Pilot Hit News Today

Harris again . And tonight, the scare on the runway, the Passenger Plane slamming on the brakes to avoid another plane. First tonight, 24 hours after making landfall near New Orleans as a category 2 hurricane, francine now moving across several states. Flood and wind alerts across six states, homes and buildings damaged and destroyed. Hundreds of Thousands Tonight without power. The earthquake hitting southern california. Centered near malibu. Our Station Kabc in Los Angeles livestreaming at the...

holds a safety summit today. gio benitez reporting. here in new york city tonight, the mysterious fire breaking out in a luxury building, just hours after the fbi arrest of an exiled chinese billionaire. and a one-time close ally of steve bannon. and what authorities have just revealed tonight. aaron katersky in new york. this new cross-country storm moving east tonight. 18 states now on alert from california all the way to michigan. the midwest and south bracing for this. and then...

gio benitez reporting. here in new york city tonight, the mysterious fire breaking out in a luxury building, just hours after the fbi arrest of an exiled chinese billionaire. and a one-time close ally of steve bannon. and what authorities have just revealed tonight. aaron katersky in new york. this new cross-country storm moving east tonight. 18 states now on alert from california all the way to michigan. the midwest and south bracing for this. and then the northeast. rob marciano t...

Defense secretary lloyd austin today in a rare call with his russian counterpart, the first since october, delivering a strong message. >> the united states will continue to fly and to operate wherever international law allows. it is incumbent upon russia to operate its military aircraft in a safe and professional manner. >> reporter: which was not the case in this incident. over a period of about 30 minutes, two russian fighter jets made 19 close passes around the drone, sprayed fuel on it mult...

Areas. thats inbred. ingrained in them. by one foot one inch another miles per hour it could have been so much more worse. it is marvelous that all we have minor injuries but sadly when one pilot hit the power lines we have no idea what that outcome will be. >> yeah. so well stay on this. if theres any developments well bring it to you. michael, thank you as always for joining on for us. 50 law enforcement officers searching a florida wildfire center for a person of interest in the disappearan...

>> all of a sudden the pilot hit the brakes very hard. we werent given an update at first. eventually the pilot came on. he said we were doing about 130 miles an hour. >> reporter: the pilot pulling off the runway to deal with a brake issue before trying again. >> were going to have to go somewhere and sit for 60 minutes. >> reporter: this on what may be the busiest flying day of the entire year. tsa predicting by later tonight it will screen 2.7 million passengers. 100,000 more than the sunday ...

Burners to elevate himself. >> in his video you can hear the pilot hit the burn desperately trying to get the balloon to fly higher. the passengers on board to celebrate a birthday, waving seemingly unaware of the danger. >> when it reached me right above me, it pulled away. it exploded the high voltage wires. >> sparks rained down. thats when dennis mcdonald rushed to pull people from the bucket. >> lucky no one was killed. >> the f.a.a. was in his yard investigating and taking pictures. the ow...

From the jet shortly before the crash. >> as soon as i saw the pilot hit the pavement, he hit really hard. at first when i got there, he was unconscious. they told him not to move. >> reporter: the marines say the pilot is currently being evaluated at a local hospital for minor injuries. we should also add that this is the second time a harrier jet has crashed within the past month. in the previous crash, the pilot also ejected successfully and no one was hurt. now the cause of this crash is sti...

-- the web. we begin in south carolina this evening with a fast-change republican presidential race. fast as in overnight. our new cnn time orc poll tonight shows mitt romney leading here by 10 points. 33% for the former massachusetts governor to 23% for the former house speaker newt gingrich. but, and this is important, the final 24 hours of our polling suggest a gingrich surge. my sources in several republican campaigns tell me tonight their numbers, too, are detecting a significan...

Spectators noticed something odd. >> i see him coming around the hangar as he was doing his maneuver. and then i saw, well, i got to look on the other end. he might turn it on and get it. i looked around. >> he lost speed and started going down. >> all of a sudden, hear pop, pop, pop -- sparks came out of the engine. >> this is what they witnessed -- the cf-18 bursting into flames. the pilot barely escaped, shooting out with his parachute just moments before the jet dove nose-first into the grou...