fox news alert. shocking footage out of japan. right now, firefighters are battling a raging fire after japan airlines flight burst into flames on the runway at tokyo international airport. steve: folks, these are live pictures right now that we were just looking at. here s a little play back as you can see. the plane the video shows the plane erupting at the tarmac while it was taxiing. 367 passengers and 12 crew members evacuated safely. japan s coast guard confirming that commercial flight was involved in a collision with a japanese coast guard plane that could be where this ignition came from. and reuters is now reporting five of the six members aboard the coast guard aircraft are unaccounted for. an investigation is underway. we are going to keep you updated on this breaking story throughout our morning. griff: you just stay on that shot for a second though. it is remarkable that anyone survived that. ainsley: almost 400 people survived, griff. fiscal cliff. gr
dozens of people were kill and injured in greece when two trains collided head on at high speeds. what we know ahead. and we begin on capitol hill, where right now attorney general merrick garland is fielding questions from the senate judiciary committee. as the justice department investigates classified documents found on the properties of president biden, former president trump, and former vice president pence. today s hearing comes after congressional leaders received the classified briefing from the doj yesterday, which they said, quote, left much to be desired. and this morning, the washington post reports that leading up to the doj s august search of former president trump s mar-a-lago estate, two senior fbi officials who would have been in charge of leading the search resisted the surprise plan as too combative. and proposed seeking trump s permission to search his property according to four people familiar with the discussions. i want to bring in nbc news julia ai
than enron. it had taken enron 16 divleers 10 billion in access to 65 billion of access and took them 24 days to go bankrupt. jesse: i m sure you remember the fall of enron the energy trading company that collapsed after years of fraud when investigators looked into the smoking wreckage of that firm, they found that it was rotten to the core and was built on the hundreds of millions of dollars of faulty accounting. enron was just a massive scam and the company became the poster child for failure and corruption in cormingt america. two decades since the collapse of enron. today we are seeing the signs of another company infected by the disease of corruption. twitter. it s like the enron of social media. fake and corrupt. they rigged the presidential election by suppressing really important information. information that voters had a right to know about. but hunter biden s laptop from hell went under the radar. twitter made sure you didn t speak a word of it election time if
-my wife, laurel, was on the shuttle. she was a scientist primarily involved with life sciences. one day during the mission, i was reviewing the notes, and then here s this foam issue. during launch, a large piece of foam had come off the external tank and impacted the left wing. me and my colleague had this discussion of, hey, you can use a family conference to talk to laurel and find out what she knew. -oh! -you got to remember the hat you re wearing is your flight-surgeon hat, not your family hat. it would have broken protocol for me to bring up an issue to a crew member, even though it s my wife. -i remember a certain sense of relief like, it s almost over. she s almost back. -i didn t talk to laurel about the foam issue. that conference was for iain and laurel, and i was a bystander. -i knew she was going to come back. you know, i never had a question in my mind. -given the fact that you may have lost a little bit of tile during lift-off, i m wondering
and as a 9-year-old, i didn t really understand what that meant. and so, in my mind, i was like, mom, like, what does that mean? what does that mean? i was waiting for someone to explain. but then it was just. everything just fell apart. [ voice breaking ] the shuttle wasn t coming home. dad wasn t coming home. sorry. -people waking up to this horrible news. -quite frankly, i turned and looked across a big, open, ploughed field. and there in fact is a piece of smoking wreckage. -this blackened material letting out white-hot smoke. -there s some rubber burning in our pasture. -they re reporting a piece of wreckage came through an apartment roof and started a fire.