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known as the gal long ghost. the pilot, mr. leeward, was competing at the national championship air races and air show at the reno stead airport. witnesses say his plane was about 400 to 500 feet in the air when it nosedived. the regional medical center confirm it had has received a total of 21 parents so far. joining me now is fred schultz, he witnessed the crash, a pilot himself. fred, what did you see? >> well, what i seen, we looked up above the grandstands and he was in trouble an...

i think he was trying to do whatever he could right up to the end. i could hear the engine of the plane changing rpms and it just happened so fast. i thought he was coming in on top of us. instead, he missed us by about 100 feet and went out into the box area in front of us. >> and there was no fireball as a result, right? >> no. i was sort of surprised p you know, we are all kind of like a deer in the headlights. i have been coming to the air races for over 20 years. as a matter of fa...

the most pressing issue there is greece. >> reporter: yeah. thats right, ali. what i should also mention, though is that the markets have certainly learned over the last two years this euro in crisis has gone from bad to worse. what they wish for and, then, again, what politicians deliver. what they would ultimately like to see, these leaders agreen on a bold action on a statement promising bold action like raising the euros bailout fund to cope with countries like greece that theyre s...

structu destruction of the wildfires in texas. this now stretches across a 16-mile area. winds whipped up flames again today. a separate fire in eastern texas killed a mother and her 18-month-old child. tropical depression lee slogging its way north today after dumping as much of a foot of rain in parts of louisiana. pumps in new orleans helped prevent any major problem there. that was good. but the storm caused flooding in other towns and cities along the gulf. in alabama, lee spun ...

at the same time that message whennet out on seirius tv on wednesday. he and his father were open to talks. libyas national transitional council is in for tough questions today. he goes for the libya contact brief in paris to discuss his plans for the future. international support for the ntc is reporting. russia tv is now recognizing the group as libyas new authority. amnesty international has release add disturbing report describing the deaths of detainees. they cite at least 88 ...

hurricane irene, now officially made landfall as a category 1 storm on the east coast of the united states. the most up-to-date satellite image we can show you now of re irene, showing wear and tear, described as sloppy, not very well organized but starting to get more disorganized. you can see it there, it was a more organized storm over the past couple of days but as its making landfall now and making its way up the east coast maybe not so much so. it has been lashing out at the caro...

im nina dos santos. good afternoon from cnn hong kong. im andrew streechbs. youre watching cnns coverage of the battle for libyas future. opposition leaders claim rebel forces now control 90% of libya. they also say think ooer planning to move some of their power base today from the eastern city of benghazi to the capital tripoli. meantime, the last vestiges of moammar gadhafis power base appear to be crumbling. after hours of fighting, rebels finally over ran his heavily fortified...

a.m. in london, 4:00 p.m. in hong kong. hello, im andrew stevens. >> im charles hodson, youre watching cnns continuing coverage of the uprising in libya. history is unfolding today in libya as colonel moammar gadhafis 42-year grip on power appears to be coming to an end. here now the latest. anti-gadhafi forces say theyre in control of most parts of tripoli. the rebels caution there are still some pockets of resistance in the capital. colonel gadhafis own whereabouts are unknown now,...

>> hey, fredericka. the losses are holding steady. the dow down about 436 points. theyre off their lows of this session where we saw the dow down as much as 500 points. this is coming after morgan stanley kind of set off an alarm bell saying that the u.s. and europe are looking like theyre getting close to going into a recession. morgan stanley also downgrading its growth forecast globally for this year and next. also not helping we got a bunch of economic reports here in the u.s. one ...

honest with ourselves is that we have a political culture that doesnt seem willing to make the tough choices to move america forward. we have a willingness to play partisan games and engage in brinkmanship, that not only costs us in terms of the economy now but also is going to place a burden on future generations. and the question is, can we break out of that pattern? can we break out of that pattern? think about it. we just went through this debacle with the debt ceiling, an entirely...