publicly underscores a key reality here. they never expected those happen. a senior democrat telling me that clinton needed time to digest this. really get her message together. the speech itself we don t know when it s coming or where it s coming. it is coming this morning. and it will be talking about healing. kind of a reflection on where this campaign needs to go. gracious was one word a democratic supporter used to describe the message that hillary clinton will try to get across. this wasn t expected to happen. devastated the word you hear over and over again. democrats asking how they could possibly be at this. this isn t a narrow loss. this is a very big loss. i did talk to some of the few clinton supporters who are actually picking up their phone. going into discuss morning, they felt good about where they sat and they felt they had a number of different pathways to 270. i asked, was their data off?
fact that they have got the data off of the black boxes. they are going to be looking at a couple of things here of the they are going to look at speed, direction of travel which is obvious, time distance, also throttle position the operation of the brakes the headlights if you will the operation of the horn and cab signals, and then they are going to do also this thorough analysis of the engineer and the conductor, and they want to know what did they see and what did they experience? they, of course, are going to do a toxicology report. that s standard. they want to make sure that there s nothing illegal, no illegal substances on board, if you will or that those two individuals didn t consume any illegal substances that might have impaired their judgment. you know we ve seen also over the course of the past ten years distracted drivers in terms of texting or drivers who fell asleep, so we are in no way right now suggesting that the crew was responsible. we re just saying they have got
there fly ging, and i am comfortable with it, and we have to keep it that way. and matthew, the last word, quickly, because i am up against the clock. well, different idea, talking about the voice recorder it is not tape, but it is chips. and there was a crash in cali colombia where they found the chips and wired them back together, and read the data off of them and the guys on the mountainside tomorrow morning where they r they are going to be looking for the computer chips, but they may come up lucky. that is interesting to say the least. and everyone said their peace, and i appreciate it. coming up next, the breaking news. the reports that one of the pilots was locked out of the doomed plane. we will go to the reporters in the region. i have verizon. i don t. so i found us on the trail map and took the only easy way down. it wouldn t load.
they are involved in this investigation and they said we know we have good data off of the cockpit voice recorder but we need to determine what it is. we need to listen to every single voice and identify who is speaking, is it the pilot, the co-pilot do we have a flight attendant on board in the cockpit who entered and what about every sound, every click of a switch every single hint of what the engine might be doing and all of that will be analyzed and that is not something that you do overnight and could take days and weeks and perhaps longer as they analyze that and they want to match it up with the flight data recorder. that is what they are looking for, the flight data recorder which records 25 hours of events prior to the crash. it is 1300 parameters of data from the pitch, the roll the speed, the engine performance, what was happening with the air and with the cabin pressure, all
secondly, you have to have support teams for these. you need to have technicians, scientists, who know how to program them. how to read the data off of them. how to maintain them. how to even put them in and out of the water. this thing weighs about 1,700 pounds it s like lowering a small car into the water and retrieving it over and over again. it is difficult, and it is dangerous. and lastly, there is the issue of the terrain. we ve talked about this many times, were ut we have this image they re going down to a flat ocean floor to map it, but that may not be the case as all. it could be much more like this, with hills and kreggs and valleys and these coulding going up and down and intersecting and doing all sorts of things that make it so much harder than it may appear. thanks so much, tom foreman. still to come in the newsroom, the deadliest accident ever on mount everest jot got deadlier. details straight ahead. [ male announcer ] nearly 7 million clients.