would have warned people about the mcat system. it was an add-on. it didn t come standard with the model. should it have initially, and certainly should it have after the first crash of lion air when it became apparent to pilots that said there is something on board that you didn t know about. it was developed to be a cheaper airplane to fly on fuel costs. boeing developed it in a way that it wouldn t require a lot of training, and then it wanted to have an option of selling the airplane at a price that would be attractive to its customers and not having the safety options installed allowed it to sell it at a lower price. and also at the same time, if an airline ordered it like the american airlines have, boeing could make more money on installing these safety processes.
dive which right after takeoff is very unusual and very dangerous. the question, why would it in that position? it could be from pilot input, it could be from auto pilot, it could be from the mcat system, an automated system designed to help a pilot avoid a stall that would put an airplane in danger. it is that mcat system under investigation. if that s that same system here, that may indicate a wider problem across the 737 max series of aircraft and certainly a big problem for boeing. how would they find out if it was that system. that s the information on those black boxes. on the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder. which is why the work happened behind me is so crucial. cnn. after losing her dad when she was 14. this week s cnn hero struggled with depression into her late 20s when she finally got help.
others had. so people needed to be trained on it, and it they weren t. there s questions of how the faa improves the manual that didn t include any mention of the mcat system. boeing got back to us, telling cnn, even though it does employ its own inspectors. the company insists boeing employees serving in this capacity act independently on behalf of the faa when performing in this role. drew griffin, cnn, atlanta. a rebuke on the border, 12 senate republicans blocked trump s emergency declaration. is this a sign of republicans now breaking from the president? you re live in the cnn newsroom. the way they subscribe to movies. we don t follow the naysayers.
it made washington aware just moments before they went public with this announcement in canada. but the point about, you know, the software patch, it s absolutely right. boeing does, in fact, have a problem with that mcat system. they are pushing through an automated software patch on all of their 737 maxes because of that and the faa has mandated that by the end of april. lest anybody think there is not an issue, boeing knows they have an issue. whether it is for indonesia or ethiopia, they re two distinct issues completely. thank very much to both of you we ll of course stay very close to the story. thank you. all right. more than 2700 people are on death row right now across the united states. but now one governor is taking the bold step of putting a stop to the death penalty in his state, sparing the lives much more than 700 prisoners. we re going to be speaking about whether other states could follow suit. you re watching velshi & ruhle
one place where their merit is most critical, medicine. they do it every day. confidence is critical there, obviously. the medical schools don t see it wednesday. when applying to medical school, two critical factors are in applicants gpa, and the score on the admissions test. it goes without saying the doctor ought to have excellent grades, and a high score. you would want that for your doctor. the standards are not the same for everybody. it differs by appearance. applicants with an mcat of 27 to 29 and a gpa to 3.4, if you have those numbers and you are asian, you have a 21% chance of getting into medical school. if you are white, you have a 29% getting in. if you are hispanic, you have a 60% chance of getting in. african-american applicants, they have an 81 acceptance rate.