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>> five days after malaysia airline's flight 370 vanished, we may have our first clue as to what happened to the plane and the 239 people on board. these satellite images of what are said to be three floating objects. those images were taken near the aircraft's last known location. this comes as ships and planes are searching the area about the size of indiana. jonathan betz with the lates. >> reporter: big developments on the missing plane. one of the satellites may have spotted debris from that missing jetliner. do you remember the flight was last spotted here in the gulf of thailand at 1:30 in the morning early saturday morning. now large pieces of debris found floating not too terribly far away here in the south china

sea. this is spotted the day after the plane disappeared. it's largely in line with the line of flight for that missing jetliner. we also have photos supported by that chinese satellite. it is three pieces of debris, all are large pieces, 40 feet long. the biggest is 79 feet by 72 feet. it's hard to see what it is. these were taken by the satellite, and they were all found within 12 miles of each other. certain cre--search crews are tg to verify what they are. there have been false sightings before, keep in mind. now this is a shift from where crews had been focused. they had been focused on the strait of malaka after reports of a radar may have possibly spotted the jet. crews doubled their serve efforts today, but this debris

right here is a very promising sign, and it's going to be the focus of dozens of planes and ships out there looking for that missing plane. >> i would imagine they're mobilizing and heading in that direction. thank you. a commercial pilot patrick smith joins us now from boston. patrick, good to talk to you. this feels like a solid lead in this case, and i never want to get ahead of the facts and information here but based that it's comin coming from the chine government how solid does this piece of information feel to you? >> it's really hard to say. it depends. if it turns out that these are pieces of the airplane it really brings the conversation back to where we were originally when the plane first went missing and starts to suggest the possibility of some very sudden, very quick catastrophic event, a bomb going off, an explosive

decompression that turned out to be unrecoverable. something like that happening all at once instead of these more curious theories that the airplane had been flying for 500 miles for better part of an hour for unexplained reason. it's interesting that i think this story is tran transcendent because it has become a mystery story rather than the story of an airplane crash. people are so fixated on where is the airplane aspect of it. now that we find it, we think about the back the black boxes t specifically happened. >> let's spend time on this. if it turns out to be a big if, right? to be the debris field from this doomed flight, it would confirm that the flight went down in

about where you expect it given the sea currents and everything else, right? >> probably. >> so what would explain in your mind the delay we've had to deal with in finding anything at all. we're talking about satellite images that were captured on the day after, on the 9th, and this is day four, day five into this, and we're just getting this information. what might explain that? >> well, if you go back and look over the history of air disasters, rare as they are, there are often lag periods between when a plane goes down and when wreckage is found. in some cases--there is a south african airways 747 at the bottom of the indian ocean to this day that has never been recovered because it's under so much water.

with all the technology and the demands for immediacy that we have nowadays, i think people need to step back and realize something like this cannot be explained necessarily all at once right now. we have to wait. air crash investigations take months, sometimes longer before we get the full story. it's possible, not likely but it's possible that we will never know the full story of what happened. people have to be prepared for that. meanwhile, i hope what doesn't happen is that this event undermines the greater strides we've made in air safety. last year was the safetiest year in the entire history of aviation. that's pretty remarkable. occasionally we're going to have large-scale accidents, disasters, if you want to call them. that's never going to go away completely.

but the numbers are getting smaller and smaller, and hopefully this doesn't become such a media frenzy that people forget that fact. we've engineered a way that used to be the most common causes of crashes, and what we're left with now are these more awed, more nuanced, more mysterious accidents. >> that brings us back to what you stated earlier, if it turns out that these images reveal the debris field from this flight in an area where you expect it, you mentioned we would be back where we were at the beginning of this, and what are some of the scenarios that you've talked about as potentially being responsible for this flight going down? >> yeah, great question, assuming that these are pieces of the plane, and the wrest of the wreckage is found under the

plane's expected flight path, what happened? >> right. >> i don't like to speculate too broadly with that because there are a number of possibilities. and whatever i come up with now as a theory, and turns out to be incomplete or totally wrong, with that caveat out there, okay, you know, some sort of hijacking that went bad quickly, and the airplane crashed, explosive decompression. even that in and of itself is perfectly survivable if it's not too catastrophic, and if the crew does what it's supposed to do. and if the crew didn't do what it's supposed to do, we just don't know. there are other possibilities, too. but those are kind of the two big ones. >> let's stay there, then, let's stay there. let's watch this unfold and try as best we can not to get too

far ahead here. thank you for your time, patrick smith, commercial pilot from boston. family members of passengers on the missing plane say they feel helpless as they wait for news of their loved ones. they include the parents of an australian man. >> if we could just find some wreckage or something, it would an help, probably. >> malaysia airways has offered to fly the passengers families to kuala lumpur, but the burrows say they don't plan to fly to malaysia because there is no point in going there at the moment. cries in ukraine took center stage in washington. a short time ago the senate committee with a bill.

i wonder if there--what was the substance behind what was a very visible show of support for the country of ukraine? >> reporter: well, tony, you're right. it was the day of heavy symbo symbolism and bold words from both men. but the question at the end of the afternoon will any of this have impact on russia and it's occupation with crimea? >> thank you, mr. president. >> reporter: it was a show of solidarity. president obama hosting ukrain ukraine's interim employment yatsenyuk in the oval office. >> we're very firm in saying we will stand with ukraine. >> reporter: the prime minister wants economic aid but first he wants russia out of ukraine. he thinks the u.s. and it's allies are obligated to make it happen. >> we fight for our freedom. we fight for our independence. we fight for our sovereignty, and we will never surrender. >> reporter: both men rejected the upcoming referendum in

crimea. >> we completely reject a referendum patched together in a few weeks with russian military personnel basically taking over crimea. >> two days after his spokeswoman who said he would not be with russian cour counte. secretary of state john kerry said he will meet with prime minister lavrov on friday in london. >> we do meet with hopes, and i think the hopes of the world, that we will be able to find a way forward that defuses this. >> but so far russia has shown no public signs of backing down. going too far with economic sanctions carries it's own

dangers. >> it can get ugly fast if the wrong choices are made. it can get ugly in multiple directions. so our hope is that, indeed, there is a way to have a reasonable outcome here. >> outside the white house after his meeting with mr. obama yatsenyuk evoked another phrase phrase from another american president. >> my message to mr. putin. tear down this wall. >> tony, you mentioned earlier the $1 billion loan guaranteed package, moving its way through washington, nothing is easy here in washington. the dispute between the house and the senate, even now that's called in question as the united states works out another sanctions regime against russia with european allies. >> oh my, thank you. as ukraine interim prime minister made the rounds around

washington, german chancellor angela merkel said ukraine and the european union could sign an agreement. and observers visited facilities in eastern ukraine. nick schifrin joins us live now in crimea. look, they're making moves, planning to meet, holding meetings, talking about talking, but for the people in cry maya, they're left to make decisions on a daily basis, and the big decision now is whether to stay or whether to go. >> reporter: yes, i think that's because despite all of the efforts and rhetoric coming outs of washington and europe, many people here think too little too late. the reason that is let's go through the checkpoints. the russian troops controlled the borders, the airports they've canceled all flights

other than to and through moscow. if you want to fly within ukraine from crimean capitol to the ukrainian capitol you have to go there moscow, literally. the only way out of crimea is through the train station, and guess who controls the train station there, brother-russian activists. crimean tatars were deported in the 1940s and returned in the 90's, and they are afraid history will repeat itself. they are beginning to think cry mcrimea under russia is inevitable, and it's not somewhere where they want to live, that it will not be hospitable to them. i spoke to tatars who say they're on the train to kiev. they really feel, tony, the safest place for them is anywhere but here. >> nick schifrin for us.

nick, appreciate it. coming up on al jazeera america democrats may be getting a bitner success after republicans want a biwon big business. and more on the marijuana industry.

>> president obama's appearance on an internet comedy show appears to be having the intended affect. the administration said nearly 900,000 people visited healthcare.gov on tuesday just after the president appeared on in between two ferns.with zach galifanakis. less than eight months now until the november elections that will decide control of the house and senate. republicans have an extra bounce in their steps, and democrats are becoming increasingly nervous. >> reporter: tony, the political world has been buzzing over the results of a special

congressional election yesterday in florida. both parties through everything they had at this race, and analysts across the spectrum said it would be a good bell weather as any for the coming term. >> reporter: in the special election in florida it was not the outcome democrats had expected. >> folks in this room and watching on tv, we won this. [ cheering ] >> reporter: republican david jolly a washington lobbyist and first time political escaped narrowly beat the democrat, a respected lawmaker her party considered strong. >> i have spoken with david jolly and congratulated him on a hard fought campaign. >> reporter: in this swing district and campaigned on a message of bipartisanship and getting along. jolly, recently divorce, put his

focus on allegiance to obama. >> we need someone to look out for our interests, not president obama's. >> reporter: it shows when there is a good match up and plenty of money the party this fall could be in trouble. they need 17 points to take control of the house, and an effort that even president obama has warned is going to be difficult in part thanks to him. the latest nba news wall street journal polls suggest just 31% of voters approve o a--41% apprf mr. obama of his job and 54% disapprove. the biggest problem for democrats are the public perceptions about obamacare. ever since the state of the union in january the president has been trying to move the focus by luring republicans into a debate over working class

wages. >> americans overwhelmingly agree that no one who works full time should ever have to raise a family in poverty. [applause] >> reporter: on thursday the president is expected to issue an executive order expanding under federal law the number of americans entitled to overtime pay. the action will help millions of salaried workers who manage banks, convenient stores and fast-food restaurants. but emphasizing wages instead of obamacare will not be easy. insurance premiums for 2015 will come out just before the election. and rising healthcare prices would hurt democrats badly. as it stands republican confidence is growing fueled by that g.o.p. victory in florida. >> thank you. more americans may soon be able to qualify for paid overtime as david was just mentioning. president obama is expected to issue an executive order to expand the number of people who are eligible.

"real money's" ali velshi is here now. what is the overtime situation in the country now. >> reporter: i was just talking about this, under the current law most salaried workers do not have to be paid overtime unless they earn less than $455 a week. that works out $24,000 a year. that's less than the federal poverty level for a family of four. now here's the thing tony, here's who we're thinking about. this is the part that gets people. there are more than a half million bank tellers in america earning $35,000. social and human service assistance, $29,000. half a million medical secretaries earning $31,000. there are lots of people who you think are doing better than they are, they are probably working longer than the average workweek

and they can't claim overtime. >> what are we expect from the president? where might this new poland us? >> we have some experts who say $1,000 a week, $50,000 a year, if everybody earned as much as $50,000 were to receive overtime ten million americans could benefit. the last time this was raised was in 2004 under president bu bush. if it had kept up with inflation it would still be $575 a week, it would still be low. what else are you talking about tonight. >> we're going to be talking be ukraine. we have an ukrainian expert on the ologart in ukraine.

>> herbal life, bill ac mandarin man accused of a pyramid scheme and even placed a short bet against herbal life expecting the company to collapse. they deny the allegations. legalized marijuana may soon become one of the fastest growing industries in the state. despite continuing legal issues including the fact that marijuana use is still a federal crime there is growing demand for professionals and entrepreneurs. >> meteorologist: consider this denver emporium a candy factory for all things marijuana. from marijuana infused sodas to

pot truffles, dixie elixirs offers 100 green edibles for medicinal and recreational use. the owner says he feels like he scored the golden ticket. >> we've been doubling our head count with what appears to be year over year. we have 40 full-time team members. >> reporter: and it's expected to double again in the next year since colorado began legal sales in january business with alicksers have increased 500% the majority of those sales coming from licensed marijuana dealers in state. it can't be shipped out of colorado because pot is still banned under federal law. the so-called green rush is attracting workers like john chambers, a logistics manager who packages all the products. >> i was formerly in the technology industry. i never would have imagined the

number of opportunities that exist. >> reporter: and there are new opportunities popping up every day since california first legalized medical marijuana two decades ago, 19 states have followed suit. today there are roughly 45,000 full-time employees working at dispensaries like this. >> we keep hiring more and more people as we grow we have different departments we need to fill positions for. >> reporter: those jobs including bud tenders. >> that is the skywalker 25. >> reporter: licensed consultants who advice customers about different marijuana strains. there are pot processers and security guards. at bucky minor a sous chef grinding up all the cannabis used in gourmet edibles. the demand for marijuana jaunts is so high in these states there are even website devoted specifically to the industry. >> when you get in to working

with patients and how it benefits people medicinally it's a particular skill set and you have to go find people who are educated with. >> cannabis investors and entrepreneurs say pot sales could reach $10 billion in five years and dixie elixirs are preparing for that. they're investing in a new 30,000-square-foot facility to keep up with demand. al jazeera, los angeles. >> the fda has approved the first device said to help prevent migraines. a battery powered device to deliver inpulse to the nerve believed to be the source of migraine pain. tests subjects apparently saw fewer migraines per month and had to use lower doses of painkillers to treat the pain. users are only allow to use the device once a day at 20 minutes

at a time. coming up on al jazeera america we go behind the barricades of venezuela. the death toll rises in protests. and a huge explosion in new york city that destroyed two buildings and killed two people. the latest on the investigation.

>> venezuela's security forces used water canons on protesters in caracas. the death toll has raise on it 20 since the protests began in early february. fighting has intensified in san cristobal. balpaul beban spent time in the barricades and has this report.

>> reporter: we're driving in to san cristobal. this is where it began a month ago. we tried to get to our motel, and it was tense right from the start. this is where at least one student was killed in overnight clashes just like these just the night before. we barely had time to get our gear out of the vehicle when it got very intense. so we're in the hotel court yard trying to get a shot. this is the scene played out in this neighborhood and others across the country over and over again. these are the kind of people that the government called fascists, but they say they have no choice. the tear gas just got too intense. we had to get in the hotel and stay inside for a couple of hours. then things calmed down. we came outside. we crossed over the barricade and walked up the street to

where the protesters were gathered. we just wanted to ask some questions. >> what do you want the world to know? >> that we're ruled by a dictator and media censor. >> when is this going to stop? >> this is going to stop when the president quits. >> you want the president to resign? >> yes, we don't-- >> what about negotiating? what about-- >> we do not negotiate with people that kill their own people. >> reporter: so things settled down. life started to get back to something like normal, and we had a chance to look around. they have sunk chunk of rebar along the pictur pickett line. this was knocked over earlier today by a national guard armor vehicle that came smashing through here and pursued the protesters down the street. they rebuilt it in a matter of hours as evening falls here.

but now over here on the street corner what we've got going on is it looks like really just a bunch of teenagers sitting around. what they're doing is they're making molotov cocktails. they have empty cases of beer bottles and wine bottles, they've got bottles of gasoline and they're pooing the gasoline in the bottles. they're making wicks, they've got an assembly line. >> how is this going to end? i don't know. >> then we met marco. neighborhoods are filled with people like marco. people who have so much at stake, who don't necessarily support the violence, but they say they don't have any other cards to play. >> what is the alternative? they drove us into corners. in that corner this is all we've got. >> then he took us to his house and showed us why he doesn't go to the barricades. >> i have a ten-month-old daughter.

and it feels so bad to see that she's growing up in a country that used to be rich. >> that was paul beban reporting from san cristo ball cristobal,. calling for the prime minister to step down, prime minister erdogan called the rallies anti-democratic. a 15-year-old boy who had been a coma for several months died yesterday. he had been hit in the head during a rally last year. >> the family had called for a mass gathering. at the funeral of the 15-year-old tens of thousands answered the call, the biggest public demonstration since the protests of last june.

earlier residents of the poor neighborhood where they lived filled the streets around the house of worship where his body lay, a school mate remembered him. >> we used to play football and volleyball together. he was a happy, cheerful boy. >> we don't want to raise our children in the current atmosphere. we want to raise them with freedom of expression. >> we are standing against the dictatorship. we stand for democracy and human rights. >> reporter: the crowd chanted, you're immortal. they blame turkey's prime minister for his support of police who tired the tear gas canister which hit the boy in the head. erdogan murderer was another refrain. the family, the residents of the

neighborhood, during the nine months that the young boy laid in a coma the authorities had time to investigate and find out who is responsible, and they failed to do that. they say that is just symboling of failure in turkey. he's the sixth young man to die as a result of police violence. the catalog of grievances of people who don't support the ruling party is also growing. turkey's prime minister said they should take their objections to the ballot box, not the street. but on the news of the boy's death, universities closed, schools shut for the day and some unions called for an one-day stoppage adding to the crowd callin.

but the funeral was at a lot more than the funeral of a boy to decide too soon. rebels in eastern libya deified the central government and filled a ship flying a north korean flag earlier this week. after the ship escaped. bashar al-assad was shown in a suburb of the capitol that been the front line of the civil war. the government took control of parts of the city in december. more than 24,000 people have fled to the democratic republic of congo to escape fighting in central african republic. but the refugees forced to leave behind their lives and build a

future is a constant struggle. we report from the refugee camp in the d.ar.c. 1234 >> reporter: these children and their families left their homes within the last week. now they live in a refugee camp iin the democratic republic of congo. it's hard to imagine children learn much, but this is all they have. the walls are made of bamboo. the floor is made of earth. this primary school is the only education here. there is no secondary school, and the closest f-ing university is 5 kilometers from here. about a thousand students were

studying at the university before the conflict. we met a group of students. they're all frustrated that their degrees and life plans have been disrupted. >> if we don't decide, if we don't see what we can become in our life, we need to finish our study. we can get a job, we can do something, and we can help our family, and our country. >> reporter: many of them demanded the u.n. send them to universities in other countries. there is simply not enough resources for that. instead the u.n. is building an internet cafe. it won't be the same as higher education, it will provide some connection to the outside world. >> how will they return without being well educated. we're doing our best to provide

them this internet cafe to let them know what happens around the world. >> reporter: until the computers arrive there is still no communication here. people are relatives in other camps can't contact them. and education aside there are to former jobs. people do whatever they can to make a living. there are fewer opportunities here but it's not safe back home. malcolm webb, al jazeera, in the democratic republic of congo. >> officials say a gas leak caused an explosion that platenned buildings 1234 at least a dozen people are still unaccounted for after the explosion. two people were killed, and 24 more were injured in the east harlem neighborhood. new york mayor bill de blasio said the blast may have been caused by a gas leak. residents noticed the smell of gas last night when the explosion happened this morning

some new yorkers raced to help. >> there was a little girl. she was just saying help, and she was full of blood. we grabbed her in a blanket and took her out. >> reporter: she was full of blood. where was she? >> she was outside of the body. when it blew up, she flew out of the building. >> reporter: you think she flew out of the building. >> yes, we wrapped her in a blanket and everything. >> residents say they could feel the boom of the explosion from several blocks away. in louisiana an innocent man who spent 26 years on death row is now free. glenn ford was convicted of the 1983 murder of a jeweler from louisiana. he was released after the police report proving his innocence was discovered. >> reporter: after 26 years waiting for his own execution, 64-year-old glenn ford walks free. he spent almost half of his life on death row. >> i was locked up almost 30

years for something i didn't do. >> reporter: ford was sentenced in 19 4 in connection wit to a h of a jeweler he used to work for. the prosecutors said they could no longer stand by his conviction. ford was sentenced to death by an all-white jury selected by prosecutors. his defense lawyer was a specialist in law regarding oil and gas exploration. a second lawyer had only graduated from law school two years before. the state was unable to recall any eyewitnesses nor could it produce a murder weapon. under cross-examination the witness who was the girlfriend of another man suspected of the murder admitted to the jury that she had lied in court. >> i can't go back and do anything. i should be doing stuff when i was 30, 35, 40. my son is now a grown man.

>> reporter: 140 death. >> romney: ro140--men like damor investigation into his conviction of rape and murder. he spent 24 hours a day in solitary confinement waiting to be executed. john edward smith was released 19 the years after wrongly convicted of a drive-by shooting in california. many said they had given false confessions due to pressure by police. many were misidentified by eyewitnesses. >> it's been a long day and we've been working on this for a decades, literally. we hope it will be the first day for glen to start a new life. >> reporter: compensation laws for exonerated death row convicts in the u.s. are complex and vary between states. advocacies organizations are

pushing for a federal law that will hi help them start living again. >> a judge ruled that women can block their babies fathers from delivery rooms. it was decided as the woman was giving birth. she wanted to ban her baby's father from the birth. >> wait a minute. she was on the phone and giving birth. >> one of the oddest trials ever. and the judge ruled in her favor. >> i don't think i heard that correctly the first time. maria, thank you. >> thank you. >> the energy department is investigating allegations of a toxic work environment at a nuclear waste dump outside of seattle. two employees at the hanford

site said they were fired after voicing concerns. we have more on this, allen? >> reporter: good evening, tony. this is the hanford nuclear reservation behind me. clean up efforts have been under way for a quarter of a century now getting rid of very toxic nuclear wastes. there have been successes along the way, but it's a difficult dangerous job and a lot of challenges remain. the question how do you deal with this stuff, where do you put it? and how do you deal with a leaking tank. >> reporter: in the wide open spaces of the hanford reservation where the first plutonium processer was built, attention focuses again on one buried waste tank. it has leaked before, and the federal department of energy said it's now found radioactive

waste in a new spot between the walls of the double-walled tank. mike geffrey knows that tank known as ay 102. >> if we took the worst that have stuff and put it right there, we wouldn't--if it started at the interview, we would be dead by now. >> that's the instrument that detected the leak in the tank. >> reporter: mike worked 20 years monitoring the waste in the tanks. he quit after what was told community. >> we're running out of time. >> reporter: this 580 square mile site is the most polluted area on the continent with radio waste and plumes. contaminated ground water.

older storage tanks have leaked for years. the biggest concern, the health of the columbia river whose water was used to cool nine radioactivnuclear reactors. but the leaking tank and plans for dealing with have the state and federal governments at odds. deiter borman works with the state's ecology. >> the plans to pump it two years at the earliest is a concern for us. >> reporter: monitoring has been increased, and they weren't surprised to find more leakage, either. >> the chances of catastrophic failure, we're really talking about a stress relief or potential for stress relief corrosion or weld with a small

crack. >> whistle blower mike geffery sees more problems. >> the inner tank is breaking down. >> reporter: there are 28 of those double-walled tanks out here at hanford. 177 buried waste tanks all together. a lot of them are older, single-walled tanks. the material is moved out of them into the double-walled tanks. that's why there is so much concern about how those newer, double-walled tanks will fare down the road. >> how long will this take to get this all cleaned up? >> reporter: we're talking about a long time frame. the most recent government timeline is that they would have a plant built by 2019 to glassify and stabilize this waste to be stored, and they would finish stabilizing all the major toxic waste here at the hanford reservation by 2047. but there have been design problems with that plant, and it's likely that those deadlines

won't be met although the federal government said they're still trying to meet those deadlines. >> allen schauffler for us in richmond, washington. coming up onal jazeera america, the fda approves what is called the strongest painkiller yet. anandand another storm working s way across the country. snow fueling liksnow falling li.

>> it is the strongest painkiller yet, the food and drug administration just approved zohydro. it is ten times stronger than anything currently on the market. our science and technology correspondent jacob ward joins us from san francisco. jake, there was a lot of

concern, worry that this drug may lead to abuse. >> reporter: well, that's right, tony. prescription opioid i abuse is a plague on the country, and this particular drug raises fear that we'll see even more addicts or worse. >> reporter: for johnny lorenz who runs an exchange in san francisco, opioids and oxytotten is just a matter of availability and cost. last week the food and drug administration approved a new precipitation called zohydro, a painkiller 10 times stronger than vicodin. this week the medication will begin to reach patients. the center for disease control

describe precipitation opioid abuse as a nationwide epidemic. as prescriptions fo for painkils have risen. >> even though this epidemic has been getting worse every year for the past 15 years the analgesic division at the fda has been making it easier for the drug companies to get these drugs on the market. >> so the company that makes zohydro maintains its research facilities here in california. >> reporter: they declined our request for an interview, they sent this statement: >> acetaminophen, the active

ingredient in tylenol has been known to cause river damage. while they remove that ingredient, this doctor does not believe there is a need for it. >> the truth is we have many opioid formulations on the market all that have no tylenol on them. >> it's no more addictive tha.

>> it's surprising that the fda approved it. >> is there a chance of overturning and revisiting this fda approval? >> well, you know, the fda process is really closed process, and there are not that many levers that can be pulled. even the obama administration has criticized it's approval. but even they are powerless to stop it. >> two people have now been reported killed in ohio as snow shuts down a major route between toledo and cleveland. storms are expected to hit parts of midwest and northeast bringing as much as two feet of snow. tens of thousands of homes in northern illinois have lost

power and flights coming in to chicago have been canceled, and more problems are expected as the snow this whole system moves east. kevin is here now with a look at what we can expect. >> reporter: tony, you would think this is a midwinter storm, and we're in the middle of march. take a look at the radar. it has gone through parts of ohio. we still have some snow, but we're going to be seeing the majority of the problem now going into parts of pennsylvania, new york as well as into new england. you can see where the rain is, then icing and then the snow. this is what we expect to see blizzard warnings like eerie, lake huron, we're expecting to see snow nine inches plus. if you lib north of northern new hampshire, maine, we're going to be seeing 16 inches of snow there. as we go further south it gets better. vermont, 10 inches. and boston should see about two. here in new york we only expect

to see maybe about one. but because it's been so warm lately we don't expect the snow to do anything. this is the scenario for this evening as well as tomorrow morning. them the snow will exit this way through parts of new hampshire and maine. this will feel more like into the low single digits when you factor the wind chill. >> if you own one of those ski resorts up north you're going to get a nice end of the season. kevin, appreciate it. thank you. when we return we've got an update on the day's top stories, and then it is "real money with ali velshi."

>> this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm tony harris with a look at today's top stories. there may be a new clue as to what happened to malaysia flight 370. a chinese government agency has

released these satellite images that show suspected debris. the images were taken near where the plane vanished early saturday morning. the interim ukrainian prime minister met with president obama for the fires time and prime minister yatsenyuk also sat down with secretary of state john kerry. breaking news here in new york, a federal judge has thrown out charges against an indian diplomat who was strip searched after being arrested. the judge said that she diplomatic immunity when she was arrested for visa fraud, and paying her housekeeper far below the minimum wage. she denied the charge. her arrest led to a number of anti-u.s. demonstrations in india, and we learned that a third person has died in an

explosion that crumbled a new york city building. another 24 were injured. the police are searching for anyone who may still be trapped. those are the headlines. "real money with ali velshi" is >> new rules for overtime would put extra pay in the pockets of millions of middle class americans. i'll break down how it works. and we're told how lower taxes are the remedy for america's ailing middle class. plus we'll talk to on a politicn from ukraine. this is "real money."