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>> shepard: millions of americans are in the dark again today after an islandwide blackout across all of puerto rico. heres some drone footage from last month seven months after hurricane maria hit. this happened when a private contractor was removing a fallen tower and accidentally damaged a power line. just last week, a separate power outage in puerto rico affected about 700,000 people. that one the result of a fallen tree. local officials say todays outage, the entire island will be without p...

Nobody was hurt. this as the ntsb investigates yesterdays nightmare. jennifer reardon, a banking executive and mother was killed after engine failure caused shrapnel to break a window on board a 737. the aircraft made an emergency landing in florida. the pilot, tammie jo schultz being praised for preventing this to become worse. a full report coming up at 11:30 eastern time. >> extremely dangerous weather conditions fuelling fast-moving wild fires in western oklahoma. how firefighters are battli...

There was an emergency landing in philadelphia. you can see firefighters waiting there, dousing the tarmac with foam. tonight, the ntsb is now on the scene investigating the first deadly accident involving a domestic airline in nearly a decade. abcs linzie janis leads us off abcs linzie janis in philadelphia. >> reporter: the in-flight terror began just minutes after takeoff. >> number one engine failure. >> reporter: southwest flight 1380, carrying 144 passengers and five crew, was headed from ...

Landing. tom, what in the world happened here? >> reporter: it now appears that one of the fan blades on the engine -- there are 24 blades in a turbo fan engine. one of those fan blades broke off at the hub, at the base. the ntsb now says there are signs of metal fatigue. when that fan blade broke off we had what was called an uncontained engine failure. in other words, it didnt stay within the housing of the engine. entire thing came apart hurling the shrapnel into the plane and then blowing ou...

Happened. engine failure can cause a fire. control surfaces have been lost, hydraulic systems have been lost, and that could affect your ability to actually control the plane. in those cases the plane was lost. so here, i would have to echo, kudos to the flight crew for getting this plane down on the ground. quick thinking. if it was an uncontained engine failure that led to an exposed decontamination, which means all of a sudden you dont have pressure on the plane, planes have been lost because...

Once we get there and look at it, we may say, well, in fact, this is an uncontained engine failure. those parts may not have been in that section of the engine that is associated with the protection region associated with an unprotected engine failure. >> reporter: can you tell us the status of the investigation is and -- [ inaudible ]. >> what is the status of the previous southwest airlines uncontained engine failure? i dont have that information right now. our focus right now is getting out t...

Analyst as well. it would be nice to get your thoughts over this disaster not too far from philadelphia. >> i think youre wise to point out to viewers apparently a broken window, a passenger window, stands to reason it had something to do with the shrapnel that have been kicked out by this uncontained engine failure. i should know from your viewers, wolf, back in august of 2016 southwest had a very similar incident. an uncontained engine failure. this aircraft was headed from louis armstrong air...

Scene were seeing was quite something that played out. one passenger on board that aircraft has reported there was some sort of engine failure that the passengers aboard that flight started feeling before there was trouble with that engine and then some of that shrapnel hitting the fuselage and resulting in the injury of that passenger. heres what you need to know if travel plans take you to this particular region. the faa has issued a mandatory ground stop for all flights either headed here or ...

Frequently, probably, than we all care to recognize. theyre very reliable, but often when they fail, theyre designed to fail so all the parts stay internal or go out the tailpipe and not cause any further damage, making it sort of a non-event which is why we dont hear about it so much. every now and then, though, you get a contained failure in which some piece or part escapes from the cowlick of the engine, and essentially those are pieces of shrapnel that come off at very high rates of speed an...

Pilots for being kwacalm in the middle of all this. joining us as well on beeper, miles. miles, now that you heard jason carroll and you heard christopher johnson about what happened here, by one account, and often we get additional information, an injury on board and possibly some breach from shrapnel. is that how youre taking it so far? >> that could be the supposition here. you have what would cause the injury. i suppose doing a rapid descent, if the seat belt wasnt on, there could have been ...