promise is trying hard to close the place. reporter: so far this year, 17 detainees have been transferred out of the facility. 112 detainees remain at guantanamo bay. many have been okayed to go home, it s just not clear when. with we want to return to breaking news out of egypt with a russian bound commercial jet carrying 224 people crashed in the central sinai. eric van dam is following this and joins us in the weather center with more details. what have you learned? obviously, information is sparse out of the region at the moment. we ll be sure to pass along what we have including the weather conditions at the time they lost contact with this particular plane. we went on flightaware.com. we use the services of this
and above the enormous wave, yes. the coast guard is hoping against hope that they could possibly survive. it is possible, is it likely? probably not, sadly. distressing. eric van dam, you were out flying with a hurricane hunters team directly into the eye of the storm. yes. and give me the size, scope, waves and everything that miguel was referring to, and the possibility that somebody could survive out there wearing one of is survival suits. ashleigh, it is incredible how quickly the mission changed once we got that phone call from the u.s. coast guard. we went from data recovery for the hurricane to search and rescue for the missing cargo. this is the exact path. we took off from biloxi, mississippi, friday morning, and entered the middle of joaquin a c category 4 at that time. i have zoomed into the eyewall of the storm to give you an idea of what the pilots had to deal with. we were originally roughly flying at 10,000 feet, but we
which is an important milestone. i just love mother nature at its finest, with the baby calf enjoying that first home. atika, the best part about this, this birth took place on mother s day. that is a very good thing. yeah. thank you so much, eric van dam for us at the international weather center. well, in asia now, a dire station, thousands of migrants trapped at sea with no place to land and suffering from dehydration and hunger. we ll have the latest on what s happening in southeast asia, coming up next.
for the profiling they found in their handling of interactions with people of color. ed lavandera cnn, ferguson, missouri. as a black woman myself i was extremely offended by some of those racist e-mails. i can imagine. i think most people were offended regardless. it was just horrific what they were saying. this winter has been unrelenting in the united states. and guess what? another storm is on the way. it just never seems to end. this one could bring a bit of everything depending on where you live. we are talking heavy snow ice, rain and maybe some flooding as well. everything that isn t good. the front is moving slowly. it will extend some 2,000 miles and 90 million americans are under a weather, warning, watch, advisory. eric vandam derek vandam. nice to meet you, john. i m going to washington, d.c. tomorrow. you might want to
to 270 kilometres per hour. it s expected to make landful later today. our own eric van dam is standing by with the details. derek, this storm is packing quite a punch. we are starting to peace together all the facemasks. this is the latest information i can pass along to you. and there s few important components i want you to realize in that this storm is now moving due west and it s also slowed down. this is a concern for flooding. because as it finally makes its way inland across the central philippine, we re going to see excessive hateful, possibly pockets of 500 millimeters or more within a two-day period. and you can imagine with this mountainous terrain across this area, flooding and also the possibility of lands slides are a major con certain. now, this is what is called the path of uncertainty. anywhere under this dark shading of blue should be on high alert.