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The president flying through. we all waved at him. >> but eric and his colleagues dont have many time for sight-seeing. they have work to do. they analyze the marble with ipads to compare it with a survey of the monument done in 1999. down below tourists and assembled media cant stop staring at the climbers. >> it must take a lot of guts. >> amazing, fascinating, a piece of history. >> the on-lookers watch an alarming moment when eric is caught by the wind and slammed 30 feet off the wall bangin...

cities of dara and homs. opposition groups say there have been executions and that the bodies of dozens of civilians have been found in a district near homs. president obama will be meeting with benjamin netanyahu on sunday. he told the biggest pro-israel lobby group that he is prepared to use force. he said americas diplomat pressure on iran will continue. those are the headlines from cnn, the worlds news leader, im monita rajpal. "world business today" starts right now. good morn...

>> they have a rare birds eye view of the nations capital. >> one thing we got to watch was the president flying through. we all waved at him. but i dont know if he was waving back or not. >> but eric and his colleagues dont have many time for sight-seeing. they have work to do. they analyze the marble with ipads to compare it with a survey of the monument done in 1999. down below tourists and assembled media cant stop staring at the climbers. >> it must take a lot of guts. >> amazing, fascinati...

Awe of realizing that youre sitting on ropes, that theres nobody up there with you and that youre on the national washington monument. nobody gets to be up there. thats just an awe-inspiring moment. >> they have a rare birds eye view of the nations capital. >> one thing we got to watch was the president flying through. we all waved at him. >> but eric and his colleagues dont have many time for sight-seeing. they have work to do. they analyze the marble with ipads to compare it with a survey of t...

Once youre out there, its the aw of realizing that youre sitting on ropes, that theres nobody up there with you and that youre on the national washington monument. nobody gets to be up there. thats just an awe-inspiring moment. >> they have a rare birds eye view of the nations capital. >> one thing we got to watch was the president flying through. we all waved at him. >> but eric and his colleagues dont have many time for sight-seeing. they have work to do. they analyze the marble with ipads to ...

Report. >> reporter: the family half 292-year-old is returning to new york city searching for him and begging the community for any answers they can give. ians brother jaime and father mark have been hanging these missing persons signs and hanging out flyers as well. the last communication that anyone had with the virginia commonwealth student was back on december the 30th. ian was visiting new york with the intention of sight seeing and celebrating the new year. we are told he was staying with ...

Of the water onto the tarmac where we started work on him. >> reporter: all those onboard the helicopter were friends of the pilot. they were doing sight-seeing in new york. this was not an official sightseeing helicopter. those have to have location devices for passengers. its not clear if those vests were onboard this helicopter. bill: what is remarkable is they pulled the helicopter out of the water. >> reporter: the helicopter was pulled out of the water. its still not clear what the cause w...

But stay out of the areas. its not a time to be out looking and sight seeing. this is a time for the emergency personnel to get they need and help the people affected. >> good advice. we want to thank you for your time. i know its been a very busy evening. stay safe there yourself. >> i will. thank you. well, two days since the town of joplin was ravaged by an ef-5, the scope of disaster is just coming into focus. reports from the ground coming up.

We will get more in the next few days. stay out of the area. it is not a time to be out looking and sight-seeing, it is a time for emergency personnel to get the help they need and help the people that have been effected. >> good advice. thank you for your time. i know it has been a busy evening. you have given us great information. we appreciate it. stay safe yourself. two days since joplin, missouri was ravaged by an ef-5. the scope of the disasterç is just coming into focus. reports from ...

But it comes at an awkward time for the president with the nuclear crisis in japan, potential for war in libya and budget crisis here at home. nbcs mike viqueira joins us now live from the white house. this is a week-long trip to brazil, el salvador and chile. security advisors are also traveling with him to brief him on the international developments. why are some people giving the president flack for choosing now to continue with this trip? >> well, the white house -- any white house, frankly,...