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a plane in production more than 50 years and changed the way we all view flying. millions of people have flown on the 747s, six presidents, a space shuttle across the country. i remember the first time that i flew on a 747, japan airlines. the plane was configured for coach seats on the second level. i was up there. nobody sat next to me. nothing felt so special until i flew the a3-80. of course there is still the one for the president of the united states. thank you so much for joining us. good evening and we begin keeping honest the person who is hard to keep honest, george
larger planes. atlas has a lot of 747s. many of these planes have been dormant due to the pandemic and now placed into action to try to get some folks out of afghanistan. henri is now tropical storm with maximum sustained winds at 70 miles an hour. >> just because it's been downgraded, experts tell us don't underestimate this impact. we're looking at the cone of concern here. bill karins has been telling us the -- to the right there of landfall is going to be where people need to be most concerned. that's where we'll see the strongest winds and storm surges. newport, rhode island is in for it. six states are on the lookout and right now we've already seen heavy rain and flooding from new york city to parts of long island. even before this has made landfall. >> tens of millions of people are feeling the impact of henry. this was even before the storm made its way near the new york city area. this is in brooklyn.
over 90%. the team that has won five super bowl championships is on planes, the new england patriots buying two, 747s. the first nfl team to own its own private suite of planes, they come with the team logo and five lombardi trophies painted on the tail. $10 million each, they need two, 747s? heather: excited for football season, the panthers play wednesday night. the man who wrote the book on modern-day passport security says no matter how complicated you make your password hackers can find a way in. rob: the official government guidelines which include a mix of letters, characters, numbers, the most annoying thing to think of and remember are pretty easy to hack. experts believe long passwords
a christmas present for my daughter. >> that's wide. that was ten days ago. >> fedex just ruined my 10-year-old cousin's first christmas in new york city. >> we might be passing the blame on if you -- >> you have 364 days in the year to prepare for christmas. >> although this is not last year. fedex and ups and amazon is considering buying their own 747s. they're considering their own cargo planes right now because it's not -- they can't keep up with demands. >> all the severe weather two days ago across parts of the south and memphis was fedex hub and that was the bull's-eye for the severe weather. it did cause delays. you'll have to blame fedex maybe but also the weather. >> friends, we hear you. that's a tough line to have to -- >> two of the tweets were about first christmases. >> i don't think the 1-year-old will remember. not the 1-year-old. >> therapy later on?
it just took off for vegas which means this thing was loaded for bear. it's got enough fuel on this thing to fly for the better part of 11 or 12 hours across the atlantic, across the united states to land in vegas. so if, in fact, this landing gear is down this plane could be up there for quite some time because the last thing you want to do is land a plane that's this heavy on an airport. i mean, the 747s need a long airport to land on to begin with much less having a bad landing gear on a 747 trying to land, leah. this thing is, i mean, this is tricky. leah: yeah. this is really really tricky. the big question will be, of course what do they decide to do? is if this landing gear's not coming down, do they decide to do this belly up or take it as it comes and potentially get into a situation where the plane could twist and turn and spin? in this situation you have a lot of passengers onboard, and this could be very scary if people get injured depending on what happens and depending on how
learned here, bob, from past catastrophes, we think of corey y -- korean kel. do any of them adefend themselves from such situations automatically? there have been reports that the israeli airline has certain sorts of technologies built in to their 747s that afford them some sorts of defenses. >> these systems, as nearly as i can tell, on paper, they say that they're very effective. and frankly, i just don't know how effective they'd be. but air force one, for instance, is said to be protected. il al, maybe. mostly in the case of where they found shoulder fired missiles that shot at planes on approach or on takeoff, so at low altitude. there's been a run-up in investigating whether you can do this for civilian airliners. last i saw, cost was going to be something about $5 million, and then i don't know about the
why wayne simmons is here and john sununu is not. wayne, understand the geopolitical and strategic importance but i feel that we can't be in a position to be too, too argument with the saudis. last time i check we kind of need them and we need their oil. >> and that's very unfortunate. the united states has oil reserves that if we access them, we could put all of opec out of business. that's a fact. if it were me, frankly, i would have king abdullah in one of his 747s make the trek to the united states, hat in hand, and kowtow to me as president of the united states and beg me for military support and for protection. instead what we have is arguably the weakest president in the history of the united states -- that is not rhetoric, it's a fact -- who has sacrificed our national security by going around the world, his hat in
another. a federal prosecutor told me yesterday, this is a quote from you, you are limited by your resources, but they're limited only by their imagination. if you can dream it up, they have built it. so, basically you're describing him as this quasi mythical figure. tell us more about this man. the guards, the guns, the tunnel s. all the resources they've created. >> he has become a mythical figure within u.s. law enforcement but broadly in latin america. part of that was his ability to escape the law all these years. he was locked up in mexico but escape friday prison in 2001. it's only now that he is being captured. his ability to innovate. this was a guy who was the pioneer of gig digging tunnels under the border. he first did it 25 years ago. he used submarines to send drugs up the continent, 747s. the range of imaginative means of getting drugs into this country is really bigger than
we're back. we never left but we are definitely back. >> reporter: after a four-year hiatus, the king and queen of this orlando area palace, jackie siegel and her timeshare billionaire husband, david seigel, have resumed construction on what will be the biggest house in america which could swallow the white house. it is fittingly called versailles. >> you bought a toilet in italy, shipped it to china and brought it back here. >> yes. >> it was cheaper than to have it done in china than italy. >> reporter: a million pieces of marble. they have a big family, eight kids, five dogs, six if you count the one that is stuffed. so it stands to reason they need a big house. but at 90,000 square feet, this 15-bed, 30-bath home can also hold two 747s. the siegel's home was first featured in the documentary "the queen of versailles" last year. the ultimate example of the
plane at that airport before and only had 43 hours of experience. although he had thousands and thousands in the air on other aircraft. 747s and such. the ntsb now saying the pilot coming in too slow for the landing. the plane signaled the problem four seconds before impact. >> it's called a stick shaker, but there is a yoke that the pilots are holding and that yoke vibrates or shakes and it is telling them that a stall is approaching. >> gretchen: so the pilot tried to abort the landing just 1.5 seconds before the crash. that was too late. >> brian: caught on cam remarks the exact moment a home explodes in michigan. blowing it right off its foundation. authorities think a natural gas leak is to blame for the blast that sent one man to the hospital much his wife and baby escaped without injury. and can you see that black dot? in that black dot is a black dog. he made a run for it moments after the explosion. but took the roadways.