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Of course, the weather. some waves are 13 feet high. monsoon indications. we've got with us now meteorologist karen maginnis, captain and cnn aviation analyst les event. and chip mccoy. karen, i want to start with you, i want you to set the stage for us, and give us an idea of the weather that the search crews are dealing with and when things may clear up. >> from the very beginning, we know this is monsoon season across this part of the world. they're in the intertropic convergence zone. you get these huge squalls of rain. as we look over the next 24 to 48 hours we see a little window. it's a...

And particularly during the monsoonal season. aircraft fly there all of the time. this particular captain had 20,000 hours of experience. and the first officer, 2,500 hours, just with airasia. so it's likely even more experienced than that. they know this weather pattern, and they know what's safe and what's not safe. and it's traversed all of the time. the radar plot of the air traffic in that area shows three other aircraft following the same exact flight path ahead of 8501. they successfully traversed the storm squalls without any problem at all. however, these storms develop so quickly, th...

The sunshine along with just a nice breeze. now, there is still some problems to be had with this storm. we're focusing more now on the jersey shore, long island, connecticut, rhode island and also eastern massachusetts. we have a cold front that's stalled out to the north. that's that little rain band you see south of albany and north of new york city. we have a lot of heavy rain to the south that's being sucked to the north. it is going to be a soggy fourth of july in that region. let me take you through it a little bit. there's areas of long island, already some squally weather coming onsho...

You have been watching the center of arthur hit you and then leave. at the moment, it looks like you're glad that arthur is moving off the coast? >> yeah, richard. it was a fun night and i use that term cautiously. this was a powerful storm, category two and more than 100-mile-an-hour winds. during the thick of it, as the eye wall was passing over kill devil hills, it was really nasty out here. a lot of rain, a lot of high wind. that wind was bringing the sand off the dunes here and just hitting you in the face. you know what it's like when you get it out here. you get it in your teeth and hur...

Now. my feeling and my sense is it is going to grow because historically that's what happens with political parties in the united states. parties become begin and become divided. i think we are seeing that and i think bill de blasio's election here in new york city who is now the leading progressive in the country and somebody who we know has been close to the clintons but there is this kind of growing sense that. >> yeah, but she can't run on de blasio nationwide. and let me tell you this ms. qualls. hillary clinton has got to pull back from president obama. because he got a 19% decline in me...