we re continuing our coverage of a missing air asia jet. it s been 19 hours now since flight 8501 with 162 people on board went missing in southeast asia. cnn aaron mcpike joins from yous the white house. what are you hearing from there? martin president obama was briefed last night when he was out to dinner with the fist lady and some friends in hawaii and the white house says it s closely monitoring the situation, and, of course we ll continue to brief the president m coming days. we understand that we do not expect to hear from president obama about this situation today, but we have heard from some other agencies within the u.s. government about what the response could look like. no ask has been made yet, and the u.s. will have to be asked in order to help out, but i do have a statement from a senior state department official that i ll read to you about that. this official says the
saying about their aircraft and we re talking about the airbus a320-200. this is a relatively new aircraft. it was delivered in 2008 of october. it s just over six years old. we know the flight time about 23,000 flight hours. when we talk about how many millions of flights this particular family of aircraft has made. we also martin have been in touch with authorities here in the united states. just to see what kind of role they could possibly play in all of this. in my conversation with the ntsb this morning, they say they are actively monitoring this situation. they say the lines of
it s a lot of conversation regarding the actual logo on social media. hey take lead under icao protocol that s the civil organization. that organization also sending their thoughts and prayers via social media. so again, back to this little device martin. tiny device. people from around the world using it to send a big message of solidarity with although families of these passengers. that is a way to be in touch even if you are far away. rosa flores thank you very much for that. we are going to continue to
many questions that still remain. thunderstorm activity possibly where he within the next 24 hours, but into 48 hours, martin it does seem to break up. most of it wants to stay over land mass which is very good news. rosa flores joins us now, and you ve been track it on social media. what are the posts saying? a lot of folks around the world wondering how it is that we can track a cell phone down to the block? yet, another plane lost. a lot of folks comparing it to mh-370 simply because of the