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The east side of manhattan, were told from a source that he said he thought he had a window in all of that weather, about five to seven-minute window to take off. once he got actually in the air and started making his way around the lower part of manhattan and up the west side, there was some communication back to the heliport at some point that he needed to come back. and were being told then the last communication this pilot had with the heliport was that he was unsure of his location or he ha...

From the island and south. >> because the statue of liberty is way down here. >> youve got la guardia way off to the right and theyve got visibility issues. and its possible it could have tried to come over central park and then fly south, and then im way off the screen and almost out of the studio with where the stathe statue of liberty is. it comes north and has a problem -- >> so this building is the 104th tallest building in the country. its not anywhere close to being the tallest building i...

Has a car in front of it or in the drive way. so thats kind of telling me that it hit so hard, people had no time. >> i mean, i understand its not just the flames and the wind, the smoke is also causing significant difficulties. >> yes and no. during the course of this fire, after that particular firestorm went through, we have whats called an inversion layer. the coal holds the smoke down close to the ground. sometimes we do have visibility issues, and that would hamper our aircraft efforts at ...

If there are drainage issues, you want to be careful. as far as air travel goes, if you are on a very early flight that was a good move. because things look good right now. however, we are expecting those delays to build up throughout the day. were going to be paying special attention to new york city airports, chicago, as well as atlanta, were talking about heavy rain in the northeast, possibly some fog, so well have some visibility issues. at this hour the big picture here, we are inching at t...

Be a messy commute, its going to be a messy ride if youre going by car. as far as air goes, youre going to see delays today. and the national outlook, what it looks like right now, were talking about creeping close to 2,000 delays at this hour. again, its still pretty early. so all the boards like here at reagan, they look good. im seeing many flights are on time. however, you see cancellations at the obvious places like mississippi, where those deadly tornadoes touched down yesterday. so we see...

Were dealing with visibility issues. so unfortunately, this travel weather is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. well continue to track the severe weather down to the south and update you as needed with the tornado warnings. >> all right. thank you very much. lets move to gabe ambigu. y >> good morning. were tracking severe weather in parts of the south at the airport lines security lines seem to be moving along pretty well. we have seen some rain throughout the morning. thats pre...

Another problem that comes up. we have already said that visibility is top if we start to try to lift up from the bottom -- yes. give us a full thrust. you see if we lift up, which is fine, i mean, whats the you want to do, but then -- the other factors that start to come into play is that the very motion and the front will start to create visibility issues. we are watching. you can see it is starting inform come up and build around us. we are trying to navigate through rather big boulders which...

Here is visibility issues. visibility issues is something that very much could be a problem for anybody that goes down to that kind of depth we may be talking for that vessel. the airplane. >> certainly the -- vessel depths covered in the bottom with -- it is so soft that the slightest disturbance will bring up a dust cloud. and -- whatever devices used to poe down there, whether it be an rov or submersible they all are going to have vertical thrusters. when they thrust had thrust up, that is go...

Be, 38 days after the crash, would the oil have survived this far? temperatures are cold, so it depends on how warm the temperatures are and how strong the winds are for how long the oil takes to either evaporate or emulsify and sink to the bottom. >> and theyll probably test it to see if its engine aisle from a 777, it must have a particular fingerprint. >> it definitely will. >> lets talk about the seabed, below the ocean surface where they collected that oil and talk about the seabed. its tho...

Australia, describing him and all the work being done as very professional. but we continue to hear from officials here that they cannot talk more about the investigation without the information from the onboard black box recorders. the voice recorder, the data recorder. those are going to be vital to their investigation here. they dont want to give away any details that they have so far. and, of course, as weve heard that the aircraft is believed, if it is the aircraft, the location is believed...