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Janice dean joining us with what the weather in and around that suspected crash site might mean for the search evidence. >> the departure conditions were perfect. there wasnt any moisture in the area. we did have some showers and snow across portions of southern and central china. along the flight path, clear conditions, departure conditions, partly cloudy skies, temperatures in the upper 70s and light winds. weather not playing a part, we dont think, in this mysterious case of this airliner mis...

Around that last point of the fuel exhaustion period for the search area. but the first thing theyre going to do is follow the intended flight path. now, if this airplane either dove into the ocean because of some high altitude upset, or say somebody breached the cockpit and that is pure speculation, of course. and dove the airplane into the ocean or if the pilots dove the airplane into the ocean and there have been some examples of that there would just be a little bit of debris on the surface ...

>> get arrested in the big apple and youre almost assured of a trip to rikers island. a 400-acre penal colony on the east river, directly under the flight path of the laguardia airport. the island is home to an average of 14,000 inmates in ten different facilities. >> we patrol the meanest precincts in america. when our officers go to work, everyday, they know everyone they run into is going to be a criminal. every criminal who has committed the worst act -- >> bring all your property with you. ...

Interest in politics or in chris christie, they say he is a bully. you get that automatic response. the other thing his credibility on when he found out about the traffic. >> yeah. >> its not hanging in there. most people you speak to during the course of the day, two elements of conversation link them all, traffic and weather. they all talk about how they got stuck in traffic on the way to work and is it going to snow. >> this helicopter story, its a wild goose chase or its really troubling. >>...

Ground whose lives would be at risk. a jet blue pilot was temporarily blinded by a laser on approach to jfk. he had blurry vision for a week after the incident. the pointers are cheap and they can hit targets miles a way. there are ten incidents a day, prompting the fbi to offer a $10,000 award for information leading to the arrest of anyone. signed in the law on valentines day 2012 reads whoever knowingly aims the beam of a laser pointer at an aircraft or at the flight path of such an aircraft ...

He told investigators he was not confident in understanding how the planes auto flight system worked and felt he should study more. he also said it was difficult and quote stressful to land the plane visually without an instrument approach to guide them. but he felt pressured to do it because other pilots were. >> we do have an issue in aviation that needs to be dealt with with respect to automation and performance when it comes to the interaction between the aircraft and the human being. >> rep...

Ultimately, the pilots must make sure you have a safe flight path and youre responsible for that no matter what happens. >> reporter: crash survivor, ben levy, took these photos immediately after the plane went down. like most passengers, he didnt attend the hearing, saying he wants to focus on family and work. but he still hopes to find out what caused the crash. >> i have got a sense of what happened. i just want to get to the bottom of it and everything that went wrong that day. >> reporter: ...

>> they had help, which is to say they didnt have help and thats a mystery this investigation has to answer for us, is what other factors were in play? will they do to widen the scope of this investigation to include how these pilots were trained, how the culture at that organization and in their society may have played a part. how was it that a professional crew could get to the point where they are a littlely a few seconds before impact and no one has effectively intervened. because ultimately...

But ultimately the pilots must make sure you have a safe flight path. whether the auto throttles are working or not, someone should have taken action much sooner. in fact there are safeguards that could and should have been in place. youre required to be as a certain ped and altitude. at one point if youre not, youre required to begin going around, abandoning the approach and climbing away. that just wasnt done in time. there are teamwork skills that werent done properly. the ntsb is rightly loo...

The very least, as you say. wow, if thats the least, you know, whats next to come? heather, phil be, great to have both of you. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> thank you. jon: well, they have been tracking santas flight path from the north pole for the last 60 years. now some childrens advocates say norad just crossed a serious line with its latest santa tracker. well tell you about that. and a shocking surveillance video captures what may be a kidnapping. now police are racing against the...