Disasters

Airline Safety today
Airline safety experts are still trying to make sense of thousands of lines data from a survey of airline pilots by NASA. Midmorning also looks at the potential for major carrier mergers, a passenger bill of rights, and whether there will be any improvement in flight delays.
Traffic fatalities increase slightly in 2007
Preliminary data released Wednesday by the state Office of Traffic Safety show that slightly more people were killed in traffic-related accidents in 2007 than in the previous year.
Reaction to Benazir Bhutto's assassination
Midmorning discusses the latest on the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and consequences of her death for Pakistan's tumultuous politics.
Tiger escape raises safety concerns
Officials are trying to figure out how a tiger escaped from its enclosure Tuesday at the San Francisco Zoo. The 300-pound tiger mauled three men -- one of them fatally -- before being killed by police.