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from the presidential election and at a turning point in the campaign. considered a boxing match, today was the day political equivalent of when the referee brings the fighters into the middle and says, shake hands, come out fighting. the president phoned mitt romney congratulating him on clinching the republican nomination. governor romney went over the top in delegates last night. both campaigns described the conversation as cordial and brief. gloria borger is here as we start the co...

president obama telephones mitt romney, congratulates him for going over the top in the republican delegate count and over the top comments with supporter donald trump has created a distraction. youve heard trump question the birthplace in "the situation room," now romney is trying to move on. heres our national political correspondent, jim acosta. >> wolf, mitt romney has left las vegas, but donald trump is refusing to leave the campaign stage. >> americans are tired of being tired. >...

Field and theres potential to hit children and young people. >> but an investigation by the national transportation safety board finds the crash could have >> in this case, we obviously had a healthy live pilot to be able to talk to so thats where were going to center in on. >> the ntsb determines the reason for engine failure, pilot error. the pilot ran out of gas and didnt switch over to his reserve fuel tank. >> in the hospital, he came up and i thanked him for saving our lives, because he di...

Is it would have felt like terrible turbulence. the plane was yawing to one side quite a lot. i doubt even if some passengers were panicking, i doubt that anybody was, you know, in that horrendous picture which i had pictured in my own mind, frankly, which is the plane was corkscrewing down for three or four minutes and it was terrible. i hope and pray that most of those people had no idea they were going to crash until the impact, and then they would have been killed instantly. megyn: the final...

Were in toga, huh? that means take off and go around, and thats what you do. you cant land, so you pitch the plane up 15, 16 degrees nose up, put the throttles on full, and you fly away and go around and try to land again. the problem with this aircraft is he did this at 36,000 feet, and it very quickly ran out of air. it was almost flying into space at which point although its only -- the nose is only 16 degrees up, its angle of attack on the air is actually as though the plane was 30 degrees a...

farewell fly b-by as discovery hitches a ride on the jet and heads for a museum. im wolf blitzer, and youre in im wolf blitzer, and youre in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com this just coming in to "the situation room." we are live here in brussels, belgium. ill have the exclusive joint interview tomorrow with the secretary of state hillary clinton and the defense secretary leon panetta tomorrow from nato headquarters right outside brussels. lots to discuss ...

Developing now in virginia beach, new details about the f/a-18 that crashed into an apartment complex. a navy spokesman gave an update about 20 minutes or so ago. well go live to virginia beach and nbcs thanh truong. lets get the latest from the scene there. you were right out of the gate with those questions. they went to you first and were proud of you. >> reporter: thanks, alex. weve been very curious as to what led to the crash, what led to that f/a-18 crashing into the apartment complex her...

With what happened. >> is the flight data recorder recovered yet? >> it has not yet been recovered. >> can you give us a little bit more detail about the pilots experience, whether it was pilot error or -- >> the investigation will go through all that. what i can tell you, though, is we had a very experienced instructor pilot who was in the backseat. we had a pilot who had gone through an extraordinarily long part of the syllabus flying in the front. im very, very confident in the skills and kno...

little unusual for tulsa, oklahoma. we have organized, several agencies have become involved. we have a lot of officers dedicated to this. weve formed a traffic force for this specific series of crimes, because these crimes occurred in a relatively short period of time and in a really close geographical location as well. with those things in combination, thats whats so alarming to us. on the heels of everything else, we need to make sure this is quickly addressed and resolved. >> this ...

According again to the reports that we are seeing, looked at very hardly right now a mechanical problem, or a pilot error, terrorism according to officials there in that area is being ruled out. this is one of many recent crashes involving russian airlines. last year alone 15 russian planes went down. a lot of problems, maybe a lot of reasons, abling aircrafts, poor crew training, run down airports. lax government control. following a major crash last year dmitry medvedev ordered an overhaul in ...