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>> this is an area that brings out a lot of emotion >> reporter: while authorities describe's today's incident as a hoax, americans are on alert investigators are now revealing new details about the hard landing that caused that plane carrying nascar legend dale earnhardt jr. and his family to burst into flames along a tennessee highway. nbc's gabe gutierrez has the latest >> reporter: tonight federal investigators are on the scene of the fiery plane crash in rural tennessee trying to find out what caused it to lose control with nascar legend dale earnhardt jr. and his family inside >> the a...

Bill weir joins us live from san juan. what did you see, bill? >> reporter: this is the roughest i've seen in half a week here. just for perspective, it is an island off an island. as bad as it is is here, it's worse there. for years it was a u.s. navy bombing range until george w. bush told them to move and clean all the munitions up. now it is a playground for the rich and famous and home to 10,000 natives who work there and support the tourist economy. for the last week, no one knew anything about their fate. they were in this black hole of information. so luckily we found an angel with a s...

The f-16 that the cessna was there. >> why didn't the air traffic controllers see this small cessna? why didn't they warn the f-16? why didn't the f-16 not see this traffic. >> reporter: investigators say that flight data recordings on the f-16 will be key. steve osunsami, south carolina. new details this morning about the gun used in the san francisco murder at the center of the immigration debate. the gun was stolen from a federal agent, a ranger with the bureau of land management, it was taken when someone broke into his car just days before kathyrn steinle was shot. it's not clear how th...

>> witness confirmed two planes down. >> reporter: federal investigators say they can't yet explain how one of the most sophisticated fighter jets ever created managed to crash into a small private plane, midair. >> do not go near the smoke. it's toxic. >> reporter: witnesses say it was like an eagle taking out a sparrow. >> like an aftershock explosion. big old fireball in the air. >> they've yet to talk with major aaron johnson who survived. his parachute seen here in coast guard video. from his rescue tuesday. divers searching the cooper river have now recovered the body of 68-year-old mich...

>> reporter: it is the second time this summer united flights have been impacted by this kind of problem. the issue fixed within two hours, but the ripple effect lingering longer. some travelers -- >> a party of seven to newark. >> reporter: left scrambling to catch connecting flights. >> i definitely am not pleased. >> reporter: and others dealing with delays. >> he's grumpy. well, what else are you going to do? you know? yeah. so you just kind of roll with it. >> reporter: united gave vouchers to those who had to cancel their travel plans because of problems which the airline insists were no...