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Direction this time? talk to me more about the methodology. >> it does start out as more of a general grid system. we're actually, there were 25 countries crick. it started nine, ten and then moved out. even with a grid system, there is quite a bit of flexibility. so for example the p-8 yesterday, they had another couple hours of search time and they had to make a decision. do they search an area that has not yet been covered or do they go search an area where they saw a little bit of return coming on their radar but they were not sure what it was. they made the decision to go ahead and search...

Crates, trash, but nothing from an aircraft. >> can you talk to me a little bit more about the methodology? is it a grid system or are you taking particular areas, we are going to go out this far in this direction this day or this direction this time? talk to me a little bit more about the methodology? >> it does start out as a sort of general grid system. we are actually now up to 25 countries who are contributing. it started out nine and ten and then moved up. even though you have a grid system. there is quite a bit of flexibility. so, for example, the p-8 yesterday, they had another couple ...

>> well, they have a bumpl of ak-47 shell cases. they also have this surveillance video, which you can see is very dark, doesn't show much. flashes of light. experts believe those are flashlight signals from a group of attackers. the biggest concern, this might have been a dry run for bigger attack. we have 160,000 miles of transmission lines in this country. the feds believe hitting a few key substations could destabilize the entire system. listen now to california congressman henry waxman's warning to congress. >> this is a national security issue that deserves our attention. we should act n...

Real. it could threaten our grid system, threaten our financial system. it could paralyze this country. i think that's an area we have to pay a lot more attention to. >> it's already happening. today we learned that hackers from iran had infiltrated u.s. oil, gas, & power companies and they're far enough inside that people are starting to get really worried. here to talk about it is shawn henry former executive assistant director of the fbi. thanks for being here. give us a sense of the risk here. how dangerous is a hack like this? >> our critical infrastructure is obviously what this entire n...

>> yeah. >> it's pretty amazing. and also, the national weather service is going to be out here. we've been talking about this storm at least an ef-4. they're going to try to figure out categorically if it could be an ef-5 because of the severity of the wind. >> well the width and the devastation and the track, the 20-mile track this left behind. and i think most people in the midwest will know and recognize, you know, as we've been talking about this residential neighborhood. it's a perfect grid system and these streets go on for blocks and blocks and blocks. so this is what it looks like as ...