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Town to be turned over to the dutch authorities. time is the enemy for the investigators in the case. with each day the evidence is not collected the job becomes more difficult. mike boyd us live. >> i cant think of a more difficult and frustrating situation than the one we have here. big picture, what are your observations? >> it landed in an area by the mobsters and they know they are responsible. whether the black box is found or returned like they said. it will probably end suddenly and not ...

>> it is. i wonder, too, if you are able to get an inspection of the site and the wreckage could you not tell this is specifically the weapon, specifically the missile and wouldnt there be a fingerprint to trace it back to the origin? >> that will require metallurgy work, forensics at the scene to look for pieces of the missile that brought the plane down. the crash is a good distance from where the plane was hit by a missile. the zone look they are looking through was six to nine square miles. ...

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Were in the cockpit as well as the hard drive for the flight simulator of the lead pilot. and there are reports that they have done a thorough examination and have come up empty, have come up with a dead end. is that true? >> i have seen nothing yet that has come out of the investigation that would lead me to conclude that there was some -- anything other than a normal flight that something happened, something went wrong. again, theyre going to compare the forensics on the computer with a full b...

The first officer. we dont know what those computers contained, no doubt, forensics are very much looking at that. we do know that there will be a briefing, one of the daily briefings from the malaysians first thing monday morning, that is probably going to be one of the top questions that journalists are going to be asking, harris. hopefully more clarity from the malaysians then. >> something else i heard you talk so much about, the human element in all this. answers for the families. i know th...

Think of. oirg on the water or land somewhere. i dont have answers to orthof those. >> what we would like to know. what role the u.s. is playing in this. we have the sophisticated forensics to be applied in this. we have the ntsb can we have expertise when it comes from learning from a airplane disaster and whatever the cause. do we know to what level the united states or fbi or ntsb have been invited and what level could they be in the search and ultimate lethe dissemination of what happened? >...

Agencies continue to take a strong interest in what happened with this plane. republican senator saxby chambliss is here tonight. good of you to be here, your thoughts on the progress of the data that we have been told was deleted from the flight simulator. >> well, i actually spoke with them this afternoon. and what i can tell you, megyn, they not only have the simulator box but they also have some other assets that they are reviewing in great detail. they are very focused on this. they refer t...

And there are a couple i can think of. oirg on the water or land somewhere. i dont have answers to orthof those. >> what we would like to know. what role the u.s. is playing in this. we have the sophisticated forensics to be applied in this. we have the ntsb can we have expertise when it comes from learning from a airplane disaster and whatever the cause. do we know to what level the united states or fbi or ntsb have been invited and what level could they be in the search and ultimate lethe diss...

As the gunman was running through the terminal, he was actually asking individuals, whoever he met, whether they were tsa or not. thats what witnesses say and the ones who said no they werent, he left them alone and he carried on going. the fbi are looking into this. theyre inside terminal three right now, forensically going over the scene of the crime. this is how they describe what the investigation is ahead of them. >> at this point, we have the terminal shut down and we will have it shut dow...

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