(CBS News) Bruce Dunning, the CBS News correspondent whose 1975 television report on the last flight from Da Nang vividly captured the frantic end of the Vietnam War, died Monday in New York at the age of 73. The retired CBS newsman died at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan from injuries suffered in a fall. He lived in Union, City, N.J., where he had resided since his retirement from CBS in 2005. As a young correspondent reporting on the Vietnam War, Dunning developed an affinity for the region and spent most of his 35-year career at CBS News in the Far East, where he rose to become Asia bureau chief in 1989 based in Tokyo. In that position, he supervised all of the news division's operations in Asia until he retired. During that time, he served as president of the Tokyo Foreign Correspondents Club. Dunning was the first CBS News reporter to be based in China when he opened the Beijing bureau in 1981; in 1979, he was one of the first American broadcast journalists to report from North … [Read more...] about Bruce Dunning, CBS News correspondent who reported “the last flight from Da Nang,” dies at 73
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CBS News Logo Shuttle Program Exit Changes Space Coast Finance
This story was written by CBS News Miami Bureau Producer Megan Towey Space shuttle Atlantis blasted off Friday afternoon to the International Space Station for its 32nd and final flight. After 132 trips, NASA's shuttle program has only two flights remaining. Once Discovery and Endeavour launch from Kennedy Space Center later this year, the current shuttle space program will disappear into the pages of history. "Each launch that goes off it gets more and more emotional for everyone involved here," said Amelia Woodbridge, spokesperson for the Brevard Workforce Development Network. Emotional not just because it's the end of a profitable and legendary era, but for the impact the loss will leave behind. The Brevard Workforce Development Network is trying to help launch new careers for the estimated 9,000 space shuttle employees who will lose their jobs when Discovery and Endeavour complete their final missions. Those job losses are expected to cause a ripple effect through the entire … [Read more...] about CBS News Logo Shuttle Program Exit Changes Space Coast Finance
CBS News Logo Florida prof. determines start, end of shark season
The photos are remarkable. Snorkelers just feet away from more than a dozen sharks. Another group of sharks surfing off Fort Lauderdale Beach. And there is the video - downright amazing. Thousands of sharks lurking just off South Florida's shoreline. Stephen Kajiura, a professor at Florida Atlantic University, is captivated by it all. "It's terrifying for some people. They say 'Wow look at all those sharks that are there. I'm not going to get in the water'," he told CBS News Miami. Kajiura has been capturing the images of the sharks for five years. His bi-weekly flights are part of study to track shark migrations. "These sharks are snowbirds. They do exactly what our visitors do from the North," Kajiura explained. The videos confirm sharks arrive here starting in January. And by this time of the year, mid-April, they are on their way out. What Kajiura discovered during the course of his study was the ability to predict exactly when they arrive and leave. "Sharks are very attune to … [Read more...] about CBS News Logo Florida prof. determines start, end of shark season
CBS News Logo First woman to receive most advanced bionic hand
A Fort Lauderdale, Florida, woman is the first female patient to receive the most technologically advanced prosthetic hand on the market. "I feel empowered. I walk into a room and I used to try to blend in - I don't need to blend in now," Lizbeth Uzcategui, who was born without a right arm below her elbow, told CBS Miami's Natalia Zea. "I want everybody to know what this is all about. I cannot wait to learn about all the other things I'm going to be capable of doing." The precise and programmable prosthetic hand, called the i-limb quantum, is made by a company called Touch Bionics. It uses signals from the remaining limb muscles, sent through electrodes attached to the skin, to control movements. Muscle contractions are picked up by those electrodes, which signal the hand to open or close. The hand is further controlled through Bluetooth technology via a smartphone or desktop app. The black, anatomical hand has up to 36 different grip patterns that can be changed using simple … [Read more...] about CBS News Logo First woman to receive most advanced bionic hand
CBS News Logo Woman rejecting husband’s calls after he was found in Mexico with missing teen
ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- A 45-year-old man who police say ran off to Mexico with a teenage girl was being held in Miami after he was returned to the U.S. over the weekend. The lawyer for Kevin Esterly's wife told CBS News that he has been calling her from jail in Florida. Stacey Esterly hasn't been accepting her husband's calls, attorney John Waldron said in a statement. "Stacey is happy that Amy is home and that Kevin is in custody," Waldron said, referring to 16-year-old Amy Yu, who was taken to a hospital Sunday after returning from Mexico. Amy apparently was unharmed, CBS News correspondent Meg Oliver reports. Her mother told Oliver she was so relieved when authorities found her that she started crying. Federal agents and Mexican authorities found Amy and Kevin Esterly in Playa del Carmen on Saturday and they were flown to Miami, authorities said. Police said the girl, who was in good health, arrived on Sunday in Philadelphia and was taken home to Allentown, 60 miles northwest of the … [Read more...] about CBS News Logo Woman rejecting husband’s calls after he was found in Mexico with missing teen