Systems Off News Today

You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im in washington. We begin this hour with news that the Florida Republican party has scrapped its own loyalty oath requiring candidates to pledge support for the partys eventual nominee. It is a promise donald trump has flatly refused to make all along. It is seen as a major defeat for trumps closest rival in his own state, Florida Governor ron desantis, and a big win for donald trump. Meanwhile, as trumps legal woes consider to pile up, the judge has been asked...

Rose to 27 feet. it unindated this community to cover the first floor of homes. fire authorities tell us no one was injured or died. the fires start when the floodwaters shut the systems off. natural gas builds up and any electrical spark can cause a building to ignite. the new jersey governor murphy reiterated there is still concern at rising water levels. >> our death toll has climbed to 25 overnight and we have at least six missing across the state. my biggest concern right now is folks have ...

Now. two minutes after talking with air traffic control, 40 minutes into the flight, the transponder goes dark. it. is the instrument that sends out a signal to air traffic control. it tells what height, which direction and speed it is traveling. suddenly, this giant 777 is blind to the world. >> there is no easy explanation for why it happened. >> either it was intentional, someone tried to turn all the systems off at once or the pilot was kept from communicating or a mechanical failure that to...

They said they think its russia. i have president putin. he just said its not russia. >> reporter: other members of the trump administration continue to cast a much darker view of russia. >> we dont trust russia. we dont trust putin. we never will. theyre never going to be our friend. thats just a fact. >> reporter: and tonight concern that russian government hackers carried out probing cyber attacks on vital u.s. infrastructure including the power grid, potentially giving the kremlin the abilit...

The ability to turn off the lights. the department of homeland security and the fbi detailing a two-year multistage effort by mow c moscow targeting the u.s. energy grid. they planted malware that allowed them to move into larger networks. once inside the energy suppliers, they collected information on the facilities control systems, attempting to gain the ability to turn those systems off. >> theyre positioning malware so they could pull the trigger when they wanted to. but theyre also sending ...

Power grid. >> they may be getting ready for a cyberattack to cripple the united states. jim sciutto has more on what is at stake. >> reporter: vital u.s. infrastructure including the power grid under cyber threat by russian government hackers. potentially giving the kremlin the ability to turn offer t the lights. department of homeland security and the fbi detailing a two year multistage effort by moscow targeting the u.s. energy grid. the hackers first gained access to small energy related com...

Have a sick passenger. specially useful when we are out of the hf range. >> you also mentioned the engines transmitted data independent of what the pilot is doing. >> just to say what their p parameters are at the time. >> the important thing to remember, shutting those systems off, the radio and the acard system off, that is not easily done, it is not an on/off system. >> if you are going to shut down, we call this box, the fmc, you have to have an intimate knowledge of the architecture of this...

>> that says to me it is very unlikely this was a mechanical failure or an electrical failure or any failure. that says to me that somebody on board this airplane and the flight deck deliberately tried to turn those systems off. why? i dont know. it is something you would never, ever do. it is unheard of. we talk about the redundancy that is built into this aircraft. it is meant to fly long distances over vast, empty oceans. everything is backed up, backed up, backed up. there are at least six b...

Hes clever. i would guarantee hes turning all these systems off. hes going to shut down everything that emanates a signal and intentionally go to black. makes it more difficult for us to find him. >> now, that said, we probably would know where these facilities are already even if theyve gone dark now. so say were talking about something like a radar facility or some kind of command and control structure out there. would we hit it anyway? and what would be the result? >> tom, we would. all of th...