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Number of challenges, internally, politically. the military has always handled that extremely professionally. its very surprising. cant explain it. it demonstrates incredible gaps to fill those in with very known data points. we are trying to extract intentions here and capabilities. it is extremely difficult in this black hole of information we have. >> scott, israel has tightened the security around its airports. it fears the plane could have been weaponized. is that a rational fear. >> given ...

Screening, i mean it isnt even close to being professional screening. so that tells you that you need to look at other things as to how tight the security is. >> lets go back to that screening. you said it wasnt a professional screening. i would suppose those pilots go through security every single day. maybe they just got used to them going through. is that possible? >> well, it is possible. i guess you would have to look at their pat-down screening of other people as they come through and then...

>> moments after this, this happened. [ crying ] [ screaming ] >> the woman was dragged away by security and taken behind closed doors. its heartbreaking to watch. >> reporter: it is. and it was truly a heartwrenching scream to hear that. anybody who is a parent can just feel it. the anguish in that scream. so we asked for a response from the malaysian officials that were there. they did briefly address it at the press conference in a

To the forefront concerning either pilot in terms of negative associations with terror groups, radical groups or any criminal groups. they both have a stable background in history. that means to investigate and investigate thoroughly. nothing leads us to believe this was intended by the crew. we have to conclude, because of the co-pilots reported history of poor cockpit security, it is the most likely scenario that someone breached the cockpit and held the crew hostage. >> anthony roman, thank y...

Operation center staff are on heightened alert. from pilots calls to airport security, multiple information streams are mined for anomalies. in this room israels security hangs on minute by minute second by second decisions about approaching aircraft. in here the possibility of a rogue passenger jet is a permanent threat. their system would have alert ad problem had mh370 been near their airspace. >> once identified as a possibility for security background for such an incident, security incident...

Moments after that mother spoke those words, this happened. >> ahh! ahh slam! >> she was actually dragged away by security and taken behind closed doors. atika shubert was at that briefing in kuala lumpur. that is hard to watch, atika. >> reporter: it is. it was really heartrending to see her being dragged out like that screaming. you can really hear the distress in her voice. they were brought to a small media room. they were told not to speak to the press and then were later escorted out. a sc...

Imagery. dont look for u.s. military satellites to go down there. they have other national security needs that they are going to stick with, we are told. i think it would be very useful. it seems like we bounce back and forth every day. the northern, the southern, the most hopeful, all of that. lets just regroup for a second about what we are really talking about here. why the focus on the southern arc? it has never gone away as being the u.s. view that it is most likely the plane went down ther...

We have to put cameras in the cockpit and the passengers. >> i am joined by commercial pilot, anthony roman. morning, sir. >> good morning, carol. lets talk first about mr. mcgaws idea. when pilots are allowed to lock that door, no one can get in. if a dangerous situation is taking place inside the dock hit, it is helping help from coming in. >> he has a point. if the cockpit door is locked, it will prevent help from coming in. i wear two hats, i am a former corporate pilot and own a global inve...