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At least two people have died. the ferry started to take on water quickly. everyone was told to grab a life jacket and jump overboard. dozens of boats and helicopters are involved in the rescue. >> the aggressive search for the missing malaysian jet is above and below the surface. a u.s. robot submarine is again exploring the indian ocean sea bed. the first mission had to be aborted because it was just too deep. planes and ships are looking for debris from the jet which is disappeared more than a month ago on a flight to beijing. american airlines flight from mexico to dallas made an emergency...

After crossing the pond, the pilot reported smell of smoke and actual smoke in the cockpit but successfully landed the airplane. now -- >> were the transponders shut down in those two cases? >> well, here's the caveat. if you're over water and cannot land quickly, a fire can develop. there was an md-80 jet that has similar systems to the 777, similar complexity, similar redundancies, they were at the gate. it was an egypt air flight and the pilot reported smoke in the cockpit. it quickly developed into a fire and they evacuated all of the personnel. if that aircraft had been over the ocean, it...

Health marketing agency enroll about -- at a michigan based priority health, 75% of those had prior coverage. so it's not just the survey, it's also the insurers coming forward to say, yep, i'm having the same experience. >> that leads to my next point, megyn, it is true that many people who sign up for obama care will have had previous insurance. let's take for example, medicare part d. 80% of the people who signed up for insurance under medicare part d had drug insurance before hand. but it's still a success. those numbers could be much lower under obama care, i predict it will be around 50%...

Health marketing agency enroll about -- at a michigan based priority health, 75% of those had prior coverage. so it's not just the survey, it's also the insurers coming forward to say, yep, i'm having the same experience. >> that leads to my next point, megyn, it is true that many people who sign up for obama care will have had previous insurance. let's take for example, medicare part d. 80% of the people who signed up for insurance under medicare part d had drug insurance before hand. but it's still a success. those numbers could be much lower under obama care, i predict it will be around 50%...

Carriers for quite a while. and in fact there were a couple of incidents when it was flying, when it was flown, i'm sorry, alaskan airlines in which it had to land prematurely because of smoke in the cockpit, that kind of thing. we have that graphic. maybe we can get it up on screen in just a moment. but at any rate, some of them date back to like 2002, peter, for instance. is that unusual for a plane of this age and will they look that far back into its history? >> first of all, no, it is not unusual. the md-80 was for many years a very common aircraft in the united states. american airlines ...