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Biden and his wife, lands in chicago. hovering over the airfield, a helicopter that will shadow the vice presidents motorcade downtown. the security chopper caused controllers at least a bit of confusion. >> one more time about what you want to do after this? >> they start rolling with the motorcade were going to head eastbound. >> 8 minutes later as controllers are trying to bring operations back to normal, a united express regional jet carrying 29 passengers is on final approach after flying i...

Oh, [ bleep ], what the blank was that, said the pilot on takeoff. what was that? sorry, replied the controller. by this point the vice presidents plane was already off the active airfield, biden and his entourage would head downtown for rahm emanuels inauguration, apparently unaware of the near-collision that happened minutes after their arrival. ben bradley for abc news, chicago. now, on top of all that, more frightening moments at an airport. a boeing 707 tanker plane crashed and burst into...

Somethingfy saw on television i know would give me hope. this whole experience has certainly given me so much hope about the future, about technology, about the world we live in. it is very exciting. >> help us understand how briefly how these mechanical legs have helped you walk. >> oh, sure. it is a project ive been involved with for about five months ago. it is a mechanical exoskeleton and a team of mechanical engineers at berkeley. there are two leg braces and a computer is in the back brace...

new york city. dominique strauss-khan was arrested saturday for allegedly chasing a housekeeper through his luxury hotel suite naked and trying to force himself on her. lets go straight to richard roth whos been following todays developments. richard, bring us up to date. >> reporter: randi, the proceedings have just concluded and basically, dominique strauss-khan, the leader of the international monetary fund, has been charged with sexual assault on a maid in a new york hotel in times...

Meet the members of stanford universitys laptop orchestra. >> were here to make whatever music is fun to make and takes advantage of humans and computers. founded in 2008 the music making sensation is pretty simple. >> everyone is getting their hands dirty. figuring out interactions for the instruments and putting it together in the piece of music and drafting it as a performance. >> reporter: each performer has a laptop. a controller and uniquely designed speaker. made from an ikea salad bowl. ...

Chopper when it went down. analysts that said this when it happened. >> reverse engineer that chopper. can pakistan be trusted with washington secrets? an expert on u.s./pakistani relations. >> rehearsal day for director wang and his performers are tuning their instruments. their laptops. meet the members of stanford universitys laptop orchestra. >> we are here to make whatever music is fun to make, but also takes advantage of both humans and computers. >> founded in 2008, the mac books music ma...

Them as you saw the man as well as the leader of al qaeda? >> not only did officials strip the sound from those videos before they were released, but the intent in part was to strip away some of the mystique that osama bin laden held among many of his followers in the muslim world. clearly you see this old man in the stocking cap fumbling with -- the controller, you know, bundled up against the cold. it was released truly to undermine any kind of respect, support, or following he may have had. h...

With the 747s and dealing in that environment in the same way following the same rules. >> has there been a case when you havent got ahold of an air traffic controller? >> yeah, it happens every now and then. usually what happens is in the course of a flight -- i was flying in that case the day before yesterday from washington all the way here to chicago with a stop in pittsburgh. about every 10 or 15 minutes as you pass over ground radio stations going back to the notion of a ground-based syste...

So the system has lots of layers. im not going to fly into a thunderstorm just because the controller is not doing his or her job properly. >> two charlie victor, right traffic runway. aviation is safe. if its done well and its done right and if corners are not cut. air traffic control is just part of the picture. were focusing a lot on that right now in a way thats very healthy because were focusinging on events that have not led to people getting hurt. so lets hope thats a wake-up call for the...

Than the typical airliner does. we have all the technology in this airplane for me to receive all the vital commands, reroutes, everything by text, e-mail, whatever, satellite communication, and yet today in this country, everything we do, all the commands, its all done on vhf radios. and theres a lot of margin for error in that system. i have national weather picture here using satellites. see, theres a killer storm here in the lower central part of the u.s. theres also a lot of convective thun...