to go keep up their fight against government cutbacks. the clashes turning deadly yesterday as you may know, lawmakers approved another round of steep cuts. officials saying a construction worker suffered a heart attack and nearly 200 people reportedly hurt in a storm of fire bombs and stones in all that. during the crippling strikes, nurses walked off their jobs, prison guards left their post and garbage collectors left piles of trash to rot for three weeks now. the supreme court expected to have the final word on president obama s health care overhaul. in the meantime, an entire state could soon opt out of one part of the law. we ll get an update from dc on exactly how that would work. plus, remember this deadly air race crash in nevada? the plane nose diving right into the crowd and now investigators saying they have some hope that something may be found on board, a video camera, what they say they found. stay close. in america, we believe in a future
with all the cell phone use increasing, brain cancer is not increasing, so i am not surprised to find that the largest study so far is not showing a connection. one significant weak weakness, is it didn t show for people that were heavy users. harris: critics also say the study did not examine long-term risks they know brain tumors can take decades to develop. an update on that terrible air race crash in reno, nevada last month. 11 people died, more than 70 others hurt in that modified jet took a nose dive in the crowd. federal investigators saying they found no readable on board video from that wreckage. the debris scattered more than two acres across, but technicians with the national transportation safety board still trying to recover information from the aircraft s data memory card. investigators saying it could take months to complete the final work. i m harris faulkner in for
would never be able to take time off what i big project has to get done on deadline. funding the government, that s a big project with a very important deadline. and consider this. according to expedia.com, the average american worker gets 18 vacation days a year. 18. and they only use 14 of them. did i mention that since january congress has only been in session for 125 days? plus they divided 112th congress promises to be the least productive in recent memory. since january only 14 house measures have been signed into law by president obama. and look at this, had when democrats controlled the house last year from january to june, 466 bills and resolutions were passed. by comparison over the same time frame this year only 207 bills or resolutions got approval. they spent more time bickering than getting anything actually done. yet house lawmakers sure do get paid a lot. rank and file representatives earn $174,000 a year. the speaker of the house takes home $223,500. now, com
killing the pilot. is it time to crack down on safety standards at some of these events? with us now, the former managing director of the national transportation safety board, a man who investigated many high-profile accidents himself, peter goelz. peter there is some good news to talk about with regard to specifically that air race crash in nevada. as we, as we talk about this i want to give our viewers some idea of what we are talking about here. these are very high-performance aircraft that fly at very low elevation and sometimes at speeds above 600 miles an hour. it is kind of thing that the red bull air race brought to new york city recently. we have some video of that. but in nevada specifically, there was no flame. there were spectators covered with aviation fuel but there was no flame. can you speculate why there
the rest of the unit joins in, shooting wildly. they come under fire. [ gun fire ] an ambulance is hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. they and we are caught in the open. a pot shot. something in the distance. fightered opened up and there was some return fire. cnn producer was hit. i ve been shot. down, down. down. go, go, go! get down! right side. go to the right side of everything. go, go! that s it. good. other way. we start to check his injury. looks like there is a piece of shrapnel inside. you can feel it? i could feel it. when he was moving around, i could feel it inside. reporter: at a nearby field hospital, medics help ian. while dealing with their own grief. a colleague of these men was killed in the same attack just meters away from where the rpg, we think, hit the ambulance that was near us. what was his name? and how old was he? about 27, 28. reporter: tell me about him. about 9:00 he wake up me in my bed and we he came to tus and he s like