a machine that replicates his signature. to extend the patriot act which was set to expire at midnight tonight. the provisions of the law which were passed after the 9/11 attacks deal with legalizing tactics like roving wiretaps and searching personal records of terror suspects. it is extended for another four years breaking news this morning coming in about the air france plane that crashed into the atlantic two years ago. its flight recorders which were, as we said, recovered, revealing incorrect and conflicting air speed indications led the crew to make some critical judgments that ended up resulting in a deadly stall. our jim bittermann is live in paris with these findings. good morning, jim. >> good morning, kiran. in fact, what that's called is a power on stall. they were putting full thrust to the engines but the angle and attack of the airplane sometimes reached as much as 40%, 40 degrees rather, and, in fact, the plane was -- not moving fast enough forward it could fly. as a consequence, it fell out of the sky, took three and a half