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>> odonnell: commuters in phoenix got an unwelcome surprise this morning when a small plane with two on board crash landed in the middle of a busy street. can you imagine? surveillance video shows the plane coming down short of a nearby airport while on final approach. the pilot was taken to the hospital in stable condition. the passenger refused medical attention and appears to be okay. a new study wants calories put in context. it suggests the obesity crisis could be curbed if food labels show...

Down, in essence they are letting planes leave but they are not letting planes come in. you only have so many planes on the ground. once those planes all leave, the airport will also be shut down. holiday weekend, people who are going to john wayne international airport have got to make other arrangements, there will be no way out of there for at least the next several hours and may be the remainder the day. just to recap, 310 cessna twin engine, six cedar crashed coming in, final approach to jo...

Quick to say shes one of mine, after the popes thoughts about her. and thomas merton, people who have been through addiction problems and looking for spirituality. a friend of mine finds him an important part of his recovery effort. im going to read the book. i was taken with the fact that the pope recommends the book. hes going to do a blush frb fo book, im going to read it. >> chris matthews. as you can see, that on final approach is the american airlines 777 carrying the pope from washington ...

>> the people that are flying drones professionally like law enforcement and this kind of thing, they go by the rules. the hobbyists, they dont care. >> the news comes after a close call on wednesday where a drone almost hit a medical helicopter carrying a patient in fresno, california. >> we almost got hit by a drone. >> it was probably about 15 feet from the actual aircraft. >> last sunday the pilots of four commercial airplanes reported seeing a drone during final approach at newark airport. ...

Thanks very much to atika shubert who was there, witnessed that. what happened on board delta flight 468? the plane departed jfks airport, was an hour outside tell receive when the rockets struck. our john vause was on board that flight. what did the crew tell you was happening. did you have any sense that you were turning around? >> reporter: it was right towards the end of the flight. we were right on final approach into tell veefb and people were ready to come to the end of their journey. the...

Giving direction to aircraft on final approach. go around. phraseology. they will things if runways are closed, this is where we send people. regional center will notify they are going to be getting incoming flights. >> thanks so much for your expertise. its nice to talk to you this morning and get a little bit of a feeling of control back. when youre a passenger you can have so much anxiety and knowing what to do helps a little bit. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> lets check in for a look at w...

Investigating. rick leventhal on the story live from our newsroom in new york. the feds are asking for the help of the people. >> right, shepard, the fbi hoping tipsters will help identify who was flying that unmanned aircraft. drones are legal but they have to be flown below a 400-foot ceiling to avoid incidents like yesterday when that pilot on final approach said he came less than a football field away from a blacked unmanned aircraft three feet wide with four propellers hovering right in his...

Bottom of the hour. rick is live in the newsroom. i guess the feds are all over this one, rick. >> shepard, even a toy can do great damage to a commercial aircraft. thats why the fbi is asking the publics assistance in identifying and locating the unmanned aircraft its operator. the pilot on final approach to runway 31 right sees what he describes as a black drone unmanned aircraft, three feet wide, four prop elers, hovering two or three feet from the jet. he landed safely but the fbi wants to f...

The naked eye. you would need eye protection for that. you dont want to damage your eyes. >> heather: weeks of diplomatic wrangling between the u.s. and china bearing fruit. chen guangchen and his immediate family are now on their way to america. they departed beijing on a commercial flight earlier today and theyre expected to arrive in newark, new jersey this evening. doug mckelway is live with the latest. >> hi. united flight 88 should be nearing final approach to newark airport at any time no...

Looks like its probably going to make a landing this time around. and later today it will be carried to a different part of the runway. it will be as they say demated from the 747 and will go on display almost right away, thursday, after a ceremony at the annex to the aerospace museum at dulles. if you and your family have never been out here to the air and space museum its really something to see, in large mart because its just so much bigger than the air and space mo museum, one of the biggest...