tom phillips, the daily tell grandfather graph's correspondent, says the indonesian president meets families within an hour. singapore's defense minister has posted on facebook that she's sending several vessels to the area where bodies and debris have been found. all of these updates on the live page, bbc.com/news. >>> let's bring you some breaking news from west africa. there are unconfirmed reports coming from gambia of a possible attempted coup. heavy gunfire has been reported overnight in the capital. some reports say a coup has been foiled but this has not been confirmed. you'll see how much contradiction about what's happening. we do know the president is out of the country at the moment and that he came to power in a coup 20 years ago. he has been heavily criticized over the years for human rights abuses. >>> let's bring you up to date with the ferry disaster in the adriatic sea. authorities in albania say two sailors have been killed. they were trying to secure the ferry, which caught fire while sailing from greece to italy. the two sailors were hit by cable that they were trying to

tom foreman, thank you very much. let's dig deeper. joining us, bob baer. phillip mudd, and tom fuentes. our national security analyst peter bergen. phillip, how unusual is it that the gunman forced hostages to actually post messages to these various social media sites? >> boy, i remember back -- wolf, you'll probably remember those attacks in mumbai, going back six or seven years, when people in the attack group from pakistan and india were using smartphones to broadcast live. it was incredible the power then of social media to transmit those messages. i think the question we're going to have after this is how do we give police the tools to shut down somebody's phone, to shut down somebody's social media access on site. so these kinds of people can't get access from a site like we saw in sidney today. >> tom fuentes, the congress, the chairman of the house homeland security committee spoke with me earlier about these radicalized terror threats being posed online. how do you combat against these online threats and also the inspiration for these individuals to go ahead and engage in these