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East have been silent on osama bin laden's death. no scenes of jubilation in the treats there. only the leaders of afghanistan, turkey, and israel have cheered the news. hamas and gaza denounced bin laden's death as an assassination. the families of those who died on september 11 are expr s expressing relief and a sense of closure at bin laden's death. alice hogeland's son, mark bingham, a passenger on flight 93. heap and others rushed the cockpit -- he and others rushed the cockpit forcing the terrorists to force the plane down in a pennsylvania field rather than using it as an attack. >> m...

Revolution, muslim fundamentalist revolution. >> reagan ordered a retaliatory raid in which gadhafi's baby daughter was killed. and pan am flight 183 exploded over lockerbie, scotland. the bomb that brought the plane down was traced to libya and the libyan operative behind it was tried and convicted. gadhafi was seen as the mastermind and it further isolated him from the world community. gadhafi saw the writing on the wall when the u.s. launched the iraq war to topple saddam hussein. gadhafi realized he could be next, and in 2003, he scrapped libya's quest for weapons of mass destruction and p...

Groups that got targeted. environmentalists, gays, lesbians, even animal lovers. we'll tell you where it happened and how taxpayers got stuck with the bill. a lot to cover tonight but we begin, as always, with "keeping them honest" with an event that didn't have to happen. the huge explosion in san bruno, california, that's incinerated a neighborhood and killed at least four people. we've got new evidence tonight suggesting that this nightmare might have been preventible. the lives lost, the homes destroyed, the explosion and fireball so intense that first responders initially thought a jetl...

Lightning strikes on planes. >> would you believe that on average, every plane in the air gets hit by lightning at least once a year? >> i can believe that. >> it happens. i've seen it. i have looked out the wing, and i have seen it hit the little winglette on my plane that i was sitting in -- i don't know, 12 or 13, so i could see straight out. but the problem was, not so much that it got hit by lightning, because it happens all the time. where it happened. it happened when they were on approach. and even if there was a down draft pushing this plane down -- because there could be multiple thi...

Imagine, down, below, and trying to figure out the best place to try and put the plane down? >> yes, actually that end of the island is rock. >> and, is really -- there are no beaches to speak of. so, what i saw was the ferry coming into the ferry dock, i turned the plane in that direction so as to try and land near the ferry so i would have a ready resource for rescue. martha: these pictures are unbelievable and they have you to thank for thinking quickly. on your feet, there, while you were bringing the plane down, you know, we all remember, captain sully, and him talking about how he tried ...