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Southwest did hire experts to come in and look at the cracking situation. but the experts in boeing said that some cracking was okay. in some cases up to six inches. >> we should note that this isn't the first time this has happened. back in 2009, a southwest plane was forced to make an emergency landing for the very same thing. that was four months after the airline was fined $7.5 million by the faa for failing to perform mandatory inspections for fuselage cracks on nearly 60,000 flights. it is official, folks. here is the message president obama tweeted this morning. it announced he is lau...

♪ i should arrest you guys ♪ but you seem pretty cool go, knicks! ♪ >> how cool is that that he sang? >> well, kinda. >> he was also in another skit where he was a female shot putter. >> he was dressed up as a woman? >> he was. >> i'm sorry i missed that, too. good for him, though. he has a good sense of humor. >> it was fun. good stuff. >> thanks, jeff. it is now 7:00 a.m. in the west, 10:00 in the east. if you're flying southwest today, you'd better check the website before you head to the airport. southwest has canceled about 100 flights today while inspectors check the airline's 73...

Be off the roof. >> have a great day. thanks so much. good morning to all of you. it's 9:00 a.m. on the west coast, 6:00 a.m. on the east. so much radio active water at the nuclear plant and nowhere to hold it. the power company's plan, dump thousands of gallons of it into the pacific ocean. possible answers this morning in a mystery nearly two years old. wreckage from a rio to paris flight fuound at the bottom of the atlantic. searchers also found the bodies of some of the passengers. and the video from barackobama.com makes it official, the president is asking america for four more years...

Events. that, obviously, could change. >> jeanne meserve live in washington. thank you. southwest has had this kind of problem before, as i said. the faa slapped the airline with a huge fine because of it, so why are these planes still cracking? why is the fuselage still cracking? we'll ask a former inspector general from the transportation department in just a few minutes. also, that just in. we're getting reports of a unit airline' flight that reported visible smoke in the cockpit shortly after takeoff. the plane made an emergency landing in new orleans and when a longer runway wasn't avai...