it was just unbelievable to me. march 25th, 2011, dave darby is spending the afternoon at albert whitted airfield, a small airport just outside of tampa, florida. my buddy kirk who s been building this air control tower back here, he s been doing it for the past year and a half. i hadn t come out to check it out yet, so he wanted me to come and see it, so we decided to conveniently come and check it out. the 100 grand prix was going on. the honda grand prix is an open wheel indycar race and portions of the airport including east-west runway become part of the actual race course. the tower provides a perfect view to watch the race, so dave decides to bring his camera up. we were on top of the tower on the roof and i was just shooting just footage of, like, everything that was around, and then i noticed that there was a bunch of these old warplanes that were taxiing over here on the runway and they were about to take off.
Engine in midair and struggles to make it to the runway. the solar plane had circled back around over here, and it looked like it was going to land. instead, it slams into a harbor holy [ bleep ]. plunging the pilot and passenger under water. oh, my goodness. it was just unbelievable to me. march 25th, 2011, dave darby is spending the afternoon at albert whitted airfield, a small airport just outside of tampa, florida. my buddy kirk who s been building this air control tower back here, he s been doing it for the past year and a half. i hadn t come out to check it out yet, so he wanted me to come and see it, so we decided to conveniently come and check it out. the 100 grand prix was going on. the honda grand prix is an open wheel indycar race and portions of the airport including east-west runway become part of the actual race course. the tower provides a perfect
View to watch the race, so dave decides to bring his camera up. we were on top of the tower on the roof and i was just shooting just footage of, like, everything that was around, and then i noticed that there was a bunch of these old warplanes that were taxiing over here on the runway and they were about to take off. sometimes we ll do air shows in between races or during the main race. in this case it was like the event that kind of kicked the race off. i was getting the plane as it was coming in to land, it didn t really seem out of ordinary to me. but the plane is in trouble. its engine stalls. and the pilot struggles to make the runway. at first, it looks to darby like the plane is going to make it. then as it was coming in, it just seemed like all of a sudden, it just dropped. it just hit the water. [ bleep ] dude. crashed and flipped forward. and it was just shocking, to say the least. immediately, boaters in the vicinity of the crash spring into action.
in tripoli as opposition forces continue their manhunt for the fugitive muammar gadhafi. and hurricane irene churning up the u.s. east coast. hundreds of thousands have already fled. 16 million americans are in the path of this monster storm. we ve got all the angles covered on both stories. right now on world report. it s early morning in tripoli where rebel forces control most but not all of the capital city. there s sporadic but fierce fighting in several parts of tripoli. cnn journalists report hearing a nearly constant chorus of gunfire as rebels root out gadhafi loyalists. that sets up gruesome scenes of bodies strewn across a field. no one knows which side is responsible for the killings. as for muammar gadhafi, nato announced it s helping in the hunt for the libyan leader. on thursday rebels said they thought they had him cornered but were wrong. he is still missing. but another audio recording has surfaced. listen. translator: do not leave tripoli for the rats.
but i can not. are you ready? states of hnemergency are in if effect from north carolina all the way to connecticut. it could be a very rough weekend. so let s head right to atlanta and check in with jackqui jeras. once again it s a little later than usual, so i m scrambling to get it all out to you. hurricane watches now posted from the north carolina/virginia border to sandy hook, new jersey. so that includes delaware bay, chesapeake bay. we also have hurricane warnings in effect from little river inlet north carolina northward to sandy hook including delaware way, chesapeake bay, south of smith point. so that includes basically everybody from long island on southward. so this is a developing situation. of course. second thing that s new here that just came in, the intensity of the storm. category 2. look at that number. 110-mile-an-hour winds. the threshold between the two is between 110 and 111. 111 makes it a major hurricane, 110 makes it a think not major hurricane, b