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David, we havent talked to you thus far. what are your thoughts on the information thats come out so far? >> well, anderson, in every investigation ive ever run, most difficult thick thing is not to jump to the most common and accepted answer right away. there are other things. if you to that, you miss whats right in front of your face. and if you look at that video, the first thing you see is the impact and the explosion. if this were a missile, do you think the aircraft would have come down wi...

Proximity, guided by radar, not the heat of the engines. a heat-seeker will go to the engine and youll get exactly what david is talking about. but if it in fact exploded in proximity of the tail, you would not necessarily get a fire on the aircraft, but you certainly would lose control of the aircraft, it would break up in-flight. it would match everything were seeing here. but going back to what david said, putting blinders on at this stage, is not a good idea at all. i think we have plenty of...

That for -- as an investigator, which david is, you dont want to speculate, you dont want to go into it, you dont want to rule anything out at this stage. >> yeah. and thats the most important point here. what -- you just have to systematically go through this. we have plenty of evidence. there was an in-flight break-up here. we have seen pieces of wreckage in other locations that do not -- theyre not impacted by fire or explosion. we see that streaming down wreckage, which is hauntingly similar...

Delayed explosion that was implanted? >> no, im talking about the warhead on the suspected missile, the alleged missile that would have hit this. its 150 pounds and high explosion with fragmentation, and its a radar proximity fuse. so would that give you the same kind of characteristic you were describing? >> well, certainly would. first of all, youre talking about implanting the head of that warhead missile into an aircraft flying at 32,000 feet flying at 480 knots. so it would have to have got...

Device quite so sophisticated with a devastating range. giving that to a bunch of separatist who your relations are frayed. its tricky to find out what happened. and i should point out one thing i feel slightly uncomfortable with. when you see the plane come down in the amateur video weve been showing, there is a substantial explosion. and it had a six-mile journey from having been hit. the point of impact right down to the ground. interesting to work out quite what could have exploded when it s...

>> that could be -- thats very likely to have been or could be material that exploded and went up into the explosion, and is then coming down from -- with the fireball that we saw, rather than -- or it could be, god forbid, pieces of the plane that followed on from it falling out of the sky. but my initial thinking would be its part of the explosion that went up with the fireball. >> jeff weise, aviation analyst and columnist, joining us. its good to have you with us. we havent talked to you yet...

>> reporter: according to new hampshire attorney general, joseph foster nolan was killed by fire or explosion. >> another police officer arrived and entered the home but was driven out by gun fire. other officers arrived and a short time later the home was engulfed in flames and later exploded. its believed mr. nolan was killed by the fire or the explosion. >> neighbors told us they saw an older man leaving the house in a stretcher believed to be the owner of the home, walter nolan a motive for ...

>> reporter: witnesses say they heard an argument in this home. walter and his son, 47-year-old michael nolan. that dispute resulted in gunfire then the home was set on fire leading to this explosion. >> i heard and felt the explosion. then we went in to watch tv. we were watching tv and we saw the house. >> reporter: according to the attorney general, michael nolan was killed by fire or the explosion. >> ott police officer arrived and entered the home but was driven out by gunfire. other office...

Releases detained fighters. moving to this. a developing story from new hampshire. a police officer killed in the line of duty. the officer was shot to death while responding to a domestic disturbance at a house that later exploded and burned on tv. the suspected gunman was a man named michael nolan, the son of the homeowner. authorities described the violent scene that followed officer being shot. >> another police officer arrived and entered the home but was driven out by gun fire. other off...

Licensing the same fukushima-style design here in the united states in 1972. this containment is not a quality product according to the u.s. nuclear regulatory commission. what worries us most is that on top of the roof of these reactors, in the pools, are storage ponds for nuclear waste. fukushima and those three reactors have 200 tons of nuclear waste that is sitting up there on top of the radioactive inventory in the reactors, tremendous amount of radioactive inventory that if blasted by fire...