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Autobiography. well, she did, but he had no idea what was coming on this july day when we reminded him of all those rash promises. >> tucker, my friend, get ready to be munching on a little shoe leather coming up pretty soon, huh? >> actually, paul, i will, in fact, eat my shoes, because i am a man of my word. >> im going to be curious as to what sort of shoe he chooses, flip-flop or leather. >> well, today, simon action&shuster announced that senator clinton has passed the million books sales m...

Have been deployed. >> wow! they have a lot of fire retardant on the airplane. they must have responded fairly fast but it look like the top of the aircraft has fire damage and the tail is gone. that is amazing to me. you see that the right wing is also, wing tip knocked off. so it took a violent hit right there. >> gregg: what appears adjacent to plane a triage area where medical personnel together with firefighters seem to have gathered and maybe treating some people still at that location. ta...

>> there was no noise at all. and the plane, it went left wing tip right into the ground. it had a napalm effect. everything in its path was blown into a sheet of flame. >> initially, ntsb investigators are baffled, what could have caused a structural failure of this magnitude? >> this is all thats left of american airlines flight 191, as far as it got on its way to los angeles. >> they sift through the wreckage and look to the planes two flight recorders for clues. within days of the crash, the...

This on the belly of the airplane, which is very possible, im sorry, toss it back? >> yeah, trace, well take it back to new york for one minute here and tell our viewers, listen were going on a seven second delay like we do in these situations often, lest anything happen, we certainly hope it does not. bear with us, as we put the feed on seven second delay. all right. and the question is, trace. what kind of -- where is the fuel in this lear jet? our own jon scott is a pilot, just e-mailed me, s...

The air force plane flying that at first we thought was the plane. those are wing tip fuel tanks. >> you can see them at the end. and does that change your assessment of the dangerous situation here, if its integral inside the wing as opposed to the bubble on the end of it? >> well, its probably, its probably better, i know that in, ive never had wing tip fuel tanks, but some of them are designed essentially to snap off in case of impact and they have valves on them that close so that the fuel d...

The vulcan cannon can fire the shells at a rate of 100 rounds per minute. in addition to a being an effective air combat airplane it can deliver a pretty good knockout punch to a target on the ground because it can carry a pretty hefty load of ordinance, pile lons under the wing. this pile lon theres provisions for one on either side and the aircraft can carry an assortment of rockettes and bombs or external fuel tanks. rounding out the plane is on each wing tip a heat seeking sidewinder missile...

To extend its range. rounding it out, on each wing tip, heat seek missile. in conjunction with the other weapons that the aircraft is capable of carrying, in all that makes the f-16 a fearsome weapon. >> steve: anything that has a vulcan cannon on it, should we be giving it to the muslim brotherhood. >> gretchen: this is an example of when egypt was more of our friend. remember when president obama was asked if egypt was now a friend or enemy, the answer was not clear. now this is an example of ...

Unilaterally. i dont think we need wing tip cowboy diplomacy. we didnt need it for eight years in the white house. we dont need it for four more years in the white house. it got us into messes were still trying to get out of. >> if the president is to leave this debate, this audience with one sentence, whats the one thing youre hoping that voters watch i watching this debate tonight will be saying tomorrow at work? >> strong leadership, our country is safer than its been. >> its a record debate....

Forget the passengers face. other guy to make it to your advantage with the american people? so last night charles to see a fully armed f-16 off krauthammer on "special report" had his theory about how mitt of the wing tip brought them romney might be able to get up short. under the skin of president it was an being morning. >> brian: other wars and obama. >> i the his one weak point is conflict necessary kosovo and that he is thin skinned. the days in iraq. you occasionally will see it in how d...

Following their parent generation and the parents in the eastern flyaway from let out in the 1870s and after that so that migration may have evolved for 10,000 years, taxed from one generation to the last but lost when the last bird is extricated. jon: we have to go but were going to put more information on our show page. i just live it. id love to look off my wing tip and see a whooping crane there. great story, joe. we know youre going on down to florida. we wish you well. stalled by the weath...