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To politics now where comedian stephen colbert is predicting where the youth volt will go this november. >> he was the fresh-faced kid that could relate to the youth. >> but now hes old grandpa gray hair that didnt close gitmo, so i dont know if theyre as excited as they once were. when it comes to kids, mitt romney has the electricity, you know, its a static electricity but its, like, still an electricity technically. >> but as you look at these two candidates, their personalities, their qualit...

good morning. im randy kay. we start this morning with a look ahead. tomorrow former presidential candidate john edwards heads to federal court. prosecutors say edwards used nearly $1 million in campaign contributions to sdooef the public. they say he was hiding an affair and a child. the mistress is expected to be the star in the trial. she has imunit. edwards and his attorneys say he did nothing wrong. well have much more on the details of this case in about ten minutes. a major fi...

>> and all of a sudden you touch each other and the sparks are flying. this is shear and these particles of ash and debris all rubbing up against each other and when they rub, they create static electricity and eventually just like a thunderstorm, the static electricity has to discharge and it discharges to the ground. there are some fantastic shots, also the "boston globe" has great shots as well. look at that. >> that is incredible. >> i guess, fire, ice, ash and smoke, i dont even know to go ...

Above the level. the air space is actually open. below 20,000 feet is where the ash is most concentrated. thats what prompted the latest advisory to shut down the air space at the lower elevation. lets look at some cool pictures as we highlight this volcanic eruption. that is lightning my friends. and it happens during volcanic eruptions similar process to a thunderstorm that create lightning. you have particles creating static electricity. and the colors around it are dependent on the gases bei...

Team. a freak accident at a gas pump kills a teen, experts say it involved static electricity. according to the petroleum institute, only one other person has died of something like this, but that it could happen to anyone and word of warning, in our top stories, we go across america. pennsylvania, investigators say static have the started a fire at a gas pump in cumberland county last week. the coroner says fumes from the fire killed a 19-year-old while he was pumping gas. this surveillance v...

Start pumping gas you have got to stay outside. once you go back in our car and come back out that static electricity can cause the flames. if you go back inside the car you have to touch something. touch the car door or the pump. if you dont, the odds are small, but you are carrying that around just like when you rub your feet. you carry that around and it can be very, very dangerous. megyn: you get out of your car, usually you pay first. you put your credit card in then you grab the nozzle. so...

Fill up your gas tank. bit cost one teenager his life. this is an incidents a woman. look at this. i cant believe she grabs the nozzle. this teen wasnt smoke or talk on the phone. what caused his deadly fire and the one we are looking at here? trace gallagher has some facts. >> reporter: the answer is static electricity. that can ignite the fumes. and it killed his guy right he here. these are freak accidents. we pump gas 18 million times a year. but this has happened 1773 times. it -- this has ...

Shooting. prosecution said it had no idea. not sure how that could be. this comes as the third day of his bail hearing gets underway in south africa. a ruling could come today only on the bail. we told you the story yesterday. now we know what caused the freak hospital fire that left a little girl burned. a mix of hand sanitizer, olive oil and static electricity left the girl with second and third-degree burns. oil was being used to remove medical testing residue. shes battling cancer and will...

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Protected if lightning does hit the plane it will be conducted away from the sentencive instruments, and they have these static discharge wicks. if you look outside the plane, they have rods that stick off the wing and those are meant to help release static electricity thats built up when these planes fly into thunderstorms. they create their own static electric charge and attract thunder and lightning, so they try to do it that way. >> yeah, yeah. >> so its not typically going to bring a plane ...