at the top it s about 50 feet wide and the mountain wasn t vertical, it was crooked. oh, my god. i had to sidestep the flight as i was flying through it. because the mountain was so little, i didn t get more altitude when i came out. i had to deploy at around 300 feet. my jump actually began where most other people jump in. and the only thing that would make this crazier if you then told us you did it with your eyes closed. well, with your eyed closed it was technically demanding and my landing area was very small. do you know going in how treacherous it is? it doesn t appear to me like there is any room for practice runs here. i actually did have three practice runs the day before. luckily the weather cooperated with me a little bit. i did get to do practice jumps
their own charity, go do it another way. don t use the political office because it really just erodes all of the trust in politicians and government. it just adds to what s already a sort of bad soup. which is actually demeaning soup. it is demeaning soup but it is really bad news i think for anthony weiner because it brings the weird factor back. chuck todd, thank you very much. we are expecting to hear later this afternoon from the ntsb in the next hour before the press conference gets under way though, we want to take a closer look into that asiana 214 clash with an aviation expert, american astronaut mark kelly, he s flown with many years of experience on many aircraft. welcome back safe and sound from your tour. talk about this flight. issues of pilot error, potentially pilot fatigue, inexperience with that landing area. repairs being made on that on langd equipment. what is your outside perspective
you are giving great insight into this. i had a question about when did you know something was going wrong? any indication other than looking out the window and seek the water fairley close when did you realize something was going amiss when you heard something hit? take us through that. the landing area and a pier that is probably going out. i m from europe so i m going say 50-meters. a few piers at the edge before you start hitting the runway and i could see from the window next to my seat we were low and soon, not soon but it was a gradual descent. just feels like the guy missed the runway. push the gad and throttle at full speed and tried to correct and go up again which probably helped us a lot otherwise we would have hit the rocks first instead of maybe water then rocks. i couldn t tell, of course, i was in the plane.
waiting for the word. they have two helicopters in 20 swat members waiting to control up the mountain and join this. on scanner traffic they are waiting and looking for an area for another medical helicopter to land so they can get one of their injured deputies out. we believe they ferried one out and we think they are looking for another landing area to get the second police officer or the deputy flown out of that. what are you hearing from your end? we know that san bernadino swat is on the scene, and l.a. county is at the san bernadino airport waiting to be air lifted to the scene. two helicopters. i m told the cabin he is in, has a large stone chimney. the kill will stop when i have justice. earlier today, inside the building behind me.
rover sent back some pretty amazing panoramic color images of its landing area in an ancient crater. it shows curiosity s landing kicked up far more martian dirt in the landing zone than scientists had expected. and beachgoers in atlantic city, new jersey, watched as daredevil nick wallenda completed a 1300-foot tightrope walk 100 feet above the umbrellas and chairs on the sand. back in june, wallenda did a similar stunt 200 feet above niagara falls. and now here s your first look at this morning s dish of scrambled politics. just how unpopular is congress? well, check out this latest gallup poll. congress gets an approval rating of around 16%. now, consider this. the tsa, yes, the transportation security administration, which screens passengers at airports, managed to convince 54% of americans it s doing an excellent or good job.