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Being on. Lets reset at the top of the hour now. Im anderson cooper. Thank you for joining us. Were following two major breaking stories that the hour. The downing of Malaysian Airlines flight 17 that killed 298 people in ukraine. And im wolf blitzer reporting from jerusalem. The other major story, the breaking story we were following, the crisis in gaza, where israel launched a major ground offensive and it continues. A lot to get you up to date on in this hour. President obama today laying out...

It is not necessarily about what is happening on the plane but is what is happening in airport restrooms and airport food courts, and the security line and tsa, that is the moment we save if im going to catch covid in an airport, am i going to catch it here? i think the question we have to be asking ourselves is if we want to continue to fly, we love to fly, love to get on planes and visit grandma and grandpa and our moms and dads and her cousins, but ensuring the flight crews dont catch omicron...

Pilot is asked to fly above a storm, to raise their altitude. how high does a plane need to go to avoid storms like this? >> in that region of the world, that particular plane cannot top a thunderstorm. those thunderstorms are going in excess of 55,000 feet with those temperatures and the upward lifting development, that plane isnt even certified to fly that high. the other thing is when the plane continues to climb, the performance envelope of the plane reduces. its limited on bank angle. you j...

Somewhere, if not in the indian ocean, somewhere where theyre not searching. it might be somewhere, right from day one from march 8th, when i heard they had no clue about where the plane was missing with so many people. i thought that it is a part of a big, big game. a plane cannot go missing like this. it would be very hard. >> well, i know it is cold comfort, im sure, but there are a lot of hearts in america watching this going out to you and your boys, prahlad, we hope that you can find some ...

More. we have no reason to lose that hope. and we believe that -- many people -- it must have landed somewhere, if not in the indian ocean, somewhere where theyre not searching. it might be somewhere, right from day one from march 8th, when i heard they had no clue about where the plane was missing with so many people. i thought that it is a part of a big, big game. a plane cannot go missing like this. it would be very hard. >> well, i know it is cold comfort, im sure, but there are a lot of hea...

Say that for certain at all. i think theyre making their hypothesis that that was the case. and theyre basing it on the assumption that the plane cannot turn without the hand of a pilot actually turning that plane. as weve seen over the last several weeks with the simulator demonstrations and through various reporting through 777 pilots, this plane, of course, can make the turn. you can do it in various ways, autopilot. theres an emergency descent procedure. and theyre announcing the only way th...