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And it looks like electrical power. >> he certainly -- he's so genuine. you can see his warm embrace. he's got a million-watt smile. and when he delivers the sermon, it will be much more serious, but when he's with the crowd, he simply lights up. >> we've seen him in business-like situations with aides, with security, and he looks like anyone would. but then we've seen that face change character entirely. he'll turn around after a discussion of how much time do we have here, can i go over and greet these people? it's when he turns his attention to the crowd, really a remarkable transformation....

Water, they have no place to sleep, shelter a big problem. and several people who work for aid agencies, they're frustrated too. they're managing to send supplies in. be it slowly. those supplies aren't able to reach the people they're suppose to reach. a lot of frustration all around. >> as you mentioned, malika, an impoverished country before the quake struck. with humble means. how much connected with electrical power. and the like. we know that weather conditions are making things difficult. the delay of aid. how, we saw from arwa damon, last hour in one of the remote hours. people in the ...

Needle in a haystack. the haystack is smaller but we are still doing searching. >> they signed off hm 370. prior to that the flight changed directions 12 minutes before he signed off. tell me this particular plane, the boeing 777, how long could it fly without power? >> you mean without electrical power? >> that's a toughy. it couldn't fly very long without electrical power if there was nobody in the cockpit that was able to fly the airplane. this is a fly by wire system and it needs electrical power to control the airplane. again, we are kind of pulling at hairs in this point.

Manually in flight? and a retrofitting of planes so that they do have more modern technology? >> well, i think there's going to be discussion about it. but there are -- there are reasons to have the transponder be able to be switched off. and, remember, we don't know that that transponder was switched off. we know that it ceased to function. was that an interruption of electrical power? was it a failure of the transponder? or was it deliberately turned off? we do not know that. now, the acars is a different matter because it continued to function. but it was not upstreaming data. that is more ...

For some radar blips, if you will, there's nothing that can be sent from a boeing 777 that would indicate mayday, mayday or anything else? >> not really. >> that sounds like -- that sounds crazy to me. >> well, i mean, the systems are coming online. but we're not quite there yet. if off 80sb for example that sends a tremendous wealth of information, but right now you have to have a ground station to receive it. and so that didn't -- that wasn't true in this case. >> because the so-called black box, the flight data recorder, voice recorder, they have -- they can ping for, what, 30 days? even if...