for months, families of missing flight 370 passengers have pleaded with malaysian officials for this. this morning, they re finally getting it, satellite data from this flight, but will this information bring them any closer to solving the mystery of what happened? david mckenzie is in beijing following how the families are reacting. and you need a ph.d or you have to be some sort of aviation engineer to actually make sense of all this stuff. so, what are the families going to do with it, david? reporter: that s a good question, christine. and yes, you not only need to be an aviation engineer, you d have to have ph.ds in several fields, and inmarsat says this data isn t really for people then to put their own calculations to. it s just to see how they came up with the decision that they say the plane went down in the southern indian ocean. but still, family members say they re going to take these numbers and they re going to put them to experts. it is very technical, and we
data in terror suspects. you see the numbers here. how is it possible for the government to stop terror, to monitor the bad guys, if you will, and to not surveil the american people? well, of course, it is impossible. phil is right about that. but i would also make the point that in the case in people like tsarnaev and the underwear bomber, you are not looking these days for 9/11 plotters. although at least theoretically that could happen today. they brought up 9/11 at the committee hearing. what you are looking for is the very sort of isolated individuals who radicalize themselves watching over the internet. that is what the most recent plots have been related to. as phil said arguably that data isn t going to find it. you are not talking about large conspiracies but about a couple of guys. yeah, a couple of guys is a conspiracy. it is not necessarily spottable through the data situations.
through evidence and in doing so they will decide whether this case is quote unquote appropriate to seek the death penalty. i was in cleveland. i remember when the stories and details were coming out about allegations of him kicking and punching and violently forcing the abortions. if that isn t enough to seek death sentence tell me what is. i think what the prosecuting attorney and his team have to look at is whether or not, under ohio law, the evidence does in fact fit the crime, not only of aggravated murder, which of course it does, but whether the specifications can be added for the death penalty. i think you can make a good argument that it could. the prosecuting attorney has to make tough choices. i think what any prosecutor does and what prosecutor mcghenty told me he is going to do is let
ordinary folks but they do approve of the collection of data in terror suspects. you see the numbers here. how is it possible for the government to stop terror, to monitor the bad guys, if you will, and to not surveil the american people? well, of course, it is impossible. phil is right about that. but i would also make the point that in the case in people like tsarnaev and the underwear bomber, you are not looking these days for 9/11 plotters. although at least theoretically that could happen today. they brought up 9/11 at the committee hearing. what you are looking for is the very sort of isolated individuals who radicalize themselves watching over the internet. that is what the most recent plots have been related to. as phil said arguably that data isn t going to find it. you are not talking about large conspiracies but about a couple of guys. yeah, a couple of guys is a conspiracy. it is not necessarily spottable
if those counts are dismissed, it would take the death penalty off the table. mr. dwyne i want to talk about the death penalty issue because this review board, the review committee is going to be sorting through evidence and in doing so they will decide whether this case is quote unquote appropriate to seek the death penalty. i was in cleveland. i remember when the stories and details were coming out about allegations of him kicking and punching and violently forcing the abortions. if that isn t enough to seek death sentence tell me what is. i think what the prosecuting attorney and his team have to look at is whether or not, under ohio law, the evidence does in fact fit the crime, not only of aggravated murder, which of course it does, but whether the specifications can be added for the death penalty.