Tiger Woods & those "Slumdog" kids! You didn't see them this week on Sanchez.

Deadly riots in Bangladesh. A daring rescue in Yosemite. And Tiger Woods?

What could all of those things have in common?

Well, they're all stories that Rick Sanchez couldn't manage to fit into his short, one-hour newscast this week.

Here, T.J. Holmes runs off a few others.

Twitter Users Broke The News! (iReport)

Something to take note of today, and it's one of my favorite things to talk about. It's about smashing that piece of glass that separates you and me.

Every time you, the TV news viewer, can reach news organizations directly, reach THE WORLD directly, I get very excited.

It's the very reason I keep my newscast interactive. You have input, you help us decide how to fill my hour of CNN, and sometimes you do our jobs for us.

It happened today: a commercial airliner crashed this morning in the Netherlands. A horrible scene. A Boeing 737 broke into pieces and at least nine people died.

But do you know how we learned about it? The first pictures and the first details came from Twitter users.

People who saw the plane go down broke the story, took the first images, and described the scene. Not professional journalists, but people like you, who used the web and their followers to spread the word.

See the amazing iReport pictures here.

By the way, I mentioned that nine people died in this horrible crash? Well, get this: 125 people survived.

That's nothing short of impossible to believe after seeing the horrific wreckage. The Turkish Airlines jet crashed into a field short of the runway in Amsterdam. Police say that at least three crew members are among the dead.

This was no "Landing on the Hudson" - but it was no Buffalo, NY tragedy either.

We're sad for those killed - and amazed that so many others walked away.

Hey, he's YOUR Education Secretary. What do you want to know?

Rick's guest: the new U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

We went to the people who have the most questions for him: YOU!

Rick fires questions from Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace users to the man in control of the nation's educational system.

Four-day school weeks? Arts and music programs? What about No Child Left Behind?

Watch the clip, and let us know how you see your kids' academic future under Arne Duncan's leadership.

He's Sorry. (Getty Images)

Something to take note of today, an apology from Rupert Murdoch.

It comes as a bit of a shocker to most that Murdoch, the owner of Fox News, would personally apologize for the insensitivity of one of his news outlets, but that is exactly what he is doing.

He's apologizing for the cartoon that shows a chimp being shot twice in the chest and references President Obama's stimulus package.

Here's the apology:
"Last week, we made a mistake. We ran a cartoon that offended many people. Today I want to personally apologize to any reader who felt offended, and even insulted." - Rupert Murdoch

Since arriving in New York more than 30 years ago, Murdock and his associates have, according to the Village Voice, “delighted in throwing gasoline on every racial fire they could spot.”

So what’s different now? Is it that Murdoch is no longer interested in making money on tabloids, because he owns the Wall Street Journal?

Or is it because he’s afraid some people, like Rev. Al Sharpton did on this show last week, will successfully challenge whether he should be allowed to own so many media companies?

In New York, they’re betting on the latter.

What do you think?

Jindal & Steele: the new rising stars of the GOP.

Check out the new rock stars of the Republican party: Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal and newly-named head of the RNC Michael Steele.

Really? The Republican party?

These two guys are very similar (not only because they ethnically break the GOP mold) but also very different politicians.

Governor Jindal will deliver his party's response to the president's first prime-time address to the nation. Steele says the Republican party's new public relations campaign is going to be "off the hook", as he aims GOP principles as what he calls "urban-suburban hip-hop settings".

Wow.

Rick grills CNN Political Editor Mark Preston on the new vision and new faces of the Grand Old Party, and takes your questions and comments from Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook.

It's a smart conversation.

The governor and her daughter: Should we be paying attention? (Getty Images)

This show steered clear of Bristol Palin's pregnancy. We just didn't think it was relevant.

In fact, generally speaking, media outlets in print and broadcast, with the exception of several blogs, stayed away from the issue.

Why?

Well, for the same reason we chose to not show you Rihanna's beat-up face last week. Some things, even in a public person's life, are still private.

So along comes Fox News and what do they do? They interview Bristol Palin, who tells them this:

"But I think abstinence is, like, the, I don’t know how to put it, like, the main, everyone should be abstinent or whatever, but it’s not realistic at all." - Bristol Palin

Governer Palin is expected to ride the evangelical wave of support into political viability in 2012.

One problem: evangelical groups saw the interview with Palin's daughter and are not amused. Here's what one pro-abstinence group said:

"While Bristol's story makes for an interesting human-interest story, her comment should not be the basis to form public policy." - National Abstinence Education Association (NAEA)

The real irony here? The governor who asked the media to stay away from her kids, has her daughter do an interview with FOX News and ends up getting heat about her daughter's comments.

Not from the left…but from her own base.

What do you think?

www.twitter.com/ricksanchezcnn

"CNN anchor Rick Sanchez has built his 3 p.m. program around Twitter, as well as Facebook and MySpace, since the show's launch last fall. Sanchez, who has 56,000 followers, reads some tweets on the air and producers run excerpts at the bottom of the screen."

That's just an excerpt from a long Howard Kurtz column that ran in February 23rd's Washington Post.

It's all about how news anchors are now using social media to better connect to and integrate with their audience.

But we know who started it all, right?

CLICK HERE to read the whole column.

Is that what I THINK it is on the road? (KUTV)

Snow shuts down traffic in the Sierras...but you won't believe what ground drivers to a halt in Salt Lake City this week!

And how much raw sewage flowed into the San Francisco Bay?

Watch this clip and see what other stories Rick Sanchez didn't show you this week.

This is definitely a foul. (WSFA)

Montgomery, Alabama. The game wasn't even close!

It was the 4th quarter of a class 5A high school basketball semifinal game, when a scuffle on the court spread into the stands.

Talk about a mess! Dozens of fans punched and kicked each other until police and school security officers managed to break it up.

Both schools have been kicked out of the state playoffs, but is that a strong enough penalty?

In this clip, you'll see the brawl and the arrests. Plus Rick, law enforcement analyst Mike Brooks, and In Session's Ashleigh Banfield break it down and discuss whether or not there are criminal charges to pursue.