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Searching, authorities deciding about what how theyre going to search for this plane. what they have done is called it a very broad search area and divided it into four parts, quad rants, each one of them about 100,000 square kilometers. indonesia sending vessels, but other countries are helping. singapore, australia sending planes. malaysia sendingships. the weather is better than it was yesterday when large waves and clouds hampered operations and of course visibility. air controllers lost con...

Analyzing all the evidence. and grieving pilot. new information about the planes captain, including his flight record and a very personal loss only days ago. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. im brianna keilar. youre in "the situation room." >> this is cnn breaking news. we have breaking news this hour. the search for a missing airasia passenger plane is due to get back under way and expand to cover four additional areas. its...

Lost contact with air controllers over java sea. dense storm clouds blanketed the area at the time of the disappearance. air searches are suspended until daylight, about four hours away there, but ships are still combing the area. meanwhile relatives of the 162 people on board are awaiting any word. live in honolulu where president obama is on vacation is being believed on the situation. dan? >> reporter: thats right, doug. shortly after that airasia flight disappeared, the white house issued ...

Are flying. they do deconfliction and separate the two areas of attack to make sure we dont bump into each other. >> one of the key questions what does iran get out of this and is it a wink, wink? we have iran not directly but take care of the problem on the ground and that we cant fully and effectively do because we dont have air controllers on the ground, does that help to buy iowa ran additional time and are we trading those things is what i am asking? >> that is a great question. there has t...

Their mission is not to engage. they may eventually turn into terminal air controllers where if they do initiate air strikes they will control the air at the point of impact, but thats the only engagement that they will. even in afghanistan when the special forces went in, they were never really engaged during the invasion of afghanistan. they were actually controlling air. so at the same time, these -- this shows support and it gives the iraqi army the necessary ba backbone to really push forwa...

Repeated statements that he does not want to put "boots on the ground in iraq." joining me now, colonel oliver north, he is host of "war stories" and also author of the new book "counterfeit lies." colonel, great to see you. the thought, i suppose, perhaps we send some special forces to assist in counterterrorism and training of some of the iraqi troops. your thoughts on that? >> well, i think its too late for that because one you dont have a status of forces agreement, which is why he originall...

And i commit news tonight. whether they know it in washington or not, ive spent 11 out of 13 ramadans in that part of the world. heres whats going to happen. come june 28th when ramadan begins, the battle lines are going to be static because theyre not going to attack, unless weve killed a whole bunch of civilians with air strikes without air controllers on the ground. you see, what this administration has done is created a cascade of catastrophe with their dithering and delay, going all the way...

Controllers. you need joint tactical air controllers to control munitions being dropped from airplanes like youre showing on the screen right now. they ought not to do that without a status of forces agreement. what they should do is start immediately evacuating as many american citizens as they possibly can from iraq because you dont want a repeat of saigon 1975. >> you think we need to get the americans out of there, asap? >> absolutely. and dont wait for this thing to develop further, because...

But wherever those battle lines are, thats going to be the stalemate that divides iraq into a kurdish state, an islamic radical sunni state in the middle and the shiites in the south. thats the reality of what were getting. why would we want to start bombing people without air controllers on the ground with the iraqis? and the reason why we dont want to put them with the iraqis is we dont have that status of forces agreement and this administration ought not to do that to american troops. you ne...

And out of the scene is to provide some assistance and have somebody like crocker on the ground. there were just elections in iran. parliament is still split. golden tud to create a coalition. crocker knows all the players. if obama would allow himself to have people of great competence and stature involve themselves and conducting foreign policy other than running it himself in the presence of lets say people who dont exactly have the stature of henry kissinger. >> i was surprised although ther...