explosives, they can build a homemade belt, get to a soft facility like a cafe that s pretty easy to do. i think the question, john, is the magnitude of this. if you re talking about a dozen, 15 people involved in an operation, that s 15 people who don t talk to the wrong person, don t get on the wrong e-mail and don t get on the wrong phone. surprising in this operation to me is not that it happened. it s the operational security in the cell that led them not to be detected. so how many people were involved. daveed, french president hollande meets with president obama at the white house tomorrow. do you think anything concrete will come of that? will that just be another moment where leaders come out and say we re going to fight the battle against terror together? or you think they ll say something specific? publicly i think it will be much more general, but i think there may be specific things that come out of it that are a little less public. for example, what hollande clearly w
the flight path but so far they haven t spotted anything concrete. four countries are assisting in this search. malaysia singapore, indonesia is leading it and australia has given assistance. they have set an ap3c. they searched all day yesterday and all day today and weather does seem like a factor. quite cloudy here today so visibility is less than ideal. tomorrow it s supposed to rain and supposed to rain for the next few days. it s monsoon season out here and the wet weather will contribute to a much more difficult search effort on the water. they re hoping if it is not in the water, i know it sounds not too optimistic at the moment because their best educated guess is its under the java sea. they hope somehow it landed on land. there s quite a few islands in that area. they re hoping that potentially there could be some survivors. this is still very much a search
further more, israel has put actual concrete steps forward to show its will. they ve released hundreds of palestinian prisoners including terrorists. what exactly has past abbas given? there s been talks, but they haven t done anything concrete, so i think for secretary kerry to turn on his allies and say israel is breakdown and talk, it s not helpful and i don t think it s true. saying both sides have shortcomings, but clearly, he made it clear that israel was responsible by virtue of not implementing the prisoner release. the palestinians are signalling with activity of sign ing the international
many say why are they doing anything concrete. of course, the ukrainians realize, the united states has no stomach for a shooting match with the russians, but they doubt whether the west has any stomach to get involved in an economic or a trade war with russia because russia is is holding the economic card as well. the question of natural gas. about half comes from russia. about 30% to western europe. so the west doesn t want to jeopardize that. russia s already said it s going to increase natural gas prices to ukraine 40%. that s going to hit them hard in the pocket. and still, russian troops continue to mass according to nato and u.s. officials. really using energy and the flow of it as a weapon against the ukrainians. all right, thank you so much. and their gas bills just went up 40%.
and with all these conflicting reports and malaysian airlines backing off for another report, how are families handling this? you can only imagine just how difficult it must be for the families. we are going into the 6th day. just turned day six in the hunt. several hour away from daylight and still we don t have anything concrete. what i can say about the search is it s something we got yesterday and the fact that this is a path, a flight path that has been inflicted that shows a plane, an unidentified plane flying back over malaysia into the streets. why this is linked to malaysian airlines, the radar signal was picked up just after the plane