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And deadpan but seemed more animated in general after the quadruple murders. heres the prosecutor in idaho during fridays press conference. >> please ask the public, anyone who knows about this individual, come forward. call the tipline. report anything you know about him to help the investigators and eventually our office and the court system understand fully everything there is to know about not only the individual, but what happened and why. >> reporter: during the presser, investigators said...

We have breaking news in lafayette, louisiana. five people are dead and four others are dead after a small plane crashed into a field. the lafayette fire chief says theyre still not sure how many passengers were on the plane. there was a survivor that was transported to the hospital. three people on the ground also taken to hospital. lets bring in peter golds who is the manager director and a cnn aifuate analyst a-- aviatio analyst. what is the first thing theyre looking for here? >> first they ...

As long as presidents have sent americans into battle. they have dealt with the burden of losing american blood and treasure on the battlefield. and consoling those left behind. our friend the historian, reminded us this week, of the special presidential role, he pointed to this letter abraham lincoln wrote to the daughter of a fallen union army soldier in 1862. here with us tonight to talk about the special role of american presidents, pulitzer prize winning author, jon meacham whos also an msn...

Quote once a week, so were off the hook. >> its actually in the contract. >> thank you for being here. >> is the polite way to ask this question, is president trumps modern era antithesis bush 41, both in is president trumps modern erera, bush 41, both in years of terms in service in the navy, youngest aifuate r shot down, rescued, later sent americans into battle, a note writer as you have written, hell write a thank you note if you hold the door open for him. >> you know, the first time you wo...

The distress call came from the ground to the plane, not from the plane. >> thats my understanding. with a lot of emergencies, weve talked about this before on air. its aifuate, navigate and communicate. that may have been in the process of navigating so they werent getting themselves into a terrain danger because they know, im sure, theyre situationally aware of the terrain in the alps. and then they wanted to communicate. something stopped them from communicating directly because maybe they ha...

Get right something we never anticipated or specifically trained for, and being in the open ocean would be a much more challenging situation, but over water in general, its featureless terrain where depth perception is difficult, descending without engine thrust, much steeper and rapidly than a virtual landing on a runway where you can make a more gradual approach. it would be a very challenging thing to do but its possible theoretically possible. >> i went back to your audio from 2009 u.s. airw...

And so far no sign of it. >> i think early on -- i hope that is not the case. with the malaysia flight we had an issue where the pilot had signed off. and then we had a radar track of it flying back over the peninsula. here we have a pilot asking to go up to a higher elevation and then losing contact with the aircraft. so i think the similarities just are not there for this flight. but its still very alarming that we havent really seen anything of it yet. >> what does it tell you scott, that the...

That there was no distress call? >> it tells me a couple things. it tells me one that either something catastrophic happened in the air that the pilots had no knowledge of or could have done anything about. or secondly, it could have been something where the pilots were focusing on trying to fly that aircraft and just never got ahold of it again and crashed into the ocean. >> we talked last time, i remember, and the pilots were telling me when youre up there its aifuate navigate and communicate....

To tell us there is a part of a performance chart and thats where you climb and put so much work on your engine or you have got a bad situation with weather. the plane, you know develops a problem quickly. there is no time for a call. >> there are different kinds of calls. there is a may day call and what is deemed a pan pan. >> the bottom line is and i think mary will agree with me. our axiom is aifuate, navigate communicate. we dont know what it was. it may very well have been turbulence with ...

To be okay. >> one of the good reasons to have those dam -- cameras up there. lets get back to the top story this morning. how does a 600,000 pound jet liner just vanish without a trace. lets turn to renee marsh for possible answers. >> three words, aifuate, navigate and communicate. it appears whatever happened, it was so fast, the pilots never got to that last step. until they find the data recorders, ail possible theories are on the table. there no shortage of ex-plan sagss. >> you just hav...