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Fly from texas to washington state today, but that doesn't mean it's closer to carrying passengers any time soon. 787s are grounded while investigators try to determine what caused a fire in one of them and smoke inside of another. the plane's lithium ion battery is under scrutiny. a lead investigator says the batteries aren't necessarily unsafe. but boeing needs to build reliable safeguards in the event of a problem. today's flight is not a test, it's simply to relocate that aircraft. also from the airline industry, our station in dallas reports american airlines and u.s. airways are very c...

Uma: we are back. here's what's new next hour. boeing is forced to ground its entire fleet of dreamliners and now a new report is saying the company may have known there were serious problems with the batteries before the 787s were grounded but did not report them. and the immigration debate is heating up. passionate arguments from both sides of the aisle. how it could affect the future of the democratic and republican parties. and a new study could change the way doctors treat cancer patients. researchers finding chemotherapy drugs may work differently on men and women. we will explain. j...

The divisions anyway in terms of their exposure in the military. >> would have been nice to have a congressional conversation about it before we went all-in. >> it already is 15% of the military. >> combat is different than just the military. martha: thank you very much. mary katharine ham, juan williams. always a pleasure. bill: right about 20 minutes now before the hour. and boeing, the dreamliner, fleet has been kept on the ground indefinitely, saying it is far from completing its investigation. that from the ntsb. airlines around the world grounded the 787s after a pair of battery fires. o...

Officials are kuking their own investigation, focusing on the company that makes the batteries. a boeing source tells me the two batteries that overheat head serial numbers close together, but it appears unlikely that they were part of a bad batch. the planes were assembled a year apart. the boeing ceo sent employees a letter to employees saying he had complete confidence in the plane and the company would do everything possible to fix the electrical problems quickly and get the plane back in the air. they are confident this won't last long. boeing won't deliver any more 787s until the groundi...

To speculate about what's wrong with their batteries until the faa finishes its investigation. jon, you see the batteries there. >> yeah. so how much longer will the airplanes stay grounded? >> reporter: there's no time table for that right now officially, but governments around the world told airlines using these enormous aircraft, these enormous 787s to keep them grounded to make sure these batteries don't cause any more smoke damage or worse and if you're wondering why they don't just swap these batteries out for some new ones that actually work, experts are saying that would not fly. >> an...