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Given full access to experts from not just our ntsb and faa who are the best in the world but you have british experts and french experts that have been through these crash investigations and disappearing airplane investigations many times in the past and they would have gotten a great deal of guidance. the second part would be just how to create a command post, manage a command post, manage a crisis, and then disseminate information to the victims, the victim families. >> sure. >> and the publi...

The global media and from their own people and the victims families at the two airports in beijing and cue all la kuala lumpur. so theyve gone to each extreme. if they dont put it out, they are not forthcoming and if they put it out, they are inaccurate. thats a struggle theyve faced since the beginning. >> this new information that they preprogrammed the flight path once the flight took off presumably from inside the cockpit, what does that say? >> well, it locks in the theory that whatever hap...

Also polystyrofoam boxes that fishermen used for submerged nets. they have to go low enough to see those things but so far just frustration. >> is there a command center of some sort? with 26 countries involved in this obviously looking at a big area. ought to be one central command center to sort of help organize this. >> from the conversations im convinced they are doing their best. there is also a sense of being overwhelmed by. this they have never had to engage in multination before. challen...

Debris from afar. also polystyrofoam boxes that fishermen used for submerged nets. they have to go low enough to see those things but so far just frustration. >> is there a command center of some sort? with 26 countries involved in this obviously looking at a big area. ought to be one central command center to sort of help organize this. >> from the conversations im convinced they are doing their best. there is also a sense of being overwhelmed by. this they have never had to engage in multinati...

Until we take some eyeballs on that fuselage or recover those flight recorders, the black boxes. >> mary? >> also, if this was like an air france scenario, again, there was a mechanical problem followed by pilot error, and it just stalls and falls, its been likened to a leaf, thats where it would break up. its possible, and for the familys sake, it is hope it is. every piece of information is excruciatingly painful for them. i hope this is it. >> david, what do you make of the communication by m...

Command center, the french were very very careful to bea their version of the ntsb, very careful with the way what was released and the way it was released. i now appreciate that. because these conflicting bits of information and contradictory bits of information can confusion bits of information have got to be tearing them apart. this is a horrible situation for them to be in. >> david gallo,appreciate you being on with us tonight. mary sciavo as well. coming up next well talk to one of the a...

Search area is and limit it down as much as possible. this is one of the most perplexing situations i have seen and a horrible station to be in. >> how would you narrow down the search area? there is no debris and pieces of seat or metal. how do they know where to look? >> you cant. the only thing that narrows it down is the amount of fuel in the plane. its that big. normally the way we would narrow is down is find bits of the plane floating on the ocean and you use the scientists to back track ...

Was fixed. >> at the moment that everyone discovered what a disaster it was and the white house came out saying partly its because so many people are trying to enroll that we cant handle all of this volume, privately, the debate they were having whether it could be saved at all or whether they were going to have to start over, just scrap the whole thing and there was about a week in the middle of october where that was the debate. in the end, it was a bunch of outside tech wizards, many from sil...

Reagan and raleigh airport. but what about those planes that we just showed you that did get into the air? today, we went behind the scenes to look at the operations that coordinates thousands of planes despite a major storm on the move. >> atlanta with the freezing rain, it just started to snow at charlotte. no changes to that. >> reporter: conference calls every two hours inside the faa command center as another winter storm dumps rain, ice and snow. on the call, airlines, airports and air tra...

The big story today about the cancellations, and today we saw more than 3,300 cancellations. the hardest hit airports, atlanta, charlotte, washington, reagan and raleigh airport. but what about those planes that we just showed you that did get into the air? today, we went behind the scenes to look at the operations that coordinates thousands of planes despite a major storm on the move. >> atlanta with the freezing ceilings, and it started to snow just now at charlotte. no changes on that. >> rep...