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Qatar diplomat who had a scare aboard another flight just a couple weeks ago. we'll continue to follow this delta flight heading to bangor, maine, due to land soon. right now we want to turn our attention to another story we're following from the entertainment world. >> he was in great health. he's really an amazingly competitive guy. i feel a little guilty. i've been pretty rough on bret. i've been going after him. now i'm going to be so nice. i'm going to see him, i hope. i'm going to say, bret, you're doing great. >> that was donald trump on the "today" show this morning talking about bre...

That report card is now not the grade that it originally had been. consequently, it's going to get more expensive for them to borrow money. this is a bad spiralling effect. >> art, do you want to weigh in on that? >> no. i think that's exactly correct, you know. there was a famous old book about world war i called the guns of august. barbara tuchman, the author, said the world stumbled into world war i # because everybody believed somebody would be smart enough to stop it. that's what i think everybody believed about the greek debt issue. yet nobody seems to be doing anything about it. i don't...

Potentially explosives being on the flight. what we're told also is that there is no reason to suspect that what the passenger says is correct. an initial check of the passenger's background doesn't turn up anything specific. authorities have been looking at the passenger's movements before the flight was boarded in paris. looking at all sorts -- everything that they can check. there's no reason to think that there is any danger to the plane. but because this comment was made, in these days of taking no chances, the airplane has been diverted. it will land in bangor, maine. the passenger will ...

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23 miles away. it must be close. what strikes me here, pete, you sort of alluded to this, is that this passenger is already in custody on board the flight. it appears whenever this happens recently, at least, there's a federal air marshal aboard. how many flights are air marshals on board? it seems like they're fully deployed. >> you know, the overseas flights is sort of a number one beat for federal air marshals because of the past problems with flights from overseas. so it's quite common for federal air marshals to be on flights to the u.s., especially flights from paris or london where ther...