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flooding, washed out by roads have been waiting for supplies, relief workers are now using air drops and some are having to resort to four-wheel drive vehicles just to reach these people with everything from pampers to prescriptions along with, of course, food and water. amber lyon once again following this for us out of vermont. live today in wilmington. amber, i see a lot of people out and about behind you. it looks like some progress is being made. >> reporter: yeah. theres a lot of...

hands. >> keep in mind, this is not a situation where the two parties are miles apart. were in rough agreement about how much spending can be cut responsibly as a first step towards reducing our deficit. we agree on a process where the next step is a debate in the coming months on tax reform and entitlement reform, and i am willing and ready to have that debate. if we need to put in place an enforcement mechanism to hold us accountable for making the reforms, i will support that too if...

already for so many people. so its unbelievable. we just dont know. were at a point where there is a lot of concern because it is so uncertain. and people are following it, theyre talking about it. >> and theyll be doing that for the next two hours. hope fly well have something by the beginning of next week. live from studio 7, want to get you up to speed for this friday, july 29th. were will thalmost out of time. those words from president obama. the deadline for raising the country...

Mother testifying breaking down when talking about her granddaughter. casey anthony is charged with killing caylee and the trial resumes on tuesday. >> gregg: astronauts are taking care of last minute chores before leaving. they are scheduled to leave tomorrow night. >> heather: we are learning more about the terrifying final moments of air france flight. new information that the airbus a-380 stalled sending night a plunge into the atlantic off the coast of brazil. confirming that icing of air s...

Happened on board. >> oh, its just so awful. did the pilot say anything? i know they found the black boxes. >> reporter: yeah, they did. that was what was eerie to read some of the stuff in the report that the pilots were saying to each other. these black boxes have been underwater for two years. one pilot said i dont have any more valid indications. theres another quote that repeated that. we have no valid indications. that was just moments before. and then a little bit earlier, one said itll m...

That the pilots were saying to each other. these black boxes have been under water for two years. what she said, just to give you a flavor. one pilot said, i dont have any more valid indications. there was another quote that repeated that. we have no valid indications. that was just moments before. a little bit earlier, one said, it will move about a bit more than at the moment. you should watch out. ill call you back as soon as were out of it. thats what we got from the black boxes. we are goin...

That led to a bit of confusion between the pilots as to what to do to regain control of the airplane. >> so do you think this was a case of pilot error? >> i think right now, martin, it is very easy to look at it that way. however, theres a lot of extenuating circumstances. this airplane is a highly automated airplane. it is very dependent upon computer input. when the pilots lost the air speed indications, pree zumly because the tubes iced over, they didnt know how fast or slow they were going....

At the moment, you dont want to leap and say it is pilot error and leap and say, it is this or that. what we have here is data, and the data raises questions. we are getting information, but it is not the final report. it is still a fair way to go, and they had something like 1,300 bits of information to go flu out of the boxes. >> yes, i want to ask you real quick about yemen, because that situation is appearing to be worse? >> it does. what is happening is demonstrating the tribal nature of ye...

Reports of pilot error. and now to a heroic midair save in the sky. it happened when a private pilot became incapacitated leaving his wife to fly that plane despite not being a pilot. as nbcs tom costello reports for us, it all started when they discovered the pilots oxygen mask was not working. >> reporter: it was a brief radio conversation between a private pilot and a denver air-traffic controller that brought the first sign of trouble. >> okay. thats the after -- two arrival. maintain unse...

as you explain, basically saying we would not carry out any operations inside pakistan, and in return, you would allow us, our senior leaders, to exist and live here in pakistan without coming after us. the key here is that u.s. officials say at this point they dont see any evidence that al qaeda actually presented this plan to pakistani officials. right now all they have is that it atears to be an internal discussion. >> cnn got immediate reaction from the u.s. ambassador. lets listen...