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Top stories, the melbourne, australia, plane that crashed. >> the plane crashed into the shopping mall after leaving the runway shortly after takeoff. lucy cavanaugh, good day to you. what else are authorities saying what may have caused this plane to crash? >> reporter: well, good morning. police say that the pilot reported a catastrophic engine failure just moments before this crash. but it is still too soon to say definitively what exactly happened. this was supposed to be a dream golfing vacation for four american tourists. they had chartered a plane, a twin engine supper king air to take ...

Of the airliner. sources say this occurred after the attack and at this point, the intelligence community didn't have anything before the attack indicating this was a threat but i want to point this out, that officials are warning this intelligence is inconclusive. the chatter is not definitive evidence. at times they will attempt to throw off intelligence agencies or trey to gain favor with others in the terrorist group though officials tell my colleague barbara starr this did not appear to be false bragging but rather discussion of the crash that had to be taken seriously so it caused concer...

Above 31,000 feet detected a heat flash. there are a number of possible explanations for that. it could be a fuel tank or an engine on board the plane exploding. it could be a missile strike. it could be a bomb on board. or it could be the plane hitting the ground. at least that's what you would imagine. but u.s. defense officials have gone further and ruled out a couple of those. they say this was a heat flash. it wasn't -- it wasn't a trail that might have been caused by a rocket or a missile. and they also say it was detected at altitude so it was not from it the plane hitting the ground. s...

Check the bodies. don't just assume because a body is laying on the ground that that person is dead. check the pulse, do the triage that they're all trained in. >> jeff, you have a different take on this. look, the firefighters are concerned about a larger catastrophe possibly happening, a larger number of casualties in the triage situation, the plane exploding in a triage situation, they may overlook an individual because they're concerned about greater casualties. >> that's right. and i don't want to diminish this tragedy at all and the loss of this girl and the pain that her parents are goi...

All this will come to a head real soon. 9 minutes past. we are just getting rolling. we have a big show today. martha: the obama-care rollout jets gets underway tomorrow. a new poll shows more americans are getting nervous and worried about the bill. bill: a plane exploding into a ball of flames after crashing into an airport hangar. authorities have no idea who was on board. martha: texas congressman with some particularly harsh word. he joins us live straight ahead. >> friday the senate led by harry reid makes it clear, well, we are going to take the lazy break until monday at 2:00. the cloc...