. >> greg feith, stay with us. thank you very much.es kalstro m, former fbi director who investigated flight 800. we don't know any more than the last time i spoke to you. >> i think greg really laid it out well. he really knows what he's talking about. he's one of the best in the business. i hope for the sake of the investigation and the families and the passengers that this is not a water incident. because that's going to make it tremendously more difficult to recover from. >> right. that was the point i was going to make to you was i thought the most interesting aspect of the interview with greg feith, he says he knows the tracking of that route. quite a lot of time the plane would have seared over the china sea. that changes the dynamic of what we thought was the case here which was mainly over land. >> it also explains as he noted probably the lack of radar. be interesting -- of course we don't know what was said on the company channel before they lost contact. we don't know if there was any kind of a may day call to anybody. >> a

>> with us from denver is former senior air safety of the national transportation safety board greg feiths back with us. greg, we are focused like a laser on these two pieces of debris. are our hearts going to be broken when we get to them? >> i'm not very optimistic. normally -- we saw this with the china photos where there was a large piece of debris, the dimensions of their debris just didn't make sense for a 777. we don't have the fidelity or the resolution and the photographs on these two pieces, mika. and, right now, if there is any hope that this is part of mh-370, you would expect that around these pieces of debris, there would be other floating debris with it, not just a piece of debris. and these two pieces are separated by 14, 15, 16 miles. you would have expected they would have been in the same sea state and been a lot closer. >> richard, what do you make of the fact that the prime minister of australia came out to speak about this and pretty much made it certain that they are hell-bent on finding it and hopeful? >> this is so important to australia's relationship with its ne

greg feith gave it about a 7 or 8. >> i don't know that i'd rate it that high.'s useful to know the pilot preprogrammed -- somebody in the cockpit preprogrammed the left turn. the malaysians probably know when. did they do it before they took off, in-flight? you'd like to know hope more if you could only find the recordings and the black boxes. that's getting slimmer and slimmer that you would. the two other suicides that we know of, both of those became evident it was probably a suicide after they had found the wreckage and pulled up the flight data recorders. that's what showed it to have happened. >> michael schmidt, let's talk to you about the story that you broke about the preplanned system change within auto pilot. explain to us how you are able to get this information because it seems as though your reporting is pushing the malaysian authorities to confirm on the back end of what they're putting out there. it seems like you're a step ahead of what authorities are willing to tell us on the face of it. >> i think the problem last week was that the malaysian

. >>> we now bring back to the show former ntsb investigator greg feith.e now have v two search areas, the old one and the new one. is it possible that these two could in any way be related? could they both have wreckage from the same plane or is the distance just too far apart? >> i think logically the distance is too far apart plus the currents aren't flowing in a northerly flow, they're flowing south from the old search site so it would be very remote if, in fact, this debris is anything related to the first search zone. >> >> greg, we have a whole bunch of different countries in this search with planes and satellite images. are there concerns about what countries are willing and unwilling to reveal these satellites for national security purposes? particularly with the chinese. it is a concern there may be things getting held back? >> absolutely. it's been a discussion for the last three weeks about what the fidelity or the resolution of those satellite photos has been and whether or not that that is accurate resolution. of course, you know, with the ch

greg feith, former aviation investigator for ntsb. reg, thanks very much. >> you're welcome. >>> turning back to the world of politics, we have sad news to report. former democratic national chairman and all-around super operative, bob strauss, has died. strauss was a larger-than-life washington figure. during the '70s and '80s, if you looked up washington mover and shaker, you would have found a picture of bob strauss. he was the first modern political operative. more than anything else, was his ability to work with anyone regardless of party. he was a longtime reveered democratic power house, but strauss walked the halls of the reagan and bush white houses as comfortably as he did during the carter administration, and had a bunch of friends during the clinton years. strauss managed both of jimmy carter's presidential campaigns. he advised president reagan on iran-contra. he was ambassador to the soviet union under president george h.w. bush, during the fall of communism. president bush said in a statement last night that strauss' lif

greg feith joining us from colorado. greg, thank you very much. >> you're welcome. >>> let's turn to moscow where the russian parliament has officially sealed the deal to redraw the boundaries of eastern europe and expand russia's territory for the first time since world war ii. this morning, the upper house of parliament approved the treaty to annex crimea one day after a nearly unanimous vote in the lower house. vladimir putin signed it a short time later. of course, the united states is trying to make moscow pay for that decision. on thursday, president obama expanded the list of folks that are going to be hit with sanctions. it includes now 20 officials and members of putin's inner circle, including his chief of staff and the speaker of the state duma. a russian bank that serves putin's entourage was also sanctioned. that's a big development. >> this is not our preferred outcome. these sanctions would not only have a significant impact on the russian economy, but could also be disruptive to the global economy. however

captain john cox and greg feith, pleasure, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> as we reported before, the norwegian merchant ship was asked directly by australian authorities to help the search because they were nearby at the time. they were the first vessel to reach this area. we spoke exclusively with the ship's spokesman earlier today to get more details on what exactly their role is. >> 8,000 cars on board and not made for such rescue but it has radar and capacity and something that trained for and there are -- transportation equipment, they are in direct dialogue with the australian authorities who guide them what to look for and what areas to look in basically. they are observers. >> another big part of the story today, bad weather and really low visibility are hampering the search efforts causing them to be scaled back. they are called off for the evening. will the same challenges remain when they begin again in a few hours? to get a detailed answer i'm joined by nbc meteorologist veronica johnson. thank you so much for coming in to explain this. >> sure. >> this is not an imag

also with me, greg feith. thank you for your time. >> you're welcome, tamron. >> i want to read a portion quickly, "wall street journal" discussed some of the technology perhaps missing from this plane, which includes data that would come in live, rather than retrieving the black box after a catastrophic event and trying to piece it together there, having technology that is in real time available, and it says it's been discussed for many years but never implemented because of the cost. the concept of automatically transmitting data would be using satellite links to use critical safety information from an airliner to the ground during extreme emergencies or just before a plane goes down. why is the cost an issue here when we know that these incidents can happen and this information is critical? >> tamron, when you look at the amount of data that would have to be downloaded, it would take a lot of bandwidth, then you have to capture that data, store it in a repository, and you remember these airplanes are transm

greg feith offers caution about possible non-nefarious explanations. what's the takeaway?> i think the takeaway is we have sort of a timeline. it was the officials in malaysia who initially said that the programming of anything on that turn happened after the call. then they revised it and now it's before. and so going into that flight management system, "a" shows there's knowledge of the equipment. you or i couldn't go in there, couldn't figure out how to do this. there's somebody who clearly knows what they're doing. it happened after the plane took off while it was in flight. at least 12 minutes before that radio call. maybe even earlier. and so it suggests that somebody had access to the cockpit. who's in the cockpit? well, we know on most flights generally the only people allowed in that cockpit are the pilot and the co-pilot and maybe a flight attendant going in or out to talk to them. but it certainly raises all types of possibilities, but, again, as greg points out, it may be that this is just an experienced pilot. somebody who knows, you always have an alternate p

again tonight we saw him in our setup piece, we turn to greg feith. he's senior air safety director, a veteran pilot himself. greg, this left turn had to be manually punched in in the cockpit, knowing what we know about you pilots, it's in your blood, whether you fly a single engine or a wide body to always know where you go in case of trouble, sometimes it's behind you, below you, out in front of you. always cognizant of where to go in case of trouble. why wouldn't this be consistent with a captain who perhaps had trouble on board? >> it could be, brian. we just don't have enough information. it's possible they programmed in their alternate plan. that is, if they had taken off, had a problem, all they would have to do is pull up that stand by flight plan, put it in the active window, hit execute to come back to kuala lumpur. or they could have put in a stand by flight plan to take the plane away from beijing and return to kuala lumpur and put it in a phantom waypoint all the way down into the south indian ocean and continue to let the plane fly that d

i'm joined by former ntsb investigator greg feith to go over all the possibilities. thank you for joining me. what is your leading theory at this point, based on what we know? >> what we know is that the malaysians have now determined that there was some sort of intentional act. it was a deliberate act by one or both of the pilots. tom talked about the fact that the radio call was made by the co-pilot. if you figure if it was one of the pilots and that one pilot had to disable or do something to the other pilot to render them incapacitated, it now could be that the co-pilot would be the focus since he was the last one on the radio. now investigators have to focus in on him, his background, his capabilities, his systems knowledge of the airplane because whoever was flying this airplane and disabled at least the acars system had to have a high level of knowledge, not just your normal pilot systems knowledge. >> greg i want to be sure that i understand exactly what you're saying because investigators are still looking at passengers on board and the crew, but you seem to

i want to bring in nbc news aviation safety expert and former ntsb investigator greg feith.morning. >> good morning, chris. >> there were times when the australian prime minister sounded somewhat optimistic, now he's using the word guesstimates. is that the best we can do? >> unfortunately, at this point it is. we've gone to this new search area, put a lot of assets in that one particular piece of the ocean, and we've come up again empty handed, so the best we can do is guesstimate that staying in that area with now all of these multiple assets might turn up something. but i'm not optimistic. >> let me ask you about one asset in particular, the new one, this navy pinger device that's on its way. i mean, how much area can we reasonably expect that to cover, and i wonder if there are even more available, given the fact that the batteries on the black boxes could run out by the end of the week? >> you bring up a good point, you know, the ship can only move at maybe 15, 20 knots max. trying to cover a very large distance, and all conditions really have to be optimal. you have to

joining us to help try, greg feith. mr. feith, thank you for being here. >> thank you, rachel. >> i'm obviously a total layman when it comes to these matters. we're all trying to understand these things. does it make sense to you that the last burst of data, at 1:07 a.m., that acars data from the plane, would have included this information about the planned route that the plane was programmed to turn? >> what we don't know, rachel, is the entire route that was planned in there. typically, the flight crew when they're pre-flighting the airplane and loading their original flight plan is, that is their flight from kuala lumpur to beijing, they'll pull up the data on the fms system. they'll program in their route they were cleared for. so they'll go from kuala lumpur airport via a specific airway to beijing. that's their primary flight plan. >> do you program in each waypoint along the way? >> correct. >> okay. >> so you build this flight plan. once you get to beijing as your final destination point, that will sit in there in t

. >>> we now want to bring in aviation expert greg feith, a senior safety director with the national transportation safety board and a veteran pilot. let's put to the side for a moment the question of who was flying the airplane. we heard in tom's reports they're looking at two possible course changes, one to the north and one to the south. if you're trying to escape detection, what is the more likely route? >> lester, the more likely route is the southern route. once you cross that little peninsula, now you're in open ocean. there is no radar coverage down there. it is a vast, vast ocean, going almost as far down as the south pole. >> and in fact we looked at this graphic down there. it points down off the coast at australia. should they be searching in that part of the world now? does the search area become that big? >> i think so. they're going to have to put assets down this since now they have a north track and a south track. and i would be looking primarily in the south track. in fact, with australia being down there, i may even request basically help from australia to assist i

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greg feith and anthony roman, thank you. i'm sure we'll be hearing from you again. and coming up, the last word on today's theories about flight 370's pilots. we'll keep you posted on all of that later in the hour. but first, what does vladimir putin want? we're going to look ahead to the speech he's going to give tomorrow on ukraine and crimea sanctions. and a milestone, a real one crossed in the affordable care act. all that and much more ahead. weekdays are for rising to the challenge. they're the days to take care of business. when possibilities become reality. with centurylink as your trusted partner, our visionary cloud infrastructure and global broadband network free you to focus on what matters. with custom communications solutions and responsive, dedicated support, we constantly evolve to meet your needs. every day of the week. centurylink® your link to what's next. ameriprise asked people a simple question: in retirement, will you outlive your money? uhhh. no, that can't happen. that's the thing, you don't know how long it has to last. everyone has retirem

s/ greg feith, ex miembro de la junta nacional de la seguridad en el transporte "no hubo comunicacina aeronave, que llevaba a bordo 239 personas, pudo haberse estrellado contra el mar o contra tierra" hoy las autoridades dijeron que van a expandir el area de rastreo. este piloto ha operado boeings similares al que hoy buscan. dice que lo ms sospechoso es que la caja negra no se activ. s/luis quiñónez, piloto "inmediatamente empieza a enviar una señal que se recibe por un satélite y el satélite te dice dónde quedó, en un promedio de 100 semiescuchó nada" diez pases se han unido a la bsqueda en el golfo de tailandia. incluyendo estados unidos. el pentgono desplaz a unidades de la marina para ayudar en la operacin. s/randy serrano, @randytelemun do "las autoridades no han descartado la posibilidad de actividad sospechosa en la desaparición de la aeronave. ya que aseguran que al menos dos personas con pasaportes robados iban en el vuelo 370" s/ adam schiff, , comité de inteligencia de la cámara baja adam schiff del comit de inteligencia de la cmara baja dijo que an es muy pronto para sab

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. >> greg feith, formally of the ntsb. thank you very much for being with us again tonight. for the families of the missing on flight 370, as you can imagine, this has been an awful few days. imagine not having a shred of information about a family member on that flight. nbc's keir simmons is at the airport in kuala lumpur from where flight 370 originated. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. those who had loved ones on flight 370 have been waiting at this airport for many days now, but not just here. many more have been waiting in beijing, the aircraft's final destination. for family members of those on the missing plane, no answers, no comfort. for some, the frustration was too much. water bottles thrown at airline officials in beijing. "malaysians are liars", one man shouted. others pleaded for calm. most aboard were chinese or malaysian, but there were passengers from a dozen other countries as well, including three from the united states. philip wood of texas works for ibm. his brother said on "today" he had just recently been home for a visit. >> it was a gi

we will talk to former air crash investigator greg feith in a few minutes.lying all over the place. we are getting now sound bites and video in from families who are meeting with malaysian officials and some of the americans who are on board, their families as well. and to hear them talking about the potential that their family members are alive is as gut wrenching and agonizing as it gets. you get a real sense of the pain they are in and just how impossible it is for them to imagine that there's no answer. we need answers. >>> we are going to another big story and that is ukraine. president obama has made strongest statement yet be russian's president putin. blis called that referendum illegal and illegitimate. they may have a point since no other options were on the ballot. president obama announced targeted sanctions to put pressure on vladimir putin's inner circle. speaking from the white house briefing room, the president said this could be just the first step in russia does not reverse course. >> we are imposing sanctions on specific individuals respon

and former air senior safety with the national transportation safety board greg feith.f you the same question to start us off. the ambiguity is driving the laymen crazy because we can't imagine how this could completely disappeared. are either of you not surprised or surprised we have no sight of this plane? martha, we start with you. >> i'm not surprised. if you don't find the wreckage right where you last lost contact and you start looking in the area and looking at the radar coverage and the data that you have and discover that it's not on its normal flight and now we are seeing it deliberately was flown off course. what you have to do is draw a ring around the range of the aircraft and how far it could fly and you have to start piecing together radar data and satellite data and civilian and military radar from multiple countries that don't have initial cooperation and not necessarily a lot of trust and try to figure out where this thing went. add into it, you've got a vast ocean area and you're trying to now narrow down where the airplane is not. it is not surprisin

. >> greg, feith from former ntsb who has been with us throughout the last 13 days. military search planes are on their way including a u.s. p-8 to look for this debris what is called a credible enough sighting to lead officials that it would be part of that missing malaysia airline plane. one of the orbits perhaps as big as 75 to 82 feet. we're going to continue to follow this right here on msnbc. we'll be back with our coverage right after this. you've tried to forget your hepatitis c. it's slow moving, you tell yourself. i have time. after all there may be no symptoms for years. no wonder you try to push it to the back of your mind and forget it. but here's something you shouldn't forget. hepatitis c is a serious disease. if left untreated, it could lead to liver damage and potentially even liver cancer. if you are one of the millions of people with hepatitis c, you haven't been forgotten. there's never been a better time to rethink your hep c. because people like you may benefit from scientific advances. advances that could help you move on from hep c. now is the

. >> former ntsb investigator greg feith. greg, thanks for your time tonight. >> you're welcome. >>> joining me, msnbc national security analyst, michael leiter. okay. the two stolen passports. so, you read that, and you firstly think, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, something is up here. and then the second the second thought i had, i don't know how common if you picked a flight at random in that part of the world or any part of the world you would scratch the surface and find stolen passports onboard. so what's your answer to that? >> the answer is it happens a lot more than people think it would be. there's a big market for stolen passports in this reason a lot of reasons. a lot of criminal reasons. human trafficking. drugs. but having two stolen passports on the same flight, that is certainly uncommon. is it 10% of the time, 15% of the time? hard to say. but it's certainly not the norm. >> okay. so it is not the norm it is not the case, oh, actually turns out if you were to stop a flight at random that you would get a number

what to make of all this, we're joined by greg feith a former nts b investigator. to have you back with us this week. can you ever remember a case like this? >> this is unprecedented. with all the different information coming out every day, now we're really down to theory du jour. it is just difficult as an accident investigator to get your arms around the fact that, you know, what we think is factual information steams eems change on a daily, if not hourly, basis. >> one consistency, it seems to be the case that this plane's transponder was turned off. is it true someone else most likely would have? >> typically there is never a reason to turn off the transponder. you may have to recycle, it but there is no normal operating parameter you would ever turn off the transponder. it's evident that with the transponders going down and the a car system, the data system, there was human intervention. somebody had to physically have turned those off. >> so let's take that there was human intervention here, something happened in the skies. is there any plausible way in which

. >> earlier this morning, i spoke with former ntsb investigator greg feith about this investigation,we may never know what happened to that plane. >> we may never know the absolute background, what was the fueling fire, if you will, for this person to take or commandeer the aircraft and do something with it. we may find where the airplane crashed with floating debris. we may never find the wreckage, and we may definitely never find all the answers if we don't have a cockpit voice recorder and a flight data recorder. >> and that was a portion of my conversation with greg feith earlier today. >>> let's turn to jenna right now for a look at the rest of the morning's top stories. jenna, good morning. >> hey, guys, good morning. hi, everyone. we begin this morning in ukraine, where tensions are at an all-time high ahead of a crucial vote tomorrow. will crimea decide to break away from ukraine and join russia? richard engel is in ukraine this morning and joins us now with more. richard, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jenna. preparations are under way for this weekend's referendum

. >> greg feith is a former investigator with the ntsb. greg, good morning. >> good morning, erica. >> so, we just had bill set the scene there for us. they're searching an area the size of new mexico, and the results at this point seem to be, as he said, sort of the same old results. but based on what you're seeing as a former investigator, the number of sightings and the description of some of the things that have been found, does this tell you in any way that they could, perhaps, be closer? >> one of the things about the earlier pictures, erica, is the fact that there's a piece that's rectangular. there's no size to it, but it doesn't look like anything that would be on a boeing 777. there is nothing that i know of, in talking to all of my sources, that there's anything orange on that airplane. typically, the life rafts, the life vests and all that kind of thing are all yellow, even the emergency exit slides. so, you know, this is cautious optimism, you know. while we do have a debris field there, we're not really sure that any of this c

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. >> all right, greg feith, thanks again for your expertise. appreciate having you on. >> you're welcome. >> michael leiter is an nbc counterterrorism analyst, also with us this morning. michael, good morning. >> good morning. how are you? >> i'm doing well. thank you. and thanks for being with us. as we just heard from greg feith and we have talked about this morning, the weather conditions were fine. the fact that there was no distress call, as greg said, says to him that something catastrophic definitely could have happened. at this hour, again, early in the investigation, but how closely do you believe investigators should be looking at the possibility. terrorism? >> i think they will, but as you've stressed, it's so early. without having any real facts here, you can't speculate on terrorism. and i think there are a number of factors which suggest it probably wasn't. malaysia's actually been very successful in its counterterrorism efforts. it has excellent security at its airports, has some weaknesses in the border, but as a general matter

search back to square one, joining me now is ian williams from perth australia and on the phone, greg feith. how could they have been off by 680 miles? i don't understand how the radar data could have been misinterpreted. they lost critical time as we know the black box only have possibly as long as 30 days. >> reporter: that's right, andrea, a few days left of pings on that black box if it is indeed go to be a month. that will run out on the 8th of april. it is astounding the analysis of the radar has taken along time and we're told it was a reevaluation of the radar data and in conjunction by the way with boeing, looking at our perimeters that they decided it must have been flying faster, used more fuel and come down earlier. hence this radical shift of search site, which may -- it now appears of course that all of those multiple satellite spottings and other spottings from aircraft that we saw way down south were maybe false leads because experts here are saying it's inconceivable that would be the same debris if the plane did come down in this new area that's been examined. within hours

. >> greg feith and michael goldfarb. michael will stick around. the news that possible debris may have been located has the families of the 239 people on board flight 370 on edge and distraught. today we heard from the mother and long-time partner of passenger phillip wood reacting to this new information, take a listen. >> i heard about -- it must have been about 3:00 this afternoon a friend called me with the information. and i don't think i stopped shaking since. now this just throws it all all up in the air again. >> one of the last e-mails he said, i don't know what the future holds but i'm not afraid. i feel like -- hopefully that he gave some comfort to other people that were on that plane. he would be that kind of person. he would do that. >> and nbc's keir simmons joins us from kuala lumpur. you are there with the families and some are them are saying this could be closure but others or hoping it isn't the debris. talk about what you're hearing from the families. >> reporter: hey, kristen. this is a double-edged sword, a difficult and ten

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we have greg feith, a former investigator with the ntsb. greg, good morning to you. >> good morning, matt. >> you are trained to ask the right questions here. so let's go through those questions. what could've happened that was so catastrophic, so fast on board that plane at 35,000 feet that the pilots had no chance to call for help? >> the logical answer to that, matt, is that they had some sort of control event that took place with the airplane. something that was startling to them, unexpected and required them both pilots and their full attention. so you could have an explosive decompression of the cabin, which at 35,000 feet, you've got about 5 to 8 seconds of useful consciousness because of the lack of oxygen. so you're going to have to deal with that. or you could have another structural failure that compromised the controllability of the airplane. >> given what you know about these kinds of aircraft, is it likely to you that type of a catastrophic event was caused by a structural breakup of the plane? or the explosion of something onb

we're joined now by nbc news terrorism analyst don borelli and former ntsb investigator greg feith. good morning to both of you. and don, let me start with you. i want to start with that final radio transmission about 1:20 in the morning from the cockpit. someone we now believe was the co-pilot. says, all right, good night. calm, collected, no emotion. and we also note that transmission came 12 minutes after the acar's communication system on this plane was turned off by someone in that very cockpit. what does it tell us? >> well, it speaks to the fact have said, this was a deliberate act. next thing is, if it was a deliberate act. number one, who did it? and two, what was the motive? which is why the investigation has turned heavily looking at the pilots or anybody else on that plane that had the capacity to take over and fly. >> when you talk about the capacity -- because there were a series of steps taken that require a level of expertise not only disabling the communications devices and the transponder, but then the flight path, knowing where they were going in an area that prob

bob hager covered aviation for nbc news for 25 years, and greg feith is a former ntsb investigator. d morning to both of you. >> good morning, savannah. >> greg, let me start with you. it's hard to overstate how difficult this search is. if this satellite indeed captured images of wreckage, would you expect there to be other satellite images that perhaps captured more debris? this late date, 14 days in, would you still expect there to be a large debris field somewhere in that vicinity? >> i would, savannah because wreckage tends to cluster. and if it's moving in the same sea state, it shouldn't spread out too much. as far as the resolution on the satellite photo, you have to remember as we talked about over the past week or so, that area of the world isn't covered by the highest tech satellite. so this image while it looks better than the chinese image may not be of the best quality because the satellite that took that picture wasn't necessary to have the highest definition, if you will. the chinese have said they're going to train a number of satellites that they have plus others ar

are in place to monitor their mental status throughout the ensuing years in joining us for more, greg feitheg, it's good to see you again as we follow this saga and as the focus shifts to the pilots. what do we need to know about the controls in place here? >> kelly, when an airline hires a pilot, especially here in the united states, they do the background checks, they do some psychological profiling of that pilot to make sure that they are pilot material for that particular airline. every year the pilot will go back for recurrent training. they also must meet a medical standard yearly in order to perform the duties as a commercial airline pilot and exercise the privileges of their certificates. there is no specific psychological monitoring or profiling every year after their initial hire. >> and, greg, are those standards in the u.s. generally toughest? what about the international standards for countries like malaysia as well? >> a lot of the standards are dictated by the airline, especially with the hiring standards and the criteria by which they hire a pilot. a pilot that's hired here

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greg feith, thank you very much., they try and claim responsibility to sort of make more of it or it just seems out of step with the pattern, unless i'm missing something. >> what i was happy to hear, relieved to hear, greg said because one of the theories circulating was that it had landed and that this plane was going to be used for a next act of terrorism. he seems to think that's just highly unlikely. >> all right. we've got a lot to get to. nearly four years after an explosion on the deepwater horizon oil rig that killed 11 workers and caused the largest spill in history, the federal government is once again opening its doors to bp in the gulf of mexico. the environmental protection agency agreed to lift a ban keeping bp from bidding on gas leases in federal waters. bp will also be allowed to once again hold government contracts. previously the company was one of the largest fuel suppliers for the military. critics of the government's move say it's too soon to reward the oil giant. one consumer rights add slow g