The Boston bombings in 3 minutes
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
Friday, April 19, 2013
Manhunt for Boston bombers..[ 3088 ]
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Huge blast shatters Texas...[ 3087 ]
Huge blast shatters Texas down; search on for trapped residents
April 18, 2013 -- Updated 1430 GMT (2230 HKT)
911 audio calls for 'every ambulance'
The number of dead
remained unclear, with police saying it could be between five and 15.
More than 160 people were injured and "three to four" firefighters were
missing or unaccounted for, officials said.
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Firefighters were
battling the blaze that precipitated the explosion Wednesday night. And a
storm system heading into the area brought helpful rain -- but also
heavy winds that might make it much tougher to contain the fire.
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It's unknown how many
people may be trapped under rubble, authorities said early Thursday.
Nails and other debris from destroyed buildings will pose safety risks
for investigators as they comb through flattened areas, Waco Police Sgt.
William Patrick Swanton said. .
Also, the Department of Homeland Security said federal and state authorities were taking steps to secure the area by shutting down local rail freight service and nearby utilities and restricting flights over the are
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Plane overshot runway, ended up in water...[ 3086 ]
Passengers escape after plane ends up in ocean near Bali
April 15, 2013 -- Updated 1236 GMT (2036 HKT)
Plane overshot runway, ended up in water
Only one person was
immediately confirmed as having suffered injuries, Lion Air spokesman
Edward Sirait said at a news conference in Jakarta following the
incident.
Eighteen people were taken to the hospital to be checked over, Sirait said.
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The airline, which
operates under the official name Lion Mentari, was already banned from
European airspace due to safety concerns, according to the European Union.
The plane, a Boeing 737-800, has only been in use by Lion Air since March, Sirait said.
Sirait said the plane is a
new one and that the pilot was fit to fly. Lion Air crew can fly a
maximum of eight hours per day, he said.
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The plane had flown
earlier in the day from Palu, Central Sulawesi, to Banjarmasin,
Kalimantan; it then proceeded to Bandung and then Bali, Sirait said.
It's not clear whether the same pilot was flying the aircraft the entire time.
Doug Sovern, of KCBS Radio in San Francisco, was at the airport when the incident happened.
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He described seeing the plane, with a big crack splitting the fuselage in two, off the end of the runway in the Indian Ocean.
"Amazingly they were able to get everyone out of the plane," he told KCBS Radio, adding that he didn't see any rescue chutes.
"We saw a lot of fire engines and ambulances. We were told there were some minor injuries," he said.
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The plane appeared to be
more than 100 feet out into the ocean, he said, but it wasn't too far
for people to get back to land. The fuselage now seems to be sinking
into the water, he said.
At first people feared
the worst, he added, but it now seems the passengers and crew have had a
fairly miraculous escape -- with shades of the "Miracle on the Hudson" in New York.
In that 2009 incident,
Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger was forced to make an emergency
landing on the Hudson River after his Airbus A320 collided with a flock
of geese and lost thrust 2,700 feet over Manhattan. Everyone was
rescued.
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In late 2011, Boeing
made its largest single aviation sale -- 230 planes totaling $21.7
billion -- to Lion Air, a domestic airline virtually unknown outside of
the archipelago nation of 6,000 inhabited islands.
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CNN's Per Nyberg, Jacque Wilson, and Josh Levs contributed to this report.
Boston Marathon Bombing...[ 3085 ]
Investigators mull releasing photos from Boston Marathon finish line
Published April 18, 2013
FoxNews.com
FBI investigators have been scouring video and still images taken around the finish line, where two bombs exploded during Monday's race, killing three and injuring 176. Authorities believe at least one of the bombs was a sealed pressure cooker laden with explosives and shrapnel, and may have been concealed in a backpack.
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Investigators are believed to be weighing the advantages of releasing the photos and enlisting the public's aid in finding possible suspects and doing anything that might jeopardize the investigation. Amateur sleuths around the world have been examining widely circulated photos from the crowd, isolating on people with backpacks, but officials have warned against such speculation.
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A mangled pressure cooker lid found atop a nearby building is believed to have been part of one bomb, and it and other pieces were being analyzed at an FBI lab. A battery and several pieces of shrapnel were also recovered and undergoing analysis. Fox News learned that the circuit board suspected of being used to detonate at least one of the bombs has been recovered, and that FBI investigators were also analyzing cellphone tower records to identify positive hits for signs of calls that may have been placed to trigger both explosions remotely.
Investigators believe one, or possibly two, pressure cookers were packed with explosives and shrapnel and hidden in backpacks to be left amid the crowd.
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According to a FBI and Department of Homeland Security bulletin, the deadly shrapnel that caused the deaths -- including of an 8-year-old boy, and critical injuries to 17 -- included nails, BBs and ball bearings. The other device "was also housed in a metal container, but investigators could not say if that was also a pressure cooker.
Pressure cooker bombs have been used in high-profile bombings in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and have been touted in the Al Qaeda in Yemen's online propaganda magazine Inspire and in the "The Anarchist Cookbook."
News of the images came as President Obama plans to visit Boston on Thursday to attend an interfaith service in honor of the three people killed and more than 170 injured when twin bombs ripped through the crowd Monday at the Boston Marathon.
The president is scheduled to speak at the "Healing Our City" service. He may also meet with some of those injured, as well as the first responders who rushed toward the blast to help the scores of runners and spectators.
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Obama has traveled four times to cities reeling from mass violence, most recently in December after the schoolhouse shooting in Newtown, Conn.
Monday's horror unfolded just before 3 p.m., shattering a festive atmosphere several hours after the legendary race began on the city's 238th annual Patriots' Day. In the aftermath, officials found bomb remnants, shrapnel and shredded backpacks believed to have concealed the deadly payloads.
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Richard DesLauriers, FBI agent in charge in Boston, confirmed at a press conference investigators had found pieces of black nylon from a bag or backpack and fragments of BBs and nails, possibly contained in a pressure cooker. He said the items were sent to the FBI laboratory at Quantico, Va., for analysis.
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The FBI also plans to reconstruct the devices at their headquarters in Quantico, according to MyFoxBoston.com.
Investigators are also examining if the bombs could have been assembled near the scene of the explosions, The Wall Street Journal reports, quoting a law enforcement official. The official says this possibility is being considered because transporting improvised devices over a significant distance could trigger a premature detonation.
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Scores of victims remained in hospitals, but the death toll has not risen since Monday.
Boston Medical Center held a press conference Thursday morning and said it saw a total of 23 patients. Doctors there performed 16 operations within the first several hours and, on Wednesday, performed 13 reoperations. There were four patients released since the explosion and one remains in critical condition, the doctors said. Ten patients are in serious condition.
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The doctors credited some recent advances to dealing with trauma from techniques used in Iraq and Afghanistan. For one, doctors and first responders used component therapy instead of a lot of IV fluids. Component therapy can be used to promote blood clotting.
Anyone with information on the bombings is being urged to call Boston authorities at 1-800-494-TIPS.
Fox News' Rick Leventhal, Jana Winter, Catherine Herridge and Mike Levine contributed to this report.
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