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Were back now. and i want to know what questions my experts have. so lets go through it now. floyd, what questions do you have? >> well, i think basically my general question is, was there a structural mechanical electrical failure of that aircraft? a more specific question is, is there an explanation for that transponder being turned off other than act by a pilot? >> jeff wise? >> where is the rest of the data? >> dr. judy ho? >> i want to know what type of psychological evaluation they went un...

Of landslides. do you think that criticism is fair? >> well, listen, we are focused 100% on rescue right now. there will come a time when we answer these very important questions in great detail and theres going to be a lot of heavy-duty geological e evaluation of this over time, but we just cant focus -- we have to focus on rescuing people right now. and there will come a time for us to get to the bottom of those questions. i will tell you that glaciers carved a very beautiful state here but as...

But for the moment, hopes are high that maybe if they can find this stuff and get it in their hands, theyll know if they have some kind of answers in the long and tragic tale. >> the best lead yet, thats what were hearing. tom foreman, thank you. lets talk to leo romejin, our satellite imagery analyst. let me tap your knowledge, sir, once again. you and i had discussed looking at the pictures here that some of the objects appear to be shiny. with your trained eye, leo, is there anything else in ...

Criminal enterprise or violent crime and, of course, this incident could be several of those or none of those. walk us through your from your fbi experience how the fbi looks at a question mark event like this and prioritizes its investigation. >> yeah, well, in this particular case the malaysians have primacy in terms of the investigation. the fbi has legal attitaaches t are distributed around the world. theyre in about 70 different embassies around the globe. theres an agent whos assigned in t...

Her home state of connecticut or to her parents and he could also keep her in massachusetts. "the wall street journal," 29 of the 30 big banks in the united states are strong enough to face a severe economic downturn. federal reserves annual stress test showed all but one of the largest financial institutions in the united states have enough capital to keep lending even if the economy were to take a hit. only zions bank corps based in salt lake city posted levels that are below the fed standar...

Rental company air b and b got a $10 billion valuation. is it a real threat to the hotel industry? i hear great things about it. ive also heard some interesting stories on the other side of this. >> yeah. you and i are in the wrong business. we should be setting up some kind of digital sharing economy website because the latest round of funding values them at $10 billion, which is phenomenal when you think the hyatt group is valued at 8 billion and it has revenues in excess of 4 billion. right n...

People mo o who fly nervous. how stringent are the checks, number one, on pilots who get into the cockpit of the plane? >> okay, across the board even here in the united states they are not. as far as were talking about the psychological evaluation of pilots. for example, i started off in the nypd. to become a police officer i had to take a written psychological exam and an oral psychological exam because before we give you a loaded weapon and put you on the street we need to make sure you are e...

States? >> for faa pilots, they are subjected to ongoing evaluations, health evaluations, some of which involve psychological evaluation. and certainly those that come into contact, flight crews and oth others are encouraged to make reports if they see a problem because if you dont have that kind of a culture youre going to have an accident, if not a hijacking or other kind of security incident. >> and yet it is only really relevant if they did it in very recent history. kathleen, let me ask you...

Crew? malaysia airlines say pilots are screened, undergoing psychological tests. >> going forward we will look into all this. >> in this country, david soucie says that oversight of pilots mental health is left to an honor system. >> there is no one that does an independent evaluation unless the pilot himself says ive got issues. to me that seems backwards. that doesnt seem like an effective way of understanding and monitoring the psychological wellness of an individual, particularly someone in ...

Tsa work at home you dont believe just one person could do this take a plane completely off course and into mystery? >> this looks an awful like a conspiracy. and i think one of the things we should keep in mind, not every conspiracy succeeds which is to say if there was a set of people that were connected for some political end, whatever that might be, we shouldnt necessarily assume that everything went according to plan. so that plane could still well be in the ocean even if there was a conspi...