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The slide show, that's what it looks like when a car burns up. crews battling a fire near reno, you can see what's left there. officials say there are several fires burning in that area. flames are getting near someone's house in the far right. hundreds are people are evacuating people in nevada, bringing animals with them. you see the horse there in the dark and a plane spraying in breckenridge. a moment of impact and aftermath you've deadly plane crash at san francisco's airport. it happened four years ago today. we just got this. it appears to be taken from a control tower, investigators ...

May be more likely to misuse lyrica. with less pain, i can be more active. ask your doctor about lyrica. welcome back. live in washington d.c. why am i here? because in four days, just four days, the inauguration of donald trump is taking place. before we get into what's going to be in store this weekend, i got to give you your morning primer. all of the news you need to know to get your day started. we begin where 30 people are dead after a turkish cargo plane crashed into a village leaving a trail of destroyed homes. no cause has been determined yet. initial investigations is pointing to p...

Pilot error, robert. what do you think? >> it is probably a little early to blame it on the pilot although statistically, pilot error is a cause and probably 70% of airplane accidents. again, they do have the black boxes out of the airplane, and time is going to tell appeared one thing that is important is a source that we have said the aircraft was in the process of trying to make a missed approach, going around because there was something going on that the crew did not like, maybe the weather had gone down worse than they thought or they were not set up right or something like that. again, w...

Point, however, ruling out the fact that there was no explosion on the airplane, right now it would lean towards possible mechanical and pilot error scenario. jon: pilots were talking about having problems with the flaps, the things people might see kind of creeping down from the wings before takeoff and landing, they give you spray lift, if you're having a problem with the flaps that could cause a plane to go down. >> this is an old plane built back in the 60's, a lot of mechanical things going with the wing, designed to go very fast, so on takeoff, they have the flaps, they have the leading-...

Possibility the plane might have had bad fuel so investigators are now testing samples taken from the fuel tank used to fill the russian plane. we're told those results could be in as early as today. experts are looking at pilot error or technical malfunction. this type of aircraft has been involved in 39 fatal accidents over the years and most were attributed to bad weather or human error, though some crashes were caused by the planes being overloaded. when a plane goes down shortly after takeoff being overweight is a real possibility. we've learned there are several witnesses to the crash in...