Beacon cuts off forever. But what if the plane is sitting on the bottom of the ocean with time running out . Well look at an underwater retrieval. What if something happened to incapacitate everyone on board and the plane flew itself on auto pilot until it ran out of fuel . Good afternoon, everyone. Im jake tapper. Two major developments this hour in the now twoweek search for flight 370 and the 239 souls on board. One involves that possible debris spotted on satellite images. The other involves the data erased from the Flight Simulator seized from the captains home. U. S. Officials say the fbi team examining that data is confident that agents will be able to recover at least some of the information. The malaysians saw nothing of concern on the hard drive but our source says they could not access everything on it and its not clear whether the malaysians even have the technology to do it. And while the fbi works on that, searchers are following what australias Prime Minister called toda
The askcnntonight. We have a team of experts stand big to answer your questions. And with no sign of a ceasefire in gaza, the faa bans u. S. Flights to tel aviv, while former new york city mayor Michael Bloomberg fly theres tonight on El Al Airlines to demonstrate that he thinks its safe. Is the crash of flight 17 a game changer in how the u. S. Treats travel over war zones . Plus here at home, president barack obama takes a west coast fundraising trip which has his critics crying foul. This the right time for business as usual . Well get into all of that. Alisyn . Lets begin with the mystery in the middle of new york city. The Brooklyn Bridge someone of the busiest spots in one of the biggest cities in the world. Every day 120,000 motor vehicles, 4,000 pedestrians, and 2600 cyclists cross that bridge. Yet somehow none of them noticed someone replacing the american flags that fly over the bridge with white flags. Cnns poppy harlow joins us tonight. What do you know . This is an iconic
Good evening. Thank you for joining us. David muir is off tonight. Im byron pitts. We begin with americas new mission in iraq. One that president obama warned today would be, quote, a longterm project. And just tonight, the pentagon announcing four new air strikes. Earlier today we saw these images of the first u. S. Strikes on terror targets in northern iraq. Missiles taking out militants and their weapons before. Meanwhile, parachuting to earth, from u. S. Cargo planes, huge bundles of food and water. For humanitarian aid for refugees stranded on a mountaintop. Today the refugees are on the move again. Looking to escape the violence. We have team coverage. We begin with abc white house correspondent, jonathan karl, traveling with the president. Jon . Reporter good evening. The president arrived in Marthas Vineyard this afternoon. He already played a round of golf but has also spoken to the leaders of germany, france, and britain. His attention focused thousands of miles away on the m
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. Heres whats happening. Breaking news in gaza. A 12 hour humanitarian ceasefire between israel and gaza is in effect. It began six hours ago. Secretary of state john kerry arrived in paris looking to negotiate a longer seven day ceasefire. Residents are moving to safer areas. Palestinian Health Ministry said more than 830 have been killed in the conflict, mostly civilians. Israel said it lost 34 soldiers. Nbcs Martin Fletcher is showing me from tel aviv. Good morning. This ceasefire is it expected to hold for the next few hours, about six we have left. Im curious what the scene was like in gaza after it started. Reporter thats right. Exactly halfway through the 12 hour ceasefire began at 8 00 in the morning local time, goes on to 8 00 p. M. Local time. So far so good, no rockets from gaza, no israeli shelling of targets in gaza, so the ceasefire is holding. Of course everyone hopes it will continue holding to the end. The quest
President ial hopeful ben carson just cant seem to shake the firestorm he ignite. On wednesday, carson doubling down on controversial comments had he made about last weeks oregon campus massacre. From the indications i got, they did not rush the shooter. The shooter can only shoot one person at a time. He cannot shoot a whole group of people. Reporter now, a survivor of the shooting has responded telling cnn, quote, im very upset he said that. Nobody could truly understand what actions they would take in a situation like that unless they lived. Carson first commented on tuesday, telling abc news what he would have done. I would ask everybody to attack the gunman he can only shoot one of us at a time. That way, we dont all wind up dead. I would not stand there and let him shoot me. Id say, hey, guys, everybody attack us. He cant get us all. Reporter later tuesday, the former brain surgeon recounted a much different action when he was confronted. The guy comes, puts the gun in my ribs, i