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The less combustible jet fuel in a passenger airliner. watch. >> 100. >> another view through a camera in the nose of the plane, right until the time the lens breaks. >> yeah so that didnt work. that was the supposedly less combustible jet fuel bursting into flames just like it wasnt supposed to. this is the view from inside the cabin of the plane. the test dummies handle the im impact of the crash and the cabin fills with flames and its bye-bye to the dummies. and when we think about the test c...

In the nose of the plane, right until the time the lens breaks. >> yeah, so that didnt work. that was the supposedly less combustible jet fuel bursting into flames just like it wasnt supposed to. this is the view from inside the cabin of the plane. the test dummies handle the impact of the crash and the cabin fills with flames and its bye-bye to the dummies. and when we think about the test crash stuff, its usually the cars and the dummies in the steering column. but sometimes its a full sized p...

>> yeah, so that didnt work. that was the supposedly less combustible jet fuel bursting into flames just like it wasnt supposed to. this is the view from inside the cabin of the plane. the test dummies handle the anymore impact of the crash but then the entire cabin justl< fills with flames and its bye-bye to those poor dummies. when we think about the government crash testing stuff its the cars with the dummies going head first into the steering column or whatever. its not always cars. but some...

>> headley and cox race to help the driver. they carefully search the car, but they cant immediately find her. >> shes inside! shes in the vehicle! >> we were searching for her in the vehicle and we could not see her, and we started looking in front of the vehicle, calling out and we had no response initially, but then officer cox was near the drivers door and could hear a female screaming inside. >> wait a minute. where are you at? shes down in the floorboard. >> it took us, i would say a good ...

Most schools in the dallas area are closed again today. an unexpected holiday for more than a half million children. for an arkansas school district, though, the problem is more dangerous roads. ice and snow have damaged their buildings with water pouring in to classrooms. kids will have to make up those days on good friday and spring break. the problem for this car owner in maine was more than a leak. giant chunks of ice falling from the building smashed his car. not only were the windows bro...

I never at one time saw the brake lights activate to indicate that she was trying to stop the vehicle. >> headley and cox race to help the driver. they carefully search the car, but they cant immediately find her. >> shes inside! shes in the vehicle! >> we were searching for her in the vehicle and we could not see her, and we started looking in front of the vehicle, calling out and we had no response initially, but then officer cox was near the drivers door and could hear a female screaming insi...

Hill say it cost 57 cents to repair that faulty part, how di that make you feel? >> disgusted. hurt. angry. theres -- i dont know how you can even justify something like that. >> youou felt a lot of just anguish and guilt, too, though you had nothing to do with it en just because the brother was inh your car. >> my car. yes.r, i -- there isnt really even any words to how much guilt you feel for something like that. >> i dont think anybody could say that you had anything to dou with it. you had t...

Heavier than others would cause it to go from the on to accessory position. >> no, she didnt. she only had four or five keys on the key chain and we actually weighed the key chain in the beginning when this started. so we proved that she did not have a heavy key chain. now, as far as her leg or knee bumping the key chain, the position of the ignition on the steering column is prone to do that. so im not sure if that happened or not. >> i know your case for the most part has been resolved, so you...

Key that can jostle, take your knees away from the steering column. theyre safe to drive but they need to change those ignition switches. >> first and foremost we have to make sure folks are safe in their cars and then the timeline of who knew what and when will be the big focus. >> watch for the letter that will come. they will eventually get you a letter to tell when you to fix it. were talking about 2.2 million cars now. thats a lot of folks. >> lets go over to mikaela now. >> that is the fli...

Key ring that bangs against the steering column. gm is apologizing. and could end up in page hundreds of millions in civil penalties. a bigger recall and more fat fatalities. >> thanks for watching. "new day" starts right now. too low, too cold. im tired of all these layers of clothes. >> winter of discontent. two thirds of the country going back into the freezer. new lows, roads crumbling in the cold. were going to tell you what to expect and where. new details and possibly new hope in that...