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as soon as he arrives. but first, there are also reports that there were heating problems from the building. wnbc reporting that there had been complaints of no heat in the building. that con ed utility was called to the scene. what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: well, there were reports, con ed confirmed that they were on their way to the scene of this explosion to investigate reports of a gas leak when the explosion happened just after 9:00 this morning eastern time. there ...

With the words that are coming out. we dont know everything but, again, i think at some point we eventually will. >> former ntsb investigator greg feith. greg, thanks for your time tonight. >> youre welcome. joining me, msnbc national security analyst, michael leiter. okay. the two stolen passports. so, you read that, and you firstly think, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, something is up here. and then the second the second thought i had, i dont know how common if you picked a flight at random i...

We dont know everything but, again, at some point we eventually will. >> former ntsb investigator greg feith. thanks for your time tonight. >> youre welcome. joining me, national security analyst, michael leiter. okay. the two stolen passports. so, you read that and you firstly think, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, something is up here. the second thought i had, i dont know how common if you picked a flight at random in t that part of the world or any part of the world you would scratch the sur...

deepened since it was first reported missing 72 hours ago. heres what we know. the flight from kuala lumpur to beijing carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members lost contact with ground control over the gulf of thailand less than two hours after takeoff. the airplane was a boeing model 777. one of the safest and most widely used jets in the world. with the potential to stay in the air for up to 16 hours. beyond that, everything else is a mystery. >> if it suddenly broke up in flight,...

>> the mystery of malaysia airlines flight mh-370 has only deepened since it was first reported missing 72 hours ago. heres what we know. the flight from kuala lumpur to beijing carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members lost contact with ground control over the gulf of thailand less than two hours after takeoff. the airplane was a boeing model 777. one of the safest and most widely used jets in the world. with the potential to stay in the air for up to 16 hours. beyond that, everythi...

malaysia airlines says it lost contact with the plane. >> the mystery of malaysia airlines flight mh370 has only deepened since it was first reported missing 72 hours ago. heres what we know, the flight from kuala lumpur to beijing carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members lost contact with ground control over the gulf of thailand less than two hours after takeoff. the airplane was a boeing model 777, one of the safest and most widely used jets in the world with the potential to stay...

Running thumb prints found at the airport against the united states database. do you give any credence to this theory this was an act of terrorism? >> well, its hard to tell at this early stage because were all working with very scant information. as an accident investigators you can never rule anything in or rule anything out until you really have something to look at. they have some radar data but the fidelity of that radar data may not give investigators very many clues. its really going to b...

Different data bursts, but now youre talking hundreds of thousands of airplanes down bursting all of this information. you got to capture it, it takes a lot of bandwidth and theres just not enough satellite, you know, space up there and bandwidth to capture the amount of data were looking at. >> this has been discussed for many years, so its an option, and certainly so, there is a give and take here, but now youve got nine countries who are participating in the search for this 777 massive plane,...

Information that we dont know about. but it could take as long as three years depending on where this airplane is found and how much information is available. >> wow. >> greg, they may have that information but we dont know about it. why isnt there a better way to track these planes? >> well, you ask a very good question. weve been pondering that for quite a while. weve talked about it in the aviation industry. if you look at the way we fly airplanes, the majority of the time, commercial airline...

Providing realtime location and not just utilizing an emergency locator transmitter which will give a transmission, if its functioning, after the fact. >> right. greg, as abby pointed out theres obviously a lot of interest in these two passengers traveling on stolen passports. give us a sense of how common it would be to have one or two passengers on a large aircraft such as this traveling on stolen documents. >> well, thats really for the counter terrorism people, especially after 9/11, because...