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So if youre -- say, if youre in the middle of the grand canyon and there is no cell service, the map will show you -- the gps says you are here. without that data connection, you can say, it happens to be the middle of the grand canyon. >> so i am flying above water. doesnt always work. above water meaning an ocean, not just a river, right. so when im on the plane i can text using wi-fi on my iphone. i raised this question last week with a cnn analyst, his name rhymes with guest. completely shot...

Welcome back to the special live coverage of the disappearance of flight 370. many wonder with todays technology why everyday cell phone tracking cant help pinpoint the location of any of the cell phones of the 239 people on board that plane. shouldnt it be as easy as using a "find my phone" app. experts say, maybe not. cnn technology analyst, brett larson. so cell phone tracking, is it being used in this search? >> it could be, but it may not be very valuable. because cell phones are most easil...

Now, without data connection or connection to a cell tower your gps chip in your phone is not going to be as functional as it would be on the ground. >> okay. and the radar, the fact that radar is not as effective, i mean, its because if youre going to be out over a vast body of water, right, you need the towers on which to bounce off signals. right? >> thats right. you cant put a radar tower in the middle of the ocean which makes it really hard to pick up a plane when its flying both low or ove...

But even after acars is turned off, acars sends what are called handshake signals to satellites. and what authorities are saying is that some of these signals were detected by satellite, and from that weve been able to calculate the distance from the satellite that the plane may have been. and thats what led to that map that you were showing earlier. >> and share what you discovered about passenger cell phones. a lot of them are equipped with gps system. they have those chips. one would think th...

That conversation, very eye opening because this flaw existed for years and people could have done this. how often do you send picture messages? quite a bit. they were able to send a picture i sent to someone before it even landed on their phone. check this one out. >> you can see pictures if i text someone a picture, right? >> right. lets do a picture message. >> all right. >> your phone used a picture to send a data message. we intercepted the data connection, logged it, grabbed the picture ou...

>> all right. >> so your phone used your data connection to send a picture message. we intercepted the data connection, logged it, and grabbed the picture out of it. showed it on the screen. >> how do they do it? >> so this is a small cell phone tower thats sold or provided by carriers to extend coverage into places where you have a weak signal. >> theyre security consultants and they say these are easy to have. >> you need some level of technical skills but people are learning those skills in c...

Looks like an outgoing sms from this identifier sent a text message to this phone number with the message, hey, what is up? >> what else you got? >> how about a voice call? >> lets call. hi, andrew, how are you? >> okay. how are you, laurie? >> im good. im good. >> ill play it back for you. >> hi, and drew, how are you? >> im good. how are you, laurie? >> im good. im good. you can also see picture ifs i text a picture. >> yeah. lets do a picture message. >> all right. >> so your phone used your ...

>> there was a big disagreement between senator mccain and secretary panetta about the u.s. going alone into syria. mccain made a very strong point going back to the 90s saying, look, when the atrocities were happening in bosnia, the united states acted and its time for us to act here. he had a very pointed question to panetta saying, how many more tens of thousands have to die before youre willing to go in? but panetta countered and said, look, im not going to send american troops, me...

>> this was a big night tonight. lots of states. were going to win a few. were going to lose a few, but as it looks right now, brother going to get at least a couple of gold medals and a whole passel full of silver medals. >> so this morning romney cannot claim the crushing victories to win over skeptics, but he is amassing delegates. more than 400 so far. thats way ahead of santorum. gingrich and ron paul who failed to win a single state last night. but the race still has a long way t...

Tech guru. good morning, mario. we arent talking about people tweeting. we are talking about cars tweeting. right? >> oh, my gosh, if you read anything online, you would be what are we talking about, tweeting while driving? everyone needs to take a chill pill. you are absolutely right, we are talking about the car itself doing the tweeting, not the driver. so ford has come out with this idea they had their engineers test a ford fiesta, a 2011 ford fiesta called a. 1y6j., the for fiesta on twitte...