Helicopters that were in this aerial convoy and only one of them crashed. But yes, it was carrying the president. It was carrying the Foreign Minister hossein amir of the law at least three crew members, the governor of Eastern Azerbaijan province. Thats again where the ceremony had been taking place on the border with azerbaijan is separate country. Of course and then the friday prayer, imam who leads the friday prayers in the city of tabriz. Thats the Major Metropolitan Center in that part of iran paula, i have done a road trip through this part of iran to the border, to turkey from tehran and i can personally attest to the fact that this area is rugged. It is very sparsely populated as well. We perhaps explain why you would have such a high level delegation traveling by helicopter because any kind of trip by road would have taken hours and hours and also been on potentially the dangerous roads. But this is a rugged and remote place and an indicator of perhaps why the iranian authori
open fields is where you want a wedge tornado. that s where we were here across southwestern manitoba. if it hit winnipeg it would be a different story. look at the storm system here. dynamic here. on the backside of it we have snow. snowing big sky, montana if you can believe that in the peaks. 10,000 feet up. that s impressive this time of the year. we are in august after all. fly in here closer. there s manitoba canada and there s the tornado touchdown extreme southwestern manitoba the cell that moved up. a clear rotation there on the radar perspective and you can see that is indicative of a tornado signature there and so certainly thankfully no one hurt with this tornado. we continue to see this low moving to the north and east. on the eastern flank of it here terrific thunderstorms have been exploding ahead of it. the big story, well out ahead of the storm is the heat. are you ready for triple-digits? it s not that you are ready.
on the aircraft and might not be able to see you can see some weather, but if the weather is intense in front of you from the radar perspective, you won t see what is behind it. so maybe the crew was discussing, do we go around the buildup or left around the buildup? and then they wound up going through the buildup. and they could be so severe they could just take an aircraft apart. what kind of hurdles will the search and rescue crew have when they wake up in the morning as soon as light falls again with the wreckage? if it did indeed crash there. are they going to be sinking quickly or is it something that we re going to be able to find quickly? well, again if this did impact water, which there was no emergency locator transmitter that transmitted, so that tells me that it did not crash into land, it crashed into the water. because the radio that we want away. at this point we can assume it
surface on planet earth are occurring across this region. you do not see this every day. look at the radar perspective. you ll be able to see the core of the storm beginning to push in. look at that rain right around the center. my goodness, this is just, again, one of the most powerful typhoons to hit china. 1973, and 2006, and this in fact may top both of those. so this is indeed a dangerous situation that we ll continue to watch throughout the day today. the concern is storm surge. there is a bay, because of the orientation along the coast, is very vulnerable to this. we have to watch for that. 10 million people are not just going to be in the path of the typhoon, they are going to experience the tie fan winds here. and we re talking about the storm surge, and the rains, and michael and rosemary, the topography, once you get inland, you get into the hilly terrain. and with all that rainfall, the potential for landslides over the next few days on top of the
a good example is a lot of resources and a lot has to go and to flight operators. i think they probably are in the indian ocean, it is hard to find. as a former prosecutor d.c. criminal intention it simplistically explained, the left turn or the two left turns? not at all. it doesn t mean you should not have an incredible investigation. of building burns down you might open an arson investigation to see whether there was arson. the fact there is a criminal investigation does not mean you ll find criminal conduct. it just means you re going to use the forensic tools of criminal investigators to look to see what happened. greg, how do we make sure relying on your expertise, how do we make sure this never happens again, that we re not years from now back in the same position of wondering what happened to a 777? wow, that s a good question. i think there are a couple of technologies from radar perspective you can look at over the horizon high frequency radar. it can emit thousands