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This -- plane crash into this building. again, here's the -- jon: jamie asks a question and for our viewers who aren't familiar with aviation, it's one worth answering. would this pilot have had to file a flight plan? no. if you are a vfr pilot, that's visual flight rules pilot, you can simply jump in your airplane, and as long as you have spoken with the tower or if it's a nontowerred airport, and there are a great many of them in america, you simply get on a radio frequency, announce that you're going to takeoff, and you jump in the air. it's really pretty simple to do and doesn't require an...

Only use visual flight rules to land a cargo plane. given all of that, when all of that is done, you still have to have people on the ground to actually start doing the distribution. so i think you'll see things start to improve, but as things start to improve, peoples frustrations continued to grow. this happens in every single disaster. >> but let's pull that picture back up of these 3,000 cargo containers filled with supplies that john was talking about. those are off the ships. those are on the dock. those are not to the people yet. when they see that and the mayor says let's get it done, ...

Watching what's coming out of alaska in lieu of the plane crash, but obama spokes people are saying they don't know the status of former senator ted stevens, but the obama administration is passing thoughts and prayers to all involved. we want to see about the weather at the crash site and check out with the man who's going to help us with this, we're joined by weather channel meteorologist dr. greg forbes. explain to everybody the type of situation this plane might have been flying through and the weather situation as we're seeing it now? >> it's a slow moving weather system that's sprawled a...