constituencies, labor unions want the pipeline. the environmentalists don t. and i think the president recognizes he needs the base to come out, nose environmentalists come out. if you are a mary landrieu in louisiana, she slams the white house. creates distance between her and the president. we have drones now a factor in the midterm elections. drones are a big issue in national security, a lot of court cases pushing the administration to release more information about them. this one has been kicking around the conservative blogosphere for a week. we have a montana house candidate, matt rosendale, he doesn t think the government should be using drones or, in his words, spying on its citizens. this is pretty provocative. this is how i look from a government drone. and this is what i think about it. some of the most provocative
point. we know the cyclone is going on there. we know why it disrupted the search. obviously anything that s on the surface still and that s very unlikely, there s less chance now because the cyclone will blow it around. i mean, that s just a point of information. so that cyclone is going on. they re going to continue searching. and that really leaves us with this issue that we started with. they didn t answer the questions of the families but they do put out this useless information about the altitude of the plane. we think it is now 39. they don t know it s at 39 any better than they knew it was at 43, any better than at 4,000. so why throw that out there yet not address what the families are asking you? exactly. that is a complete mystery because we have now had at least the third set of altitude data. remember, at one point they were saying it went to 45,000 and then dipped low and there were theories about why they did that. then they said it went down to 5,000 and flew across t
call off the air search for 370 overnight. but the underwater search is still on going and the bluefin-21 is on its tenth mission. with concerns that the hunt for the plane may be heading back to square one. erin mclaughlin is in perth with more. erin? chris, that aerial search may have been suspended today but by the time they made that decision, four military planes were already in the airs facing difficult, possibly hazardous conditions. conditions that didn t seem to have affect on the bluefin-21. now as far as we know, still under the water on that tenth mission. as of yesterday, it had searched about two-thirds of this very critical area, the areas designated as the most likely place that they will find the black box based on a limited set of information that they have. but with most of that area now ruled out, officials beginning to ask, what next? there s been talk of a broadening of a search area introducing perhaps more
questions. many of them we have them here are simple. what s is serial number on the black box, can we have the manife manifest? i am starved for information and you don t even address the questions? how can the investigator justifies this callousness? well, they really can t. particularly if they re following the international civil aviation organization standards. and already they were supposed to have had an initial report issued and then brief the families and provide to the families information as it goes along. as you can see from the list of the families questions they really aren t questions that in any way, shape, or form would parallel the criminal investigation the malaysian authorities say is going on. there s no reason to have failed to keep the family advised and try to answer the questions. some of them they may not know the answers. but, for example, why the emergency locators didn t go off but they could provide them many of these many of these answers. and yet
distraction and lack of respect. i mean, the way that the families have been treated, especially these last couple of weeks, is completely disrespectful. and it just aggravates an already very painful situation, effort chinese families that are here that have such limited access to information. you know, the chinese government blocks a lot of access to international news and other types of communication. so even amongst our families group, we re all pretty sophisticated people, we have to use like four or five different means of communication to bypass the chinese blocking and then the language barriers and everything else. it s actually complicated organization. in a situation that shouldn t be complicated to get simple answers. exactly. one thing that has been brought up maybe in the past day or so is the issue of issuing death certificates. have you been contacted, have you been asked about such a timeline, when you would think