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Being kept in. >> look at the faces. our hearts go out to their families. overnight, we learned another horse died at the santa anita racetrack, the second in a matter of days, and the 25th fatality on the track since december. the latest was a 3-year-old named spectacular music, who suffered a rare pelvic injury while running his first career race on sunday. the horse was euthanized on monday. two people have been killed in the second sight-seeing plane crash in alaska in the past week. the pilot and passenger were killed when their plane went down in the harbor. local officials have not ...

The death toll now rising to six, after the bodies of two missing passengers were found. abc's will carr tonight, traveling to the remote spot where those planes came down. he's on the scene tonight. >> reporter: tonight, we got an upclose look at the wreckage from that devastating plane collision over the alaskan wilderness. the first plane is still in the water along the rugged shoreline. the floats are upside down and jutting out. an ntsb go-team flew in by helicopter this afternoon while we were there. they're now trying to figure out why the two float planes converged in midair at 3,200 f...

the end of next year, beyond the election, with cuts and spending caps also on the table, house speaker john boehner wants all house members to weigh in. so he plans to hold a conference call with many of them sometime today. so we've got up to the minute coverage of what's happening in washington. cnn's kate bolduan is on capitol hill. dan lothian is at the white house. first to you, kate, senate leaders in both parties keep saying that they are, quote, very close to a deal. what more do we know? >> reporter: we don't have specifics of a final deal quite yet because as far as we kno...

quite bizarre. people like breivik are trying to resurrect the idea of a modern day crusade, a real clash of civilizations against what they see as islamic invasion of europe. in fact, muslims make up only 3% of europe's population and that's likely to rise to between 5 and 8% by 2025 and level out at that point. but that doesn't change the reality of the anger, hatred and the violence. ironically, in breivik's nostalgic view of the medieval world, it resembles nothing so much as al qaeda, another terrorist organization fundamentally opposed to the modern world. we still don't know i...

You either have to access them by plane or by boat. float planes have become the method of transportation, that is most popular in this state. over my left shoulder here you can see an otter, which is the type of plane that was carrying ted stevens, the late senator ted stevens and eight others, four of whom perished. it's an occupational hazard, as ted stevens once said himself of life in alaska. these planes, in many cases, are very, very old. people who fly them say they're very, very safe, but that terrain here makes flying often treacherous. here at the alaska aviation heritage museum, th...