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Rocked by a corruption scandal by her son who allegedly received special treatment on a len. her approval rating is now at an all-time low. errol. >> rosemary, here in europe, french investigators released a preliminary report with chilling details about the co-pilot, andreas lubitzs actions he rehearsed the controlled descent of an outpound flight germany to spain. investigators say on the return flight, the same morning, lubitz intentionally slammed the plane into the french alps what we all f...

Returning to their home base so the development of automatic or autonomous flight lies somewhere down the road. >> you know we talk a lot about the number of drones just from this past holiday, the christmas holiday around the gift giving season until now, and some of the problems and issues but these changes if they are implemented you were just discussing will this only apply to companies or perhaps any mom and pop that opens up and decides we want to deliver books via drone, would that be an ...

4,500 comments for those proposed rules, and they are going to be sifting through them for the next year and a half. they hope to have the rule completed by the end of 2016. the problem is or the concerns from the industry are that this proposal deals with commercial drones that would fly up to 500 feet in the air, up to 100 miles an hour within sight of the pilot and only during the day. to have something as complex as deliveries, they like the idea that the industry would like to be able to fl...

Reporter bart jenson joins us live from washington. bart, thank you so much for your time. >> thank you for having me. >> what are the complexities the faa needs to examine in these drone deliveries are to happen? >> well there are several aspects that are hurdles between now and getting a pizza delivered by a drone. one is for the drone to be able to fly farther than the pilot can see it. thats called beyond line of sight, and faa administrator juerta is trying to work more collaboratively with...

Percolating for the last couple years. >> we certainly have. first the evolution from the interest for people who wanted to join al shabaab now a lot more gravity toward isis. of particular interest out of this peer group is one member of the peer group who made it to syria. became a motivator for this particular group of young men. he left the united states in may of 2014 and never got on board his return flight in june of 2014. he left behind a beat-up volkswagen jetta. according to court docu...

Resources to a foreign terrorist organization. he intended to travel in iraq and syria to joint islamic state of levant. he was arrested add he arrived on a return flight from the country of turkey. now arrested. zero tolerance if they get them. martha: murder suspect robert dushes set for --durst set for arraignment today. three weeks after authorities said they found marijuana and a gun his hotel room. whats supposed to happen with durst in court today? >> reporter: today was supposed to be a ...

Welcome back we have breaking news right now concerning a new jersey man and former u.s. air force economic, his name is nathan webster pugh and been indicted with trying to join isis. now, according to initial reports, pugh flew from egypt to turkey in an effort to cross the border into syria to join isis to fight with them. however, turkish authorities denied him entry into the country and sent him on a return flight back to egypt. now pugh was a u.s. citizen according to his records who origi...

But lets get the very latest on that u.s. airman. pamela brown is standing by. pamela? >> reporter: this is the first u.s. military member we know of who allegedly tried to link up with isis. according to court documents, he was at one point a mechanic for american airlines and an air force mechanic for four years tried to travel to syria to join isis. he left the air force in the 90s and worked for several private aviation companies as an airplane mechanic and in speaking to officials that is a...

That is more than double the altitude at which malaysia 17 was flying at. that tells you -- by the way, thats far above any altitude that a commercial flight can head to or can reach. that tells you, therefore, that the equipment on the ground is lethal and that whoever was operating that piece of equipment presuming they did not intentionally mean to shoot down that specific flight, they could not distinguish a military target and civilian target and because of that, you now see airlines around...

Total of 290 passengers and crew on that flight and rerouted and accommodated. that then began this chain of events by which we had u.s. airways whichs now, of course, part of american airlines and united airlines announcing suspending flights into tel aviv and formally the faa issued a notice to airmen which was sent out at 12:15 eastern time essentially prohibiting carriers flying in and out of ben gurion airport ascertaining the situation there. 24 hours, all flights, all u.s. carriers into a...