Witnesses: FedEx Truck Afire Before Hitting Bus
WHITFIELD: All right, we'll get back to Malaysia Flight 370. First there are other stories we're following. Here is Nick Valencia -- Nick.</s>NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Fred. There are plenty of news to catch you up on. Here are some of the headlines. Let's start in California where there are new developments today in that deadly bus crash just outside of Sacramento. CNN affiliate, KOBR, spoke with witnesses who said a FedEx truck was on fire before it rammed into the bus on Thursday. The bus was carrying prospective students to Humboldt State University to visit the campus. Ten people were killed, five of them high school students and more than 30 were injured. Our affiliate, KXTV, has an emotional reunion between a surviving student and his parents.</s>GABRIEL ROXAS, KXTV REPORTER (voice-over): Prayers were answered for the Hoyt family as they arrived from San Diego at Glenn Medical Center.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Good to see you.</s>ROXAS: On his way to freshman orientation at Humboldt State University, Harley Hoyt expected to see the first glimpse of his future but instead --</s>UNIDENTIFIED SURVIVOR: Chaos is what I saw.</s>ROXAS: Sitting in the back of the bus, Harley didn't see the FedEx truck coming, but he heard the screams of the others up front.</s>UNIDENTIFIED SURVIVOR: Once we hit the impact, the front of the bus was on fire. Smoke started coming through the whole bus.</s>ROXAS: Harley was able to break open an emergency window exit just in time.</s>UNIDENTIFIED SURVIVOR: I looked out the window and the FedEx bus was already on fire. We're going to blow up any second.</s>ROXAS: Getting out of the bus was just the beginning.</s>UNIDENTIFIED SURVIVOR: We all crossed Interstate 5. And after that everyone just like was laying on the grass, people were out of it, people were crying, people were pulling their hair, people were screaming.</s>ROXAS: Harley suffered only minor injuries, something his parents had to see to believe.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He did definitely had angel with him.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We have a special gift given to us.</s>UNIDENTIFIED SURVIVOR: Lucky is an understatement. Blessed is an understatement. I don't know how to describe how I feel. I am so thankful I am here, grateful that I'm alive.</s>VALENCIA: Just a horrific scene there. Our thoughts to those that are affected by that. That's Gabriel Roxas with our affiliate KXTV. Our thanks to him. The first family's has dropped from last year. President Obama and the first lady have released their tax returns and recorded adjusted gross income of $481,000 for 2013, about 21 percent less than last year. Most of the income is from the president's salary, of course, the Obamas reported also reported about $100,000 in book sales. Their federal tax bill was $98,000. A hefty price there. A special stop today for the Duchess of Cambridge during her royal tour of New Zealand visiting a children's hospice, Katherine, had a tea party with a 6-year-old girl whose mother has terminal cancer. Later, she joined husband, Prince William, at the Cambridge Town Hall, delivered flowers to a war memorial. You see the photos there. Baby George is not with the royal couple on this leg of their tour. Beautiful moment there with that tea party, though. I can't get enough of that.</s>WHITFIELD: I know. That is so sweet. And I'm sure if Baby George was there, he would upstage everybody.</s>VALENCIA: He would be the star.</s>WHITFIELD: Probably a good idea not to bring him to the tea party. All right, thanks so much, Nick. Appreciate that. All right, straight ahead, what will it take to recover the black boxes from Flight 370? Our live coverage continues right after this.