have. thank you all for being with us, until next time, we'll see you online. ♪ hello and welcome to al jazeera america. i'm tony harris in new york. john siegenthaler has the night off. [ shouting [ >> anguished families are told there is news on the missing airline. satellite evidence indicating the plane crashed with no survivors. and the rising death toll from the huge mud slide in washington state. and world leaders take more

steps to punish the kremlin over ukraine. and the fight to find the african war lord. and graphic new video of the death of a homeless man raises new questions about a new mexico police department. ♪ and we begin tonight with the mystery of the missing plane. malaysia airlines, flight 370, the search is not over, and rough seas are slowing efforts to find the plane. but new data points to a trammingic end. >> good evening, tony. within the past few minutes al jazeera has learned that the search for the flight has been called off. the reason, high seas, and gail force winds, serves as a reminder of just what an

inhospitalable part of the world this search is taking place in. the moments no one wanted finally came. >> it is therefore, with deep sadness, and regret, that i must inform you that according to this new data, live image 370 ended in a southern indian ocean. >> reporter: it shows it headed south and came down near perth, australia. satellite images showed what appeared to be objects floating in the ocean. over the weekend, air crews

spotted gray, green-colored reck age. as the search goes on, finding the black box is a crucial next step. audio signals or pings fade out at around 30 days. so the u.s. pacific fleet is sending in a high-tech black box locater to the area. >> the pinger locater, as well as a blue fin 21 underwater vehicle were -- were flown out of jfk airport in new york to perth. it would be useful should be a debris field that we -- or maybe some underwater objects that we believe need to be researched. >> reporter: monday's break through offers slim comfort to the families.

but it's only the beginning of the hunt for the answers as to why the giant 777 disappeared from radar screens and wound up so far off coarse. and tony i wanted to pick up on something the rare admiral said there, he said the search area is too wide. he want toss see a debris field to be identified, and then he says he is pretty confident they can find the black box. so they are sending it down as a pre-emptive strike if you will to get it in the region. as soon as they identify a tight debris area, then they can second it in. >> thank you. todd curtis joins us from las vegas this evening. he is a former boeing safety engineer and licensed pilot.

todd your thoughts on the news of the day, based on the satellite data received and analyzed the plane went down in the southern indian ocean. your thoughts? >> certainly it's tragic news for the familiar list of the missing, and a bit disheartening for the folks around the world who were thinking that maybe there was the possibility they landed safely somewhere. but in an earlier conference, the prime minister said everyone was basically lost. but it's unclear at this point, whether the aircraft made a controlled landing in the water or uncontrolled landing in the water. granted survivability would be a slim chance even if it were a controlled landing, but that is still not certain yet. >> yeah. i have a question about the data. what makes this announcement from the prime minister information so reliable?

do you have faith in the data and the analysis that lead to this statement from the prime minister? >> i have faith for a couple of reasons. first they were open about their overall analysis. they had to use the doppler effect in order to narrow whether or not it was a northern or southern route that this aircraft took. in addition they had two other organizations look at their data, the aaib, and they also had a separate satellite company look at their data to peer review it. so given they had a lot of eyes on this, i have faith in their analysis. >> okay. todd what are -- taking a step back here, what are the key take aways from this investigation and how it was handled for you? >> well, there are a few takeaways, and most of them have to do with whatever happens before the actual investigation

of the aircraft data. certainly for the last two weeks there has been an unpresented amount of media attention. >> yes. >> and i think it shows a weakness on the systems in place, not just for malaysia, but for any country to deal with this level of attention for this kind of accident -- >> not just for malaysia, but any country is what you were saying? >> that's correct. even if this were the u.s. or canada, given the circumstances of this event, and the fact that there are so many days where they have to basically deal with needs of the families, the media, and public in general, there should be a rethinking of how the aviation industries of the world should face a situation like this. >> do you expect significant portions of this jet will be found? what of this plane might still be either just below or on the ocean surface? >> assuming it was an

uncontrolled impact with the water. the aircraft would have been broken up fairly severely. and lighter materials for example, interior cabin sound proofing material, seat cushions, other things that are lighter than water -- excuse me, not as dense as water, would remain floating for several days and maybe several weeks. it's not as likely that you will have large structures as was the case with the air france structure. >> i see. todd thank you. more than -- a pleasure, pleasure. new satellite data may be what leads recovery crews to the planes final positions. jacob ward takes a closer look at how the data is being gathered and analyzed. >> the information that malaysian authorities are using

comes from a company that is a british telecom company, one of the biggest commercial satellite companies in the world. it provides free global marry time distress services. and the company says it has done an unprecedented analysis. it seems to provide a new picture of the final ours. even after all of the other communication systems stopped transmitting. they continued to receive pings from the plane. seven or eight in total between 1:11, and 8:11 am when it disappeared from radar. these are not gps enabled. so the company had to do some very complicated math to figure this out. analysts combined elevation

information at the time it took the signals to reach the satellite. then they figured in the doppler effect. this is what changes the tone of a police car when it goes by you, and the way that waves change form when the thing observing them, in this case the satellite, is moving, so they couldn't triangulate, and they had to essentially make up a cruising speed. but they say their equations add up, and have shrunk down the search area to a much smaller size. but they say this is the limit of the data. but it is convincing enough that the malaysian government is satisfied it is definitive. even after this the search area is going to be enormous. no tangible evidence has been verified or physically inspected. this is the clearest sense we

may ever have of the plane's fate. malaysia airlines is scheduled to hold a news conference at 12:30 am eastern time, 9:30 am pacific. there are dozens of people still listed as missing in the washington state mud slide. more than 100 missing person reports have been filed. authorities say they don't know that anyone else will be found alive in the enormous square mile of mud and debris. some of the mud is said to be 15-feet deep. it began sliding saturday morning just north of seattle. alan is live with us tonight. and what is the latest on the search for survivors? >> well, the latest is toni that search and rescue crews here are

still maintaining that this is a rescue effort. but they found no lifetime. in fact now confirmed 14 dead. the search continues, though, at a frantic pace two and a half days after the slid hit. emergency crews are throwing everything into the third day of the search. dog teams helping ground crews who are hoping to get to every corner. it is now estimated 15 million cubic yards of earth smashed down out of the cascade mountain foothills. >> i want everyone to know that the situation is very grim. we haven't -- are still holding out hope that we're going to be able find people that may still be alive. but we have not found anybody alive since saturday in the initial stages of our operation. but, again, we're still in a rescue mode.

>> first responders admit they don't have a solid figure for how many people are still missing. rowland is one of them. an electrician who was on a job in the slide zone. his wife and daughter just trying to stay positive. >> we're hoping he is like pinned in a closet, and they have air pockets and are keeping each other going. >> miracles do happen in situations like that. >> i totally, totally believe in that. they do. >> we are familiar with the area, so you can tell just how much is just not there anymore. >> in these small mountain towns everybody seems to know everybody who may be lost. >> my friend denver he is missing in the slide, and he is a good friend of mine. he's a good friend of a lot of people at school. i'm hoping that they find him or something. >> but more than two days after the huge slide hit even with

searchers publicly saying they are still running a rescue mission, the hope is fading. >> it could happen anywhere. >> yeah. >> so it's just, you know, mother nature, i guess. >> it's a really sad scene upstream on the river. not likely to get any happier as the days go on. one commandinger told us it was a very grim scene at the mud slide. so six more bodies discovered today. that brings to 14 the price that nature has exacted on the river. >> alan thank you. and we turn now to the crisis in ukraine and the diplomatic push to ease the growing tensions. president obama and other world leaders have been meeting where they were scheduled to discuss nuclear terrorism, but the discussion was dealing with ukraine and how to punish and isolate russia. >> reporter: it is a crucial

three days in northern europe as a long scheduled summit has come to be dominated by the crisis in ukraine. with the dutch prime minister at his side, president obama urged continued vigilance from allies in confronting russia. >> we're united in imposing a cost on russia for its actions so far. >> reporter: but deterring a future russian land grab has been a tough goal of this trip. russia has been thrown out for now from the power group of nations known as the g-8. they have a clear warning to russia there will be a heavy economic price to pay if it goes beyond crimea. sergei lavrov showed little concern. >> so be it. we're not clinging to that format or that group. >> reporter: lavrov met again

with john kerry, and saturday down with ukraine's interim foreign after weeks of refusing to meet, insisting the kiev government was illegitimate. mr. obama has several meetings with world leaders over several days. the backdrop for all of this, the third nuclear security summit. but ukraine has and will continue to dominate the agenda as the president and allies come together to try to curb future russian aggression. >> the russian leadership needs to see that ultimately this is leading into a dead end for them of greater economic pain and greater international isolation. >> reporter: at the end of the meeting, a joint statement, the g-7 nations promising strong sanctions against brood sectors of the russian economy. mike viqueira, al jazeera, the

hague. james troeb is a columnist and joins us from new york. james good to see you. what are these nations another the g-7 cooking up to further isolate vladimir putin and russia, and how difficult will it be to keep everyone on board? >> well, the problem is not so much keeping them on board with the plans they have right now. it's whether or not they can raise it another level. the united states has already said in addition to the sanctions it has already imposed that it is prepared if it feels that putin is about to engage in further aggression, which means crossing the border into eastern ukraine, it is prepared to impose sanctions on russian business sectors. they say that could be effective, but the only immediately effective thing is something that europe could do which is to boycott russian natural gas, so that's

$100 billion a year. that would seriously damage the russian economy, but it's clear to me from talking to experts that europe just can't afford it. it's too de -- dependant. >> what would a boycott mean? >> i talked to several people, and they said they don't know because they are so afraid to think about it. what it probably would mean really is not an immediate process, but it could one of a couple of things. one a slow process of weaning themselves off of russian natural gas, and anything that is slow is not going to have a dramatic effect. so would they, for example, deny the russian natural gas firm the ability to deal either in dollars or euros, that is to say treat it somewhat the way

iranian companies have treated it. presumably they would then react by cutting off gas to europe. that's what europe can't afford. >> right. >> we see the same process happening with ukraine right now. that russia is ukraine's overwhelming supplier of gas. and russia said they were going to increase the price of natural gas to ukraine by about 10%. so then where is ukraine going to get the gas from? >> yeah. yeah. james, just listening to you work through these scenarios here, i'm wondering, do you believe that vladimir putin, his ego, can accept the idea of him being an international pariah? if these sanctions somehow come together on the oil and gas sector and he is isolated further? do you think he could accept

that? >> he has a vision of russia. something that has become much more clear in recent weeks, and if you read his speech, you can see there is an overwhelming sense of agrievement that russia has been mistreated by history. its greatness has not been accepted. and it has allowed itself to be trampled on. so at least in the short-term there is a tremendous sense of gratification which has a tremendous sense on the russia people that russia is standing up. now how long can that last? i think the real question is what happens when the vapors clear and they are looking towards the future, and then they see not only that they are isolated, but the economy is really going to be damaged, and russia is not going to have the glorious future that putin is talking about. >> james thank you for joining

us. thanks for your time. a major development at the hague meeting japan's decision to turn over hundreds of pounds of weapons grade nuclear material to the united states. the country says it is giving washington enough material to build about 50 nuclear weapons. president obama has been pushing to try to secure supplies of dangerous weapons from around the world. and next up, receipting from crimea, ukraine orders its troops to withdraw from the black sea. plus the president steps up the. for the african war leader. and was it excessive force? new mexico police under criticism for killing a homeless man. ♪

the search for the elusive african war lord is getting a boost from the u.s. military. 150 troops in four specialty aircraft are being added to track him down in the african jungle. >> reporter: for more than a year, troops have been combing the jungles of africa, looking for joseph coney, accused of murdering, kidnapping, and raping hundred of people for decades. now the troops take to the air. their search area, uganda, south sudan, the central african republic, and the former democratic republic of the

congo. >> i think with all of the intelligence equipment and stuff, i think they have kind of found out where he is, and they need these helicopters and other devices to really pounce on him. i think now is the time. >> reporter: the pentagon didn't go that far. >> this is a mission that we have been conducting now for about a year. the support mission, air lift has been one of the consistent requirements and requests of the african union. we are in a position now to provide that air lift for a while, and we're going to do it. >> reporter: the obama administration increasing assets in what has been a popular cause in the united states, to find coney, but trying to make clear this isn't about helping the government of uganda. it was just last month when the press secretary said the process was under review. >> we are shifting action away

from groups who don't reflect our values. proceeding could pose a danger to the staff. we are redirecting approximately $3 million previously designated for tourism promotion, and shifting a symposium and east african military intelligence to locations outside of uganda. >> reporter: that money is being shifted not taken away. the new troops are about bringing one man to justice not regarding what many see as a grave injustice to the gay community in uganda. police in new mexico are on the defensive after an officer fatally shot and killed a homeless man camping illegally in the foothills. heidi zhou castro reports that deadly police shootings are

nothing new for this community. the video you are about to see is graphic. >> reporter: this man set in for the night. the 38-year-old had an extensive arrest record, and police say he showed signed of mental illness. we warn you what you are about to see is graphic. >> do it. [ gunfire ] >> get on the ground! get on the ground now! get on the ground! get on the ground! [ gunfire ] >> the albuquerque please who had engaged in a three-hour standoff say the shooting was justified. >> all of the less than lethal devices were in fact deployed. it was when the canine officer was down directing the dog that the suspect pulled out the two knives and directed a threat to the canine officer who had no weapons drawn.

>> reporter: but others are not so sure. won -- in the fast four years albuquerque police have shot and killed 23 people, that's the highest per capita rate of police shootings in the country. >> it literally makes me physically sick. you can see mr. boyd was actually obeying the commands, he was turning around and his hands were -- he was going to go down on the ground like he was being ordered to do, and that's when they murdered him. >> reporter: kenneth says watching the killing is adding salt to the wound of the killing of his own son. he was an iraq war veteran with ptsd. an officer shot him in the neck. >> he said i'm not here to harm anybody. he was a threat to himself.

he had suicidal, you know, like most veterans with posttraumatic stress. they are in pain, severe pain. >> reporter: the officer who shot ellis was not punished. the family sued for wrongful death. a jury delivered them the largest civil rights verdict in new mexicoian history, $10.4 million. the department of justice is currently investigating whether the albuquerque police department has used unreasonable excessive force. at issue is whether boyd's death will now also be part of that investigation. 25 years after one of the worst environmental disasters in u.s. history, next up, the lasting impact of the exxon valdez oil spill. plus bail denied. our al jazeera colleagues make yet another court appearance in egypt.

welcome back, everyone, to al jazeera america. i'm tony harris in for john siegenthaler. we have a lot to cover this half hour, including best-case scenario. texas officials say they hope saturday's oil spill won't leave much of an vieshthal accident. the accident 25 years of the country -- one of the country's oil spills. and moving to moscow. but first a look at today's top stories. the world nuclear terrorism summit quickly turned into a discussion about the crisis in ukraine. president obama and other world leaders discussed ways to punish russia for its takeover in crimea. president obama called for a united front and more emergency

sanctions. crews in washington state say they doubt any more survivors will be found after a huge mud slide. six more bodies were recovered today. malaysia officials say based own new data, they are convinced that the airlines crashed into the southern indian ocean, killing all people on board. 26 countries are still involved in the search, but search efforts have been called off for tuesday due to bad weather. before the storm system moved in over the indian ocean. andrew thomas was able to get on board one of those search planes. >> reporter: the crew have seen an object in the water. it's position has been marked and now on a return pass, a smoke canister is fired. the smoke is a visual reference

for the next pass. a second smoke canister is deployed as the plane turns back towards it, there's a fleeting glimpse of another object. >> tonight we're seeing quite a few things in the water. >> reporter: i'm looking too. i think i see a red object flash by, but at just 100 meters off of the ocean, my possible object and chris's definite ones are gone almost as soon as they are scene. it wasn't just chris who saw the objects. other observers confirm their color and shape. a photographer catches two in frame. that's the fourth object marked by one of the spotters, and [ inaudible ] are called out over the crew radio. all four are described as more

than a meter in length, and are describes as a hose, something circular, and something rectangular. another plane and navy ship are directed towards the objects. >> i have been in communications with the rescue control center, and have been allowed to come in as this is the latest priority. the latest priority is collecting these items, and analyzing them, and trying to classify them. >> reporter: another object is spotted, more smoke and a gps positioner are dropped. the plane is low on fuel. flight 104's day has been a success. they have seen and marked the position of objects in an area where just hours later the prime minister would confirm where the

plane had crashed. ukraine is pulling out of crimea. pro-russian forces have been taking over military assets base by base. now ukraine's interim government is telling its forces to get out. >> reporter: the acting president gave the order for the ukrainian military to leave the crimean peninsula along with their families because their lives were in danger, they were in life-threatening situations, and in some cases the families of the soldiers had been threatened. they estimate there are about 25,000 military personnel and their families and other ethnic ukrainians who want to be evacuated from the peninsula. this all comes as many of the military personnel had been pushed off of their ships or bases. on monday morning the marine base was overrun by russian forces very aggressively. they were firing in the air and

using flash grenades, we understand there were some ukrainian forces injured in that confrontation. and here the last ship here flying the ukrainian flag was taken over the weekend by the russian forces. so essentially the russians just a few small bases left. they say they are flying the flag over more than 100 military bases here in crimea as they consolidate their hold and move the forces out of crimea as they make their control over the crimean peninsula complete. as in other parts of southeastern ukraine, odessa is a city divided between pro-russia and pro-europe camps. one demonstration was captured in this now viral video. ♪

>> okay. so those people recognize this as -- beethoven's owed to joy, but it is also the anthem of the european union. the owner of the brooklyn nets says he is moving his company to russia. really? michael eaves is here with more. >> and he may have been inn tending to do this from the very beginning. with an estimated net worth of $11 billion he is one of the richest men in russia. he has been working to relocation his company that owns the nets to russia jurisdiction. in fact he says he received permission from the nba to move the team's ownership company to russia in order to allow him to comply with the recent russian law. after losing to vladimir putin

in the 2012 presidential race, he had been planning to run to mayor of moscow but had to pull out. he is considered to be a strong ally of putin, and moving the ownership would fulfill putin's request that russian companies be owned locally and pay taxes to the government. martin, pro -- >> the only man that can answer that question is prokrov himself. but there is a moment of unease by russian uber wealthy. prokrov may feel that another

side effect of making this move is a bit more certainty over there. he knows how things work in russia, rather than trying to second-guess any moves that may be made. >> he owns a very public sports entertainment franchise here in the states an nba team. >> yeah, any sanctions are laid down will become as a direct result of what does or does not happen in the crimea. we just don't know how that is going to play out. you can look at this one of two ways. it may not be the most popular move on the part of the u.s. government to take sanctions on someone, but from prokrov's side of things, he may feel just because he does own an nba team wouldn't necessarily protect him. >> he says the league has given him permission to do that.

but the nba spokesman said there is no formal process to transfer the ownership to a foreign country. >> i'm certain they wouldn't have predicted that tensions between the two countries would have reached quite such a frosty point. from the nba's point of view they don't want to get into this past the point of making sure that any of their regulations are adhered to. the nba has a number of very powerful and wealthy openers, but i think they will want to steer clear of this as much as possible. >> thank you for your incite. and this is really no precedent that has been set here -- >> right. >> -- in terms of a u.s. team being owned by number and taken ownership overseas. the players themselves are worried about this.

there are all kinds of things to be considered there. >> michael thank you very much. an egyptian court has adjourned the trial of three al jazeera journal lists until next week. they have been in prison for nearly three months now. al jazeera rejects all charges and continues to demand the unconditional release of its staff. >> reporter: the court reconvenes to hear more prosecution arguments in the egyptian government's case. the journalists are accused of joining or assists a terrorist organization and produce false news. it's the first time egypt's journalists are brought up on charges. the family spoke to the media >> translator: it is not acceptable to classify someone as a terrorist. mohammed has no link to any terrorist groups.

>> we have been shouting long and proud that there is no way we would have had any part to play in any snowstorm of terrorism. >> reporter: the journalists spent the entire hearing in cages. they have been asking for international engagement to free them. the al jazeera english reporting team was detained at their hotel by egyptian security services on december 29th. mohammed fahmy's shoulder injury has worsened in jail. baher mohamed is only allowed to see his wife and two children once a week. correspondent peter greste's family are computing from australia for the hearings. they have received letters promising to ensure the trial is run efficiently. >> i am certain that your son will enjoy all of the rights as

guaranteed and cherished by the law. i have directed the interior minister to follow up on your son's health condition, and stress that all possible care must be extended to him. >> reporter: the prosecution has not finished presenting evidence and witnesses. but defense lawyers were able to cross-examine them. the trial has been continued to march 31st. a fourth journalist has been detained since august of 2013 with no trial. he is now on hunger strike. dozens of ships have been working to clean up the oil spilled in the houston ship channel. the barger collided with a liberian tanker in the bay. businesses along the channel are anxious to have the busy waterway reopened. >> reporter: it's unusually

quiet inside boyd's one stop. >> usually we would be cram packed in here. >> reporter: the store sells seafood to the public, but most of the business comes from selling bait to fishermen. >> ever since the barges collided, we have had nothing. >> reporter: police are now restricting access to the dike after an oil spill over the weekend that left as much as 168,000 gallons of oil in the shipping channel. >> this is a very significant oil spill. we don't see oil releases of this quantity. this is very hard to deal with. it spreads out over a very large area. >> reporter: hundreds of people are working to remove oil from the waterway, using skimming else haves and boom which works as a barrier to trap pockets of oil. there was also concern for bird sanctuaries, but strong wind went the oil slicks out further

towards the gulf. >> we have put a safety zone to prevent people from accidentally contaminating their vessels or themselves with the oil. >> reporter: the safety zones stalled cruz ships from continuing their voyages and temporarily paralyzed the shipping channel. meanwhile new people are stopping into boyd's for bait. >> we have had five or six customers every hour. >> and caleb estimates the store will continue losing big bucks while access to the dike is denied. >> it has been about $8,000 of loss every single day. >> reporter: and it still may be many more days, even weeks until the clean-up effort is complete. but the coast guard says work will continue around the clock. another devastating oil spill occurred exactly 25 years ago today. the oil tanker, exxon valdez

spilled nearly half a billion gallons of crude off of the shore. thousands of miles of shoreline was contaminated you'll remember. we spoke with scott who talked about how the ecosystem and economy are still recovering. >> we were established in response to the oil spill in prince william sound where 11 million gallons of oil was released. there was a lot of effort to increase our understanding of the effects of oil spills and also our ability to respond. the state and federal government also has really changed a lot of what we know about the ecosystem here in prince william sound and the bigger effect was there was a collapse in the herring

population that occurred shortly after the oil spill, and that has had a bigger economic effect on the community, which is a small fishing town. fortunately salmon has been holding the community up. herring are also very important because of their role in the ecology. almost everything seems to eat herring at some point, so it's a verying important species for us to understand its recovery, and it's one of the few that we know has not recovered. some of the bigger lessons is one be prepared. during the spill there was very little equipment. that has changed dramatically. one of the big lessons is to ensure that we have accessibility, that we have a practice, if there ever was another spill we would be prepared to get out there and do

our best to contain it before it can spill. there is actually still very fresh oil within the beach sediment, and you can actually collect fresh oil out of the beach. fewer to visit. as a tourist you would never know that an oil spill occurred. six years after bernard madoff admitted to his ponzi scheme, five of his teammates may be joining him in jail. the court forced him to give some money back. madoff is now serving a 150-year sentence. and first responders assisting them. and attacked, the unusual

new feature inside the governor's mansion in colorado.

s some big changes here across the eastern seaboard as we go from tuesday to wednesday. the moisture we see towards the gulf of mexico is going to meet some energy up here. a storm system is going to form off of the atlantic. now as we get towards tuesday evening, we get to see the snow here across maryland as well as

into delaware. as we go towards wednesday, the snow is going to be a major issue. in these areas, the wind is going to be extremely strong. we could even be seeing blizzard warnings across parts of cape cod. as we make our way towards thursday, things clear up, clouds in the area, and the snow is going to melt across much of the area. here in new york, the snow, well, if we get an inch that is going to be quite a bit. then here on wednesday, we're going to be really concerned about what happens up towards parts of eastern maine. for boston a nigh of 37, and then on friday a high of 53. tony has your news coming up right of this.

living in san francisco is not cheap. it is the third most expensive

city in new york just after new york and honolulu, and for many police officers and firefighters, it's just too expensive. melissa reports. >> reporter: this man was born in san francisco, raised in san francisco, and now serves san francisco as a firefighter. he also almost got priced out of living in san francisco. >> i went from preschool all the way to high school here. and everything has changed. i think the tech boom has really driven the prices pretty high. and it is hard to rent let alone buy a house. i think it's really unfortunate, you have teachers, police officers, sheriffs, firefighters, we want to be in the city we work in. >> reporter: the gap between the rich and the poor is growing faster in san francisco than any other major city in the country.

families in the bottom 20th percent tile saw their salaries drop, and those at the top perce percentile saw their incomes rise. with the cost of living sky high, some first responders have been forced to move hours ray way, and that worries officials. >> so it's really a question of when the next one hits, and when the next one hits, we want our first responders to be living in san francisco. >> reporter: city hall is offering first responders like ye, up to $100,000 in down payment assistance. the initial pool had enough money to help out about ten applicants.

so andrew ye is one of the lucky few who benefited from the program. >> i was getting outbid by 20% over the listing price and a lot were cash offers. so i was lucky to get a house in san francisco today. i just moved in about two months ago, so i'm doing a lot of little projects here and there on my day's off. it's a two bedroom, one bath, small house on the hill. >> reporter: the city recognizes it would have to significantly expand the program for any impact. andrew would like to see the loan assistance program grow so more public assistants can have the opportunity to also live in the city where they serve. and now about this, the colorado governor's mansion is now the first in the nation with its very own beer taps. three were installed, and the governor knows how to work them.

he founded a brewing company before getting into politics. colorado as you know is one of the nation's leaders in beer production with more than 130 breweries in the state. and coming up all new tonight on al jazeera america at 11:00 eastern time, working alongside first responders looking for a sign of life. a man talks about the desperate search. and reuniting, a band with a fan that was badly injured in a crash at a festival. and tonight's freeze frame image comes from the nation's capitol. the scaffolding is finally coming down from the washington monument. has tonight's exclusive report. >> stories that have impact... that make a difference... that open your world... >> this is what we do...

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borderland only on al jazeera america >> this is the real deal man... welcome to al jazeera america. i'm tony harris here is a look at tonight's top stories. the search has been called off for flight 370 but malaysian authorities say new satellite

images show the plane plunged into the southern indian ocean, killing all people on board. the death toll stands at 14 in the washington state mud slide. more than 100 people are still listed as missing. authorities say it is unlikely they will find anymore survivors. a huge mud slide wiped out a small village saturday morning. ukraine's forces are pulling out of crimea less than a week after russia annexed the region. president obama and other world leaders agreed to meet without russia at the next summit of wealthy nations set for june in brussels. the u.s. military pledges more manpower and marinery to help in the search for african war lord joseph coney. coney was charged with crimes against humanity by the international criminal court back in 2005, and cleanup crews are trying to collect nearly

170,000 gallons of oil spilled into a waterway near galveston, texas. those are the headlines. i'm tony harris. "america tonight" with joie chen is up next. perth,. >> on "america tonight," an end to the mystery but not the pain. what happened to malaysia air 370, now the world knows. also, a dark part of virginia's history not all that long ago. >> the end was to develop a super-human race. >> exclusive look at how the commonwealth's forced sterilization policy became a model for the nazis. >> how many forced sterilizations do you think you