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Vessels are looking for. hope against hope. of course, we are praying and continue our search for the possible survivors. finding the haystack is just a first step here then comes the more difficult task of finding the needle. listening deep under water, with this device, for any pings from the black boxes. as day breaks here, the search will resume in earnest. its a race against the clock. because the batteries on those black boxes have just one week left on them. >> one week to go. thank you. ...

This story, a louisiana firefighter, arrested by police for not moving his truck during an emergency call. heres the surveillance video that shows the firemen here arriving first, when police got there, they told him to move his truck, he refused, so the officer cuffed him and put him in the back of his cruiser, the victim, the fireman was helping says the officer should be the one in cuffs. >> i think he should get fired or suspended. something should happen to him, because like, who does arres...

Yesterday when they were trapped in a burning browned stope. black bunting drapes the fired house where lieutenant edward walsh and firefighter michael kennedy worked. they were caught in the basement of the brownstone as flames raced through the building in the back bay. 13 other feists were hurt. the cause of the fire is not known. a tiny ren wor painting is back at home at the baltimore mormuseum of art tonight, nearly 63 years after it was stolen. "on the shore of the seine" surfaced two yea...

The structure, but it was apparently too late. at this hour a total of 18 people have been transported to hospitals in boston from this one fire. all of them first responders. the news now many of us woke up to from the other side of the world today. a french satellite had spotted over 120 pieces of debris in the water in the southern indian ocean. understanding that any big wreckage is likely three miles down and in the dark and anything on the surface could have already drifted hundreds of m...

Tossed into a rock tumbler. were all holding out hope that there are air pockets. its like an earthquake where people survive for days in a hidden little corner and just need to give them enough time so their cries can be heard. i talked to one fireman who described the paste, the greasy consistency of the earth. all that white earth that came down. how it filled everything. how it ripped cars in half. heres what he had to say. >> the people were finding, theyre not just buried, theyre ripped ap...

Were asleep. the predawn blaze roared quickly through the wood-framed motel. the flames fanned by flames gusting from the beach a couple blocks away. a kayottchaotic scene, people banging on doors, screaming to wake people up. some jumped from the second floor. >> fire already coming through the roof. >> reporter: joe frysac was at the motel since december, the latest temporary home because of hurricane sandy, says he wanted to go back in to help. >> but the stairs were already covered in flames...

Utility workers arrived too late. its not clear where a leak may have come from. but the pipes leading to the buildings were more than 100 years old. new york city has 1,300 miles of gas mains made of cast iron and unprotected steel that can break down over time. >> they rust. the joints start to leak. they buckle as the ground under them erodes from water and other things. >> reporter: robert jackson of duke university, studies the nations gas distribution system. over two months, his team dete...

Billowing smoke. >> i was literally walking by with my son in the stroller ten minutes before the blast happened. it is horrible, horrible. >> reporter: hundreds of evacuated nearby buildings, then a frantic search to find neighbors and loved ones. this woman pled with police to let her pass through the barricades sealing off the area to try to find her cousins. >> the house is right next door where it blew up. and i got to know, i got to find out. >> reporter: very quickly, officials said a gas...

I believe i have the best vantage point here, and its too bad i dont have a camera with me. ive managed to get inside the police line before they closed it off. and i went into the community board office with the councilwoman, and she allowed me to stay in. so im looking from perhaps just a few hundred feet away, not that far. i am seeing firefighters with buckets sort of in a chain kind of -- you know how they hand the bucket -- pick up the debris with their hand, put it in the bucket and hand ...

Instead of sending me to -- i done research on what rehabilitation -- that meant and it says to make better. i want to be a better drug user. i want to be a better person. >> now its the prosecutors turn to give her account of cruzs past 16 years. >> in 1997 burglary and defiant -- 2000 possession with intent to distribute a dangerous possession in a school zone. pled guilty. unlawful possession of firearms. possession of a defaced fireman. he pled guilty. 2004. threats to kill. threats of viole...