want to begin with this afternoon s scary situation on board this air liner and i am sure it was equally frightening for drivers on the ground who say parts of the plane were hitting cars. we can tell you the jet landed safely. i want to bring in lizzie o leary, our aviation spore kond ent. what do we know? what happened? we can take it from sort of two sides. what was happening on the ground, those parts of the plane, potentially the debris field and what was happening in the air. there you see pictures from our affiliate cb-24 in canada, pieces of did he pree they say fell from the ski. the blackberry is to i have give you a sense of comparison. now, switching over to what we know from the air side, we are talking about an air canada plane, a boeing triple 7, a twin engine plane, a large pass engineer judget that left toronto at around 2:10 this afternoon carrying 318 passengers and 16 crew members according to air canada. after take off there was an engine shutdown. this
mattresses. some senators agree. they re ought to be a law. our current toxics law allows too many untested chemicals on the market. why should parents who would be left to wonder if the chemicals used in their baby s bottles, pacifiers, cribs are safe? the status quo is dangerous and unacceptable. cnn s dana bash joins me now with, dare i say, this rolling coverage. so what are these moms hoping to accomplish? reporter: what they want is basically information, and the backstory, the background, i should tell you, something that certainly i didn t realize as a new mom and many others might not is that chemicals simply are not regulated, and we don t know a lot about the chemicals that are out there. as you mention in everything. at this press conference these lawmakers and activists made clear that there are 80,000 known chemicals, martin. only 200 have been tested and only 4 have been taken off the market. i want to bring in a couple of the moms who came here from far
good morning. i m randy kay. we start this morning with a look ahead. tomorrow former presidential candidate john edwards heads to federal court. prosecutors say edwards used nearly $1 million in campaign contributions to sdooef the public. they say he was hiding an affair and a child. the mistress is expected to be the star in the trial. she has imunit. edwards and his attorneys say he did nothing wrong. we ll have much more on the details of this case in about ten minutes. a major figure from the watergate scandal has died. chuck coleson. he was the first of richard nixon s aides to be he took his punishment, seven months in prison, and turned his life around. here he is in 1999. we ve healed a great deal from what happened in watergate, but it took a long period of time for people to recognize what they had done wrong, i apologize for what i did and to the people hi offended and after ligue prison in the mid 1970s colson founded the prison fellowship. it s now a
there you go so obviously, brooke, a different posture from herman cain, he s been known throughout this campaign as somebody who is sort of laid back and has an easy going style out on the campaign trail. that was very different today. he had security guards pushing reporters out of the way, he was refusing to answer questions all of this. the main question that was being asked of him, brooke, to put it very quickly is whether or not he would call on the national restaurant association to release from these nondisclosure agreements, these confidentiality agreements, these these two accusers allegedly signed back in the late 1990s, keep the stories quiet in exchange for payment settlements and so you know that is the big question at this point for the cain campaign, one they have not answereded yet and still waiting to see if it develops. sounds to me like it most definitely could sounds like the national restaurant association and also the attorney of one of the accuse
be connected to a trading loss of $2 billion. oh, man, the banking giant noticed the loss in the last 24 hours and immediately started an investigation. they suffered a 10% loss in their company value in early morning trading so far today and could now be in the red for the entire third quarter. ok, the suspected terrorist accused of trying to blow his pants up, you remember? explosives in his underwear. he s shooting off his mouth in court. umar farouk abdulmutallab shouted usama is alive. he refused to stand up for the judge, put his feet up on the defense table and complained about having to wear prison clothes. all while acting as his own attorney. when the judge explained the charges against him to perspective jurors, he shouted allah akbar, allah is the greatest. off to a good defense start. engine problems on an airplane forced justice ruth bader ginsburg to slide down an emergency chute to safety.