literally destroys the targets on the ground. they re enormous munitions and they destroy their target on the ground. they re very precise. one of the big questions we have here that no one can seem to answer and i don t know that maybe the pentagon and the u.s. military in afghanistan don t know yet, did they know it was a hospital when they were firing on it? did they get it is an ac-130. it is required to get a line of sight, it is required to have a visual, a target verification prior to striking d. that occur? did the ac-130 pilots and crew know that they were striking a hospital on the ground when they were given the information about the targeting? nbc s courtney kube at the pentagon, ron allen at the white house, thanks to you both. next hour the u.s. executive direct for or the doctors without borders. straight ahead, donald trump and hillary clinton hitting the swing states today. plus, new poll numbers and the
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you heard michael lydon a moment ago saying it s almost as bad as afghanistan before 9/11. i ve spoken to many current and former intelligence officials and military officials who say that syria right now is more dangerous to the united states than afghanistan ever was before 9/11. syria is in the heart of the middle east. afghanistan was always far away. it was always a difficult, remote destination. the people of afghanistan don t speak arabic. it was never that appealing of a place for those who wanted to join the jihad movement to go. it was a commitment. you had to do it. syria s close by. it s an arabic-speaking country. it s the heart of middle east. the weather is good. the food s good. it s familiar to everyone in the region. the a much more attractive location physically and symbolically so you have many more foreign fighters going there, setting up camp and almost vacationing there. i ve seen some of these foreign
information. you only can have so much bandwidth, so much ability to receive data, transmit data. so you re looking for what is the most important information? two canadian companies have already developed realtime streaming that bounces off satellites. the hardware looks like this when it s installed in a plane as the jet is flying on the right. the airline s operators on the ground can see information on the left like airspeed, altitude and location in realtime. but it doesn t transmit all the time. it s only activated when a specific set of circumstances occur that are pre defined. pre defined by the airline, circumstances like the plane deviating from its flight path, a sudden pitch or roll. these systems don t send back the cockpit voice recordings. we have a cultural problem with the airlines and the airline unions. they don t want big brother in the cockpit. the faa doesn t require american carriers to outfit their jets with live streaming.
in the premises of a hospital, and we have all been very moved with this event. witnesses say the afghan gunman, that police guard, turned the gun on himself, but he did survive. currently he s in surgery. police in afghanistan don t yet have a motive, but they assured me the health minister assured me there would be a full investigation. the bluefin 21, 90% done with its underwater search for flight 370, and still after six weeks, no sign of that missing plane. complicating the mission, the sheer amount of garbage floating around in the indian ocean. cnn s randi kaye gives us an inside look at one of the largest floating trash heaps known as the indian gyre. the debris that you might see, you know, in our homes, all around our homes. here s a toy grenade. here is a paintbrush handle.