breaking class ceilings at work. for now, i ll just say the key is the boss wife. we begin with the government trying to figure out why three planes at washington s reagan airport came close to crashing right into each other in mid-air. the incident occurred tuesday when air traffic controllers were making adjustments for landinand departing aircraft because of bad weather. athena jones at reagan national for us. so, how close of a call was this? good morning, kyra. it was a pretty close call. we re talking about seconds here. one of the airplane as was about half as far away as it should have been, the other one was a little bit further from that third plane. this all happened on otuesday afternoon after about 2:00 p.m. there was a heavy rain storm and air traffic controllers decided to change the direction of the planes were taking off and landing. they were taking off and landing on runway one and going from south to north and decide to take off and land on runway 19
plus, why rapists in the military are getting away with it. a bay area congresswoman taking the air force on front and center. jackie spear calling for new hearings on what she calls abuse of power. this morning, she s in the newsroom. and hot, hot, hot. the summer sizzler in full effect this morning. dangerously high heat and humidity making it feel as hot as 110 degrees from virginia all the way to southern maine. so sit back, get out the fan, stay cool. newsroom starts right now. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. we do start with this breaking news. for the first time, we re seeing video of george zimmerman describing the play-by-play of what happened the night he shotted trayvon martin. overnight, his defense attorneys released several police interrogation tapes. in one of them, zimmerman is re-enacting the fight for investigators just a day after the shooting in february showing how he says trayvon martin repeatedly slammed his head into the sidewalk. in one ta
boxing superstar manny pacquiao loose to timothy bradley but no one of the three judges seems to know why. i have never been ashamed much to be associated with the sport of boxing as i am tonight. these people don t know how to score. sports fans screaming for justice. is there any truth to accusations of game tampering? and gaffes aplenty. obama, ramny, we re asking this morning what tees the shelf life of a gaffe? newsroom begins right now. good morning to you. i m carol costello. good morning. a key member of possible s economic team is facing felony hit and run-charges this morning, and the details make this story even more odd. witnesses say commerce secretary john bryson hit a parked car, struck it again as he pulled away, app then hit a second car minutes later a few miles down the road. he was found passed out behind the wheel, but police say alcohol or drugs do not appear to be to blame. brianna keilar is at the white house. any comment? reporter: well, the w
a recorder conversation between the captain and the port authority. pretty damning stuff in there. what s happening right now? the captain is being questioned. and new this morning, the number of the missing much higher than we first reported. and, also, in politics, when you re the front runner, it s like you ve got the bull s eye on your back. that would be mitt romney where rick perry and everyone else, rick santorum, all gunning for myth romney. the race is tight. we re going to break it all down for you. you re going to have to dig a little deeper when you fill up this morning. the highest january gas prices. could we see $5 gas this summer? and if you re about to pour some o.j., think about the folks picking the o.j. where did the oranges come from? because if they re from brazil, we sent our reporter there to find out just what they re spraying or putting on those oranges to fight diseases and it ain t something that our country likes. not one bit. we ll tell you