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Lines. these could be ground controllers calling in air strikes or advisers up there helping them take the fight to isis, that would put, if the president approves these options, much closer to combat. and the danger now on the ground there, not just combat from isis, et cetera, but you have russian war planes in the air, bombing really anyone who threatens the regime of bashar al assad, that includes some forces that the u.s. supports on the ground. it's a very dangerous theater and we saw that danger last week when one u.s. soldier was killed, the first in four years on the ground in iraq. a...

That's exactly what that special forces operator did mortally wounded in this attack. you see more of these, may not be a masked round exercise like we saw during the invasion of iraq but certainly danger and i'll tell you, anderson, there are people in the pentagon pushing for more roles for u.s. combat forces such as ground controllers or deployed military advisors but that decision stays with the president. >> terrible loss of an american hero. thank you very much. it's been more than 12 years since u.s. troops invaded iraq and four years since the last soldier was pulled out and wheeler wa...

But i'm talking about ground controllers and pilots and aircraft that are moving at the speed of sound, in excess of that, and potentially going after similar targets. we don't have any experience with that. >> similar but different, there's weird alignment. the yat and its allies are targeting isis inside syria. >> right. >> the russians, sure, they'll target isis, i imagine, if they're nearby, but they'll also target anyone else fighting against the assad regime. those don't exactly line up. >> they don't, john. this seems to me very indiscriminate on the part of russia. they have multiple t...

May be affected? >> you probably will not have a problem. if you're flying jetblue or frontier or southwest or american today or delta, chances are your flight is going to be operating as it should today. there may be some minor delays that you are caught up in just because if you have a serious congestion problem out on the ramp, the ground controllers are trying to navigate planes around. that could impact your flight even though your computer system at jetblue or southwest is not affected. just the traffic management on the ramp could slow you down a bit today. but for the most part chances...

Lasted for ten minutes, even longer than first reported. >> they had reached the cruising altitude for a while, 38,000 feet, so around 9:30, the last message emitted by the plane issued by the plane to the control center was a routine message confirming the instructions given by the control center which was it was authorized to continue on to the point you see. >> everything absolutely normal. radar records show that's when normal ended. ten-minute descent that was controlled as investigators put it, as if the pilots or the plane's computers were still completely in charge. but for some reason...