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Will this cost president trump politically on some level? >> it could on either side. if he removes pruitt he could hurt his own base who agree with the moves on the epa. i feel like if he got rid of pruitt he's going to be pleasing the environmentalists and it will be a victory, it will be a scalp for them. >> arthel: susan, great analysis. thank you very much and i'll see you next time. >> eric: arthel, the fbi is offering a $10,000 reward, stepping up the search for a fugitive linked to one of the worst air disaster in our country's history. they're looking for this man, manuel reyes. he wa...

Records to see what was being transported in the hold. they find mail, three tires on their way to another valujet plane, and then something suspicious. >> they found there were oxygen generators in there. they found evidence that some of the generators had been discharged. that suddenly would explain why the containment liner had not worked. >> inside the cargo hold, the charred remains of nine activated canisters are recovered. >> oxygen generators use a chemical process to produce oxygen in the event passengers need it during a decompression. >> according to the ntsb, they were improperly s...

It's far-fetched and awful to think of but it is possible. >> it is. so we heard that the possibility of the plane had gone up to 45,000 feet. if it could do that with the weight and you know, with the equipment it had on board but it's the question is, wouldn't the oxygen masks be deployed automatically if that were to happen in the cabin, jim tilmon, or could they control that from the cockpit and the pilots only have the masks and the passengers don't. >> i think the masks would drop automatically. they do when you go through a certain altitude in the cabin. but you have a tiny canister in ...

And they are your oxygen generators. they only run for a relatively short length of time. that's why the protocol is if you have an oxygen problem you immediately go into a descent to get into breathable oxygen and that's a pretty good drop. that's a controlled dive to about 14,000 feet. >> okay, jim. this is for jeff wise. is there any possibility of the plane being intact at the bottom of the ocean with no floating debris? >> well, if it was in one piece that would mean the pilot did a quiet landing like pilot sullenberger. but you would get the life rafts which are equipped with

So bottom line here it seems like you can poke a hole in just about every theory we have about this plane. i spoke to another law enforcement official who said investigators are also keenly aware of other theories like suicidal pilots like what you saw in the egypt air crash and whether the oxygen generators overheated. we saw that in a plane crash in florida in '96. everything is on the table. they're clooking at everything. >> as they should, they've got to look at all these options. thanks very much, pamela brown. now another breaking story. "the new york times" reporting the flight 370 h...