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We try to continue to talk to him and explain to him that hes making a very smart decision in handling the situation the way he did. >> the man tells police that he suffers from schizophrenia and is immediately taken to a mental hospital for an evaluation. >> any time a job goes as well as this job, its always a feeling of a sense of accomplishment. >> i think any one of us in the emergency service unit when we have the opportunity to help someone, its definitely a sense of satisfaction. but the...

Themselves. the challenge for the president -- this president is not to be -- dont thrown off course by anyone says. and consider how tricky and difficult the situation is going forward. i think president obama is appropriately cautious. by his own words, he doesnt want to be fooled into a mission creep. he realizes that on the one hand you have to do something without getting us in the middle of sectarian war and dont prop up maliki. i think what the president is doing is cautious and appropria...

>> reporter: a blanket warning of dont move doesnt make sense to you? >> not to me. >> reporter: when the ferry started to take on water alarms like these would have sounded immediately. they wouldnt indicate whether or not the ferry had hit a rock or if there was an explosion. nor would they specify where water was coming in. >> various alarms, emergency signals. trying to contact various crew to do assessments. >> reporter: investigators believe the ferry likely ran off course due to foggy wea...

That the vessel is going to sink. >> when the ferry started to take on water, alarms like these would have sounded immediately. nor would they specify where the water was coming in. >> investigators believe the ferry likely ran off course due to foggy weather. >> the danger is not in overcorrecting but getting to the point of no return. >> they are dealing with heavy rains, high winds, rough seas.

Higher deck where you exit the vessel, generally speaking youre safer on the vessel until at such point you assess yes the vessel is going to sink and then you began to abandon ship. >> reporter: but a blanket warning of dont move doesnt make sense is? >> not to me. >> reporter: when the ferry took on water, alarms like these would have sounded. they wouldnt have indicated if the ferry hit a rock or if there had been an explosion, nor would they specify where the water is coming in. >> you would...

A very steep angle, at a very sharp turn. getting down to about 5,000 fight or below, which is when you might expect that a cell tower connection could be made. so this all fits in to what was reported earlier. a plane turning, veering off course, going over the part of the northern peninsula of malaysia. so it fits. the weird part, though, is why was that phone on? because it goes against all the rules of the cockpit. >> i want to ask the pilot, mitchell. is that unusual for a pilot to use thei...

Devices live streaming? with were already there, were just not using it? >> well, that may be the case. nowadays, we have internet coverage as well as satellite television. when you take a trip flying cross country or even internationally, the problem they tell me is bandwidth. and weve got to find a way to stream all of this massive amount of data, because the flight data recorder has lots of information constantly being measured that needs to be uploaded. and i certainly agree offcourse with m...

Malaysian flight mh-370. they are nevertheless continuing to deploy these sonobuoys. theyre making three passes over the search area today, dropping dozens at a time. they have hydrophones attached to them. the buoy drops into the water, the hydrophone drops another 1,000 feet, it sends a signal back up to the aircraft, sur valing overhead, the possible pings and detections. but the only detections we are aware of at the moment have been made by the "ocean shield." that happened on tuesday and o...

Here. this is us, the triangle and were headed up to igari, thats not a place, its really just a way point in the sky. youll see that the aircraft made a dramatic turn offcourse and begins to follow this rather winding and bending route to go over the northern part of malaysia, and this is the part that skirts around indonesia. you can do it by setting the autopilot, but theres another way you can do it? >> you just do a little bit of course correction, you choose the heading that you want and t...

Welcome back. if malaysian flight 370 skirted ind neezian air space, how did it happen? the plane takes off and then flying around the northern end of indonesia possibly to avoid radar detection. martin, give us a sense of what this would even look like. >> we can show you how it would look from the cockpit and the flight management system. the triangle is us flying on a course that would have taken us to beijing. you can see where things dramatically changed and this flight veered off course.