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Tonight for parts of california, suffering from extreme drought. they are facing possible flooding, mountain snow and strong winds. what can you tolls, gene? >> good to join you. were stalking about a bomb cyclone, basically an area of low pressure that intensifies rapidly in a 24-hour period. if pressure drops 24 millibars in 24 hours thats a bomb. its off the coast of california and pucking inland. something rare, the national weather service issued an excessive rainfall risk, indicated by the...

Fire suppression, a lot of safety mechanisms that go into those 191 issues that did mitigate the issue. so to think that tying this into this aircraft now -- the ones that have the accidents that have been caused by battery fires or any kind of cargo fire have resulted in significant damage to the aircraft, structural damage to the aircraft and subsequent crash. so -- and i dont suspect that here. obviously, because we have pings from that aircraft from hours and hours later. had there been a fi...

If there was a cargo fire detected, they would have been suppressed the. we know lithium ion batteries are very flammable and produce toxic fumes. perhaps while they were extinguishing the fires -- >> there a lot of ifs. >> they have a great fire suppression system and would evacuate the smoke and outside the aircraft if that was the case. >> if there was smoke or fumes and coming out of the area, these things were toxic and the very first thing. >> bells and whistles would be going off.

43 people died in that crash in california including the shooter and all of the passengers on board. planes have also been brought down by terrorism like lockerbie scotland in 1988. that plane took off from frankfurt germany, there was a bomb on board packed into a cassette player, packed into a suitcase. a fire on board that was not necessarily a bomb, was blamed for this south african airways 747 in the indian ocean in 1987. a cargo fire was blamed for the crash of valujet in the everglades. i...

Into the cockpit and shot both of the pilots. 43 people died in that crash in california including the shooter and all of the passengers on board. planes have also been brought down by terrorism like lockerbie scotland in 1988. that plane took off from frankfurt germany, there was a bomb on board packed into a cassette player, packed into a suitcase. a fire on board that was not necessarily a bomb, was blamed for this south african airways 747 in the indian ocean in 1987. a cargo fire was blamed...

43 people died in that crash in california including the shooter and all of the passengers on board. planes have also been brought down by terrorism like lockerbie scotland in 1988. that plane took off from frankfurt germany, there was a bomb on board packed into a cassette player, packed into a suitcase. a fire on board that was not necessarily a bomb, was blamed for this south african airways 747 in the indian ocean in 1987. a cargo fire was blamed for the crash of valujet in the everglades. i...

Crashed into waters off the southern coast of south korea. apparently that in that particular crash there was a report of a fire in the cargo component. so a compartment of that plane in 2011, caused from a cargo fire in the cargo compartment. this would be the third major crash involving asiana airlines. we dont know the extent of injuries nor do we know how many passengers were on board. >> gregg: weather conditions appear to have been calm. partly cloudy skies, light winds, temperatures in th...