seen the airplane descend far more rapidly than it did. so this seems to be kind of a long controlled descent. that raises the question if it was an emergency, why did the pilots radio something or send something through the transponder to indicate an emergency? we don't have that. that then raises the question what were the pilots doing and we just don't know. with recovery of the cockpit voice recorder hopefully that will give us the answers within a couple of days. >> there's so many theories being thrown around including was there a problem with the autopilot. i want to talk about search and rescue. the conditions, when that plane was flying the weather was pretty good. now during this recovery, the weather conditions are getting worse. we heard our meteorologist talk about fog and snow talk about freezing rain, as well. in this kind of environment, how