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Into a rocky cliff. >> this pilot died serving the state. >> reporter: the cause is not known, but the tragic crash of tanker 81 is again focusing rn efigs. is again focusing the wings of this 50s era tanker tore offunin 2002. the crew was killed. californias planes were built for the navy more than a half century ago. but the states fire chief insisted the overhauled planes are air worthy. >> the aircraft go through a very aggressive maintenance program. >> reporter: firefighting pilts the extr...

Very much. lets bring in mary schiavo and david soucie and former faa inspector. thanks to both of you. a couple of common sense questions before we get into the frenzied forensics. david soucie, battery life. why are we guessing? everything has a use by or sell by date these days. why dont we know when the batteries stop? >> what theyre certified nor is 30 days. with any certification you have to have a safety margin or faker and that factor is expected time could go as long as 35 days. whats m...

were bringing you the news from a to z. its nasty out there. tropical storm debby just stalled over floridas panhandle. its smacking that sunshine state it with high winds and heavy rain. look at the pictures. boats getting smashed around and its going to get worse before it gets any better. forecasters are saying the sl - slow-moving storm could dump another foot of rain on florida over the next couple of days and then spawn more tornadoes as well. that storm is already blamed for one...

Thats influenced their decision making and their practices. i think theyre going to have to take a fresh look how they made decisions over the last decade and where the safety margin to the extent we may be at risk at home. >> dr. ed lyman, at some point we will talk about happier things. so far it has been a bummer every time i talked to you. you really helped us, helped me understand it, and helped make it clearer to the audience and i am really grateful for that. >> thank you. congressman d...

Harder to ultimately cool. >> i know this is not over, it is not time to step back from this, but we are having a review, 90 day review of u.s. nuclear facilities, then a larger comprehensive view. then a step back to look at whats happening. do you feel this uncovered a fundamental flaw, fundamental understatement of risk in reactor design and in disaster planning? >> yes. i would say that is our sense. i think in that era of complacency after three mile island, chernobyl, regulators in the ind...

Congress today. listen to this. >> it appears our latest containment effort is now containing about 20,000 barrels a day. by the end of june, we expect to have equipment in place to handle between 40,000 to 50,000 barrels a day and mid july 60,000 to 80,000 barrels a day. >> do you buy that? >> i certainly hope hes correct, but theres need for af safety margin there, which there does not seem to be. >> explain what a safety margin means? what does that mean? >> what if, for example, the flow inc...

Why not go now? we are not if a safety mar gyp to where they are -- margin to where they are letting them go because the 4.7 could be five this some areas and they would have to pull them back out and they do not want to repeat what happened this morning so they want the safety margin and they tell me anything from 4.5 and below is still a certain amount of risk but trending in the right direction. so, with all that being said, thats basically the thursday we have right now, they are preparing a...

Here for recovery. so everything is in place and hopefully everything has trended well enough and when it starts, they want to make sure because weve all asked the same question, well, if its down below five, why cant you go now. were not in a safety margin to where theyre saying theyre letting them go because if that 4.7, it might be 5 in some areas, and have to pull them back out. they dont want to repeat what we had happen to us this morning. so theyre going to make sure they have that safety...

Reps -- reps as they pressed plant owners on backup plans in place in case of an event the size of japans disaster , they say it was designed to stand an earthquake 100 miles the mag nidtude of the strongest earthquake -- magnitude of the strongers earth earthquake in that region and that includes a second bear of bear -- second layer of barriers, security towers put in place, multiple redundancies in place in case the power goes down to all the systems. listen: >> weve had earthquakes in the pa...

>> were designed to protect against hundreds times more than what weve experienced here before. so our protections have a large safety margin. >> it would be interesting to know what that margin is. they didnt put a jumper -- number on it. i wont accept that at face value. >> reporter: reps say you cannot compare the plant in japan to new york, saying theyre different in geography and the emergency plans in place, which in the case of indian river is upgraded security systems for everything from...