During a flight from western japan to Tokyo International airport. The airport said a cockpit message showed problems and a burning smell was detected in the cockpit cabin. One man was treated for minor injuries but the issue was enough to ground the airlines. Together they operate nearly half of the 787s delivered by boeing so far. When a cockpit crew decides to make an Emergency Landing to an airport and evacuate the passengers by chute, that tells me theres something theyre very concerned about. Its the latest in a string of issues clouding the dreamliner. Last year a battery pack caught fire. A fuel leak on a different 787 delayed a flight to dwroek and in japan three separate issues were documented including a cracked wind scene and a computer error. Boeing talks up the problems to growing pains with the new aircraft but the faa is adding todays incident to a review of the 787 that began last week. But i can guarantee you that the faa, boeing and all of the carriers that own these
Progress, but thousands of homes are still threatened. The blaze is now two mimes away from palm springs. Teresa garcia is in one town where everyone was told to get out. Reporter closed signs and empty streets show the impact of the mandatory evacuations in effect for the small town of idylwild. Its very somber. Reporter mary is one of the few remaining holdouts. Neither sheriffs deputies nor the pleas from her friends can get her to leave. I think the people who call me scare me more than being here. Reporter the fire has consumed thousands of acres and destroyed at least a half dozen homes. Hotshot crews are using chain saws and rakes to clear out brush and build fire breaks. The afternoons are one of the most dangerous times for firefighters with temperatures reaching into the triple digits, which can help spread the fire more rapidly. The biggest challenge for crews is this terrain. It is steeped, it is rugged, making it difficult to build a containment line around the fire, and t
Seven people were injured, but no one died. The blue rhino plant in tavares resells propane tanks like the ones used in barbecues. Up to 26 people were working the night shift when the first blast blew the roof off the plant. Flames that shot hundreds of feet high could be seen for miles. Tara mergener has more. Reporter a huge fireball shot into the sky, as explosions rocked a Propane Company in tavares, florida, near orlando. Like a big circle of fire. Reporter the blast started around 10 30 at the blue rhino propane facility, a company that exchanges and cleans propane tanks. At least two dozen employees were in the building at the time of the blast. I heard an explosion, and it probably threw me back about three feet. I landed on my butt and i kind of seen like blurry, and my ears were ringing real bad. All i could see is everyone just running. I just kind of got up and ran. Reporter there were more than 53,000 tanks at the facility. It sounded like a bomb going off. And hundreds o
Yesterday a military judge convicted the army private on 20 counts of giving secret government items to the website wikileaks, but manning was not found guilty of the most serious charge. He released hundreds of thousands of documents including this video of a 2007 attack by an american Apache Helicopter in iraq that kills a dozen people. Jericka duncan reports. Reporter Army Private Bradley manning did not react as the military judge at ft. Meade read the verdict. She found him not guilty of aiding the enemy. But the judge did find the 25yearold guilty of lesser charges including espionage, theft, and computer fraud. Manning faced a courtmartial for leaking more than 700,000 classified documents to the website wikileaks. Prosecutors say he was a low ranking Intelligence Analyst who handed over state department cables, battle reports, and videos. Retired army major mike lions, cbs news consultant, says this case sets a new precedent. I think the message here is the government is going
Captioning funded by cbs this is the cbs morning news for friday, august 2 pd this is the cbs morning news for friday, august 2nd, 2013. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Well, the state department is taking a potential Terror Threat very seriously. Its prompting embassies throughout the muslim world to shut down sunday. Susan mcginnis has more. Susan, good morning. Good morning, annemarie. Without elaborating it says its closing its diplomatic posts because of security threats but intelligence says they picked up signs of a plot by al qaeda. The state department reacted to a security concern thursday, ordering u. S. Embassies and consulates across north africa and the middle east to be shuttered down on sunday. They include dip employee masts posts in egypt, israel, and jordan. We continue our operations with security and safety. Reporter the state department stayed quiet but the closings are tied to a nonspecific threat from al qaeda. Without knowing an exact loc