>> faultlines al jazeera america's hard hitting... ground breaking... truth seeking... >> they don't wanna see what's really going on >> break though investigative documentary series death in plain sight only on al jazeera america >> this is al jazeera america. liesk from new york city i'm tony harris. a growing mystery, nearly three days after a boeing 777 disappeared, there's no signs of the plain or the 237 on board. russia making moves in the crimea as voters prepare to go to the polls. ice covered corn silos.

are the mystery surrounding the disappearance of a maish yah maa airlines flight 370, there are no signs of the plane or the 239 people on board. the plain was -- the plane was last spotted on the way to beijing, an oil slick and debris spotted over the weekend are now said to have nothing to do with the plane. ships and aircraft are resuming their search. two men with flying with stolen passports. investigators want to know who they are and what they were up to. al jazeera scott heidler has the story.

>> does of ships from nations, in whrumple to beijing-- kuala lumpur to beijing. >> it is unprecedented missing aircraft mystery as you can put it. it is mystifying and we are increasing our efforts to do what with we have to do. malaysia airlines are helping us, all the experts around the world are helping us. but as far as we are concerned, we have to find the aircraft. >> malasian officials aren't discounting any possibility for the plane's disappears, including hijacking, terrorism, something that ripped open catastrophically over 10,000 meters of water. >> two men who traveled on mh

370 with stolen passports, they are where are investigating video. 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 china. so as the territory for the search widens and intensifies, so is the search for the 239 on board waiting for any shred of information. >> what is the can scott heidler reporting. missing plane may have had many ties to a stolen passport ring. now officials say they bought their tickets from a travel agency the in the city of patea. >> the two passengers who board he the malasian flight using

stolen passports, bought their tickets from here, patia. six star travel, she said the head of police the tickets that were issued as well as the passport that was used to issue this is a tickets, it was the original stolen ticket. the picture was of the italian who wasn't on that flight. he reported his passport missing july, the end of credit july last year from phuket. there is an underground for stolen passports, in fact some westerners sell their passports, as big business. while not ruling out the issue of terrorism, illegal business, asylum business. not long ago, 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 now thailand finds itself in the middle of about investigation and they are going to follow up on the leads they have at the moment. >> zena hoder reporting. raising serious questions with airline security and how easy it is to use bogus documents at airport around the world. jonathan betz is here with the story. you would think this would be but oned -- buttoned up after 9/11. >> it does apparently happen a lot. we know that clurm airplane never -- kuala lumpur airport never checked to see if those

passports were stolen. two out of every five international passengers whose documents are not fully checked. now after 9/11, inte interpol, s now registered 40 million stolen documents. but most countries simply don't bother running the passports through the database. the united states is the the best at checking, a quarter of a billion searches followed by the u.k. and united arab emirates. otherwise few countries are making sure their passengers say who they are, who they say they are. interpol says this is a huge hole in security. >> hard to imagine, jonathan thank you. malaysia airlines says its primary focus is to care for the missing families and crew, rob

mcbryde reports from beijing, this has been a trying and frustrating time for people waiting to hear anything about their loved ones. >> reporter: behind closed doors the anger of reflt relatio don't believe they've been told the whole truth. why has it taken so long to hold this meeting? this won woman shouts. have you any idea what pain we're going through? another woman shouts. officials say to be patient and not take any radical action. there was no evidence of a hijack nor was there evidence that the vietnamese had recovered parts from the sea. the agonizing wait continues. malaysia airlines is organizing flights for them to go to kuala lumpur to be closer to the search. but so far there's reluctance in

the absence of firm news. >> 80% of the people don't want to go to malaysia until there's confirmation. >> translator: we want the government to tell us what is really going on. whether we go or not at least we need to know. >> several nations and international organizations are trying to determine what happened to the missing jet liner. china's ministry of foreign affairs has called upon the malasians to do more in trying to solve the mystery. >> we have a responsibility to demand and urge the malasian side to start search efforts, start an investigation, and provide in a timely manner. >> three days after confirmation of the airline's fate, the frustration of the relatives are clearly evident. they believe their answers are going unanswered but the most important question what happened to mh 370 still no one can answer that.

rob mcbryde, al jazeera beijing. three americans were on board malaysia airlines 372, three children, 4-year-old nicole and y-on zang. a former colleague told al jazeera news that wood was in kuala lumpur, his family says they visited him in texas just last week. and people all over the world are showing support for family of the passengers and crew. maria innes ferre is following social media. innes. >> every minute is an hour, please keep them in our thoughts as you continue to search for mh 370 through the night. and somebody who has been tweeting is mai--a elizabeth, the daughter of one of the missing crew members, and take a

look at this. she sent this out this weekend, it says daddy you're all over the news and papers. come home fast. and earlier today she also sent this out. it says until today we are still waiting for you dad. now people have been sending out images with the hashtag #pray for mh 370. and there are students at birmingham in the u.k. giving support to the family members of that flight. and you also have this done by a sand artist in india and five of the passengers of that flight are indian. please pray god, miracles do happen. and rescue workers from a buddhist organization, praying. and schoolchildren today who were praying. you also had a vigil today in malaysia that's saying pray for mh 370.

>> that message from the daughter to dad, that just breaks yours heart. >> it certainly does. she's gotten support from people all over the world. >> good to hear. maria, thank you. the. the crisis in ukraine is heading to a referendum vote. white house was to get china involved in finding a solution to the crisis. this comes two days before ukraine's interim prime minister visits the white house. also today european union officials say the block is preparing to impose travel bans and other restrictions on can russia. nick schifrin, from simferopol. it is clear right that the russians and those who support them really have the upper hand on the territory there. >> reporter: yes, tony, absolutely you are seeing from the u.s., europe, white house a lot of diplomatic moves. but all those moves are being

outflanked by russia. you see russian troops, pro-russian activists all can fanning out with impunity. storming in the military capitol, they were brandishing clubs, occupying the hospital. earlier today, we saw more armed men join what are being called the crimean armed forces and they pledged allegiance to the, quote, state of crimea. of course there is no state of crook crimea but the pro-russi pro-russian, minister says there will be soon. are flying above crimea and down blow it looks at some of these russian troops that are digging in, building tent villages. they are here to stay, aren't going anywhere. the pro-russian militia, who are active and are coordinating with

all have the momentum. >> we have got more analysts and pundits that say in essence crimea is gone, it belongs to the russians and they're not going to give it up. but i'm curious. we're also hearing from more western countries, these warnings to russian president vladimir putin about this upcoming referendum. i'm wondering, is there a chance to end this crisis diplomatically? >> well, certainly from day 1 the u.s. has said there is no appetite for ending this militarily, or ability to end it militarily. every effort the u.s. has done was to end it diplomatically, to isolate russia. there is no evidence that vladimir putin believes the cause of this invasion is actually worth pulling back. according to him and according to his aides this is irreversible. what you see the u.s. trying to do is trying to put pressure on

are russia, trying to isolate russia and more than anything trying to get the moral high ground for ukraine forces. that's why we've got u.s. trying to -- telling the ukrainians don't fire back. he said yes we are trying to do this diplomatically but then he praised all of those troops for not firing the first shot. >> this is a crisis which needs to be solved diplomatically. the ukrainian government, the ukrainian military forces in crimea, have an exceptional record so far of resist be the provocations, the -- resisting the provocations, that are clearly being undertaken by the russian forces on the ground. >> the problem with that of course tony is there's nothing stopping the russians. ukrainians aren't able to shoot, they are bunkering down.

the russians are spreading out and nothing is stopping them. >> nick, good to talk to you. as we mentioned, crimean residents will vote in a referendum to decide whether to stay in ukraine or become part of russia. with russian troops occupying the peninsula, many say the outcome of the referendum is not in doubt. jennifer glasse reports from crimea. >> while we we're filming, local volunteer demanded to know who we were and what we were doing. go home, one of his neighbors told me. protecting the people here, and it took a while for him to talk to us. he is looking forward to the 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 calmer to power? -- came to power? the same thing is happening in ukraine, they don't like it. >> this village is an old soviet collective. the russian flag flies here and he's sure russia will treat them better than ukraine did. >> they were always cheating us and had different corrupt ways to steal and tear up our land. >> he said corruption has been worse in recent years. he describes a crooked court system that rules for whoever is in power. they are hoping that moscow will soon be the ruling power because they are hearing terrifying

stories. >> we have all friends we've spoken to, they say it's scary there, they have guns, they are scared to go out to go shopping about. >> they know there will be a transition period as crimea turn towards moscow. but in the summer they hope tourism will be back, and lives will be better here. jennifer glasse, fiolent ukraine. >> as the world has focused on the crisis in ukraine, two new reports highlight how bad things have been. 250 people have starved odeath in the yarmuk refugee camp snide damascus. syria's government has made a rare prisoner exchange with al qaeda fighters to get three

orthodox nuns and 13 church workers released. spent months setting up the prisoner exchange and coming up on al jazeera america, the prosecutors going after osama bin laden's son-in-law have turned to a convicted terrorist for evidence. we will have the latest from the high-profile trial. also, mexican government has killed a notorious drug kingpin, again.

>> the man who admitted to taking part in a process of putting explosives in shoes, sulaiman abu ghaith is charged

with terrorism and taking part in the 9/11 attacks. john terret from washington, d.c. >> he never knew about sulaiman abu ghaith. the son-in-law, more senior al qaeda official ever to be tried. who hours of questioning insight into the workings of al qaeda at around the time of the 9/11 attacks. travel plans, safe houses, who knew what and when they knew it, it all seemed to come up in this live link questioning from london. because sati padat is wanted for terrorism charges in the united states. he can't set foot here, or he would be arrested. the shoe bombing plot, richard reed tried to blow up a plane

with explosives in his shoes, but saji padat is now serving six years in prison. what he does allot of his time, basically giving evidence at triems against people linked to al qaeda, tony. >> earlier in the day the court heard from from another key witness for the prosecution. what did that witness have to say? >> this was sahin alwan, former president of a mosque in lakawanna in upstate new york. a man who lied to his wife and basically went to afghanistan, al qaeda training camp and met osama bin laden. when he returned he became a spy on the people that sent him over there. he was a convictterrorist and

spent time in prison. he gave testimony. the prosecution seeking to link abu ghaith to the specific incidents and specific times. will reconvene hire in lower manhattan on thursday. once the lawyers get back from europe. >> thank you, john, john terret, outside lower manhattan. the city of boston announced security measures for next month's marathon. at least 350 more than twice as many police officers will be patrolling. so when you think about u.s. energy, the boom and fracking, your first thought may be about the impact on the environment, right? but there are some other big

public safety issues. "real money"'s ali velshi joins us. we certainly think about the potential impact on the economy, on the environment, what else should we be thinking about? >> people are simplistic. i would love to live in a world, i really would, that we didn't need the oil that we use and transport it around the country. even though we have more appliance in america than anywhere in the world, what is happening is our demand for oil continues. we keep on producing more oil and last year 400,000 train car loads, train car loads carrying 11.5 billion gallons of crufd rumbled through -- crude rumbled through america. we're going to albany new york, to see, public spaces, houses, tony, here's thish: de-- the --

the issue. 1.15 million gallons of crude oil spilled from rail cars in 2013. that's more than what was sprild in nearly four decades -- spilled in nearly four decades. remember le lac megantic in que, the explosion that, demand so much there, late december, 110 car train deremained in north dakota, carrying crude oil there, massive fire ball, forced authorities to evacuate residents. in new brunswick, 30 miles east of the border with u.s. transport via rail is a lot more expensive and more dangerous.

>> community activists and what have you who have registered their issues, i'm wondering about what the u.s. is saying? >> a lot of this comes from the bakken credit shale. the federal department of transportation sodded transporters, that kind of oil, to ensure that we know that this is extra-hazardous oil. not just like any oil. secondly the federal railroad administration has told us at "real money," the problem is of course, the actual rail cars they travel why, they are prone to pungt puncture. they are prone to derailing. the actual rails don't tend to be the best maintained rails. so we really have to take a very holistic approach to this and figure out how to transport oil safely in this country.

as we have put pressure on no more appliance, oil has gone into rail cars. >> infrastructure, infrastructure, that's what you're probably going to leave your show with. what else are you dealing with? >> we are up 175% in the market in five years, i think there are some lessons about how to time the market. >> ali velshi, "real money," top of the hours. former nsa contractor edward snowden may not be allowed in the united states but managed to appear by internet. snowden says his leaks have helped him improve national security. last year snowden released secret documents that revealed the nsa was intercepting phone

and internet information. how can a missing airplane disappear without a trace? also attorney general eric holder raises an alarm about heroin use.

>> search efforts will soon resume for malaysia airlines flight 370. the passengers and accredit in the plane have been missing since saturday. flight 370 went missing as air traffic controllers were handing it off to a station in vietnam over the weekend. the station's military indicated

its radar showed it may have turned back to kuala lumpur. jake ward, what is the reason we can't find this aircraft? >> it comes down to cost it will cell towers transmittal information back and forth. that's pretty cheap, considering the number of users. the $20,000 black box, one estimate from a study about ten years ago, estimated that it would cost a single airline about $300 million per year to transmit that kind of data via slight open an ongoing basis. it realize comes down to dollars and cents. >> is there anything on the

works of technology that would help scale that down a bit? >> obviously this is a terrible tragedy. but from the perspective of the business people who run the airlines, the airline industry, airline transportation is one of the safest forms of transportation around. it would take thousands of years for you to be involved in an airline crash even if you took a flight every single day. so there isn't that many crashes. so it's not really about crash prevention that you would put this in. it's more about you know sort of the tiniest bit of improvement and analysis when it comes to recovering the black box and looking at it. obviously nobody wants any crashes but i think the airlines have gotten the risk down to such a low level that further investment certainly $300 million a year seems too much to put into it. >> i wonder is there an argument to be made here for live transmission in terms of rescue efforts like the one that's underway right now? >> well, certainly there have been cases in which people were

rescued from air crashes. there is a famous case in china in which people were found dangling from a tree but otherwise perfectly all right. obviously there's the miracle on the hudson when captain sulle sullenberger set the plane done done -- down on the river. so even that little jump that live transmission would give you on rescue efforts probably wouldn't mean anything in the end in a crash like this. >> jake ward, thank you. john gully is a former member of the national transportation safety board. john, you've talked about this for the last few days. i'm seeing you everywhere. i don't have anything special to ask you i'm going to keep with the basics if it's okay with you. i want to ask is you why we

don't know more about the disappearance of this flight? >> i recently said to a friend of mine. we are measuring this accident in the eyes of the united states, or western europe, where we have multiple radars, painting every single airplane in the sky. thousands of radio antennas, we have all the latest gadgets here in the western hemisphere. this airplane was out in the south pacific. where there's not a lot of land mass. lots of little countries that cannot afford the infrastructure that we have in the west. and we're measuring them by our standards. you can't do that. i mean, a radar station is far away. think back to the second world war. radar stations hitting a target with primary radar, they can't tell you very much. and it's not, as always, reliable as you like. so i question the vietnamese

assumption that the airplane started to turn around. maybe the airplane was doing something, would it turn around? i don't know. pilots are trained not to make turns like that without calling in. so now, you need to have the pilots incapacitated and the airplane turn. so you are getting a cascaded chain of events to do this. it makes it very, very unlikely then at the end of the story -- >> john -- go ahead, go ahead. >> the airplane hits the water, breaks up and there's an ocean of debris floating around like that. we haven't found that. could the airplane have maded to land? it could have made it to land, that's a possibility to be explored and this is not going to be an easy accident. >> sounds like it. i want to pick up on a couple of points there. from your experience, what kind of catastrophic event, right, could lead to something like this?

what we're describing here? >> a rapid loss in pressurization is the first one that comes to mind. one where, because you were 30,000, 35,000 feet, if you lose cabin pressure rapidly, the masks are going to deploy. the captain and the two pilots in the cockpit are trained to don their mask immediately. one scenario, the cockpit window blew out. it would change a lot of things in the cockpit. it only takes nine seconds for you to pass out at that altitude. that's one possible scenario. but if you play that scenario to the end, where is the debris when it hits the ocean so -- >> one more quick one before i lose you. one more quick one. jacob ward was just talking about some of the technology that is available. but in many instances is just too expensive for people,

airlines, and maybe for nation-states to pay for. what are your thoughts on satellite uplinking so that you can get realtime data from the flight recorders? >> well, you know, everybody's talking and i was part of many of these working groups. we're talking about uplinking the flight data recorder and sending tremendous amounts of data into the air. right now as we're speaking, there are 6,00 6,000 airplanes e air. can you imagine uplinking all that information? i could say we very easily could take the location data, speed direction and where am i because we already have it on the airplane in gps and uplink that every five minutes or ten minutes so that there is a repository of data that says where the airplane is at all times. and i think that's very much more affordable than what you were just talking. >> john, appreciate it, john

gulia, he is a former member of the national transportation safety board. thank you. and south africa, former olympic star oscar pistorius threw up after hearing the data from the technician. he shot his girlfriend reeva steenkamp thinking she was an intruder. the taliban threatening violence, claiming responsibility for four defendants in the polls. four years ago the group killed election workers, the next president will likely to decide whether to sign a security agreement allowing america to

remain. the toarnl general says lezario moreno was shot with authorities yesterday. >> saying he was killed in 2010, mexico's government says he lived on to lead the knights templar one of the country's most powerful cartels. but his reign ended on sunday they say. >> translator: he was intercepted by marines in the army. when they asked him to surrender he opened fire. >> many in michoacan believed he was alive and many who didn't, prayed to him as a saint. one of the main traffickers of meth amphetamine. in recent years the cartel has made millions through extortion and kidnapping preying on the population of michoacan, the very people they always said

they protected. last year, with the federal government largely absent, vigilante groups went into battle against the cartel. since then have arrested several top leaders of the knights templar. they have worked in a sometimes uneasy alliance with the vigilantes. moreno's death came nearly two weeks after the arrest of joaquinles guzman, shortie. what role if any they had to do in his death. by releasing forensic evidence showing that the man killed on sunday was indeed nazario moreno, the government of president enrique nieto, said that they killed him in 2010 but never produced a body or any other evidence.

adam reiney, al jazeera, mexico city. releasing a case against an army eligible. maria innes ferre has headlines. innes. >> tony, a military jury heard evidence, jury was dismissed today as attorneys argued if army commanders had inappropriate reply influenced the case. the defense team says prosecutors were pressured not to accept a plea deal. testimony resumes tomorrow. speaking for the first time since the sandy hook massacre in connecticut, the father of gunman adam lanza says he wishes his son had never been born. he told new yorker magazine, quote, it's not a natural thing when you are thinking about your kid but god there is no question there can only be one conclusion when you finally get there, that's fairly recent too but that's totally where i am."

peter lanza said you can't get any more evil, how much do i beat upon the fact that he is my son? a lot. the fact that he had not seen his son for two years when adam killed 20 schoolchildren and six educators in 2012. pat garafalo tweeted that, nba garafalo says the comment referred to high profile arrests of nba players and was misinterpreted. in charles, north carolina a big merger in the banana business, chicita brands, the two companies will replace dole as the largest supplier ever bananas. in kansas city, missouri the two kids who exhausted the

county spelling bees list faced off again. sharma and hoffman won another 29 rounds yesterday. hoffman miss spelled stifling. he will compete in the national spelling bee in washington later this year. despite the tough competition the two say they remain friends. >> wow, so they went through a thousand rounds. >> yes. >> i'm exaggerating obviously. and went through all the words and then they came back and had 29 more. >> exactly, 29 more and stifling is the one that she missed. >> yeah yeah yeah. it is pressure. >> pressure. >> but they're kids. >> and there's more kids too. >> tell me about it. appreciate it. legal marijuana is quickly becoming big business in colorado and the state is raking in millions in revenue. next. and the guy who saw silos in iowa and decided it would be a

good idea to cover them in ice, and climb them. lockerbie. only one man was convicted of the attack >> the major difficulty for the prosecution, that there was no evidence... >> now a three year al jazeera investigation, reveals a very different story about who was responsible >> they refuse to look into this... >> so many people at such a high level had a stake in al megrahi's guilt. lockerbie: what really happened? on al jazeera america

>> well can, the venezuelan government organizes a six day of event to remember the life of former president hugo chavez, the government faces deepening divisions. the protests, venezuela has had more than five weeks of protests. there are concerns it could actually get out of control. looks like it's doing just that here. and jeopardize the attempt at peaceful economic change. paul beban, you spoke with one of the opposition leaders, henrique c ca c capriles.

>> looking for solutions, looking for government reform, changes in policy, looking for the lessening of the heavy hand that has cracked down on the protests. it's almost like groundhog day in venezuela, every day we have a peaceful demonstration or march and the sun goes down and it deevolve devolves into some f protest. i asked henrique kapriles what he thinks, and here is what he had to say about it. >> i wouldn't want that. but i also don't think it's the same case. ukraine, syria, egypt. it's hard to compare.

they're different cases, different cultures, different customs. i think we are entering a crucial moment. we are waiting to see if there's a shift in the government's position or attitude. will they continue further repression or do they really want the peace they are preaching about on tv? >> and what capriles said can we would like to have a dialogue, an honest conversation. six months ago the government was calling him an assassin. it's difficult to sit down with the two sides, there's not a lot of room it sounds like for an honest, sober negotiation for how to move forward and get past this critical phase as he calls it, tony. >> paul, we talk about a rift in the opposition, we can't do that without mentioning the other leader in the opposition,

leopoldo lopez. the contrast between him and en kerry kay capriles. lopez is looking for a heavier resistance to the government. not in support of the extreme wings of the opposition at the same time, building support against the chaveztas. ,. >> thank you, paul. attorney general eric why

holder called the rise in heroin deaths, a tool to fight overdose. patty culhane looks at one place that is following his advice. >> lorraine county, ohio with its acquaint main streets. open fields. it is here in his mother's middle class home that lucas w wilhelm has been fighting. >> i'm not afraid of dying, if i was, the first time i did it i would have stopped. >> he has overdosed 12 files.he's here to talk about it because of a drug called narcan. >> that was the absolute only option there was or you know minutes later there wouldn't have been no wake up. >> that time he received the lifesaving drug because he mate it to the hospital in time but last month when he overdosed again he didn't have to wait as long. for the first time, police

officers here are carrying narcan. every day in the united states 105 people die of a drug overdose. here in lorraine county, ohio, their rate of death tripled in just one year. that's when the county core nor decided something needed to be done. dr. stephen evans convinced the lawmakers to allow police officers to administer the lifesaving drug. >> narcan is completely benign. the only function it has is to reverse narcotic overdose. that's 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 saline. >> i think it's absolutely probably. it takes off, that could be hundreds of thousands of lives

eventually as this takes off. >> the obama administration is pushing police departments nationwide to arm their officers with narcan. but not everyone agrees. arguing it would give addicts a false safety net. and it's not a guaranteed survival. lucas knows this well. a week after shooting this video with his sister stacy she died of an over dose. police couldn't get there fast enough to spare her life or her nine-year-old of bearing his life wurt his mother. patty culhane, al jazeera, ohio. marijuana sales, the state of colorado earns 30% of all marijuana sold by cooperatives.

mj became legal at the start of this year. the state considers this a test case. for most people in live in iowa, silos are just another part of the rural landscape. but one man decided to turn them into the ultimate coating challenge. ash-har quraishi has the report. >> reporter: for climbers, facing the side of a frigid glacier could be the ultimate rush. but this is not an ice covered slope in the swissalps. this is a silo in iowa. >> this musting something to say, it's so awesome. >> reporter: it is the brain child of don briggs. the idea came to him 13 years ago, while driving the wide open flat lands of iowa.

>> a lot of the silos aren't being used anymore and these were used to need cal the, and now they have a are silo and no use for it. we are putting a pretty good use for it we think. >> the frigid midwest temperatures are a perfect opportunity to add slippery wals, a couple of climbing axes and crampons and taking climbing to the extreme. >> it takes request thousands of gallons of water. sprayed on the surface. 80 feet of perfect surface. >> set i.t., test it, keep my arms straight. >> for years briggs has been teaching students the proper techniques for ice-climbing. it's the perfect training ground for budding mountaineers who

might want to progress to rock falls. >> they say nothing compares to the silo. this is going to prepare you for any difficult climb that there is. >> on the scaling system known as the waterfall ice grading the silo has a destination of wy 5, a 7 being the most challenging. it is not easy even for ice climbers. >> this is the most difficult because of the verticalness of it. >> it's really tough. it's just consistently, consistently tough. >> so tough, only 1 in 2012 make it to the top on the first try. >> to actually see yourself through all the way to the top it's like, oh my gosh, i can do it. >> for these climbers doing their personal best means scaling heights right in their own backyard. ash-har quraishi, can cedar

rapids, ohio. >> how about this. cleveland st. ignatius and sil sylvania. the final score, 1-1. headlines are next.

>> this is al jazeera america. i'm tony harris with a look at today's stories. search and rescue teams from nine countries are looking for a missing malaysia airlines plane

that disappeared three days ago. 239 on board includes three americans. it is confirmed debris found off vietnam does not belong to the aircraft. ukrainian interim prime minister will travel to are the white house for discussions with president obama. secession vote on a referendum on sunday. the latest round of unrest since protests began five weeks ago in venezuela. protesters are angry about high inflation and crime. the president says they want to overthrow him. in the trial of osama bin laden's son-in-law, sulaiman abu ghaith. the man convicted in the shoe bombing case in 2001 testified

he was one of the recruits. former nsa contractor edward snowden appeared in austin, texas via video. he called for more government accountability. those are the headlines, "real money with ali velshi" is next. vladimir putin's nuclear power play in the crisis in ukraine. plus an up close look at the explosive danger of delivering oil by rail. plus the bull marketed stocks is now five years old. a look ahead for your investments. i'm ali velshi. this is "real money." ♪