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Sterling's attorney. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. my pleasure. up next, deal or no deal? and where is the donald sterling drama headed? our own don lemon and rachel nichols are standing by. and a sudden blinding light in the cockpit. laser attacks and how they are being targeted. stay with us. you're in "the situation room." so what i'm saying is, people like options.

It is quite possible and that's why the fbi is cracking down. the latest example, a florida man now facing the possibility of federal time behind bars. blinding light from below, a seminole county sheriff's helicopter and two pilots inside targeted. this is what it looked like on the receiving end of this laser attack near orlando saturday. 19-year-old trevor rango now charged with a felony. >> he said he didn't have a good explanation, but you can see in the video he was actually running around and continued to shine the laser beam at the helicopter. >> laser attacks like this are capable of ...

New york city and southern california are among the areas with the most incidents. listen as a plane is coming in for landing in 2012. >> we just got lasered up here. two green flashes into the cockpit. it caught the first officer's eye. >> a dangerous distraction that in some cases have caused injury. pilots have been hospitalized because of burned corneas. laser strikes have never caused a crash, but the fbi fears it eventually will. >> if an aircraft were to go down in a neighborhood, a school, a shopping center, it would be absolutely devastating. >> well, thousands of laser attacks go unr...

These time lapse images taken from the rear of the rover shows its tracks in the sand. peace out, it's saying. it is surrounded by terrain quite different from all other sites rovers have visited. that was a big ordeal. >> i -- you are now officially -- you are our chief space correspondent, at least for the mars rover. >> did you just call me a space cadet? >> yes, i did. in a loving way. >> i prefer space commander. all right next up for us on "new day," a plane crash leaves dozens dead, but one person did survive. this harrowing story and what we know about this coming up next. plus, th...