decision together. and that s something that we could use to learn in the future. so these things don t happen again. well, we ll certainly be staying on that story. sal, kathleen dan thank you so much. we ll continue to follow it. but first just weeks ago the president announced he was normalizing relations with cuba. and now there s this, an interview with npr president obama was asked is there any scenario under which you can envision in your final two years opening a u.s. embassy in tehran? and president obama responded, i never say never, but i think these things have to go in steps. joining me now with reaction is fox news military analyst lieutenant colonel ralph peters. thanks so much for being here tonight. hi, katie. i want to ask the question not necessarily about the embassy being opened in tehran, because i don t think that that s going to happen. but i do want to know the implications of the president even bringing up this idea in an interview which of course is g
dan, i want to start with you because you have some insight into maybe what happened inside the cockpit. you re not so sure it was just weather-related. well, without any evidence to the contrary, i hesitate to speculate too much. it s looking more and more like that s what happened. but there s some things that haven t been disclosed yet that are still questions in my mind. for instance, no distress call. to me that means the pilot was so occupied with what he was doing he couldn t talk. which can happen. which would kind of lend itself to suggest something catastrophic happened in the cockpit be it an out of control situation due to bad weather or disorientation or something else. and then the fact that none of the elts have been detected yet. the fact that they haven t found the airplane where they re searching for doesn t really strike me as too odd because that doesn t necessarily mean that s where the plane went in. you know, where the radar contact was lost. i see.
going to have tonight for fireworks? tom kierein is here with the answer. around the region we might have scattered showers. but the last couple of days i ve been getting a lot of message on twitter and facebook saying, i heart this weather. low humidity today but we do have a possibility of a few passing sprinkles. this morning, so tee the patchef green, the sprinkles are trying to reach the ground there in the fairfax county. it s advancing north crossing the potomac into prince george s county and about to come into the the district farther south and west. a few scattered sprinkles from west of fredericksburg to north of charlottesville to the shenandoah valley. off ahead of that we ve still got low humidity in the air. it s fairly comfortable this morning. we re down in the upper 60s to near 70. under the cloud cover throughout most of the region. although reagan national on those warm waters of potomac feels like bath water almost. it s at 77 there. the potomac river
with the ground. now, sal you look at the situation and you look at the timing. it seems like time is always of the essence with these things. officials are saying they think the plane s at the bottom of the sea. how many days now do we have to find those black boxes before they run out and it s going to be more difficult to find them if we can t ping at them? the pingers on the boxes which are the tones that help them find the boxes location last at a minimum for 30 days. we ve known them to last much longer than that. i don t think it will take 30 days. we have a very shallow ocean here. the java sea is not the south indian ocean where we had the other problem. so i think you ll see something quickly. what they need first is a debris field. they found some debris that they re trying to confirm now. once they have that they can start putting sonar devices in to look for the pingers and try to locate both black boxes. gotcha. back to you, kathleen. officials say there were six pl