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Some country will try to take unilateral sort of engineering to slow it down? is that on the radar scope? >> its hard to imagine what any individual country could do. when that question gets turned on us, gene, and people say youve got china out there, india, nothing we do really matters. i disagree with that for two reasons. one is we are such an example for the world. china and india can sit down and say if americas not taking it seriously why should we? when we take it seriously, when america...

>> mary schiavo, youre nodding your head in the affirmative position. why? >> i do agree with it. also, a drop in altitude to 4 now to 5,000 feet is not low enough to avoid radar. decrease in altitude is not a stealthy thing but life saving thing. >> they said it did go off radar, though, mary. it dropped to 5,000 feet. thats how they know it was that low because et cetera the bottom of the radar scope. if im hearing that right. it was off radar for 120 miles, then it came back on radar. >> you ...

Cross, which goes from being traced on a radar scope to suddenly disappearing off a radar scope. so its incredibly difficult for anyone on that airplane trying to avoid radar to know whether theyve avoided radar or not. and if you were going to do that, you would go the full extent and go 500, 700 miles off the coast to make absolutely sure and descend to make absolutely sure. we look at the track at the moment, and it looks fairly close to indonesia. so to me, if youre trying to avoid radar, yo...

Transponder? >> this is an old-fashioned transponder. they have electronic readouts today. you put the numbers in, four numbers. air traffic control sees on the radar scope an identification of those numbers with the altitude of the airplane. to turn a transponder off you turn it off. air traffic control loses that information. >> if you believe the transponder was turned off how is it that we know the altitude of this particular plane? >> well, i understand that they have cross refrned fr -- re...

Congress acted, passed a bill they thought re dressed it. now chuck hagel, the boss of the defense department is saying we determined that wasnt going to do it. >> remember the pentagon has people on the hill all the time. why didnt they tell congress they were doing it? the chairman of the house armed services committee, buck mccan said our understanding was this solved the problem. why didnt the defense department say it doesnt solve the problem? why didnt the director of the office of managem...

Defense department is saying we determined that wasnt going to do it. >> remember the pentagon has people on the hill all the time. why didnt they tell congress they were doing it? the chairman of the house armed services committee, buck mccan said our understanding was this solved the problem. why didnt the defense department say it doesnt solve the problem? why didnt the director of the office of management and budget put it on her radar screen. to say the d.o.d. money guy says its a b problem...

To make according to radar scope. i want to show you of the dots on the screen, each of these dots to our viewers represents a weather chaser. all right. each of those red dots represents a weather chaser in the area of last weeks tornado. there are a lot of dots. weather producers say there could have been three to four more times chasers out there than the red dots show. the screen is littered with them. you know, dave, you know the storms. you dont want to interfere with traffic and you no he...

Appointment of a special prosecutor. this issue disappears of off the public radar scope for next two years. frankly the american people and government, the administration would be better served getting facts out and letting the american people make their own conclusions about this and deciding whether or not there ought to be a criminal prosecution of any people involved in this. martha: well see. going to a busy june. karl, thank you so much. >> june, july, august. martha: the whole summer. bi...

New signs of an impending launch? >> you know, the skies still clear. everybodys been looking whether its through a radar scope or just staring up into the sky and wondering, when is this launch going to come? we know kim il-sungs birthday is on the 13th. anytime during this window, four or five days, would be a prime time for them to launch. youre right. some intelligence sources here in the asian media saying there was satellite evidence that the north koreans had shifted the musudan missiles ...

rob, help me out here. whats going on? >> theyre filing out, don. theyve just suspended festivities at lollapalooza because of the line of storms thats moving in the last couple years weve had a rash of accidents and unfortunate events with concerts and outdoor venues during summer time severe weather events like were having right now. thats whats happening out at lollapalooza. we have another tower cam showing michigan avenue outside of our cnn bureau there in chicago. traffic at a st...