from abc news, this is world news now. good friday morning, everybody. i m rob nelson. i m sunny hostin. we ll get to the political fireworks. there were many surrounding chuck hagel. that s in our top story. the unforgettable disaster in the skies exactly ten years ago. today s remembrances following the shuttle columbia explosion. who doesn t remember that? that was devastating. a decade. amazing how fast the time does go. and to a developing story out on the west coast. was an airline jetliner forced to land after a member of the cockpit crew passed out. we ll look for some answers. scary. and we have been expecting an explanation from beyonce. okay. we heard why she lip-synced the national anthem, while proving to the media she can actually
cockpit crew decided to turn the aircraft around. they had to wait several hours while the airline foundry placements. they couldn t work with each other for an hour. i find it hard believing in love , but you don t hear me complaining. let s discuss in lightning roooooouuunnnndd. lightning round. harris, i sympathize with flight attendants because airlines is the only place you must stifle workplace anst. say you are in an elevator for eight hours with a co-worker you don t like. when would that happen, actually? no, i think you know what i think this might be, and i don t know, but american airlines announced it will layoff some 11,000 people this past week. maybe it is a shell game. look at this over here. two flight attendants are cat fight. don t pay any attention to those layoffs we just uh knownsed. i just announced. i don t know. what do you think it was
this morning on world news now systems failure. the frightening emergency in the skies over california. what went wrong on an alaska airlines flight and what the cockpit crew did to prevent disaster. it s thursday, august 9th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. good morning, everybody. i m rob nelson. and i m sunny hostin in for paula faris. we ll explain what happened over california and hear from some frightened passengers in just a moment. and then to the drama taking place right now involving a medical emergency in antarctica, a risky air-lift just to save an american.
twitterverse. use the #dickclarkstory. get on wnnfans.com and share your story. we ll be getting to those a little bit later. absolutely. an american icon. i believe several generations will be feeling this loss. a true original, too. we have a lot to say about dick clark this morning. also today, the alarming calls for help from an american airlines cockpit crew to the control tower after a flight attendant had a breakdown before a flight. seems like there s this kind of story in the news every week now. this again made national headlines, and we ve got the recordings that have just been released. how many scary airline stories and crazy flight attendant stories are we going to hear in the past year? it s insane. and these new audio recordings, a little disconcerting, to say the least. a little. and later this half hour, the incredible video that went viral this week. the late tupac shakur appearing on stage as a hologram. well, it s technology that could reshape the entire
good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, we told you so. the economy is doing a lot better. today, the third month in a row of frankly really good job numbers. today s jobs report shows the u.s. added 227,000 jobs last month, and more people felt optimistic enough to actually get back into the labor force. that s why the unemployment rate held firm. now, everyone is increasingly optimistic about the jobs picture in america, something we at outfront have been saying for month. our strike team said there wouldn t be a double-dip recession last month, and after the december jobs report, we were all excited when we said this could be president obama s morning in america moment. that was ronald reagan s theme for his victorious 1984 re-election campaign, and last month after the strong january jobs report, we said it again. and we re glad all of the talk about the double-dip is gone, but we re realists and the problem is there are real problems out there. wage