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Double dealing. well rely on counterparts, the south koreans. one of their lawmakers just yesterday provided some satellite intelligence indicating that the north koreans were seeking to build a nuclear capability to launch from one of their submarines. they have 70 submarines in their arsenal. so well do all of those things and then we also need to track on russia and china nefarious actors already talking about ratcheting down the sanctions. thats very much against our strategy. >> sandra: as ...

Trouble. u.s. officials tell cnn that u.s. spy satellites are picking up indicators north korea is getting ready for another ballistic missile test. just two weeks after it stunned the world, launching its first intercontinental range missile, capable of hitting the united states. >> the north koreans are moving quickly to develop an intercantal ballistic missile capability. >> reporter: they say the latest satellite intelligence shows kim jong-uns regime is testing radars that would use launchs...

Going forward. we have to give them the respect in that regard but from a defensive posture, you have to understand what your responses have to be. >> big meeting on friday. the heads of the intelligence agencies with donald trump, if you were in that room, what would you say to the president-elect to try to better convince him, hey, this is the best information, the information we have with high confidence right now and what youre doing isnt helping? >> i think what youve got to do is lay out t...

Loretta lynch, the attorney general, just said last week her greatest fear is not another terror attack but rather anti-muslim backlash. of course we should all respect each other, but at the same time we cant let political correctness hamstring our fight in the war against radical islamic terror. >> i want to talk about nsa surveillance because a change to the nsa surveillance program took effect just last week, which means the agency cannot automatically access as much information on americans...

Christians simply for being christians. >> we have to prevent it. >> it goes to show how little of the united states and coalition partners know about whats going on on the ground inside syria. sources say there are little human intelligence they had to try to track folks like this. satellite intelligence signaling those kinds of things but not that kind of hard ones. >> thank you leland. >> states to the south declare ago state of emergency ahead of snow sleet and ice in areas of georgia today....

From that debris. >> wow. mary, do you agree with that? youve looked at the images of the debris. does it look like debris fields youve seen in past ocean crashes? >> it does. the more recent ones do look like a debris field. it gets pretty widely dispersed, the parts and pieces get broken up into smaller pieces. sometimes they can stay together. theres lots of wiring on the planes. theres lots of things that kind of act almost like a net. so it can stay in groups. but the pieces do look more li...

Mh-370. hes on a trip to papua, new guinea and he was being asked by journalists about whether he released this information prematurely, because theres been talk about whether this debris could be a shipping container. s what the prime minister had to say in response to that, though. >> its about the most inaccessible spot you could imagine on the face of the earth. but if there is anything down there, we will find it. we owe it to the families of those people to do no less. >> reporter: hes tal...

Australia. andrew stevens is there. andrew, what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, those images we are looking at, which have been the center of what the maritime officials are calling the strongest lead so far, actually came from australian satellite intelligence. they picked these up, and they were described, actually, at the press conference with the coordinators of the search as being indistinct, and they certainly are indistinct. we know the biggest measures about 80 feet long, but we can...

In kuala lumpur, there is a roller coaster, one piece of information gets discounted the next hour or day or couple of minutes. so obviously families will watch this very closely. but also very cautious as we all should be very cautious about the information weve gotten from australian authorities thus far, because they simply do not know what they have seen on satellite intelligence. >> reporter: yeah, that is a really good point. and the prime minister also spoke, about three hours ago he got ...

Roughly the size of the australian land mass. the southern corridor, they have narrowed their search down to that. so within that, there is a zone of 300,000, which they are focusing on at the moment, john. we dont know why specifically they are focusing on this area. it is being reported that they have satellite intelligence from the u.s. and also from australian satellite sources, as well. obviously, satellites and radar is an important instrument. [ indiscernible ]