going to bring you the new information just minutes and our aviation experts will be here to talk about it. and today malaysian shah airlines after days of denial confirming that flight 370 was carrying highly flammable lithium batteries in cargo hold. what could that mean to the the administration. former administration pipeline safety administration also a pilot. he joins us. good evening, sir. hi, good evening, greta. well, the ceo of malaysia airlines sort of sat on this one for about four days. he knew about this cargo. of course we know there have been lithium batteries, a u.p.s. plane, 787 dream liners have had double. what do you make of the reports that they had the lithium batteries in that cargo hold? well, greta, i agree with you it s interesting he sat on this. earlier in the week he was asked if there was any type of hazardous cargo on board like lithium batteries he said.
preestablished thing that goes on if you know that there is a fire on board? yes, there is, your previous guest i heard the tail end of that conversation. that s the way it operates. one pilot focuses on the airplane. the other pilot focuses on the checklist and they may share the communications, it just depends on the work load of the pilot working through the checklist at the time or trying to figure out, you know, plug it in a route to some place they want to go to quickly. and but those duties are the difference between who is going to do those duties is pretty well established, you know, at the origination of any emergency. all right. christopher voss, it s interesting that the cargo on this plane, now they have released information that there is lithium ion batteries on board that there have been problems with the 787 dream liners have had problems with that and also a u.p.s. plane. you know, when you hear that, now that they are
united airlines reports the flight landed normally and it s working to reaccommodate fliers. remember, just a few months ago boeing had sidelined all of its dream liners after they encountered a series of problems with batteries. the u.s. senate s immigration reform bill also cut the deficit. that s the word from the nonpartisan congressional budget office. members of the bipartisan gang of 8 that came up with the plan are calling the report encouraging and a huge momentum boost. but analysts say the bill may face an even tougher fight in the house because of what the house speaker john boehner said today. what did he say mike emanuel? we ll get to that in a moment, shep. but senator marco rubio a key figure says immigration reform would help our economy boost the american workers and also be good for our taxpayers. let s take a closer look at the congressional budget office numbers it would reduce deficits almost $200 billion the first decade, cut the deficit almost $700 billion the
steve: time for quick headlines. united airlines 787 dream liners are going to take to the sky once again today after being grounded four months by the federal government. the decision to stop the 787 flight came after battery malfunctions plagued a number of dream liners owned by other airlines. an amazing discovery by dolphins off the california coast. they found a 19th century torpedo called the howell. only one other is known to exist. the dolphins were being trained by the navy to find undersea mines. gretchen: the i.r.s. says its targeting of tea party and conservative groups was not political, but our next guest was audited three times recently, he says for supporting mitt romney. joining me is the c.e.o. is mellaluca. thank you for coming in. you gave $1 million to the
these are the charred remains of the battery that started the fire in boston two weeks ago and caused smoke damage to a flight. it s interesting. this 787 dream liner program was actually launched back in 2004 with an order from the airline, but their dream liners and everyone else s dreamliners have been grounded by governments around the globe. experts are saying the only way to get these planes air worthy again is to fix the faulty batteries. they can t switch out to other kinds of batteries. that would really add too much weight and they wouldn t be able to produce the amount of power necessary to drive this aircraft. reporter: now, boeing refused earlier this week to speculate about what the issue is with the batteries, but they made clear that despite the problems, they think the 787 is safe and they stand behind its overall integrity. john? let s hope they get it fixed. peter doocy, thank you. well, president obama may be