leaders. and new evidence russians are lay land mines. >> a sky diver and plane become entangled mid air and crash 75 feet to the ground. incredibly both men walk away without injury. we have the stunning images. >> your "new day" starts right now. this is "new day" with chris cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. >> by my side is the splend it brooke baldwin. >> and always good to have mike l mikel -- mikaela back.

>> now, despite reports of debris sightings and oil slicks, officials in malaysia say they have not seen evidence of the jet. the possibility of terrorism now in the mix. brooke will look at that in the moment. let's bring in jim clancy, live from kuala lumpur. >> reporter: hopes, fear plus frustration more than 60 hours after this fly vanished off the radar, the mystery of what happened to this flight still eludes us but people are not giving up. this morning the search

intensifies for missing malaysia flight 370. now three days into this exhausting hunt for clues, they are scouring the waters of the south china sea. malaysia's civil aviation chief says no wreckage has been found. >> we have not found anything that appears to be objects from the aircraft, let alone the aircraft. >> reporter: but he did confirm they have taken samples from a spotted oil slick between the waters between malaysia and vietnam in hopes of a positive match. teams all involved in the search effort with more than 30 aircraft and some 40 ships across at least 50 nautical miles. the missing boeing 777 took off on saturday. less than an hour after take-off, the tower lost the plane's signal.

no distress call sent and the weather clear at the time. the boeing 777 and its 239 people aboard seemingly vanished. despite the lack of clues, officials here say they have some clues. >> we look back at the recording and there is a possible indication that the aircraft may turn back. >> reporter: investigating the possibility that the flight may have changed course and tried to turn back. adding to the mystery, interpol says two of the passengers used stolen passports. now they're examining surveillance videos and additional suspect passports. this facebook page has been dedicated to the 239 people who the airline says belong to 14 different nations. three americans were on board, including 50-year-old phillip wood from north texas. more than half of those aboard

that jetliner were of chinese descent, they were chinese nationals and they have begun arriving here in kuala lumpur. they are searching for their family members and searching for answers. there are no answers here, at least not yet. >> jim clancy, thank you so much. if terrorists had anything to do with the disappearance of this flight, they're not taking credit like they usually do. right now officials are focusing on the two passengers who got on the boeing 777 with stolen passports. let's bring in pamela brown on that angle. >> reporter: good morning. right now interpol trying to identify the two passengers who used the stolen passports. the question remains how did they board that plane and another frightening thought, how often does that happen. according to interpol, an

astounding number of people have boarded flights without having their passports checked as lost or stolen. it's one of the biggest mysteries in the disappearance of malaysia flight 370. how did two passengers board a flight with stolen passports? even more surprising, they were in plane sites, among the names listed in the stolen passports list. >> when you book your ticket, the airline is not able to make an inquiry with interpol about whether you're wanted or whether the passport has been reported stolen. the country -- the government does. >> last year alone, passports were able to board planes without having their passports screened against interpol

databases more than 1 billio times. >> the member countries, the 190 members that belong to interpol, are not charged a fee for accessing any of those databases. so if the country has sufficient resources and technical capability to wire into interpol's virtual private network that's running 24 hours a day, they certainly would be able to access that database and check it. it's up to the will of the country to set it up and do it. >> ronald noble says now we have a real case where the world is speculating whether the stolen passport holders are terrorists, while interpol is asking why only a handful of countries worldwide are making sure that people possessing stolen passports are not boarding flights. >> how often do officials get a

hit for stolen passports? more than 60,000. >> mr. mcgau, thank you. >> good morning. >> it's a big plane. how unusual for there to be no signal or sign or communication from such a sophisticated jet? >> it's very unusual. it has to be something that is sudden and violent. also, why season the transponder working so that it can be located? those are big concerns. but it had to be something quick, violent that took it out of the sky. >> let's get perspective on whether you think these are real clues or could be red herrings. we have the missing passport,

the oil slicks and the dramatic turn on the end on radar back toward kuala lumpur. what do you make of those? >> well, in terms of the turn back towards kuala lumpur, i think in bombings before in aircraft, if this is a bombing where one side of an aircraft is blown out, sometimes it will, my understanding, cause it to veer right before going down or virtually at the same time. i think this is something obviously we're going to have to look at closer. but if it was turning around on its own and intentionally, then why no warning, why no mayday and why is there a closer airport than turning around. those are all things that have to be answered. >> the oil slim. we now believe it may not be from this plane, it could be from something else, that it was so long and it was sitting there with no debris field around it,

does it make as soon as now that it's as likely that it's associated as unassociated? >> it's think it may be 50/50 or 60/40 it is the debris of that plane. the oil is going to come up, parts of the airplane are pinned down and there are parts that are float. and the fact that it's such a long area is typical if it's an explosion. and talking about the oddity of this, you have almost no aircraft accidents historically, very few, at that level. was it something that was in the cargo hold that triggered at 35,000 or 36,000 feet. >> that was an important point, mr. magaw, unusual that you have major malfunctions at that

height. the passports, the more we learn about it, the less impressive it becomes. >> it won't be surprising to investigators or those who are in the business. that's been a concern for a long time. and ron noble from interpol has expressed that. but you've got fugitives that are using them. you have human trafficking. you have drug trade. you could go on and on as people who are using false identification. and now you've got four on the aircraft that used false identification. so it's not unusual in that part of the world for virtually all the flights that have any number of passengers, it not unusual that you might find one that's improperly identified. >> so probably more interesting than it is instructive. and lastly, if this were terrorism, is it unusual that whoever did it wouldn't have wanted people to know they had taken control of the aircraft

and that a group wouldn't have come forward now saying, yes, it was us? >> well, since 9/11 and since afghanistan, you have had a lot of it spread out throughout the world and also here in the united states we're very concerned about the two or three or four people who plan the event because they're much more difficult to identify but they're well to be. but you're right, you don't want tunnel vision with the improper identification here. how about those ground crews? who handled that aircraft from the time it arrived on the ground until it left. you have caterers, you have mechanics, baggage handlers, ramp managers. who has access to that ramp. we've had problems with country with ramp side access not well protected and we're dealing with that now.

but in foreign countries and other countries, we're still having a big problem with that. the cleaners in the aircraft can insert something underneath the cushion that detonates at a certain time or put in the cargo hold. there are just so many possibilities here. but it really is catastrophic. i don't think there's much question in anybody's mind if that are really straight forward that it wasn't catastrophic. >> the search for answers is very important for investigators. but for those 239 families, the answer couldn't be more urgent than it is and our thoughts are with them obviously. mr. magaw, thank you for the insight this morning. >> you're welcome. >> brooke? >> even as the world warns vladimir putin to stay back, the russian buildup in crimea shows to signs of slowing down.

pro-russian supporters went on the attack. cnn has exclusive pictures of where the battle lines are being drawn. hundreds of troops have built this new border complete with mine fields, barbed wire. what they're doing is looking to establish control with a referendum on crimea's future. all of six days away. we want to get more on that. anna, good morning. >> reporter: hi, brooke, that's right. less than a week before the referendum here in crimea, that military buildup of russian forces has definitely intensified. we're getting reports they're creating a new border between crimea and ukraine so we drove up and this is what we found. parked along the highway linking crimea to ukraine, a convoy of russian military trucks and armored personnel carriers. we're approaching a check point flying the russian flag where

troops are searching cars, targeting media crews and confiscating equipment. we hide our cameras as soldiers inspect the van. one of them is spotted. it's taken and turned off. this is now effectively part of russia and they don't want us filming the evidence. the local soldier in charge, who sworn allegiance to russia, agrees to an interview. "we're defending our people," he tells me. "this is not about russia but protecting our homeland." we see a new border being erected. once out of view from russian troops, we stop the car and continue filming. russian troops is dug in armed personnel carriers have rolled out barbed wire, dug fence posts and will are also signs that indicates there are land mines

in the area. >> a local resident says this is a mine field. a neighbor's dog ran through and was blon up. -- blown up. several miles away, they, too, are setting up camp, well aware it could turn bloody. if they want us to defend crimea, we will do this and we will die, this soldier says. we know there's a media crack down on the way. we were lucky, we did not have our equipment confiscated but they don't want us recording the buildup of the new border. but from what we could see, they are digging in and the russians

are here to stay. >> anna coren. thank you. >> a powerful 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit 50 miles west of eureka and humbolt county. no reports of major damages or injuries. >> new this morning, the father of the sandy hook massacre said he wishes his son had never been born. he also says he knows his son would have gunned him down if he had the chance. >> breaking overnight, the prime suspect in natalie holloway's disappearance will be extradited to the united states in 24

years. peru agreed to spend van der sloot to the u.s. only after he faces trial for the murder of another woman. >> rand paul for president in 2016? many who attended the annual cpac gathering indicated that. texas senator ted cruz was a distant second with 11%. >> do you remember that epic spelling bee we told you here about on "new day"? well, a winner has finally been crowned in missouri. remember kush sharma? he won the match after successfully spelling the word definition. >> i cannot believe it. the word were prepicked but he

spelled definition. it took 29 rounds to finally win over sophia hoffman. they eventually called a tie and now the plan is for sharma to go on to the national spelling bee in may. >> must-see tv, by the way. >> he was a charming fella. his parents were here. he studies all the time. no time for facebook or videos games -- >> sounds like a young chris cuomo. >> no, not really. even though they did stump me with a fake word. >> it wasn't a fake word. >> they said it was some german cookie that didn't exist. i thought it was petty for the champion to -- and she was two years younger than him. >> since we're doing spelling, indra petersons, spell the word

meteorology. >> do you really want me to spell that bad boy? i better have that one right. let's talk about the change because finally today it is so much nicer. this is the pattern we had all winter long, guys. finally for like two days we're seeing the jet pattern lifting and going from below normal to above normal. we talking about highs about 13 degrees above normal, 50s today. 70s toward the west in chicago, looking for temperatures 20 degrees above average. it actually gets better by tomorrow. new york goes to 60s! i've been waiting for this for so long. i started with the good. once we go to wednesday we drop down to near 40s in new york city and 20s as your highs. dnc d.c. goes from 70s down to 30s

so something seas going on. this system will come out of the plains and make its way across the country, we'll watch in energy develop and by tuesday upper midwest, plains gets snow, makes its way through the ohio valley, wednesday and thursday heading toward new york city city, chance for a wintry mix and snow. it's got a ways to travel. looks like it is north of our area. that's good news. >> 60 degrees, i was having to bring my sweaters after being in atlanta. pull them out, dust them off. >> i'll hook you up. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> on "new day," the oscar pistorius trial has had some surprises so far. there are questions about whether reeva steen cam --

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shared in court. robin, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. throughout this case so far, we've mostly heard from witnesses who is set the scene. take a listen. the second week of oscar pistorius's murder trial opened with his defense team on the attack, challenges statements made by his security team at the estate. >> this is how you learned to know something was wrong. >> reporter: phone calls between pistorius and peter barber dissected by the defense. the guard said he initially lied to him when he first called the athlete after the shots were fired saying everything was fine but the defense say records show it was pistorius phoned first. last week the olympic played runner faced a stream of graphic

testimony from the prosecution's witnesses, including his next door neighbor. >> he was trying to open air way and trying to i think stop bleeding from her right thigh. >> reporter: the doctor was among the first to see pistorius and he shot steenkamp multiple time times. >> his ex testified -- >> we were still together but we were having problems. >> just after 3:00, i woke up from a woman's terrible screams. >> it was clear this person's life was in danger. >> with the head shot, she would

have dropped down immediately. >> reporter: defense lawyers suggesting it was pistorius screaming after accidentally shooting his model girl friend in what they claim was a tragic mistake. so just to give you an update, in the last half an hour or so, we heard the state pathologist giving evidence. oscar pistorius had his head buried in his hands. this testimony is not being broadcast live either via radio or by video because this is deemed insensitive to reeva's memory. it's about protecting her dignity, says the judge. back to you. >> thank you so much. coming up next on "new day," the search for malaysia airlines

flight 370, the boeing 777 has been called a technological marvel and considered one of the easiest jets to fly. could a safety problem really be to blame for the plane's disappearance? >> and take a look at this. a stage holding over 200 girls. look what happens. it collapses at a california high school. investigators are trying to figure out how it happened. we'll tell you. you raise her spirits. we tackled your shoulder pain. you make him rookie of the year. we took care of your cold symptoms. you take him on an adventure. tylenol® has been the number 1 doctor recommended brand of pain reliever for over 20 years. but for everything we do, we know you do so much more. tylenol®. but for everything we do, we know you do so much more. you created light. you are loved.

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pro-russian gangs whipped and beat demonstrator. in the meantime, cnn has exclusive pictures of where the russians have built a new border separating crimea from ukraine. mine fields, barbed wire and russian troops now mark that dividing line. >> new this morning, mexican authorities say they have scored a big win in their battle against drug cartels. the leaders reportedly was killed in the weekend by navy forces. the leader was thought to have been killed four years ago but government officials say they're 100% sure they've got him this time but will run several tests to be sure. >> public officials in boston will release more details today about enhanced security for the upcoming boston marathon. their focus will be on how speak

ta -- spectators will be handled. >> 13 nuns and three workers are now free and back in syria this morning. they were kidnapped at a greek orthodox monastery last november. those 13 women were initially released in lebanon but arrived back in syria overnight. the nuns were freed in exchange for 150 women the syrian government is holding. >> actor liam neeson is speaking out for his love of horse carriages. nees neeson -- >> it is unusual. he is on the opposite side of the pc side of that because

usually it's about saving horses. >> i think that surprised a few people. >> it's so much part of new york's culture. just coming in yesterday. >> it's how i get here every morning. horse drawn carriage. >> that's what i thought. >> we want to get back to the big story this morning, which is the search for the malaysia flight. 370 we now know it as. three days after vanishing from radar screens, search agencies from several countries still have not been able to locate the plane. in an effort to look at all the different possibility, we want to look at the safety record of the boeing 777, this nearly $300 million technical marvel has been widely considered one of the safest jets in the sky, one of the easiest to fly. rene marsh joins us from washington. what do we know? >> reporter: it is still

consider rd oed one of the safe jets. in its 19-year history, its first crash happened last year. even the most experienced avi e aviators can't understand how this plane could simply disappear. the boeing 777 is one of the most high-tech planes in the sky. >> it's probably the nicest, most sophisticated but also one of the easier airplanes to fly. >> it's so sophisticated, it beams messages to the ground to identify maintenance problems before it even lands. >> there are systems to can't with the company and there are systems sometimes that monitor the health of the engines, automated reports. >> 777 200 extended range models are capable from flying from new

york to almost anywhere in the world nonstop. >> it really has an excellent, excellent safety record. >> reporter: that's why the mystery behind how this flight vanished has stumped the world. >> this was way out of the ordinary. this is something that happened instantaneously and happened relatively quickly and overcame the crew and the aircraft. >> the planes have made about 5 million flights, yet its first fatal crash came last july when this asiana airlines 777 crashed in san francisco. three people died. the cause still under investigation. but in this crash, finding the plane itself is still the first priority. >> now, this plane is equipped with a transponder that sends off a signal. many are asking if that is the case, why can't they find the

plane? if that plane is in the water, it would drastically reduce the radius of the signal. if the searchers are nowhere close to within that radius, they won't detect it. >> thank you. let's bring in the former inspector general of aviation. mary schiavo. they've found nothing. how bizarre is that. >> it's very bizarre. if the plane exploded, you would expect to see a very wide debris field. it is possible the plane entered the water in tact. >> these are incredibly

sophisticated jets, the 777. you said the thing that jumps out at you is the fact that no messages were sent from the plane, intentional messages, automatic messages. >> that's right. people who remember air france 447, which was an airbus, not a boeing, but the plane itself sends system status messages. literally the plane with this very advanced electronics sends these messages back to its home base to check on the health of the plane as it's going along, if it needs something at the next stop. apparently so far there were no such messages received. that's very unusual. >> what does that tell you? would it be that the plane was gone potentially? >> yes. it tells me something very dramatic happened on that plane. this plane doesn't just have redundancy, it has in some places triple redundancy. there are many backup systems on this very advanced plane. whatever happened was very catastrophic. >> i keep going back to just hopping on a plane yesterday,

and all of the measures we have in the state, no liquids, x-raying your body, your bags. in kuala lumpur, i can't imagine security is quite as tight as it is here. >> actually, it can be. the international civil aviation organization are supposed to have guidelines. but each nation is different. our is very strict because we went through september 11, 2001. >> just wondering if someone -- one of the questions, possible terrorism if someone had nefarious intent, wondering if it would be easier. everyone is saying if this is terrorism, somebody would be waving a flag and saying, yes, we did this. no one is claiming responsibility. you say you're not surprised. >> no, no. our firm litigated september 11.

we spent 11 years investigating what happened. there was a lot to take out 12 jet liners over the pacific ocean. they did a trial run on a philippine jetliner and they did not take credit because they didn't want anyone testing it to know it was done. there are similarities. that could be why no within is taking credit. >> mary schiavo, thank you very much for your expertise. >> the situation is not getting easier to understand. >> a high school performance goes horribly wrong when the stage comes crashing down. 200 girls were on there. what happened? the injuries not that bad, that's why we're showing it to you. also, another situation we're showing you because of how it turned out. one is sky diving, a stunt

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girls singing and dancing and jumping up and down. it collapses, sending them to the pit below. investigators want to know how the heck did it happen? stephanie elam has more on this near catastrophe. >> reporter: a packed stage performing for a full house. it's a scene that plays out at high schools across america, but this one has a sudden scary twist. this girls of rosary high school were holding their annual red and gold performance at their sister school in anaheim, california. when in an instant cheers turned to screams as the front section of the stage collapsed, dropping some of the girls in gold into a pit several feet below. >> it was already at the end of the show and we're getting ready to judge the contestants and everything came to a screeching halt. >> leading to some dense moments. >> there were well over 200

students on stage when it collapsed. >> more than two dozen were loaded on to gurneys and into ambulances, the injuries described as minor to moderate, including some broken bones. >> she seems to be okay, other than the ankle is broken but i have to go chase her right now, going to the hospital right now. >> meanwhile, the officials are investigating the cause of the collapse. >> two important things there obviously, to find out how it happened so they could rebailed that stage again. that many girls yet the injuries relatively so minor. good luck there. >> coming up on "new day," talk about good luck. one man sky diving comes right into the face of the blade of a stunt plane. how did they walk away? we'll show you the pictures that tell the story and then try to make sense of it.

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entangled in the wing. the plane lost control and nosedived to the surface. >> the plane caught the side of the canopy, spun the airplane 180 degrees, flipped the sky diver up into the air. you heard the airplane, the airplane impacted the parachute, which sounded like you falling face first in your pillow. >> the amateur photographer said he sensed something was about to happen when he saw the plane and sky diver both about to touch down. >> thought i was going to have a very exciting picture of a very close fly-by. it was right place, wrong time. >> reporter: miraculously, both men walked away from the scene without serious injury.

87-year-old cheryl tremblay was practicing taking off and landing before the incident. the ntsb and faa are investigating this mid-air incident. >> the sky diver is incredibly lucky and so is the pilot because once it was so close to the ground, could have been horrible and that small plane survived. i don't think they were part of some coordinated effort. i think they were both in an area -- >> and the guy just so happened to get tangled in his cessna? >> yeah. >> when you see the cessna nose life like that -- >> note to self, not sky diving ever. ever. >> count me out as well. >> you in cuomo? >> i have done stupider things. >> coming up, questions are

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breaking overnight, a powerful 6.9 magnitude earthquake hitting off the north california coast, about 60 miles west of eureka and humbolt county. so far no reports of major

damage or injuries. we'll have more on that in a moment. the show continues. the search intensifies for missing malaysia airline flight 370. >> we have not found anything. >> the sky diver obviously crossed the runway right in front of me. >> they know we're jumping every weekend. >> the second week of oscar pistorius's murder trial opened with his defense team on the attack. >> i know adam would have killed me in a heartbeat, if he had a chance. >> the show will continue right now. chris cuomo with the one and only brooke baldwin and michala pereira here. >> oscar pistorius said to be

retching and vomiting in court as the autopsy details are revealed. those details are not being revealed because of a court order. >> stunning new revelations by the father of the sandy hook elementary school shooter. peter lanza saying he wishes his son would have neff been born and that his son would is gunned him down if he had a chance. adam killed he is own mother and teachers and children before killing himself in 2012. >> overnight peru agreed to extradite van der sloot. he won't be shipped here until

after 2038 when he completes his sentence for killing another woman. >> and for the second year in a row, senator rand paul of kentucky won the annual dime straw poll. paul won with 31% of the vote. if you're curious, senator ted cruz finished second with 11% of that vote. >> the desperate search continues for malaysia airlines flight 370. it vanished without a trace. search teams from eight nations are looking for any sign of this morning officials fay there has not been a single confirmed sighting. the fbi is now joining the case. their focus, two apparently shady characters boarded with stolen passports.

we'll begin with jim clancy in kuala lumpur. jim. >> good morning. the mystery deepens here and so do the frustrations. as you noted, a massive search, eight, nine nations involved, 40 surface shipt, 34 aircraft and they came up with exactly nothing. now, that search is going to continue, there's no doubt about that. so, too, is the investigation of those two men who had stolen passports that got on that plane, but they got on the plane. they died with the other passengers. no clear link to terrorism here either. there's a lot of frustration on the part of the families. many are beginning to come here to kuala lumpur, perhaps to feel closer to where their is going to shut down here in about an hour's time. that doesn't mean it isn't going to start anew first thing in the morning.

back to you. >> jim, thank you very much. here's one of the questions we're pursuing here. if the disappearance malaysia airline 370 was the work of terrorists, why haven't any groups stepped forward? so far federal officials say they've heard no significant chatter about the incident. now they're zeroing in on two shadowy figures who boarded that triple 7 saturday morning using stolen passports what could that mean? let's bring in justice correspondent pamela brown. >> reporter: good morning to you, chris. interpol says the two stolen passports hadn't been checked at all since they were checked into the system, leaving open the possibility they might have been used before. so how often does this happen? last year alone passengers were able to board planes without having their passports screened against interpoll's database more than 1 billion times.

u.s. searches of interpol's database, more than 250 million times a year. that's a look at the numbers there. it's up to each country's government to check the database, not the airline. right now interpol is helping to identify who those passengers who boarded the anyway were. officials say people use stolen passports for a lot of reasons, at this point they just don't know who these two people were. >> thank you for the reporting, especially on that last point. let deep in with what may be relevant and what may not be relevant. >> richard quest and fran townsend. thanks to both of you. fran, i'll start with you. let's deal with the passports.

could be a little bit of a red herring, something that sounds very relevant to people like me who aren't as included in but to someone like you, you weren't and the thing that causes me concern is the fact that these two tickets tore both of the bogus passports come out of the same travel agent. kuala lumpur, people forget going back to 9/11, kuala lumpur was a hub. so if 2000 -- they planned, they met there for the "u.s.s. cole" attack. al ham dekuala lumpur ash and

this will be very relevant and they're going to look at that travel agencys are they're going to look at the airport and at the passports. there's a lot of leads to be run down. could be a red herring, we don't knee. but having them both come out of the same travel office, that will be important. they'll look at that. now we go to the forensics so far. the official word it was an oil slick that u.s. -- for example, the piece of debris though

thought has now turned out to be part of a cable. it very difficult to find things in the water when you're looking at a small piece of debris. you have to break the ocean up into blocks and check it very carefully. it's extraordinarily difficult. >> now, to the paranoia of the passenger. they'll say i wonder if it's the plane. this particular aircraft is known for safety, true? >> absolutely. the triple 7 is the workto the long. scare record, it has an exemp r exemplary major record. theres have only been two major incidents, the asiana one in san francisco and the one at heath row. what investigators will -- they

can't get much further until they know what happened to the plane and where the plane is. because the plane will give up its own secrets. >> if they can find the transponder, the black box and -- >> oh, they will. they will. it's not if. it's not if. it is not an if, it's a when. and the reason it's become have to nor where to go. >> fall out the sky at the safest part of fleiss in the crews. >> oh, they will. >> you're not nearly as certain as i'm when i'm asking richard about. we don't know what happened here. terrorism is in the mix because of the randomness and because of the silence from the plane about the activities mostly, not because of what we've learned about it. if we were going to go down that road and we haven't heard from a

group, it then becomes subjective as to which groups could be involved? >> we know that al qaeda has a history there, a more regional group with affiliations to collidia they share the same sort of goals and aspirations and technical any. >> we know coming out of there in the 90s, they launched a test run but they didn't sacrifice anybody on that test run. that's significant here. it relates back to the two stolen passports. maybe this wasn't. maybe that is a red herring but nave got to look at that, right? if it was a test run, you wouldn't claim responsibility because it was the precursor so

the unknown here is still what's haunting. but we'll follow the investigation as it comes. richard quest, it's not it. >> and then it's the families. chris, we'll take you back to that story momentarily. but let's talk about ukraine. the russians are doing what they can to really mark territory in crimea. this pro-ukrainian rally was interrupted by russian supporters who attacked ukrainians over the weekend. washington is preparing to host one of ukraine's new leaders offer anna coren is in crimea with the very latest. good morning. >> reporter: hi, brooke. yes, less than a week before that referendum with the people

here of crimea will decide whether or not they want to become part of russia. the military buildup certainly intensifies. we're getting reports that they were creating a new border, if you like, between crimea and ukraine. we drove up to this area, we were stopped at a check point by pro-russian forces. our car was searched, our media equipment was searched. one of our cameras was taken and turned off. and they did not want bob wire was being rolled in, trenches we werab you have tradition and one of the locals actually told us that a dog had been blown up there

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here we go. >> coming up nks here on "new day," a pretty stunning interview here. adam lanza's father opening up. he says he believes his son would have killed him if he had the chance. also, if you think that's shocking, wait until you hear what else peter lanza had to say here. >> and we have a live report from the oscar pistorius murder trial. feed it, and care for it, don't we grow something more? we grow big celebrations, and personal victories. we grow new beginnings, and better endings. grand gestures, and perfect quiet. we grow escape, bragging rights, happier happy hours. so let's gro something greater with miracle-gro. what will you grow? share your story at miraclegro.com.

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welcome back to "new day." for the first time we're hearding from -- hearing from adam lanza's father peter. >> reporter: peter lanza is saying he doesn't think the shoot cog have been predicted and adds this -- "you can't get any more evil." peter lanza has broken his silence saying with hindsight i know adam would have killed me in a heart beat if he had the chance. in his first interview since the horrific shooting in newtown, connecticut nearly 15 months ago, he tells the "new yorker" magazine he has met with two

families of his son's victim. i didn't even know how to respond. >> unimaginable horror grips the nation. >> police have identified the school shooter as adam lanza. >> he said when he heard the reports high called his wife at work over and over "i think it's adam. he said he did not want to talk about problem and did didn't even want to add miss he had

asspergers. he adds she wanted everyone to think everything was okay. he added she didn't fear her son. she slept with her bedroom door unlocked and she kept guns in the, which she would not have done if she were frightened. peter lanza says he is haunted by his son, dreaming about him nightly, dreaming about one nightmare, being hunted like one of his son's victim. he has chosen to meet with adam solom solomon, who writes about mental

illness. he adds he never intends to speak about it on camera. >> it helps the picture a little bit. >> it does. there a lot of details in the "new yorker" piece. let's talk about it with forensic psychologist warner. good morning. >> good morning. >> not a single photograph of adam lanza. he said he wishes his son had never been born. he says "i'm not dealing with it, you can't mourn for the little boy who never was." your reaction? >> i think it's refreshing to see the father of a killer and someone so destructive to be so frank and candid and to own the depravity of what his son has done. in my experience, the parents grieve for the victims and the loved ones their child has killed.

but at the same time, let's blame this person and let's blame this and that. they'll walk away from the idea of saying i did an planes. he said, no, i'm not going to change my name, i'm going to litsch with in burden. it's important for us as a society so that people who are so self-absorbed that they think about being this destructive, they can consider the impact on the father that they are a little closer with or on the sib lengs and on the legacy that they really want to saddle others with their anger. >> he didn't see his kid for two years. knew he was trouble. we don't believe aspergers is connected with the violence. >> nobody has come up with a

delusion or a hallucination driving this. even though paranoia is always some quality in those who carry out shootings, it's not here. and police tell us he was so -- for those who become invested in the idea of mass killing and weep know he was functioning so poorly, the fantasy and the plan becomes the one thing that person can organize themselves around. and this is someone -- he couldn't even pass a class, not understanding how functional it was. now the mystery has comes historically is that the mother was contemplating a move to washington, which would have turned his world upside down. but we also now for a crime in which people bill board themselves, look at me, here's

what i wrote, here's a picture of me with a gun, he destroyed his computer. is this a child pornography that was discovered? is there something on the computer that triggered his acting that. >>we have just a little bit of time left, the fact that they communicated in the home on e-mail. but he's frustrated. he said the mental health professionals they did not see anything that would voo predicted his future behavior. the takeaway from this man who wanted to speak out and keep his last name is the fact i want to help you, other. >> the question is are you asking your patients, hey, how do you react to these mass casualty events? do you ever think about killing

strangers. what's your relationship to guns? do you have homicidal feelings? >> so there's an instructor for the doctors. parents know best and you have to watch your kids. thank you. coming up, how americans view president obama health insurance handling of the crisis in ukraine. john king goes inside politics with a new poll next.

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hatch past the hour. let's look at your headlines. search teams from eight nations are unable to find a trace of malaysia flight 370. it took off from kuala lumpur on saturday with 239 passengers on board and then simply disappeared from radar screens. >> escalation in ukraine. 20 pro-russian activists broke into a crimean hospital and refused to let the staff leave. >> cnn also has exclusive pictures where russians have built a new border separating crimea from ukraine, complete with mine fields and barbed wire. >> mexican authorities say a drug king pin really is dead this time. this isn't the first time n o

nazareo was announced as killed. and 13 women were released in lebanon and arrived in syria last night 7. >>. >> you know, a lot of people want more politics, get in there deep, brooke, get an insider's look into the game. you know him but you haven't seen him like this. "inside politics" with host john king, right here on "new day." great to see you in the split

screen, john. we're going to ag brand new poll looking at how americans think the president is handling the situation in ukraine and his overall job approval. that's the president's overall approval rating of hough he's handling his job as president. 48% approve of how he's handling the crisis in ukraine. 43% say they disapprove how he's handling ukraine. he's going to meet with the ukrainian prime minister in the coming days. that prime minister said he's not going to give up one inch of territory. listen here to robert gates. he was the bush administration press secretary. listen to him on sunday. he thinks crimea is gone.

>> do i not believe that crimea will slip out of russia's hands. >> you think crimea's gone? >> i do. >> "i do," robert gates says. how does the president stop that? >> i don't know that he can. that is going to be his huge challenge over the next couple of weeks is to really show he's bringing the international community together and that he's working on all these plopic maneuvers that are the most popular options among the public here. we really don't know how this is going to play out. as we saw last week at the conservative gathering cpac, this has become a rallying cry to say the president has not been strong enough around the world. >> secretary gates said putin took part of georgia when george w. bush president, where were

the republicans saying he was weak or why didn't he do something more muscular? >> you're seeing the president on pretty solid ground. the american public has not turned against him been he's already engaged with vladimir putin. i think that's an expectation, especially on capitol hill, where's the policy and the vision but the situation is so fluid, the think the poll numbers are good now but it's places where they could be missioned up in the future. >> up see what i'll call the iraq/afghanistan legacy here, when you give the american people a list of options, what should the president do about ukraine? 59% favor economic sanctions. look at you get deeper, more

punitive actioning aid. you see a hesitancy here, which tells me two things, the american people think we don't want to touch anything overseas because it could get overly complicated and, number two, the president has yet to skrouns the american people there's a vital u.s. interest here. >> this is a very complicated subject. from what you've seen, especially around the younger generation is that even in the republican party, you talk to some of these younger kids and they say we've been dealing with war for ten years now. we don't want any more of this. even in the republican party you're not seeing a push for political action. >> marco rubio, the muscular republicans and the rand pauls who say step back and -- >> and do more at home.

that was rand paul's big cry. >> let's look at the context. the president of the united states in our poll, we also looked at his approval rating. his overall approval rating right now 43%. in february it was 45%, in december and november it was 41%. that's pretty much a flat line. if that holds up come november, republicans will add to the house of majority, maybe 8, 10, maybe 12's. a president in the mid 40's. they're looking at the cnn poll numbers and they're nervous because the president is not providing the buoyancy he would have provided in last campaigns. hillary clinton is out there, joe biden is hitting the campaign trail. the democrats try to hold on to a slim majority in the senate.

>> can republicans take advantage with that opportunity. rand paul was the winner, if you will. he wins the cpac straw poll. those conservatives want him to the the. >> apparently rick perry had a very -- but i think what we also saw and we both read about this last week was just a very scattered message coming out of cpac. they're still trying to figure out what their message is to women, minorities, a lot of the groups that obama did well with. at the same time obama not doing well with latinos. that's going to be a struggle for him this year. >> i think looking at cpac, it's a three-day conference, conservatives come together, but

chris cuomo had a. >> i think you have to look at some other people there. paul ryan, he had a solid speech. he's still on the map for 2016. the president has flatlined but in terms of coming around someone, it could even be paul. that has a lot of people in the glop excit-- gop. >> we'll listen to sarah palin. she's colorful but on the other side of this, let's see if she's relevant. >> i do not like this, uncle sam, i do not like his health care scam. i do not like these dirty crooks or how they lie and cook the books. i do not like this spying, man, i do not like oh, yes, we can.

>> entertaining. she's colorful. does she still have anyplace, an influential place in the party or is she just a great public speaker? >> i wouldn't say she has an influence place in the party but in terms of being a national figure, someone who is going to be a presidential campaign candidate, unlikely. >> well, at the same time she does a great job reading her version of "green eggs and ham", right? but we have to remember why she came on the national stage in the first place and that was become mccain was trying to make inroads with women and moderates and obviously that did not happen. palin does not have any pull among those voters and so it's just hard to imagine her doing more than kind of rallying the base at these gatherings going forward. >> closing thought on mitch mcconnell. he told the "new york times," he

says we're going to crush them everywhere, i don't think they're going to have a single nominee anywhere in the country. mitch mcconnell is one of the most disciplined politicians in america. that tells me that he's reached his boiling point back home. and it also tells me he wouldn't say that if he's not convinced he's going to beat them, crush them in november. now conservatives are saying that's the stakes of the election, crush or be crushed. is this going to cause more civil war? >> i think so. to understand mitch mcconnell, you have to understand his biography. he has been trying to be senate majority leader his entire life. he sees it's possible this year and that's why he's pushing back. it's about time the republicans win the senate instead of continuing to have this civil war. >> it's risky, is it not? >> it's very bold on his parpt and it's a statement that's going to amp up the friction and it keeps them from getting to the broader message they're

looking for. if you're spending your whole time fighting a civil war, you can't get to the next step and think about 2016. that's important because the numbers look good for republicans right now but what about moving into the next realm for elections? >> tell me what you're looking for today? >> i'm going to head to capitol hill after this and i'm going to pay attention to what the republicans are saying about ukraine. i think because the republican party is divided, hawks versus doves, rand paul versus marco rubio, we're not going to see a real consensus on the gop side. look to see what happens this week. will will be infighting? >> this is a huge week for the obamacare policy. the swous going to be making a big push to moms, to women to try to turn out those younger americans to get them signed up. and also latinos who have really been not signing up for the law and then in the numbers that the administration was looking for.

>> here's one thing i'm looking for, scott brown, starting to send more firm signals he will run for a senate seat in new hampshire but republicans are and they want to see proof. if he's not going to run, they want to look around, see if they have to look to someone else. >> "saturday night live" looking at the ukraine crisis in its own unique way. let's have a look. ♪ ♪ ♪ obama ♪ obama >> a difficult crisis for the president, brooke and chris, but it's okay to have a little fun. >> it is. an interesting little window

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let's talk about the graphic nature of the testimony. just quickly, this would be another thing unusual to see in a u.s. court. what does this mean what's going on right now? >> one of the things with this whole trial, it's the first time they've had cameras in south africa, trying to show the world how open and fair their system is. now you're shutting it down in an intricate part of the case. i'm not the screams hurt your client assuming you're representing pistorius. however, the latest development in testimony is that as graphic as this autopsy and the details about what happened to reeva steenkamp are, the shot this the head seems to negate the ability to hear a scream after that shot. so how does the defense use this? >> well, they've already been developing their theory because it's critical, there are multiple shots fired.

so if she was only mortally wounded at the very last shot she may have been able to scream before. obviously she was mortally wounded in the head with the first shot it's impossible that there could have been a female screaming any time after that point. each side has an interest in having that mortal wound come at a different time, either earlier or later and throughout the trial you can see the defense attorney developing this theory with each and every ear witness. >> then, vinnie, back to you, they bring on the ex-girlfriend. people thought we were joking. he screams like a woman is now a big component of this testimony. they bring on the ex-girlfriend. she says a lot of thing that's irrelevant. she said i heard him scream. he screams like a man. instructive? >> it's important because this is someone who was as close as anyone else to oscar pistorius and heard him in many different circumstances. this whole premise of screaming

like a woman, there's another part to it and it has to do with the cricket fact. here's the other part what the defense has to find reasonable in order to convince this job. number one pistorius screams like a woman and number two a cricket bat hitting the door sounds like gun shots. those are the two thing they need this judge to believe is reasonable. that and oscar pistorius can find his gun in the dark but can't see that his girlfriend is not in the bed. authors the three foundational things that the defense has to convince this judge is reasonable. i just don't think it's reasonable. >> tell me why the cricket bat is reasonable. >> there's a group of noises after the female screaming. so, if the loud noise after the screaming is gun shots then oscar pistorius knows that reeva is there and he knows who he is shooting. the defense is trying to say no he shot her -- the defense is saying the loud noise is

actually this. a cricket bat, him trying to knock down the door to try to get her out and the screams happened before the cricket bat but after the gun shots whereas the prosecution is saying the screams happened then the gun shots. shows the loud noise, the last noises that are heard just after the screams are at issue here, and the defense is saying it's a cricket bat, prosecution and witnesses are saying it's gun shots. >> now, danny i'm not going to lie, the use of a prop by vinnie politan of the cricket bat is compelling and it puts you on your heels. so let me try to help you with something that was also sugge suggestive at trial. the prosecution was pushing we caught pistorius lying when he called security. now they bring in these cell phone records it seems like there's been a turn about into fairplay on the calls. what is the defense now making the case of? >> well, they need to make the case, they need to diffuse the

idea pistorius was dishonest about his calls to security. i have to wonder if the judge isn't going to take all of that confusion and disregard it. it really can be an ancillary issue. that and whether or not he told the security guard i'm fine or everything is fine. it does seem to be a little bit hyper focusing on issues that don't go to the ultimate what was his intent at the time he fired the shots. vinnie is dead on right. one of the most critical pieces is when will this judge believe any screaming happened that was arguably female within either the first set, whether it's gun shots or not and the second set of noises, whether sounds of a cricket bat hit the door -- i wish i had inventory jays prop -- but it comes down to what the judge believes happened. thank you, vinnie. thank you for that sound. what the judge believes was happening and what sounds people were hearing. >> also, vinnie, let me toss it back to you and make this final

point for us. how this was investigated is going to be important. it always is in these kinds of cases. if you have the security guy and prosecutor is standing up there saying oscar lied, oscar lied and now the cell phone records show he didn't lie, he did call security force and the guy on stand from security said yeah he may have said he's okay not that everybody is okay done that put a hole even though you have these professional fact assessors not a jury. doesn't it show we can't believe what the prosecution is putting forward here? in this is a security guard. it's not an investigator. i know they have a problem with the first investigator in this case as well. but he doesn't work for the prosecution. he's just a private security guy who works at the facility. so his testimony is what it is, prosecutors have to live with it. the bottom line is the witnesses, what did they hear? and it comes down to the screaming and the cricket bat versus the gunshot and all the witnesses are very clear about hearing a gunshot.

it was absolutely a gunshot after the woman screaming. >> and the testimony from the doctor and others was identified as gun shots. as always, thank you both for this. danny we look forward to you coming back on. vinnie as every day as this trial continues we'll be watching you on hln. chris, thank you. coming up next on "new day" frantic search under way for clues on what happened to malaysia airlines flight that vanished into thin air. lots of new questions this morning about stolen pass ports and whether or not that was an act of terror. we're watching the crisis in crimea. president obama is to host ukraine's interim president this week. has the u.s. done enough to stop the ongoing crisis in crimea. senator john mccain joins us live. he's coming up next.

>> we're intensifying our efforts to locate the missing aircraft. >> what happened to malaysia airlines flight 370. we have the latest on the search, the miles long oil slick. new theories what could not have happened and growing concerns about missing pass ports and possibility of terrorism. speaking out the father of the sandy hook shooter gives his first interview since the new town massacre saying he wishes his son had never been born. also this morning the reporter who spoke with him reveals why he's coming forward now. taking to the streets. rallies turn violent in ukraine as thousands of protesters gather across crimea and despite growing international pressure russian president vladimir putin refuses to stand down. what happens next? senator john mccain joins us live. your "new day" continues right now.

good morning. welcome back to "new day". it is monday, march 10th. 8:00 in the east. i'm kate bolduan. thanks for having me. sitting in for kate on a much deserved vacation. let's begin with this story. 40 ships, 34 planes and search teams from several nations, they are trying to find, just a trace of malaysia airlines flight 370 and we have just learned here that the u.s. navy is now sending in a second ship. the fbi is involved in the investigation as we learn more about those two passengers who boarded that jet saturday morning with stolen pass ports. we have reporters tracking the latest developments in malaysia and in washington so jim clancy, let me begin with you. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, brooke. >> tell me what you know. opposite all openings are open. investigators are saying all theories are being considered.

but the truth is that for almost three complete days of searching, we don't have a shred of evidence what happened to this jetliner. i talked to a malaysian army general just a short while ago, he hung his head, shook his head and talked about the frustration but didn't talk about giving up. this morning the search inte intensifies for missing malaysia airline flight 370. now multinational rescue teams are scouring the waters of the south china sea. overnight malaysia's civil aviation chief says no wreckage has been found. >> we have not found anything that appears to be objects from the aircraft let alone the aircraft. >> reporter: authorities submitted sample from a suspicious oil slick in the

waters between malaysia and vietnam but it was determined to be fuel from a maritime vessel. teams from the united states, thailand and china all involved in the search effort with more than 30 aircraft and some 40 ships across at least 50 nautical miles. the missing boeing 777 took off from kuala lumpur on saturday. less than 30 minutes from takeoff the tower lost its signal. no distress calls cents. weather clear at the time. the boeing 777 and it's 239 people aboard seemingly vanished. despite the lack of clues officials here say they have some leads. >> we look back at the recording, and there's an indication that the aircraft may have come back. >> reporter: malaysia and thailand are investigating the possibility the flight may have changed course and tried to turn back adding to the mystery,

interpol says two of the passengers used stolen pass ports. now they are examining surveillance video and additional suspect pass ports. this facebook page has been dedicated to the 239 people who the airline says belong to 14 different nations. three americans were on board, including 50-year-old phillip wood from north texas. now malaysian airlines said that if the wreckage is located or when it is located that they are going to bring the families to the site paying all of their expenses. already some of those family members are coming here to kumpb ala lumpur. this was the last place their loved ones were barely an hour before they vanished into thin air. chris? >> important to remember that the unknown is most painful for those families so we keep them in focus in terms of why the answers matter so much. appreciate the reporting this morning. as we go down the road of

possibility here, the terrorism theory is out there. we know that investigators are considering it but there's so many unknowns surrounding this theory as well. for one why hasn't a group claimed credit if this was intentional. if it was network of terrorists they are not rushing to take credit. that we know for sure. now, for all we don't know there's some solid information this morning. federal investigators are looking very closely at two passengers who boarded that boeing 777 with stolen pass ports. let's bring in cnn justice correspondent pamela brown live from washington with more on that. >> reporter: right now authorities are working to identify who those two passengers who boarded flight 370 with stolen pass ports who they were and whether they were terrorists. officials say people use stolen passports for a variety of reasons and there's no credible link to terrorism but it hasn't been ruled out. the fact that two people could board a plane with stolen pass ports is raising questions about

security on international flights. all it would have taken was a quick search to see if those two pass pores had been stolen. the pass ports hadn't been checked at all since they were entered into the database last year and 2012 opening up the possibility they were used before. last year passengers were able to enter planes without their pass ports checked. there's 800 million searches in interpol's database a year. important to know it's up to each government's country to check the database not the airline. some once may not use the database because they simply don't have the technical capabilities or the resources to wire into interpol's network. brooke >> pamela, thank you so much. let's talk more with our cnn law enforcement analysis. tom, good morning to you.

here's what i want to begin with. now the u.s. is sending that second u.s. war ship and we know the fbi is involved. it's been three days. this is a big jet. what's your read on that? >> that's true, brooke. the fbi would have been involved from the very beginning. the fbi has an office in the u.s. embassy in kuala lumpur and beijing and bangkok, thailand. some of this investigation will go back to the stolen pass ports. they were both stolen in the same play, one year apart and now turn up in use simultaneously to purchase two tickets for this flight. so, then the investigation, obviously, has been focusing from the beginning on who are the individuals that used those pass ports. what do they look like. >> you bring up the pass ports and a lot of people might want to jump to conclusions and thinking stolen pass pores maybe that's terrorism. not necessarily. southeast asia this corner of the world is rife in buying and

selling passports. someone may not have had an evil intent grabbing a stolen passport and boarding a plane. >> that's true. these just weren't picked up in an airport and somebody decided to use them. the fact that two were used that were stolen a year apart indicates there's something else going on with that. it may have nothing to do with terrorism or nothing to do with what with this flight but it's suspicious and coincidental. >> how do you board a plane with a stolen passport. how do they get on? >> you show identification to get your ticket at the ticket counter and boarding pass issued to you and go through some level of security between getting your ticket and boarding the aircraft when you go through the magnotometers. that's the only form of identification usually required before boarding an international

flight. >> even though it was stolen you abouters would not have gone off. >> no. there's no check being done. airlines don't have access to check it. back when i was on the executive committee of interpol several years ago we tried to, you know, encourage countries please use this system on outbound flights, many more countries including the u.s. use it you know both ways or when passengers arrive and go through passport control, when you scan the passport it checks the country's databases if you're wanted or on one of the watch lists, or it checks the databases at the same time in leon, france which are the headquarters to see if you're a wanted person internationally and/or if the document itself is stolen. >> here is my final question to you. we think about security getting on this plane. i'm wondering if security would have been high because of those worries ahead of the sochi winter games reports of potential use of toot paste tubes as bombs on planes. would that have been a concern, would security have been higher?

>> you know, those reports come out almost weekly or monthly and security are always on the look out. we had liquids, toothpaste, bombs in shoes. they are always trained to look at that. not all checked luggage is examined and in a lot of cases things can be brought on an aircraft that could still be used to harm the krafrt. just recently within the last month you had an individual dead in the wheel well of an aircraft landing at dulles airport here in washington. that's a person. the size of a human being getting in that wheel when the flight takes off and found dead when it landed. when you look at the size of a body that could have been a duffel bag of explosives. so, you have many people that have access to an aircraft from the food services, the house

keeping people that come on to clean it, the people that service it on the ground, so there are literally hundreds of other people besides crew and passengers. >> all the different layers we know investigators are combing through in addition to the massive waters to people who would have had access to that plane. thank you so much. we appreciate it very much. now, chris back over to you. we have new insight into the new town shooting coming from the father of the shooter as he struggle tolls come to grips that his son was a mass killer. peter lanza is telling "the new yorker" something i've never heard from a parent. he says i wish my child was never born. national correspondent susan candiotti is here with more details. >> reporter: chris, peter lanza says he doesn't think anyone could have predicted his son adam would become a mass murderer. not even his ex-wife nancy who was adam's first victim. in his father's words about his son, you can't get any more evil. peter land zarks the father of

sandy hook shooter adam lanza has broken his silence saying with hindsight i know adam would have killed me in a heart beat if he had the chance. in his first interview since the horrific shooting in new town, connecticut nearly 15 months ago lanza tells "the new yorker" magazine he met with two families of his son's victims saying a victim's family member told me that they forgave adam after we spent three hours talking. i didn't even know how to respond. >> 20 little children, six adults. >> unimaginable horror grips the nation. >> police have now identified a school shooter as adam lanza. >> reporter: lanza said when he realized what happened he called his wife at work telling her over and over, i think it's adam. it's adam. lanza says he knew his son had problems but he was difficult to treat and in his words, he did not want to talk about problems and didn't even admit he had

asperger's. lanza describes changes he saw in his son. it was crystal clear something was wrong. asperger's makes people unusual but it doesn't make people like this. authorities later found that adam had holed up in his room, windows covered by black garbage bags seen in these photos. peter lanza said as things got worse with his son adam's mother, cared for him primarily. in his words, she wanted everyone to think everything was okay. he adds she didn't fear her son, she slept with her bedroom door unlocked and she kept guns in the house which she would not have done if she were frightened. these photos released late last year by the connecticut state police show an open gun locker several firearms and lots of ammunition inside the home. peter lanza says he is haunted by his son, dreaming about him nightly, detailing one nightmare

being hunted like one of his son's victims. lanza chose to tell his story with writer andrew solomon who has written extensionively about mental illness. lanza's mother tried to give her son a good day instead of a good life but adds lanza does not blame her for what happened. chris, we also understand mr. lanza does not intend to do any more interviews on the subject. >> certainly helps a little bit but raise as lot of questions about how two years went by, didn't see his son and how they western manage the kid. >> he knew there were issues. yeah. >> less take a look at more of your headlines as it's quarter past the hour. we could be near a breaking points in ukraine. russia supporters have taken over a military hospital in crimea following violence breaking out when people at a pro ukrainian rally were attacked. russia has built up its presence

establishing a boefrd. we have the latest from ukraine. >> reporter: less than a week before that referendum which will decide if crimea becomes part of russia certainly russian forces, the buildup is intensifying. we went up to this border that they are creating. we weren't allowed to film. what we saw were camps of russian troops, armored personal carriers, barbed wire being rolled out and land mine signs being erected. dog had been blown up a few days ago. so, these troops, they are digging in. they are there to stay. they don't want us reporting the evidence but i can assure you that certainly it would appear that the crimean peninsula has already become part of russia. >> we'll keep watching it with you. thank you. to breaking news overnight a

powerful 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit off northern california coast sunday night. that quake hit about 50 miles west of eureka in northwestern california. shaking was felt as far as the bay area and as far north as oregon. no reports so far of major damage nor injuries. also breaking overnight the prime suspect in natalie holloway's disappearance will be extradited to the united states after he serves his prison term for killing a woman in 20 years. joran van der sloot faces charges for extorting money from holloway's money. >> if justin bieber is looking to help his image this won't help. this shows bieber talking back to his lawyers and giving them a little attitude. >> my lawyer is asking a question. you're not here to ask questions

you're here to answer mine. >> discipline. what kind of question is that? guess what, i don't recall. >> bieber is being questioned about a lawsuit concerning his body guard. he's facing some legal trouble of his own after an arrest for drunk driving in florida earlier this year. and just an unbelievable sight captured by a man in the florida. a small plane getting tanning wonderland a sky diver both hitting the ground. what's more amazing is the outcome. both the pilot and the parachutist survived with only minor injuries. the pilot 87 years old and practicing touch and go maneuver, landing and taking off when that collision happened. >> i almost think that it's better to see the stills because seeing video of it would be just too much. >> up and down, up and down and our biggest question is where

did the sky diver come from. >> the wind comes up or get way laid or avoid a power line. >> you're shaking your head. >> how does this happen? >> i'm lost with you on that. >> we also have another thing. pretty interesting. we have some pictures from space. this is the lakes. last year 38.4% coverage. notice you can see the lakes, right. now take a look at it this month. we're talking about 92% of the lakes currently covered so much so we're now in second place for the most we ever had it covered. the last record was back in 1979. records are only since '73. we have a record from michigan, number one now for the amount of coverage we've seen. that's a pretty good idea if you didn't know it's been a very cold winter. so you may enjoy this. temperatures going up today, even more so than what we saw over the weekend. beautiful. 70s out towards charlotte, 60s in d.c.

new york city looking for 50s. tomorrow it gets even better. talking about 60s out towards new york city. temperatures 15, 20 degrees above average for this time of year. you know need to enjoy it. it's not lasting. look at these drops, 50s down 20s. that's new york city by thursday. d.c. goes from 60s. down to the 30s by wednesday in through thursday. what's is going on? another storm yes. winter is not over with just yet. go across the plains midwest and wednesday and thursday to the northeast. the bulk of the system staying north us. heaviest snow in burlington and maine and goes across the ohio valley five to six inches. for now, we're talking about today 15, 20 degrees above-normal. i need this. this is a long winter. >> loving it. >> perfect. warm during the week. towards the end of the week more snow for those who enjoy winter snow sports. >> my pure is pure italian, all

mediterranean. >> here we go. >> let's take a break on "new day". when we come back we have break being news out of ukraine. cnn remains on the ground in all the most important areas. here's the most important. rallies turn violent as thousand of protesters gather across crimea and russian president vladimir putin refuses to stand down. word now that crimea's borders are being guarded by land mines. what happens next? we bring in a senator who has been right about the situation all along, senator john mccain. in the d.c. house when we come back. mine was earned in korea in 1953.

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across ukraine to protest for and against russian intervention in crimea. what does this mean? how did we get here? what happens next? tough questions. but we have senator john mccain. very good to have you senator. thanks fork on the show. so let's deal with how we got here. question of perspective. who do you think mismanaged the relationship with vladimir putin worse, president bush or president obama? >> i think both but georgia pales in comparison to ukraine. look at the map. but also i think it's important to recognize that he was encouraged by georgia so you have to put some blame on the bush administration. but having said that, there's no doubt that he now has three, moldova, georgia and now

ukraine. this has serious implications for future activities of mr. putin because what this administration and to a agree the last administration doesn't understand, vladimir putin is an old kgb colonel that believes in the russian empire. this is the guy that says the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century was the breakup of the soviet union. so whether we're in the 21st century or 18th century, vladimir putin is what he is and has to be treated accordingly. by the way that does not mean reignition of the cold war. >> understood. although it needs saying because there's so much on the tabling in terms of options. in fairness you have always been aggressively against vladimir putin and at least in terms of underestimating what he really wants. why do you think, you've now had two presidents take such a different perspective on this man and seem to come couldn't the short end of the stick. >> hope over realism. when you look into somebody's

eyes and see their soul, something like that, the reset which clearly wasn't working, in a whole broad variety of ways, i think, again, it's hope over reality. all of us want to get along with the russians, but the fact is that vladimir putin presides over a decaying empire and yet at the same time he's going to do what's necessary, what he thinks is necessary to preserve that of which the ukraine is the crown jewel. you look at ukraine on a map. it's been said many times probably on this show, russia with ukraine is an elm pyre and without it it's a country. vladimir putin understands that and we have to treat him accordingly. >> it's interesting because going into this situation there was so much speculation it was accidental, we didn't see it coming. you have seen it all along, this is what he's wanted all along, he needs it. >> i know on the sunday show

many people said this sort of happened. our old secretary of defense said stuff happens. it doesn't just happen. that's what ronald reagan was all about. >> understanding what could happen. >> treating people from a realistic -- vladimir putin from a realistic point of view of what he's about. that has to do with making sure he knows there's consequences to actions and that has been totally ignored. even on friday while troops were moving in, lavrov told our secretary of state don't worry nothing is going on. that's really embarrassing. >> seems patently false. >> patently false. they just totally lied to their face. >> the question becomes what do you do? this will take on a political aspect and it's going to take on the practical aspect of what you do because there's the perception of it. in doing the research in 2008 bush was criticized about georgia and you could argue it was the worst incursion in terms there was violence on the

ground. >> i criticized too and wanted to do more. people said we didn't want to do anything in 2008. i wanted to do a lot including giving them defensive weapons. >> i felt the dynamic was different. there was more unity look we don't like what happens let's get around the president. you said now is not the time to do. let's figure out what to do. i feel this time there's more bitter politics here at home than there was in 2008 that republicans especially are taking the opportunity to attack the president even when we seem to have a larger set of concerns with putin and ukraine. fair criticism? >> well, except that, again, this reset and all of that that led up to this continued belief that somehow you could deal with this guy in a way that's not keeping with who he is. but having said that, we're working -- senator menendez, senator corker and senator murphy and i are working on a legislative package that will be going to the committee on tuesday. we'll be working on that as

well. but the thing that infurriates me is that to think this guy can still be dealt with in the way we've been dealing with him in the past is something that doesn't seem we've learned that lesson. >> hat do we do? do we get him out of crimea or as gates said, crimea is gone you can get it back. >> i hate to admit it i'm afraid that's the case. i pry debted crimea because i predicted putin would never give up sevastopol. now i don't know if he'll take eastern ukraine and with that defactor partition. it depends on what he thinks the consequences are. >> what would the consequence be to stop him. if you could do anything what would you do? >> first of all, sanctions not only on the military side but his oligarch friends. don't let him travel to london. take care of their bank

accounts. go forward with -- restore the missile defense in the czech republic in poland. move forward, have some military operations with the next pressured countries which are the baltics. that's the next countries. he continues to put pressure on. accelerate georgia and moldova into nato. we have a wide range of options which are not military action and take them quick. >> are they all on the table? >> all of those options are on the table. >> are you hearing from the white house they are thinking about these things. >> i think they are moving forward with some of the sanctions. we're working with the administration on the package that we hope to get through congress this week. we go out of session next week. >> no boots on the ground. >> i don't see it. i would love to say there's some way we can react militarily but there's not. >> is there criticism -- >> the american people wouldn't support it. >> 59% of the american people say we like sanctions.

that's the right way to go which is obviously a reflection of battle fatigue and rightly so. nobody knows that better than you. so, if you see it as going forward now, the issues on the ground will stay the same. if they vote in crimea they want to go with russia and a valid public vote isn't that us -- >> i can promise you they will vote. there won't be -- this is the hold hitler-stalin routine. >> a vote but in quotes. >> yeah. it cannot be valid. vladimir putin will not be thrown out of crimea because of a vote. >> one other thing, let's turn to domestic here for a second. you go cpac give a strong speech well received. you deal with ted cruz a little bit. >> i was not at cpac. >> so, you were well received there in terms of what you meant in your message and ted cruz comes up what he had to say which is talk about you a little bit as running for president, romney as running for president and bob dole. you take exception to talk being

about bob dole. he says ted crews said i didn't mean it that way. to you it rubbed you the wrong way. >> failed to stand on principle. bob dole is an older man now. he has fought for his country. he was ronald reagan's top lieutenant during the reagan years. as i said, if mr. cruz and others want to beat up on me and romney that's fine but can't we honor bob dole without dragging him into this tea party versus nontea party? it's totally inappropriate and i don't think that bob dole deserves it. he deserves our honor and respect now. >> little bit of a look at the new generation of politicians seem to put more of a premium on being ugly than respectful. is that fair? >> it's a fair criticism if you say something about bob dole to make a point at a conservative

gathering. he doesn't need to do it. and bob dole was so wonderful to me, i can't tell you how i idolize him. so i and others take exception to using him as an applause line. >> understood and the respect is certainly due bob dole and you. senator thank you for being on the show. appreciate it. >> senator mccain in the studio. coming up next on "new day" graphic testimony in the oscar pistorius trial. we'll tell you what was so gruesome that it actually made the blade runner sick. a live report from outside the courtroom in moments here this morning.

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>> welcome back to "new day". now for five things you need know. number one we're still watching malaysia. no sign of malaysia airlines flight 370. no debris has been found. investigators right now to discussion on two passengers who boarded that plane with stolen pass ports. military hospital in crimea has been overtaken by a mob of russian supporters. oscar pistorius guesting sick in court as details of his girlfriend's autopsy are revealed. the judge pulling the plug on making those autopsy details public saying they are too graphic for live detail. the internet and social media. father of the sandy hook elementary shooter wishes his son had never been born. peter lanza telling "the new yorker" quote you cannot get any more evil. and just ahead of march madness, president obama is recognizing last year's winners. he'll welcome the louisville

men's team and connecticut's women's team to honor their 2013 championships. we better get our brackets ready. >> go tar heels. >> we're always updating the five things you need to know. >> march madness best time of the year. i want to take you back to the oscar pistorius trial because we mentioned this morning autopsy revelations are proving to be too much for this olympian. we're hearing these reports from inside the courtroom, they say he's vomiting as gruesome details of his girlfriend's death are revealed. those autopsy details, they are not being broadcast but we're finding out reeva steenkamp was shot in the arm, thigh and head. we're following every development from pretoria, south africa. good morning, robin. >> reporter: good morning. i was in the court and it was upsetting just listening to those details, oscar pistorius was absolutely physically devastated by the pathologyist

going over quite clinically the details her wounds. he literally as you said was wretching and vomiting. he was holding his hands over his ears as if he didn't want to hear it. the judge said to the defense is he okay? she wasn't concerned about whether he was emotionally okay, she wanted to make sure he was hearing everything, that he was taking in every detail because that, of course, is his right to a fair trial. he has to be able to deal with this testimony. so besides the fact we heard those three bullets going into her head, her arm and fwroin there was a fourth entry through the webbing of her finger and the pathologist detailing other smaller injuries that came from splinter-like object, consistent with the fact that these bullets went through a wooden door first. all in all, upsetting testimony for oscar pistorius no doubt, for anybody reading about it

afterward including her family and even for us journalists. >> robin, it seems we're getting now into the expert witnesses. do we expect to see more in this next week? >> reporter: absolutely. i think as we've been chatting over the past week, you know, there's a lot of scene type witnesses what people heard what they think they heard. this is the hard pathological facts, the forensics. we'll hear from police, first responders and doctors. this is boiling down to cold hard facts and how it's interpreted under law. this is very important what we're hearing in court today and over the course of the next few days. >> robin thank you very much in a very rainy pretoria. incredibly gruesome. >> one of the very unusual aspects to this trial early on which is why we're following it so closely and continue to do

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welcome back to "new day". we hear a lot about the down side of prescription pain killers, right and it's a trade off. easing pain against the danger of addiction or even over dose. dr. sanjay gupta says for many patients there's another good yet equally controversial

option, medical marijuana. sanjay is joining us now. so, look you pioneered on this. you say i used to believe what the main feeling is out there. i've changed my mind. i've done the work. you're doing a second documentary. what is the fundamental problem here? >> well, in terms of what we know, i think there's a very interesting fundamental problem and that is if you look at the context of the united states, marijuana is considered a schedule i substance which puts it in the category of the most dangerous substances that has no medicinal benefit. whether you agree with that or not a lot of people don't agree with it, it has real ram if i occasions for research done in this country. hard to get research approved when it's a schedule i substance. 90% of studies look for harm not benefit and you get a distorted picture. that's part of the problem. that has an impact on the way

people think about this stauns as well. very different than in other countries. you have a medication to help treat ms, for example. it's approved in 25 countries. not the united states. >> can medical marijuana treat things that other things that cannot and treat thupgs that we need treated? >> yes. the answer is yes. with marijuana what seems to happen, it has an anti-inflammatory effect but seems to disassociate people from feign. my arm really hurts. you get the pain quality benefit but you get the disassociation. i'm not emotionally attached to that pain. i want seems to either decrease people's need for narcotic medications or eliminate that need all together. >> this is brave what you're doing because despite the research, despite the logic you apply, despite keeping it clinical you're going to get beaten with the permissiveness stick. how do you sfwrit. people are afraid if you use it

for medicine it will be used for recreational use and he'll be introducing new reasons for addiction. >> i try to be careful what i say on this and that's a concern. the other concern, you have kids, everything is sort of memorialized forever. i don't want my grandkids to think of me as the pot doc. here's the tradeoff. because of that concern about permissiveness, that concern people will go the doctor, feign an ailment are you willing to sacrifice a legitimate option for needy patients. that's trade off. not the first time we've had that discussion. but for some reason this has taken on this cultural permanence and so provocative in people's minds. i don't understand why. i try not to get into the moral

equivalent of this but prescription pain medications, someone dies in this country every 19 minutes accidentally. we couldn't find any documented cases of marijuana overdose. there's a possible real benefit and much reduced harm. >> something people need to know, more kids in this country right now trying to go through your medicine cabinet and take your prescription pain pills and they are going to use them to get high than they are messing around with marijuana in with way that will become addictive or painful. you want to learn more about this? zani's new documentary is debuting tomorrow. it is called "weed 2, cannabis madness." coming up next on "new day" chris cuomo can you spell epic. 66 rounds failed to produce a champion. we have a winner from that marathon spelling bee in missouri. we'll tell you the word that

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after more than 60 rounds and a war of words, 13-year-old kush sharma and 11-year-old sophia hoffman were unstoppable, an epic spelling bee. it ended in a tie two weeks ago putting both teens in the national spotlight. the two fiercely competitive but on the couch pleasant. >> do you see each other as competitors or are you friends? >> friends >> you're friends. >> i never felt so mentally drain. >> you didn't know what word was coming next but exciting. it came down to the big rematch this weekend. the two went nearly 30 rounds but this time sophia got stifled on the world stifling. curb walked away with the win breaking the tiebreaker by spelling out a word he knows all too well. >> your final word came down the word definition. that's a word you use all the time on stage when you're asking

for the meaning of a word. were you surprised that that was your final word? >> i was sort of caught off guard by, now, level of difficulty of the word. i was really thinking it should have been a harder word but they already picked it so there's nothing else that could be done. >> he gave credit to his friend and worthy competitor and when i asked about preparing for nationals -- >> no time for, you know, your playstation, no time for tv, no time for facebook or whenever you do. if you want to win then you just need to dedicate every single minute you have to spelling and to studying. >> his winning formula, the very definition of focus. george howell, cnn, chicago. >> he's not going to get an easy word when it comes to the competition in may. the last word was natal. can you spell that? >> kneidel.

>> proud of you. >> it's a strange danish pastry. coming up a little boy takes on a really big struggle. >> i love this story. >> what would you do if you knew that there was someone in your life who wouldn't soon be able to see. find out what was done for this kid.

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♪ nothing says, "you're my #1 copilot," like a milk-bone biscuit. ♪ say it with milk-bone. time for the good stuff. this is a good one. 12-year-old from new zealand sfrufrs a rare disorder. he'll be blind by age 40. instead of letting it get him down here's what he's doing.

he's ticking off a bucket list to see everything he can. at the top of the list he tweeted he wanted to see his beloved new york knicks. turns out one of the co-owners of the celtics has a son who is blind and she answered the tweet saying thank you for bringing this to my attention our son has a similar disease that affected him at birth. i'm on it. guess what? she was. >> i can feel you're shaking a little bit. >> before they knew it louie and his dad were in boston meeting the team, getting a standing o at the game and shooting a round with the guys. they couldn't believe it. >> it's very generous of them to do this for me. >> he's back here now. the chance to see all this is gold. >> it is gold. >> through it all louie has some advice you want to hear.

>> there's tough times but good things happen. >> i love it. >> matter of fact too. great for louie. he's getting to do what he wants to do and teaching us all something along the way. >> a couple of other things i hear imagine for only so long these are the thing you can see. >> live in the now. >> he's experiencing it. amazing. >> let's get to carol costello at the "newsroom". carol costello you were one of the beautiful things to see every day. >> thank you. you just made my day, chris cuomo. "newsroom" starts now. >> don't hate, appreciate. happening now in the "newsroom" the malaysia airlines mystery at sea. >> we just received an aircraft -- >> new information just coming in every hour as the families of more than