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And that should happen we hope fairly soon. we also know that there are several things that were looking at. this plane came in obviously in the wrong flight path and why did that happen. a couple things we know about it, the instrument landing system here on that run way and at nsfo was out of commission due to construction. other planes had landed. there were backup systems. but was there confusion, was there something that this pilot thought was going on that wasnt that caused him to come in ...

Video, the airplane seemed to be operating just fine. level flight. below the desired flight path. and below the desired air speed. >> dan, why did the plane -- when it landed, crash landed, didnt immediately catch fire. why would it catch fire after the landing? >> could be a bunch of explanations for that. you need the ignition source. if the rupture didnt occur in the fuel cells then you dont have the fuel providing that. it it looked like the flier started in one of the engines and thats whe...

Or it could happen on its own? >> yeah, it can. jamie, if i could have the camera on me for a minute. i want to show you, kind of a quick example. if this is the horizontal component, theres the air speed. thats the vertical component, thats how much you are coming down, that is your flight path. if you turn that and say, if this is the altitude and you turn and go like this, now all of a sudden, you are coming down in a very steep manner and a lot of eyewitnesses have called this, they came in ...

Communicate. the fact that there are no distress calls tells me something happened a thousand feet below the aprove. >> when you say a thousand feet on approach, how long are we talking from 1,000 feet and putting wheels on the ground? >> oh, 35, 40 seconds. >> when youre coming in fast like that, its a heavy plane certainly, the fact that thats on an auto pilot or auto landing or the pilot is doing it themselves, can the plane be automatically landed without pilot intervention? >> it can but in...

Bolivias president. they blamed the united states for the incident, so lots of angry folks there including the two that came out just yesterday saying that they would offer snowden asylum in their country. >> and on that note, rene, any idea how snowden will get from russia to south america? >> you know, this is -- this is the big question mark, and theres so many question marks in this story here, but this will not be any easy feat here as far as snowden goes because he still has to get out of ...

Syria, you have lots of international balls in the air. the future of edward snowden and the flight path of morales airplane dont rise above the level of other international challenges. i dont think that the united states was a direct player last night. clearly the united states has communicated to countries directly and indirectly, this is important to us. i think for that reason these countries didnt want to get into the middle of challenges that china has faced by having snowden in hong kong ...

Overall message from the united states government about his priorities in trying to apprehend this guy. is this a mixed message problem here between what happened last night and what the president has said. >> i think we have to be careful. the implication is that the united states was an actor in what happened last night in europe. theres no indication to me that was the case. if you look at the international speer right now, the state department is not a very big place. youre watching whats ha...

Home. it was while his airplane was in mid-flight already that the governments of france and portugal revoked the authorization they had previously granted for that plane to use their airspace. they revoked that authorization apparently because of their suspicion that edward snowden was also onboard that plane. high tailing it to bolivia, presumably to seek asylum. after france and portugal told bolivias president, no, you cannot use our airspace, the government of italy then reportedly followed...

From their 2005 levels by the end of this decade. >> president obama essentially being forced to do his first cary grant in "north by northwest" impression, drowned out by the unsettlingly close sound of airplanes. throughout the speech. over and over again. they had the president speaking outdoors today at georgetown which apparently nobody on the advanced team noticed is is right in the middle of the flight path for national airport. so after this one today with the bunting and the flight nois...

Advance staff are hardworking folks. they get there at 4:00 in the morning. they stay until 2:00 in the morning. they have crazy jobs. i dont think we can blame them for one little piece of bunting getting blown away by the wind or airplanes outside in a big city. thats what happens. >> i say, you know, its going to be 100 degrees and youre in the flight path, inside. im an idiot, come on. inside. >> when i was sitting there, i was sort of wishing that it was inside, too. its a climate thing. yo...