lieutenant pulici has done this for years with the finance police but he still can't believe the dinghies crammed with migrants bobbing in the water. we can't leave people at sea like that, he says, we would feel guilty if somehow they disappeared from our screens. as long as we can see them, we're like guardian angels. those are human lives down there. this plane flying out of the italian island of lampedusa every day. lampedusa is italy's southernmost territory just 70 miles from the north african coast. lieutenant colonel sanitillo is the pilot. >> this situation, likely, coast guard was in the area.