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In meteorologist chad myers. chad will tell us about the flight path of this plane, what the terrain is like. take it away chad. >> carol, it appears that it is a strange flight path gone to the east and turning to the left. when you draw the straight line people expect planes to fly in straight lines. thats the flight path today, that was the flight path yesterday. thats how this flight gets to dusseldorf. whats curious to me this morning is that the plane appeared to start descending. i wont s...

That uses the ground stations also. obviously it wasnt utilized in the part of the world that we lost mh-370 in. but all this thing is going to do is being able to track the airplane and maybe get a more precise location if we have another issue. >> is the infrastructure in place to be able to mandate that if governments were to choose to do so? >> yeah, i think so. but to clarify some mythology here airplanes are attract -- over the oceans we dont have radar coverage like we do over most land a...

Function shortly after the last communication. it could have experienced an electrical problem. the component could have failed or it could have been switched off. we dont know. but what we do know is that the data link system known as acars was stopped from transmitting data, but the unit itself continued to talk to the satellites. that takes specialized knowledge and it takes some deliberate key strokes into the computer system to disable its ability to transmit data. thats a deliberate act by...

Tracked a plane on the radar going without transmitting data. thats helpful identifying it as 370. what do you think? >> maybe its a break or development. i dont know why they just figured this out now. if they were tracking a plane without a transponder, wasnt squawking or communicatincommun hopefully this was a break and give us indication of where it was going. and maybe direction of air speed. >> what do we know about where wha they saw in terms of where it was? >> no. they havent said what ...

Map but the point is in the very southern indian ocean, the australians are moving their ships and plane s out into that area looking for any signs of this wreckage, if there is any. they -- theres a good map. so come off of the western side of australia there and they are now searching in that portion of the indian ocean. its a vast expansive ocean and some areas two to three miles deep and the -- in its entirety, 28 million square miles. but all of those countries to the north, the last known ...

Happened. >> they cant say that. all we know is that they stopped transmitting data. there is no way to know if they were turned off in the cockpit or not. what we really have is six data points. we have the point where they turned, the island just past malaysia where they think they got a radio or a radar tracing hit. then, the four data points that were sent from the plane to the satellite. thats all we have. we cant speculate. thats how we help to solve the problem. we can guess. there is no ...

Possibility of something other than a terrorist act, a catastrophic occurrence in the airplane that would take out the initial communication system, which would explain the turn back, and the garbled communication that one of the other pilots, i guess it was a japan pilot reported. and then the spooling down of the systems. one by one losing the systems. so we cant say right now that they were turned off. we can say that they stopped transmitting data. and i think that in terms of evidentiary pu...

And then the spooling down of the systems. one by one losing the systems. so we cant say right now that they were turned off. we can say that they stopped transmitting data. and i think that in terms of evidentiary purposes is what we can say. and so in this case it might actually be better to hope for a hijacking where the passengers might be somewhere traded for ransom, et cetera. but here another scenario would be a catastrophic event, for example a breach of the cabin, lot of pressurization ...

Yet fixed. it is true it is up more than 90% of the time, but if you were dealing with major retail websites, basically the lowest uptime they have is 99.4%. the website aint there yet. then you have all those back-end fungsds like transmitting data correctly to the insurers, like giving people the correct eligibility determination to see what their subsidy would be and those are a little bit problematic so they have to be careful not to put too many people there before the back-end things are f...

Watching the vehicle drive itself. totally hands free. >> just like you would program a gps navigation device, you would enter your destination. it would plot a path. except that in this case it starts driving itself towards the destination. >> reporter: it is armed with sensors and cameras around its body. engineers and transportation lawmakers say this technology stands on the cutting edge all by itself. it navigates through highway traffic, will minimize risks for accidents, lessen commute ti...