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5,000 feet in those ten minutes. they had punched the 7700 but at no time during that process, did they get on and speak with anyone on the ground. as youre saying something is going on on that plane that they are far too focused on dealing with it than anyone having the time to call somebody on the ground. >> i think well learn a lot with the black boxes because we need to know what they were seeing in the cockpit since we cant hear what they were thinking otherwise. that would tell us a lot. a...

Sometimes it was a dramatic playing up of the aspect to it. it was uncommon that we were damaging patient records in your head when you think about patient records, oh my god, theyre causing somebody to die. >> an unauthorized intrusion into the computer system caused the computer to fail. >> the condition monitoring the cancer patients. >> this could have been damaging to patients. >> we werent willing to go on camera my tornado attorneys felt we needed to respond to this. >> friendly cost with...

Successfully tapped into the computer of the nuclear weapons research laboratory in loss alamos alamos. >> breaking into the computer system was really easy to do. >> how easy was it? >> very, very easy. >> i didnt know what i wanted to do with my life. i mean i thought i was going to do something like bus driving or cab driving. everything seemed boring. i touched a computer, and that was exciting. lunchtime i would eat my lunch and head into the computer room. everyone would go outside and pla...

The wrong direction. this week i think both parties are coming back to common sense. >> great to have you on. thank you. real-life incident similar to the movie "war games." a group of teenagers in milwaukee who in the 1980s hacked into a computer system. what they did, and where they are now, is next. (mom) when our little girl was born we got a subaru. its where she said her first word. (little girl) no! saw her first day of school. (little girl) bye bye! made a best friend forever. the back...

Higher. >> the law is spending $2 trillion over the next 10 years. $5 billion is a round error. and lot of people who qualify for subsidies when they werent supposed to and now the tax code is going to have -- the irs will have to reclaim that money. there will be tens of billions of dollars i would say. bill: some of these people lied about their income to get greater subsidies? >> possibly but that will be part of it. part of it is the people who made mistakes. peoples income goes up and down....

Richard quest has been going over the report. richard, what do we know about this expired pinger battery? how could it be that it went on for so long with common knowledge i suppose and it was dead? >> no >> reporter: theres a real controversy over this battery because the paper work fred the paper work said that the battery had expired a year private youly, however, when the investigators went to talk to the people, let me read you what it says, its on page 60 of the report it was revealed that...

Could unfold getting inside of the faas computer system, potentially controlling planes, crashing planes. >> reporter: fixes include beefing up cyber safeguards, better encrypting data and regularly changing passwords. the faa reassured the public it is fixing these vulnerabilities and people should feel safe to fly. >> we have remediated a significant number of the technical findings already. >> reporter: in an era of increasingly common cyber-based threats, staying a step ahead requires consta...

Perhaps valuable evidence so what they did was meet with them in a field office down in st. louis, which is normal. if you call up the fbi and say you have information about a crime, theyll give you a meeting. so its not an abnormal situation. what is abnormal is for this company to make a publicity push putting out a press release about the meeting. the fbi is calling these claims to be frankly bunk. they think that this company has only one small part of this hack that its been poe fussing on ...

Leah: and in this particular aircraft, it had fly-by require which weve talked about that, essentially, you put controls in, a computer decides what to do with those control inputs, and it could potentially fight the pilot. the computer system might actually say no, im not going to let this plane climb any higher because its already going outside its operating end slope. >> i think thats a great point and thats one of the fundamental differences between a boeing and an air bus aircraft is that a...

Airplane landed very vertical updrafts possibly and in that case, the airplane would have difficulty. the good part is that we can recover hopefully the black boxes, the cvr and dfdr. thats the answer for what well find out. >> air france in 2009, thats what they ran into. they froze up, it gave them incorrect indications in the computer system. they werent able to fly it manually. they had a terrible attitude. in other words, it went into a stall. is that potentially what you think may have hap...