a new biography. walter cronkite takes an unprecedented look at his life and career. author douglas brinkley will stop by studio 57. first as we do every morning we look at today s eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. and apparently they have found part of an engine. an air canada flight was heading from toronto to japan when one of the engines just shut down. police in toronto say that falling chunks of metal from the plane may have damaged at least four cars. nothing i expected to happen today, having airplane debris fall through my windshield. this could be mitt romney s big day at the texas primary. mitt romney gets set to clinch the gop nomination. some are thinking really? i mean trump keeps bringing up this birther issue. i don t agree with all the people that support me and i guess they don t agree with everything i believe in. a 5.4 earthquake in northern italy. there are ten victims and a number of people still missing. violence erupted sinc
multiple farmers came, as well as multiple fire units from maryland and delaware. scooz it s unclear reporter: it s unclear how the three ended up in the manure pit. a family member says it may have been one of the children fell, and dad and brother tried to save him. that s just a terrible tragedy. reporter: the body will be taken to the medical examiner for an autopsy. mike hellgren, wjz eyewitness news. glen nolt was the father of five children. police do not suspect any foul play. a baltimore man is shot to death during a home invasion. right now, police are still looking for his killers. vic is in the newsroom with more on the attack. vic? reporter: police say several men forced their way into the man s house and shot him in the head in the waverly area. the victim s teenage daughter was home set at the time, she called 911 after he left. police say it appears the fight ended in the victim s bedroom, wherey hoo was pronounce where he was pronounced dead.
its flights. it is the last u.s. airport for outgoing flights. one year later, the town of joplin, missouri, comes together to remember a deadly tornado. drew levin has more. reporter: joplin community members broke ground on a new elementary school. it s one of three buildings that will replace the schools the deadly tornado destroyed a year ago. reporter: it s a new beginning for joplin. and the school district, they worked so hard to get to this point. and this is just it s an incredible feat, what we ve come through. i- got it. reporter: the giant twister, a half mile wide, and spinning at more than 200 miles an hour, tore through joplin. the storm killed 161 people and wiped out a third of the community. this surveillance video shows the funnel cloud, plowing into the st. john s regional medical center. joplin s residents have spent the last year, rebuilding. new homes are going up. and businesses are reopening. 85% of our businesses are open for business i
she is over the gate, laying down there. reporter: while she has survived, she has yet to fully recover. reporter: she s now filing a $15 million lawsuit, claiming the driver was negligent. police cited him for speeding, among other infractions. she was filling out paperwork one day, and next thing she knows, she woke up in shock trauma. reporter: the suit also names the car s owners, saying he should have known that the driver should not have been permitted to drive. we ll take whatever action we can take on her behalf to try to make her as whole as possible. reporter: it could take a year for the civil suit to wind its way through the legal system. vanderingberg will be in court to face the traffic charges this weekend. officer rigby is still on the long road to recovery. reporter: and wjz did try to contact the defendant s lawyer for comments. he did not return our calls. he also told our partner, the baltimore sun, no comment. mike hellgren, wjz eyewitness n
arriving in chicago for the nato summit, which will draw the g-eight leaders. the g-8 represents the most powerful leaders in the world. we are facing thermal nuclear war. that s russia s prime minister war. reporter: leading protestors, even in small numbers to the site of the summit. we re not going to violate anybody s first amendment rights. and i hope they don t violate our rights to peace and order. reporter: they have not had to activate any of the security they have in place. just a few protests, which have been peaceful. mike hellgren is covering another angle on this story. and it is really something for the town to have something this significant here. reporter: and people take it all in stride. chicago, when they hosted this, had years to plan. the people here had only a few weeks. but they come to it with a healthy dose of curiosity. reporter: thurmont, awash in red, white and blue is so close. but a world away wafrom the high-level, high-stakes summi