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And welcome back to the send half of out front. indy car driver is being treated after a collision sent him into a wall in the last lap of the grand prix in houston. the crash was so violent it sent debris into the stands and injured 13 people who were there. indy car is reviewing the incident. it says reviewing the risks of accidents is one of their highest priorities. with football, fans like sports that carry risk of injury to the players. the process of destruction of syria's chemical weapons has gun. syrian personnel used cutting torches or angle grinders to destroy or disable a range o...

Chemical weapons. i was reading they are using some interesting objects in order to try to start the process of containing the arsenal. can you tell us a little bit about that? >> reporter: yeah, that's right. this is the first phase of this process. it started yesterday in syria and what we are told from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons is that some of the equipment that is being used to destroy or disable a range of items includes cutting torches and angle griders and what is destroyed is missile warheads and aerial bombs. they have not gotten to stockpiles of any ner...

Chemical weapons in syria need to be put out of action by the end of this month and then the entire stockpile, around 1,000 tons of nerve agents and poison gas needs to be disposed of by the middle of next year. we had fascinating detail from the agency that's overseeing it, fror the prohibition of chemical weapons talking about what the teams are using to get the job done. cutting torches, angle grinders and sledge hammers in some cases. it's a difficult job that's under way, a very difficult and dangerous given that this is taking place in a war zone. the first disarmament of his type to go ...

Tom? >> hey, good morning, mika. i want to quickly take you out to runway 28 left. they have been working all night to get this plane picked up. the wreckage of it picked up off the runway. a short time ago they had a bit of a spot fire break out. the reason is they have been cutting this plane up into pieces using cutting torches. the fire department had to douse it quickly. the bottom line the challenge for them, they have to get the tiniest pieces of debris off the runway, repair the landing lights, patch the asphalt in order to get this airport back up and running to full throttle again. f...