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economy overall. dont even get us started on europe or the tax cuts set to expire and spending cuts due to kick in a few short months from now watching it all is fed chairman ben bernanke who is trying to explain to congress -- live pictures right now -- what if anything he plans to do about it without saying too much. felicia taylor is watching from the new york city. felicia, what have we heard and learned so far? >> reporter: its a careful dance because obviously the federal reserve...

Falling nearly 25 feet. crews say she landed right between two boulders are moderate injuries. a rescue helicopter pulled her out of the canyon. florida a man who had a massive heart attack reunited with the strangers who saved his life. the 52-year-olds life suddenly stopped nearly two weeks ago as he rode on the stationary bike at the gym. three emergency workers were pulling up at the time. one grabbed a cpr and another defibrillator. medics arrived. he had open heart surgery to clear five bl...

In a safe area? >> despite his uneasiness, nichols stays where he is and goes to work. >> i had a close-up shot of the two gentlemen walking out of the building and all of a sudden, you see this flash of light hit them in the face. >> right in front of his camera, the street blows sky-high and emergency workers start to scramble. >> theres just this sense of chaos that just immediately erupts from this explosion, from everyone around. >> as the fire rages in front of him, nichols becomes concern...

>> despite his uneasiness, nichols stays where he is and goes to work. >> i had a close-up shot of the two gentlemen walking out of the building and all of a sudden, you see this flash of light hit them in the face. >> right in front of his camera, the street blows sky-high and emergency workers start to scramble. >> theres just this sense of chaos that just immediately erupts from this explosion, from everyone around. >> as the fire rages in front of him, nichols becomes concerned he might be t...

Calls for leniency on ravi. his defenders say giving him a long prison sentence would be unfair for what was immature behavior but not an intentional hate crime. and if ravi is set free, the computer science major says he would like to go back to school to finish his studies. in new brunswick, new jersey, im carolina leid, abc news. there were some tense moments involving a toddler who fell into a sewer. parents say the 2-year-old little boy was playing in the yard outside their home in german...

His handling of the situation. powell locked the social worker out, and then he blew up his house with the boys inside. a recording showed that the dispatcher who handled the call from the frantic social worker before any of that happened said that emergency workers had to respond to other life-threatening situations first. ♪ rick: back to politics, now, and in our first hour we talked about the womens vote, the latino vote, now we want to talk about the swing voters, the folks who have not ye...

Of louisville, quickly trapping ten people inside an inferno. by the time emergency workers arrive, all ten are dead. among the victims, six children. it was the deadliest fire in kentucky in 30 years. coroners from surrounding counties converge on the scene to help retrieve bodies. >> we dont know whats happened. we have to treat it like a crime scene. theres no question about that. >> get information from him as far as the ages. >> the scope of the tragedy is so great, that it brings chief med...

through indianapolis on august 13th as the country duo sugar land was about to perform. seven people died. dozens were injured and todays report should tell us who and what is to blame for that rigging to give way. were also going to hear from the country stars. they will finally answer questions about that fateful day. well have a live report later in the hour. trayvon martins mom is now calling what happened to her son an accident. listen to what she said on the "today" show. >> on...

Monday. now we know "the today show" wont have to face the competition without long-time host matt lauer. today he announced he has reached a deal with nbc to keep his anchor seat there has been speculation that lauer might leave when his contract is up to join former colleague katie couric in the syndicated show she slawnching. he is not, not anymore. we are seeing dramatic new video of that fighter jet crash in virginia. would you look at this. tonight, emergency workers say they are still sea...

would have been a better place to hit or a worst place to hit. theres so many apartment complexes around here. >> can you describe more that area of where the plane crashed? >> yeah. its -- we are maybe a half a mile from virginia beach ocean front. big resort area. lots of homes, lots of apartment complexes. and its -- its just a place that, you know, anywhere but here kind of thing. again, if it was a half a mile to the west, it could have been in a creek or a marshy area. and he wou...