>> garrett: latest on the flight airbus 320 flying to singapore with 162 people on board lost contact with air traffic control after taking off from indonesia. we'll talk to captain sullenberger who landed on the hudson river in 2009. plus new york city mourns the death of rafael ramos killed on duty while sitting in his squad car along with his partner as city braces for moring a irrelevant and possible attacks against the police what can be done to ease tensions in new york city and around the country. we'll talk to william bratton the commissioner of the new york city police department and former new york city mayor rudy guiliani and update on the ebola

preparedness with the coordinator ron klain all that plus bob schieffer's interview with laura hillenbrand author of "unbroken" the story of louis who survived world war ii plane crash was captured tortured for two years in japanese prison camp. "unbroken" is now a major motion picture. hillenbrand tell us how her battle with rare disease helped her write his story. >> when he was talking about really suffering, i knew something about what that felt like. i think it enabled him to open up. >> garrett: and special look back at 60 years of news on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs good morning, bob is off today. we begin with breaking news. rescue crews are searching for airplane that's been lost over water in southeast asia. in london with the latest. >> good morning. this is what we know so far the plane was flying from indonesia

to singapore, now that is journey that usually takes around two hours. burt just over 40 minutes in to the flight the pilot asked to change routes, he wanted to turn left and fly to higher altitude to avoid clouds. that was the last contact with air traffic control severe weather and violent thunderstorms were reported in the area precisely at that time. there were 162 people on board 17 children. total ever six different nationalities, none of them american. authorities in singapore and indonesia immediately launched air concerning and rescue operations and recorded a few hours ago will resume in the morning. in both countries friends and family gathered to wait for news certainly terrible feeling of familiarity. the year kicked off with the uncomplained disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370 in

march, then another malaysian airlines flight 17 was shot down over eastern ukraine. now this. the flight still missing to what has been a very rough year for asian air travel. >> thank you very much. we turn to sully sullenberger captain of the miracle on the hudson now cbs news aviation safety expert joins us from reno nevada. captain, what do you make of what we know so far about fate of this aircraft the passengers and crews? >> major good morning. not much is known at this point. this is one of several aircraft that have gone missing over water recently. investigators will organize their initial investigation secure any reportings air crack troll radar information information with the flight. try as much as possible to narrow the search to as quickly as possible find the rare plane

and of course recover the cockpit voice recorder. >> garrett: is this a rescue operation or simply recovery operation in all likelihood? >> at this point we don't know. what we do know is that the airplane by this time would have exhausted fuel supply would have reached the surface of the earth we don't know where or what shape. >> garrett: anything about this corridor or the pilot's request to defer because of cloud issues or weather issues to tell us anything we ought to pay particularly close attention to? >> it's not unusual for pilot to request deviation to avoid severe weather. we don't know at this point how much from the extent weather played in this case. many of the investigation will look at many factors including the weather training that the pilot got maintenance of the airplane and other areas. >> garrett: you know this plane well. anything in particular about its

abilities, capabilities that would be interesting or important to think about as this story moves forward? >> thisser a plane is used around the world over 3,000 in service around the globe. i have about 5,000 on this plane, experience, where this investigation goes when we get more facts. nothing stands out. >> garrett: the next big phase will try to find the recorders then interview all those connected with this particular flight, correct? >> everyone connected to this flight. the people who trained the pilots, people who have flown with the pilots recently. anyone who maintained the airplane what kind of training the pilots have gotten all these things will be a focus of this investigation. >> garrett: there is, i don't need to tell you captain series of events in this particular part of the world with commercial aviation.

coincidence or something more alarming potentially? >> at this point there seem to be just coincidence. no indication that anything particularly out of the ordinary in this flight. we'll see when we get more information. >> garrett: thank you very much for joining us from reno on this breaking news sorry, we appreciate it very much. now we turn to the other big story. another sad chapter of the ongoing national conversation on race justice and police brutality. the funeral for new york city police officer rafael ramos in queens yesterday. tens of thousands of police and well wishers. many traveling from across the country to honor the fallen officers. the backlash against bill de blasio as officers turned their backs to him as show of disrespect when he spoke. both officer ramos and partner whose funeral arrangements have

not yet been finalized were promoted to first grade detective by new york city police commissioner who addressed the divide between police and protesters upset about recent cases of police brutality. >> learn to see each other that our cops are people, like officer ramos and officer lui and our community is filled with people just like them. if we can learn to see each other when we see each other we'll heal. we'll heal heal as a department, we'll heal as a city, we'll heal as a country. wouldn't that be the ultimate -- the ultimate to honor the officers ramos and liu paige joined by commissioner bratton of the new york city police department. thank you for joining us on "face the nation," two quick questions. highway safe ever your new york city police officers and what is their level of morale?

>> officer safety is always a top priority, certainly here in new york it will remaybe that way. we are investigating over 50 incidents of reported threats against our officers since the death of these two officers a week ago. we have closed it more than half with nine arrests being made. we're continuing to investigate the others. the officer safety is always great concern. we have been issuing advisory. >> garrett: does it feel like -- does it feel less dangerous now than immediate aftermath of the slaying of those two officers? >> policing is always profession that will have potential daneer that is reality of it. reflected in the bravery that our officers exhibit every day going in to the streets and communities of this country.

unfortunate ly a fourth issue you referenced to me, fourth issue we need to be very cognizant of is the ranger and hatred and violence district against our police officers that every year takes a hundred of their lives. we need to broaden the conversation to include the dangers being directed against them also. >> garrett: you were going to talk about morale, ho is the morale of the officers? >> in the department at this time is low. no getting around that. that's the reality. it's low for lot of reasons contract negotiations, lot going on that is particular to new york city. that is separate and apart from the national discussions and issues of race and police. >> if you were to try to put percentage which is bigger part, the national conversation, this national sense of police somehow in the wrong or these underlying more traditional beefs between union, the mayor's office and city hall?

>> i think it would be very difficult to try to break it up that way on percentage basis. i think all those factors contribute to what is at this time in the department low morale. i'll point out is professionalism of these officers who every day are going out there, continuing to reduce try, historic year for the department lowest crime rates ever and 21 year unbroken trend. also the idea that in the face of all these demonstrations have been showing remarkable throw fecksal restraint. so much is against them personally. >> garrett: do you think mayor de blasio should have done more to deal what you have talked about? >> i spent a lot of time this this mayor he's totally supportive of his personnel this department. i've received hundreds of

millions of additional dollars outside the budget, lot focused on officer safety enhancements, additional training additional equipment and additional technology. by the end of 2015 we will be the most advanced police department in america in terms of technology. technology which we extraordinarily beneficial to the safety of our officers. $35 million being focused on training enhancements, tactical skills. this is a mayor that cares deeply about new york city police officers and deeply about divide in the city at this time. is work can very hard to heal that divide. >> garrett: some of your officers yesterday turned their backs when the mayor spoke when they saw him on the video screen outside the funeral. was that necessary? was that something you support and does that indicate that the mayor for whatever he's put on the table financially needs to do more to communicate more clearly his rhetorical support for your police officers? >> i certainly don't support

that action yesterday. i think it was very inappropriate at that event. that funeral was held to honor officer ramos and to bring issues in to that event i think was very inappropriate. i do not support it. he is the mayor of new york. he was there representing the citizens of new york. to express their remorse and regret at that death and it was inappropriate. at the same time it is reflective unfortunately of the feelings of some of our officers that at this juncture, not just the mayor but i think also many issues affecting this city at this time and this police department. >> garrett: thank you so much for joining us. i know you have enormous new year's eve to prepare for, wish you all the best of luck with that we thank you very much for that this morning. >> thank you. >> garrett: turn to the former mayor of new york, rudy guiliani who is also with us from new york. good morning. >> good morning major how are

you? >> garrett: you said awhile ago the president obama contributed to rhetorical atmosphere of hating american police. and "washington post" fact checked you on that, i cover the president, i never detected anything that comes along the line of propaganda urging the public to hate police, do you want to recast that? >> i think you missed one very important point. he has had al sharpton to the white house 85 times. often when he's talking abut police issues he has al sharpton sitting next to him. if we like to have poster boy for hating the police it's al sharpton. make him a advisor you turn the police in america against you. you're going to tell the police in america we don't understand you. i saw this man help cause riots in new york i've heard his anti-police in vehicletive first half. to have a man $4 million in taxes, spent his career creating

riots, phony stories abut police, i have to man sitting next to you actions speak louder than words. you put al sharpton next to you you just told everyone i'm against the police. >> garrett: what about the president's rhetoric, do you still believe his -- >> his rhetoric. if i was talking to you about ending the mafia as i did in 1980s or fighting mafia i had joe columbu sitting next to me. it wouldn't matter what my rhetoric was. i'm for the police and there is al sharpton this every cop in america is going to say give me a break i get the point mr. president. his interference at -- he pays great attention to the racial incidents some of which are not racial incidents sends representatives to funerals of

people who were killed in the commission of committing a crime. and i haven't heard him make very strong comments about the deaths of ramos and liu. i think the "washington post" fact checking was substantially inaccurate they missed one big point, al sharpton. >> garrett: when you were mayor you had your own beef with the new york city police, they turned their backs on yous there something different about this relationship between mayor de blasio. >> never never -- i had disagreements with the police. we had increase, sometimes chanting double 00 for hero never had the police turn their backs on me or had issue about policing. the reality is, the mayor of the city of new york should not be blamed for the murder of those police officers. that issue should not have been injected. it's wrong. i told the mayor that yesterday.

i don't support that. i want to be clear on that. number two the mayor is not in any way to be treated with people turning their back. doesn't matter if you like him or not you have to respect the mayor's position. i don't support that. i do believe mayor de blasio should apologize to the new york city police department. i shed day one. i've had to apologize for things that i said that were wrong. he created an impression with the police, i don't know that he wanted to do it, probably didn't created an impression that he was on the side of the protesters. some of those protesters were entirely legitimate. some were horrible yelling, kill the police, kill the police. i don't remember protests where people said "kill the police." he should have apologized for the remarks that he made that

gave the police the impression that he's on the other side and by the way he could -- al sharpton -- when sharpton pays the $4 million he owes the federal government maybe be allowed to sit next to mayor or governor or sharpton apologizes to the police for all the times that he has maligned them, made false charges helped cause crown heights riot, ruin man's career. when he loses al sharpton maybe then he can have better relationship with inner-city police department. those are the things in the mayor he's control. now has the union gone overboard, yes with the idea that he's responsible for the murder, that's a terrible thing to suggest about a mayor. i'm sure mayor de blasio's heart is broken over these police officers. i'm giving this advice in good faith. it is not political. it is -- mayor de blasio, please say you're sorry for

having created false impression. did you create a false impression, say you're sorry say you didn't realize -- didn't realize you have a nonwhite police department in terms of majority. this is a police department as commissioner bratton knows,ed to create when he was my police commissioner. >> garrett: mr. mayor? thank you very much for your time this morning. we'll be back in one minute. i'm caridee. i've had moderate to severe plaque psoriasis most my life. but that hasn't stopped me from modeling. my doctor told me about stelara®. it helps keep my skin clearer. with only 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses... ... stelara® helps me be in season. stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and increase your risk of infections. some serious infections require hospitalization. before starting stelara®... ...your doctor should test for tuberculosis. stelara® may increase your risk of

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two nurses treated them contracted ebola. in october president obama former white house aide ron klain as nation's first ebola czar. we welcome ron klain to "face the nation." >> thanks for having me. >> garrett: this week we had event, someone might have been exposed to live ebola virus what can you tell us was this late in the game? >> it's obviously unacceptable to have any mishandling of ebola materials. the director of cdc as promised review. also important to keep this in context. first of all thanks to the other protocols and procedures there was no risk to the public, no risk to the cdc campus only one technician was exposed sophora showing no signs of having the disease. she's being monitored every day. i visited this lab on the campus in october they have been studying ebola for 20 years

without single incident. processed more than 10,000 samples. they saved thousands of lives. it's a national treasure people around the world look to us for leadership for the kind of leadership they provided on the ebola response. american people should be proud of the job in atlanta. >> garrett: this week food and drug administration gave emergency approval to blood test kit. how significant is that, i read lots of literature if you test and can do that on site separate populations infected from those not infected you can make huge difference. >> it's a very significant step. fighting the disease in west africa, there's limitation of lab resources transporting these specimens from where the patients are to the labs is a big challenge. being able to have a point of care test where someone could quickly be ruled in or out for ebola will help isolate the ebola patients, keep them away from people who aren't sick and really do the job of getting the

people isolated and avoiding contamination. this is a big step forward for the response. we're seeing good results there this will really help. >> garrett: one might think that bureaucracy of the f.d.a. that you'd be in charge of, duply any role in getting that done? >> we leave the f.d.a. to make regulatory decisions based on facts and evidence and policy makers. we have impressed upon the f.d.a. the importance of acting safely carefully, but quickly. also approved for widespread testing in africa the first ever vaccine to prevent ebola that test will start in three to four weeks with tens of thousands of people in west africa getting the vaccine that's another potentially significant step forward in the fight against the disease. >> garrett: is this beaten? near beaten or bae way from being beaten? >> you have to separate where we are at home from west africa. we're at home we've made significant strides to prepare

for the occasional case of ebola that we'll see from time to time. in west africa a lot of progress, we've gone from 50 to 100 new cases down to five to ten new cases a day. there is still a lot of work to be done in sierra leone and troubling signs. we're nearing a pivot point in this where the number of new cases in west africa is stabilized this won't be done until we get all the way to zero. like a forest fire, few embers burning the thing can rei go nature. >> garrett: academic medical centers urging them to remove road blocks for people who want to go to west africa can. they assert that we're far far behind our european colleagues in dealing with this. might be something in your lane. should we be doing more? will you try to remove the road blocks? >> i think just to correct one thing, we're not far behind our colleagues in terms of number of help to workers. the american people, our medical centers have been unbelievably

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