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Some drift models and debris might be able to reverse engineer and get to the site. but its still an awfully big ocean. without that pinging noise, its all going to rely on visual inspections which is a very laborious process. all of this is coming up and were coming up on winter. so this might be a mystery that will endure for quite some time. >> captain taylor, just in practical terms, weve got these satellite images from sunday. so were now wednesday night-thursday morning, is that right, in ...

Full support as they work to facilitate the transfer the guantanamo detainees form thesh who have been cleared to go to other countries. we call again on congress to lift the restrictions on detainee transfers, which have significantly limited our ability to responsibly redue the detainee population and ultimately close the facility. i guess the question is, is guantanamo ever going to be closed? >> thats a hard question. at the moment, president obama does not have the legal authority to close ...

Chemical weapons. i was reading they are using some interesting objects in order to try to start the process of containing the arsenal. can you tell us a little bit about that? >> reporter: yeah, thats right. this is the first phase of this process. it started yesterday in syria and what we are told from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons is that some of the equipment that is being used to destroy or disable a range of items includes cutting torches and angle griders and wh...

Past tuesday and so far a lot of surprise that this process has already started and the syrians have actually been complying with the order to do this. we heard from secretary of state john kerry, hes at an economic summit in indonesia. he said earlier in the day that the regime of syrian president assad should be praised and given credit for having complied with the u.n. security council resolution which was passed in late september. youll remember before that, the u.s. and russia had agreed on...

Was necessary in order to pull this off. rrnl any problems with that? are there any problems with that? >> reporter: right now, we have not heard about any problems. clearly if the u.n. or opcw felt that their access was being hindered, we expect that we would be hearing about that. theres still a lot of concern that president bashar al assad might do something to delay the process and a lot of concept activism in lebanon and here in beirut thinking that assad will follow through on this and the...

Heres the real problem, michaela. along with all this military hardware, theres tons of sugar, 10,000 tons of sugar. that has to come off the boat first before they know exactly what kind of ordinance is aboard the ship. >> they had to use some mechanism to unload the ship, correct? >> thats right. it took three days. theyre claiming the north korean crew disabled some of the winches and cranes they used to unload this heavy-duty hundred dreads of tons of equipment and bags of sugar, so apparent...

Republicans disagreed with it. does that take away some of the power that ruin yo, cruz and paul might have had in this debate? >> it delays it a little bit. first of all, lets be realistic here. the reason that the filibuster was not established is because of an agreement between senators manchin and toomey that presented a watered down version of gun registration. of the record checks. that kind of thing. already watered down. as we know, any attempt at an assault weapons ban is doomed in the ...

Significant implications. >> 30,000 is a lot of people. considering the last presidential election was won by 14,000 or close to 15,000. yes, you look at it as a percentage, you go so what. theres a lot of people on the roll, and any of them could have their identity stolen. >> the group says it doesnt know how many of the 30,000 names were actually used to vote illegally yet. next step, volunteers will match names with voing records. >> doesnt know how many of those names were used to vote ille...

discount bias. orbitz admits blocking users to more expensive hotels and showing pc users rooms that are $30 a month cheaper. targeted markets or computer discount discrimination? ann curry and matt lauer may be splitting up. where and when will curry go and who will take her place? "cnn newsroom" begins right now. good morning to you. happy tuesday. im carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. we begin this morning in florida. much of that state is underwater, including pa...

another 8 inches of rain today. tropical storm debby is forcing more evacuations, rescues and road closures. just last hour, officials in pasco county, florida, ordered the evacuation of 2,000 homes because of a fast rising river. 38 people were rescued from their homes overnight. >> i was kind of panicking because the water came up over the wall where i live. if youre looking to sell your home, you may get a little more for it than just a few months ago. home prices, they have now r...