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Looking at whats in the cargo hold, an e cigarette, batteries, something in the planes batteries or something in the cargo hold that shouldnt have been loaded. good news is it was a newer 737 all the new model planes and all of the passenger service planes have smoke and fire detection and suppression equipment. this is good news in terms of what the plane can do, and they had early detection. thats thanks to a crash in 1996, a value jet, and families fought for smoke and fire detection systems ...

Hezbollah has been using, drones born women proviced to target venezuelan president maduro when given a speech. the technology has migrated out of war zones along with people who have left growing threats to the rest of the world and have become available for use and it is a challenge, i think, tactically the way that we get out of this is to disrupt the energy in the drones so you disrupt deviation device. we have to penetrate the networks and cyber -- heather: how do we do that? we have even h...

Floyd bennett field where apparently this happened. thats a place where model plane enthusiasts go to fly their model planes. is there possibly a inconsistency with terms? >> they are kind of the same thing. drones learn from the model plane enthusiasts. they have to follow the rules and they have always had to follow the rules. that 400-foot rule is a pretty good one. there really arent any flight operations under that other than at airports and there already was the airport exclusionary where ...

That stays on with nonstop coverage of the airasia crash. pictures of iriyanto are all over the home, a wedding photo, a picture when he was an air force pilot. he went from the air force to indonesias airlines for 13 years and moved on to airasia six years ago. one of his friends paying his respects, the pilot for another airline. what kind of pilot was your friend? >> translator: he is a very responsible pilot. we used to be in the air force together. hes very loyal. hes very kind. in his work...

>> reporter: family and friends occasionally glance at the tv that stays on with non-stop coverage of the airasia crash. pictures of him are all over the home a picture when he was an air force pilot. he went from the air force to one of indonesias airlines for 13 years, moving to airasia six years ago. one of his friends paying his respects is a pilot for another airline. >> what kind of pilot was your friend? >> translator: he is a very responsible pilot. we used to be in the air force togethe...

Responsible pilot. we used to be in the air force together. hes very loyal. hes very kind. in his work innovate hes very kind to his co-pilot ground crew and all the people who fly with them. >> reporter: model planes of jets he flew are part of decorations of the house. his wife said the out pouring of support at the home is invaluable. >> translator: im happy so many people are here. it gives support to me and my family. >> reporter: like so many families of air asia victims there was signific...

Model planes. >>gretchen: did you hear about this professor who is suggesting -- not a new suggestion but a little controversial -- suggesting airlines should charge a fat tax on obese travelers because their extra weight burns more fuel and believes the thinner and average-sized people are picking up the cost because air flights are going up in price. lets face it. its one of the reason high gas prices. is that fair to charge the overweight person more money? >>brian: why dont we just fly lower...

Restore copyright to works that are now in the public dough main, craig. >> pete, before i let you get out of here quickly, the case of a massachusetts man plotting to fly explosive-packed model planes into the pentagon, the capital that suspect in federal court today bham is the latest on that case? >> right. he will be -- a bond hearing to decide whether he should be held on bail it would be very surprising if the judge does anything other than continue the bail that hearing is at 3:00 this af...

Chances to walk away from the murderous plot. but he was apparently hell-bent on killing americans. these huge remote-controlled model planes, roughly half the length of a compact car make for a sophisticated recreation. the fbi says they were part of a plan to pack them with c4 plastic explosives and slam them into the pentagon and u.s. capitol. >> c4 is obviously a high explosive, meaning it can cause a tremendous amount of damage. >> reporter: the suspect identified as an american citizen, re...