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Joining me this morning, we appreciate it. these images taken through minutes apart, and chad meyers is in atlanta, and you heard what the mayor said but this kind of rain is unusual for houston, right? >> four inches an hour in anyplace is unusual, absolutely carol. this is what the map looked like. this is radar accumulation as of 8:00 at night. downtown you talk about the center. not much rainfall a couple inches of rain, and houston handles that every time, and watch what happens in the next 30 minutes, and all of a sudden areas with six inches of rainfall and then two hours later, up to...

About the attorney general's statement was she described a frayed relationship between the community and the police frankly and she said it's an understatement because it's to the point of being severed. so she is using some very tough language to describe what a big job this police department has in baltimore to try to regain trust there. >> tom, something else that intrigued me about what loretta lynch said. this investigation and others will be helpful to police departments across the country. is that right? >> absolutely carol. first of all, i would like to say i have the highest respect f...

I want to go first to les. there were we understand that at 10:45 local time at a height of 10,000 feet there started to be this rapid descent. it left that height after one minute and it went straight down. one of the people in that news conference said it went straight down like a rocket. it lasted eight minutes all together. what does that tell you? >> i'm getting this information like you are, carol. if that data is indeed correct, something catastrophic did occur. i find it hard -- 10,000 feet is not a high altitude in mountainous terrain especially. what that could have meant is that it ...

To dusseldorf germany. it crashed somewhere in the french alps. i showed you before the break pictures of a staging area in france where recovery teams are at work. >> reporter: just before i go to the pictures we have news coming in from germany. a german town fearing it lost many of its students. 16 students that's 1-6, and two teachers of a local high school were booked on that germanwings flight. authorities as i'm quoting here don't know yet if the group actually was on the flight. a crisis center has been established at the city hall and this town is about 77 kilometers from dusseldorf a...

Feet which makes me curious again. this is a lot of conflicting data from all sorts of sources so we don't really know. it's hard to say at this point in time. engine failure is something we train for all the time. you won't be able to maintain 38,000 feet with an engine failure. >> so engine failure in a mountainous region is different from engine failure -- >> yes. knowing they have flown this route on many occasions, they understand the terrain beneath them and my particular airline has escape routes for that reason so if you have an emergency situation that you have a particular route and ...