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Development occurs, especially if its in a high-risk fire area, and also to look at what role does, you know, the trees near power lines play because clearly high winds and tree debris flying and hitting the power lines has caused some of these fires. but it takes leadership. and lawrence, oklahoma city, bill clinton went there after the bombing and consoled the nation. after september 11th president bush standing in the rubble saying i can hear you. and we have a president just sitting in his b...

Issues, on immigration, on the fires, on health care he saw his california republican colleagues have failed to stand up to the president and instead heard the people of california. thats why they will lose six seats and there are four more seats that we came within ten or fewer points in that were going to be competitive in in just two years. >> talk about what california now needs in the aftermath of these fires. >> right now as the president sends these tweets or threatens to withdraw funding...

Community centers and synagogues generally have a pretty good security plan in place. most synagogues that i know of in the dallas/fort worth area where i live, they have armed response, they do have armed guards at centers. they are more prepared than most. that gets back to my point, you know, lets take, for example, everybody knows what to do if they get caught in a fire, they get low, wet towels around mouth, they crawl out of fire area because we plan for it, we think about what we are goin...

He is in the fire area, on the freeway, essentially forced to flee. what can you tell us, ryan? >> well i was on my way, traffic was backed up which is not an unusual experience for us. apparently there is a lot of construction going on on highway 15. but about half a mile away on cajon pass i noticed the traffic had been stopped by the california highway patrol. you could see the flames moving from the west side of the i-15 freeway, and basically we just watched it as it literally jumped over t...

Daylight. so it seems to fit the story that the aircraft turned back went over the northern part of the malaysian peninsula and was descending and when it got to penang it could have been 5,000 to 4500 feet and at that point this connection was made. there are reports who say 3,000 feet and others who say 15,000 feet. its difficult for the simulator to tell you the exact altitude to be at but it fits with what had been reported earlier but its the weird thing is why was it on? >> although it is ...

Goes in the water. you have rudimentary communication between the vehicle and the ship, giving the position where the vehicle is at you can command it to abort or start a certain pattern that you have programmed. >> are you seeing things? realtime from the vehicle or just data you get once it comes back up? >> so once you recover the vehicle you go through a four-hour process where you replace the batteries and download the data you collected. and you take two to four hours to go through the dat...

You would have to be flying. they only have one side-scanning sonar right now. is this the right piece of equipment. i dont understand why not have multiple? >> you heard captain matthews say this is a tactical survey. they thought they could throw the dart a right at the bulls-eye. they got an area instead of a point to throw the dart at. we did things differently with air france. we said lets start to the west and sweep all the way to the east. >> and you had three? >> we had three vehicles at...

We begin with the breaking news from the indian ocean. day one, using the underwater sonar scanning submersible bluefin-21. in a moment well take you down with it so you can see for yourself what it sees. first, though, the u.s. naval officer who is heading up bluefin operation. captain mark matthews. supervisor of salvage and diving. the bluefin spent six out of a possible 16 hours searching the seabed today. why was that? >> thats correct. it aborted its mission at about the six-hour point. wh...

Increase of signal strength as we drove into the area, gaining and losing the contact as we expect. and additional factor pointing us in that direction is the oil slick that was observed the other day. we are analyzing the water sample to see if it was a petroleum product related to the aircraft. and theres many possible sources of an oil sheen on the surface of the ocean. but its -- you know, would be one explanation is that it was lubricating fluid or control oil from the aircraft. >> so just ...

Maximum operating depth of 4500 meters. thats what happened in this case. the charted depth is between 4200 to 4400 meters in that rectangle that it is searching. we hit a deeper spot that when initially planned. we have to bring it up, reprogram it, shift away from that deeper area and adjust the search pattern. >> the bluefin is being used in the most-likely spot. what makes that the most-likely spot? is there other data that is pointing to that particular location? >> the information that tel...