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Projectiles go over 1,000 feet from that location, and thats scary. >> luckily, no one is killed. >> it was an act of fate or act of god that those projectiles were hitting things like empty freeways. >> randy bibb spends more than a month in the hospital. the fire changes his life forever. >> i couldnt just go out and work because i didnt know whether the next day when i got up if i would be able to go ten minutes without having to lay back down, you know. so i havent worked since then. its bee...

New book. this appears to be operator error from the air traffic controller who was in training. he had someone with him. how does that work if a trainee makes a mistake? >> its still on the onus of the trainer to correct it and its still his responsibility ultimately. the trainee is not going to suffer discipline consequences. in that sense, if youre looking at that, that is what is going to happen. in this situation, there is always going to be human involvement and when the human involvement ...

Incidents is either catastrophic system failure or operator error. so, for example, even cases with a large doors allowing the vehicles to come on and off are either left open or not properly sealed. now, theres no indication here that it was left open, but the point being that system failure or operator error can also lead to catastrophic ferry accidents. and this type of ferry has a large open deck for the vehicles to roll in, like several driveways parallel to each other inside the ship. the ...

Ship? >> it is. its it certainly suggests that there was significant flooding of some sort. we dont yet know whether that was caused by a hull breach or equipment or operator error. for a ship 500 feet long to turn on its side and capsize in just a matter of hours means that the stability was affected very quickly boyian is i was lost quickly and then the vessel went down. so it certainly suggests that its some type of significant flooding, just dont yet know what the source, what the cause was ...

Error. there have been very significant varied accidents and loss of life elsewhere due to either hitting something and breaching the hull or significant operator error. but it does appear that the speed with which this ship turned on its side suggests significant flooding that compromised the stability of the vessel very quickly. >> heres a question, because i think the pr protocol -- you sa the people waiting of this video, this cell phone video it people are waiting. it kind of goes against w...

Ship? >> it is. its it certainly suggests that there was significant flooding of some sort. we dont yet know whether that was caused by a hull breach or equipment or operator error. for a ship 500 feet long to turn on its side and capsize in just a matter of hours means that the stability was affected very quickly boyian is i was lost quickly and then the vessel went down. so it certainly suggests that its some type of significant flooding, just dont yet know what the source, what the cause was ...

>> again, as we just said, we have that new video in, well play that as we talk to the experts we have now. in boston is peter boynton, retired u.s. coast guard captain and co-director of the research institute for homeland security at northeastern university. in seattle, rob mccallem. he is an ocean search specialist and expedition leader. peter, first to you. i dont know if you can see this video, but does it give you any insight as to what happened on this ship? >> well, information at the be...

Hospitals. the national transportation safety board arrived here on scene in the last hour and they are now taking the lead of that investigation, were expecting an update here from them shortly in the next hour, jenna. jenna: in that update, garrett, have they had a chance to talk and interview the driver yet? >> we spoke with someone from the chicago transit authority a short time ago and they said they have spoken to the trains operator. they say she was at the very front of that first car th...

So they are looking exactly how this happened. theyre saying at this time this train is going to be up on the escalator and stairs for much of the day as they work to dismantle it and take it off the train and can look further into this. 10 ambulances were brought to the scene though and in special crews, initially they thought there could be people stuck underneath those trains. they learned just a couple hours ago that wasnt the case. they say thankfully this was much slower period, one. slowe...

Time. >> i will say, toyota did lose in oklahoma a civil wrongful death case arising out of one of these acceleration case. >> people died here. so i understand the concern. >> yeah, but they may have died because of operator error. >> thats true. thats true. there is no evidence really that points to the manufacturer of the vehicle. >> a good lawyer can convince a civil jury of santa claus, the easter bunny and the tooth fairy. just because one verdict was had on behalf of the plaintiffs, doesn...