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Washington (CNN) -- GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain faced a new claim of sexually inappropriate behavior Monday as a Chicago woman told reporters the former head of the National Restaurant Association groped her after a dinner together in 1997.

Sharon Bialek, who worked at the restaurant group's education foundation until shortly before the alleged groping incident, said Cain unexpectedly put his hand on her leg beneath her skirt "toward my genitals." She also said he pushed her head toward his crotch.

Cain stopped when she protested, Bialek told a news conference.

Looking into the television cameras, Bialek said: "I want you, Mr. Cain, to come clean. Just admit what you did."

Gloria Allred a girl's best friend

The accusation follows the disclosure last week that the restaurant association provided payments to two women who left the group after alleging sexual harassment by Cain, also in the late 1990s.

Cain has denied all accusations of sexual harassment, and his campaign put out a fresh denial after Bialek made her accusations on Monday.

"All allegations of harassment against Mr. Cain are completely false," a campaign statement said. "Mr. Cain has never harassed anyone."

Earlier accuser's attorney talks to CNN

Since becoming public on October 30 in a report by Politico, the sexual harassment accusations have overwhelmed the bid by the former pizza company executive to win the Republican presidential nomination.

Cain, a favorite of tea party conservatives, has risen to the top of the polls following strong performances in several debates and the release of his "9-9-9" tax plan that sets flat 9% rates for corporate and income taxes and also creates a 9% national sales tax.

However, Bialek's accusation raises fresh questions about whether Cain has been candid about the allegations that he sexually harassed women at the restaurant association when he headed the group from 1996-99.

Bialek said she started to work at the group's foundation in 1996 but was laid off in 1997. The association confirmed Bialek's employment dates as December 30, 1996, to June 20, 1997.

Shortly after getting let go, Bialek said, she contacted Cain -- whom she had met at the group's Chicago convention -- to seek help in finding a job.

She traveled to Washington, where Cain worked, and found he had upgraded her hotel room to a luxury suite without telling her. They had dinner at an Italian restaurant, she said, and then Cain asked if she had been to the association offices in the capital.

Cain made his advances on the way, according to Bialek.

"He said, 'You want a job, right?' " she told reporters at the news conference organized by celebrity attorney Gloria Allred.

Bialek took no questions from reporters, but Allred said Bialek had told two people at the time about what happened. Bialek filed no complaint with the restaurant association because she no longer worked there, Allred said.

Asked why Bialek was coming forward now, Allred said it was in solidarity with Cain's other accusers and harassed women everywhere.

Cain has previously complained the sexual harassment allegations amount to a baseless media onslaught against his campaign. Polls have yet to indicate any significant effect on his support -- in fact, the campaign reported a spike in donations Monday.

Cain spokesman J.D. Gordon told CNN the campaign raked in $2 million during the past week. By comparison, Cain raised $2.8 million between June and October.

On Sunday, one of Cain's rivals called for keeping the issue alive, saying the necessary scrutiny of presidential candidates requires Cain to answer all questions about what happened.

On Saturday, Cain scolded reporters who asked about the issue following a debate with fellow conservative Newt Gingrich in Texas.

"Don't even go there," Cain told one questioner who'd asked about the allegations. Asked again later, he responded: "What I'm saying is this -- we are getting back on message, end of story. Back on message. Read all of the other accounts, where everything has been answered -- end of story."

On Friday, a lawyer for one of the accusers reported by Politico released a statement saying she stood by her claims against Cain. However, the woman has so far refused to allow her identity or specifics of her allegations to be made public.

In response to the new allegation Monday, the attorney, Joel Bennett, said he believes it corroborates his client's story and called it "similar conduct by the same person." He refused to provide further details.

Cain supporters have said the anonymous allegations and lack of details showed the political nature of the accusations reported by Politico. Bialek is the first woman to publicly accuse Cain and provide specifics about what allegedly happened.

"It's up to Herman Cain to get the information out and get it out in total," Jon Huntsman, the former Utah governor running far behind Cain in polls so far, told NBC's "Meet the Press" program. "That's important because we've got some real issues to discuss in this campaign, and this is taking all the bandwidth out of the discussion. So we're not able to talk about jobs. We're not able to talk about our position in the world. And that hurts."

Conservatives, angered by the media attention to the potentially fatal accusations for the tea party favorite's campaign, argued that the lack of specifics -- with no public disclosure yet of an accuser's name or specific offense alleged -- showed it was all more circus than substance.

Legitimate issue or political drama?

"Until something comes out that's concrete, I think it is politics as usual," retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, told CNN's "State of the Union."

To Rep. Darrell Issa, a California Republican backing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the GOP race, Cain is undergoing a difficult transition from private business figure to public politician.

"To go directly from being a businessman, without substantial time in the government arena, both the vetting and the knowledge of it, is really hard," Issa told NBC. "It's virtually impossible" and in Cain's presidential quest, may be "a bridge too far."

Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a strong Democratic Party voice, suggested Cain's troubles were only part of the problem for Republicans on women's issues.

"I think what you're seeing is a huge assault on women's rights in the Republican parties, and an extreme right-wing that has taken over that is going to make it very difficult for anybody in a general election in the Republican Party to be a centrist," Richardson said on NBC.

CNN's Kevin Bohn and Shannon Travis contributed to this report.

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answer: Cain unexpectedly put his hand on her leg beneath her skirt "toward my genitals." She also said he pushed her head toward his crotch.

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Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) -- The effort to rescue hundreds of trekkers stranded for six days in a town near Nepal's iconic Mount Everest due to bad weather continued Monday.

With weather conditions improving Monday, the process of transporting the tourists to the nation's capital was fully under way, the tourism ministry said.

"The target is to transport 1,500 tourists to Kathmandu today," Hari Basyal, spokesman of the Nepal Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation told CNN.

More than 2,200 tourists have been stranded in the village of Lukla since last week where food supplies are limited, Basyal said.

Lukla, a popular starting point for people on their way to the world's tallest peak, is located in northeast Nepal.

Stranded tourists took 48 flights and helicopter rides out of Lukla on Monday. A day earlier, at least 500 trekkers were flown to the capital.

Last week, some of the tourists began a four-day walk to the town of Jiri to take buses to Kathmandu.

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question: Who is stranded?

answer: hundreds of trekkers

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question: what is  Nepal's capital?

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question: Where were they stranded?

answer: near Nepal's iconic Mount Everest

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question: What has caused it?

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question: What kind of weather conditions?

answer: bad

text: bad

question: Who are being evacuated?

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- New York suspended all construction crane activity in the city Friday after a crane collapse on the Upper East Side killed two construction workers.

Crane wreckage lies on Manhattan's Upper East Side on Friday in a photo by iReporter Michael Schuman.

Acting Buildings Commissioner Robert LiMandri announced the suspension, in effect until Monday, and unveiled a $4 million plan to assess high-risk construction activities, including crane operations, and make recommendations to improve safety.

"This year we have seen an increase in accidents and injuries related to high-risk construction activities," LiMandri said. "We must make sure that as construction activity in the city continues to increase, the department's ability to hold the construction industry to higher safety standards keeps pace."

Friday's accident was the second deadly crane collapse in the city in less than three months. Seven people were killed and 24 were injured in March when a construction crane toppled, plowing through several residential buildings.

Crane operator Donald Leo, 30, died in the initial collpase Friday morning. Construction worker Ramadan Kurtij, 37, died Friday afternoon of cardiac arrest after being rushed to the hospital. Another construction worker remained critically injured, a city official said.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the cranes in the two incidents were different types.

"Two crane collapses in a short period of time look like a pattern, but there's no reason to think that there's any real connection," he said.

On a radio program Friday, Bloomberg vowed that an investigation would be conducted and changes would be made if necessary.

"I don't need any developer or union leader or anybody else telling me about the consequences of slowing things down," he said. "Nobody wants this economy to grow more than me. But we're not going to kill people."

The accident happened shortly after 8 a.m. Bridget Barrett, who lives two buildings away, said she was just leaving for work.

"We heard a loud crash as I was walking down my stairwell. I went to the front door of the building, and it was all white smoke everywhere," she said.

"The crane had fallen in the middle of the street and was on fire. There was water spewing out of the apartment building all over the place.  And I dialed 911."  See photos from the scene of the collapse Â»

Witnesses said the cab and the arm of the crane crashed more than 20 stories to the ground, smashing the penthouse on a building across the street and gouging chunks out of balconies all the way to the ground.

"It sounded like a large metal structure slowly falling on itself, sounded like a prolonged car accident," said iReport contributor Daniel Miranda, who lives a block away. "Construction workers were peering over the edge. Some of them were crying out in grief."

A pedestrian had minor injuries, Bloomberg said at a news conference, adding that nearby buildings with about 160 apartments were evacuated "strictly as a precaution."  Watch how latest crane collapse raises questions Â»

The collapse occurred a day after a building inspector rescinded a partial stop-work order that had been issued April 24.

The order was issued after an inspection found that employees had been working without a permit and operating a crane in an "unsafe manner," according to the city's Building Department. No other details were available.

The collapse left a pile of wreckage at the foot of the Azure, an apartment building under construction at the northwest corner of East 91st Street and First Avenue, a mainly residential area on the city's Upper East Side.

The falling crane also damaged the Electra, a 20-plus-story building on the southwest corner.  See where the crane fell Â»

Michael Schuman, another iReporter, said he heard a loud crash, grabbed his camera and went to the scene, about five buildings away.

"I got there before the emergency vehicles. It looked like the crane had broken into three or four large pieces. I saw water pouring out of one of the apartments," Schuman said.

Florence Diamond, a bus driver who was approaching the corner when the accident happened, said the crane's operator appeared to have been in the cab when the rig fell.  Watch as Diamond describes what she saw Â»

"I just saw all the crane come down in the middle of the street. It was like something out of a movie," Diamond said. "I couldn't believe the crane had fell, and I also saw the guy that was operating the crane go down with it. It was just one guy."

Appearing at news briefing with Bloomberg, New York Gov. David Paterson said that "we're going to have to take a look at all these crane accidents."

"There's no need to speculate now on how this happened.  That will all be investigated," he said. "But certainly, these types of accidents are all too frequent."

Barrett said she had worried about construction sites since the March crane disaster. "It's just kind of baffling that this happened again," she said.

"I've seen that crane for the past couple months, and of course I thought about, 'What if it fell on my building or buildings around me?' I just kind of dismissed it because [I thought] there's no way that could happen after it had already happened once," she said.

A construction worker at the site identifying himself only as Anthony said he didn't know what happened Friday, but he called it "a scary thing."

"Everything goes through your head when you start seeing things like that happen," the worker said. "You think about your family, your wife, your kids. Just, thank God, you know, whoever is alive is alive."

CNN's Amy Sahba and Laura Batchelor contributed to the this report.

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question: How many remain critically injured?

answer: Another construction worker

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question: How many people remain critically injured?

answer: 24

question: Who suspended all construction crane activity?

answer: New York

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question: What activity did the city suspend?

answer: construction crane

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question: What did the city suspend?

answer: all construction crane activity

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question: A previous crane collapse killed how many people?

answer: Seven

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Three years ago Tuesday, Leslie Marva Adams, an attractive, 40-year-old hair stylist from Atlanta, Georgia, chatted on the phone with her mother in the morning.

Leslie Adams, 40, filed a restraining order against an old boyfriend and disappeared three years ago.

It was the last conversation she would have with a family member.

On the third anniversary of Adams' disappearance, her family is still waiting for answers. Her daughter, Cierra Burk, 19, clings to the belief that Adams is alive.

"We will find her," Burk says.

The family became concerned when Adams failed to show up for her sister's birthday party the day after she talked on the phone with her mother. Two days after the missed party, Adams was officially reported missing.

At her apartment in suburban Lilburn, police found evidence suggesting foul play -- a 12-inch blood stain near her bed and a .45-caliber bullet casing. Adams' car was parked in her driveway and a handwritten note was found on her door.

Investigators soon learned the note was from her sister, Roberta. It said, "Leslie, we're worried about you, please call me as soon as possible."  Watch how the mystery began with a missed party Â»

Adams had been having trouble with her ex-boyfriend, Billy Joe Cook, in the days leading up to her disappearance. She had accused him of stalking her and had filed a restraining order.

In the court document, she alleged that Cook had verbally and physically abused her. She said she feared for her life. A temporary restraining order was granted by the court, but Adams vanished before a scheduled hearing on the matter.

Phyllis Adams said her daughter told her in their final conversation that she had argued with Cook over the phone on the previous day.

According to the temporary restraining order, Cook was not to have any contact with Adams.

Police brought Cook in for questioning and learned he had spoken to Adams on the phone twice the day before she last spoke to her family. Although he was questioned extensively, police have not named Cook a suspect.

Police say he was very cooperative and there is no evidence suggesting his involvement in her disappearance, although they have not ruled him or anyone else out as a potential suspect or person of interest.

Just when they thought the trail had gone cold, police found what could be a lead in the case. In May 2007, clothing was recovered that could belong to the missing hair-dresser. Police found a pair of men's size 8 Reebok sneakers, size 10 capri pants, and a black sweater in the woods along I-85 in Franklin County, 90 miles from Adams' home in Atlanta.

They also discovered human bones and a breast implant near the clothing.

Police have sent the remains to a DNA testing lab and they have yet to be identified. The results are inconclusive, and police continue to collect DNA samples from Adams family members for future tests.

Leslie Marva Adams is an African-American female who stands 5 feet 5 inches, weighs 130 pounds, and has breast implants. Family members fear the remains could be Leslie Adams, but they are still hopeful that she will be found alive and well.

Burk, Adams' daughter, says she struggles with her emotions at this time of year.

"I still believe she is alive and we will find her, but this time of year is very hard," she said, fighting the tears. "It's my aunt's birthday, the day my mom didn't show up and we never saw her again, so it's hard not to break down."

Police and family urge anyone with information on the whereabouts of Leslie Adams to call the Gwinett County Police Department at (770) 513-5300. There is a $25,000 reward for information that helps locate Leslie Adams or leads to the arrest of the person responsible for her disappearance.

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text: 's

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text: party

text: the

text: day

text: after

text: she

text: talked

text: on

text: the

text: phone

text: with

text: her

text: mother

text: Two

text: days

text: after

text: the

text: missed

text: party

text: Adams

text: was

text: officially

text: reported

text: missing

text: At

text: her

text: apartment

text: in

text: suburban

text: Lilburn

text: police

text: found

text: evidence

text: suggesting

text: foul

text: play

text: a

text: blood

text: stain

text: near

text: her

text: bed

text: and

text: a

text: bullet

text: casing

text: Adams

text: car

text: was

text: parked

text: in

text: her

text: driveway

text: and

text: a

text: handwritten

text: note

text: was

text: found

text: on

text: her

text: door

text: Investigators

text: soon

text: learned

text: the

text: note

text: was

text: from

text: her

text: sister

text: Roberta

text: It

text: said

text: Leslie

text: we

text: 're

text: worried

text: about

text: you

text: please

text: call

text: me

text: as

text: soon

text: as

text: possible

text: Watch

text: how

text: the

text: mystery

text: began

text: with

text: a

text: missed

text: party

text: Â

text: Adams

text: had

text: been

text: having

text: trouble

text: with

text: her

text: ex

text: boyfriend

text: Billy

text: Joe

text: Cook

text: in

text: the

text: days

text: leading

text: up

text: to

text: her

text: disappearance

text: She

text: had

text: accused

text: him

text: of

text: stalking

text: her

text: and

text: had

text: filed

text: a

text: restraining

text: order

text: In

text: the

text: court

text: document

text: she

text: alleged

text: that

text: Cook

text: had

text: verbally

text: and

text: physically

text: abused

text: her

text: She

text: said

text: she

text: feared

text: for

text: her

text: life

text: A

text: temporary

text: restraining

text: order

text: was

text: granted

text: by

text: the

text: court

text: but

text: Adams

text: vanished

text: before

text: a

text: scheduled

text: hearing

text: on

text: the

text: matter

text: Phyllis

text: Adams

text: said

text: her

text: daughter

text: told

text: her

text: in

text: their

text: final

text: conversation

text: that

text: she

text: had

text: argued

text: with

text: Cook

text: over

text: the

text: phone

text: on

text: the

text: previous

text: day

text: According

text: to

text: the

text: temporary

text: restraining

text: order

text: Cook

text: was

text: not

text: to

text: have

text: any

text: contact

text: with

text: Adams

text: Police

text: brought

text: Cook

text: in

text: for

text: questioning

text: and

text: learned

text: he

text: had

text: spoken

text: to

text: Adams

text: on

text: the

text: phone

text: twice

text: the

text: day

text: before

text: she

text: last

text: spoke

text: to

text: her

text: family

text: Although

text: he

text: was

text: questioned

text: extensively

text: police

text: have

text: not

text: named

text: Cook

text: a

text: suspect

text: Police

text: say

text: he

text: was

text: very

text: cooperative

text: and

text: there

text: is

text: no

text: evidence

text: suggesting

text: his

text: involvement

text: in

text: her

text: disappearance

text: although

text: they

text: have

text: not

text: ruled

text: him

text: or

text: anyone

text: else

text: out

text: as

text: a

text: potential

text: suspect

text: or

text: person

text: of

text: interest

text: Just

text: when

text: they

text: thought

text: the

text: trail

text: had

text: gone

text: cold

text: police

text: found

text: what

text: could

text: be

text: a

text: lead

text: in

text: the

text: case

text: In

text: May

text: clothing

text: was

text: recovered

text: that

text: could

text: belong

text: to

text: the

text: missing

text: hair

text: dresser

text: Police

text: found

text: a

text: pair

text: of

text: men

text: 's

text: size

text: Reebok

text: sneakers

text: size

text: capri

text: pants

text: and

text: a

text: black

text: sweater

text: in

text: the

text: woods

text: along

text: in

text: Franklin

text: County

text: miles

text: from

text: Adams

text: home

text: in

text: Atlanta

text: They

text: also

text: discovered

text: human

text: bones

text: and

text: a

text: breast

text: implant

text: near

text: the

text: clothing

text: Police

text: have

text: sent

text: the

text: remains

text: to

text: a

text: DNA

text: testing

text: lab

text: and

text: they

text: have

text: yet

text: to

text: be

text: identified

text: The

text: results

text: are

text: inconclusive

text: and

text: police

text: continue

text: to

text: collect

text: DNA

text: samples

text: from

text: Adams

text: family

text: members

text: for

text: future

text: tests

text: Leslie

text: Marva

text: Adams

text: is

text: an

text: African

text: American

text: female

text: who

text: stands

text: feet

text: inches

text: weighs

text: pounds

text: and

text: has

text: breast

text: implants

text: Family

text: members

text: fear

text: the

text: remains

text: could

text: be

text: Leslie

text: Adams

text: but

text: they

text: are

text: still

text: hopeful

text: that

text: she

text: will

text: be

text: found

text: alive

text: and

text: well

text: Burk

text: Adams

text: daughter

text: says

text: she

text: struggles

text: with

text: her

text: emotions

text: at

text: this

text: time

text: of

text: year

text: I

text: still

text: believe

text: she

text: is

text: alive

text: and

text: we

text: will

text: find

text: her

text: but

text: this

text: time

text: of

text: year

text: is

text: very

text: hard

text: she

text: said

text: fighting

text: the

text: tears

text: It

text: 's

text: my

text: aunt

text: 's

text: birthday

text: the

text: day

text: my

text: mom

text: did

text: n't

text: show

text: up

text: and

text: we

text: never

text: saw

text: her

text: again

text: so

text: it

text: 's

text: hard

text: not

text: to

text: break

text: down

text: Police

text: and

text: family

text: urge

text: anyone

text: with

text: information

text: on

text: the

text: whereabouts

text: of

text: Leslie

text: Adams

text: to

text: call

text: the

text: Gwinett

text: County

text: Police

text: Department

text: at

text: There

text: is

text: a

text: reward

text: for

text: information

text: that

text: helps

text: locate

text: Leslie

text: Adams

text: or

text: leads

text: to

text: the

text: arrest

text: of

text: the

text: person

text: responsible

text: for

text: her

text: disappearance

question: When did Leslie Marva Adams disappear?

answer: three years ago.

text: three years ago.

question: What was she due to attend

answer: sister's birthday party

text: sister's birthday party

question: What are the police continuing to do?

answer: collect DNA samples from Adams family members for future tests.

text: collect DNA samples from Adams family members for future tests.

question: Who disappeared three years ago

answer: Leslie Marva Adams,

text: Leslie Marva Adams,

question: Who did Adam's take a restraining order out against

answer: an old boyfriend

text: an old boyfriend

question: At what event did she fail to show up?

answer: her sister's birthday party

text: her sister's birthday party

question: Who disappeared?

answer: Leslie Adams,

text: Leslie Adams,

question: Who did Adams take out restraining order against?

answer: Billy Joe Cook,

text: Billy Joe Cook,

question: What are police continuing with?

answer: to collect DNA samples from Adams family members for future tests.

text: to collect DNA samples from Adams family members for future tests.


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LONDON, England (CNN)  -- They left home with hope in their hearts, thousands of fans true to the Liverpool anthem, dreaming of reaching another Wembley FA Cup Final.

The disaster at Hillsborough football stadium in 1989 resulted in the deaths of 96 football supporters.

But what began as a day out in the spring sunshine 20 years ago ended as the darkest hour in the history of British football.

I had settled into Row B Seat 2 of the press box in the south stand at Hillsborough, home to Sheffield Wednesday and neutral venue for the game. From there I would have had an uninterrupted view of the semifinal showdown between Liverpool and Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest.

Clough, one of the legends of the British game, had been denied an FA Cup Final with Forest a year earlier, when his side lost to Liverpool at the same stage of the competition and at the same venue.

The atmosphere in the ground for the 1989 semifinal exploded as the teams emerged onto the pitch. But none of us was prepared for what was to follow.

The match action lasted less than six minutes. I can't remember a single kick. What I do recall quite vividly are the scenes of distress, desperation and death at the Liverpool end that destroyed so many families and shocked the world.

Looking to my left and behind Liverpool keeper Bruce Grobbelaar's goal, I was drawn to a huge mushroom-like effect among the crowd in the central standing enclosures around kick-off time.  See Liverpool players and fans paying tribute to victims of Hillsborough disaster Â»

The match had not long started when the first signs of a major problem surfaced. Fans began frantically attempting to climb over the perimeter fence to escape the crush at the Leppings Lane end of the ground.

I didn't know it at the time, but the swell was the exit point of a tunnel that ran under the stand. Through it hundreds of Liverpool fans had attempted to make their way without realizing the two caged pens it led to were already overcrowded.

Many had the life squeezed out of them in that tunnel. Others were trampled or crushed to death on the terraces. The lucky ones clambered to safety, many collapsing on the pitch.

Some fans were hoisted up into the stand above by fellow supporters, but the main escape route was over the high perimeter fence and later through a small gate that was forced open as police -- who initially thought they were dealing with a pitch invasion -- recognized the true scale of the problem.

Advertising boards were used as makeshift stretchers and some of those being carried away had their heads covered by coats. The Sheffield Wednesday gymnasium became a mortuary.

The Liverpool end of the pitch resembled a casualty station with frantic efforts being made to treat the injured and save lives while others wandered aimlessly around the pitch in a daze.

I will always remember the bid to revive one young fan in front of the main stand. Those efforts seemed to go on forever before finally hundreds of spectators let out a huge cheer as the lad at last showed some sign of life. I still wonder to this day whether or not he made it.

Meanwhile I had an open phoneline to a copytaker at The Press Association and described those shocking events unfolding in front of me, including news of the first fatalities.

For the second time in four years I had gone to cover a football match and ended up filing a disaster report.

In 1985 I had been in Brussels with Liverpool to cover their European Cup final against Juventus, when 39 fans, mainly Italian, were killed at the Heysel stadium as a wall collapsed after trouble on the terraces. That match eventually went ahead after a delay of 85 minutes.

Within hours of returning from Belgium, I was among a small group of football writers summoned to No. 10 Downing Street for a meeting with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Mrs Thatcher planned draconian measures to combat what became known as the English disease, but it was the appalling events at Sheffield that finally became the catalyst for change.

The Hillsborough tragedy was played out in full view of 53,000 spectators and TV cameras.

People who came to watch a football match went home haunted by scenes of carnage and chaos that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.

Later, in an area beneath the empty south stand, FA chief executive Graham Kelly faced media at an impromptu press conference and expressed his shock, sadness and sorrow. Understandably, he didn't have all the answers as questions were fired his way.

What led to the disaster is well documented. Lord Justice Taylor, a High Court judge commissioned by the government to produce a report, concluded that police operational errors were largely to blame for allowing the gates to be opened to relieve congestion outside the ground. Many questioned why the kickoff to the game had not been delayed.

English football was quick to react with perimeter fences pulled, followed by the phased-in arrival of all-seater stadia.

In the aftermath grieving fans turned Liverpool's Kop stand and the Anfield pitch into a shrine draped with thousands of scarves, flags and flowers. A permanent memorial to the victims was later erected adjacent to the Shankly Gates -- named after the club's most famous manager -- and which bear the title of the Reds' anthem: You'll Never Walk Alone.

The oldest victim at Hillsborough was 67, the youngest 10-year-old Jon-Paul Gilhooley, a cousin of current Liverpool captain and England international Steven Gerrard.

Gerrard was six weeks away from his ninth birthday at the time of tragedy. There is nothing Liverpool would want more than to mark the 20th anniversary season with at least one gleaming trophy.

They did it in 1989, beating Forest when the semifinal was later replayed, then going on to defeat city rivals Everton after extra time at Wembley. On that occasion they returned home with hope in their hearts.

text: LONDON

text: England

text: CNN

text: They

text: left

text: home

text: with

text: hope

text: in

text: their

text: hearts

text: thousands

text: of

text: fans

text: true

text: to

text: the

text: Liverpool

text: anthem

text: dreaming

text: of

text: reaching

text: another

text: Wembley

text: FA

text: Cup

text: Final

text: The

text: disaster

text: at

text: Hillsborough

text: football

text: stadium

text: in

text: resulted

text: in

text: the

text: deaths

text: of

text: football

text: supporters

text: But

text: what

text: began

text: as

text: a

text: day

text: out

text: in

text: the

text: spring

text: sunshine

text: years

text: ago

text: ended

text: as

text: the

text: darkest

text: hour

text: in

text: the

text: history

text: of

text: British

text: football

text: I

text: had

text: settled

text: into

text: Row

text: B

text: Seat

text: of

text: the

text: press

text: box

text: in

text: the

text: south

text: stand

text: at

text: Hillsborough

text: home

text: to

text: Sheffield

text: Wednesday

text: and

text: neutral

text: venue

text: for

text: the

text: game

text: From

text: there

text: I

text: would

text: have

text: had

text: an

text: uninterrupted

text: view

text: of

text: the

text: semifinal

text: showdown

text: between

text: Liverpool

text: and

text: Brian

text: Clough

text: 's

text: Nottingham

text: Forest

text: Clough

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: legends

text: of

text: the

text: British

text: game

text: had

text: been

text: denied

text: an

text: FA

text: Cup

text: Final

text: with

text: Forest

text: a

text: year

text: earlier

text: when

text: his

text: side

text: lost

text: to

text: Liverpool

text: at

text: the

text: same

text: stage

text: of

text: the

text: competition

text: and

text: at

text: the

text: same

text: venue

text: The

text: atmosphere

text: in

text: the

text: ground

text: for

text: the

text: semifinal

text: exploded

text: as

text: the

text: teams

text: emerged

text: onto

text: the

text: pitch

text: But

text: of

text: us

text: was

text: prepared

text: for

text: what

text: was

text: to

text: follow

text: The

text: match

text: action

text: lasted

text: less

text: than

text: six

text: minutes

text: I

text: ca

text: n't

text: remember

text: a

text: single

text: kick

text: What

text: I

text: do

text: recall

text: quite

text: vividly

text: are

text: the

text: scenes

text: of

text: distress

text: desperation

text: and

text: death

text: at

text: the

text: Liverpool

text: end

text: that

text: destroyed

text: so

text: many

text: families

text: and

text: shocked

text: the

text: world

text: Looking

text: to

text: my

text: left

text: and

text: behind

text: Liverpool

text: keeper

text: Bruce

text: Grobbelaar

text: 's

text: goal

text: I

text: was

text: drawn

text: to

text: a

text: huge

text: mushroom

text: like

text: effect

text: among

text: the

text: crowd

text: in

text: the

text: central

text: standing

text: enclosures

text: around

text: kick

text: off

text: time

text: See

text: Liverpool

text: players

text: and

text: fans

text: paying

text: tribute

text: to

text: victims

text: of

text: Hillsborough

text: disaster

text: Â

text: The

text: match

text: had

text: not

text: long

text: started

text: when

text: the

text: first

text: signs

text: of

text: a

text: major

text: problem

text: surfaced

text: Fans

text: began

text: frantically

text: attempting

text: to

text: climb

text: over

text: the

text: perimeter

text: fence

text: to

text: escape

text: the

text: crush

text: at

text: the

text: Leppings

text: Lane

text: end

text: of

text: the

text: ground

text: I

text: did

text: n't

text: know

text: it

text: at

text: the

text: time

text: but

text: the

text: swell

text: was

text: the

text: exit

text: point

text: of

text: a

text: tunnel

text: that

text: ran

text: under

text: the

text: stand

text: Through

text: it

text: hundreds

text: of

text: Liverpool

text: fans

text: had

text: attempted

text: to

text: make

text: their

text: way

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text: realizing

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text: two

text: caged

text: pens

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text: led

text: to

text: were

text: already

text: overcrowded

text: Many

text: had

text: the

text: life

text: squeezed

text: out

text: of

text: them

text: in

text: that

text: tunnel

text: Others

text: were

text: trampled

text: or

text: crushed

text: to

text: death

text: on

text: the

text: terraces

text: The

text: lucky

text: ones

text: clambered

text: to

text: safety

text: many

text: collapsing

text: on

text: the

text: pitch

text: Some

text: fans

text: were

text: hoisted

text: up

text: into

text: the

text: stand

text: above

text: by

text: fellow

text: supporters

text: but

text: the

text: main

text: escape

text: route

text: was

text: over

text: the

text: high

text: perimeter

text: fence

text: and

text: later

text: through

text: a

text: small

text: gate

text: that

text: was

text: forced

text: open

text: as

text: police

text: who

text: initially

text: thought

text: they

text: were

text: dealing

text: with

text: a

text: pitch

text: invasion

text: recognized

text: the

text: true

text: scale

text: of

text: the

text: problem

text: Advertising

text: boards

text: were

text: used

text: as

text: makeshift

text: stretchers

text: and

text: some

text: of

text: those

text: being

text: carried

text: away

text: had

text: their

text: heads

text: covered

text: by

text: coats

text: The

text: Sheffield

text: Wednesday

text: gymnasium

text: became

text: a

text: mortuary

text: The

text: Liverpool

text: end

text: of

text: the

text: pitch

text: resembled

text: a

text: casualty

text: station

text: with

text: frantic

text: efforts

text: being

text: made

text: to

text: treat

text: the

text: injured

text: and

text: save

text: lives

text: while

text: others

text: wandered

text: aimlessly

text: around

text: the

text: pitch

text: in

text: a

text: daze

text: I

text: will

text: always

text: remember

text: the

text: bid

text: to

text: revive

text: one

text: young

text: fan

text: in

text: front

text: of

text: the

text: main

text: stand

text: Those

text: efforts

text: seemed

text: to

text: go

text: on

text: forever

text: before

text: finally

text: hundreds

text: of

text: spectators

text: let

text: out

text: a

text: huge

text: cheer

text: as

text: the

text: lad

text: at

text: last

text: showed

text: some

text: sign

text: of

text: life

text: I

text: still

text: wonder

text: to

text: this

text: day

text: whether

text: or

text: not

text: he

text: made

text: it

text: Meanwhile

text: I

text: had

text: an

text: open

text: phoneline

text: to

text: a

text: copytaker

text: at

text: The

text: Press

text: Association

text: and

text: described

text: those

text: shocking

text: events

text: unfolding

text: in

text: front

text: of

text: me

text: including

text: news

text: of

text: the

text: first

text: fatalities

text: For

text: the

text: second

text: time

text: in

text: four

text: years

text: I

text: had

text: gone

text: to

text: cover

text: a

text: football

text: match

text: and

text: ended

text: up

text: filing

text: a

text: disaster

text: report

text: In

text: I

text: had

text: been

text: in

text: Brussels

text: with

text: Liverpool

text: to

text: cover

text: their

text: European

text: Cup

text: final

text: against

text: Juventus

text: when

text: fans

text: mainly

text: Italian

text: were

text: killed

text: at

text: the

text: Heysel

text: stadium

text: as

text: a

text: wall

text: collapsed

text: after

text: trouble

text: on

text: the

text: terraces

text: That

text: match

text: eventually

text: went

text: ahead

text: after

text: a

text: delay

text: of

text: minutes

text: Within

text: hours

text: of

text: returning

text: from

text: Belgium

text: I

text: was

text: among

text: a

text: small

text: group

text: of

text: football

text: writers

text: summoned

text: to

text: No

text: Downing

text: Street

text: for

text: a

text: meeting

text: with

text: British

text: Prime

text: Minister

text: Margaret

text: Thatcher

text: Mrs

text: Thatcher

text: planned

text: draconian

text: measures

text: to

text: combat

text: what

text: became

text: known

text: as

text: the

text: English

text: disease

text: but

text: it

text: was

text: the

text: appalling

text: events

text: at

text: Sheffield

text: that

text: finally

text: became

text: the

text: catalyst

text: for

text: change

text: The

text: Hillsborough

text: tragedy

text: was

text: played

text: out

text: in

text: full

text: view

text: of

text: spectators

text: and

text: TV

text: cameras

text: People

text: who

text: came

text: to

text: watch

text: a

text: football

text: match

text: went

text: home

text: haunted

text: by

text: scenes

text: of

text: carnage

text: and

text: chaos

text: that

text: will

text: stay

text: with

text: them

text: for

text: the

text: rest

text: of

text: their

text: lives

text: Later

text: in

text: an

text: area

text: beneath

text: the

text: empty

text: south

text: stand

text: FA

text: chief

text: executive

text: Graham

text: Kelly

text: faced

text: media

text: at

text: an

text: impromptu

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In our Behind the Scenes series, CNN correspondents share their experiences in covering news and analyze the stories behind the events. After a one-on-one interview with President Obama on Wednesday, CNN en EspaÃ±ol's Juan Carlos LÃ³pez is traveling with Obama to Mexico City and to the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago.

President Obama and Mexican President Felipe CalderÃ³n in Mexico City on Thursday.

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- It's the return of an American president to Mexico City. Although George W. Bush visited the country several times, he never made it to this city of more than 20 million people, and it is President Obama's first visit to Latin America.

Obama's relationship with Mexico started on shaky ground, although the first foreign leader he met with as president-elect was Mexican President Felipe CalderÃ³n. Reports from the Pentagon and the CIA considered that Mexico was at risk of becoming a failed state, something that didn't sit well with the CalderÃ³n government.

Washington corrected course and even admitted its own responsibility in Mexico's growing drug war, which killed 6,000 last year alone. Statements by Cabinet members and Obama himself calmed things down, but tensions arose again. Congress ended a pilot program that allowed Mexican trucks into U.S. territory, as contemplated in the North America Free Trade Agreement; Mexico, in line with the treaty, retaliated by imposing fees on 90 U.S. products.

Even so, the bilateral relationship is at a high point and large-scale protests aren't expected when Obama visits the Mexican capital.

But there are pending issues, such as immigration reform, trade and a pressing question in this capital: Who will the next U.S. ambassador be? Local media have been reporting that Carlos Pascual, a Cuban-American expert on Europe and a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, is Obama's choice, but the fact that he wrote a report for the Brookings Institute on Iraq and the importance of reconstructing a failed state wasn't well received in political and government circles.

Obama and CalderÃ³n have a lot to sort out in this one-day visit. Then comes the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago, where Obama will face 33 heads of state, including Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who called Obama ignorant on Latin-American issues, and other leaders who want Cuba, a member of the Organization of American States suspended since 1962, to be reinstated.

Although Obama lifted some restrictions on travel and remittances to the island by Cuban-Americans, many in the region want more, including the lifting of the decades-old embargo, something Obama says he is not considering.

It is not clear if Obama will be welcomed in the same way he was by Europe two weeks ago, but so far the signs are positive -- to have a U.S. president saying he is willing to listen to and treat Latin American neighbors as equals is something the region isn't used to.

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(CNN) -- The Federal Aviation Administration has suspended two air traffic controllers over last week's collision of two aircraft over the Hudson River that killed nine people, a spokeswoman said.

The wreckage of a plane that collided with a helicopter is lifted this week from the Hudson River.

A controller at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport handling the flight of a Piper airplane carrying three people "was involved in apparently inappropriate conversations on the telephone at the time of the accident," FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said in a statement Thursday.

A source with knowledge of the investigation said the controller was on the phone with his girlfriend "after he cleared the pilot for takeoff; he was still on the phone at the time of the crash."

In addition, "the supervisor was not present in the building as required," Brown said.

"While we have no reason to believe at this time that these actions contributed to the accident, this kind of conduct is unacceptable, and we have placed the employees on administrative leave and have begun disciplinary proceedings," she said.  Watch amateur video of the moment of impact Â»

"These are serious violations of the FAA regulations," said Mary Schiavo, former inspector general for the Transportation Department.

The union for air traffic controllers urged caution.

"We support that any such allegation is fully investigated before there is a rush to judgment about the behavior of any controller," said a statement from the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.

The National Transportation Safety Board is working with the FAA in investigating Saturday's collision of the Piper, which had taken off from Teterboro, with a sightseeing helicopter that was carrying five Italian tourists and a pilot.

No one aboard either aircraft survived the crash.

The NTSB has said the pilot of the small plane was cleared electronically and handed off to Newark, New Jersey, air traffic controllers, a standard procedure.

However, Newark's control tower never got a verbal response from the pilot of the small plane.

The controller put on leave was described as a longtime employee, the source said.

He and the supervisor face disciplinary action that could include their firing.

Also Thursday, FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt said the agency may reissue advisories to pilots using the busy airspace over the Hudson.

Pilots are urged to use a radio frequency dedicated to traffic in that corridor, fly no faster than 140 knots and turn on their lights as they enter that airspace.

Babbitt made the comments at an event at the agency's research facility in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

CNN's Susan Candiotti contributed to this report.

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