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Debris. and as randi kaye reports, it would not be the first time. >> reporter: steve fossett takes off, heading south in a single engine airplane. he promises to be back for lunch, but that is the last time anyone sees him. >> the best way to characterize this is like looking for a needle in a haystack. >> reporter: within hours, the search is under way. the terrain is rugged, the wilderness between nevada and eastern california is vast. the did that plane have like the equivalent of a black bo...

on this holocaust remembrance day, the president gave a powerful speech at the u.s. holocaust memorial museum right near in washington, d.c. speaking of -- government slaughter in syria which has now claimed more than 11,000 lives. jill dougherty is joining us with the latest details. >> at the museum, president obama referred to the unhappy record of the state department during the holocaust in world war ii. now he says preventing mass atrocities is no only a moral responsibility, its...

this would be the case an chairman paynes press conference and so it would prove, suzanne. >> how much outrage is there over this, the fanct that nothig is going to change here? >> reporter: we sampled a few opinions earlier in the week and we have to say most people out on the course are here basically to take in the spectacular surroundings and follow the top names in world golf, tiger woods and rory mcilroy. this is not an agenda on the top of every patrons lips but theres been a lo...

shot them one by one. we are taking you live to oakland for the latest in just about ten minutes. voters are heading to the polls today in three contests. wisconsin, maryland and the district of columbia are holding republican primaries. mitt romney predicted a win in wisconsin and holds a big lead in maryland polls. wisconsin will be a key swing state in november. its one of the few winner-take-all stakes in the republican race. rick santorum seems to be looking beyond todays contes...

That theres no reason to be concerned, i dont think, about the airworthiness of the airplane. thats speculative on my part. but were not dealing with a 50 or 40-year-old airplane. were dealing with a modernized airplane. could that have been a problem? sure, it could. its a single engine airplane. might have lost its engine for some reason. >> what is the likelihood in crashes like this that the investigators from the faa or ntsb jointly actually find out what happened? >> i think very high. >> ...

Religion. a white man named joe stack flew his single engine airplane into an irs building in austin, texas. we didnt hear people call it domestic terrorism. if it was a brown man named mohammad we would have probably shut down every irs building in the country. there is a double standard when it comes to acts of extremism committed by white men or brown muslim people. something else to keep in mind -- >> before you go, i will let you make your other point. why do you think it is a double standa...

And wuhl need to work together as a nation to work on bringing back the sense of security that we have been missing in this country for a while now. >> mm-hmm. i want to ask arsalan this. weve had several things, muslim americans like the times square, the alleged bomber, the suspect, the army psychiatrist that we saw at ft. hood, and all that -- nidal hasan. theres also adam gadahn, born here, a known member of al qaeda. what do you think of this, the terrorists coming from outside of the count...

>> well, i think it does, don. i think another important thing to keep in mind is that terrorism knows no race or religion. we remember a few months ago when a white man named joe stack flew his single engine airplane into the irs building in austin, texas. he d we didnt hear anybody call it a domestic act of terrorism, but we would have shut down every other irs building in the country. there is a double standard here when it comes to acts of extremism committed by, you know, white men or commi...

Addition to housing the local office of the fbi, we can assume that there are other offices in play, plus people driving in the area, and jon, youre a pilot, so basically, what are the options of what can happen? jon: well, well get to that in just a moment. robert mark is with us on the phone, hes a commercial pilot, also editor of jetline.com. robert, when you see pictures like this, and again, the indications are that this was a relatively small single engine airplane, what are the first thou...

This all morning. what have we learned? >> megyn, its believed this was a cherokee, a piper cherokee, the 140 model. it is a very basic single engine airplane, very common, probably thousands of them built and flying in this country. capable of carrying, oh, 50 gallons of fuel or so. theres a look at one there. very simple, you know, single engine airplane, and i keep making the point that even though there is a fairly small amount of fuel carried on board these planes, when you take 50 gallons ...