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19 other states have a law just like it. the conversation will continue. thanks. >> thank you. coming up it may sound crazy can a parachute attached to a plane keep a plane safe. is it realistic? kurt the cyber guy here with us next to explain. amazing video shows a firefighter battling the flames falling through the roof into the fire. incredible. how he survives ahead

>> fillphilosophy. >> what happens happens? >> i was out too late last night. >> he has no idea what it is. >> your bigger point is that obviously it is the safest way to flight. once in a great while things happen. >> once in a while things happen. remember that this plane got off the runway. all of these terrible things could have happened but because of various other safety measures, everybody got off the plane safe. >> thank god. >> lets go to from one nbc reporter to another freezing nbc re...

Through it. and its part of the unusual situation training that they go through and particularly with the chief pilot who had 20,000 hours, both as an air force pilot and as a commercial pilot, he would have been absolutely capable of flying into this kind of weather, making the kind of command decisions that are necessary to keep the plane safe. >> i wonder if you think, tom, theres perhaps anything suspicious? when malaysian air flight 370 went down, everyone was looked at. what might there be...

There at 30,000 feet. in that case youre talking about something like the buk system, which is so powerful and so well targeted it can reach all the way up there and take out almost anything. look at the range of that. it can be tremendously destructive. it has, interestingly enough, limitations for all its strength. a system really needs a government to buy it, support it and make it operate. the troops running it have to have a high degree of train. thirdly, all of that makes tracking possible...

Only on the immediate families but also the entire flying public. because ive been on four different planes since this happened, and theres always a question in the back of my mind. is this plane safe? i want to bring in dr. bob arndt, a veteran aviation consultant. are you there? >> i am. yes, i am. >> hi, dr. bob. listen, the theory, you have done, youve done a lot of investigation on possible theories about what happened to this plane, and how it may have come to rest in the ocean. you know, ...

Taking our shoes off, taking our hats off, all that process if you can just scoot through there with a gun thats just as good as a metal gun? >> no. thats right. and so you either support screening for weapons to make a plane safe or you dont. theres really no point in screening for some guns but not other guns. its only a matter time until somebody who wants to bring a plastic gun will do so. >> im sure the terrorists are watching right now. lets look at the nra statement that makes one thing c...

Here in the downtown area, awnings being ripped away and small trees being uprooted. a lot of people and a lot of concern especially, alex, coming off what they have over the last 11 days. >> well yeah. you know what, at the airport, jay, i dont imagine they have enough hangar space to take all their planes and put them into some semblance of security but then again with certain tornadoes a hangar is not even going to keep a plane safe. that must back up incredibly the traffic, people getting in...

On-line and know for sure because right now, nothing is taking off from lambert international in st. louis. closed indefinitely. no idea right now when it might be up and running. another point you made as well, which was a good one, which could take people back to a situation we saw a couple weeks ago when a piece of the plane out in arizona came off mid-flight and people talk about that and say hey, that had to do with something in the skin of that plane being compromised. well if all this deb...

The -- >> its difficult to imagine any piece of major legislation could have been handled so arrogantly and so ineptly. if you want to read more on this, you can go to my blog at cnn.co cnn.com/caffertyfile. >> were usually talking about major wall street firms, large corporations, but now the spending practices of a popular and long-standing charity are raising eyebrows. we have details. fbut first, is the air you breathe on a plane safe? were going on board with testing equipment to find out...

They wouldnt had to grope me >> i dont like the invasion of privacy. but i want to be safe. it is a catch 2 . >> i went through the -- catch 22. >> i went through the screening she had to patçmlñ me down again and my hands it was funny i think it is a little too much. >> i would prefer somebody touching -- i would prefer nobody to touch me all over my body. i wouldnt want them to touch me in the place after they put me through a full machine. >> i just stood there, scanned my body picked up a ...