wednesday in boston. that's it for "consider this". the show may be over but the conversation continues on the website. i'm david shuster, thank you for watching. >> being good evening everyone, welcome to al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. the fate of flight 370, the last transmission from the cockpit. the new time line and a closer look at the crew and the passengers. power play, crimea and the standoff of obama and putin intensifies, and defiance from moscow, uncommon valor, u.s. commanders take control of a

tanker seized by being libyan rebels. plus pastor's confession. married for 65 years. he reveals a secret life on his death bed. our story coming up. >> not sense amelia earhart disappeared over the pacific, has this mystery. the new york times reporting a computer system likely controlled by someone in the cock you pit sent the airplane

far off course. the u.s.s. kidt will be leaving. first our leas lisa stark has te latest. >> as investigators search the home of the captain and the co-pilot, authorities now say an analysis of the air traffic recording reveals who spoke the last words from the cockpit. it was the man in the right seat. >> initial investigation indicates it was the co-pilot who basically spoke the last time it was recorded on tape. >> that was 27-year-old farik agdul hamid who quietly said, all right, good night. investigators revised their time line saying the two communications systems that were switched off on the jet may have

been both disabled in the minutes after that final radio transmission. police have interviewed the being being family of captain shah. the flight simulator built in his home. >> we have assembled it in our office and getting experts to look at it now. >> friends have been quick to defend him saying they do not believe he could have been involved in the flight's disappearance. >> if anything had happened to the plane he would make sure everyone else the crew and the passengers were taken care of before himself. >> 21 countries are involved in the search for plane. from australia to the indianaian ocean. >> china and france among others to provide further satellite

data. >> the u.s. added its most 76thed sub hunter to the such -- sophisticated sub hunter to the search. into the renewed focus on the pilots. >> my understanding is that malaysia isn't really cooperativing at all. >> as a frustration for investigators could also lie in the flight's black boxes which, if ever recovered, may yield few clues. >> it only records information for two hours and then overwrites itself. if this is a six or seven-hour event we have lost all the good stuff. >> malaysian officials are not going to be doing it over water, but by air. the u.s.s. kidd has finished its

search and will be return. >> former ntsb investigator and aviation psychologist. allen, welcome. >> thank you john. >> i want to start with this whole question about the flight patel. can you tell us -- path. can you tell us how the pilot puts a flight path into the computer and how the plane responds? >> well, john it's called a flight management system it basically controls the auto-pilot. the plane flew over a series of way points. and the assumption is someone put that way points during the time the plane was airborne. i was talking to a 767 pilot, he said, that is a standard route to the middle east and i don't

know if that plane flew that route inbound or outbound on previous flights. it may not have been put into the computer as it purred along. there are other possible explanations here. >> let me follow that up a bit. so there is a flight. let's see they had a flight path to beijing, if that's case, could they change it and how difficult would it be to change it to something they hadn't flown before? >> very easily. they do it through system. they literally just type in the way points. most of these airlines have software packages that allow them for example delta might have a flight from new york to san francisco. and they call it delta route 1. so all they have to do is type in dal-1 and hit the key and for delta all those pilots are going to fly way points for those two cities. they don't have to fly the

route, it's a canned route. >> what other possibilities does it bring up in your mind you mentioned? >> well, john, there are so many theories and so many possibilities. there are a couple of other accidents that sounded an awful lot like these circumstances. there was i remember the swiss mcdonnell douglas to geneva. they had a electrical fire and the pilots are flying along talkintalking in a calm voice jt like the malaysians acknowledge they say it's bad back here make it short they end up with the first officer trying to fly the airplane and the captain fight the fire. the fire was in the overhead ceiling. what worries me is the electronic bay. another accident a fire in a 747 over the indian ocean, south

african airways, 1987. they did recover the flight recorder for that they knew about where the airplane was. they could hear the circuit breakers popping on the flight deck. so you know once any kind of fire gets going, a lot of bad things could happen and that's consistent. now, john the scariest thing i heard today was, on 1911 -- consume, 2011 egypt air sitting on the ramp in cairo, cockpit fire. they still haven't explained it totally, everyone got out, this could be scary and the in-flight fire scenario should not be dismissed just yet. we got to find those black boxes and we're not looking hard enough. >> you're an aviation psychologist. what should airlines be looking for regarding the pilots? >> they do what is called a psychological autopsy. obviously they're going to try

to figure out if they programmed anything into that home built, home made computer, i'm congestion i probably used that to show the kiddies what daddy does. i don't see a lot of nefarious intent with that. >> not unusual? >> obviously -- well a lot of pilots either, i don't know what percent but they have computers at home that have programs, you know it's a lot of fun to pretend to fly airplanes and show the neighbors and the kids what do you for a living. i wouldn't say most pilots have one but that doesn't set up any flags with me. i know they pointed out he was in opposition to the current leadership of malaysia. again, that's interesting but i'd have -- they need do a lot more digging. and they frankly should have started on day 1. you know if i was the family and i suspect that he did something i think i'd be losing hard drives real quick.

now again i'm not saying they did that but the malaysiaians were slow doing that. and they need get fbi profilers and as well as ntsb human psychologists. i think they are holding off, i can understand a little bit of that. but the controllers not that they caused this accident but they didn't scra scramble the js fast enough. we could have a wayward airliner and we would know where it was at. >> we continue to have this conversation. allen, thank you very much for joining us tonight. the cries i in ukraine and the showdown between russia and the united states. vladimir putin today officially declared crimea an independent and sovereign state. that follows sunday's referendum where almost 97% of crimeans

voted to break away and join russia. putin's declaration came almost a day after u.s. being announced sanction he against russian citizens. nick schifrin joins up from simferopol. nick. >> president putin's declaration that being crimea is independent, the declaration that they were going omove to the russian ruble, going to change to russian time, nationalize all crimean assets, and all ukrainian assets are null and void. that's a lot for everyone to figure out. crimea has made its choice. the day after the party, regardless of whether they feel

the vote was legal or fair. the next generation needs to face future. we spoke with five 20 and 30-somethings. >> i am for ukraine, i want to stay with ukraine. >> and some people want to be russian. >> some people say putin is dictator. no, it's not true. he's very smart. >> christina is a dancer who wef believers russia is a good economic opportunity. >> that's why most people want to be with russia, because it's really true, for the last ten years, yes. russia saw very, very good. groove. >> vicialghvictor is a musician. he welcomes russian troops and

pro-russia militia. >> of course i want them to stay. they don't do any harm to anybody. >> bus the pro-russian activists have attacked pro-creuns. >> capro-ukrainians. >> can you explain to me yesterday i was not allowed to enter the apolog polling place. the guy stopped me, he knows me very well that i'm an extremist that i want to enter. why is it okay? >> why did you want to go there and what did you say to them? >> i'm a a citizen of crimea, and there are votes, i can't enter an polling place? >> kate, because she is an activist, she has no way but to leave crimea. >> i don't want to stay when a guy comes up and ask you to show

your things, your passport, i do not want to live like that. >> i will not leave crimea. i grew up here and love crimea. >> irvin a member of the muslim tatars, he is worried that the russians could repress like they repressed his grandparents. >> how aim going obring up my children? am i going to be in russian army or something? how is it possible? i don't really think for me that it is going to be easy for me to accept all these changes. >> but the changes are coming and most bl crimeans agree with victor, he dismisses the u.s. criticism of the referendum. >> if i start lecturing you what you are supposed to do or what i think you should do, i think you have the right to tell me thank you for your opinion, the

good-bye. >> and that is majority view. crimea is intreasing a future -- intreasing embracing a future t hopes to be russian. just eight or nine hours john that will officially close the book according to people here on 60 years of history of crimea being part of ukraine, as of tomorrow according to a lot of people here and president putin, now part of russia. >> president obama is committed to using diplomacy to solve the cries he, 11 high level russian and ukrainian officials have sanctions. >> president obama made good on his threat of consequences, what he said was a clear violation of international law. >> today i'm instituting a series of nawrs will continue.

>> being russianen and ukrainian figures 11 if all. the measures, sanctions on what senior officials term the personal wealth of cronies. there could be more to come. >> we stand prepared to impose further sanctions. >> another region with a large number of ethnic russians. provocative measures just outside ukraine's borders. be being poland and baltics, and while officials insist russia stands to lose more from preliminary and economic isolation than the united states there are other areas where a brawkdz in relations-- breakdowns in relations could spill over, over syrian chemical weapons removal and iran's nuclear program.

one person not targeted for credit being sanctions, vladimir putin. the being president's spokesman would not rule out sanction he on the russian leader himself. >> i'm not going ospeculate about that, bill. i will simply say i haven't ruled out any individual who might be covered under the categories that are provided in the executive orders. >> reporter: now very few experts expect the sanctions to be issued by president obama to be determinative. much depends on a unified front between the united states and its european allies and the president has a prescheduled meeting among the eu leaders next week in brussels. much depends on a unified front coming out of that meeting. mike viqueria, can al jazeera, the white house. >> steerch fishstephen phish, f.

>> crk thank you john. this looks like a lot like the way elections are conducted in russia. they have locked down public sphere, critical journalists were silenced, the media was shut down and people in crimea just got russian version of events. what's more, there was massive falsification in this referendum. it's completely implausible that 97% of people voting in crimea would vote putin's way. we know from years of public opinion polls the crimeans have much more nuanced views of their region's status than that. some would like to remain part of ukraine, some part of russia but there's been no evidence that 97% would like to join russia.

>> but a majority maybe, yes? >> perhaps a majority, we'll never know, i mean, this is way putin does elections. rather than risking winning 55% or 60% of the vote he locks things down, secludes any beings opponents from participation. and gets his 95%-plus. so the truth is we really don't know. >> so do the sanctions -- are they going to make a difference or not? >> i don't think they'll make a difference if they remain at a level that they are nowp but if the west -- now. but if the west gets series and the international community gets serious, despite putin apsd bravado, more economic power over russia than russia has over the west or the other international community. so we'll have to see which direction the sanctions go in. travel bans, it has to be more serious that be that.

>> are there other areas besides crimea? >> that's the question, john, is russia planning to move into the eastern ukraine? there are indications it possibly is, if russian troops invade eastern part of ukraine we're in a whole new world. the move into crimea has been shocking enough to the world community. completely unlike the way putin normally behaves. an invasion of eastern ukraine would be a step even further. >> stephen fish, good to talk to you. >> my pleasures, john. >> u.s. board a ship held by lynnian rebels, we'll talk to a former navy seal about their credit mission. plus john clark talks to us about the crisis in ukraine.

>> in the mediterranean off the coast of cypress and in the cover of darkness u.s. navy

commandos, raided a libyan tanker. first this report from rosalyn jordan. >> u.s. officials reportedly had considered intervening in the case of the morning glory, the commercial tanker that docked in libyan yah anlib -- libya with f dollars of oil attempted to be sold on the black market. however a u.s. official told reporters on monday that this sort of intervention could not have happened without the express request of the libyan government as it happened because the ship was in international waters near cypress, the cypriot government asked the u.s. to intervene. president obama did give the order and late sunday night europe tine the navy seals did take control of the ship board

their ship, the scu u.s.s. roosevelt. the u.s.s. stout was already deployed in the eastern immediate strainan as parts of an ongoing military exercise excursion. the case will ostensibly dealt with by libyan authorities who struggled to maintain control of the oil industry centered in the eastern part of libya. >> how seal teams prepare for missions like this is robert du bois, a member of a security team. welcome. >> thanks very much john. >> i know there's a lot of classified information about this but tell us about the unclassified information about how seals train for just this type of mission. >> as you know, seal stands for

sea air and land, the three areas we can work, basically anywhere on the planet. it continues on for advance training for the new guys, we have about a year of training these days before a guy goes to a team. these kinds of events, climbing up a ship maybe even anchor chains, i'm not going ogo into classified information but getting on board can be on air or sea osh land if they are docked. -- air, see or land if they are docked. i don't know if this happened here, caving ladders or how they got on board the vessel. it came according to all source he by rib inflated boats. couple of hours to hold all the crew down three bad guys. >> what sort of skills when they're looking for navy seals

what sort of skills are they look for? >> as a matter of fact, to select a seal you don't care what his skills are. you only care that he has a heart for it. seals are ordinary men who have extraordinary training. i and many like me were not superstars in athletics or academics or anywhere else but people find their niche, in counterterrorism, intelligence, demolitions, like i said even medical stuff especially. so you take ordinary men and put them into the training and bring them back out the other end as extraordinarily trained which creates the mythos that we are super-human. >> you must perform that one important task, right? >> you really put the nail on the head there because in fact we train about 12 to 18 months for every six-month deployment. so if i cruise every two years

the other 18 months of those two years back in my day, i was working and deploying through the late '90s and the 00's 00's basically. entering onto a ship by fast roping or aish air and one litte break before deployment so families have a chance to be together before the cruise. >> all things don't always go as planned so you always have to plain for unknown. >> the only guarantee is there would not be consistency in our expectations. something will always trans, my own spernling experience as a i would say hang on, we're about to have an emergency, we become

adaptive, rather than trying to train for any scenario, why try to train ourselve ourselves forn anything. >> robert dubois, thank you so much. >> my pleasure. we'll talk to wesley clark. plus, big bang bombshell, the originator of the universe and for scientists, the eureka moment.

>> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. we have a lot to cover this half hour. the recall of vehicles in the millions of gm, big bang,

scientists discover the revelation of a universe. and dying days, a pastor reveals a life lock secret to his gay grandson. president vladimir putin has officially declared crimea a sovereign and independent state. more than 97% of crimeans voted to break from ukraine. president obama said there was election fraud. response to the vote sanctions against 11 top russian and ukrainian officials. he warned of more action if russia continues to interfere with ukraine's sovereignty. now, the search for malaysia air 370 now moving into a new phase. today officials say they will limit the search to air and satellite only. that ends the mission for the destroyer u.s.s. kidd. still no sign of the plane that disappeared 10 days ago.

officials believe the co-pilot was the last to speak to air traffic control. more on al jazeera scott heidler. you have been following this from kuala lumpur, malaysia. tell us what the latest is right now. >> well, the latest right now it's actually coming out of china. chinese officials are saying they don't have any evidence that any of the chinese passengers on this plane on this flight had anything to do with possible terrorism plots or high hijacking. now that's something that malasian officials are looking at extensively. they are looking at everyone in the flight deck, the two pilots, the cabin crew and the passengers. chinese officials say they have done their own investigation saying none of the passengers could have been involved in obviously what was a plot to turn this aircraft around by someone who knew what they were doing. they are saying it was not achinese citizen. >> the american ship the u.s.s.

kidd is turning around, turning the investigation into an aerial search. what are you hearing about that there? >> yeah, well, what we're hearing is that it makes sense quite honestly. because when you look at these two corridors that are being focused on now based on satellite information, you've got over land for the majority of the northern corridor it's over land so obviously a water search isn't going to help with that. and down in the south it's such a vast area in the southern part of the indian ocean that having ships on the water doing some searching looking for any clues just wouldn't be logistically right quite honestly. because if you are going odo that properly to cover these millions of square miles of territory of sea, it's much better done by the air, much better done by aircraft. and the u.s. asset the p-8 poseidon which is a very

advanced water surveillance aircraft mostly designed for sub-chasing they're going to use those type of aircraft. the u.s., indian has one as well. those aircraft are much more efficient for water searching. putting people on the water and doing grid search is knot going to merit any kind of progress. >> over the days we have listened to very difficult conversation with family members and malaysia air. are most family members still where you are? >> most of the family members are still in china because two-thirds of those who were on board are chinese citizens. most of the families have decided to stay there. quite honestly because they don't know where they're going oultimately go to. if there is any wreckage, discovered on the water, even now with the revelation of two

flight corridors it could be anywhere in a very big stretch so motion of them have decided -- so most of them have decided to stay in china, stay near frensdz so if they have a support -- friends so if they came down here, no real support system other than what's being provided to them by malaysia airlines. most of them have decided to stay in china, around the airport complex very removed from public eye and any media access but most have decided to stay in china. >> scott heidler, thank you very much. now to the crisis in ukraine. it's been less than 24 hours since crimeans volted t to break from ukraine. jennifer glasse reports from sevastopol. in sowrng crimea. >> to declare independence, to

nacialgz government property and ask to be part of russia. outside a small crowd cheered russian president vladimir putin. >> just people probably feel safer you know with russia than with ukrainian, new government in ukraine. our history, culture, everything is russian. >> reporter: in the crimean capitol simferopol, people voted the same way to return to russia. we still don't know how and when that transfer will occur and there's still some military questions to be answered. like what will happen to the ships and sailors of ukraine's black sea fleet. blockaded by the russian navy. they should join the new ukrainian military or leave the peninsula. so far the ukrainians have many

refused to do either. on the building the ukrainians have written we will keep our oath. they continue to bring in supplies here through a commercial port. russian international first came in to help with the referendum. now it's getting alarming messages from the ukraine. >> every day i get calls from my colleagues in various regions telling me about the situation. can and the attacks. >> he points out there's been no violence in crimea. outside the sevastopol council as people were celebrating one woman demand he to have a stolen apartment returned to her. the crowd pushed her aside. there's little room for dissenting you voices here. russian president vladimir putin recognized crimea's

independence. en being jennifejennifer glasse. >> it's the idea that the u.s. and european union are acting together, the total impact of the sanctions but the fact of the sanctions. >> these details though, you as former nato supreme commander you have stood up to russians before in other places. how do you stand up to russia this time? >> you've got to fight it on all three levels. you've got ocontrol the ground. you've got to are control the loyalty of the ukrainian police, as long as they are solid in supporting a free ukraine, ukraine is safe and diplomacy can act. if anything happens to them and they collapse through internal discord then diplomacy will be too late. you've got to provide economic assistance. you've got to worry about the energy situation. and you've got to deal with the

international diplomacy, the legitimacy of the situation, you've got to publicize everything going on. this is a russian black op. those demonstrators are not for the most part be crimeans, in be doandon'tdontdoughnutsbbe n dons a big violation of international law. >> the majorities of people want to join russia, how can you go against that? >> the referendum is illegal in the first place. it's not in accordance with

international standards of voting. >> you don'tth think it's a legitimate vote? >> of course not. you have russians standing around guarding ballot boxes. the results were self-evident before anyone ever voted. they would be in fear of their lives coming up to the ballot boxes. i'm surprised 5% voted against it. >> what about military, is there any way in the world that u.s. would many intervene militarily? >> i never say never on anything like this but this is up to the corecoreyukrainian people thems. this government has to have the loyalty of its people, apparently it does. if its armed forces are loyal and the peel are loyal, i do think we can provide assistance to the people of ukraine, after

all we are a signatory power. we guaranteed their independence whether they grew up their nuclear weapons so we owe that state something. >> as you know, ukraine provides a lot of natural gas to be europe and germany. what if russia decides to cut off the flow of natural gas? >> russia has done that in the past to punish ukraine. but russia is no longer going to do that than the germans are going to refuse to take it. because it's going to cut putin's throat as well. >> you know you've heard putin has no respect for president obama. how much damage will this do to the u.s. reputation? >> i don't think that recognition, getting into partisan politics in the united states is very constructsive at this point. what has to be done is the ground has to bels held in

eastern ukraine. holding the borders by the ukrainian police and eliminating these soviet russian special forces that are in there stirring things up. they need to be called out, they need to be identified and they need to be hauled in front of cameras so the world can see exactly what's going on. >> what else can nato do in addition to what you just described? >> i'd like to see a nato fact-finding mission on the ground. i'd like to see a nato like assistant secretary-general with a couple of officers with him go in survey the area look at it, look at the state of the forces in crimea. i think nato should make a statement that those forces in crimea cannot be besieged in those bases. they are legitimate forces in the ukrainian government and the ukrainian government has not renounced its sovereignty over crimea. so this matter has to go to an international court and nato has to stand before osce in issues

of international raw. >> this issue hasn't been rosmed and we'll be -- resolved and we'll be speaking about it for a long time to come. thank you very much for joining us. gm has said it is recalling another 1.7 million vehicles today, faulty ignition parts to engine why fires. bisi nonbisi onile-ere reports w york. be. >> general motors is recalling 1.7 million vehicles worldwide. this after another recall for a reported ignition switch problems being linked to a dozen deaths and multiple crashes. here is gm's latest list, the wire har harness, all buick enclarifies and gmc acadias.

some 2009 and all 2010 to 2013 chevrolet tra vers models and some 2008 to 2009 and all 2010 saturn outlook suvs, gm is recalling 2009 to 2 chevrolet expresses. also on the list all 2013 to 2014 cadillac sttx cars, they're being recalled to prevent brake problems that could result in overheat organize a fire. gm says no crashes or injuries have been linked to the recent recalls. company ceo mary barra addressed the media in a video conference this morning. safety review she requested following last month's ignition

swish recall which involves 1.6 million calls. >> i want you to know that we are completely focused on the problem at the highest levels of the company and we are putting the customer first and that is guiding every decision we make. that is how we want today's gm to be judged, how we handle the recall will be an important test of that commitment. >> all of this is expected to cost gm $300 million in the first quarter. gm is under investigation by the federal government for allegedly failing to publicly disclose and move to fix ignition switches in a number of vehicles over ten years that may have led to 12 deaths. two law firms out of texas have also filed a class action lawsuit against general motors in connection to these issues. bisi onile-ere, al jazeera, detroit. >> march madness has barely started and there's another

college controversy. ncaa and the five college conference he that are making the most money from the sport are being sued, accused of unfairly you be make student athletes from making money. michael eaves is here with the story. >> they claim college sports community has unlawfully capped the student compensation at the value of a scholarship. be the goal is to eliminate earning restrictions on student athletes who play revenue producing sports. kessler told can espn sports, in no other business would it be suggested that people providing central services work for free. only in big time college sports is that line drawn, end quote. earlier i asked al jazeera legal contributor jamie floyd how significant this is, regarding

can compensation for student athletes and how does it differ? >> it's very significant first of all because of those previous lawsuits. this is sort of a culmination of what's been building i think for last decade maybe more. this is significant first of all because he's representing a class of students, a class of athletes, a class of what he claims are professionals, the top tier football players across the country, the division 1 basketball players as we go into march madness, potentially thousands of athletes did you think about -- if you think about student athletes across the country although this class represents the football and bubble players. he says they should be treated as professionals not as amateur athletes in what has become a multibillion dollar business. that is the significance of the class action. number 2 mike it is significant because he is bringing it as a

an antitrust action. he's treating the ncaa as a monopoly. he wants to crush this under the antitrust laws and going after it as a big business so that is what makes this a major and significant case, dove tailing with all the other actions we have seen over the course of the last couple of years. >> speaking of kessler specifically, how well does it bode for the college deletes in this case considering they have kessler representing him? >> i -- them? >> i think part of the reason this is a big story is kessler has been attached to this lawsuit. he has been hugely successful in stories related to sports. he brought sports free agency to football. he represents a lot of nba players and major league players hugely successful in this area and i 30 ncaa has -- i think ncaa has to be paying attention. >> not about past damages but seeking to institute a

fundamental change to the ncaa's economic model which i say, generates nearly a billion dollars, a year alone. turner sports $11 billion over the course of 14 years. that was a 41% increase from the contract previously. >> a lot of money. >> those conferences you were talking about a lot of money. >> michael thank you very much. a major scientific break through considering the big bang theory. after years of research, science have identified an echo from the first moments of the universe. science and technology expert jacob ward explains pfn. >> this is very high level physics. imagine that somebody dropped a rock in the ocean a long long time ago. scientists here have built a piece of equipment that can in fact detect the ripples that emanated from that rock and they had to actually go to the south pole to get away from all the

background noise of the world in order to have a quiet enough spot and aimed that equipment up into the sky, one patch of sky for three years then analyze that data for another three years in order to confirm that those ripples exist. they also in the process managed to confirm that the ocean and the rock exist but we won't get into all of that. the theory of this is called inflation. and it's something that's been worked on for about 30 years. here is the -- one of the founding fathers of that theory, physics professor at stanford named andre linde. finding out his theory has been confirmed. >> what? >> yes. >> just a second. why repeat it. five sigma. >> as clear as day. can r points 2. >> repeat it again.

>> r point two plus or minus.5. >> it's a huge deal, it essentially quirmt the bang of the big bang. science is a rick th the ricket, sliding a rock under the most important part of that scaffold. manages to confirm the exirchtioexistenceof the multivt the it, everybody is kind of lying down and taking a breather after this one. this is probably going to win the nobel prize. it is big as the hig higgs boso. many. >> kaboom. what a grandfather tells his grandson on his death bed.

>> i'm meteorologist kevin corriveau. on capitol hill today, they weren't sliding, we saw eight impts of snow in washington, d.c, furthers to the west we saw about 13 inches of stow or a little bit more. so it caused a lot of problems across the city, actually shutting down the government today. most of that snow has moved off the coast. we have wet weather down here towards the south, pretty much watching for rest of the evening. temperatures tomorrow morning are going to be well blows freezing. washington, 29, that snow we saw fall will still be ton ground. by the time we get into wednesday rain will be coming into the forecast and much of that snow beginning odisappear. -- to disappear. the next big problem is the next weather coming through.

parts of wisconsin, minnesota you are going to be seeing quite a bit of snow, developmentally over the next 24 to 48 hours this area we're going to be seeing about 12 inches of snow. be very careful on the highways. be careful, your news is coming up right after this. >> now to tonight's first person report. a father, a veteran and a baptist minister. at age 90 just five days before he dice he comes out as gay to his grandson.

and his grandson tells us about the deeply personal journey after learning much his grandfather's credit secret. >> i'm grant, 27 years old, my project the family connection is a memorial installation in honor of my grandfather, jim renberg. just under four months before my grandpa jim passed away he came out to me as a gay man. this is after a lifetime where he worked as a counterintelligence officer in world war ii. served as a baptist minister and had a 65-year marriage to my grandma doris. so the news of that revelation was incredibly meaningful for me because i'm a gay man as well. this past year i had the opportunity to marry the love of my life, bradford.

our conversation played out over two afternoons. i saw him lean forward in his wheelchair and grip my knee. as tight as he could. and i saw tears factually down his face, a-- falling down his us face as he watched this public, legal celebration of my love. and he described that as something that's true and wholesome. and the next morning, he greeted me and said, i haven't stopped thinking about our conversation yesterday. he closed his eyes and mentioned warren. he described this love story that he shared with this man that he met just after graduating high school. just to see the joy in his face as he returned to those moments of really being a young man, in a world that made this impossible for him. but he found a connection, and he found somebody that he cared

for. and was able to share and understand what it means to be loved for who you are. my desire to produce this work to continue to share this story is to not stop sounding that call, until every gay-lesbian-bi-queer person has the ability to live openly without fear or consequence. >> grant says he hops hi homes e exhibit helps the conversation. this jogger by the washington monument, there's still snow plows there. the snow's not gone yet. we'll have headlines right after this. >> stories that have impact... that make a difference... that open your world... >> this is what we do...

>> america tonight next only on al jazeera america

>> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. here are tonight's top stories. still no sign a malaysia airlines 370. now the search is moving into a new phase. authorities announce they will

limit the search to air and satellite. eliminating the need of the u.s.s. kidd. russian president vladimir putin has recognized crimea as a be sovereign state. swift reaction to the vote in crimea from president obama. he responds with sacks against 11 top -- sanctions against 11 top ukrainian and russian officials. considered part of vladimir putin's inner circle. u.s. navy seals have seized a oil tanker off the coast of cypress. they were attempting to sell the crude oil on global markets. the pentagon says no one was injured in that operation and general motors recalling another 1.7 million earthquake vehicles.

the auto make are recalled nearly 2 million last month. the problems ranged from faulty starters to engin engine fires. "america tonight" with joie chen is coming up next. >> on america tonight. special coverage on stories the world can watching, raising hopes and sowing confusion about the fate of malaysia flight 370. >> they said the plane was in another direction. in terms of timing, they knew the direction, but covered it up. they haven't given us explanation why they concealed it. >> anger, anxiety for the families. >> and cme