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"dancing with the stars" and sugar ray, saying good-bye. this was so sad. as sugar ray was eliminated, sort of the first elimination that sort of hurt. >> yeah. >> because he was really a good dancer. but he was ko'ed sort of speak and he put up a good party fight. >> he exited gracefully. >> i thought that he would definitely hang in there a bit. but he's out of it. side note on "dancing with the stars", kirstie alley says it's a conspiracy. >> the shoe falling off. >> the whole shoegate, she says that she's convinced that petra nemcova tampered with her shoes. and i'm getting on the bandwagon. i'm right there, kirstie. i think it was behind the scenes. >> she's tongue in cheek. >> she's a great sport. great personality. she bounces back. >> yep. making a new movie about famed new york mob boss john gotti but guess who will play gotti in the movie? the one and only, john travolta. so, yeah, mr. saturday night fever is coming out to play the new york organized crime boss here, but the interesting word on this one too is that guess who is in talks to play his daughter, possibly, in the movie, lindsay lohan may be in the movie, too, which could be very, very interesting here. the movie's going to start shooting in october from the same director who did "blow" and "the notebook." and gotti himself died back in 2002 at age of 61. take a look here of what john said about the role. >> he had such a commitment to his moral code of the gangster life that that -- that was an obsession of his that he lived till the very moment that he left and it would be very interesting to play that kind of real-life character that's done that. >> the movie is called "gotti: the three generations." >> you see him there with the gotti family. lindsay looks a little like the gotti family. mariah carey is expecting twins like any minute right now. >> yeah, she's about to pop. >> take a look at the picture on the cover of "ok!" magazine. we know demi moore did it a while. the annie liebowitz thing. on the cover of "vanity fair." and nick canon is also participating in the photo. >> such a lovely loving couple. >> lovely there mariah. slightly risque. it'll be in the grocery stores all around the country. >> you'll be able to see it. >> she looks beautiful. >> she does. and nick looks happy too. >> he does look happy. >> a risque picture. get to this, of course. >> yes, lady gaga. the video says it all here. singing in houston singing a show "you and i" and took a tumble when she tried to jump off of the piano. take a look at the video. gaga took a spill and miraculous thing she kept on performing. didn't acknowledge it, got right back up, started to sing like nothing happened. >> i'm thinking that that bikini couldn't have provided all that much cushion. >> the danger of stilettos, ladies. just another case in point. >> she keeps going like it didn't happen. another case in point. you go next if you had a here woud hoveround power chair? the statue of liberty? the grand canyon? it's all possible ith a hoveround., tom: hi i'm tom kruse, inventor rand founder of hoveround., when we say you're free to see the world, we mean it. call today and get a free overound information kit, that includes a video and full color brochure. dennis celorie: "it's by far the best chair i've ever owned." terri: "last year, 9 out of 10 people got their hoveround for "little or no money." jim plunkitt: "no cost. absolutely no cost to me." breaking news...when you call today, we'll include a free hoveround collapsible grabber with the purchase of your power chair. it reaches, it grabs, it's collapsible and it's portable. it goes wherever you go. get it free while supplies last. call the number on your screen to get your free video, brochure and your free hoveround collapsible grabber. call the number on your screen. maybe you don't think you're at isk for heart attack or stroke but if you've been diagnosed with p.a.d., or have pain or heaviness in yur legs, i want to talk to you. you may have heard of poor leg circulation, which could be peripheral artery dsease, or p.a.d. with p.a.d., if you have poor circulation in your legs, you may also have poor circulation in your heart or in your brain, your risk for heart attack or stroke is more than doubled with p.a.d. now, ask yourself: am i at risk? if you're not sure, call for this free information kit to learn more. 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you'll hear what former minnesota governor tim pawlenty said on tv last night and how quickly he ate his words. whoops. >> and later the czech president's theft, his explanation after this hi high-profile pilfering. something we've all done one time or another but just not with the cameras rolls. >> don't want to miss that story. but first jumbo fears about giant jets are aging airports in the u.s. ready to handle these oversized planes? >> there are no concerns this morning about the question following monday's mishap at one of the nation's busiest airports. t.j. winick reports now from new york. >> reporter: for the 62 passengers on board this comair regional jet, you would think their safety was no longer in doubt. their short flight from boston was over. they were heading to their arrival gate at new york's jfk airport at 8:00 monday night. and then this -- an air france a380 passes. its left wing clips the comair tail and spins it a full 90 degrees. the air france flight bound for paris with about 500 on board was taxiing from the terminal to the runway for takeoff when the two planes got too close. >> roll the emergency trucks to mike. we've been hit by air france. >> who was that? >> comair 553. >> comair 553. okay, we are calling them. >> attention all emergency equipment, call 33. taxiway alpha and mike. >> the giant double-decker plane has a wingspan of 260 feet. in fact, it's so large, not many airports can handle it. sebastian pinel was on board the regional jet. >> the plane shake very, very violently and then the next thing we knew we were told to hurry off the plane. >> reporte . >> reporter: -- leaving the tail exposes, according to the faa there were no injuries. both planes were towed from the scene of the collision and are being inspected and an investigation is under way. t.j. winnik, abc news, new york. >> okay, now a little demonstration now. we want to show you just how hard it is for a jumbo jet to land on those old runways. take a look at our studio. it's about 65 feet from end to end. jfk airport only 75 feet wide. just ten feet more than where we are sitting now. it's only ten feet wider of course. >> right. >> so imagine trying to land a plane in a space that's the same size as this studio widthwise we're talking. >> it's crazy. right, exactly. they say the wingspan of that jumbo jet is just shorter than a football field. some perspective how tight of a landing that has to be. >> a lot of people saying how did the pilot not see that little plane? but they're up so high that that their's no way for him to have seen it. >> like a suv looking down at a miata. >> don't land a plane in here, please. >> yeah, please. >> despite worries about the jumbo plane and their landing problems, it's still actually very safe to fly, but still some people of course get worried at the thought of just boarding a plane. jim avila has a look at the science though behind the fear. >> reporter: more than one in ten americans say they're afraid to fly, and when they feel that first jolt of turbulence in midair, that often is what sets their heart and their body a shaking. most know it's an irrational fear, unsupported by the facts. as m.i.t. airplane safety expert arnold barnett lectures about constantly. >> the jet operations of these airlines are operated at an enormous degree of safety. >> reporter: in fact, his study on airline safety found the chance of dying on a scheduled flight from prop planes to jetliners in the united states is 1 in 14 million. what does that mean? at that rate, you would have to fly every day for 38,000 years before succumbing to a fatal accident. >> riding on a commercial airplane has about the same amount of risk as flying on an escalator. >> reporter: and flying is 23 times safe as driving. still, all it takes is a series of close calls to rile up that emotional fear. the simulator is now taking us down a taxiway and this could be the same kind of jolt that was felt by those on the crg plane. that would get your attention. the ntsb says 76% of passengers do survive the most serious of crashes. the faa's tips, sit within five rows of an exit, make a mental note of how far away you are from the exit, sit on an aisle, and don't sleep during takeoff and landing. >> most accidents occur during the approach and landing phase. >> okay, so that's when i want to be alert, not sleeping? >> exactly. >> so why we are so afraid? professor barnett says it's the media that's to blame. he studied "the new york times" headlines and found that for every 1,000 murders, they printed only two stories. but for every 1,000 plane fatalities, they printed 183 stories. jim avila, abc news. >> okay, and from that story to this one. there are renewed hopes that the mistery behind an air france off the coast of brazil may finally be solved. the rear section of that plane is relatively intact deep on the ocean floor. well, that raises the possibility that the black boxes