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>> the camera guy, he got a little squeamish about the whole thing. so i grabbed the camera, and i started shooting after that. i was more concerned about making sure i got the scene on tape. >> sergeant john holland is the only fireman on duty in white lake township when the call comes in. >> when i first arrived there, i see the aircraft, the nose down. i can still see the pilot in the plane. with that type of impact, an aircraft has basically fallen out of the sky hitting the water, my bigges...

And this is the western edition of the broadcast. pick a kind of severe weather-- hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, hail, even blizzards, and tens of millions of americans are dealing with it tonight. on this mothers day weekend the calendar packed with college graduation ceremonies, much of texas is under a tornado watch as parts of oklahoma, kansas and colorado which also this week had to deal with eight inches of hail. other parts of colorado are under a winter storm watch along with wyoming, ...

Scott pelley" is next. captions by: >> pelley: tornadoes bearing down on the southern plains for a third straight night. also tonight, a plane careened into a highway, killing a family headed to college graduation. for millions of americans, allergy season is off to a miserable start as pollen counts explode. and steve hartman "on the road" with the perfect medicine to treat a deadly diagnosis. >> we started making it fun. >> reporter: chemo? >> yes. >> reporter: you made chemo fun? >> yes. capt...

By removing some sugar from your body. along with diet and exercise farxiga helps lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. with one pill a day, farxiga helps lower your a1c. and, although its not a weight-loss or blood-pressure drug farxiga may help you lose weight and may even lower blood pressure when used with certain diabetes medicines. do not take if allergic to farxiga or its ingredients. symptoms of a serious allergic reaction include rash, swelling, or difficulty breathing or sw...

And it was fantastic. it ruins the backdrop thing. >> yes. they came to your house because youre so hot, they had to put you out. >> lets make a deal. lets have quotas in professions where lives are not at stake. club deejay knock yourself out. but firemen, police officers doctors, pilots competence matters more than anything and that should matter. i think this was done because of lawsuits they are scared of being sued over discrimination. but the fire department is like an olympic team. it dep...

Last year saw of 60,000 wildfires across the country consuming an area the size of connecticut. this year, wildfires are already burning up the budget. nationwide, the u.s. forest service estimates the cost of fighting them at up to $1.6 billion. guy goldsmith has been a volunteer firefighter for 26 years. scary stuff, huh? >> yeah, it is. but you can see my yards a mess now, but we got the house. >> reporter: last night, this blaze came right up to his backyard. >> something you dont expect to ...

Become a police officer or fireman it is preventing you from getting a job. >> do you think it will dig a deeper hole in the mistrust between the police officers and the black community? >> i think thats an overstatement. people in the minority communities do trust the police. theres a small percentage of people who will never trust the police because of maybe bad experience with them family members, et cetera got a bad deal. 95% of the people go to a doctor and pulls out the needle nobody wants...

>> right now what were doing is im trying to get a general area where they heard the voices. >> reporter: the rescue would take several more hours. ( applause ) before the hundreds who had gathered could cheer. >> this is a great feeling. its a great feeling. you feel like you won a war, you know. to save a life, to save a life is a great thing. >> reporter: this evening, we found the 15-year-old at an israeli-run field hospital. "im not on the land, im up in the sky," he told us. as he snacked ...

Alongside nepalese rescuers to try to reach a voice coming from the rubble. they were trying to extract the trapped teen without causing the hotel teetering above them to topple. >> no, no, no, here! >> reporter: finally 15-year-old pemba tamang emerged. >> get the clamp! >> reporter: in a new york yankees t-shirt to chaos. he is finally free 120 hours after this earthquake. wed been following the elite usaid disaster assistance response team all morning. is there really a chance that someone is...

Now jonathan has come to the point where they are setting fires to their own homes. >> right. i heard somebody tonight say that this is because of anger and that this is -- >> jamaal said that. >> thats ridiculous. i saw angry people earlier. those people live there an they want change. it is not people throwing bricks at fireman. not people tearing down the local liquor store or cvs. they he have by and large turned this from dialogue no a complete riot. and when you have a mayor that goes out ...