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Often than not what makes a plane go down is the plane itself? that its not going to be about the pilots or something nefarious, its going to be about more likely these warnings that were out about the 7 77 that you guys have been talking about from the beginning about different structure cracks and problems with the wings, et cetera. >> right. people will fault me for saying this because everybody thinks pilot error is the single most common cause and it is for the approximate cause. because th...

Of the launch of obamacare. >> so you believe it was political pressure not personal priority. >> i think it is a mix of both. i think she is tired of trying to get the house in order. and think the white house is ready to have someone else step in. for all of her maybe ideological faults, mrs. burwell is seen as someone who is a good administrator and shes able to run a ship well, while kathleen sebelius didnt do a good job with that when obamacare launched. >> mrs. burwell went through it a ye...

Thats when court papers say several women and a man went into the womens rest room and interrogated an employee about her wages and work conditions. a spokesperson for the union says the organization had nothing to do with it. >> toyota is suing one of the lar -- making one of the largest recalls ever. more than 6 million cars across the globe. this could be a big blow to the japanese companys reputation in the wake of another recall years ago. the latest include 27 toyota models including the r...

Heard saturday were reacquired on tuesday. todays search involved 15 planes and 14 ships covering some 75,000 square kilometers. >> the european unions announced plans to hold talks next week with u.s. secretary of state john kerry, russian foreign minister lavrov, and ukraines foreign minister. this announcement comes as pro-russia protesters clash with police in several eastern ukrainian cities. the worlds number-one automaker is recalling more than six million vehicles. toyota says the reca...

Pulses, but it would simplify the length of the search. more information. in the words of angus houston, this is the first step in a long they want to make hay while the process. >> well continue to cover that sun shines. to try and pick up that signal story. also, this big, new business again, get the precise origin. story breaking. toyota is recalling more than six million vehicles worldwide. he said were talking days not the japanese automaker says the weeks at this point. recall is to effect...

>> california has had very large earthquakes in the past. 1906 was the last big one, the earthquake that devastated san francisco. in southern california there was a large earthquake in 1857 about the same size. los angeles was a small town back then. that earthquake only killed two people. the southern most andreas fault ruptured in the late 1600s. the fault had enough time since the last earthquake to support having another earthquake. it could be a decade away or decades away. those are the f...

Significant response by the call by authorities to evacuate preventi preventively. >> chile sits in arc of volcanoes and faults, ring of fire, if you will. building codes are like california. you have very few fatalities compared to haiti, 280,000 in a similar sized quake. hopefully no more aftershocks, sandra, and they can get through this thing without any more death. back to you. >> thank you, william. there will be more information on the killer in ft. hood as we get the latest updates on ...

Seismologist gavin hayes on the phone from colorado. we were talking about earthquakes a few days ago, because some have started to hit california again, magnitude 5-plus. people see the earthquakes in california, they see the earthquakes in chile. i know these are on different fault lines, but is there any connection here? >> we dont think so. the two faults in question are really too far apart for there to be any connection between the two. actually, the earthquake in chile comes at a time of ...

The city, and so its not going to be the most dangerous. >> and that is a real concern. because there is such a populus living on top of those faults. dr. lucy jones, what did i tell you, seismic rock star. >> seismic rock star. >> thanks so much, we appreciate it. >> are you less nervous since you moved here? >> absolutely. and then someone told me new york had -- well, d.c. had an earthquake a few years ago. i am actually less nervous. >> there is a fault line in your neighborhood. seriously. ...

Now we actually do forecasting ourselves on our open hazards.com website. weve done some calculations that you can go there and see. ive written a blog about that that says theres a chance, 4 or 5% chance a year of 6-magnitude earthquake within 60 miles of downtown and 30% chance within three years. that is still not certain within the sense we dont know for sure those things are going to happen. all we can do is calculate probabilities. bill: northridge was 20 years ago this year,. >> i thats c...