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Transportation corridor for isis shuttling militants across artillery and also vehicles. so taking back control is a very key victory, strategic one for those kurdish fighters. this is also the area, we talked a lot about this that isis militants early monday abducted 250 syrian christians. by the way im hearing that number could even be higher than that. were talking about men, women and even more distressing children and according to one of my contacts with the syrian human rights group all of...

Governorship or something, he represents the people that voted for him, the people that voted for his opponents, and frankly the people who didnt vote. you put those three clusters together theres some real problems here. we need coalitions and bipartisan work on foreign policy to defeat isil on health care on immigration. and what the president has failed to do not just the last several days but for the past six-plus years is engage. governing is tough. compromise is difficult. theres a give-an...

That propaganda. they really came around and got some technical savvy. theyre doing a lot of automation. youre talking about 90,000 tweets. thats not people clicking thats using more sophisticated tech tools to get that smeblg out. >> is the online battle the biggest battle in this war on terrorism here? >> its one of the battles. you often see clusters of people. if it was just about the internet that wouldnt make sense. you would expect it to be even but you do have clusters of people. people ...

Improved weather will help make progress. im going to bring in meteorologist karen maginnis. karen, 15-foot waves what else do we know about the conditions there? >> well this is very typical because this is the monsoon season across this region of the world. even by their standards, they have seen exceptional amounts of rainfall where the week prior to the disaster we were looking at tremendous flooding across his region. heres the search area. right down there, surabaya is going to make the fl...

Any change today? >> every day weve watched these huge clusters of thunderstorms wind their way across the java sea. they have seen torrential rainfall. this is monsoon season. there is a seasonal shift of precipitation. right around 7 degrees south latitude which is just about this position they can see enormous amounts of rain. even over the previous few weeks, they were seeing exceptional rainfall given this time of year. well to have so many vessels in the ocean or on the ocean or in the sky...

Cells, there are a whole bunch of cells that will be much lower lower. and there are clusters so that a jet moves at about 8 miles a minute. and when you deviate around you deviate around those clusters. you do not fly through them. and this is exactly they have on board weather radar that shows the amount of precipitation which gives the pilots the ability to see areas that they want to avoid. it is highly likely. its probably -- b probable that these pilots knew and had a plan of how to avoid ...

These very heavy downpours and the intertropical convergence zone and it shifts depending on the time of year. surabaya sits at about seven degrees south late ti attitude from the equator. about seven degrees south of the equator. this is the trajectory that we were looking at for flight 8501 asia air -- airasia. and they seemingly took off fine but we did see in some of the satellite images these huge clusters of thunderstorms that pilots would certainly be very wary of. they would see it in th...

All the way up to southern thailand not on this map. obviously the quietest that we have seen because its 4:30 in the morning. what time do pilots show up before their flight and if they do get brief, do they brief themselves because in these clusters of red here showing possibly turk lens we have down in the area occasional embedded thunderstorms. he knows this region well. do they do it themselves? >> tom, its a great question. in this day and age, we do. we brief ourselves.

Distance that this plane would fly, its a couple of hours in the air. you would think nothing of it except if youre the pilot, you see this these huge clusters of heavy precipitation, supercells that just kind of erupt, thats why more than likely the pilot asked for a diversion, and once it did, then we lost track of the airplane. no doubt it is in the java sea and thats where theyre going to begin their search. >> brian, when the aerial search resumes in a little over seven hours, what will con...

In the next 48 hours there will be clusters of faul small thunderstorms, maybe showers. some with lightening. not as large as weve seen expect for on land masses. this is our last known contact position. we have the little island here. this could play a role for search and rescue teams as they look for possible debris. if visibility is okay these smaller white lines are lighter winds coming in from the gulf of thailand through the strait here but a more of a west to easterly fashion here theres ...