[cannons firing] [bells ringing] [cannons firing] [bells ringing] [cannons firing] [bells ringing] that there is a 41gun salute. 21 guns not enough for the new king in the united king dom. Good morning, everybody. Im bill hemmer. Welcome to our continuing coverage on americas newsroom as we say hello again to my colleague Martha Maccallum live again in london where we could, at any moment, see the new baby. Hey, martha, good morning. Martha hey there, bill, good morning. And listen to that. That is a 41gun salute. Were hearing an enormous amount of applause and celebration in london today. This does not happen every day. A prince is born. A future king of england. 16 countries in the realm. Almost a third of the population of the world falls under the british realm still to this day. David cameron, the Prime Minister, came out and acknowledged the importance of this moment yesterday. This is a important moment in our country and the an important moment in the lives after much loved cou
vernon grose said he s pretty confident the wreckage can be found because the water is not that deep there. this is not going to be that significant. it s not like getting lost in the south china sea. we ll probably know something in the next eight or nine hours. they ll find it, i hope they find some people alive, but they will find it. we don t have many people exam pms of that. twa flight 800 comes to mind? 1986 in july. 25 years old, exploded in midair just off of long island and what a heart wrenching search that was. the atlantic off of smith point park in basically about the same depth as we have now. what will authorities be doing? what type of procedures will they have? is this an example of what they could do in terms of the divers finding the wreckage and finally recovering the black boxes? i think you ll find that
flight, when it disappeared into the radar. now, the questions of what and how it happened. hello, everyone, welcome to america s news headquarters. 162 passengers and crew on board that flight. including 16 children. and one infant. most of them are indonesian and right now, their loved ones are in agony waiting for answers. let s go to will carr with the latest. will? well, those families desperately hoping to get those answers as the search resumes come daylight. right now, they re at a crisis center in west indonesia where they have been getting updates throughout the night. now, the majority of the passengers on the plane are from that region. and authorities are still trying to figure out exactly what happened. the air asia flight lost contact with air traffic control early saturday morning, but before communications were lost, one of the patients asked for higher altitude to avoid bad weather. everything that the pattern is clearly a weather, a pilot trying to di
useless airplane for anything like that. in other words, it s a huge airplane, and it s a passenger aircraft. now, they could load it with some kind of explosives, i suppose, and aim for a target, but they re a long way from anything of consequence, it seems to me. gregg: vernon grose, former ntsb member during the reagan administration, appreciate your insight. you re welcome, gregg. jenna: president obama may be getting ready to use that pen again as he s mentioned, this time on immigration. the president is directing his homeland security chief to review america s deportation procedures. elizabeth prank is live at the white house with more on this. so, elizabeth, why the change here? reporter: well, we re seeing, certainly, more proactive approach this year. last year we saw president obama saying immigration reform was basically out of his hands. this week we re seeing a more proactive approach, perhaps
communication systems were deliberately shut off minutes apart. joining me now to talk about it, vernon grose, a former ntsb member, he s chairman of mega systems group, and it s always a pleasure to speak with you. everybody s talking about this, and everyone seems bewildered. i spoke to mine who s a doctor and an experienced pilot, and he is baffled. how about you? i m baffled right along with him although, you know, we have to keep searching here, as a matter of fact. the thing that really puzzles me most, gregg, is the fact that the malaysian government, which ostensibly is in charge nobody s in charge of this investigation. and that s very unusual. gregg: i want to run if you think back gregg: let s put up on the screen a graphic, because this is very telling of the sequence of events and the timing of it all. it takes off at 12:41 a.m., but within a half an hour the data