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That we're hearing, we're in the early stages of this. >> either scott or tony, let me ask you, cost factor in all this? tony, do we know? >> the epa yesterday was unwilling to estimate how many people have been effected. seven water systems have been shut down. navajo nation, across three states, they've already said they're going to sue. they're trying to farm, they've got livestock, and they're not using water. the financial -- the human impact is incalculatable but it's going to be significant. i think the epa is prepared for that. >> again, any moment from now we're going to haven update,...

I don't understand why these people don't just jump across a stream dividing texas from mexico and can come here illegally and benefit from our welfare state. i think it's an abomination. >> it's worse than that because they're being rewarded more and more. to say that this is this isn't like a sanctuary city and a felon, this is actually even worse. we're saying, listen, you can actually start to gain power and influence. you can start to write the rules in a country where you're breaking the rules by being here in the first place. again, it's beyond the pale this is happening. >> and there's...

Were in the midst of malaysia 370 reporting that the military has a way to deploy these if they impact with water or with the ground. that's been considered. how practical for commercial aviation i can't say. there's probably a cost factor in it. remember this is after the fact technology. are we helping prevent the same type of occurrence again? are we spending more money for something that may not happen just by virtue of the investigation itself and what can be revealed from that? it's a balance that you have to put together to determine whether that's something we really need. >> you look ...

Then you have to download that data at the end of a shift. you have the cost of expanding on servers. so you have a multitude of servers that you have to back up this information. you can also utilize cloud data but then you have an administrative over head that you have pay for there also. so there is a cost factor that is ongoing. the bigger issue is how long you keep that data. the aclu has said they only want you to keep that kind of data for like two to three days if it doesn't have a criminal nexus. for law enforcement you may want to keep that longer especially if there is connective to...

Once per second for 30 days. a battery with a six year shelf life powers that beacon. for more insight -- great to see you, why don't black boxes transmit in realtime? >> well, one of the reasons is that the number of parameters that the black boxes measure are themselves measured in the hundreds and hundreds of different data points, and multiply that by the bandwidth you would need technologically to transmit from one airplane let alone the fact that there could be five or six or 8,000 airplanes in the sky at any one time. and it's pretty overwhelming. >> there aren't enough sats in the sky ...