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But you point out it can be good or bad and trying to solve these crimes. i'm concerned about the risk that other criminals look at this and think, this is the way i'm getting famous, this is it. we've seen these incidents before, beating, rapes, murders now, so what are some of the answers here? >> i'm not condoning at all the things we are seeing on here, but it is something that needs to be aressed, this social media is crazy. you know the first nine calls we got in the city of cleveland, 911 dispatch system, my daughter is a dispatcher up there, first man calls we got were from out of stat...

Numerous checks and balances that say the list of which is the dispatch system. how did it get through the dispatch system without being red flagged is the real question. >> reporter: the airline didn't realize the the error until the flight was already in the air. american alerted the faa and the decision was made to let the flight continue across the pacific. american admits the mistake but insists the airbus 321 s quote flies over water regularly for many missions end quote. experts agree the aircraft itself was capable of making the flight but warned that had there been a mid-air emergency...

Misinformation as both andy and david will confirm. there's always misinformation during the early stages of an accident. and we're still in the early stages. and you need to be very careful. people want to give good news out. they want to see things that tend to be positive. you have to take it with a grain of salt. you have to be careful. you have to be verify -- verify the information. and i think andy's right. the whole issue of dispatch is a critical one. there were planes taking off before and after this plane that were flying a very similar route. and we need to know whether the dispatc...

>> i don't have experience with those. i was jumping prior to the time that those were even available, and there have been tremendous developments in safety equipment since the time that i was an active smoke jumper back in the 1950s. bill: you say it's critically important you have to get an aggressive initial attack. what does that mean? how does it apply to these guys? >> an aggressive initial attack is to try to hit the fire while it's small, and - even an that is dependent on a good dispatch system. if they are hesitant to get on the fire right away, and particularly a fire that has the p...

Getting around is very difficult. drivers trying to cross northern alabama are being advised to fill up before they enter the state. joining us is the mayor of tuscaloosa. thank you for being with us. i'm so sorry for all your losses and our thoughts are with you at this hour. at this point, what are the biggest needs that you're trying to meet? >> right now it's search and rescue, anderson. as you alluded to earlier, we have a number of people that are listed as still missing. we're hopeful and prayerful that a large majority of that is just duplicates within our dispatch system. however, we ...