CBS Evening News - 2009-02-13

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[0:00] Tonight,

[0:03] Nightmare on Long Street.

[0:05] >> Can somebody get some help for my

[0:06] daughter?

[0:07] >> After the pilots notice ice on the

[0:09] wings, a commuter plane crashes into a

[0:11] house near Buffalo, New York, and

[0:13] explodes in flames. I'm Maggie

[0:16] Rodriguez. Among the 50 killed, a 9/11

[0:18] widow who just last week met with

[0:20] President Obama.

[0:22] >> She was an inspiration to me and to so

[0:23] many others.

[0:25] Final congressional approval tonight for

[0:27] the president's economic stimulus with

[0:29] almost no Republican support. And what's

[0:32] it take to make a hero? Steve Hartman's

[0:35] Assignment America.

[0:38] [Music]

[0:41] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Katie

[0:44] Kurrick.

[0:47] >> Good evening. Katie's off tonight. Once

[0:49] again, something went terribly wrong

[0:51] aboard a commercial airliner. But there

[0:53] was no miracle ending. Not this time.

[0:56] Continental Connection flight 3407,

[0:58] bound from Newark, New Jersey, was

[1:00] heading for a landing in Buffalo, New

[1:02] York last night when the pilots noticed

[1:04] quote significant ice buildup on the

[1:06] windshield and on the front edge of the

[1:08] wings. Moments later, this from the

[1:11] tower.

[1:12] >> This aircraft was 5 miles out and all of

[1:14] a sudden we have no response to that

[1:15] aircraft. The twin engine turborop nose

[1:18] dived into a house on Long Street in the

[1:20] Buffalo suburb of Clarence Center. All

[1:22] 49 people on board and one in the house

[1:25] were killed. The first fatal crash of a

[1:27] commercial airliner in two and a half

[1:29] years. Tonight, the flight recorders

[1:31] have been recovered. Jeff Glor begins

[1:34] our coverage from the scene. Jeff,

[1:35] what's the latest?

[1:38] Well, Maggie, i

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