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To life when a pilot or some other human has already made a mistake and prevent a catastrophe. there hasnt bean mid-air collision with a u.s. airliner since 1978. they have technology on the planes and radars on the ground sponsorship automation is a huge boom to safety. >> were talking about technology and we havent talked about the important thing that most people who are lay people like myself would understand the black box. what do we know? have we gotten any pings. is it too early? do we ha...

The pit it tubes. they come out of the aircraft in side going forward and they determine and get the air speed based on the amount of air in the pressure of the air thats going into the tube. thats how you get your air speed. the crash back in 2009, those tubes, two of the three actually froze up and that actually caused the computer system on board that flight to just be totally out of whack and sadly, tragically, the pilots on board did not realize what was happening, that the plane was going ...

Information thats inconsistent where the auto pilot is acting in a manner that it shouldnt be. there have been some airbuses have crashed due to the computer system they put a new package in that doesnt quite work right. >> okay. thank you. stick around again. well take a quick break and when we come back stay with us because well go the airport at indonesia where this flight departed. stay with us. [ high-pitched ] nailed it! [ normal voice ] youre right, that was really easy. i know, i told yo...

Act out the most. >> is sony at risk for more of these cyber attacks? basically destroyed their entire computer system. all their hard drives them wound up with nothing. they couldnt even figure out how to do pay roll because the systems were down. >> they are still struggling to get back online in some cases. i think theres very real threat of more private data being leaked. we know the hackers have not published everything they have. i think pamela browns reporting was very important a couple ...

Information was coming out, i didnt think they had the capability. but, now, as if evidence piles out, they obviously do. one of the reasons that i didnt think they had the capability, when we visited north korea, their internet access is limited to just the e leet, the computer system was out of radioshack. i didnt believe that they had this capability. anything can happen. i was surprised because, additionally, north korea had said to me they wanted to do some ding kal coop ragsz with movies, ...

As sony. they acted perfectly rationally. if you are them. the rest of us have to live with the consequences. i think we dont have a good notion of how to both defend ourselves against cyberattacks and, not just the u.s. government. it is obviously private industry. as well as how to respond. so when people talk about warfare, what does that mean? how are we actually supposed to respond? and its -- it is a new era in this regard. >> kevin, to you now. u.s. investigators learned the hackers stole...

Of blow back and push back dealing with the sony hack. and the first time we are hit in a massive cyber attack by a foreign country. >> it is a major blow against free speech. the company was under pressure after threats of violence and all of the hollywood hot shots attacking sony for letting north korea dictate. and i dont know what the president will say about that. he will have to address the question of cyber security not only on the governments part and officials of the state were consulte...

>> the obama administration is ready to point the finger at north korea for the unprecedented sony hack. a move that could come as early as this morning. >> were considering a range of options about how to respond. >> among the possible options, more sanctions. the administration insisting the response will be strong. >>ky assure you the united states government is not blinking, were not backing down, were not in a crouching or fear position here. >> sources tell cnn theres evidence that the hac...

From theaters. investigators believe they know how hackers penetrated the computer system. u.s. officials briefed on the information tell cnn they stole the computer password of the system administrator. there is also word u.s. officials are very close to naming north korea as the official suspected perpetrator of the cyber attack. cnns will ripley is live in tokyo. the head of the sony headquarters. >> reporter: the latest is there are multiple things developing. for one, u.s. officials are hou...

Were watching developments out of cairns, australia. the ages range from 18 months to 15 years. now, police say a woman is receiving treatment for her wounds and is assisting officials with their investigation. australias prime minister calls the news heart breaking. we are expecting an update from officials any moment when it happens, well bring it to you live. vladimir putin did his best to ease peoples fears over a humbling economy. he also went on the defense saying the country needs to guar...