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But most of the rainfall should be the heaviest confined just down the south which is good news. the winds are kicking up and coming in from the northwest and thats at that rob. notice our rain heavier to the south but still in our search zone and again when we look at the winds, as they are parallel this will give fits to dive crews. its the safety of getting them in and out of the water. once they are down 30 or 40 feet the water is a little calmer. but its a problem for the vessels that may w...

Circumstances, you know i cant second guess another pilot because im not there. none of us know for certain. but you get these type of monsoon thunderstorms. very violent. even at very high altitude you usually cant outclimb them. you have to go around them. and i believe that you know there are circumstances where you have to tell the controller. >> yes. >> that you are taking the heading change and he can just work it out. >> right. but isnt that true though? when you see and you have felony -...

Altitude and he needed to go from 320 up to flight level 380, then he should have done that. he should have told that to the air traffic control center that he was doing that. he could have turned off a certain heading. but hes got to do whatever he thinks for the safety of the aircraft and the passengers. >> so the one of the questions this morning, what does this aircraft look like? what can it do and handle? the air bus going up. its one of the most popular planes that airbus makes. there is ...

We dont know if it happened here -- pressure by the airlines to go. we call that get thereitis. >> how much pressure is there? >> the airlines know thats a touchy thing, especially with safety concerns obviously. but more pilots have a mission packing type philosophy and we want to get our mission done. that being said we dont have any problems saying we cant go there. and if necessary we declare an emergency. we say unable that route, we need a heading to such and such and we deal with the pape...

We have a year-end tradition around here to have the panel make some predictions for the new year on a range of topics. and you shouldunder the heading often in error, never in doubt jason, start us off on politics. >> barack obama our twice-elected black president, will use his state of the union address to lecture america on the persistence of racism. >> and will he also talk about the issues, the responsibility in the black community? >> no, he will not. >> okay. susan? >> jason you started o...

How many commercial flights are there around the world every day? 40,000 or so. and over the past 25 years, how many airplanes have gone missing? i can think of one. there are practical questions -- >> and we mentioned, there have been a fewer number of crashes this year than weve seen since 1927. so it is important to keep the bigger picture perspective. lets ask another question here. this is from john. he asks can pilots override traffic control amiss imminent danger? >> absolutely. in this p...

Question here. you were there in the same place two weeks ago and temperatures were in the 50s. it was moderate. a nice day. i realize you are wearing the l.l. bean weather jacket. what do people say to you when you walk around with that big thermometer youre holding in your hand? >> they go thats really a big thermometer. thats what they say. >> okay. i just wanted to clear that up. its not a wrist watch. its a thermometer. okay. >> many of them are not jealous one bit that im standing out here...

We have a year-end tradition around here to have the panel make some predictions for the new year on a range of topics. and you shouldunder the heading often in error, never in doubt jason, start us off on politics. >> barack obama our twice-elected black president, will use his state of the union address to lecture america on the persistence of racism. >> and will he also talk about the issues, the responsibility in the black community? >> no, he will not. >> okay. susan? >> jason you started o...

Alastair has commented about. it may have been a scattered area or embedded area of thunderstorms that they i tried to deviate around, and we yes, we do have control of the airplane, and nobody on the ground can control the airplane. we use autopilot in a heading select, and we will turn to the heading that the radar will select that will take us out of the worst, and the industry standard is 20 miles away from the storm to prevent turbulence and all of the bad things associated with it. and now...

Plenty of trouble on the road. >> clark, stop it. >> i dont want to spend the holidays dead. >> honey, please. i will do the driving, okay? >> fans of the movie are pulling their own prank for the holiday changing the highway sign in new jersey to read clark griswold instead of the town clark and wealths field. that sign later taken down. >> a busy travel week ahead with many heading back for home from the holidays. >> absolutely. a lot of folks on the road. maria molina tracking the record. >> ...