perpetual darkness perpetual darkness. that means the ship can operate on a 24-hour cycle. it s not flying a plane over the area where you need daylight hours to be able to do that. when you re deploying a submersible or submarine device going into the inky depths, it doesn t matter if you deploy at 1:00 in the morning or 1:00 in the afternoon. it s dark either way. they re honing in on the pings that could be related to the two black boxes, that s what they re trying to find. maybe wreckage way far deep down. but you know about the current in this part of the world. is it possible that what s it been, four weeks, five weeks now, that that junk may be long gone? it s possible that we re dealing with quite a big debris field. but that s a two-edged sword. it can help you find it because it s larger, and the debris is spread over a bigger area. your chances of encountering that are better. the currents are not the primary problem. the primary problem is the depth and pressure
certainly concerned. i ve talked to people on capitol hill members of the house intelligence committee are looking at measures the u.s. might take. so far the impression is the security we have in the u.s. post 9/11 is much better than what you would have overseas. but that s not to say people aren t looking at it. because if someone successfully commandeered a giant airplane, everybody s got to look at their security procedures going forward. this dearth of facts. cnn mid east analyst former ambassador to the united states joins us now. why are you on high alert right now? israel is a tiny country. it s situated along the coast. a jet that s been hijacked flying at 600 miles will take about a minute and half to cross the entire country of israel. it s where israel s most populated cities are right along that coast. so israel has close to zero margin for error in encountering
a jet that s been hijacked flying at 600 miles will take about a minute and half to cross the entire country of israel. it s where israel s most populated cities are right along that coast. so israel has close to zero margin for error in encountering and protecting itself against a hijacked airplane. if this malaysian jet has been hijacked, there s a sense among israeli intelligence officials that is a possibility, then israel feels it has to take the necessary precautions. the government met with security officials this week and decided on a number of emergency measures. those remain classified, secret. but one has been published. foreign aircraft approaching israel s shores will have to identify themselves far earlier than has previously been the case. so idf thinks it is a possibility that this plane is being weaponized. they can t rule out that
and thanked. that sounds about right to me. joining me now is john mcwhorter, professor of linguistics at columbia university. i m so glad you re here. as i was watching this, i was thinking the whole time of what john mcwhorter was making of this. you re a linguist. you and i have had conversations about the linguistic bounty that is america and what we are watching in the courtroom over the last two days are two people from very different cultures, from very different linguistic backgrounds encountering each other while all of america watches. it s been an incredible thing to watch. it s been a little scary. sometimes it s like she s speaking hungarian and he s speaking cantonese. she s been articulate, just in a different kind of english than mainstream english. she s speaking black english. everything she says where you can see the twittersphere or people i know thinking she s making a grammatical mistake. if a martian came down and the
for that she should be commended and thanked. that sounds about right to me. joining me now is john mcwarder, professor of linguistics at columbia university. i m so glad you re here. as i was watching this, i was thinking the whole time of what john was making of this. you re a linguist. you and i have had conversations about the linguistic bounty that is america and what we are watching in the courtroom over the last two days are two people from very different cultures, from very different linguistic backgrounds encountering each other while all of america watches. it s been an incredible thing to watch. it s been a little scary. sometimes it s like she s speaking hungarian and he s speaking cantanese. she s been articulate, just in a different kind of english than mainstream english. she s speaking black english. everything she says where you can see the twittersphere or