i hate to be a bag nazi when i work a flight but i feel if i m not then i m letting down all those who cooperate. delta s ceo used steven slater as an example of how to treat flight attendants. we might all take a lesson and be respectful of what they do. reporter: flight crews are forced to deal with everything from carry-ons to chaos. to help handle the problem, jet blue has been turning former firefighters and police officers into flight attendants. the background brings a professionalism, demeanor and calmness, and an ability to execute under pressure. reporter: not exactly how steven slater handled the situation. in a jet blue internal memo his bosses reportedly scolded his behavior and the media for turning it into a humorous example of walking off the job. he s still employed but the company tells abc news he s been removed from duty pending an investigation. so good thing, when one door closes are you going to lose your job? more than likely. reporter: anoth
could be. reporter: outside the plaza a few protesters chanted and one sign calling on rangel to resign. others have a right to say whatever they want. but this judging before the facts is in has become more and more prevalent in this society and it bothers me. reporter: others outside said tonight s event was just too ritzy for their blood. this is a party that the average person on the street cannot afford to come to. this is of the elite and the high rollers. and my message is that this reflects who charlie rangel is. reporter: a lot of people here said mayor bloomberg s decision a few days ago to go ahead and show up gave cover to virtually every politician in new york city to feel that it was safe to attend. the only significant no-show here was aretha franklin as the entertainment. she suffered a fall last week. dave evans for abc news, new york.
brain scan could help them detect it immediately. the process of scanning joe s brain takes about 15 minutes. the images are then fed into a computer which makes minutely detailed measurements. to the naked eye his brain looks pretty much like anybody else s. but those measurements should reveal telling differences. the colored areas are key. the blue ones control behavior, the red and yellow ones, speech and vision. so you look on this screen here, joe, you can see on the left reporter: joe s scan puts him firmly at the autistic end of the spectrum. researchers say the trial is more than 90% accurate. just somebody telling you you ve got asperger s from my perspective was never enough. i needed to physically see it. i ve actually been waiting for this for an awfully long time. currently the diagnosis of autism needs an expert team. there aren t many of those around. and it takes the expert team many, many hours to reach a diagnosis. and this is a way we hope can cut through
for. some really great people out there. i m getting a glimpse of that. it s a surprise because obviously i ve been away for a little while. reporter: steven slater headed here to this manhattan apartment building directly from jail where he had spent the past couple of days. when he was finally let out, it was a whole new life for the flight attendant. and clearly, everyone wanted a piece of him. it seems like something here has resonated with a few people and that s kind of neat. reporter: more than just a few. people from around the world have come to his defense after his tarmac tirade. the flight attendant lost it after a rude passenger bumped him on the head. he started swearing on the intercom and even activated the emergency chute while travelers were getting off the plane. thought about it for 20 years, we thought about it. you never think you re going to do it. reporter: it s not the first time he s taken issue with overhead baggage. slater reportedly posted comme
going to live there? absolutely. take cher s ashes and bury her there. reporter: this is vicki mabrey in bocas del toro, panama. officials trying to convince people it s still a safe place to be. in the midst of that they re searching other properties for more victims including natives who may have worked on those properties. this story may not be over. by definition he s a monster. they re saying they found more bodies under a patio in the concrete of their costa rican home. so the search continues now. coming up, the product that changed the world 29 years ago this week. ibm s personal computer, and how it looked back in the 1980s. thththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththththth