send a message, it wouldn t get through. when the airplane diverted and turned back over the malaysian peninsula, there was probably some period of time where they were in range of cell towers. when you re at high altitude a lot of cell phone systems shut off any signal coming from the airplane. that was one of the early stories was loved ones said the phone calls were still going through. but i ve got a question for you, clayton. maybe you know the answer. you use the find my iphone function, wouldn t that work? if you re in anary that actually has cell coverage. you drive through parts of the united states, evenรง off of the main highway 15 miles and you get terrible cell coverage and therefore not likely to find it. even on 9th street you lose coverage in new york. above those cell towers, can be cut off. even if you ever accidentally leave your phone off when you re taking off from a flight,
the signal is getting all the way to the target cell phone. so it could mean that just the circuit is engaging and they re trying to find the cell phone. so i don t think that there is a lot going on there. and the fact that you know when you re out over the water you re not in range of any cell towers so you can t get cell coverage. if people were on board a jet that was hijacked taking out their cell phones trying to send texts or cell phones do you find it odd that not a single one got through in five-hour s time if this were the scenario they were looking at? yeah, when you re in the middle of the ocean, you wouldn t be in the range of the cell tower if you were trying to send a message and it wouldn t get through. when the aircraft turned back over the malaysian peninsula there was probably a period of time where they were in range of cell towers. however, when you re in high altitude a lot of the cell phones actually shut off any signal coming from an airplane.
before the first explosion went off. i had just seen my wife and four kids at the finish line. i d gone about a block and a half to do a bunch of media interviews, heard the first explosion, saw the smoke. my first reaction was, i did see my wife and kids. it took about 25 minutes to dash a text to them, because there was no cell coverage going on there. it was one of the scariest things i ve had to encounter. greta: you won with 51% of the vote in the primary, beating out two other candidates combined, only with 49%. you re now the republican candidate for the u.s. senate, not in a state that s typically a state that elects senators, with the exception of senator scott brown. i m curious, is immigration reform one of your burning issues? your parents are from colombia. your first language here in the united states is spanish. are you interested in immigration reform? sure. i mean, you know, i have a unique perspective on it. my parents came from colombia
before the first explosion went off. i had just seen my wife and four kids at the finish line. i d gone about a block and a half to do a bunch of media interviews, heard the first explosion, saw the smoke. my first reaction was, i did see my wife and kids. it took about 25 minutes to dash a text to them, because there was no cell coverage going on there. it was one of the scariest things i ve had to encounter. greta: you won with 51% of the vote in the primary, beating out two other candidates combined, only with 49%. you re now the republican candidate for the u.s. senate, not in a state that s typically a state that elects senators, with the exception of senator scott brown. i m curious, is immigration reform one of your burning issues? your parents are from colombia. your first language here in the united states is spanish. are you interested in immigration reform? sure. i mean, you know, i have a unique perspective on it. my parents came from colombia
the cell coverage must have been shut down or maybe there was a lot of people on cell, so nobody could get through to anybody. and, frankly, it was a state of bewilderment for the whole group as we sat there waiting to figure out what was next. all right. ellen and steve, thank you very much. we re so glad that you are both safe and together tonight. we appreciate your time. i want to update everyone on some information that we have just coming in. you just heard the chairman of the homeland security chairman mccaul say a person of interest is in custody undergoing question. an update he said he just received in a briefing a few moments ago. and to add to that, our reporter is saying that police are searching for a penske truck that tried too gain access to the marathon route before the blast but turned away. in addition, in terms of what sort of an explosion this was, you heard so many questions about were there ball barings involved or nails or thinged