notice to airmen and the prohibition you mentioned earlier prohibiting u.s. airliners to fly over crime a and that portion of the black sea in which we saw the russians and ukrainians go toe to toe a month ago. they do not fly over this region, but we have seen throughout the day now foreign carriers, whether they are lufthanza or british airways or several russian carriers, emirates air, a variety of airlines skirting it saying they will no longer use it as a transit route to get from europe to, say, asia. it s a very common route to go from amsterdam to frankfurt or to london, but tonight the ukrainian air space is virtually emof anything except military planes. the issue here from an investigative standpoint, lawrence, is if, in fact, rebels shot this plane down, this plane is now resting in
life. we were talking about crime a and former secretary of defense bob gates comments yesterday that crimea was lost. a view a number of us share. there was some talk on this set about a different view that it was part of this 194 treaty and had to be gotten back. what is the view in kiev what is going to happen in crimea? ukrainian authorities are working hard to sustain the last efforts they have over crimea. they have 20 snaulgs they control and 16 of them are military and how to leverage that to sustain the notion of ukrainian sovereignty under crimea and no impressions they can force russians out. they are looking for a strong response from the west which i have to say hasn t really occurred yet. mike barnicle? ian, one of the biggest, most significant differences between the time that the soviet union
tom, has the faa or any other organization now indicated that it is not safe to fly those routes over ukraine? yeah. moments ago, in fact, the faa put out a new n orotem, that s notice to airmen, and they are prohibiting flight until further notice in the area over eastern ukraine due to the recent events and the potential for continuous hazardous activities. this is an expansion of the notice to airmen and the prohibition you mentioned earlier prohibiting airliners to fly over crime a and that portion of the black sea in which we saw the russians and ukranians go toe to toe a month ago. they do not fly over this region, but we have seen throughout the day now foreign carriers, whether they are lufthanza or british airways or