>>this is al jazeera america. live from new york city, i'm tony harris with a look at today's top stories: a growing mystery - nearly three days after a boeing 777 with 239 on board disappears... still no signs of what happened to it. russia - trying to capture more of the crimea region in ukraine... as the white house tries to get china to help isolate russia... and: edward snowden talks to a crowd in the u.s ...live from russia. and he says, he'd leak the same information, all over again.

three days after malaysia airlines flight 370 disappeared, the mystery deepens. there is still no sign of the plane or the 239 people on board. the plane went missing as it crossed the gulf of thailand from malaysia to vietnam. it was heading to beijing. an oil slick and debris that had raised hopes over the weekend... are now said to have nothing to do with the crash. today several countries -- including the united states -- are in the air and on the water fanning across multiple search grids, hoping to find any signs of the missing plane. and then there's the mysterious passengers: two men flying with stolen passports. investigators trying to determine who the men were. and what they were up to. al jazeera's scott heidler has the latest from kuala lumpur. >> reporter: a third day of

search and recovery operations. on a huge scale; dozens of ships and aircraft from nations near and far. yet with no definitive physical evidence. there are still no answers to what happened to malaysia airlines flight 370 from kuala lumpur to beijing.. >> this unprecedented missing aircraft mystery as you can put it. it is mystifying, and we are increasing our efforts to do what we have to do. malaysian airlines are helping us, all central agencies are helping us. all the experts from around the world are helping us. but as far as we are concerned we have to find the aircraft." >> malaysian offict discounting any possibilities for the plane's disappearance. including terrorism, high jacking or something catastrophic that ripped the are credit 777 from 10,000 meters above the water.

without giving any detail, the government said their investigation continues into the two men who traveled on mh370 with stolen passports. they are reviewing video footage and documents. the us's fbi in malaysia is consulting with authorities on the investigation. and china has an investigation of its own. chinese state television has reported that one name on the passenger list did not match the passport number, and the person who has that passport number is still in sunshine. so as the territory for the search widens and intensifies - so does the despair for the family members of the 239 people who are on board. >> over the weekend, malaysia's

military says, that's about all they know. jake, if you would, explain how we have the technology to track cell phones all over the world but we can't manage to find this aircraft. >> well, that's right, tony. really the deeper tragedy even beyond the loss of life is the fact that we have the technology to track airplanes. it is possible to simply transmit the information live rather than storing it on these black boxes which are essentially big protected hard drives. the problem is: just one of cost. a 2002 study suggested that it would cost around 300 million per year, per airline, to live-transmit the kind of data that a black box holds. the black box only costs around $20,000 and is guaranteed for three years. >> was it 300 million per year per airline? is that the number? >> that's right, that's what the

study concluded, exactly. it's a lot of money. >> it really is, is there anything in the works to kind of update this technology to somehow scale it in such a way that it becomes cheaper? >> you know, it really is a perfectly feasible thing in sort of theoretically speaking but in terms of that cost it's very, very difficult. when you have the brazil, the air france flight that went down off the coast of brazil, that flight required about 25 hours of data along 88 different data points, you know, altitude, and fuel levels, and pilot behavior, all of that needs to be are transmitted live. so it's a lot of data. the dime up speeds, it would require a massive upgrade and there really aren't any plans for upgrade but perhaps this will make it happen. meteorologist dave warren joins us with a look of how the

water currents and the depth of the gulf of thailand could affect the search for this plane. >> they change from month to month in this part of the area, but the original flight path going from kuala lumpur to are china, vary, water occurrence here in the south china sea and into the gulf of thailand there, the current actually splits. that's what's making it difficult. some current go to the south, other circulate in the gulf of thailand. that's the issue there as the currents continue to spin around. the actual weather, that northeast wind is really starting to increase here over the next few days, has been increasing today and what that means along with that different current is you'll have the building seas in this area. the waves will continue to increase. so all of these are factors going into the search. of course the current is something that they're looking at plus the increased seas here we'll continue to monitor that

over the next 24 hours. >> all right dave thank you. this mystery is e erily similar to what happened to air france in 2009. when it can disappeared off the coast of brazil. it found nearly two years to find the bulk of the plane and the 220 on board. poor rations by the pilots were the cause of the wreck. they may have had some ties to a stolen passport ring, we're not sure of that, officials say they bought their tickets for a city in thailand. >> the two passengers who boarded the malasian flight bought their tickets from here,

pataya, and this is the agency that issued the tickets, civil star travel. the manager showed the police the tickets that were issued, as well as the passport that was used to issue these tickets and it was the original stolen passport. the picture was of the italian who wasn't on that flight. he reported his passport missing in july, end of july last year from phuket. there is an underground business for stolen passports, in fact some westerners even sell their passports, big business. while some question of terrorism, there could be asylum secrets because not long ago, six syrians were trying to reach europe via china so we do not

have any more details on the identity, the true identity of the passengers who boarded the flight using stolen passports. but thailand now finds itself in the middle of the investigation, not much information being disclosed by authorities, saying they are going to follow up on the leads they have at the moment. >> zena hader reporting. air lyle line security -- airline security and how easy it is to use these passports. jonathan betz is here. you would have thought they would have but -- buttoned this up in the time since 9/11. >> two european passports were indeed stolen. inventory the police agency interpol,s said, two out of

every five international passengers whose documents are not fully checked. interpol keeps track of stolen documents from all over the world after 9/11 it built a huge database available to more than 200 countries. it has now registered 40 million stolen travel documents but most countries simply do not bother running the passports through the database. now the united states is the best at checking with a quarter-million checks run last year, followed by the united kingdom and united arab emirates. where checking to see passengers are actually who they say they are. huge hole in security. >> 13 years! >> that should not be the case. >> jonathan, appreciate it, thank you. malaysia airlines say its

primary focus is to care for the family of the missing passengers. this has been a trying and frustrating time for people waiting to hear anything about their loved ones. >> behind closed doors, the anger of relatives still waiting for answers about their loved ones and believing they have not been told the full truth. chinese government officials faced a range of complaints. why has it taken you all this time to hold this meeting? this woman shouts. have you any idea of the pain we are going through? another woman asks from the back. the officials tell them to be patient and not to take any radical action. there was no evidence of a hijack, they told them. nor was there any evidence that the vietnamese had recovered parts of the aircraft from the sea. for the hundreds of relatives at this hotel the agonizing wait continues. malaysia airlines is organizing flights for them to go to kuala lumpur to be closer to the scene of the search.

but so far there is reluctance in the absence of the influences. >> 80% of the people don't want to go to malaysia until there is confirmation. >> we want the government to tell us what is really going on. whether we go or not, at least we need to know. >> reporter: several nations and international organizations are trying to determine what happened to the missing jet liner. china's ministry of foreign affairs have called on malasians to do more to solve the mystery. >> we have a responsibility to urge the malasian side to increase search efforts start an investigation as soon as possible and provide relevant information to china correctly and in a timely manner. >> the stress and from you traition of th --frustration is. the question of what happened to mh 370 still no one can answer

that. rob mcbryde, are al jazeera beijing . >> family members and crew, maria innes ferre is following that on are social media. maria. >> every minute is like an hour, please keep them in your thoughts as we continue to search for mh 370 through the night. and somebody that has been tweeting since this flight went missing is maida elizabeth. she says she's a daughter of one of the missing crew members and she said over the weekend, daddy you are all over the news, come home fast so you can read this. and she sent out this image saying, until today, we are still waiting for you dad. you have people all over the world saying, pray for mh 370

and these are malasian students at birmingham in the u.k, giving support to the family members of that flight. and this is done by a sand artist in india, there were five passengers on that missing flight from india, it says pray god miracles do happen. and these are some malasian maritime crew members, praying right before going out into a search. and you have students at a malasian school that have been praying and vigils that have been going on. >> that is appreciated. thank you. the crisis in ukraine is heading towards a referendum vote over the crimean. developers of aid package, a solution here two days before ukraine's interim prime minister visits the white house. european union officials say the block is preparing to provide

bans and be sanctions. nick schifrin is in simferopol. tell us what's happening there, the russians and those who support them are in total control, it is clear, at this point. >> reporter: yeah, tony, the west, the u.s. may be making diplomatic moves but they seem to be outflanked on the ground here. russia is fanning out to be much more aggressive. taking over more and more locations. for example today, the main military hospital downtown capitol right in the middle of the day an armed militia pro-russian walks in, they absolutely control that hospital now just as they control so many bases around the country, as they control so many government buildings and institutions across the country. what we also saw today is a move to kind of coalesce the armed

publishes into the crimean armed forces. swearing-in ceremony where civilians are taking an oath to the pro-russian government here, even though there is no crimean state they say they will defend the crimean state and the russian presence in crimea here. it's very much with russia here. >> countries issuing warnings to the russian president over the upcoming referendum, is there any chance any glimmer of hope that this crisis can be resolved diplomatically? >> certainly the u.s. hopes so, the west hopes so, the u.s. has been pushing for a diplomatic solution, an off-ramp what they are calling to russia, european monitors to come in.

what the u.s. has been pushing the ukrainian military to do, do not fight, what we want you to do is at least take the moral high ground. do not fire back no matter what the russians do, do not fire back. we heard the u.s. ambassador say earlier he praised the ukrainian military for not taking the first shot. >> this is a crisis that needs to be solved diplomatically. the ukraines in crimea has exceptional for resisting the provocations, that are clearly taken by the russian forces on the ground. >> reporter: but the problem with that is that the ukrainians can't fire back and they have physically no real way to riz rt the troop movement, spreading out. tony again the u.s. may be

talking aboutalking about diplo. >> maybe this is a small point, worth mentioning the idea of don't fire back seems to be an important one because we know at this point that part of the justification from the russians and correct me if i'm wrong here, in staking out this position and this need in their eyes to protect credit ethnic russians on that peninsula is because there were armed elements within the protest movement if kiev, correct? -- in kiev, correct? >> what the government in kiev would say and frankly what 30 to 40% of this peninsula woo say is -- would say is that's propaganda. russian tv anchors and we've aired this before have talked on the air as if what's happened on kiev as if all of that protest all that violence was happening in crimea.

so you talk to a lot of pro-russian activates, they will repeat that here. they say those armed bandits have already come here. we need to defend ourselves, that is exactly what the russian government says, there is a real coalescence, there is a real activism, that's why you get this sentiment that's repeated again and again and again, we need to defend ethnic russians here, even in reality we haven't seen any evidence at all of anybody from kiev or pro-western coming down here with arms and threatening any of these ethnic russians at all. >> it is the media wars and the messaging game that has been played pretty effectively effectively by the russians. nick schifrin thank you. the referendum, with russian troops occupying the peninsula

and given the number of ethnic russians in crimea, many say the outcome of the referendum is not in doubt. jennifer glasse reports from crimea. >> filming russian troops outside much a military base, demand he who we were and what we were doing. go home one of the neighbors told me. protect the russian troops here and it took a little while to convince them to talk to us. he says he's looking forward to sunday's referendum. >> we are making our own choice. on the 16th of this month. and we want to be heard. we live here. we are not the enemy and we are not trying to dictate anything to anyone. >> reporter: they are glad the troops are here because they hate the new government in kiev. >> remember when the fascists came to power? they looked like the new power, the same is happening in ukraine

and they don't like it. >> reporter: this village is an old soviet collective. the russian flag flies here and assured that russia will treat them better than ukraine did. >> for 23 years they didn't listen to us. they were always cheating us and had different corrupt ways to steals and tear apart our land. >> he says corruption was worse in the recent years. he describes a crooked court system who rules in favor of whoever is in power. they are hoping that moscow will soon be the power here because they are hearing horrible things about what's happening in ukraine. >> people have guns, they are scared to go out to go shopping. >> reporter: after the referendum they say they know there will be a transition period as crimea turns towards

moscow. however, they hope the tourists will be back and things will be better here. jennifer glasse, credit al jazeera, ukraine. >> edward snowdeedward snowden e broadcast.

>> former nsa contractor edward snowden may not be allowed in the united states but he managed to appear live in texas today. he spoke on video link from moscow on the south by southwest conference. last year snowden leaked secret documents that revealed the u.s. was monitoring internet and e-mail information. renewing investors woirsd.

sent the dow lower. spring home buying season is on tap for us. but for first time buyers, daniel douglas joins us, a business reporter at the washington post. danielle, glad to see you. >> likewise. >> trying to do something about the downward spiral in home prices, now we get to the place where existing home prices are definitely on the upswing. so my question to you is this: to what extent are the costs associated with buying a home squeezing people out of the market right now? >> it's an interesting time in the housing market. like you said, home values are up again. about 11%. from about two years ago. but still, about 14% off from where the peak of 2007. however, what's happening is that institutional buyers which are your hedge funds, private equity funds and other major

investors are snapping up a lot of these homes and as a result they are kind of artificially inflating the prices. because these guys can come in with all cash and snap up these homes, oftentimes paying a lot more than what the homeowners and the bank may be asking. which makes it very hard for middle income and first time home buyers to get into the market. >> that's what i want to get, you have these hedge funds coming in and buying a property, artificially inflating the prices on these homes. and what are the people in the middle here, particularly the first time buyers, are the banks under pressure to make it easier to get that loan? >> banks are in opposition, there are larger banks like your wells fargos that are willing to make larger loans, jumbo loans in the cases where these home prices are larger than what home

buyers may get home assistance from fha or any of the other agencies. but banks are feeling a little uncomfortable in making these loans in the face of increased regulatory pressure, to make sure people can afford to maintain these mortgages on the lock haul. whether -- long haul. they do prefer them to look at income to debt ratio which they prefer to be around 46%. they prefer to make sure these folks aren't having to deal with any kinds of risky mortgage terms like balloon payments or interest-only loans which for the long run that's very good for the consumer. but oftentimes, it means they may be a little bit priced out of the market as first. >> this is interesting danielle, we aren't going back to the days where we are talking about no-doc loans right? >> no. >> we are trying to find a sweet

spot right? >> we aren't talking about 2006, 2007, where anybody with a pulse could get a mortgage. we're far from that. a lot of the banks are very conservative with good reason, because they had to face years and millions and millions of dollars of litigation cost. they aren't going to enter back into that. however there will be outside groups that perhaps want to float money to some of these first time home buyers that you have to be comfortable that they are doing so in a fair and sustainable way that's not going to put new borrowers in the same kinds of mortgage pressure that we saw previously. you know the ingredients are very different from 2008. it's not the sub-prime mortgage mess 2.0. however, there are lots of pressures that could disrupt any sustainable market recovery, especially if these nucial investors continue -- institutional investors continue with these all cash buys

inflating the cost of these homes. >> danielle, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. violence in syria could be happening anywhere and a controversial tweet from a state lawmaker who says street crime would go up if the nba folded. who is suggesting that the nba might fold? some are calling him racist.

>> the conflict in syria has taken a back seat in the last three weeks as the world focused on the crisis in ukraine. two new reports highlight just how dire the circumstances are for syrians. 128 people have starved to death at the yarmuk refugee camp.

food deliveries in january and february weren't nearly enough to need the nearly 20,000 people there. look at these scenes. save the children says more than 5.5 million syrian children are in need of food and aid. polio is coming back. syria eradicated polio nearly 20 years ago. we're going to talk to a representative of save the children, but before we do i want to show you a public service ad that accompanies the report. a happy british child who in the course of a year is imagined living through a war like the one happening in syria right now. let's roll it. >> happy birthday to you. >> make a wish. >> granny!

>> have you done all your homework? >> all done. >> ready or not. >> here comes. >> armored clashes with -- >> live ammunition. >> get shot. >> hi mom. [ sirens ] >> first strike on rebel positions. >> we are going to stay. [ bomb blasts ] >> rebel forces -- [ coughing ] >> annie!

♪ happy birthday to you, make a wish darling ♪ >> joining me from washington, d.c. is francine weynuma, the director of media communications by save the children. francine, appreciate your coming. a year in the life of this british child who finds herself in an imagined civil war. why was it set in the u.k? >> i think what we wanted to do with this ad was to bring home the reality of what's happening to syrian children. so even though this is a symbolic portrayal, we base all the things on that video of real stories, be it running out of water, being cold, having something happen in your home or your community. and we want that to be relatable. a lot of people have become numb to the crisis, to say these children are suffering in the way that we can relate to.

>> what are the criticisms that using real pictures of children suffering from syria readily available would have been even more effective? i'm sure that approach was at least discussed. >> well, i think we've seen a lot of those images in the news over the past three years. we're now in the three-year mark of this crisis. so we're not taking away -- we have certainly shared many of the stories and the case studies of children we mead in the refugee camps in syria. we wanted to take a fresh look at that to share with an international audience, to take away the geography or language, again we have shared the real stories of these children but in a new way. >> francine, big step back here. three years, you mentioned it, this crisis in syria. how real is fatigue, donor fatigue, stoirg fatigue, of the story in syria? >> it's a very real problem.

we want to show people in a situation like syria we can reach kids with humanitarian aid early on. and we see the difference it makes. i've been to the region, i've talked tom children who have left syria, who have seen violence against their own family, you put them in the setting where they can have education and opportunity, it's imperative that we take responsibility helping them reach their potential no matter what their circumstances. >> francine, the report accompanying this, the syrian health care system how bad is it? >> the healt health caring systn syria has been devastated. not just the violence and the shooting and shelling, but the system has broken down. polio which has been eradicated, other diseases are reemerging.

a man whose son died of leukemia because he couldn't get medicine. there's a lack of anesthesia, we have heard for car batteries being used for dialysis. one powerful figure in aleppo, where there were once 5,000 doctors, there are now 36. they are risking their lives to try to provide what care they can. >> do you expect any of those recommendations to actually be acted upon by the international community? >> sure, i mean ultimately what we will hope for is a political settlement to end the conflict. but what we are saying that can be realistically implemented today before the u.n. security council resolution passed unanimously. we want to see a diplomatic break through translate into a humanitarian break through. clean bandages, clean medicine into syria, we can save lives in

the here and now. we feel if that resolution is acted upon there's an ability to save lives in the country. >> francine, appreciate, director of media and communicates for save the children. thank you. >> thank you. >> israereleased 150 female pris in exchange for the nuns. the nuns are being held captive by the el nusra front. actually spent months setting up the prisoner exchange. >> the radiation from the fukushima nuclear, harry fossett

reports. >> houses from dozens of neighborhoods, loved ones from thousands of lives, shadichi endo is doing what he can to rebuild. a carpa carpenter, he is puttina structure in remembrance of his children who died. >> arrows pointing to the sky they symbolize my children. if children come to play here, i hope they would be happy. i don't want it to be a sad place. >> they were 13, ten and seven when they died. they are plunged into what they call a living hell. in the three years endo has

plulgplunged himself into work. sometimes we feel something someone looking through the glass. when i notice it, so does my wife. and she'll say, they probably came home to play again. >> a 20 minute drive from endo's home is onogawa. the sea reared up 20 meters here. more than 800 people were killed. there's no question communities are slowly changing, the rebuilding process is underway, but three years on a terrible feeling of absence. >> like the bank that once stood on this plot and the 12 staff members who are swept to their death from this roof. yuko was one of them. her husband still carries her picture everywhere. so last month this 57-year-old

bus driver qualified as a rescue diver. he won't stop he says until he finds her body. >> translator: she needs to come back home be buried. her bones i mean. so we can pay tribute to her. if i leave things like this she will continue to lie where she fell at the bottom of the ocean and that is too sad to bear. >> back here, endo wants to show us aan earlier memorial he made. he spends time on each lovingly crafted seat, one for each child so they don't get jealous. he will, he says, always be their father. harry fossett, miagi prefecture. app an.

oscar pistorius threw up, in courtroom. today. he says he shot reeva stein mpl. thinking her an intruder. u.s. is watching vote closely, next president will likely decide whether to sign a security agreement allowing american troops to stay after this year. and in mexico, a leader of one of the most dangerous drug cartels, has been killed. nazario moreno was shot to death. >> saying he was killed in 2010. the mexico's government says he lived on to lead the knights templar. one of the country's most

powerful cartels. but his reign ended saturday. >> when they asked him to surrender he opened fire. >> many in michoacan believed he was alief alive and many who dit prayed to him as a saint. main traffickers of meth amphetamine. in recent years, the cartel has made millions through extortion and kidnapping, preying on michoacan. the place they protected. this year finally launched an offensive in michoacan and since then has arrested several top leaders of the knights templar. they worked in a somewhat uneasy alliance with the vigilantes.

joaquin guzman known as el chapo or shortie. can officials said they were close to capturing moreno. by releasing forensic are evidence showing he was indeed nazario moreno, the government was inefficient because they said they had killed moreno in 2010 because they hadn't released a body or any other evidence. adam rainey, mexico city. maria innes ferre is here with more hit license. maria. >> brigadier general jeffrey sin

sinclair's prosecution. prosecutors were pressured not to accept a plea deal. testimony resumes tomorrow when lawyers will cross examine sinclair's accuser. speaking for the first time since the sandy hook school massacre in connecticut, the father of adam lan s lanza sayse wishes his son had never been born. that's not a natural thing when you're thinking about your kid but god there's only one conclusion. when you get there that's totally recent too but totally where i am. peter lanza said you can't get any more peefl. how much do i -- more evil, how much do you beat up on yourself with the fact that he is my son. he killed 21 students and seven

educators in 2012. street crime would increase if the national basketball association folded, he tweeted. many saw the comment as a slur against african american players in the nba. high profile reacht arrests of a players and was misinterpreted. kusharma and sophia hoffman, sharma took the county championship after hoffman misspelled stifling. despite the tough competition, the two remained friends. >> stifling? stumped her? there are several that i couldn't get close to and

stifling, definition i'd have to -- pressure, right? >> pressure. >> it talks to pressure. you back later on in the show? >> 6:00. >> we'll see you. (f) as erica pizi explains. >> researchers, worked with over 500 people over 60. they have had so much success, they believe they have found a way to predict alzheimer's, life changing for the millions of people and their families struggling with this disease. >> when sylvia started to forget where she was on a daily basis, her husband mort realized, something was seriously wrong. >> you watch a loved one slowly

deteriorating in her mental facts ibeing faculties,. >> georgetown university medical center describes a blood test, predicts 90% of the time, researchers say they identify ten blood fats that signal when brain cells are starting to degenerate. researchers were able to accurately predict who came down with dementia just a couple of years later. and that could be a game changer if they can find a treatment that slows down or stops the disease. >> talk to anyone who's involved in developing drugs for alzheimer's. they say you have to treat somebody before the dementia even begins. this gives help for those people who are going to develop dementia. >> this may not help sylvia and

the 5 million americans living with alzheimer's now, but it can help the growing number diagnosed in the future as well as the millions of family members who also suffer through the sickness. >> for good or bad, we married, we love each other and this turn of events doesn't mean i'm going to stop loving her and stop caring about her. >> researchers say it will take a couple of years to develop this blood test for the general public. this all comes as surprising numbers released last week says alzheimer's could be the third leading cause of death behind heart disease and cancer. >> raising alarms about heroin overdoses in this country.

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sharpton and the parent of trayvon martin and jordan davis held a rally to try to overturn the state's stand your ground law. julia grabo is in tallahassee, florida. good to see you. what were the protesters hoping to accomplish beyond getting the attention of the legislature there? >> reporter: well, good afternoon tony. that precisely is what the marchers and the rally participants were trying to do. they want to keep the florida stand your ground law in the public forefront. they also want to educate more citizens about exactly how that law works and it could affect anybody regardless of race and they want the florida lawmakers to repeal that law. the law came into effect under florida governor jeb bush. stand your ground if it believes that death would prevent bodily

harm. the law is vague and can be applied ambiguously. the teen, trayvon martin who was killed in 2012 also on hand the parents of florida teen jordan davis. that teen also 17 killed by michael dunn in 2012 and dunn claimed he fired in self defense using the stand your ground law as a defense. this march and rally trying to persuade lawmakers to keep this in the forefront. it sets the substantially for other states had have similar laws and they hope to move forward with it. >> julia, thank you. attorney general eric holder called the rise in heroin deaths to be an urgent crisis. he urged attention to it. patty culhane takes a look at

one area actually following his advice. >> lorraine, ohio, in his mother's middle class home that lucas has been fighting his addiction, heroin, a drug that has been increasingly available in the united states. he has overdosed 12 times. he has been here to talk about a drug called narcan. >> hey what is going on here? that was the absolute only option there was. minutes later there wouldn't have been no waking up. >> that time he received the lifesaving drug because he made it to the hospital in time. but last month when he overdosed again, he didn't have to wait so long. police are carrying narcan. everyday in the united states people die of drug overdose.

in lorraine, ohio, their rate tripled in one year. that's when they decided something had to be done. to change the laws, police officers usually the first to arrive on the scene can administer the $20 drug. he says medically there is no down side. >> narcan's completely benign, it is a medicine the only function it has is to reverse narcotic overdose. that is the only function it has. if we sprayed it in the nose of someone who doesn't have a narcotic problem it would be like spraying say lean or water. >> in the first -- saline or water. >> hundreds of thousands of lives eventually as this takes off. >> the obama administration is pushing police departments

nationwide to carry narcan. arguing it would give addicts a false safety net. and it's not a guarantee of survival. lucas wilhelm knows that well. in her case even police couldn't get there in time to save her life or spare her nine-year-old son the pain of now growing up without his mother. patty culhane, al jazeera, lorraine, ohio. >> we're going otake a break now. when we come back, we'll take a look at the top stories. a reminder, go to aljazeera.com.

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missing aircraft and today several countries including the united states are searching for any signs of the plane from the air and on the water. ukraine's interim prime minister will travel to the white house on wednesday to meet with president obama. the meeting is a very visible show of support for the new ukrainian government as russia continues to push crimea's secession from ukraine. important testimony is expected to take place today in the new york city trial of osama bashar al-assad's son-in-law. federal prosecutors say he acted as the al qaeda spokesman after the september 11th attacks and helped recruit terrorist camps. former nsa contractor edward

snowden spoke on a panel on surveillance and technology and he says his leaks actually helped improve national security but he is calling for more government accountability. those are the headlines. i'm tony harris in new york. inside story is next on al jazeera america. >> gm and the federal government knew there was something wrong with chevy cobalts and they didn't take back the cars and warn the public. after 13 deaths later the gm recall is the inside story. >> hello, i'm ray