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4,500 comments for those proposed rules, and they are going to be sifting through them for the next year and a half. they hope to have the rule completed by the end of 2016. the problem is or the concerns from the industry are that this proposal deals with commercial drones that would fly up to 500 feet in the air, up to 100 miles an hour within sight of the pilot and only during the day. to have something as complex as deliveries, they like the idea that the industry would like to be able to fly at night, they would like to be able to fly farther than the pilot can see, and they would like to...

Reporter bart jenson joins us live from washington. bart, thank you so much for your time. >> thank you for having me. >> what are the complexities the faa needs to examine in these drone deliveries are to happen? >> well there are several aspects that are hurdles between now and getting a pizza delivered by a drone. one is for the drone to be able to fly farther than the pilot can see it. that's called beyond line of sight, and faa administrator juerta is trying to work more collaboratively with drone operators to develop rules for line of sight. it makes regulateors nervous. another complexi...

we have a graph that shows the copilot actually programmed erratic altitudes into the flight computers while the captain was out of the cockpit, but look at the red line. that represents the continual line of descent, so he may have been taking the plane down to 100 feet up to 49,000 feet but, in fact it appears those moves were so fleeting that nobody onboard in any way even detected the moves. this was over a four and a half minute period really not noticed by anybody onboard or even air traffic controllers because the plane was already slowly descending into barcelona, where, of c...