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Correspondent bill nealy has the latest from paris. >> good morning from a city that was until recently so famously relaxed. well not anymore. paris is a city on edge and uneasy. it began, of course with last months terror attacks. but last night police and people spotted more mystery drones above the city. and theyre now asking is there a new threat from above? for the last two nights police have spotted mystery drones it over five landmark locations. first over the american embassy, the eiffel...

Something thats going to be unsafe but as peter said it may be time for plan b here. this doesnt seem to be working and it may be weeks before the water clears visibility enough to put divers down for any length of time. >> and miles, we know the skies above southeast asia are crowded. now word that indonesia is suspending some of the airasia routes. who or whats to blame for this big uptick of planes in the air in this part of the world? >> well i think this whole idea about licensing and the n...

This will never not be in our lives. its such an emotional cross that he bears, that no one really sees but me. and he would have given anything to have gone with all of them rather than sitting here today and doing this. >> the faa has admitted it violated its own policy by having only one controller in that tower at bluegrass airport. a second controller should have been in the tower handling planes on radar while the other worked with planes on the runway. >> everybody was really very focused...

As the plane leaves malaysian air space and enters vietnamese air space. >> malaysian 370. >> the controller here speaking to ho chi minh. he says good night 370. something i would do. >> there was no indication that anything had gone wrong. >> david soucie is a former safety inspector for the faa. so for the first 40 minutes of this flight up to that point everything has been routine. >> mm-hmm, yes. >> everything was routine until now.

Be new regulation about what kind of weather the planes fly through. mary makes the point of get there-itis. >> i think one of the things to think back to this, the pilot has at his disposal to declare a emergency. he could have declared an emergency and overruled the controller. >> exactly. >> so i think as far as getting around yes, i agree with that with marys thought of the fact it was rising faster than the climb race makes sense. >> but if he declared an emergency, it would have taken time...

Take some time. its not unusual unless and id like to hear what the inflection of the voice of the transmission of the captain was, if he sounded like it was an urgent request, he might have got to it a little bit quicker. of course declared a mayday which is an emergency, then they would have got to it a lot quicker. >> they didnt as far as we know. if are you the captain or the pilot or the co-pilot on this airplane and you dont get a response within a minute or two minutes and youre waiting -...

Essentially on its first mission. its side scan sonar should be use informal the search for the plane. side scan sonar takes an image of the ocean floor and that of course is something they might be able to use. but were not clear yet on its role carol. >> gotcha. will the united states be sending any air support. >> the u.s. has said it would send aircraft to assist, a poe a poseidon aircraft. it can do long range reconnaissance. we dont know how theyll use it but it can be in essence the contr...

Mission, has side scan sonar. side scan sonar takes an image of the ocean floor which would be useful in a situation like this as they look for pieces of the plane. the u.s. has also said it would send an aircraft to assist, a possible poseidon aircraft. we dont know how they plan on using this plane but could be the controller of a fleet drones as they look around specific areas of the ocean. its a war fighter of course but in this mission its possible the planes under water defects capability ...

Asking foermgs climb to 38,000 to escape a storm. two full minutes pass as the controller assesses air in the area. when he approves flight 8501 does not respond. the "uss sampson" arrived in the java sea, what had been its original mission, searching for rescue and possible survivors now turns to roarry. search teams are now concentrating on finding the bodies of the passengers and crew and airasia ceo was quick to reach out to the heartbroken families. tony fernandez tweeting "my heart is fill...

Us that he knew he wasnt able to go. and the pilot will have known, well, there must be somebody up there above me that i cant go there. >> do you think it will be fairly easy colonel, to find the black boxes? >> im very confident theyll find black boxes. the water is relatively shallow, they have a very concentrated search area now. it will just be a matter of time before they recover those and they should be in fairly good condition. i would like to make one point, what richard is talking abou...