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Passengers didn't know. they landed in dallas but were expecting to be in houston. why the diversion? >> we lost two of our screens. now if we kept flying, we'd lose them all. >> reporter: the united express pilot telling the 50 passengers from knoxville there was a cooling problem and their flight data screens were shutting down. two as he said, and worry that others were in jeopardy. >> there is tremendous heat behind those screens. this dictates that we land as soon as possible because if we had continued eventually, i'd be flying blind. so that's why we're in dallas right now. it is unlike...

Eight miles away from columbine high school where the school shooting happened in 1999. >> thank you so much. jamie. >> it was horrible to see the picture of the kids in the paper today. each child at that school was patted down outside. just awful. a final farewell as mourners line the streets in south africa today. a motorcade that carries nelson mandela's coffin will make its way to his final resting place. we're going to have a live report for you on that. have you heard about this, china landed an unmanned spacecraft on the moon. the iranians say they spent a monkey into space. for us, ...

We should know that, for some soon. >> if the spent fuel rods in the fuel pools, as they say, it sounds like you think it's of greatest concern at this moment. that has to do with not enough water. the electricity will help with the cooling down. don't they have to keep pouring water in? lek pristy will not necessarily cure that problem. it would if they could rig a cooling problem. essentially it's the same problem, more or less, across the reactor units chrks is you need water to cool what's at each reactor. it's a little different. but yes with the spent reactors t nuclear waste in number f...

Into the plant to try to fight this cooling problem. in all, it's about 180 who are on staff. so 50 at a time go in. these men are knowingly risking their own lives. one radiologist describing them as suicide fighters in a war. it's that simple. trace gallagher is live in our west coast newsroom with more. trace? >> reporter: i think the takeaways is that way know the radiation levels are going up and the information out of the japanese government is going down. you touched on these things briefly. we're talking about the last-ditch efforts, the fire-fighting helicopters dropping water, trying...