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Calmness of the morning. >> tell us what happened, what you saw, and when the first indication was that something was horribly wrong. well, to put it in context, it was an early morning balloon flight so 5:45 the balloons go up. we float across by the nile, and just as we're approaching our landing point across a sugar kane valley, i hear a loud explosion. i turn around and see a lot of smoke. in fact there's a video that has now just been released that is very representative of what i saw. a vertical line of smoke. i said to the person next to me, i hope that wasn't the balloon. we wouldn't h...

From td ameritrade. >> live from america's news headquarters, i'm aneat ravogel. a pakistani girl, shot in the head by the taliban is now in a london hospital. 14-year-old mala la was flown to england from pakistan on monday. a hospital there saying she has a chance at make egg good recovery. the teenager was shot a week ago in retaliation for promoting the education of girls. the taliban are threatening to target her again because they claim she hasadrocated western thinking. felix baumgartner's super-sonic sky dive broke three record, the first to break the sound barrier without the use of a...

Years to the day that chuck yeager also traveled faster than sound. one notable difference here though, jenna, yeager did it in a jet. baumgartner did it in freefall. jenna: it is so crazy but so cool. david lee, what about the other records that were broken? >> reporter: one of the other things that is talked about that baumgartner now has the record for the highest manned balloon flight. so that's a new one on the record books. one record though that he did not break is the longest free fall. he fell for 4 minutes and 20 seconds. the previous record still stands at 4 minutes and 36 seconds. ...

The austriian native is the first to break the speed of sound from the highest balloon flight. that's not official? who has challenged it? both campaigns are voicing concern over the moderator or -- let me explain this in tomorrow night's debate. let me clebe clear here. they say the campaigns are concerned over recent comments, not that they're concerned over candy crowley but concerned about the role she will play in the debates. speaking last night crowley said, quote, once the table is kind of set by the town hall questioner, there's then time for me to say, hey wait a second, what about x...

Nearly 24 mile descent. later he said this experience led him to reflect on his own mortality. >> when i was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble you do not think about breaking records anymore. you do not think about gaining scientific data. the only thing you want, you want to come back alive. >> reporter: as he was spinning out of control, he also said, he was not afraid of losing his life. what he was worried about, not being able to break the record for breaking through the speed barrier which he successfully did at 833 miles per hour. martha: unbelievable. when you se...