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buried lead

June 12th, 2014
05:56 PM ET

Ride along with border control: Witnessing a wave of unaccompanied kids flood into U.S.

(CNN) – The U.S. and Texas have spent decades and billions defending the border to keep out drug cartels, bad guys, and people without permission.

But despite all that, they now seem powerless to stop the most recent illegal tide: children.

CNN's Martin Savidge reports.

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world lead

March 14th, 2014
05:57 PM ET

Recreating the last known path of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

(CNN) – Among the many unanswered questions surrounding missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: What was happening inside the cockpit just moments before the flight lost contact?

While details may never be known for certain, there are ways for investigators to at least get a sense for what that pilot and co-pilot of that flight may have experienced in the night skies over the Gulf of Thailand.

CNN's Martin Savidge took the co-pilot's seat inside the cockpit of a Boeing 777 simulator in Ontario, Canada. He replicates the exact path of flight of 370 from takeoff to the plane's disappearance in the video above.

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