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Authorities in Mali seem to be considering negotiations with Jamaat Nusratul Islam wal-Muslimin, the country’s largest Islamist insurgency. Pursuing talks will be a tall order, given the stakes and the group’s al-Qaeda connection. Both the government and the militants should begin with incremental steps.

We could do that. again, tuesdays election night results were showing that america wanted course change, and we want to make sure that we can protect these investigations, but also work to heal america and work on issues that affect everyday americans, health care, infrastructure. i hope thats what the president does. >> as you know, democrats have now picked up a net gain of 31 seats in the house, another nine seats are still in play right now, too close to call. the president is blaming republ...

Course change. the students at missouri force university leaders to resign. now whats next for the troubled campus. >> we all have lives that are valued. our humanity is worth fighting for. thats what were saying in this moment. were worth fighting for. and the blacklist. the emmy award winning actor bryan cranston talks about his new movie exploring the mccarthy era in america and its impact on hollywood. >> who the hell is -- >> the highest paid writer in hollywood. >> my husband. >> a regis...

Communication system. how could that have helped in the ongoing search effort? >> that -- i dont think it would have made any difference. it was deviating around weather and it was normal. they asked for a change in course and change in altitude. they made the course change and whatever occurred occurred very quickly and it took the preoccupation and the focus of the crew to deal with that situation so they did not make any contact with air traffic control after that. air traffic control watched...

Board that ship, which is the ocean shield, which is an australian ship that is carrying a u.s. pinger locator, towing a u.s. pinger locator. turned off all the noise producing equipment, lowered their device to 1400 feet. and they said they got some stronger and then it faded out because they were moving away from it, which they said was encouraging. then they said they reeled it in and they did a course change. and then when they turned around, once they did the course change, they lowered it ...

>> thats correct. and that is what we would have expected. >> and that was at 300 meters deep, right, what you thought was a little odd, because it wasnt deep. right? >> thats correct. >> and then you turned off all noise-producing devices or anything on board the ship so that you wouldnt be getting a false reading. correct? >> yes, correct. >> then you lowered to 1400 meters? >> correct. >> correct. and then when you lowered to 1400 meters, you got a stronger signal, right, which then faded a b...

You want to reduce any false alarm. they did that. and at that point, they held that signal again for over two hours. now, at that point, the pcl was lowered to about 1400 meters. so that was deeper. and that is more where you would expect to get this signal. as you tow the tow pinger locator, the signals should get stronger and then fade as you good past it, if that is indeed the black box. and thats what it did. it got stronger, and then it faded out. so that was encouraging news. after that, ...

>> thats correct. and you change courses to about the opposite direction is typical. >> so once you did a course change, you lowered it to 3,000 meters, right? >> yes, thats correct. >> and then you said you detected it for -- it is 1-5 minutes, or 5-0 minutes? >> thats 1-5, 15 minutes. and two hours previously. >> okay. so thats where you are now? >> thats correct. >> so are you detecting one device or two devices? is this one ping or two pings? >> well, we have -- we did detect pings from slig...

Thought we were lacking any really stable and salient information. its very hard to come by. then it struck me, it was staring me in the face all the time. we know one really interesting thing, which that the engines continued to run perfectly throughout the whole period of this flight. that meant that the fuel was going from the three tanks, one in the center, two in the wings, to the engines as they should have done and fuel was being transferred. everything was working by the book for the dur...

Obtained the full communication report and the recording from the flight, from the moments before the takeoff to the last contact with one of the two pilots. the newspaper claims for the most part the wanter was -- banter was routine except for who things a message the cockpit repeated about the planes altitude, and the second, the final voice communication from the cockpit saying, all right, good night. after the jets computer reportedly sent information about the planes course change. as for t...