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The captain practiced and you can see the similarities obviously, basically making that turn and then heading to a point where i guess it would run out of fuel in the ocean. >> and if you look at those two things, the only difference between the two is the initial departure toward beijing where it goes up and round. if you look at the route, it does go up, it goes round the tip of indonesia and then starts a long journey down to the southern indian ocean. what do i make of it? it is everything a...

Turn and then heading to a point where i guess it would run out of fuel in the ocean. >> and if you look at those two things, the only difference between the two is the initial departure toward beijing where it goes up and round. if you look at the route, it does go up, it goes round the tip of indonesia and then starts a long journey down to the southern indian ocean. what do i make of it? it is everything and it is nothing. it is the clearest circumstantial evidence that he was involved in ste...

Their attention. >> what concerns me is that they dont have a lot of time to deal with those interactions. i think what you will probably learn here today is its measured in minutes. >> reporter: in january, iran seized 15 navy sailors. >> i though they should held accountable for that. its kind of accepted maritime professionalism. >> reporter: irans meddling inside iraq continues. there are now 100,000 iranian backed fighters in iraq, which has the general thinking about the political situatio...

The airplane in an emergency mode. >> dozens of other cameras are also recording the critical test of the navys newest fighter jet. >> they are all stuck all over the airplane and then im there as the insurance policy. if something goes wrong and they lose the airplane, they have my film that can come back and reassemble what happened. >> little does he know, its his plane that will run into trouble. when the planes reach 500 feet, the hornet releases the bomb flying at more than 500 miles per h...

>> i was probably doing about 33 feet per second when i hit the ground and all the data out there says that anything more than about 35 feet per second is probably a fatal rate. >> so what went wrong? investigators find the wing of a small bird in the wreckage. its a franklins gull, common to the air field but generally too small to do this much damage so it makes sense when investigators find that the gull isnt the only thing that the engine has ingested. >> as the bird came down the side on my...

Realize because they dont fly. they dont realize how close that water is to us. >> charlie hammonds of nearby louisiana has been flying over the states coastline for nearly 60 years. from the air, you can see the devastating impact. >> as soon as you lift off from the airport at home all you see is water. i can attest to the fact that ive been a pilot all my life and watched this land disappear. >> in the era of climate change the effects of the land sinking are also being exacerbated by sea lev...

Communities. >> because it isnt just isle de jean charles that is under threat, the entire louisiana coastline is disappearing. >> louisiana has lost a very large amount of land over the last century. something close to 1900 square miles worth of land. that is equivalent today to about a football field an hour. >> while some of that land loss occurs naturally, the oil and gas industry has also played a role. >> theres a lot of canals that have been cut across the louisiana coast, some for naviga...

That is equivalent today to about a football field an hour. >> while some of that land loss occurs naturally, the oil and gas industry has also played a role. >> theres a lot of canals that have been cut across the louisiana coast, some for navigation but a lot for oil and gas. those canals have contributed to erosion and saltwater intrusion and those canals have played a major role in the land loss. >> the average person dont realize because they dont fly. they dont realize how close that water...

Artillery rounds. well see what we find inside. i asked the soldiers if daesh, the ak nim for isis is still inside the city? >> no responds a 12-year army veteran, theres no daesh and qualifies his statement. there are pockets, one or two still fighting here and there. the pockets we soon discover were many and seem deep. this is the neighborhood in central fallujah, it was until day before yesterday under the control of isis. now we see lots of iraqi troops and hum vs in this part of the town b...

From that location, and thats scary. >> luckily, no one is killed. >> it was an act of fate or act of god that those projectiles were hitting things like empty freeways. >> randy bibb spends more than a month in the hospital. the fire changes his life forever. >> i couldnt just go out and work because i didnt know whether the next day when i got up if i would be able to go ten minutes without having to lay back down, you know. so i havent worked since then. its been tough. >> an investigation co...