called up 66,000 of their crew for what appears to be a major incursion into gaza. that is getting underway. in the meantime, in ukraine, new audio has just been released by the ukrainian security services. it reportedly captures pro-russian rebels in ukraine on tape confessing to downing that malaysian airlines jet. we have video of the transcription, i believe, of that transcript of the call. there you see it. here s the translation. it says we have just shot down a plane, quote, they have just shot down a plane of the two translations possible by three individuals there from the post. igor besstler was one of the leaders who seems to be behind that quote. they are still working to decide who exactly is behind this. but this indicates a potential it seems to me if the
traveling traveling in that air space and we have just gotten word tom fromm the vice-president s office, that vice-president biden is sending a team to ukraine, to quote, determine what happened to the malaysian airlines jet. we don t know the details available of the makeup of the u.s. team. the vice-president spoke earlier with ukraine s president, to offer aassistance and says that he is at a conference in detroit. at anyat any rate, a u.s. team g over. ukrainian officials have not been allowed into the region, not allowed anywhere near the crash site. only the people s republic of donetsk and this guy who has broken away and said he is in charge of this region, except by any law available to mankind he is not. at any rate, possession is nine/tenths of the law and he has not allowed anything but this these separatists to be near the jets. it s our understanding the black boxes are on the way to moscow.
latest. david? reporter: hi, gregg. yes, it s five weeks now since the malaysian airlines jet went missing with 239 people on board. and it s now become a race against time to find its black boxes before their batteries expire. ships and planes have today been searching two smaller areas of about 18,000 square miles in the indian ocean west of perth, australia. the search area has narrowed considerably over the past week after signals from the black boxes were detected. but no signals were found today. the last confirmed signals were detected back on tuesday. australian prime minister, tony abbott, warned it wouldn t be easy to recover the black boxes. while we do have a high degree of confidence that the transmissions that we ve been picking up are from flight mh-370 s black box recorder, no one should underestimate the
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investigators say someone on malaysian airlines jet turned the transponder off and the back-up was never activated. air traffic controllers on the ground had no way to track the plane. now there s concerns about why transponders can be turned off at all. flying on september 11th, aeronautics professors at sacramento city college. the big overarching question for the segment, have we taken enough effort to make the hijacking of any plane less likely since september 11th? i believe that we have. a lot of the requirements we put in place here in the united states with the strengthened doors and additional procedures do a wonderful job of keeping the cockpit secure. the issue with the transponders, the transponder does actually a few more things than just for air traffic control. yes, it s main traffic is to transmit a signal that helps illuminate and intensify the