I may have been through hell and back, but, i am Strong Enough to walk through hell with a smile on my face and with my head held high. Right now on Andrea Mitchell reports, back to life. Tleet women held hostage in cleveland for more than a decade give thanks to all those who refused to give up the search. Why he let the plane stall. Today crash vegers question the pilot who was at the controls when the boeing 777 crashed well short of the runway. While new video shows what happened as the chutes deployed an passengers ran for their lives. On the 11th day of testimony in the George Zimmerman trial, the defense turns to the forensic evidence from the shooting. Well follow it all live. The battle over abortion rights. Rallies from North Carolina to the Lone Star State over a womans right to choose and new restrictive laws taking shape in seven states across the nation. Today state senator wendy davis is back as a special session gets under way in the texas house. And road to redemption. Former new york governor Eliot Spitzer seems to get emotional on morning joe about his comeback plan. You decide. What has changed personally . A lot of pain. A lot of pain. Thats it. Yeah. You go through that pain, you change. All right. And the Washington Monument is closed for earthquake repairs but the park service is still giving visitors something to light up their lives. And a beautiful sight it is. Good day, manys Andrea Mitchell in washington. Its been more than two months since gee gentleman dejesus, Michele Knight and amanda barry escaped ten years of captivity. Today they are breaking their silence for the first time. First and foremost, i want everyone to know how happy i am to be home with my family, my friends. It has been unbelievable. Walking hand in hand with my best friend, i will not let the situation define who i am. Thank you for the support. Nbcs kate snow covered their miraculous escape in cleveland and joins me now from new york. Kate, this is an amazing video. It was done pro bono, videographer and people in their defense and fundraising team. Tell us how this came about and your impressions. Their spokesperson tells me today that this was the women themselves wanting to make a videotape, wanting to get their voices out there and frankly, their faces out there. Recall that we havent even seen these young women except for a couple of still photos. We really didnt even know what they look like anymore after all of those years in captivity so it is a remarkable video to watch. The main message that they want out there is that they are okay, they are healthy and they thank the community for all theyve done. They raised more than 1 million for these women already in cleveland. Tell me about the speech patterns. I was just struck by i think it is michelle. Im not sure. Who has a distorted speech. Is this the result of the beatings . We dont know the answer to that. In fact, i just asked someone if we know whether shes had surgery. There were some rumors that perhaps she had to have some work done on her jaw. Perhaps shed been beaten and had had a fractured bone. Weve not been able to confirm any of that. What you do notice is that they seem younger than their years. The women you are seeing there are in their 20s but they seem almost like teenagers. People around them have told me they act a little bit like teenagers because thats when they were taken away from their lives and they didnt have those formative years, middle school, high school years. There are basic common sense things that they didnt know anything about, banking, how to have a bank account. Think of all of the things theyve had to relearn in these last couple of months. To their credit, people of cleveland have given them space and time and really left them to themselves so that they could heal with their families. Do you think, kate, that they are going to be able to maintain their privacy and continue to heal . Obviously emotional therapy, whatever other tools that they can deploy to help them adjust. They are in therapy already. They are looking at getting apartments, getting on with their lives, going back to school, all those kind of details are being work out. I do know that in part they wanted to make this tape in order to get their faces out there so that people would stop being obsessed with getting a photo of them. They think that this may help give them even more privacy now that the paparazzi wont want that very first picture of Michele Knight who you see there on the screen. Now maybe theyll get a little more time to themselves but they say the communitys been pretty good about staying away from them so far and they hope theyll be given even more time. Their lawyer said they arent ready to speak out until after this trial of ariel castro is over and done with. Right now it is still in the process. Kate snow, thanks for being with us today. Investigators today from the National Transportation safety board are interviewing the pilot, 1 of 3, who was actually at the controls when asiana flight 214 crashed. Key questions are why he and three other pilots in the cockpit let the plane slow down to an unsustainable 103 knots as it was on final approach. John yang is live in San Francisco. John, that is the big mystery how they ignored all the signals. Why was it going at that slow speed . Reporter exactly, andrea. They have talk to 2 of the 4 pilots who were onboard that flight yesterday. Yesterday and now today talk to the other two, including the pilot who was actually in control of the plane. One thing they want to find out is talk about with a was going on in the cockpit. They heard the cockpit voice recording but also get a sense of the dynamics among the crew, whether they were working together, communicating with each other. Perhaps one assumed the other was monitoring the speed and watching everything during landing. We know that one of them, the pilot who was actually in control, was in training on the boeing 777, just learning to familiarize himself with this in flight. He had about 43 hours on the plane. It was his ninth trip. His first landing in a 777 at San Francisco international airport. Although he had 10,000 hours on other kinds of planes. But also, the pilot who was watching him was also new in that role. Thats also something that the ntsb will be looking at. Another thing the ntsb is now looking at is whether or not one of the victims, 1 of the 2 16yearold chinese girls who was killed in this crash whether her death was brought about because she was struck by a fire rescue truck responding to this. The driver of that truck acknowledges he may have come in contact with her, but the question is whether that was responsible or somehow contributed to her death. Meanwhile, about two dozen passengers remain hospitalized. Seven of them in critical condition. Some of these people have very severe injuries. Some missing limbs, broken bones, and in some cases permanent injuries such as paralysis. I know the doctors found that people with, they walked in, but they had under further examination and after scans were taken, e rxrays, had profound spinal injuries. Injuries that werent noticed at first. One question is the fact that apparently two of the chutes deployed inside the plane rather than externally . Are they looking into that . Thats exactly right. Thats something the ntsb will also be looking at. Two of the chutes did deploy inside trapping some people, including some cabin crew members. The First Responders who got there said that when they got there the crew was desperate asking them for knives, presumably to puncture those chutes and to free the people who were trapped. Two of the policemen the two San FranciscoPolice Officers who were first on the scene tossed up their knives. They had knives on them. Tossed them up to the crew numbers in the plane so they could free people who had been trapped. And the real heroes may well have been not only those First Responders but the flight attendants. Flight attendants who were carrying out and repeatedly going back into that plane. John yang, thanks to you. New questions about the runaway train that exploded in a small town in quebec, canada over the weekend. A fire earlier that evening on the train that was parked outside the Historic Village may have caused the events that led to the crash. The rail company and local Fire Department are now casting blame at each other. Its officials continue to investigate. 72 oil tanker cars decoupled, sped downhill into the town killing at least 13 people and 40 people are still missing in that small town. [ male announcer ] this is kevin. 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Because the one question they never want to ask is how did i end up here . I started schwab for those people. People who want to take ownership of their investments, like they do in every other aspect of their lives. Trying to reassure its people and the rest of the world about its intentions, egypts military today announced several steps to try to transition to civilian rule quickly, including elections they say in early 2014 and the appointment of a liberal economist and former finance minister as an interim Prime Minister. But will these steps be enough after more than 50 promorsi protesters were killed this week reportedly by government soldiers. Nbcs eamai ayman muhyeldin joi now from cairo. Reporter theyve been rejecting the process ever since president morsi was ousted, today rejecting it one more time, not only to the road map or transitional process outlined by the interim president but a short while ago the new interim Prime Minister after his name came to light as the frontrunner, they came out and again rejected his appointment as the Prime Minister and say they will not be part of any government or any process that legitimizes the coup that took place here last week. So far, they are staying away from everything, and thats why a lot of people here are extremely nervous in the weeks and months to come. If they are part of the political process, theyre going to be alienated and that is going to be dangerous for egypts political stability. What about the other Islamist Party that had rejected elbaradei . Are they accepting these steps . Is it just the Muslim Brotherhood thats on the outside looking in or are there wider groups opposing it . Reporter yeah, you are absolutely right. There are several politically leaning islamic parties that are in egypts political scene. The vast majority of them are aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood. However, the Ultra Conservative Party that you mentioned, the noor party, theyve been kind of power brokers in recent elections, coming in second place after the Muslim Brotherhood. Theyve stood by and supported the ouster of president morsi and have lent themselves to the process thats been taking place. They had some reservations about dr. Elbaradei as contender for the Prime Minister because they felt he was too liberal and politicized so they warranted somebody in place thats purely technocratic. What they are really pushing for is that egypt forms a purely technocratic interim government. Name of the Prime Minister we learned today most likely fits that bill and most likely hell create an interim government made up of mostly experts to try to get egypts economy back on track. What about the press . Theres been a crackdown the very first days because of its connections in doha and the concern about the government there and their support for the Muslim Brotherhood and morsi, they were shut down. What about freedom of the press, cnn camera was confiscated by the military. A bbc reporter was hit in the head during clashes last week. Freedom to report on all this . Reporter absolutely. Theres a lot of concern. Immediately after the ouster of president morsi the military cracked down on a lot of media, not just domestic media but also international media. Some of the domestic Media Channels they argued were leaning towards the Muslim Brotherhood or they were afraid were going to in some shape or form incite violence. Its also been difficult for foreign journalists. There are four turkish journalists arrested, an itn journalists were detained as well as some of those you cited from cnn and bbc. There is a little bit of a backlash, as people support the military for ousting president morsi, they also allow incidentally the creeping in of authoritarian rule. Thats the concern some human rights activists have expressed, the government is indirectly taking egypt back to where it was under the mubarak era where the media was very tightly controlled. T is something to see coming days in the Media Freedom relaxes a little bit. Thank you so much, ammyman muhyeldin from cairo. Secretary of state john kerry will be returning briefly to washington for the day because of visiting chinese officials. That mrs. Kerry remains in fair condition. They have ruled out possible severe causes for what were described as seizure like symptoms, including stroke, heart attack or brain tumor, which is all very good news indeed. But this announcement just from the state department. Well keep you updated on the condition of Teresa Heinz Kerry who will remain in boston. And well be right back. 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Well, here we have texas, rick perry, announcing that he is not going to run again for governor so hes obviously thinking about 2016 and he is just having the showdown in texas. Wendy davis is going to be here tomorrow to talk about all of this but right now the house is voting on it. Karen, this is not the only state. Weve seen ohio, john kasich and company sneaked it in to a budget bill. In North Carolina. How many other states. Wisconsin. Theres an