it is immense and widespreading across this particular area. by the way, there is a population of about 35 million people here. and we ve had over a month s worth of rainfall in just four days time. so that has created travel concerns. of course we know that the main international airport in kochi is now closed until august 26. in fact some of the images floating around social media believe it or not are actual floodwaters rising up to the engines of the jet lines that are park there had on some of the tarmacs. india s meteorological department still has orange alerts for the west facing shorelines. the good news here, i m seeing signs that the heaviest of rains will start shifting further to the north away and maybe giving them a brief respite from the heavy rain. we ll take that. that s right. thanks. it seems to be the phrase of the week, but just what are
it s not true and there s plenty of fact checks the prove it isn t. if all i did all day is respond to everything donald trump aid that isn t true i wouldn t be able to run my campaign. that said, we can tell you this afternoon donald trump is cranking it up on the issue and claiming on twitter vindication on the claim and 9/11. he linked to a the washington post story from a week after 9/11. he says it s ground for apology for all of his critics to extend to him. this is what a passage in the article said. it says this is from much. a week after 9/11. in jersey city, within hours of two jet lines, law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on roof tops while they watched the devastation on the other side of the river. keep in mind here, this is a number of people, not a specific number here and allegedly doing this. as they watched. now, i reached to one of the
this is supposed to represent. reporter: he flew jet lines for 34 years. like many in the aviation community, he has a theory about what happened on flight 370. a problem on board. i like to go with the simplest explanation. reporter: maybe they were being heroes and trying to get back to a landing strip that was large enough to carry a 777 and that s the reason they made that large, sharp turn. if you have a serious problem aboard a jetliner like a fire, one thing you re going to want to do is get on the ground as soon as possible and turning back towards malaysia, towards a large airport, it s the first thing i would do. the most imperative thing is to take care of that fire. the last thing you re going to do is communicate unless you have the time to do it because no one on the ground can help you. reporter: so would a crisis like a fire leave the pilots to take drastic action? would it be crazy to think that just going into the water, trying to do a water landing of
begin to make this aircraft deviate and turn off course. it s that simple, don. very simple. martin, check back with what we said and we ll check back with you later in the hour to answer marcus question. all of us are experts here and we dig deeper into the questions that the viewers have been tweeting us. i m an expert journalist and we have aviation experts on here. many of you have asked whether a fire onboard could explain what we know about flight 370. is there a possibility that it caught fire and radar, et cetera, wasn t manually shut off but an accident? we have cnn s stephanie elam to dig into that question for us. you know, what we re given here is a large jigsaw puzzle that has 1,000 pieces and someone tossed 20 pieces at us and said here figure out what this is supposed to represent. reporter: he flew jet lines for 34 years. like many in the aviation community, he has a theory about what happened on flight 370.
possible collision with the unmanned drones. we ve heard those concerns before. a pilot on approach to jfk reported a close call. kennedy tower we just saw a little drone below us. reporter: the worry those small drones could do big damage to jet lines filled with passengers. the biggest worries one of the drones can be ingested by an engine at high power on takeoff and shut the engine down. reporter: in a statement the faa tells abc news in the past 90 days there has been a small increase in the number of drone incidents in new york due to increased awareness and the agency encourages pilots to report these close calls. our aviation source says as of friday controllers had been urged to make a report each time a drone gets close to a jet. a federal official tells abc news the reports varied from observation by pilots to actual evasive action. all of this as the faa considers rules for the explosion of inexpensive flying aircraft