consistent with the death of the lieutenant. we ve got a call in to their lab right now to see how much progress they ve made. but i just want to emphasize, that is not the somebody referred to as the golden nugget of the case. we ve got several videos. the chief did advance the information about the lieutenant s weapon being found. he said it s a .40 caliber weapon and was found near the lieutenant s body. that initial information tracks back to the radio information appears to be linked to the responding officer s first impression of the scene that the lieutenant had been stripped of his weapon. we now know it was close to his body. that scene has been revisited by detectives several times. they have used different techniques like high powered magnets and specialized k-9 s to look for more evidence. so the commander also said
there is an an x here and come to find out it is bad information. tough keep in mind phones don t work well, internet not working well. until i see the guy s face and gal s face giving me that report, sure someone s gone or miss missing, i need to confirm that. no confirmed fatalities? yes. three are missing? three. can you cop firm any of those are children? i cannot. no bodies have been recovered anywhere? as we were coming in here there was some radio information, i cannot confirm that i might be able to confirm that. [ inaudible ]. we have several groups texas task force one is on the ground with about 40 or 50 folks. they are literally walking in between rescues, search a certain area make sure if there
there is systems that provide radio information about the systems. and location. there is a vast area of the world where aircraft are just literally disappear off the radar screen for hours and hours. that s routine when you go across the atlantic to europe. people don t realize that for a long period of time, you re out of radar contact. i didn t realize that. it is pretty creepy, actually. i spoke to the former undersecretary of the tsa about the possibility of terrorism. he said investigators are likely to ask questions about the flight even before it took off. listen. what happened while it was on the ground. how much was it secured when it was totally empty? who put the baggage on? the baggage could have been contaminated inside the terminal and just not picked up and put on the plane and it discharges at 35 or 37,000 feet.