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See car insurance in a whole new light. liberty mutual insurance. we're back live from jerusalem. there's huge concern right now about flights over war zones after the downing of the malaysian airliner over ukraine. tom foreman is taking a closer look at some of the most dangerous places to fly. tom, what are you seeing? >> yeah, look at flight patterns around the world and look at the places that the faa says that u.s. carriers either should not fly or should have extreme caution about flying. there are two key reasons why. the first has to do with what we just saw in ukraine. great big rob...

To very sophisticated missiles like high altitude anti-aircraft missiles, do you have an increased risk. i want to put it in perspective. it's still much less than the risk that we face when we're dealing with an area that has an insecure airport where there are many more different kinds of threats to aircraft. while i think obviously if you're flying over syria, you're flying over lebanon where hezbollah has missiles, you want to bear that in mind. the larger issue will be those parts of the world where the airport itself is situated in a dangerous location. >> and you make a good point. i do...

Of the families and friends, the passengers involved, they need to find the physical wreckage. now as for this operation, angus houston, the man responsible for coordinating in the building behind me, issuing a statement saying that the search continue in earnest. that the "ocean shield" equipped with the american towed pinger locator's scouring the waters, trying to find natumore signals more information. and there will be three plate patterns -- flight patterns dropping buoys into the water to try to get more information needed to narrow down this potential search field. now we also know tha...

>> we love the u.s. navy as part of this effort. we know this is an international effort. can you give us an idea just logistically how that is coordinated, how the information breakdown gets to you so that you know the precious information and then how you coordinate the search. we know it's being done by grids. >> sure thing. and you probably know australia is in the lead in the southern sector. those are planes based out of perth. we're still flying out of kuala lumpur and those efforts being led by malaysia and our p3 orion is flying a southern search box. what's encouraging is this intern...

Questions. and in this -- the focus is very intense. these 450 relatives asked very pointed questions, very methodical questions of these officials and executives. studying the information so carefully -- they've had 14 days to go over it. >> all right, that's pauline chiou in beijing. we're having a hard time with the connection. pauline has been spending so much time with these families who were briefed by officials from malaysia today. >> finally. agony for them, waiting and waiting. >> as pauline was saying, they've been asking very technical questions. they want to know where the nearest ...