19 lives were lost, including one of those who jumped. they were from hong kong, japan and across europe. it s a marvel to float in a balloon over luxor, flying over the desert with its remains of ancient egypt, the temples, the tombs of the pharaohs. those are some of the greatest sights for tourists to see in this country. and this accident couldn t have come at a worse time. egypt s tourism industry has been decimated since the revolution two years ago. the government is now investigating how this tragedy could have happened. david? alex marquardt leading us off tonight from cairo. alex, thank you. and we have reported here, of course, on balloon accidents back here in the u.s., as well. in fact, last year alone, 15 of them. this one, just last month in san diego, the view from inside the basket as this balloon crash-lands. tonight, abc s cecilia vega with an air balloon pilot who investigated hundreds of crashes as an faa inspector. she watched the video with him today.
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what s drawing all those great white sharks? and tonight, how you can now track each shark from your own computer. the man who knew there was a shark right off the dock. oh, yeah, mary lee! big girl! good evening on this tuesday night. diane is on assignment. and we do begin here with those terrifying images from the sky. this evening, investigators are trying to figure out what caused a hot air balloon with nearly two dozen people inside in one of the biggest tourist destinations in the world, to explode and plummet to the ground. here are the images of it, as it was falling from the sky, the last few seconds before it crashed. tonight, the death toll at 19, and abc s alex marquardt leads us off from egypt. reporter: this amateur video shows the moment the vacation of a lifetime turned into tragedy. a sunrise balloon ride suddenly enveloped in black smoke. you can see it billowing from the basket. then the balloon begins to collapse. deflated, it now plummets a thousan
what s drawing all those great white sharks? and tonight, how you can now track each shark from your own computer. the man who knew there was a shark right off the dock. oh, yeah, mary lee! big girl! good evening on this tuesday night. diane is on assignment. and we do begin here with those terrifying images from the sky. this evening, investigators are trying to figure out what caused a hot air balloon with nearly two dozen people inside in one of the biggest tourist destinations in the world, to explode and plummet to the ground. here are the images of it, as it was falling from the sky, the last few seconds before it crashed. tonight, the death toll at 19, and abc s alex marquardt leads us off from egypt. reporter: this amateur video shows the moment the vacation of a lifetime turned into tragedy. a sunrise balloon ride suddenly enveloped in black smoke. you can see it billowing from the basket. then the balloon begins to collapse. deflated, it now plummets a thousan
we re told it belongs to at least one of the escapees. it s a confirmed lead for us. it s generated a massive law enforcement response, as you can see. and we re going to run this to the ground. running this to ground. join meg by phone is brian mann adirondack bureau chief for the north country public radio. brian, this is the biggest development we ve seen so far since those bloodhounds picked up a scent. then there was so much rain that went away. what are you hearing about this lead and how positive they are about what it s going to do for catching these two? yeah this look versus real. there have been a lot of false positives all over new york state. a big manhunt in western new york saturday and sunday. but they re really focused back here now in this dna evidence. this seems to be sort of the smoking gun. they think they re right on the track of these two men. and so there s just a huge essentially pairramilitary situation here. helicopters in the air. squads of