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become victims of the violence they were covering there on the ground in syria. just hours before her death, american-born journalist marie colvin told anderson cooper just last night, quote, the syrian army is shelling the city of cold, stavrving civilians, end quote. colvin and remi ochik were killed in the shelling there. he was just 28 years old. he was a veteran war correspondent with the "new york times" for more than two decades. i have cnns ivan watson and jim clancy joining me...

Very much. live report from d.c. >> now, some of your headlines for a thursday beginning with the fox news alert just in from washington, president obama set to take a big step today in reversing one of president george w. bushs signature achievements. later today, the president will free as many as 10 states from the strict education requirements inside the no child left behind act. those states colorado, florida, georgia, indiana, kentucky, massachusetts, minnesota, new jersey, oklahoma and te...

>> when i walked in and saw the extent of the damage, i couldnt believe it. >> reporter: their insurance company called the fire an accident. the nichols blame it on their microwave. in north korea elizabeth lilboa said something last year went wrong with her dishwasher. >> the dishwasher caught fire. theres a burning plastic smell throughout the house. and smoke came pouring out of the vent. >> reporter: in both cases the victims say they did nothing wrong. and now "consumer reports" magazine i...

After two minute, they went to a commercial break. >> the out of control graphics are the result of a computer malfunction. >> i was the weather anchor and also the news anchor. right before the show started the weather computer completely crashed. i had to run back and reload everything. thats when the graphics started popping up on the screen. >> and the laughing? well, thats an understandable human error. they swear its nothing to do with the incident, but tommy and justine both leave the sta...

And the captains callous and inept reaction according to investigators. the chairman and ceo of costa cruises. >> we believe it is human error here, the captain did not follow the authorized route. >> geraldo: this is the actual course taken by this doomed vessel anst tracking shows it making a sweeping left turn and dramatic deviation from the scheduled course and a professor of navigation at new yorks maritime college... >> as you and i look at this, you know, it is obvious, the land is there,...

So at that moment there was pandemonium. >> just lost two engines. >> the crew calmly tells air traffic control that the engines have failed. they are quickly routed back to jfk, but it is too late. when the boeing 707 crashes into a hillside in oyster boy, the cockpit breaks off, killing the pilots and flight engineer. they are only 16 miles from the airport. miraculously, 85 of 158 people on board survive impact. they are pinned beneath the wreckage, but there is no fire. >> clearly the plane ...

Distracted. 1493 checked in. she looked. the runway end was clear. and it was just a human error. >> at the ntsb hearings, the air traffic controller testifies that she initially thought it was an act of terrorism. >> 1493 came over the threshold. i assumed it was a bomb. >> then she remembers another plane was on the runway. >> went to the ground control. 569. see if you are in contact with

See if he could see an alignment stripe that is on the nose gear that you can see from a small view port down under the flight deck. >> but its just too dark to see. the captain and co-pilot are still struggling with the light bulb. >> this is where human error begins to show itself. ideally someone does nothing but monitor the auto pilot. but with the difficulty that the first officer was having with the bulb, the captain understandably wanted to try to help him. no one was concentrating on mon...

Inept reaction according to investigators. the chairman and ceo of costa cruises. >> we believe it is human error here, the captain did not follow the authorized route. >> geraldo: this is the actual course taken by this doomed vessel anst tracking shows it making a sweeping left turn and dramatic deviation from the scheduled course and a professor of navigation at new yorks maritime college... >> as you and i look at this, you know, it is obvious, the land is there, the rocks are there, and how...

But absent any physical evidence to the contrary, the ntsb is bound by facts. and the best estimate of facts at that time said he didnt close the door properly. >> is it human error or is there another explanation? >> it wasnt until a year and a half later when the navy went down and actually found the cargo door, the two pieces of the cargo door, brought them back up and they were examined. the real cause or the true cause of the event was identified. >> to follow the cargo door failure on unit...