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Radio communication, e-mail. human sources, do you have particularly egyptians inside the isis organization that can give you a sense what is going on around the campfire and interviews with personnel and presumably receives to determine whether you can get on the ground information. one question is we're talking about u.s. participation in this. it's a you sharussian aircraft we're ging to want to get into this game to determine who is responsible and i think the egyptians and russians are old indicating that they are not sure they want the americans in this game. >> so far, tom, the fbi is n...

Level has been tremendous. with that in mind let me also report to you that shortly after the earlier press conference today, i had the honor and opportunity to speak directly with president barack obama who called wanting to get on the ground information and facts. the president is very concerned about what has happened here. expressed his condolences, as well. also pledged the full support of the federal government and all the agencies under the executive branch of the government. the president feels very saddened by what has happened. he was tremendously supportive and encouraging of our ef...

Its embassy there's as well. >> both broken states very similar to somalia. uncontrollable. difficult to get on the ground information out of if there. and all three of the countryious mentioned are really at the bottom of the list of where you can actually make progress. we've got other things going on that we really need to pay attention to that i think are a bit higher than that. >> closer to home let's talk than terror attack in texas over the weekend. isis now claiming responsibilities responsibility for it. i know you've been briefed. what can you tell us? >> well probably not much more ...

Involving ships and planes from at least a dozen nations. and on day six of the search, the mystery grows as to how a sophisticated passenger jet can simply disappear without a trace. this is the last known spot of that air malaysia jetliner. that's where the ground last got transponder signals from it. then came a report that the malaysian are government said it -- government said it had noticed transmissions from the plane out here over the straits of malacca, that the plane had apparently turned around and was flying at a much lower altitude. but this new report, and we have a graphic that ...

What can you tell us? >> carol, we are able to confirm now that defense secretary hagel and martin dempsey of the joint chiefs of staff have been informed about this incident just as the president has been informed. the navy command center here in the pentagon and the navy officials on site, of course, of where this is happenings, all hands on deck trying to deal with this situation assembling the most current information they can because, of course, if there are fatalities and injured, it will the navy that will notify the families and help them deal with whatever they have to deal with so th...