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After crossing the pond, the pilot reported smell of smoke and actual smoke in the cockpit but successfully landed the airplane. now -- >> were the transponders shut down in those two cases? >> well, heres the caveat. if youre over water and cannot land quickly, a fire can develop. there was an md-80 jet that has similar systems to the 777, similar complexity, similar redundancies, they were at the gate. it was an egypt air flight and the pilot reported smoke in the cockpit. it quickly developed...

Am i right about that? >> when you have a condition that causes an airplane to go basically dark and quiet suddenly, it can be a catastrophic event. it can indicate a loss of electrical power. and one of the things they look at is was it an in-flight breakup. if that occurred, then the debris field is likely to be very large, as light objects are carried by the wind and heavier objects fall on a much steeper path. this is some of the things that the investigators look at. now, if in fact it hit ...

Call for alarm. one of the things we come back to is theres been no evidence of a distress call. what do you make of that? >> the boeing 777 went in service in 1995. it has a remarkably good in-flight service record. it has demonstrated over millions of hours that its a well-designed, safe airplane. the fact that there was not a call to air traffic control could indicate a number of things. the pilots could become very busy very quickly, there could be a loss of electrical power. i dont put a hu...

Television program, this is "meet the press" meet. good sunday morning. we are following the big weather story in the northeast as this weekends huge winter storm blanketed the region from new york to maine. new york city is getting the worst of it all. more than three feet of snow fell in parts of connecticut, rhode island, and massachusetts. cutting power and downing trees. electrical power remains out in nearly 350,000 homes whereas the area this morning. so a lot of cleanup to do there. ...

Outside of the dome. wbue is our fox affiliate there. electrical power went out at the super dome early in the third quarter. they had 13 minutes 22 seconds to play. and it was right at the end of a stunner for the baltimore ravens which have led this game pretty much from the start. jacoby jones had returned an opening kickoff for a second pass touchdown and there you had it he ran from one end of the field to the next and the lights went out moments later. the teams remaining on just the side ...

Returned, electrical power? >> caller: basically, almost everyone south of 34th street, included -- is without power. we probably have another close to 50,000 people in the other burroughs probably more than that without power as well. when power is going to come back on is a question, depending -- a different question if youre someone like me who -- con-ed actually turned our power off p proef laek tickly and that will be maybe tomorrow or the day after. they turned it down so it wouldnt get fl...

its got to be stopped and i know better than most. and thats it, the south carolina republican forum hosted by senator jim demint. we want to welcome our viewers. i wolf blitzer in "the situation room." donna brazill is with us. lets get immediate reaction to what we heard from the five republican candidates over the past two hours. donna, let me start with you. youre a good democrat. you heard from the five republicans. theyre pretty much on most of the issues on the same page. a pa...

standing could be under water, covered in floodwater. heres what hurricane irene looked like when it hit the bahamas. new yorkers now of course are used to seeing this on tv. not up close but they might see it here and soon. here is the view as irene began moving up the eastern seaboard. as it did emergency plans started to kick in. airlines began cancelling flights. hospitals moving patients and here in new york mayor mike bloomberg be issued the first evacuation orders in city histor...

>> a troubling new assessment. they are expecting the storm surge to flood the area with anywhere from six to 12 feet of water. other low lying neighborhoods on a mandatory evacuation orders. the mass transit system will shut down as of noon tomorrow. this is what they are concerned about. pictures of irene hit the bha mas. >> not much change in the forecast and not much change in the track. we are still at 100 miles per hour. still forecasting to get slightly weaker as we run the stor...

And the stuff over here, thats a trailer for the business here, the working trailer. >> reporter: so, this is ground zero of the joplin tornado and were going to drive its entire length from west to east to get a good picture of just how widespread the damage was. heres the first downed power lines. major electrical transmission lines. one reason much of joplin is without electrical power. so, less than a mile into our journey, you see the first homes that have lost part of their roofs. on this ...