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Near an urban area with an engine out on a commercial plane with 150 people on board. >> first, i'll start with condolences to the family and friends of the passenger who passed. having said that, she's the first passenger who has been killed from an engine explosion such as this one since 1996. more than 20 years it's been, and that's kudos to the system and how safe it is and the training of the pilots and the training of the controllers and robustness of the airplane to be able to come through a very unusual situation like this as successfully as they did. >> chris, one of the benefits of t...

Story in public. >> thank you very much. we've got breaking news to go to out of puerto rico. the island itself is once again without power after a total island-wide blackout. there have been occasional outages since the island and its grid were devastated by hurricane maria back in september but this is the first time the entire island has lost electricity since the storms. the governor's office reminds us that major infrastructure like hospitals and airports are well equipped to handle power outages at this point. we're going to keep an eye on this and follow it and bring you any developme...

States and north korea. take a listen. >> we will probably be, depending on the various meetings and conversations we'll be having, meetings with kim jong-un very soon. it will be -- that will be taking place probably in early june or a little before that. assuming things go well. it is possible things won't go well and we won't have the meeting. >> possibly meetings in early june or before that. >> yeah, confusion, confusion. it is unclear whether or not the meeting will happen and it was supposed to be in may. initially this was a decision that the president really seemed to make unilaterall...

Convicted, the president will pardon me. >> he may feel that way but that is fool hearty. remember, michael cohen was expected to go to d.c. with the president after the election and taken care of and none of that came to fruition. president has a history of demanding loyalty but being disloyal to others around him when push comes to shove. that is well documented. so that would be a foolish calculation on michael cohen's part and at the end of the day, i think he's going to come to the right decision. it will probably be one of the smartest decisions he'd made in a long time. >> michael avena...

How does this happen? >> well, an uncontained engine explosion. in the language of the investigators, a part of the engine was liberated is how they describe it. >> it not the koonind of liberan i'm liking. >> whether that is part of the turbine disc or fan blades. the engine is supposed to be protected by the nacell. if there is an explosion, it is designed or intended the pieces don't go p -- >> don't go flying everybody where. >> correct. however, we know it very often fails to do that and pieces are liberated and la is next to the win o