conversation continues on our web site or fashion book or google plus pages and find us on twitter at aj consider this. see you next time. andrew thomas >> good evening, everyone. welcome to al jazeera america. i'm john seigenthaler in new york. >> is it the plane. new video of the plane in a remote part of the indian ocean. we talk to a pilot that knows that area well. >> getting personal - president obama slapping russia with more sanctions and russia banning john boehner and other u.s. lawmakers. >> the new frontier for

america's veterans, seeking work and hoping to find it in the north dakota. >> plus - a flea market fortune. a faberge worth $33 million. >> it is day 13 in the hunt for the missing plane, centered 1500 miles off the coast of australia. it is there that objects have been captured, said to be the best lead yet. richelle carey is here to give us answers. >> we are waiting for answers. the search crew in the second day of looking for signs in one part of the southern indian ocean.

satellite images show what might be debris. five military aircraft and ships are helping with the search. bad weather is making it difficult for the crews so far, and the satellite images are four days old. the objects may have drifted. family members of the missing passengers and crew are anxious. tonight officials are holding a meeting in beijing. nothing has been found. >> we continue the coverage of the story. >> now to more on the search efforts. andrew thomas is in sydney. >> there are a couple of aspects, search and recovery planes with people on board, and radar looking 25km either side of the plane, and there are ships. there's a commercial ship in the search zone, a norwegian car carrier, it was in the area, it

was diverted. it doesn't have much sophisticated equipment, but it may be the first one, because it's at water level. also on route is an australian naval vessel, that should arrive saturday australian time. if there is debris to be found, that is the boat that will be able to bring it on board and to shore. australia assets, tony abbott, the prime minister said, is directed at the relatively narrow area. it may sound more, but compared to the 600,000 square kilometres that was searched a few days ago, it's a small search zone that they are looking at now. they are using more satellite ima imagery, higher speck focussed on the area looking down. if anything is found, and if the plane is down there - it's a big if, the objects may have nothing to do with flight mh370. it is deep water. it will be a difficult task to

find the main part of the plane if, and i caution if they are down in the southern indian ocean. >> thank you to andrew thomas from sydney. it's morning, as you can see in australia, and five military aircraft are being dispatched from perth. steve marshall from tv new zealand was able to ride on one plane. walk us through what happened. >> i took off with squadron 5 on the new zealand air force orion with high tech equipment. it took four hours to reach the search location and we scoured the sea for three hours before making the return journey. weather was particularly turbulent. cloud cover was sitting at 100 metres above the sea surface, so the pilot of the orion had to sit under the cloud cover as eight sets of eyes looked out of

windows for three hours scouring the vast indian ocean. >> what kind of technology was used other than eyeballs to try to find the plane. >> well, this orion has been updated with the latest high-tech surveillance equipment, and it's highly classified so you can appreciate i can't go into it in too much detail. i've been sworn to secrecy to what i saw on board. certainly if there was anything there, it would have been detected by this equipment. there were several possible contacts made that once we went down and took a closer look, a hundred metres above the surface of the sea, we had no results. was it disappointing - it was a disappointing return for the squadron. they had high hopes of locating an object out there. but, unfortunately, that was not the case. it looks like they gave it a good shot, and they pushed this

orion to the very edge in terms of its long-range capability. >> let me try this on you - so it takes a couple of hours, several hours to get out to the scoon. how long do they have to search before they have to come back to refuel? >> well, this plane was stripped of excess weight to take on extra fuel. i think they took out about 60,000 pounds of fuel. they returned with a little over 10,000. they push it to the edge in terms of reaching the remote location that's required. certainly in terms of the royal new zealand air force, which does a lot of search and rescue operations down south, it certainly was one of the longest and most remote search and rescue operations under taken. >> this is the first word that we have had from inside that airplane that is making the search. steve marshall, appreciate it. thank you for explaining this to us. >> thanks, john. >> joining us now is former

american airlines pilot jay rollins. welcome. >> thank you. >> based on everything you have heard over the last 24 hours, give me your assessment. what does this location tell us, if anything? >> well, i think it sort of shifts the weight because in the original scenario that there were hijackers involved or the pilots wanted to commit suicide - that made sense as long as you are talking about staying near populated area to either commit suicide or some sort of hari kari, or to fly off to the north-west to hostile territory, so to speak, in order to hide the plan and use it for later use. to go to the south - there's nothing down there. then one has to take into account that maybe there was mechanical failure, that perhaps

the autopilot did this, and everyone was dead on board. >> so the autopilot could have taken it that far? >> absolutely. the reports have come out that the pilots inputted a short route that took them to the west of their originally planned route, but it didn't go anywhere except to a few points - from what i've heard. so at the end of that route, the autopilot will just hold the latest heading, the last heading that it had and will continue to fly the airplane until the fuel runs out. >> we are talking about the sonar buoys that they have tossed into the indian ocean, trying to hear the pings and get a location on the black boxes. if the sonar buoys find the black boxes, then what next? >> well, they have made arrangements to use deep submersibles to go as far as

needed in order to retrieve the black boxes. they are very critical, and yet we have to consider the fact that they may not contain as much information as we would like. for one thing there could have been a power failure such that they stopped recording, in which case, for the voice recorder, that would be a good thing, because we would probably be able to find out what the pilots were talking about when they made the initial turn. on the other hand f the black boxes operated throughout the flight, that would be erased obvious, because the voice recorder only goes for two hours. we may only hear ambient sounds of the cockpit, but we may hear conversation that would indicate whether there was nefarious activity going on. on the other hand the flight data recorder. that lasts for 25 hours. so that will give us a lot of

information regarding the telemetry of the aircraft. the speed, the altitude, the headings, and that should shed light on the investigation. >> i believe you told our producers that you don't thing that this debris is very likely the plane? >> i would - i hope it is. i know that the - that the loved ones are in a great deal of grief and want answers. it's a double edged sword. no, i don't have a strong sense that this is necessarily the debris. if i had to give odds, i really can't, but the chinese thought they had pictures of the plane as well, and it turned out there was nothing. >> you're right, and we've been saying if, if, if, all along, and we wait another day to see whether or not the search turns up anything. jay, it's great to have you on the program. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> now to our other big story

developing today, the crisis over ukraine, the u.s. and europe roll out new sanction, more on that in this hour. first to what is happening on the ground in crimea. pro-russian forces trying to seal their grip on the peninsula. that means getting ukraine navy to surrender. jennifer glasse is in sevastopol with that story. >> the military has been under incredible pressure since the russian forces blockaded them in bases and ships across the crimean peninsula. the navy is wondering what might happen next. >> there's something going on. for the first time since the military standoff began at the beginning of the month, there's movement. sailors are unloading their belongings, that doesn't mean they are leaving the ship. the russian blockade substance. it's an aggressive stance. an armed warship sits at the

mountain, russia beliefs the end is in site. ol olga's husband is on board. the sailors will not surrender or leave. "there are only two choices - resign from the military or have ukraine consider you a desserter. this is not an option. to change your your allegiance. you can't do it. to stay here means to lie and live with that. i can't do that." her husband calls telling her not to leave any of his things. he said "the bases is off. i don't know what that means. it's nothing good." >> since the break-up of the soviet union, ukrainian and russian sailors and ships work side by side - no more. >> the sailor and soldier monument overlooking the bay

celebrates the unity of forces. >> for the ukrainian fleet, all they can thing about is division. >> this was an officer thrown out on wednesday. he says there's no military honour in russia actions. >> translation: we have seen in the past two weeks you can't believe russia. vladimir putin says his troops aren't there. i'm a military man. i see these are military men. >> every deal made - the russians have broken, including a promise not to take the bait. >> in my opinion, our blockaded ships should be sunk or blown up because it's a war, just no one is shooting at each other. god forbid they start shooting. >> the command ship flies the ukrainian flag. it has new neighbours. two russian ships sit across its bow. there are armed russian marines

blocking the entrance to its port, keeping up the pressure on the sailors. >> we are hearing that some of the sailors might be in trouble. they are being boarded by pro-russian troops, and some of the ships may have the russian flag flying over them. >> steven cowan joins us. welcome. president obama's administration - do they have any idea how to deal with vladimir putin? . >> i think we are two steps from a kind of cuban missile crisis. the two steps would be if n.a.t.o. moves its troops to the polish west boarder, and there's a clamour to do it in washington and yueurope.

if that happens, vladimir putin mr send the 150,000 troops that were practicing into south and eastern ukraine. i find the sanctions and the discussion of sanctions a little beside the point, particularly since the people who have been sanctioned on both sides are proud that they were named. i mean, it's just not going to the - to the grave danger we face, or so i think. >> and so what should president barack obama be doing? >> the first thing that would be excellent. is that everybody stop talking about escalating the military factor. president obama said - he said that we won't resort to military, but - meaning the kiev government and supplies. the most bellicose are speaks men for n.a.t.o. - american and in europe. the russian foreign office put forward the set of proposals on which to begin talks. i think they are reasonable.

i mean, you don't give them everything they want. it's a starting point. what i don't hear it coming from the united states is a response that suggests we are ready to sit down and kauk. to be fair, maybe somewhere we don't know about there are serious people from the united states, russia and maybe gemini, because germany is an important player, sitting in a swiss villa. publicly it's very bad. >> what do you think of this aggressive move by vladimir putin to take crimea. >> the fact is that crimea was for nearly 300 years in russia, it was an accident in ukraine for 22 years. the russians attempt to leave it there until the crisis in november. the question to be asked is who was responsible in november. that was when the protesters

began walking the streets of kiev. one thing lead to another, and the outcome was putin's annexation of crimea. who triggered the crisis. >> did vladimir putin have a plan, or was he caught offguard? ? i believe it was imposed on him or things got out of control, and then he began to relax and react as he is vladimir putin, a man who sees himself on an historical mission. >> more than that, he rushed troops to the border, and brought some troops, we believe, across the border to - in a big show of force. i mean, shouldn't europe be afraid of that, wouldn't you think naturally that europe would be concerned about that? >> everybody should be concerned. with great powers, with nuclear weapons, begin to move troops. even if they are only pretending

or threatening, in the other direction. >> when i hear you say this is like the cuban miss ill crisis, back to that time when i was a child, and how concerned the country was about the possibility of war, this is a very, very serious comment, and i - you know, the real question is whether or not - putin administration, or obama administration really understand that. >> it's a fact that the russian foreign office, which represents vladimir putin has put out a proposition for the future of ukraine as the beginnings of negotiation. now, the details, and you might not want to go into it, it is rational. it we not accept the points, but i can tell you what the bedrock for demand is, which is no more nato expansion. ukraine and georgia. the former soviet public of georgia - they are the red lines. >> so while he's amassing

fortunes, you say russia is looking for a way out and wants to talk. >> i think putin holds the cards. economically, geographically. under no circumstances did anyone want anything resembling that. they want to talk. >> i appreciate your insight. thank you. >> you can get all the latest headlines on the still developing story in the ukraine and russia by logging on to the website at aljazeera.com. coming up, shocking discovery, a suspected smugglers' ring uncovers scores of immigrants in a small texas house, plus no gaol time. the controversial decision for an army general accused of sexual misconduct.

>> in texas authorities are investigating one of the biggest human smuggling rings in years.

police say they found more than 100 people crammed in a suspected stash house in houston. the home is 122 square feet. heidi zhou-castro reports. >> they were kept hungry, thirsty and bare foot to prevent their escape. 115 migrants from hondures, el salvador, guatemala and mexico. who is had entrusted coy oatas to bring them to the land of opportunity. they have been held here from 2 to 15 days. >> bodies upon bodies. people sitting on top of one another. squalid conditions, dirty conditions. clothes thrown everywhere. >> the family of a 24-year-old woman told police about a house after koitys failed to bring her and two children to a pre-arranged meeting on tuesday. they were among the sea of

people police discovered inside - 99 males and 16 females, 19 children. >> the largest number of people in a stash house that we have encountered. >> the house had one partially working bathroom. the windows boarded and doors locked from outside. >> it is classic signs of a smuggling and koity operation in which people are treated like animals, more so than human being. the migrants are in the custody of law enforcement. they'll be interviewed, fed and screened. it's a story that a human right's advocate has seen too many times. >> many people have come to the united states, regardless of the conditions. they know they suffer through their journaly, i ask many people why are they willing to close the borders, and many people said i would rather do

this than see my children die of hunger. >> coyotes charge migrants and hold them for ransom until family members can cough up more money. in the worst cases they are sold into prostitution or forced labour. >> people are looking for cheap labour. this is a multimillionaire business. five suspected human smugglers have been arrested. authorities say more rests may follow. >> army brigadier general jeffrey sinclair has avoided gaol time in one of the military's closely watched court marshals. sinclair avoided sexual assault charges this week when he pleaded guilty to inappropriate relationships with three women. he's been reprimanded fined $20,000, but he could have faced 20 years in gaol and dismissal

of service. sinclair is asking to retire, and could receive an honourable discharge when he leaves the service. crackdown on the nation's largest electric company, north carr scro linea's duke energy pumped coal ash into a tributary of a river. >> on the yakkan river dean works to keep the waters health. the nonprofit yakkan river keeper sit upstream from the coal ash. >> we have coal ash ponds, it's contaminating, toxic. >> on february 2nd a toxic coal ash spill from a duke energy planned in eden north carolina highlighted a complex problem - how to clean up coal ash, a dirty by-product of coal

production. coal is a dominant source, but coal ash is in a slushy landscape. >> the levels of some of the toxins, carcinogens, led and arsenic, and you know the list. it's like a quarter of the periodic table. they are all extremely toxic for humans. so the cumulative effect in the environment is, i think, understudied. >> the environmental protection agency has no single federal standard requiring that ponds be lined and no standards for pond structures and monitoring. >> if you go back and look at the history of disposal for a long time, the cheapest way, frankly, to dispose of the material is to slews it into the ash ponds. >> up the hill is a station, there are three coal ash ponds

making up some of the largest. the water you see coming down is discharged from the coal ash ponds. duke energy has a permit. this is legal, even though there are toxic substances like arsenic flowing into the water system here. >> that permit states that there is no discharge limit for arsenic, sellenium and mersenry. in a response to al jazeera, duke energy told us we meet the permit requirements that are designed conservatively to make sure the lake or river will be protected. >> we are talking about people drinking contaminated well water. duke energy pledged to clean up the spill. no one from the company would sit nor an interview. in a letter to the governor, duke pledged to convest its

plants to dry ash, which could be recycled and minimise the risk of a discharge, by accelerating the removal of water from ash ponds. duke estimates the work could take 2-3 years. it's been categorised as an inadequate response: . >> coal is a filthy dirty business, an energy source that we need to move past. >> as coal ash ponds age, environmental groups worry time could be running out and are testing seeping groundwater on nearby property, hoping that when they do find contamination, energy companies like duke will be forced to clean up what

decades of coal power production left behind. >> coming up, the safe resumes for flight mh370, with officials focussing on satellite images of two objects. the latest developments in a moment. >> plus, rare find - a $33 million faberge bought at a flea market and how it almost ended up in the scrap happy.

>> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm john seigenthaler in new york. there's a lot to cover this half hour. coming up, a look at technology used to find the missing jetliner that is still missing. >> military veterans head to north dakota, the oil boom offering the promise of new jobs. it's the first undefeated team to enter march madness in

23 years. history is not on the side of the wichita team. >> richelle carey with a look at the top story. >> russia denies plans that it has to invade more of ukraine. the white house announced new sanctions against russia. president obama signed on executive order giving the u.s. authority to impose sanctions on key sections of the economy. it will have a painful financial impact of the the european union is moving ahead with sanctions against russia. leaders in brussels agreed to travel bans for more people. economic sanctions have been barned against >> search crews are in the second day of looking for flight mh370. in the second part of the i

don't suggest. australia says there are five military aircraft and six merchant ships taking part in the search. >> whee'll talk to someone that was on the search flights. with family waiting and watching, more equipment is being dispatched from perth. steve marshall from tv new zealand was able to ride on one of the planes. steve, before we get to your plane ride, talk about what is going on in perth. since the announcement yesterday by the prime minister that the two objects were found, what has happened in the ascertain, and what is happening in perth today? well, certainly the world's media descended at the raaf base outside of perth, about a 60 minutes drive outside the western australian capital. it's a hive of activity, not

only on the outside of the fence, but the inside of the fence, with all the flights taking off, taking it in terms to head to a new search zone where the objects have been identified. it certainly is a hive of activity. the problem is that the weather out in the southern indian ocean is absolutely terrible. it's a thick cloud fog in part sitting on the ocean surface, making life difficult indeed to get a decent search in the area. you flew on a plane. let me ask you about the searching that they are able to do. it's about 1500 miles into the indian ocean. there's only so much time they can spend before they come back. can they do two or three flights during the day. >> on last night's flight we were heading out. it's a 4-hour trip out to the search zone, and on the way back in. the military aircraft did its

stint. basically they exchange information in the air as they pass each other in terms of pilot to pilot, and tabbing tirn to tabbing tirn, in terms of what grid they searched and what point to go and have a look at. during our time out there, which was about a 3-hour search time in that particular area, we certainly had an opening in the weather. so we were able to get down extremely low, about 100 metres above the sea surface, and take a good look around. the coordinates for the search area, after the prime minister announced the objects were picked up by the satellite were given to the new zealand pilots, and that departure for the new zealand aircraft was brought forward and took off to the search zone. we couldn't locis on any object on the see surface. >> family members have been

disappointed before. there were satellite images from china, which turned out to be nothing. a lot of interest last night in this country when it appeared there were two new objects identified by the prime minister of australia. is there much talk about why the prime minister decided to go public with this information at this time >> well, what we suspect is that satellite image that's been handed to news outlet is not the high definition image that would be sitting in the search and rescue operations in the capital of australia, canberra. we think we have been more than likely been given an image that is has been diluted. they don't want to overpromise anything and behind the scenes we think this is extremely critical information, and it has been treated that way by the australian authorities. in terms of the disappointment. that extends to the crew on

board the flights, searching the new zealand crew, squadron five, on board an orion aircraft. it's been searching for the flight for two weeks, joining the search in malaysia, and has been searching the warm waters off malaysia. now it's heading to the freezing indian ocean. >> thank you, steve marshall, for giving us an inside look at what is going on. we appreciate it. hope to talk to you again. >> most passengers on flight mh370 are chinese. their families have been meeting with malaysian officials - where the plane was headed. or correspondent joins us from the hotel where the relatives have been staying. what are you hearing now, margo? >> well, the meeting has been ongoing for over an hour. five malaysian officials are

meeting with the relatives. the ambassador to beijing is here, civil aviation authorities and a boeing 777 pilot, and a representative from the malaysian military, which is something they have been asking for. it seems they are coming out of the meeting, trickling out and they are frustrated as they are given no new information. malaysians are recycling, giving them bits piecemeal. they feel it was being given to them piecemeal. one thing they said is still not ruling out an act of terrorism. >> can you explain to me, it's been about 24 hours. about this time we were getting information from the prime minister of australia saying it two objects had been identified on satellite.

how did the families get that information? >> well it came out in the news straight away. the same time the rest of the world heard about it from the australian prime minister. the families here are incredibly frustrated and they are visibly exhausted at the fact that they don't know whether to hold on to hope is what has been difficult for them in this entire time. we have spoken to a few of them that have come out of the meeting hall, and they said they couldn't sit through more of the same. they want to know what has happened, they are frustrated, angry and it's directed at the authorities. >> a view from budget tonig-- f beijing, thank you. >> michael daniel is joining us from singapore, a former federal

aviation administration investigator. he's based in south-east asia, and we welcome him tonight, and thank him for being with us. good to see you. >>. >> good evening. >> let's start with this. if this plane is found, once it's found what, would the first step of this investigation entail, and how long might it take? >> okay, well let's look at this as a process and a phase point of view, that right now we are in the search and rescue phase of trying to locate the aircraft. if fortunate to find the debris, that will start a step in the process, which in this case could be deployment of sonar buoys which are hearing devices that the military can deploy,

usually for a high profile search and rescue. the listening buoys can hopefully pick up the underwater locator beacon that would be emminating from the flight data recorder. if they are fortunate to pick up the signals pinging, that would start the next face, would be the rapid recovery and recovery of the black box. >> how many of the buoys are deployed. given that this could be deep water where the boxes could be at the bottom of the o, how well do they work on the surface? >> well they are very sensitive and sensitive equipment. if the military has the capability, which i am sure australia has, and the u.s.

assets, they could draw a line to the buoys, where they felt the highest probability, and it's a sound listening device with a long wire with a microphone on it. i understand they have the capability of picking up sound several hundred miles away. we'd be able to confirm that. that's what i'm hearing from navy friends. that would be the type of asset to deploy. you can cover a wide area with sonar buoys picking up this information or sounds. >> do you think this is the debris based on the images? >> well, i must say that this is the third time where we've heard that some debris has been - you know indicated. first we heard it from the vietnamese officials, and

secondly from the chinese visuals regarding there imagery, and thirdly from the australian officials. i would remain cautious, optimistic that with the type of weather conditions, oceanic conditions, it's hard to find this type of debris, with the swells and the currents with the ocean going on right now. so cautious optimistic could take some time, if they are able to locate the debris. if they do, if they firm the debris from the satellite imagery, then they would begin the next step in the process of deploying sonar buoys to pick up the signals. >> michael daniel, thank you for sharing your expertise from singapore. you can get the latest headlines by logging on to the website at aljazeera.com. now, veterans that served during the iraq and afghanistan wars

still have trouble finding work. according to an annual government report the unemployment rate for post 9/11 veterans was 9% in 2013. the youngest veterans, aimed 18 to 24 have the highest job rate of 21%. civilians in the same age group saw a rate of 14%. for all veterans the unemployment rate was 6.6% in 2013, down from 7% in 2012. north dakota's shale oil boom is creating jobs and opportunity for military veterans in search of work. those opportunities in the northern plains do have their draw backs. diane eastabrook has more on our series "the new frontier", >> with a quick once over on the truck, randy reeves sets off with a cement delivery. the 53-year-old came to north dakota oil country a few years ago to find a job when work in

florida dropped up. he landed a position within strata corporation within a day, crediting his experience as an air force vet rap. >> there's a prompt on the application, and i think that strata looks out for its veterans. >> oil service companies are recruiting workers for thousands of jobs in the oil fields in north dakota, sometimes giving preferential treatment to veterans citing skills, discipline and reliability. this job fair in williston opened an hour earlier to veterans so they could get a leg up. >> 31-year-old air force veteran went from one booth to another looking at a variety of jobs. >> i'm getting a feel, do what i need to do. i'm not worried about anything. >> i can take your resume if you like. >> some companies like

continental resources used veterans to recruit other vets. rob bryant says working in air force security helped him as a foreman. >> sometimes in the military you are at an early age responsible for resources that go into the million dollars. it breaks down the responsibility and ensure you go to work, and hold you accountable if you are not. >> many of the employers are eager to hire veterans. for veterans there are challenges to come, like a lack of housing and veteran services. >> housing is so tight in williston, a one bedroom apartment running over $2,000, if you can find one. there are local medical facilities, the nearest v8 hospital is in fargo, 400 miles away. >> reeves adapted to some challenges in life.

but he admits there's one thing he hasn't adapted to, being 2,000 miles of his wife. >> the physical part of it, having someone to sit on the couch and hold hands with is a little rough. >> not even the military could prepare him for that. >> now, tomorrow in our series "the new frontier", how schools are tackling the flood of new suits. well, it's rare to they are n.c.a.a. tournament undefeated, but that is what wichita state has done. michael eaves is here. >> rare may be a statement. it's happened so few times that even though history and analysts may not be on the sharp side, proving it's wrong is how wichita state got to 34 and 0 in the first place. >> wichita state had a lot of celebrate this year heading into the n.c.a.a. tournament

undefeated. does that mean they have a target on their back. >> they have the biggest bulls eye. from that conference, having a number one seed, they are stagging the chips. >> despite making a final four run, questions are made as to how the shockers become the first team from 1976 to finish the regular even undefeated and go on to win a national title. greg anthony knows about the pressure, he was on the last undefeated team. u&lv posted a 34 and 0 record before losing it duke at the final four. >> duke was a great team. we knew they'd be far more competitive and difficult this time around, no doubt about it. it's surreal and shocking. as the years have gone by, the disappointment of that loss never goes away. >> i don't think anyone, i'm not sure we thought we could win. it was a great moment. a defining moment for duke

university to come back and avenge the loss from the year before. it put our stamp on college basketball and started a great one. >> despite the remarkable season, the shockers have doubters, who point to wichita's state schedule, not including a single game against a rank team. >> that is what motivated them. they had more naysayers and doubters. the schedule is not as difficult. what i would impress upon people is don't focus on who they play, sometimes you want to focus on how they play. and they play championship calibre basketball. >> the thing that wichita state has, why everyone is skeptical at times, is every time they play, they should win. i never - i never watched them play and go this one. this is the one. they are going to get - so they haven't gone. they haven't gone into the

indoor stadium or chappell hill on a consistent basis. >> you have to take it one game at a time. we have a number one seed, number two seed and eventually ran into louisville, played them well and came up possession short. we know it's going be tough, we are prepared for that. it doesn't matter. if you have one off night or play poorly one night, you won't get to the second. >> they both put themselves in a position it make history with the unbeaten record. the shockers hope that's where their similarities end. >> they have something to prove. they know how good they are. they realise how good they are. people within the game, coaches, players, they know how good the team is. now they'll get an opportunity. >> wichita state is a top seat in the midwest. many believe it's the toughest

bracket in the tournament because it includes kentucky, duke and louisville. it will be a tough road for the shockers to get back to the final four. >> it is the toughest. >> no question. >> coming up, lucky egg of the faberge kind. would you believe this $3 million jewel was bought at a flea market. a heavenly sculpture in an unusual setting - at a steel mill. tonight's freeze frame.

>> consider at a flea market what was discovered. this, as flea market buyers go was $14,000, but worth it for the dealer who planned to scrap d for the gold. thinking it may be worth more, he turned to google. a search led him to an auction house confirming it was a rare faberge egg, one of the eight missing eggs. he sold it. some say it was worth $33 million. decorative arts and antiques appraiser reyne hirsch joins us from houston. >> thank you. i want to know - it wasn't long ago i lived in the mid west. i have been to a lot of flea markets. why did i nef find this? this

was never offered to me. >> when you look at the egg, it looks fancy, like it's worth something. why would someone put it up for sale at a brick-a-brac sale. >> that's a good question. i don't know the answer to that. i don't know how many of the story that you followed, but at one point in time it sold at sotheby's in 1962. they didn't realise what it was. it sold for $1500. it was marked watch in egg-shaped case. it guess if the people at sotheby's can't figure it out, a flea market probably is not either. >> talk to me about the original owner of the egg. >> the originalener was the imperial family. it was made in 1885 by faberge.

and they made 50 of these from 1880 until 1916 for the tzar's family. he was given them every year as an easter gift, quite the easter egg, to give to his wife. each took a year or longer to make. each one was made of the finest precious metals and diamonds and enamels that could be made. they are handmade, they are one of a kind. only the best for royalty. i mean, >> many of the eggs were lost during the russian revolution. how many did go missing? >> well it's said eight, and i'm guessing now that there's seven still missing, so anybody that is watching, you probably should head to the flea market and see if you can find the extra seven. >> other than what you describe, what makes it worth $33 million. >> well, you know, anything is worth as much as, you know, as

someone is willing to pay on any given day, there's two factors that play into what the value is. that is display and demand. there were 50 of these made, and only seven of them, with this found or available on the market. most are in museums. the largest collection was owned by the forbes family and they have nine at one point in time. in 2004 they decided to sell the collection and put them up at auction, and a russian billionaire found out and they no longer went to auction, because he purchased them all. at the end of the day it doesn't matter how much money you have, and you want to own them, you can have a lot of money and still not get one. >> well, it makes - maybe we'll find one of those seven gs. great to have you on the program. we appreciate it.

>> now, our picture of the day is from vatican city. pope francis underneath the brass and bronze sculpture attending an audience with the workers of terry's steel mill. the headlines are coming up

next. >> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm richelle carey. here are tonight's top stories. it's day 13 of the search for the missing malaysia airlines's plane, search crews are focussing on the southern indian

ocean. last night the australian government released images of some objects floating 1500 miles off the coast of australia. nothing has so far been found. >> president obama signs an executive order to impose sanctions on key areas of the russian economy. >> greg phelps died at the age of 84. his church was known to picket furnitures -- funerals of army veterans. >> over 100 people were found crammed into a house in texas. five people have been arrested. >> the u.s. army general will not spend time in gaol after pleading guilty to adultery. >> is sexual assault charges

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