based. we had videos recently of him saying he would be focused on africa. i m off to go and do my work in africa was essentially his message. now it looks like it was at least on a passenger list of a flight from moscow to saint petersburg which has mysteriously crashed. if you look at the flight tracking systems, the plane effectively disappears off the flight tracking systems. daniel sandford with flight tracking systems. daniel sandford with that flight tracking systems. daniel sandford with that breaking i flight tracking systems. daniel- sandford with that breaking news, thank you. in the past week, more than 2,000 migrants have crossed the channel in small boats, meaning almost 19,000 have arrived this year. afghans are currently the largest group making the illegal crossing. the uk government did create legal routes after the allied withdrawal from afghanistan two years ago, putting two special home office visa schemes in place. more than 12,000 afghans have come through th
i m beginning not only to doubt it, i m beginning to believe it. heather: report unearthed biases from other agents saying i m with her. lawmakers are now demanding names of those agents to be released to determine whether they were also assigned to the russia probe. the world s lagger e airline work to go get back on track following week full of cancellations, computer glitch forced carrier psa to cancel about 2500 flights since thursday. the bug impacted crew scheduling and flight tracking systems apparently. psa will work on reduced schedule as they work to get things back to normal. and take a look at this, it looks like a snow storm but that s actually hail plank eted the ground in colorado. hail the sides of baseball denting cars and smashing roofs,
is iko, what he had to say to me that was most striking, really, the fact by september they will have flight tracking systems but he also said in the next 20 years this airspace will double. the number of airplanes will double. so this problem is not going to go away unless we do something. that would be great news for people who want to see what s happened ever happen again. that satellite tracking and control. that is the only thing to prevent these kinds of things. they ve been talking with about it for years the maybe, finally, we ll see progress. he would be able to push it. thank you, david. thank you, as always. john? thanks, kate. now to the scandal that has rocked the veteran affairs department. cnn broke the story, investigating frequent delays at v.a. hospitals for months now that may have led to patient deaths. there are new calls this morning from two high-profile democrats from v.a. secretary eric
i m aware of that they can pick up the altitude on that plane once the transponders turned off. so, it s wild speculation, i believe. one of the other things that s developed over the last few days is this notion that the acars system, one of the flight tracking systems, the data transmission systems, was shut down before the last vocal contact, before the pilot said, all right, goodnight. what does that tell you? again, it s speculation, because what they re saying is, they re giving an intent, a motive, a conclusion to an act that they ve seen. something turns off, something ceases to work, and they don t say it ceases to work. they say it was intentionally turned off. well, i don t know that you have any way of knowing whether power was disrupted to that equipment or whether a hand came up and turned the knob.