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It just took off for vegas which means this thing was loaded for bear. it s got enough fuel on this thing to fly for the better part of 11 or 12 hours across the atlantic, across the united states to land in vegas. so if, in fact, this landing gear is down this plane could be up there for quite some time because the last thing you want to do is land a plane that s this heavy on an airport. i mean, the 747s need a long airport to land on to begin with much less having a bad landing gear on a 747 trying to land, leah. this thing is, i mean, this is tricky. leah: yeah. this is really really tricky. the big question will be, of course what do they decide to do? is if this landing gear s not coming down, do they decide to do this belly up or take it as it comes and potentially get into a situation where the plane could twist and turn and spin? in this situation you have a lot of passengers onboard, and this could be very scary if people get injured depending on what happens and depending on ....
Learned here, bob, from past catastrophes, we think of corey y korean kel. do any of them adefend themselves from such situations automatically? there have been reports that the israeli airline has certain sorts of technologies built in to their 747s that afford them some sorts of defenses. these systems, as nearly as i can tell, on paper, they say that they re very effective. and frankly, i just don t know how effective they d be. but air force one, for instance, is said to be protected. il al, maybe. mostly in the case of where they found shoulder fired missiles that shot at planes on approach or on takeoff, so at low altitude. there s been a run-up in investigating whether you can do this for civilian airliners. last i saw, cost was going to be something about $5 million, and then i don t know about the ....
Why wayne simmons is here and john sununu is not. wayne, understand the geopolitical and strategic importance but i feel that we can t be in a position to be too, too argument with the saudis. last time i check we kind of need them and we need their oil. and that s very unfortunate. the united states has oil reserves that if we access them, we could put all of opec out of business. that s a fact. if it were me, frankly, i would have king abdullah in one of his 747s make the trek to the united states, hat in hand, and kowtow to me as president of the united states and beg me for military support and for protection. instead what we have is arguably the weakest president in the history of the united states that is not rhetoric, it s a fact who has sacrificed our national security by going around the world, his hat in ....
Another. a federal prosecutor told me yesterday, this is a quote from you, you are limited by your resources, but they re limited only by their imagination. if you can dream it up, they have built it. so, basically you re describing him as this quasi mythical figure. tell us more about this man. the guards, the guns, the tunnel s. all the resources they ve created. he has become a mythical figure within u.s. law enforcement but broadly in latin america. part of that was his ability to escape the law all these years. he was locked up in mexico but escape friday prison in 2001. it s only now that he is being captured. his ability to innovate. this was a guy who was the pioneer of gig digging tunnels under the border. he first did it 25 years ago. he used submarines to send drugs up the continent, 747s. the range of imaginative means of getting drugs into this country is really bigger than ....
We re back. we never left but we are definitely back. reporter: after a four-year hiatus, the king and queen of this orlando area palace, jackie siegel and her timeshare billionaire husband, david seigel, have resumed construction on what will be the biggest house in america which could swallow the white house. it is fittingly called versailles. you bought a toilet in italy, shipped it to china and brought it back here. yes. it was cheaper than to have it done in china than italy. reporter: a million pieces of marble. they have a big family, eight kids, five dogs, six if you count the one that is stuffed. so it stands to reason they need a big house. but at 90,000 square feet, this 15-bed, 30-bath home can also hold two 747s. the siegel s home was first featured in the documentary the queen of versailles last year. the ultimate example of the ....