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Wheel at a festival north of sydney. after scooping up kids trapped on the ride, it took rescuers three hours to free two men in the plane which was dangling more than 30 feet in the air. amazingly, no one was seriously hurt. at our education nation summit here in new york this past week, we heard over and over again about the problem many districts are dealing with right now, severe cuts to their budgets. and that is leading some to resort to unique and controversial measures to make money. i...

Something they didnt even do. next on cbs 5 a bay area kid gets a shout out >> pelley: we end tonight with the washington monument, how it is, and how it might have been. this is an early design. it was to have been flat-topped and surrounded by a circular colonnade. the monument that was finally built is actually made of 36,491 blocks of stone, and today engineers began checking every single one of them for earthquake damage, starting, as nancy cordes reports, from the very top. >> reporter: da...

Tapping it with a soft mallet, and collecting any debris that shook loose in a bag at their waists. theyre all in their late 20s and early 30s, flown in specially from denver and chicago and boston, assisted by a mountaineering expert from alaska. >> they have worked together. theyve done lots of work together over the years. and have lots and lots of experience on high structures, and historic structures. >> reporter: the washington monument isnt just the tallest structure in d.c. its one of th...

Is it art or hate? grownups upset over a childrens exhibit at a bay area museum. now we have learned that the show will go on, with a twist. good for the environment and better for the bad guys? the change on the block that some residents say is providing cover for criminals. good evening, im dana king. >> im allen martin. they are accused of ripping off taxpayers in a high-profile bankruptcy. today two solyndra executives were called to the carpet. but as ken bastida tells us, solyndras c...

were talking about on wealthy americans. some of the taxes we have talked about before, limiting those itemized deductions that the wealthy take. closing loopholes on hedge fund managers, oil and gas companies, corporate jet owners and also letting the bush era tax cuts for the wealthiest americans expire when they are set to. also a little more than $1 trillion in war savings. of course, we do know that the wars in afghanistan and iraq are already going to be winding down. and thats s...

Warnings came so late. you know, this tornado popped up so fast by the time the local news was able to get an alert on the air it was almost too late for everybody to get even to a shelter or even into their own basements in some cases so whats happening here today is that you have the residents walking around literally just touring the damage in some cases they left when the tornadoes were going to strike and are coming home and seeing this for the first time. this is a church, 250-year-old chu...

Including three nuclear meltdowns, is far worse and more dangerous than anyone knew in the days after the accident. u.n. experts say the government should have been better prepared for the devastating tsunami. >> what you have to do is look at what is around your country. and design things to withstand those hazards for your country. >> reporter: the u.n. team said efforts to contain the accident have been exemplary. to try to control the heat from the melted fuel rods, workers are still pouring...

>> reporter: a thought echoed daily across tuscaloosa as small signs of hope slowly emerge. the streets are finally clear. water is back on. electricity returns to more homes by the day. but one thing hasnt changed. so many neighborhoods like this remain in pieces, abandoned, lifeless ghost towns. in fact, if you look around and look at all this destruction thats still all around us here, it looks like the storm hit yesterday. and it feels like it to survives whose lives were broken, bent and ba...

Assisting people with showers. weve separated hygiene products and clothing. we have done some pickup. weve helped stock trailers, unload trailers. >> reporter: volunteers were not thinking about a day off. >> we are probably going to go home tonight, get more clothes and were going to be back tomorrow and the next day and, as many days as we can do it. >> reporter: another thing weve been seeing all day long here, david, volunteers, hordes of them, in pickups and four-wheelers, stopping to offe...