that. but they had a relationship that they built, but when we think about the forecast that people were trying to predict from this memo, why are they saying that it didn t catch any traction? that is the key question. i spoke to a former senior dhs official who said this went through a year of review, the normal process with lawyers, privacy officers, wasn t adopted. they don t know why. when i spoke to dhs officials again today on the phone, they emphasized this was not the original policy but ultimately, although we don t know why it wasn t adopted we do know there is an antiquated legal thicket when it comes to figuring out what the privacy rules are and how they relate to u.s. versus foreigners, and there has been at least initially over the years, resistance to trying to make those changes. now everyone is talking about it. an initial resistance which is interesting. i think common sense would say employers are doing this when it comes to what you re putting out there public
watch list. the point that is being argued is that people are put on those lists and they don t know why. they spend years and thousands of dollars on lawyers trying to get themselves off that list and are unable to. the government doesn t have to provide them a reason why their names do appear on those. this is all part of the debate in terms of who s on those lists, do they merit being on those lists and if so, should they be able to buy a gun or not? so, senator schumer, senator dianne feinstein, they re all trying to limit the availability of any sort of firearm getting into the wrong hands. this is what this is really focused on. thank you for that. michael, i want to bring you in on this. to really understand the issue, first walk us through, what is the standard are being put on the terror watch list? there are many different factors taken into account. there is obviously, if there is a record of the individual having had a come under a security review.
bodies are being transported to right now. they will be able to identify their loved ones. in the last hour or so, a press conference by the emergency ministry here, nothing specific on the investigation so far, but they do say in the early hours of tuesday morning, they re expecting another plane to arrive back here from egypt, bring manager bodiy more bodies personal effects of the passengers. today is going to be, for the families, a tough day. as we re watching here, people are coming to leave flowers and coming to leave toys at this memorial, also finding it difficult. a lot of tears here this morning as well. it is a heart breaking situation and difficult to understand how the loved ones are coping at this time. as we mentioned, officials now believe the plane broke apart midair. they don t know why.
escape. or some way to save everybody on there. because that s how she was. a difficult story to tell. and that was cnn affiliate, wcuv reporting. and the crash of flight 9268, investigators believe the airliner came apart well before it hit the ground. they don t know why. we are joined by phillip butter worth, an air traffic control expert. he joins us now via skype from england. thank you for talking with us. now, when you look at all that we ve been told about, all bringing pieces together as an air traffic control expert, what is your sense of what may have happened to this doomed flight? it s very, very strange. airplanes don t just break up in flight. i think in the entire history of
they have the black box recorder which is similar to the flight data recorder that is found on airplanes. they have that it s in camden in delaware i should say, and they hope to retrieve some information from that box. and that is the tracks that s the signal that s the speed, and that is even a conversation with the engineer to find out what he knew as well as do something that s very routine and that s to do a toxicology report on him. tamron? ray heeehemarehema, tell us how far the train was from the 30th street station where it would have picked up and let off passengers in philadelphia. reporter: it had left the 30th street station not very long before the crash happened and one of the things that s interesting about this while they know what happened, tamron they don t know why, and it