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Where you could radio for help or electronically signal for help. >> think for a moment about what this does to the search areas we are talking about. it was malaysia maybe up to thailand and beyond. the possibility that it continues to fly for four or five hours any of these places could be reached. there's so much talk about the indian ocean. that's why the u.s. destroyer, the kid has gone there to help assist in the search. the thinking is even at this point in the search that they would at least find some floating debris. >> the plane of this size in water you are going to have stuff on th...

Sea off the west coast of thailand and berma -- >> you don't continue to fly four or five hours off course where the transponder just happens to be turned off. it is not making any sense, is it if you put those pieces of the puzzle together. >> you're right, there has to be human involvement, even with the transponder, the failure, there are battery backups. secondly if the plane was in distress there are multiple systems for -- you could radio for help and electronically signal for help. there are things that could be done. this is interesting, the four hours of data that is said to be coming...

They were focused over here. now they've had to add this and add this. searches like this are done by basically gridding it off like this and having planes fly over every square block methodically searching both electronically and physically to see if they can see anything. this takes a tremendous number of aircraft and a lot of time because they have to do it at a piece of time and grind it all away. the air france plane that went down over the atlantic, they had debris in the water that they spotted very soon and the search area was more than 124,000 square miles and they knew where to look....

Opportunity or the resources to file a claim electronically, sometimes by tens of thousands of dollars, is too much. it's too severe. >> for wounded veterans, the changes could be onerous. they have proposed mainidandate using that claim. the v.a. wants to get rid of the so-called informal claim process requiring veterans to register online. retroactive pay would be received starting at the date the form is fully completed, meaning the clock won't start ticking for partially complete hand-written forms as it does now. >> we have concerns because the average age of the american veteran is 64 ye...

The 2010 census reported that 55% of americans 65 and older do not have regular access to the internet. >> the va moving in this direction is absolutely the right way to go. but to penalize veterans who don't have the capability or the opportunity or the resources to file a claim electronically, sometimes by tens of thousands of dollars, it's too much, it's too severe. >> the veterans groups say the amount of time to fill out these forms and provide all the documentation required would because them to lose up to a year of benefits for dozens of years the veterans have been able to make disabil...