in your account. we ll tell you about this growing trend in banking and also tell it you how you can avoid it. from the cnn center in it atlanta, georgia thshgs is it your cnn saturday it mornimorn 8:00 a.m. in atlanta, glad you are right here. let s start in reno, nevada, that air race that has left at least three people dead after a crash. we know at least 54 people have been injured and at least 12 of them considered to be in critical condition. take a look at the screen for just a moment. i ll show you the video in a second. this still picture really explains the horror of the situation. this is the last moment when this plane, right before it made impact on the ground at this air race. you see the spectators right below. it did not hit, even though it looks like it, did it not crash into the most crowded area, even though it could have, had it not been some say for the ak aks of t actions of the pilot. look and listen to this piece of video now that really explains and
look at the left side of your screen. as you look at this you will see the plane coming straight down before that person s head get notice way. we will continue to show that to you just so you get a sense of the speed with which it was traveling and the direction, heading straight down, should have been traveling in a horizontal position as other planes were during this race. crashing to a box seat area in front of the main grandstand. the plane, a p-51 mustang, a world war ii era fighter plane known as the gal long ghost. the pilot, mr. leeward, was competing at the national championship air races and air show at the reno stead airport. witnesses say his plane was about 400 to 500 feet in the air when it nosedived. the regional medical center confirm it had has received a total of 21 parents so far. joining me now is fred schultz, he witnessed the crash, a pilot himself. fred, what did you see? well, what i seen, we looked up above the grandstands and he was in trouble and
before that person s head get notice way. we will continue to show that to you just so you get a sense of the speed with which it was traveling and the direction, heading straight down, should have been traveling in a horizontal position as other planes were during this race. crashing into a box seat area in front of the main grandstand. the plane, a p-51 mustang, a world war ii era fighter plane known as the galloping ghost. the pilot, mr. leeward, was competing at the national championship air races and air show at the reno stead airport. witnesses say his plane was about 400 to 500 feet in the air when it nosedived. the regional medical center confirmed it has received a total of 21 patients so far. joining me now is fred schultz, he witnessed the crash, a pilot himself. fred, what did you see? well, what i seen, we looked up above the grandstands and he was in trouble and coming straight down. i think he was trying to do whatever he could right up to the end. i could
i think he was trying to do whatever he could right up to the end. i could hear the engine of the plane changing rpms and it just happened so fast. i thought he was coming in on top of us. instead, he missed us by about 100 feet and went out into the box area in front of us. and there was no fireball as a result, right? no. i was sort of surprised p you know, we are all kind of like a deer in the headlights. i have been coming to the air races for over 20 years. as a matter of fact, we stay out here for the entire five days, camping, go to the air races, but there was no fire whatsoever. so the direction of impact, hard to say why there wasn t, but fortunately, there wasn t. did you get a sense of the number of people who have been injured? no it was pretty hard to tell, you know? after thinking back on it, it looked like, you know, he may have done as little damage as possible, the direction he came in. most of the debris went out onto the tarmac and taxi way in fron
but not allowed to circulate inside syria. the brutality that is being committed in syria against innocent people, against policemen and the syrian military. never reported. i have to say that s not true at all. we have a reported on the deaths of the security forces. we know about a number of the people have been security forces. but a large number have been civilians, demonstrators, pro democracy activists and children. who are these armed gangs? i would love to see this. the first one, the third one, the freedom of democracy movement in syria. ayman al zawahiri, three days ago gave a speech in which he emphasized two things. he was bragging about september 11th and he was asking the mujahideen of the islamic world to go join their syrian mujahideen brothers. so you are saying what s happening in syria is some fundamentalist islamist extremist armed movement that is trying to destabilize. if you are talking about the armed groups, absolutely. if you are talking ab