deadly impact on a runway at tokyos haneda airport. surveillance cameras capture the moment of disaster as a japan airlines airbus with 379 people on board collided with a much smaller japanese coast guard plane that for some reason...

Lusly, and we will do it from a position of strength. >> gary tuchman joins me now. i understand that san diego county is run mostly by republicans. how do they feel about the governors actions? >> reporter: well, the legislative body here in san diego county, anderson, is the board of supervisors. there are four republicans, one democrat on the board, but they voted to approve the shelter in this county. the mayor of san diego is a republican, and he supports the shelter. so the governor, when ...

A high-speed nose dive by the wide body jet. just nine seconds until it slams into trinity bay. the black box recorders will be critical in solving this mystery. the waters here in trinity bay are shallow. but the mud in many places is deep and that could complicate the search for the black boxes. the ntsb has already put an acoustic sensor in the mud, but neither of the black boxes has been heard. the ntsb says it will dredge, if necessary, to get those black boxes. the remains of one of the th...

Disappeared. >> it is a boeing 777 wide body jet. >> with all affected passengers and crew and family members. >> reporter: but malaysia airlines didnt tell families flight 370 was missing until after it was supposed to have arrived in beijing, many hours after it vanished. and there was the disastrous text message sent from malaysia airlines to family members saying none of those on board survived. malaysia air ceo defended the move saying it was the best way to tell those it could not reach by...

Around. poppy harlow has a look at how hes handling this case so far. >> reporter: tony fernandes is living the moment every airline executive dreads. airasia ceo since 2001, he treated more than a dozen times in the hours following the planes disappearance. this is my worse nightmare. we will go through this terrible ordeal together. >> our concern right now is for the relatives and next of ken. >> reporter: the approach of airasia thus far stands in stark contrast to malaysia airlines after mh...

Its an airbus. airbus released a statement while confirming details of the missing flight. airbus is saying that the aircraft was delivered back in 2008. it had accumulated approximately 23,000 flight hours in some 13,600 flights. the a-320 is short to medium range narrow body jet. it can carry up to 180 passengers. it has a range of about 3,700 miles or so. this plane is a very popular plane in wide use around the world. there are 6,000 right now currently in service. joining me via skype, john...

Apparently suicidal. and took his aircraft down, a perfectly good working aircraft, took it down after taking off from jfk airport. the swiss air flight that went down. that was another wide body jet that went down off nova scotia in 1998. that went down because of the cockpit, the wiring on the entertainment system in the airliner, the wiring became overloaded. the insulation caught fire, brought smoke into the cockpit. the pilots couldnt see, they became distracted and that plane went down. an...

Plane in san francisco. in this exclusive video obtained by cnn, you can see the plane start to descend, it then appears to strike the seawall, loses control and crashes. >> he was also flying with a check captain or a training captain. there were two other crew members, another captain and first officer who were also flying. again, remember, this is a very long trans pacific flight, the four crew members are there for relief. >> as this animation shows. the wide body jet clipped the seawall whi...

Flying 747s according to the airline, had only limited experience flying a boeing 777. just 43 hours. he had never landed that type of plane in san francisco. in this exclusive video obtained by cnn, you can see the plane start to descend, it then appears to strike the seawall, loses control and crashes. >> he was also flying with a check captain or a training captain. there were two other crew members, another captain and first officer who were also flying. again, remember, this is a very long ...