Page 11 - Cloud Formation News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

That conditions there, 11 trillion gallons of water are needed to bring the drought to an end. we want to leave you with this perspective. this is a cloud formation, called the undulation stratus. it's a wavy cloud that was seen in the state of south carolina on monday afternoon. >> undalatis aspiratus. see how quickly i learn? the one child policy was introduced back in 1980, and since then it's been keeping the population low, much lower and it would have been, but now there seems to be some type of dem twrafic time bomb, and it involves the aging population of china and concerns there may...

Think about what it's like if you were to go to denver and hike around the foothills of the rockies there, that's what you're getting. a strain on all people trying to reach the location and strain on getting out with everything. it will be a tremendous amount of work. overriding all of it right now, john, is the urgency to get in there and get flight data and voice recorder because that's what will explain what actually happened to this plane because we know now it was in good repair based on an engineering check yesterday. we know that it had a skilled and experienced pilot onboard. we know ...

Plane went down. a local mountain guide in the french alps. what did he tell you? >> he basically described the terrain. he said the reported crash site would be inaccessible to emergency vehicles and the only way to get there would be to chopper rescue officials and rescue workers in. this complicates the situation quite a bit because he said that low cloud formation is sort of enveloping that mountainous area where we believe the plane went down. he has eyes on choppers he was telling me a few minutes ago that are military helicopters, police helicopters, fire department helicopters as well....

That kind of information? >> well at this point what we're looking at is contributors and contributors are something that come down the road in the investigation a little bit. to talk about icing at this point is a little bit speculative, but it isn't isn't uncommon to incur icing, either as hail or the kind of icing that sticks to the aircraft as it enters and goes through wet areas, but at this point it's too early to tell but it's certainly a possibility that it contributed. >> so mary if that is a possibility, would there be a certain altitude that would have to be entertained with that id...

22 at the time. what was going through your mind at that time because this was towards the end of the time that you were suppose tlod to be the correct? >> yep. we were about three weeks from going home. for me what was going through my mind i was wounded early on but i'm watching all these other guys fight, standing, returning fire, stopping and treating casualties, running to reinforce positions that i just felt i had to do my part just like everybody else. >> you know, ryan, you know, obviously, what happened that day never leaves you. the memories of it. the noise. the clamor. the casualti...