1940s. a training mission vanished in the bermudas. even the search plane went missing all without a trace and still unsolved. then there s this, the flying tiger line. it went off in 1952 near guam, flying tiger line went off the radar, gone, disappeared. no wreckage. no. reporter: it was 1962. a u.s. military flight with more than 90 people on board unsolved. the crash of uruguay air force flight 71 was so mysterious that hollywood depicted the tale in the movie alive. in 1972 the plane crashed in the andes mountains. the survivors resorted to cannibalism to stay alive until they were found. this mystery solved after 72 days. what are historians and bloggers saying right now ability about this modern mystery? a very weird event. a very strange event that doesn t lend itself to the
mysteries that linger for months, years, even decades. there have been planes in the past that have completely disappeared. carroll gray is an aviation historian. he says the most storied and enduring mystery is the disappearance of amelia earhart. she vanished over the ocean in 1937 as she attempted to fly around the globe. there s still no concrete evidence as to what happened. reporter: her mystery unsolved. for a passenger plane like that to disappear, that s not unprecedented, either. no. and one that comes to mind is the british south american airways. reporter: two british south american airways jets and their 51 passengers disappeared in the infamous bermuda triangle in the 1940s. also that decade, five american bombers on a training mission vanished in the bermudas. even the search plane went missing all without a trace and still unsolved. then there s this, the flying tiger line. it went off in 1952 near
steve: he s probably getting dizzy. alisyn: this happened off the coast of australia. rescuers were able to save the captain a short time later. steve: can t read the prompter. it is suddenly in cursive. eric: exactly. steve: meanwhile, a major winter storm sweeping through southern california. shut down a major interstate out there. muchity state experiencing its biggest temperature dips in years. it feels like winter out there. it s a totally different story here on the east coast. janice dean is joining us. when can we break t-shirts? later on this afternoon. you know people around new york will be wearing shorts and speedos. it goes crazy. i know eric will be out there in his bermudas. let s look at the precipitation. we ve got springtime storm and a very winter storm. look how much rain we got yesterday in portions of texas. also into louisiana and mississippi. in some cases, over a foot of rain in 24 to 48 hours.
know, what kind of economic model mitt romney would design for this country. what does he really believe in? your personal finances would help us understand all of that, especially if you have so much money invested overseas. but according to romney, today, only less than 1% of his money is tied up in foreign investments. the money that i have is managed by a blind trust. now you understand that, i hope your reporting will point that out. i don t manage the money i have. in order to make sure that i didn t have a conflict of interest while i was governor or while i was considering a run for national office, i had a blind trust established. that applied for too the caymans, bermudas, and swiss accounts? it applies to all of the investments by me. from the financial disclosures, the overwhelming majority, 99.5%
anyway. but he is. he s talking taxes. he s releasing his tax returns today. but you know what, early start has the early look. we got all those facts and details of why everybody is up in arms. what did he make and paid out? the florida debate. it was a little nasty and personal. romney is saying no more mr. nice guy. going after gingrich with gloves off. tivo or pop the popcorn now. it s the annual state of the union. even though one of his terms didn t have a state of the union. we re going to have that tonight. what is president obama going to do? a campaign speech or a blueprint for the economy? this was breaking news yesterday. the deadly tornadoes in alabama. it s the second time for those folks in less than a year. the red cross is responding. there are two people dead, hundreds of homes destroyed in that area. pictures are difficult to see. but up first here, we re going to start with the tale of the 10 o 40s. in less than four hours, the mitt romney camp will