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Either exiled or jailed, like dr. abdul aziz khayer, an opposition leader now out of prison and deeply worried. >> it must be a warning to all those, and they must act very quickly and very effectively to avoid the progress of civil war. >> reporter: but calls for political dialogue are lost in the growing chorus of religious hatred and the volleys of gunfire. its a tragedy for syria and the embryonic opposition. >> if the battle is lost, most of us will be either jailed or executed. we know tha...

Of its own color barriers. >> i hit left rudder, brought it down. >> reporter: like every fighter pilot, roscoe brown talks with his hands, at almost 90, telling war stories like they were yesterday. >> boom! and that was with it. that was the first jet shot down over berlin. >> reporter: thats brown in 1945 in the cockpit of a p-51, the f-16 of its day. now, the real life war stories of brown and his squadron mates, members of the legendary tuskegee airmen are the basis for the new movie "red t...

This year was great but next years gonna be even better. and anyone who knows the gulf knows that winter is primetime fun time. the suns out and the waters beautiful. you can go deep sea fishing for amberjack, grouper and mackerel. our golf courses are open. our bed and breakfast have special rates. and migrating waterfowl from all over make this a bird watchers paradise. so if you missed it earlier this year, come on down. if youve already been here come on back... to mississippi... florida... ...

Captive flock of whooping cranes. back when the whooping crane was almost extinct, they brought eggs into captivity to see if they could save guard the species and we used that flock to generate the eggs for release. jon: all right. so you are flying down to florida -- its my understanding that their original wintering ground was in texas. why are you going to florida? >> well, there were several original wintering grounds but when the population was decreased to only 15 birds, the last remainin...

He was not the nominee but he was the first republican presidential candidate who released his tax return. so it is a big deal as far as people being able to look at the tax return and seeing how the candidate made his or her money. >>jonathan: so it is about transparency rather then legal requirement. >>shepard: so it would give his rivals something on which to prey. what have the disclosures meant in past cycles? >>jonathan: a big issue in past election cycles. hillary clinton, for instance, i...

Like this, their numbers have grown to several hundred. but their migration route has been erased from memory. they need to be taught where to go. the long route from wisconsin to florida. from the time the birds are hatched, theyre introduced to the planes on the ground, around the track to get used to the sound. and then -- they take flight. but this year, the migration hit a bureaucratic snag. operation migration pays its pilots but the faa says ultralights can only be flown for recreational,...

And finally, some human help for those rare birds, trying to get to florida, heres john berman. >> reporter: this is nothing less than airborne hope. whooping cranes on a 1,200-mile journey behind a special guide. for the last ten years operation migration has been leading the cranes south behind a special tiny aircraft known as ultralight. >> theyre just learning their wing, on their first big adventure. sometimes theyre very insecure, sometimes theyre overly confident. >> whooping cranes are 5...

River. >> heather: that was shepard smith three years ago today reporting on the miracle on the hudson. u.s. airways made an emergency landing on the hudson river after the engines were knocked out by a flock of geese. amazingly the plane stayed virtually intact. none of the people were killed. their survival has been credited to the skill of this man, captain sully sullenberger whose quick thinking made him able to make the landing. i talked to some of the passengers. they took carolina aviatio...

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Hand out half a million dollars in bonuses to its remaining workers. there are about 24 workers left there and the company says the money would keep them motivated while it goes through the bankruptcy process which could be stressful. >> yeah. >> they would be sad. >> meanwhile, it looked a lot like this familiar scene out of the hitchcock thriller in new jersey. that, of course, "the birds". a massive flock of blackbirds and grackles crowded the skies above franklin township. the noise drawing ...