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Minutes. around 8:20 p.m. they have 14,000 tons of fuel left, enough for another hour in the air. >> thats when the flight engineer should have made sure that the fuel levels were fine. >> ovianca, heavy. ill turn you back to the approach. is that fine with you and your fuel? >> i guess so. thank you very much. >> they inquired with air traffic controllers about how much longer its going to be. they were complaining about their fuel levels and air control asked where the alternate was, which was...

Time, perhaps ever. it only lasted about ten seconds, then the space shuttle disappeared into the cloud ceiling and then went on beyond it. so those clouds were thin enough that the range requirements were not violated. so it was a green, green, green, across the board, and it was a spectacular launch. its now traveling towards the international space station. the pay load on the 16-day mission is a $2 billion physical experiment -- physics experiment, the alpha magnetic spectrometer, its basica...

Trying to protect civilian population has in a large measure being achieved. im not sure its completely over, but i think theres a lot more we can do now to put pressure on gadhafi. >> well, lets start with the military perspective and then well move to that defection we just talked about. from a military perspective, there seems to be some debate within the allies here about whether their job is simply to protect civilians, or weve heard complaints from the opposition in the last 24 hours or so...

The ntsb looking into the background of the pilot. though he flew commercial planes for nearly 30 years, logged thousands of hours in smaller aircraft, investigators say he had only 45 hours of experience in the type of plane he was flying that day. pilot here in alaska say weather can change on a dime. the ntsb is trying to pinpoint the exact forecast of the weather during the day of the crash. in fact they now say cloud ceiling was roughly 600 feet, lower than previously thought. >> miguel, as...

The city as well as the fire department, theyve not been able to get somebody on the phone with us, but right now we do have three dead. no word on the cause yet. on a normal day, i dont know if thats the right day, but we do get aerials from this part of the country, and we were talking to san francisco, they were not going to be putting their chopper up, there is a very, very low cloud ceiling. we dont know if that has anything to do with the cause of this plane crash. there was one report of ...

Into the crater at mount st. helens. the 52-year-old fell 1500 feet yesterday when the snow he was standing on gave way. hes been missing now for 20 hours. joining me on the phone is dafd cotts. sheriff, thanks for joining us. so tell me a little bit about the search because id heard reports that the weather was preventing from getting close. >> right, this morning and last night, we had weather move in and we really had very bad conditions up there on the mountain. high winds, rain and snow, ve...

However, most are canceled. we have thousands of people without power as well. they are working their butts off right now trying to get ready for the monday morning commute. we shall see if they get it ready in time. we have a chance of top stories we are keeping an eye on. we are keeping an eye on shuttle "endeavour." we didnt have to look around too much for it. it stayed in the same spot, but it was supposed to take off at 4:39 a.m. eastern time. the launch was scrubbed because the weather ...

Takeoff at 4:39 a.m. they canceled it minutes before the launch. there was a low cloud ceiling at kennedy space center. thats an issue. their mission is to the international space station. it will last 13 days when they finally go. they hope to go at 4:14 ap eastern time tomorrow. new orleans has a new mayor today. rich landrieu was elected yesterday and hes the first white mayor elected in the last 30 years. >> we have been asked to serve, so we should respond and say yes. the people of new o...

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