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The two men had visited, pilot and copilot visited and also found nothing in any of that data that raises suspicion. david gallo, how significant is this submarine? again, unless you know -- unless you have a debris field, a sense of where the plane went in the water, is the sub any good? >> in the air france 447 the french had a military submarine on scene as well. the principal task of that sub was to listen for the pingers and black boxes, which it didnt here. i assume thats part of the role ...

Advanced surveillance aircraft in the world. >> if there is wreckage to be found it would pick that up. >> reporter: the ships report back to the uss blue ridge. no surface ships are in the search area. but the navy has this towed pinger locator. it is en route to the search zone. it is designed to listen for the black boxs pinging beacon. also on board, this autonomous underwater vehicle or uav which scans the ocean floor for debris. but it will only be useful once the investigators have identi...

Pull those surface ships out of there. thats a call that the coordinators are going to have to look at for the safety of the surface ships. the aircraft might be able to continue to do a surface search and you might have to make the call to, to delay the search until the seasonal conditions change. thats a call that they made for the air france. >> that you were involved in the recovery event. >> i was involved in the twa recovery. but in the air france when they made that decision twice. they d...

Between six and nine miles long some 90 miles south. the members of the vietnamese air crews suspected those could have come from the jet liner. but theres no confirmation of that. at first light, it is expected that more surface ships, as well as aircraft will be out in that specific area looking for any evidence that they may be able to find. this is a crash that stretches right across international boarders. it affects some 14 nationalities. more than half of the 239 passengers and crew who a...

Three buildings. it has the headquarters staff, the contracting staff, the organization that im from, which buys non-nuclear surface ships. the folks that buy weapons systems, missile launchers and radars. theyre on one of those. a lot of the technical folks who do design of ships and ship systems and ship safety, those engineers are all in that building. there are two other buildings that are also on the navy yard that also house the naval sea systems command. building 197 is the largest of the...

Organization, the headquarters organizations large. theres a few thousand people there. but at the navy yard, but 60 or so that worked for me of those, they all got out alive and that was my main focus during the day was just trying to track them down and see where they were. >> have you confirmed that all those under your command -- >> i have either talked to them personally or have gotten voice mail or e-mail or text messages from them saying that they were okay. >> so captain, tell us about t...

There are other options. >> this leaves us a limited standoff attack using surface ships, cruise missiles, submarines, crews missiles, and munitions from airplanes, flying below the radar and air defense system at targets inside of syria of military value. >> right now here at the pentagon, they are awaiting a decision by the president. theyre standing by and im told theyre in a watch and wait mode as we speak. >> trace: jennifer griffin live. president obama just a short time ago presented the ...

Month. 500,000 u.s. troops on the ground. the institute for the study of war here in washington says there are other options. >> what this leaves us is a limited standoff attack using surface ships, cruise missiles, submarines and also precision guided munitions from airplanes all flying below the radar and air defense system at targets inside of syria military value. >> the u.s. could use warplanes from outside of syrian air space. thats what the israelis have done to some effect so there are o...

International community and within the framework of legal justification. >> and if the united states stands by and doesnt take very serious action, not just launching some cruise missiles, then again, our credibility in the world is diminished even more if theres any left. >> chairman of the joint chiefs general martin dempsey is in jordan today. he warned that any regime change in syria would require b dollar0 u.s. troops. but the institute for the study of with are here in washington says ther...

We have intelligence services on the ground who could do a lot of the fact finding for us. i assume they are already doing that and i hope the administration comes from the conclusion more rapidly than what the u.n does that this in fact chemical attack delivered by assads regime. >> we know that naval ships are moving into the area. what could that mean? what potential options does it provide for us? >> it gives us a range of options with something we call precision guarding the standoff weapon...