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Seconds later, the engine starts up. >> once he got the plane going again, it was happy times with me. >> but the happy times dont last. before the brothers can relax, the motor cuts out again. >> you just keep hoping get it started, come on, man, just get it started. he looked a little frantic up there. >> this time, the pilot cant restart the engine. >> i can see the color car, i could see people walking on the sidewalk down there. get it started. desperation set in at that point. come on, get...

Time is more important than anything. time and your family, time goes fast. i want to use it the best i can. >> mark and ron spend that time together. since the crash, theyre closer than ever. >> its definitely made us tighter. i still dont like him a lot but i like him more than i did. hes a good dude. >> coming up, a comedian gets a whole new definition of the word punch line. >> i just remember someone coming in. [ birds chirping ] [ engine revving ] ♪ hey, hey, hey ♪ [ tires screech ] [ ...

Its still july so its land of the midnight sun. perfect alaskan night. >> 40 miles away, the midnight sun shines on a stadium where a baseball game between the fairbanks gold panners and the anchorage bucks is under way. in addition to baseball tonight, the stadium complex is housing soccer and track and field events and its filled with fans. >> theres a lot of events going on. theres a lot of people outside that day. >> back in the plane, ron and mark cross the cook inlet and enter anchorage ai...

Time and your family, time goes fast. i want to use it the best i can. >> mark and ron spend that time together. since the crash, theyre closer than ever. >> its definitely made us tighter. i still dont like him a lot but i like him more than i did. hes a good dude. >> coming up, a comedian gets a whole new definition of the word punch line. >> i just remember someone coming in. ♪ how are things on the west coast? ♪ ♪ i hear you... ♪ rocky mountain high ♪ rocky, rocky mountain high ♪...

Flaming wreckage, rons thoughts turn to his brother, mark. >> i thought he was dead. it was really scary to think you may have just lost your brother. >> moments later, andrew cowan and others pull mark from the plane. >> we tried to move them a safe distance away so that the paramedics could assess them and then assess the situation. >> mark has numerous broken bones. but hes alive. >> were still here, you know. were not dead. how can that be? pretty deep moment for me, it was. it was the reali...

The midnight sun. perfect alaskan night. >> 40 miles away, the midnight sun shines on a stadium where a baseball game between the fairbanks gold panners and the anchorage bucks is under way. in addition to baseball tonight, the stadium complex is housing soccer and track and field events and its filled with fans. >> theres a lot of events going on. theres a lot of people outside that day. >> back in the plane, ron and mark cross the cook inlet and enter anchorage air space. >> the suns hitting o...

Seconds later, the engine starts up. >> once he got the plane going again, it was happy times with me. >> but the happy times dont last. before the brothers can relax, the motor cuts out again. >> you just keep hoping get it started, come on, man, just get it started. he looked a little frantic up there. >> this time, the pilot cant restart the engine. >> i can see the color car, i could see people walking on the sidewalk down there. get it started. desperation set in at that point. come on, get...

Sun shines on a stadium where a baseball game between the fairbanks gold panners and the anchorage bucks is under way. in addition to baseball tonight, the stadium complex is housing soccer and track and field events and its filled with fans. >> theres a lot of events going on. theres a lot of people outside that day. >> back in the plane, ron and mark cross the cook inlet and enter anchorage air space. >> the suns hitting on anchorage. all the buildings have the reflections. probably the pretti...

Traveling with the president. thank you. >> gregg: some people including democrats are complaining president obama is too disengaged when a crisis hits yet his approval rating is hovering near 50%, there it is, just under that, 49% and is up over this time last year. so, is his hands-off approach working? and, what will todays developments mean for him? here is phil muser, a senior advisor to former governor tim pawlenty and, mark cross joins us, a democrat. gentlemen, good to see you both. cong...