havoc across the country causing hundreds of accidents on icy roads. in baltimore, at least two people are dead, dozens are injured after a tanker yearing gasoline skidded off the road and exploded alongside a nearly 70-car pile-up. now authorities don t yet know whether the pile-up was a result of the explosion or caused it. in indianapolis, about 50 people were forced to evacuate a restaurant when the roof collapsed completely flooding the inside there. police aren t sure what happened but they do believe this one too was cold weather related. and in naperville, illinois, temperatures have dipped to almost zero, causing trains to be delayed due to mechanical problems caused by the sub-freezing temperatures and as in regions across the country, authorities are urging caution for anyone who has to be out in the weather. although, i have to say, my brother-in-law i think wins today. he sent me weather report, negative 35 with windchill as they were heading out to church in iowa. i
it has pictures from the prison, mistreatment of iraqi prisoners, in juxtaposition with the treatment of the american citizens. they re drawing distinction. the it s disturbing and very upsetting to military people to see our brothers in arms and sisters in arms treated that way. there was no reason to humiliate them that way or put them at gunpoint on their knees, hands behind their knees and then to broadcast it. violations of international law, and the normalcy that we generally expect of other military forces. absolutely. but thankfully they were released. but there are also questions about how these sailors ended up in iranian the territorial waters. farsi island, mechanical problems were the reasons given. does that make sense to you? it could have been mechanical
for 24 minutes, this flight proceeds entirely normally, and then something. and there is nothing on the data recorder, we re told, that seems to suggest a failing aircraft, mechanical problems, nothing of the sort. you have this noise on the voice recorder and then nothing. in those circumstances, and always remembering, wolf, planes don t fall out of the sky for no reason, you are left with the conclusion it s a bomb. it s certainly a chilling thought. tom fuentes, if in fact for the first 24 minutes it shows everything is normal, the cockpit voice recorder shows everything is normal, then all of a sudden the plane explodes, there any other explanation other than a bomb? oh, sure. it could still be a mechanical problem on the plane. it could be a gas line
apart, and if the that is the case, perhaps the sound of an explosion, and perhaps the sound of something else. there was not enough time to discuss it. not enough time to send out an emergency call. my guess is a that it is a very short segment of noise and if the investigators are skilled, they can trace in which direction that noise is coming from, and perhaps identify whether it was a high order explosion or something less like a tearing sound. evidence, phil, is pointing us away from the possibility off a surface to air missile or the shoulder-fired missile or for that matter, they are looking for a blast inside of the plane as we have been reporting, mechanical problems, sabotage, a bomb, and that is much more likely, right? i think it is. the likelihood in the past 24 hours that it is a missile is
and again, especially at the same time we re getting news reports a third to a half of every russian airplane can t even get off the ground in syria because of mechanical problems. we re going to be coming back to american politics coming up next with a man whose had anger problems. a lot of people said he s needed to control it. tells people to sit down and shut up. this is the angriest i ve seen chris christie this morning. the mets lose, damn, it s bad news somebody said around here when new york knicks are the best team and you get two hours sleep. i think we can get an argument. morning joe with chris christie next. (vo) what does the world run on?