there s a $40,000 drone. i ll shoot it out of the sky. they re doing research right now to use drones to carry explosives for avalanche control in the mountains. that would be fascinating. when it s so foggy or the weather is so bad you can t send people out for avalanches for highways, for instance genius. you could program it to travel up at noon and drop an explosive for avalanche control. whether or not this can be done safely so they re not going to fall down on people, hit building, lamp poles and whatever else. dreaming big, attaching it to the brand, is this a strong move for bezos? yes. think about what it did for apple. great to meet you. thanks, jason. let us know what you think. what would you use a drone for?
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0 derailment in the bronx, new york. they re still working there. a lot of it is about the federal investigation. the trains have been put on the track, the track is being restored. new questions all about speed. nearly triple the speed limit, that train was going, as it came around the curve where it, of course, went off the track. let s bring in cnn s rene marsh joining from us washington. she has the latest. we now know how fast the train was going but we still don t know why. this morning, investigators have more questions for a man who may have the answers. ntsb investigators continue searching for clues this morning and questioning train engineer william rockefeller for a second day in hopes of learning why this metro north train was going so fast. from the event recorders, shows that the train was traveling at approximately 82 miles per hour. as it went into a 30 mile-an-hour curve. reporter: that s nearly three times the speed limit for this curving stretch of track. the
eggs. on a small coastline in mexico and texas. until we clean up the waters and stop the leak, they ll be in trouble. there are heroes trying to save me. a lot of people joining me in huge animal fans and that means we re fans of you and all you re doing. thanks so much. the latest developments on the oil spill disaster, log on to oilspill.msnbc.com. an experimental solar powered plane completed its test flight, it can conduct enough energy to stay in flight all night. eventually the plane s makers wants to circle the globe using only solar energy. jason parr joins us by skype from seattle. good morning. good morning. the project leaders said the plane came back with more energy than it left with. how is that possible?
that showing what can be done with renewable energy, you want it to have people understand that a lot of this technology is available today. and that this kind of thing could be done with what is available at the moment. so so commercial flights, you think that s not the point at this point, to say, we re going to go here and try to develop that? i don t think that s what they are trying to say. there are other practical applications, for instance, a low-level satellite. you could have an aircraft circling at 50,000, 60,000 feet used as a cell tower so to speak. when the wright brothers flew, they only flew 100 feet and didn t fly faster than these guys, i m sure they never envisioned a 747 carrying hundreds of people either. you make a very good point there. jason parr with wired