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These a cars. it took off here in kuala lumpur. did someone plot a course or the plane was just pinging off the towers? >> way points are like exits on highways on a road. say you are driving down a road and you see an exit. a way point is just an exit to another air route. they are definitively defined points in space. when we start talking about an airplane that was steered to a way point, that takes an intentional effort on the part of a flight crew. the fact that we have one, two, three, fou...

As the emails and phone traffic passes through them. the leaked document tells analysts to use both pots of so-called upstream and downstream data to do their work. in a letter today, to the board that oversees privacy and civil liberties for the public, the house minority leader saying the nsa leaks suggest the intelligence communitys interpretation of the slaw way out of whack. >> we say that they are custodians of intelligence but not owners. and that they need to share much more of that info...

egyptian desert. a world war ii fighter plane almost perfectly preserved. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> were getting new details from a news conference that has just begun. a dramatic case in mississippi and lets go live to jackson, mississippi. >> the department of wild life, fisheries and parks and special agents response team conducting searches of the area, thoroughly combing heavily wooded areas. it was the diligent effort...

would have been a better place to hit or a worst place to hit. theres so many apartment complexes around here. >> can you describe more that area of where the plane crashed? >> yeah. its -- we are maybe a half a mile from virginia beach ocean front. big resort area. lots of homes, lots of apartment complexes. and its -- its just a place that, you know, anywhere but here kind of thing. again, if it was a half a mile to the west, it could have been in a creek or a marshy area. and he wou...

again, tonight, we will show you right here, live protest in new york city for whats being called quote, the million hoodie march, a reference to the hoodie trayvon martin was wearing when he was shot and killed in sanford, florida. new calls for the arrest of a noob hood watch volunteer that shot and killed the 17-year-old boy. martin was unarmed, walking from a convenience store to the home of his fathers fiancee last month in sanford near orlando when george zimmerman shot him. he s...

An increasing number of americans are traveling this thanksgiving weekend despite soaring airfares and gasoline prices. but for many that holiday dinner us coming with a side of frustration. a wet mess in the northeast could trigger travel nightmares across the country. our coverage begins with abcs ginger zee. >> reporter: the anderson family packing up in simsbury, connecticut. this near their annual thanksgiving road trip happening a little early thanks to mother nature. >> my husband decided...

A dutch radio enthusiast was scanning the airwaves for public communications because they have to communicate about flight paths. he ntsdzed there was an ec-130 flying to psychological operations in libya called sheen 53 when it was landing in greece. it turns outs someone in the military took inspiration we assume from charlie sheen when they were naming their flight paths. >> oh, boy. lets switch gears and talk about the royal wedding. we hear prince william had his bachelor party this weekend...

With respect to the resolution. rick: secretary clinton moments ago. she said the no fly zone is one option on the table. there are others. and she said the final result of the u.n. resolution that passed yesterday, must be the departure of muammar qaddafi. well have more on this, coming up. martha: so many flights returning to the u.s. from japan, on some of those they have detected small amounts of radiation. and screening devices detected radiation at airports, dallas fort worth a shipment ha...

Wetlands or garbage dumps and have flight paths on arrival and departure that do not take us over large bodies of water or wooded areas where birds are likely to be attracted and to whoever can detect them, quickly provide a warning of that to the cockpit so the pilots can act on it and were working on all of those fronts. >> mike: captain sully, thank you for being here and author of the book "highest duty" a remarkable story hes told in his own words. two years and seems like just yesterday, b...

Close to the business jet, so close that the collision avoidance systems on the aircraft went off and they had to take evasive maneuvers to avoid each other. controllers directed these two planes into each others flight paths. the trouble is, there have been 21 incidents that the faa calls operational errors, 21 cases oned this one, so far in this fiscal year. some of them are near misses. weve had a continental jet involved her, military aircraft, a jetblue aircraft, a shuttle jet, all of them ...