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This flight up to that point everything has been routine. >> mm-hmm, yes. >> everything was routine until now. two minutes after talking with air traffic control, 40 minutes into the flight, the planes transponder goes dark. >> the planes transponder is effectively the instrument that sends out a signal to air traffic control. it tells you what height its at, which direction and what speed its traveling. suddenly this giant 777 is blind to the world. >> and theres no easy explanation for why it ...

>> its not something i can confirm at the moment, and its not particularly useful to actually confirm potential numbe numbers. for people who we might be dealing with who might have concerns that a friend or a relative or a loved one might be in that building, we have set up our -- >> nb[ inaudible ]. how many maybe inside. >> that is a tactical, operational imperative. >> why is that so sensitive? >> because at this point everything has to be about the safety of the people in the location. so i...

Are getting new data. it is being refined. and there seems to be an air of confidence, that, sure, its a big ocean, but were getting closer and closer to where this airplane might be. >> im very interested, david, souci, you keep saying you think its a real milestone in the investigation, and specifically what angus houston said to make you have that -- to be so optimistic? >> you talk about the planning and everything that was going into this and weve been suffering through that and the familie...

This is the acars system. a system does many things on the aircraft. it allows pilots to send text messages to the ground, allows the ground to do the same with them. an alternate communication system. most important for this scenario, that system would report to the ground every half hour or so parameters of what this is doing. speed, altitude, direction. it did that at 1:07. at that point everything was good. if there was a preprogrammed change, it would have been entered in this thing. this i...

Before or after one of the flight data transmitting systems was turned off. lets bring in don gorelli and captain john cox. good morning gentlemen. lets start with what we just learned. they believe the co-pilot was the last one to talk to air traffic controllers. nothing seemed to be amiss. where we stand right now, what strikes you? >> i think the routineness of the first officer says at that point everything was normal. we know shortly thereafter several of the communication devices were eith...

Salt lake city division of the fbi observed hannah and the suspect near morehead lake at a campsite. agents moved in to rescue hannah. the suspect is deceased. >> reporter: fbi releasing few details, saying the entire operation will now be reviewed by a team heading here from washington, with dimaggio considered armed and dangerous and hannah a potential hostage. the stakes, enormous. >> this was a homicide suspect that was in a very rugged area and we had a 16-year-old girl. we have to look at ...

Talking about just seconds, you know, it seems like there really wasnt enough time to make the appropriate adjustments to avoid this kind of mishap. at this point you have to wonder whether pilot error is really what theyre looking at here, but as the ntsb chairperson put it, at this point everything just really seems to be on the table. don. >> dan simon at san francisco international. thank you, sir. we appreciate that. two teenage girls died in the crash, but more than 300 people mile an ho...

Politics are changing on it really fast. so its not only senator ayotte. it is senator jeff flake. >> weve got numbers. let me show you jeff flake. approval rating is 32%. thats down 19% since october. rob portman down 18 point since october as well, jonathan. >> thats arizona. classic pro gun state. their senator, very popular there, is just tanking. ohio, a bell weather state as we know. if these numbers hold up over time, and i hate it say this, one of the ways the passion might stay in thiss...

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45-year-old paul curtis was abruptly canceled with no explanation. a short time later he is released on bond. curtis and his legal team have maintained his innocence from the start. >> at this point the evidence is lacking. it is not there. any time you have information over the internet or facebook you have millions of people that can access that and thats what they have. theres just no evidence. >> a law enforcement source tells cnn they are looking into whether someone tried to implicate curt...