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(CNN) -- A small plane headed from New Jersey to suburban Atlanta crashed onto an interstate shortly after takeoff Tuesday, killing five people, authorities said.

Two men, one woman, two children and a dog aboard the plane died in the crash in Morristown, New Jersey, just after 10 a.m. ET, said Robert Gretz, a senior air safety investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board.

The plane, a six-seater Socata TBM700, was headed from Teterboro, New Jersey, to DeKalb-Peachtree Airport in suburban Atlanta when it crashed onto Interstate 287 about 14 minutes into the flight, Gretz said.

The plane was at about 17,500 feet when "there was some discussion between the pilot and the controller of locations of icing conditions," he said.

He told reporters Monday night the conversation seemed "routine" and was "not a distress call."

Gretz said he did not know whether the conversation concerned a cloud that might contain ice; actual icing on the airplane; or whether the pilot was inquiring where ice might be or reporting it. "I've heard this thirdhand. ... That's something I need to listen to the tapes to know," he said.

Gretz said he was not aware of any icing conditions on the ground at Teterboro that would have required the plane to be deiced.

However, he stressed that the investigation is in its infancy and it is too soon to speculate what might have caused the crash. "It's too early to tell whether it was something mechanical or something the pilot did -- we just don't know," he said.

Preliminary information is that the five were headed to Atlanta for a combination business-leisure trip, Gretz said.

Authorities did not release the names of those who died, pending positive identification by the medical examiner and notification of relatives.

But New York investment banking firm Greenhill & Co. reported that those on board were two of the firm's managing directors, Jeffrey Buckalew, 45, and Rakesh Chawla, 36; Buckalew's wife, Corinne, and their two children, Jackson and Meriwether. Ages for the children were not given.

"The plane belonged to Mr. Buckalew, an experienced pilot whose passion was flying," the company said in a statement. "The firm is in deep mourning over the tragic and untimely death of two of its esteemed colleagues and members of Jeff's family."

No one on the ground was injured, although a pickup truck narrowly missed the plane, Gretz said. The debris field from the crash was spread over about a half-mile, with part of a wing and the plane's tail found in a tree in a residential area, he said. Witnesses reported the plane was in an "uncontrolled spin" before it crashed.

A Federal Aviation Administration radar facility in New York lost radio contact with the plane, and also lost it on radar, FAA spokesman Jim Peters said. The crash site was about 30 miles southwest of the Teterboro airport, Peters said.

Gretz said Monday evening he was not sure how long after the conversation regarding icing that the plane dropped off radar, saying investigators will be determining that.

The plane struck the southbound lanes of I-287, continued through a wooded median and came to rest on the northbound lanes, New Jersey State Police Lt. Stephen Jones said.

Most of the interstate was shut down after the crash, Jones said. One northbound lane and two southbound lanes were open as of Tuesday afternoon, but officials were "still trying to recover both the pieces of the plane and the remains of the victims."

Gretz said Monday night the wreckage recovery was halted about 6 p.m. because of darkness and would resume after Tuesday's morning rush hour, at 9:30 a.m.

The New Jersey Department of Transportation said motorists had two of three travel lanes in each direction available for Monday evening's rush hour.

CNN's Mike Ahlers contributed to this report.

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KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday, met with American forces and, according to a U.S. official, is expected to meet Sunday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

Sen. Barack Obama attends a meeting in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Saturday.

The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee was visiting the Central Asian nation before he embarks on a tour of the Middle East and Europe, a trip aimed at boosting his foreign policy credentials.

The trip, which comes four months ahead of the presidential election, marks Obama's first visit to Afghanistan.

The trip has been shrouded in secrecy for security reasons, a standard precaution for most U.S. officials in conflict zones.

On Saturday, the senator from Illinois traveled to eastern Afghanistan to visit Americans forces under NATO's Regional Command East. Obama is accompanied by Sen. Charles Hagel, R-Nebraska, and Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island.

The senators met service members at Jalalabad airfield in Nangarhar province.

The governor of Nangarhar province, Gul Agha Shirzai -- formerly the governor of Kandahar province -- also met the senators at the air base. Shirzai and Obama embraced briefly at the end of the meeting.  Watch Obama's visit to Jalalabad Â»

Upon arrival at Bagram Air Base, the senators were briefed by Maj. Gen. Jeffrey J. Schloesser, commanding general of the Regional Command East.

Ahead of the trip to Afghanistan, the senators stopped in Kuwait to visit U.S. troops, Obama campaign spokesman Robert Gibbs said. They left Washington on Thursday.

In Kuwait, the senators visited Camp Arifjan for about two hours to meet with U.S. Army Central leadership, take a brief tour of the base and talk with soldiers, U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Bill Nutter said.

They met in a gymnasium with about 1,000 military members, who cheered jubliantly at their arrival.

"America is unified in being so proud of the extraordinary, brilliant, dedicated professional service that is provided by all members of our armed services," he told the military personnel there.

Later, Obama shot baskets with some soldiers, drawing cheers with each basket he made.  Watch Obama meet troops and play some hoops Â»

Soldiers were able to meet the senator on the basketball court later.

After, Obama said, "I am just very proud of the extraordinary work that the troops are doing here in Kuwait; you're providing all the logistical support that's needed for folks in the battlefield and without you this effort would not be successful."

Hagel agreed, saying, "We're here first to thank the troops."

After the events at the the gymnasium, they met with Lt. Gen. Jim Lovelace, the U.S. Army Central Commander, and senior leadership who gave them an overview of the command, Nutter said.

Obama spoke briefly to a pool reporter about his trip just before leaving Washington.

"I'm looking forward to seeing what the situation on the ground is," Obama said. "I want to, obviously, talk to the commanders and get a sense, both in Afghanistan and in Baghdad of, you know, what the most, their biggest concerns are. And I want to thank our troops for the heroic work that they've been doing."

Asked whether he would have tough talk for the leaders of Afghanistan and Iraq, Obama said he was "more interested in listening than doing a lot of talking."

"I think it is very important to recognize that I'm going over there as a U.S. senator. We have one president at a time, so it's the president's job to deliver those messages," Obama said.  Watch Obama's foreign policy adviser discuss overseas trip Â»

The fight in Afghanistan has become a more pressing issue on the political radar. Three times as many coalition soldiers and other military personnel have died this month in Afghanistan, compared with Iraq. July's death toll for coalition troops in Afghanistan reached 22 Saturday, after the Friday death of a Canadian soldier was announced.

The fight in Afghanistan has become a more pressing issue on the political radar. Three times as many coalition soldiers and other military personnel have died in July in Afghanistan than in Iraq.

On Sunday, nine U.S. soldiers were killed in a fight with about 200 Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan. It was the deadliest attack on U.S. troops in Afghanistan in three years.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday that U.S. officials are looking for ways to send more troops to Afghanistan, amid the resurgence of violence nearly seven years after the ousting of the Taliban government.

Gates said the hope is to send additional forces "sooner rather than later."

He said the Pentagon is "working very hard to see if there are opportunities to send additional forces sooner rather than later." That probably means further reductions in troop levels in Iraq this year to free up forces for Afghanistan.  Watch officials discuss need for more troops in Afghanistan Â»

Obama is to travel to Jordan on Tuesday and then visit Israel, Germany, France and England.

CNN's Reza Sayah in Kabul and Barbara Starr in Washington contributed to this report.

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Friday's two-train collision killed 25 people and injured more than 130 others near Los Angeles after an engineer failed to heed a traffic signal, a spokeswoman for Metrolink commuter trains said.

A commuter rail car lies on its side after a collision Friday near Los Angeles, California.

The engineer was guiding the Metrolink train that slammed head-on into a freight train and is not believed to have survived, Metrolink spokeswoman Denise Tyrrell said on Saturday.

"It was human error," Tyrrell said, adding this was Metrolink's belief "barring any new information" from an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board.

NTSB spokeswoman Kitty Higgins said the agency would "look at everything before we rule anything in or out."

Tyrrell said the engineer, whom she didn't identify, was a subcontractor employed by another company. She said she did not have details of his record.

The crash occurred about 4:30 p.m. PT Friday in Chatsworth, a northwest Los Angeles suburb. The Metrolink train had about 220 passengers and two crew members on board at the time, according to Tyrrell.  Watch rescuers search for victims Â»

Forty-five of the injured were in critical condition, with 40 flown to hospitals, Tyrrell said. Another 50 had minor injuries, and 40 others were treated at the crash site but transported to hospitals for evaluation.

"It was like running into a brick wall at 60 miles an hour," an injured passenger told CNN affiliate KABC.

In the minutes after the crash, passers-by joined emergency personnel in an effort to free passengers from the wreckage.

On Saturday afternoon, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said the search of the wreckage had finished. Earlier in the day, authorities were picking through the wreckage and freeing trapped bodies.

Ed Winter, assistant chief of the Los Angeles County coroner's office, told reporters two bodies -- both of females -- had yet to be identified. If the females had carried identification, it probably was lost in the crash, he said.

As of 9 a.m. PT Saturday, authorities had been able to notify relatives of eight victims, he said.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger visited the crash site on Saturday, telling reporters it was "one of the worst train accidents in modern history in California."

The NTSB will make a final determination of the crash's cause. Higgins, the agency's spokeswoman, said data recorders have been recovered from both trains, along with a video recorder from the freight train.

Higgins said that out of the trains' five crew members, four survived. Authorities will interview the surviving crew members, Higgins said.

Tyrrell said a review of "a number of programs," including the signal system, showed the commuter train's engineer failed to heed a stop signal, Tyrrell said.

"We don't know how the error happened, but this is what we believe happened," Tyrrell said.

The wreck occurred on a curved part of the track where the speed limit is 40 mph, Tyrrell said.

She said that just like road vehicles, trains are subject to signal systems. At the wreck site is a siding where one train can wait while another passes, she said.

"They receive a signal to stop and they must hold their location until other traffic has passed," she said.

Villaraigosa praised police officers and firefighters for working under emotionally draining conditions and treating the victims with respect.

"This has been a grueling night for them," he said.

The crash sparked a fire that impeded firefighters's efforts to reach the front commuter car, where most of the injuries occurred, Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.

The fire eventually was brought under control.

"We've already found survivors trapped under fatalities," Whitmore said late Friday.

Among those killed was Spree Desha, 35, a Los Angeles police officer on her way home from work, officials said Saturday.

"It's not unusual for us to respond to disasters," said Jerry Szymanski, an assistant commander for the LAPD. "When we got here, we found it was one that hit close to home."

Desha had "mentored and trained a lot of the young officers in the North Hollywood area," Szymanski said.

Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said Friday night a sheriff's deputy was in a hospital's intensive care unit after collapsing while conducting rescue work.

CNN's Ted Rowlands contributed to this report.

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text: CNN

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text: report

question: How many were injured?

answer: 130

question: What type of trains collided?

answer: commuter

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question: How many people were killed in accident?

answer: 25

question: What did he fail to heed?

answer: a traffic signal,

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question: Where did the collision happen?

answer: near Los Angeles, California.

text: near Los Angeles, California.

question: How many were killed?

answer: 25 people

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question: Where was the collision?

answer: near Los Angeles

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question: Engineer failed to heed what?

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Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Ten Americans detained last week while trying to take 33 Haitian children out of the country were charged Thursday with kidnapping children and criminal association, a government official said.

Information Minister Marie Laurence Lassegue's announcement came shortly after the five men and five women left a hearing at the prosecutor's office.

Under Haitian law, anyone accused of kidnapping a child is not eligible for bail, the attorney general's office said.

Conviction on the kidnapping charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison; the criminal association charge carries a penalty of three to nine years, according to a former justice minister.

Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive told CNN's "Larry King Live" on Thursday night that the judge in the case has three months to decide whether to prosecute.

"We hope that he will decide long before those three months," he said. "He can release them, he can ask to prosecute them."

If a decision is made to prosecute, the case would be heard before a jury, he said.

Told that the families of the detained Americans had pleaded for him to intervene, Bellerive said he could not.

"Those people are not in the hands of the government; they are in the hands of justice," he said. "We have to respect the law. It is clear that the people violated the law. What we have to understand is if they did it in good faith."

Bellerive said the Haitian government was open to the possibility of the case being transferred to a U.S. court but said the request would have to come from the United States. "Until now, I was not asked," he said.

He expressed gratitude for the work of the vast majority of Americans who have helped in the aftermath of the January 12 earthquake that he said killed at least 212,000 people.

The Americans were turned back Friday as they tried to take the children across the border into the Dominican Republic without proper documentation. They said they were going to house them in a converted hotel in that country and later move them to an orphanage they were building there.

"We can confirm that the 10 American citizens remain in custody in Haiti," said State Department deputy spokesman Gordon Duguid. "We continue to provide appropriate consular assistance and to monitor developments in the legal case."

The Americans have said they were just trying to help the children leave the earthquake-stricken country.

Some of the detained Americans have said they thought they were helping orphans, but their interpreters said Wednesday that they were present when group members spoke with the children's parents. Some parents in a village outside Port-au-Prince said they had willingly given their children over to the Americans, who promised them a better life and who said they could see their children whenever they wanted to.

Government approval is needed for any Haitian child to leave the country, and the group acknowledged that the children had no passports.

Some members of the group belong to the Central Valley Baptist Church in Meridian, Idaho. One of the church's ministers asked for privacy and would not discuss the matter.

"I know you have many questions but we don't have answers right now," Drew Ham, assistant pastor, said in a note to reporters.

P.J. Crowley, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department, has said that U.S. officials have been given unlimited consular access to the Americans and that U.S. and Haitian authorities are "working to try to ascertain what happened [and] the motive behind these people.

"Clearly, there are questions about procedure as to whether they had the appropriate paperwork to move the children," he said Wednesday.

CNN's Karl Penhaul in Port-au-Prince, Dan Simon in Meridian, Ohio, and Jill Dougherty in Washington contributed to this report.

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text: Max

text: Bellerive

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text: CNN

text: 's

text: Larry

text: King

text: Live

text: on

text: Thursday

text: night

text: that

text: the

text: judge

text: in

text: the

text: case

text: has

text: three

text: months

text: to

text: decide

text: whether

text: to

text: prosecute

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text: that

text: he

text: will

text: decide

text: long

text: before

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text: three

text: months

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text: said

text: He

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text: release

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text: prosecute

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text: If

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text: decision

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text: made

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text: prosecute

text: the

text: case

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text: heard

text: before

text: a

text: jury

text: he

text: said

text: Told

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text: the

text: families

text: of

text: the

text: detained

text: Americans

text: had

text: pleaded

text: for

text: him

text: to

text: intervene

text: Bellerive

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text: he

text: could

text: not

text: Those

text: people

text: are

text: not

text: in

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text: hands

text: of

text: the

text: government

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text: hands

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text: justice

text: he

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text: We

text: have

text: to

text: respect

text: the

text: law

text: It

text: is

text: clear

text: that

text: the

text: people

text: violated

text: the

text: law

text: What

text: we

text: have

text: to

text: understand

text: is

text: if

text: they

text: did

text: it

text: in

text: good

text: faith

text: Bellerive

text: said

text: the

text: Haitian

text: government

text: was

text: open

text: to

text: the

text: possibility

text: of

text: the

text: case

text: being

text: transferred

text: to

text: a

text: U.S.

text: court

text: but

text: said

text: the

text: request

text: would

text: have

text: to

text: come

text: from

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: Until

text: now

text: I

text: was

text: not

text: asked

text: he

text: said

text: He

text: expressed

text: gratitude

text: for

text: the

text: work

text: of

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text: vast

text: majority

text: of

text: Americans

text: who

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text: aftermath

text: of

text: the

text: January

text: earthquake

text: that

text: he

text: said

text: killed

text: at

text: least

text: people

text: The

text: Americans

text: were

text: turned

text: back

text: Friday

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text: they

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text: to

text: take

text: the

text: children

text: across

text: the

text: border

text: into

text: the

text: Dominican

text: Republic

text: without

text: proper

text: documentation

text: They

text: said

text: they

text: were

text: going

text: to

text: house

text: them

text: in

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text: converted

text: hotel

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text: country

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text: later

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text: orphanage

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text: building

text: there

text: We

text: can

text: confirm

text: that

text: the

text: American

text: citizens

text: remain

text: in

text: custody

text: in

text: Haiti

text: said

text: State

text: Department

text: deputy

text: spokesman

text: Gordon

text: Duguid

text: We

text: continue

text: to

text: provide

text: appropriate

text: consular

text: assistance

text: and

text: to

text: monitor

text: developments

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text: the

text: legal

text: case

text: The

text: Americans

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text: said

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text: were

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text: children

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text: earthquake

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text: country

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text: detained

text: Americans

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text: said

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text: thought

text: they

text: were

text: helping

text: orphans

text: but

text: their

text: interpreters

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text: they

text: were

text: present

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text: group

text: members

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text: children

text: 's

text: parents

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text: a

text: village

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text: au

text: Prince

text: said

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text: had

text: willingly

text: given

text: their

text: children

text: over

text: to

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text: Americans

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text: promised

text: them

text: a

text: better

text: life

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text: who

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text: their

text: children

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text: they

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text: approval

text: is

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text: Haitian

text: child

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text: country

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text: the

text: group

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text: children

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text: no

text: passports

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text: members

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text: the

text: group

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text: to

text: the

text: Central

text: Valley

text: Baptist

text: Church

text: in

text: Meridian

text: Idaho

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text: of

text: the

text: church

text: 's

text: ministers

text: asked

text: for

text: privacy

text: and

text: would

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text: the

text: matter

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text: know

text: you

text: have

text: many

text: questions

text: but

text: we

text: do

text: n't

text: have

text: answers

text: right

text: now

text: Drew

text: Ham

text: assistant

text: pastor

text: said

text: in

text: a

text: note

text: to

text: reporters

text: P.J.

text: Crowley

text: a

text: spokesman

text: for

text: the

text: U.S.

text: State

text: Department

text: has

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text: officials

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text: unlimited

text: consular

text: access

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text: Americans

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text: that

text: U.S.

text: and

text: Haitian

text: authorities

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text: ascertain

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text: and

text: the

text: motive

text: behind

text: these

text: people

text: Clearly

text: there

text: are

text: questions

text: about

text: procedure

text: as

text: to

text: whether

text: they

text: had

text: the

text: appropriate

text: paperwork

text: to

text: move

text: the

text: children

text: he

text: said

text: Wednesday

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Karl

text: Penhaul

text: in

text: Port

text: au

text: Prince

text: Dan

text: Simon

text: in

text: Meridian

text: Ohio

text: and

text: Jill

text: Dougherty

text: in

text: Washington

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: What does missionaries deny?

answer: kidnapping children and criminal association,

text: kidnapping children and criminal association,

question: How many Americans were charged with kidnapping?

answer: Ten

text: Ten

question: What did the Haitian government say about the  group?

answer: open to the possibility of the case being transferred to a U.S. court

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question: Who did Missionaries say they were trying to help?

answer: children

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question: What does Haitian government say?

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text: children

question: Are Americans charged with kidnapping?

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text: Ten


text:
(CNN) -- Explorer Dennis Schmitt found an island nearly two years ago near Greenland.

Fishermen pass by Greenland's Ilulissat fjord in this September 2004 picture.

Such a discovery would usually elicit curiosity, even wonder perhaps, but it evoked mixed feelings for the explorer.

The island was once thought to be a peninsula attached to Greenland by an ice shelf or a glacier. But such a large amount of ice melted, it revealed the distinct island.

"I very quickly realized two things," he told CNN's Anderson Cooper during a visit to the island earlier this year. "One [was] that this was going to be significant because it was going to be an example of climate change."

"The other thing was that it meant it was really happening. It wasn't a joke. It wasn't just statistics. It was really happening."

He calls his discovery Warming Island.

Many climatologists and scientists say arctic ice melt and other changes in the Earth's climate are the result of an increase in the world's temperature, a trend widely called global warming.

Many global warming experts say the phenomenon, if unchecked, is capable of altering the world's climate and geography. In the worst-case scenario, experts say oceans could rise to overwhelming and catastrophic levels, flooding cities and altering seashores.

Other scientists and observers, a minority compared to those who believe the warming trend is something ominous, say it is simply the latest shift in the cyclical patterns of a planet's life.

Most of the scientific community believes that some warming is occurring across the globe and through some layers of the atmosphere. But why it is occurring and what that means for the future is scientifically and politically contentious.

The Earth's temperature averages about 60 degrees Fahrenheit (about 16 degrees Celsius).

The average surface temperature has warmed one degree Fahrenheit (0.6 degrees Celsius) during the last century, according to the National Research Council.

The temperatures were relatively unchanged from 1880 to 1910, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. They rose till about 1945, cooled until about 1975 and have risen steadily to present day.

There are several possible reasons for the warming, scientists say.

A change in the Earth's orbit or the intensity of the sun's radiation could change, triggering warming or cooling.

The reason most cited -- by scientists and scientific organizations -- for the current warming trend is an increase in the concentrations of greenhouse gases, which are in the atmosphere naturally and help keep the planet's temperature at a comfortable level.

The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, for instance, has increased by 35 percent since the dawn of the industrial age, according to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, commonly referred to as the IPCC.

The presence of methane is now 151 percent above pre-industrial levels, but the rate of increase has slowed in recent decades, according to the EPA. Meanwhile, nitrous oxide increased by about 18 percent during the past 200 years.

Many scientists and experts who have studied global warming believe the increase is primarily the result of human activities, like the burning of fossil fuels, emissions from vehicles and the clearing of forests.

"For the last 30 years, there's no way there's anything natural that can explain it," Stephen Schneider, a professor of environmental studies at Stanford University in California, said.

"A vast bulk of the knowledgeable and honest community ... will say the science is settled and humans are at least a majority of the reason behind the warming," he added.

Many scientific organizations share Schneider's view, ranging from the national academies of the countries that comprise the G8 to the National Research Council, the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union.

But there are those who do not share his view, and among the skeptics is Richard Lindzen, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"We've suddenly taken to reading tea leaves," he said. "When we saw cooling from 1940 to 1970, we were proclaiming global cooling. Since then, there's been a few tenths of global warming, so we're proclaiming global warming."

He believes the current warming trend is the result of natural variability, where a planet goes through phases of warming and cooling and the human contribution to it is minimal.

"The Earth is always getting colder and warmer," he said. "It's always changing. In fact, this is true of any fluid-covered planet."

Asked about glacial melt, which many observers point to as evidence of global warming, Lindzen said the way glaciers change and move are phenomena largely unexplained.

"We don't know why, but it's perfectly clear that glaciers change even though the temperature is cooling at the place that they've occurred," he said. "What we're doing is cherry picking any event that occurs and then saying that's occurring due to global warming."

Yet, for Schneider, it is a cause for concern and alarm. "We're already in serious melt, nobody can explain it. The models don't predict it," he said. "We don't know what's going on up there. All we know is that we could be triggering something really nasty."

The greatest point of contention is the possible implications for future political and economic policies for the world's nations.

The IPCC in February 2007 projected that if carbon dioxide levels doubled relative to pre-industrial levels, temperatures could rise between 3.6 to 8.1 degrees Fahrenheit (2 to 4.5 degrees Celsius) by 2100.

The lower end of the range could cause more intense hurricanes, droughts, wildfires and flooding, Schneider said. The higher end could lead to the catastrophes commonly associated with the visions of Hollywood filmmakers.

Uncertainties, however, plague such forecasts, which are based on computer simulations and models. The models contemplate factors associated with how the atmosphere, oceans and continents interact, all natural elements that have unpredictability intrinsic to them.

"Exactly how much it's going to warm up, we don't know," Schneider said. "That it's going to warm up? I'd bet anything on that." E-mail to a friend

text: CNN

text: Explorer

text: Dennis

text: Schmitt

text: found

text: an

text: island

text: nearly

text: two

text: years

text: ago

text: near

text: Greenland

text: Fishermen

text: pass

text: by

text: Greenland

text: 's

text: Ilulissat

text: fjord

text: in

text: this

text: September

text: picture

text: Such

text: a

text: discovery

text: would

text: usually

text: elicit

text: curiosity

text: even

text: wonder

text: perhaps

text: but

text: it

text: evoked

text: mixed

text: feelings

text: for

text: the

text: explorer

text: The

text: island

text: was

text: once

text: thought

text: to

text: be

text: a

text: peninsula

text: attached

text: to

text: Greenland

text: by

text: an

text: ice

text: shelf

text: or

text: a

text: glacier

text: But

text: such

text: a

text: large

text: amount

text: of

text: ice

text: melted

text: it

text: revealed

text: the

text: distinct

text: island

text: I

text: very

text: quickly

text: realized

text: two

text: things

text: he

text: told

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Anderson

text: Cooper

text: during

text: a

text: visit

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text: island

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text: year

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text: scientists

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text: ice

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text: and

text: other

text: changes

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text: the

text: Earth

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text: climate

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text: the

text: result

text: of

text: an

text: increase

text: in

text: the

text: world

text: 's

text: temperature

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text: phenomenon

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text: unchecked

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text: the

text: world

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text: geography

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text: case

text: scenario

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text: catastrophic

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text: cities

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text: altering

text: seashores

text: Other

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text: observers

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text: minority

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text: who

text: believe

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text: warming

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text: is

text: simply

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text: latest

text: shift

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text: cyclical

text: patterns

text: of

text: a

text: planet

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text: life

text: Most

text: of

text: the

text: scientific

text: community

text: believes

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text: some

text: warming

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text: globe

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text: atmosphere

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text: Fahrenheit

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text: average

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text: Fahrenheit

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text: last

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text: to

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text: National

text: Research

text: Council

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text: U.S.

text: Environmental

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text: reasons

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text: warming

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text: the

text: intensity

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text: the

text: sun

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text: could

text: change

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text: cooling

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text: scientists

text: and

text: scientific

text: organizations

text: for

text: the

text: current

text: warming

text: trend

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text: an

text: increase

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text: concentrations

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text: planet

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text: temperature

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text: comfortable

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text: amount

text: of

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text: atmosphere

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text: percent

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text: dawn

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text: industrial

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text: United

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text: Intergovernmental

text: Panel

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text: as

text: the

text: IPCC

text: The

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text: the

text: rate

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text: increase

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text: decades

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text: EPA

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text: oxide

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text: by

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text: during

text: the

text: past

text: years

text: Many

text: scientists

text: and

text: experts

text: who

text: have

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text: global

text: warming

text: believe

text: the

text: increase

text: is

text: primarily

text: the

text: result

text: of

text: human

text: activities

text: like

text: the

text: burning

text: of

text: fossil

text: fuels

text: emissions

text: from

text: vehicles

text: and

text: the

text: clearing

text: of

text: forests

text: For

text: the

text: last

text: years

text: there

text: 's

text: no

text: way

text: there

text: 's

text: anything

text: natural

text: that

text: can

text: explain

text: it

text: Stephen

text: Schneider

text: a

text: professor

text: of

text: environmental

text: studies

text: at

text: Stanford

text: University

text: in

text: California

text: said

text: A

text: vast

text: bulk

text: of

text: the

text: knowledgeable

text: and

text: honest

text: community

text: will

text: say

text: the

text: science

text: is

text: settled

text: and

text: humans

text: are

text: at

text: least

text: a

text: majority

text: of

text: the

text: reason

text: behind

text: the

text: warming

text: he

text: added

text: Many

text: scientific

text: organizations

text: share

text: Schneider

text: 's

text: view

text: ranging

text: from

text: the

text: national

text: academies

text: of

text: the

text: countries

text: that

text: comprise

text: the

text: to

text: the

text: National

text: Research

text: Council

text: the

text: American

text: Meteorological

text: Society

text: and

text: the

text: American

text: Geophysical

text: Union

text: But

text: there

text: are

text: those

text: who

text: do

text: not

text: share

text: his

text: view

text: and

text: among

text: the

text: skeptics

text: is

text: Richard

text: Lindzen

text: a

text: professor

text: of

text: atmospheric

text: sciences

text: at

text: the

text: Massachusetts

text: Institute

text: of

text: Technology

text: We

text: 've

text: suddenly

text: taken

text: to

text: reading

text: tea

text: leaves

text: he

text: said

text: When

text: we

text: saw

text: cooling

text: from

text: to

text: we

text: were

text: proclaiming

text: global

text: cooling

text: Since

text: then

text: there

text: 's

text: been

text: a

text: few

text: tenths

text: of

text: global

text: warming

text: so

text: we

text: 're

text: proclaiming

text: global

text: warming

text: He

text: believes

text: the

text: current

text: warming

text: trend

text: is

text: the

text: result

text: of

text: natural

text: variability

text: where

text: a

text: planet

text: goes

text: through

text: phases

text: of

text: warming

text: and

text: cooling

text: and

text: the

text: human

text: contribution

text: to

text: it

text: is

text: minimal

text: The

text: Earth

text: is

text: always

text: getting

text: colder

text: and

text: warmer

text: he

text: said

text: It

text: 's

text: always

text: changing

text: In

text: fact

text: this

text: is

text: true

text: of

text: any

text: fluid

text: covered

text: planet

text: Asked

text: about

text: glacial

text: melt

text: which

text: many

text: observers

text: point

text: to

text: as

text: evidence

text: of

text: global

text: warming

text: Lindzen

text: said

text: the

text: way

text: glaciers

text: change

text: and

text: move

text: are

text: phenomena

text: largely

text: unexplained

text: We

text: do

text: n't

text: know

text: why

text: but

text: it

text: 's

text: perfectly

text: clear

text: that

text: glaciers

text: change

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Washington (CNN) -- The aging veterans gingerly walk from the plane in the nation's capital. Some get pushed in wheelchairs. A brass band strikes up World War II era tunes. Strangers rise to their feet and clap their hands.

"Why are they doing this?" says Frank Bales, 86, a co-pilot on a B-24 during World War II. "I feel as humbled as a mouse."

Walter Victor was overwhelmed as he made his way through the crowd. "The chills came over me. Very seldom do you see something like that," says the 92-year-old army veteran.

These World War II veterans have traveled here to visit the National World War II Memorial, which honors the 16 million U.S. armed forces who served and the more than 400,000 who died in battle.

The vets made the trip thanks to a former employee at the Department of Veterans Affairs. A physician's assistant at the VA in Springfield, Ohio, Earl Morse was struck by the WWII vets he treated and how few made the journey to see the memorial that honors them.

"They dedicated the WWII memorial in May of 2004, 60 years after the war had ended. That was a cause of celebration in my clinic. All of the veterans wanted to see it but they were in poor health or didn't have the means to visit it."

"Reality set in," Morse says, "they were never going to see their memorial."

Morse was determined to change that, because he so admired the quiet grit and heroism of the unassuming men he treated every day. He took his cause to a local air club. "I stood before 150 pilots and told them I was going to start flying WWII veterans to Washington. I said if you want to help me, the WWII veteran doesn't pay a penny. You'll have to rent an airplane and cover all the travel costs."

"Honor Flight" took to the skies in May of 2005. Six planes flew 12 veterans. The next month, eight planes flew 16 veterans. Today, it operates like a volunteer airline, with 86 hubs in 33 states.

Instead of renting small planes, they charter Boeing jets, thanks to donations that keep the planes in the sky. So far, more than 30,000 veterans have experienced a visit to the memorial, courtesy of Honor Flight.

"Witnessing their emotions is what fuels our cause. When you see WWII veterans break down in tears because they had no idea how much this nation reveres, cherishes and loves them for what they've done, it really overwhelms them," Morse says.

In the days and weeks before each Honor Flight, an army of ground volunteers coordinates every detail of each trip -- from the buses that pick them up to the meals they eat.

Shortly after Bales and his group arrived in Washington this day, they were taken by bus to the memorial. Many said they were stunned by its size and scope. Inscriptions carved in granite recognize specific battles that were fought in Europe and across the Pacific.

A wall of stars marks the high price of freedom. They paused to remember the 448,000 who died in the war -- and their fellow survivors who didn't live to see this moment.

"Each of those stars represents 100 men and women who died in WWII, and I realized that my division has almost 39 stars on that wall," said Tom Rone, 85, who stormed the bullet-ridden beaches on Guadalcanal as a platoon sergeant with the Marines.

Morse says the trip often provides closure for the vets who visit. Many veterans open up at the memorial and speak in detail for the first time about what they went through.

"I've had exchanges with veterans that are jaw dropping," Morse says. "You can't fathom what it's like to have experienced what they went through fighting for their lives."

The same "Honor Flight" that transported the veterans to Washington returns them back home, landing just 12 hours after it took off. The elderly warriors seem renewed rather than exhausted by their whirlwind trip.

"I will never forget this," say 86-year-old Marcus Lee Long, who served in the Pacific on the USS Ellet. "Everybody is so happy and treating us so nice."

Allen Pittard, 88, added, "I feel so fortunate to be here. So many didn't make it."

For Morse, the founder of Honor Flight, the end of each flight is a bittersweet experience. His mission continues with an air of urgency, because less than 10 percent of the Americans who served in World War II are still alive. An estimated 1,200 WWII veterans die every day.

"In another five to seven years, our efforts will be a moot point because they will be gone or too infirm to participate in a mission like this," he says.

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question: how many vets taken?

answer: 30,000

question: What number have already flown?

answer: 30,000

question: What did one veteran say?

answer: "I feel as humbled as a mouse."

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question: what its the name of program?

answer: "Honor Flight"

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question: What program is being run?

answer: "Honor Flight"

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question: What is the name of the program that takes WWII vets to see memorial in Washington?

answer: "Honor Flight"

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question: What did the founder say?

answer: "In another five to seven years, our efforts will be a moot point because they will be gone or too infirm to participate in a mission like this,"

text: "In another five to seven years, our efforts will be a moot point because they will be gone or too infirm to participate in a mission like this,"

question: How many vets has Honor Flight taken to D.C.?

answer: more than 30,000 veterans

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