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Plans for a new, $228 million Penn State College of Engineering building on West Campus are moving forward following a recommendation for approval on Thursday by a university’s Board of Trustees Committee on Finance Business and Capital Planning. The full board will vote on approving the plans and authorizing the funds during its meeting on Friday. At 290,000 square feet, Engineering Research and Teaching Space 1, also known as West 1, will be Penn State’s largest academic facility. West 1,...

Onere. very happy to have the general with us now to see if hes encouraged by the response today. good to have you back what do you think of the response across the region today? >> a lot of preparation today to be prepared to respond, neil. right now the big question are the bahamas and what is going on with our friends there. theyre a commonwealth state. but the united states does have marines on stand by once that storm passes to go in and help save lives in the bahamas. along the eastern sea...

We got some news out of the pentagon this morning. nbc news has learned or troops may get new marches orders as a federal judge temporarily blocked the administration from changing immigration policy. lots to tick through here, hans. what are we expecting to hear from the pentagon? >> the pentagon is waiting for new orders. theyre expecting them from the white house. those new orders would give the troops already there, hallie, the ability to protect the cpb forces down there. remember, theyre a...

Format. >> we connect the recorder to a power supply. >> reporter: black boxes contain hundreds of data points or parameters about the flights movement, pilot maneuvers, speed and altitude, all displayed with a series of graphs. >> every flight data recorder records the data in binary values. its a series of ones and zeros. in order for humans to understand that, we need to convert it into engineering units, and engineering units simply mean feet for altitude. airspeed is recorded in knots. >> r...

Black boxes of mh-370 are found and downloaded for analysis. >> well pull the data up on the screen and well see the data ins tabular format and graphical format. >> we connected the record tore a power supply. >> reporter: they contain parameters about the flight movement, pilot maneuvers, speed and altitude all displayed with a series of graphs. >> every flight data recorder records the data in binary values. its a series of ones and zeros. in order for humans to understand that we need to con...

Through the process on how you go about downloading information on a flight data recorder and reading it on a computer to figure out what may have happened on a flight like mh-370. take a listen. >> crash protected and shop mountd. >> reporter: this is what investigators will see once the black boxes are found and day da downloaded for analysis. >> we will see the data in a tabular format and graphic cal fa for matt. >> reporter: they contain hundreds of analysis. all displayed with a series of ...