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Covered a lot of ground here today. sir. thank you so much for your time. i appreciate your time. >> thank you, jenna. jon: a heart-stopping accident caught on tape. take a look at an 18-wheeler left dangling over the side of a highway ramp. three people ended up trapped. how did this dramatic scene end? we'll get the latest from the breaking news desk. plus, it's not even wildfire season, and some states already are battling massive fires like colorado this week. today researchers in south carolina will set a home on fire on purpose. how they hope that can help states better prepare for wil...

And pilots flying blind into our or nation's capital. a couple of passenger jets land while the only air traffic controller on duty is asleep. and no end to japan's nuclear nightmare. some workers at the damaged plant now overcome with radiation sickness as tokyo residents line up for bottled water. it's all new, all live. it's "happening now." jon: and welcome to the second hour. hello to you, i'm jon scott. jenna: i'm jenna lee, and we're now learning french jets shot down a libyan war plane violating the no-fly zone over the embattled city of miss prada. we're getting word libyan tanks star...

Officials say the only controller at the tower there was sleeping on the job and wouldn't clear those planes to land, the pilots reaching out to a regional facility for help. listen to what they were told. >> so you're aware, the tower is apparently not manned, i've made a few phone calls and nobody's answering. so two airplanes went in over the past ten, 15 minutes so you can expect to go in as an uncontrolled airplane. jon: doug mckelway, live at reagan national airport, what's the latest on this? >> reporter: this is proving to be a huge embarrassment for the faa, the act of this air traffi...

No-fly zone, but we can confirm that a french fighter jet, rafael, destroyed a g-2, a military training jet used by the libyans, and it was near the town of misrata, jon. jon: and what's the latest with this coalition force? >> reporter: well, essentially what we know is that there were heavy strikes overnight. we know that 14 tomahawk missiles were used to fight against air defense systems. we had reported yesterday that those tomahawks, they were going to try and avoid using those tom tomahawks because they're $1.5 million apiece every time they fly them, but clearly they had targets of oppo...

The water, cooling the reactors, we assume it's going into the falls to cool down the rods and workers have been at the control center of reactor number one, a step towards getting power to thele cooing systems which will re -- prevent the reactors from getting hotter. people in japan looked at the unnerving footage showing steam riseing from reactors one, two, three and four, and pressure is also been rising in number one because of the amount of water they've been pumping into the building. so there's still a long way to go before authorities have the situation under control. jenna: david cr...