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But they believe now that they have some information at least that indicates this plane may have flown up to four or five hours out into the indian ocean and that may provide the final answer about what happened to this flight. wolf? >> if it flew four or five hours after the transponders stopped transmitting signals back to ground station, it could have gone a lot further than the indian ocean, right? >> they have calculated at this point the range of the aircraft, based on the fuel that they thought would have been left from the last time they had communication with it. that's part of why th...

For some radar blips, if you will, there's nothing that can be sent from a boeing 777 that would indicate mayday, mayday or anything else? >> not really. >> that sounds like -- that sounds crazy to me. >> well, i mean, the systems are coming online. but we're not quite there yet. if off 80sb for example that sends a tremendous wealth of information, but right now you have to have a ground station to receive it. and so that didn't -- that wasn't true in this case. >> because the so-called black box, the flight data recorder, voice recorder, they have -- they can ping for, what, 30 days? even if...

They send back all the crucial information of what the pilots are saying. and anything that might be going wrong with the plane. but as it exists now, you have to wait to find that black box in the ocean, and that's what they cannot find right now. if it were streaming back live in the event of an extreme emergency, then they would be able to find out more information about what went wrong with the plane in real-time. some of the technology does exist. they do have the bandwidth now to do that. but they have not retrofitted the planes to do that. it would work basically just to break it down v...

>>gretchen: unmanned aerial vehicles better known as drones, they are probably the coolest and the most controversial weapons of modern-day warfare and they're making headlines now. >>brian: how do they work? an exhibit at the air and space museum in washington, d.c. takes a closer look. >>steve: that's where anna is joining us live. good morning to you, anna. >> good morning to you guys. good morning to everybody at home. we are at the national air and space museum here in washington, d.c. i'm joined by one of the curators. good morning to you. we're going to be taking a look at a few of thes...

Let me just say there are still no reports of injuries. this is an under ground station, 17th and k streets is about where it is. we've got a map to show you where it is. it's right here, the heart of washington, d.c. d.c. metro confirmed to mike who is here with me at the security desk that the front wheels of the lead car of this train did come off the tracks and they say that this incident took place at 10:13 this morning. so about an hour ago. and we also have a little bit more information, let me read it to you, tony. they're telling us there are a lot of passengers on this train and they...