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Their ducks in a row. i say this based on our knowledge here of all of the assets that are available in the region, in the way of intelligence. the united states has space assets, as they like to call them, satellites that have been retrained from wherever they were looking before, over the past two months, to be focused on this very, very small area, a very small area in the east of ukraine. the europeans have satellites that are there. there are radar stations that are there. and it is our belief that they can track anything going up or down into this region, within centimeters. that the tec...

Have expect it to be when you consider that and how deep the water is and the competing noises in the ocean when the waves are smacking around it illustrates how difficult this job is. you have to be in a two-mile radius to pick this up. you don't usually hear with the the human ear. they have special equipment that is designed to detect that snapping sound. >> and searchers have, you know, they said that there are pieces that are floating. the pieces that are floating today may not be floating tomorrow. >> absolutely. and we do know today nasa is stepping in to help. they will target their sp...

>> like a clock. >> it sounds like a ticking clock or snapping your fingers. but it's not as loud as you may have expected it to be. so when you consider that and you consider how deep the water is, you consider the other competing noises within the ocean, when the waves are smacking around, it just really illustrates how difficult this job is. because you have to be within a two-mile radius to actually pick this up. obviously you don't usually hear it with the human ear. they have special equipment that's designed to detect that snapping sound that you just heard. >> renee, there's another pr...

About the size, scale, power and devastation of this tornado, what does it tell you about the on going debate about climate change? >> climate change, you just have to think of it. i mean, ten of the last 12 years have been the warmest years recorded. so thunderstorms are driven by heat and a tornado is a superthunderstorm. a result of a superthunderstorm. so you got to figure if there's more heat driving the storm, then there's going to be more tornadoes. this is the kind of thing that's worth investigating, and by the way, there is a big concern about our weather satellites getting old. and ...