mystery story. and now for the last look. hurricane season won t begin in the atlantic basin until june 1st. but the south pacific storm season is in full swing. at any point in time, in fact, tis the season for hurricanes, typhoons, or cyclones somewhere in the world. with winds up to an astounding 190 miles per hour, fierce storms can dump more than 2.4 trillion gallons of rain in a day. at this point the world really has nothing to defend against nature s fury. but a stanford study says there may be something that could stand in a hurricane s way. quite literally. it s not some brand new technology or hypothetical machine i m talking about. it s wind turbines. according to the study, large numbers of wind turbines could slow down the outer winds of the hurricane, decrease wave heights, and cause it to
search area is in a certain place and then to see it move so dramatically, do you feel hopeful they may have got it right this time? or are you now at the stage where you just don t know what to believe? well, i think they re maybe just 1% of the possibility that they will be alive. but i do believe that there is still hope. and do you believe, steve, that the search area now from what you ve been seeing on television and what you may have been hearing, do you think they may finally be in the right plac place? i don t know. i think maybe yes, maybe not. but if nothing s found i think it might change again. and steve, tell me this. on a human level, how are you coping with this? this is your mother. to the world this is an extraordinary mystery story. but for you, it s very real and
coping with this? this is your mother. to the world this is an extraordinary mystery story. but for you, it s very real and very painful. your mother is on that plane somewhere. what have you been going through? describe it to me. well, it is hard to say. sad and angry and anxious. i can t describe it. it s so complicated. i can t even imagine what it s like for any of you families. and the fact that you ve had so much wrong information must make it 100 times worse. steve, it s great that you ve come back on the show. it s important that people hear from the families. i m very grateful to you. i wish you all the very best. i, like you, will cling to any tiny bit of hope as long as there is hope. i will say a prayer for you again tonight. okay.
comcastnbcuniversal. we re staying on this mystery story. where the heck is this plane? a lot of you are incredibly engaged. we ll continue answering some viewer questions. let me bring in don lemon, who will be back tonight at 10:00 eastern. i know you took questions all hour long last night. don lemon and captain bill savage rejoining us. an incredible expert. wealth of knowledge here. so don lemon, take it away. yes. listen to captain bill, you re right. wealth of knowledge. very good stuff, brooke. you asked the pertinent question. where the heck is this plane? that s what everybody wants to know. but they also have side questions. like this one from ryan. why don t black boxes have a gps so they can be tracked in case a
single biggest, most important development that this story has had since the plane went missing. because it s the only piece of evidence, it s only part of the story that frankly makes sense. richard, stand by. i want to go back to clive irving in london again. his assessment of what s going on. go ahead, clive. el us in the aftermath of the chinese satellite images being released, what s your thought? well, i m looking at the dimensions of these pieces of wreckage and they don t conform to anything that s on the plane. if you put up the image that you had earlier of the dimensions of the 777, it s got long, slender wings designed so the plane is very efficient flying at high altitude. these pieces of wreckage, i ve got the dimensions here, 79 x 72 feet, that s very square and very big. you have to think about what pieces of the plane survive and float around on the water. the pieces that float are