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Like i say, most of my money i try to save, i try to help my grandchildren out, and so, yes, it would hurt me, but im sure it would hurt a lot of other firemen and policemen probably a little bit more than me. >> larry, good luck to you. well obviously hope for the best in detroit. i know that city going through a horrible situation right now. larry newberry spent a long time, he put his life on the line as a firefighter in detroit and now hes retired but hes deeply concerned, as are so many oth...

Movement. there are images from single events we associate with national civil rights movements. pictures from birmingham from the 1960s of police sicking dogs on protesters and firemen dousing protesters with high-pressure hoses. the march on washington 50 years ago this summer where mlk delivered his "i have a dream" speech among many others. for a historical look at this t lets welcome back civil rights attorney mya wiley and lsu law professor raymond diamond, whos written extensively on race...

The billions the government is spending on next years world cup and the 2016 olympics. china. recent flooding trapping thousands of people in a southwestern province. many of them stuck in their homes. firemen rescuing more than 200 tourists from a mountain resort. the rains also triggering mud slides, cutting off roads and bridges. france. parachutists making some rehearsal jumps ahead of bass steel day. marking the start of the french revolution. ♪ ♪ >> military bands getting ready for the...

Them. >> its quite remarkable that people got out of that plane at that point. >> yeah. yeah. so some of the people that couldnt get out of seats because they were injured, so i started digging through the luggage to get through there, and then one -- my lieutenant, we started pulling luggage out to make a clear path. behind the firemen, the smoke started building up, and the only way they could get out was down here. and we started to get everybody out of the plane before the black smoke came i...

What did you see? >> we had -- initially me and another officer, derek lee, we were at the chutes and the pilots and crew were asking for knifes. people were stuck. we gave our knifes and when they said the plane was cleared, came back down, and ran around the tail section after we helped some people get away from the plane, i saw people on the ground and it looked like there were still people on the back of the plane and tail was missing from the back of the plane and that part of the plane you...

The fire came afterward. the firemen were fast on the site and so by the time i was back in the plane towards the back of the plane some firemen, a woman actually came to the backdoor of the plane, i think. so the fire crew was on site pretty quickly and then tried to bring people to safety. >> benjamin levy who was on the plane from seoul to sfo when it crashed at 11:27 in the morning was on the plane and kind enough to join us now. i dont know if you are near a television. you but if you are a...

Out, but the fire happened much later. i couldnt see any fire in the back of the plane, and by the time i went out for the phones, i saw more smoke. the beginnings of it and the firemen were already on the spot. >> the team for the national transportation safety board is already on the scene. were getting more images from the crash scene. right now there are two confirmed fatalities, several taken to the hospital. at last count about four dozen remain in the hospital. joining me from boston, pau...

>> what do you do? >> i work for the city. >> you do? so do i. >> what do you do for the city. >> fireman. >> youre a firefighter, im good. >> hold on. no one hates firemen. with that reaction, theres only one occupation that means. youre police. >> im a police officer, yeah. >> well, thats awesome. >> you guys get a much better reputation than we do. i honestly think they like you guys more because you dont take them off to jail. >> you yell at them. >> you dont even know me. i dont yell. >> mo...

>> m. >> thats a good one. >> all right. >> whats your government name? >> its jean-jacques. >> you smell nice. >> you smell great yourself. >> what do you do now? >> what i do now is im a parallel. you run around doing what lawyers want you to do. youre a lawyers bitch. >> what do you do? >> i work for the city. >> you do? so do i. >> what do you do for the city. >> fireman. >> youre a firefighter, im good. >> hold on. no one hates firemen. with that reaction, theres only one occupation that me...

>> just trying to get enough foam and water on there to go ahead and try and knock it out. >> the smoking caldron ominously flares up. >> whats causing the flash that we keep seeing every once in a while? >> right now, it could be several things. as i was videotaping the tank fire, there were a few flare-ups and you could see the flame billow out but just as soon as it flared up, they put water on it and it would go back down. >> officials believe the fire is close to being extinguished. >> i as...