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Literally my entire life. youre up there watching it come down. what went through your mind? >> ready to start the next battle. thats over with and we need to move on. our entire outlook is about respecting people universally. today is the anniversary, july 10 1968 equal protection under the law. how can a person who look like i do and you do have equal protection under the law with the symbol the universal symbol of bigotry, hatred and white supremacy flying on state property? we dont care abou...

Manager of san marcos, texas, about 50 miles northeast of san antonio giving an update as to the missing. and actually, the number has changed. before air, it was 12 people missing and he now has confirmed that at least in the san antonio, san marcos area, now 11 people missing. but the statistics have been really nothing short of remarkable. the pictures even more so. take a look at your screen, this is wimberley, texas. we talked about the death toll from these storms at 18 in the united state...

I dont think something like this would rattle him. it was a pretty typical flight even though there was bad weather. i am leaning toward there being some kind of other mechanical issue that could have been enduced from the weather they were flying through. >> which means the pilot himself would have been fighting his own plane to keep it flying. >> right. and one of the problems with the fly by wire airplanes, i was speaking with some commercial airline pilots today who fly the a320, if it ices ...

To get it to slow down when in fact they were already slow. that whats caused the deep stall situation where the power on aircraft is moving through the air yet not enough over the wings to s tos to keep it flying. >> they were different planes though. >> both aircraft were of the same type certificate data sheet. this is the basis faa gives manufacture to issue. air bus 330 and 320 were manufactured on the same type certificate so subjective to the same testing levels and performance informatio...

Are going into chad. and i would also add, just to remind your viewers, these 80 folks going to chad are maintenance personnel. they operate the aircraft, to keep it flying, theyre security personnel to protect the aircraft and the personnel that are there and other support personnel. these are not combat infantry troops, these are troops there to support the reconnaissance mission. >> lastly, admiral kirby, given the drone operators out of new mexico and place like that operating drones on the ...

Thats what i was asking jim. the white house hasnt had an answer on that. >> as always with the u.s. military, theres more and less to it than meets the eye. the military -- the military had been using manned aircraft to conduct these missions over nigeria. those aircraft basically had to go into the shop for maintenance. the urktsavs, predators they were using were a long distance away. they didnt have time on station, so to speak. they could come this distance, fly overhead for several hours, ...

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The mobile home and sent it flying, landing in this spot right here and this house used to be the other way around, so the force sent the house spinning 180 degrees. thats the back of the house. i asked the property manager here what was it like here on thursday when everything you see here was pretty much under water and she told me that you saw residents sitting on their roofs, waiting to be rescued. over there, you see a basketball hoop in the distance. one woman was hanging off that basketba...

Land it if he had space, can you land a plane of that size full of fuel without it exploding? >> it does appear the crew is trying to correct it. the right-wing dropped. again, what you would normally do is try to get the nose down to get it flying, reduce the angle. it wasnt that there wasnt enough distance in front of them. there just wasnt enough altitude. so they basically, if they had been higher up when this happened, there is a chance they could have pulled it out. but from looking at the...

On that point, let me ask you that. youre referring to, as its coming down perpendicular, it rights itself toward the end. do you believe that is the pilot that is doing that is the first question? and the second question is, obviously, at that point theyre over a road. who knows what could have done a safe landing. it is also full of fuel. if the only option at that point -- first of all, was it him able to right it? is his only option to try to land it if he had space, can you land a plane of ...