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annan for this, and don t blame the man. it is kofi annan s name who was on the six-point peace plan and they did not get to point one, and now he is off of the masthead. and so looking for the successor of the arab league, and it will be interesting to see if anybody steps in to want to take that over. they met together, annan and assad together with the security council to come together to meet with consequences to the assad regime to quell the violence, but nothing worked. annan may have missed the glory days of the 1990s when he was the secretary-general and won the nobel peace prize, but things have changed in the post arab spring and he was not able the bring the magic to the situation. richard, i don t understand, why do they believe they will come up with anything that quite frankly is going to work to bring peace to syria? i mean, you have somebody here who clearly has diplomatic experience for decades, and you have got the plan here, and nobody really paid a ....
breaking class ceilings at work. for now, i ll just say the key is the boss wife. we begin with the government trying to figure out why three planes at washington s reagan airport came close to crashing right into each other in mid-air. the incident occurred tuesday when air traffic controllers were making adjustments for landinand departing aircraft because of bad weather. athena jones at reagan national for us. so, how close of a call was this? good morning, kyra. it was a pretty close call. we re talking about seconds here. one of the airplane as was about half as far away as it should have been, the other one was a little bit further from that third plane. this all happened on otuesday afternoon after about 2:00 p.m. there was a heavy rain storm and air traffic controllers decided to change the direction of the planes were taking off and landing. they were taking off and landing on runway one and going from south to north and decide to take off and land on runw ....
minutes, but first, we are getting kwoword of a u.s. milit crash in oman which happened 15 miles from the country s capital. five crew members were on board, and the condition is not clear. military officials don t know what caused this crash, but they say it was not attacked. in northern columbia, a 3-year-o missing for an entire day was finally rescued from a sewer. you have to watch this. the boy had been playing in a construction zone with his brothers when he disappeared, and now he is safe and sound. the. a suicide bomber had a michigan driver s license and that is what officials in bulgaria are saying today and we are talking about the explosion that killed five israeli tourists and a bus driver which happened yesterday outside of an airport on the bulgaria s black seacoast, and they say that the michigan driver s license was probably a phony. we have surveillae footage of the man who may have set off this bomb. this is the airport, and this is in burgas, bul ....
the initial attempt to get rid of the law came in january of 2011, two weeks after the gop took control of the house. that vote passed and died in the senate however as it has every other time that the house has tried to repeal the law. president obama says he has a sure-fired way to help middle-class taxpayers to help families making less than $250,000 a year, and get rid of tax breaks for the wealthy. i want to bring in jessica yellin who is in new york today. he talked about this and talked about it from the white house and clearly laying down the gauntlet, if you will, and he says, okay, i want to put this before congress again and this is going to be an issue that is going to be hot and heavy for the next four months, and do they think that this is going to catch fire, if you will, as a campaign slogan? as a campaign issue certainly. we will see this on the trail no doubt, suzanne, because it is a battle for the next four months. in congress, don t expect it to ....
that if we take the right policy steps, if we re doing the right thing, then the politics will follow. and my mind hasn t changed on that. jeff mason, reuters. where s jeff? right here. thank you, sir. my question is about syria. did president putin of russia indicate any desire on russia s part for assad to step down or to leave power? and did you make any tangible progress in your meetings with him or with chinese president hu in finding a way to stop the bloodshed there? thank you. well, these were major topics of conversations in both meetings. and anybody who s seen scenes of what s happening in syria i think recognizes that the violence is completely out of hand, that civilians are being targeted, and that assad has lost legitimacy. and, you know, when you massacre your own citizens in the ways that we ve seen, it is impossible to conceive of a orderly political transition that leaves assad in power. now, that doesn t mean that that process of political transi ....