>> 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 200 people wait for

word. >> this is pretty fresh and we're procession it and we've just had a little bit of time to be together as a family. >> investigators now trying to figure out how two of the passengers boarded the plane with stolen pass ports. >> stolen passports can be repurposed and used. >> key questions this morning. who were they? did the plane disintegrate at 35,000 feet? you're live in the cnn "newsroom". good morning. i'm carol costello. thank you so much for joining me this morning. piece spar ration grows by the hour. a second u.s. navy ship joins the massive international effort to search for any signs of a malaysia airlines jet that's missing and presumed crash. dozens of planes and ships are scouring the gulf of thailand for debris or any other clue to

the flight with 239 passengers aboard, including three americans. whatever struck the flight was so violent and so catastrophic neither the pilots issued a distress signal. >> reporter: this morning the search intensifies for missing malaysia airlines flight 370. >> we are equally puzzled. >> reporter: now three days into this exhaustive search for clues 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: 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 in malaysia just before 1:00 a.m. on saturday. less than an hour after takeoff the tower lost the plane's signal. no distress call cents 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 leads. >> we look back at the recording, and there's an indication that the aircraft may 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 passports. now they are examining surveillance video 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. jim clancy, cnn, kuala lumpur. >> one of the disturbing aspects of this tragedy is the fact that two mystery passengers managed to board the plane using stolen passports. they were taken from an italian and australian while in thailand. in an exclusive interview with christiane amanpour, thailand's prime minister said his country is cooperating. >> translator: initially we don't know about their nationality yet but we gave orders for police to investigate the passport user because this very for thailand to give full cooperation to interpol in the investigation about the passport user. we're now following this. at the same time our royal air force has been assigned together

with the navy to search for the disappearing airplane in conjunction with the malaysian government. >> pamela brown is live in washington with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, carol. right now authorities are working to figure out what the intent of those two passengers who boarded flight 370 with stolen passports may have been and whether they were soeshd in any way with a terrorist organization. but the fact this could happen that they could board this flight with those stolen passports is raising questions about security on international flights around the world. it's one of the biggest mysteries in the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370, how in a post-9/11 world did two passengers board an international flight with stolen passports. they were in plain sight among the names listed in interpol's lost and stolen travel documents database one since last year the other since 2012 both stolen in

thailand and it appears the two passengers who used the passports are italian and australian citizen bought their tickets together. >> when you book your ticket the airline is not able to actually make an inquiry with interpol or even the local police about whether you're wanted or whether as if port has been reported stolen. the country, the government does. >> reporter: according to interpol last year alone passengers were able to board planes without having their passports screened against interpol databases more than 1 billion times. the headquarters in france has 40 million records of stolen documents. >> 190 members belonging to interpol are not charged a fee for access the databases. if the country has sufficient resources and technical capability to wire into interpol's virtual private network that's running 24 hours a day, then, you know, 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 dynasty. >> reporter: the secretary-general said now we have a real case where the world is speculating whether the stolen passport holders were terrorists while interpol is asking why only a handful of countries worldwide are taking care to make sure that persons possessing stolen passports are not boarding skberj fights. people use stolen passports for a variety of reasons. there's no credible link to terrorism but it hasn't been ruled out. >> pamela brown reporting live from washington. it was supposed to be one of the safist airplanes in the class. the boeing 777 has a near perfect record and is one of the most sophisticated jets on the market. how could flight 370 disappear without any communication whatsoever? we'll bring in our aviation and government regulator.

>> reporter: it is still considered one of the safest jets, consider this in its 19 year history the first fatal crash happened just last summer. now considering boeing 777 stellar safety record and technological capabilities even the most experienced aviators can't understand how this plane simply disappeared. the boeing 777 is one of the most hi-tech planes in the sky and an a work horse of international travel. >> the 777 was the nicest, most sophisticated but easier airplanes to fly. >> reporter: so sophisticated it beams messages to the ground to identify maintenance problems before it even lands. >> there are systems to communicate with the company, there are even systems sometimes that northern the health of the engine, automaticed reports. >> reporter: 777-200 extended range models like malaysia airlines flight 370 are capable ever flying from new york to

almost anywhere in the world nonstop. >> it really has an excellent safety record. >> reporter: that's why the mystery behind how this flight vanished has stumped the world even like pilots who flew 777s. >> this was way out of the ordinary. this is just something that happened instantaneously or relatively quickly. and overcame the crew and overcame the aircraft. >> reporter: since the first 777 rolled off the assembly line in 1994, the planes have made about 5 million flights. yet its first fatal crash came last july when this asiana plane crashed. we know this plane is equipped with a transmitter that sends off a distress signal in the event of an accident and many have been asking if that is the

case why can't they find this plane? well according to one expert i spoke with, if this plane is in the water that would drastically reduce the radius of the signal. if researchers are nowhere close they wouldn't detect it. carol? >> now we want to turn to someone who has a unique familiarity. welcome, sir. >> hello. >> thank you so much for talking with us. i just wondered, you were a long time captain of a 777 in malaysia. did you know the pilot of this doomed plane? >> can you say again? >> did you know the pilot of the downed plane? >> yes, i know. he was my co-pilot when i was flying on the 777 about 20 years

ago. >> from what i know of this captain, he was -- he was dedicated to being a pilot. he even had a simulator in his home. describe him for us. >> well, it was about 20 years ago, he was a good pilot, good co-pilot. he was with me for about three years. and thereafter he became a captain and he left the 777. i was flying it for about nine years. after that i have no contact with him until the ill fated incident two years ago. >> from all accounts, though, he was an excellent experienced pilot, is that correct? >> yes. i believe he's an examiner on the boeing 777. >> investigators say these are preliminary finding, that the

plane may have turned around. if the plane did turn around, why do you think there was no distress call? >> well, i'm quite uncertain because as a pilot our golden rule is what we call the aviation -- to aviate and communicate. if you follow that golden rule first of all he would, in an accident he would have controlled taxpayer craft, that is aviate and then navigate it, point his nose to the nearest airfield like in our modern aircraft we have this feature when you select closest airport four airports would appear and gives you the distance and time to go the alternate airport and the third golden rule is communicate. we have to inform all around us.

in this case it would be a may day call. when he makes a may day call priority would be given to him. unfortunately, as we all know there was no may day call. so i'm not sure how it all happened. there should be a distress call but unfortunately there was none. >> you were a long time pilot. you also teach. you teach people how to fly 777s. there was no distress call. preliminary findings say the plane may or may not have turned around and then the plane disappeared. in your mind what scenario -- i mean how can that happen? >> it's not clear. please repeat your question. >> i know that you teach people to fly the 777. is there any scenario that you can think of similar to what

happened to this plane? >> oh, i cannot speculate. many things could have happened because many people are trying to ask me what could have happened. many scenarios. for example airline 470 there was speculation it was a lightning strike but two years later it was found it was not true. so i would not want to say what actually happened. what actually could happen. but someone put this question to me this morning whether the ill-fated 777 airline 370 could have lost pressurization similar to the cyprus 275. i told her it was not possible because the cabin warning system

of the boeing 777 is so good that such event was extremely unlikely. because in the year and under 2002 i flew the boeing 777 from stock home to kuala lumpur. after i got airborne i got an indication a door was not properly closed. i had to turn back and land. i had to dump 80 tons of fuel into the baltic sea. it's about the width of about 30 cars. that's a lot of fuel. on the ground, after i landed safely at stock home and found it was a false warning. so we just clean up the sensor and flew back about three hours later. >> we're glad that flight turned out okay. >> so it's one of the safest

aircraft so far. i've flown aircraft for around nine years. and i was so fascinated with this aircraft, i don't know. i started website by the name of flying safely on the boeing 777 and i do have a lot in america. >> thank you, captain. thank you, captain for your insight. we appreciate it. still to come opportune "newsroom" before we can know what happened to malaysia airlines flight 370 we need to know where it is and richard quest warns finding clues in the massive south china sea is an extraordinarily difficult task one that could take months if not years. good morning. >> reporter: it is a vast area. it was a vast area that needs to be searched. the question is where do you begin? weekdays are for rising to the challenge.

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with no witnesses and no signs of wreckage fraenz family of the 239 aboard that missing malaysia airlines flight may have to wait months if not years to know what happened despite a massive around the clock multinational search finding a jet in the waters is a slow and agonizing task. richard quest joins me with more from new york. >> reporter: good morning. the difficulty of finding this debris in the water is really quite extraordinary because you are looking for a needle in a hay stack where this needle may

have been broken into a thousand different pieces. if you look at that video you were showing a second ago from out of the plane, the one where you could see the water that was there, you get an idea of how difficult it is, the trickiness of spotting something out on the water's edge and then working out whether it is debris from the aircraft, something left behind from a ship important,ly just -- i'll give you and example. we already know oil they thought they found was bunker oil not jet aviation fuel. in the last hour we've heard from the investigating authority the malaysians that they are widening the area of search right through a new block of water between malaysia and vietnam in the gulf of thailand which is what you're looking at at the moment. they have been searching off the west coast of malaysia.

they are searching around the south china sea off the east coast of vietnam. if you look at this picture here, just imagine scourge the water, looking for anything that might have come down and being aware that the waves in a flash could move it out of your eyesight or could obscure it or become more difficult. >> richard quest, live in new york. thanks so much. still to come in the "newsroom" a critical vote for citizens of crimea and ukrainian troops say they are ready for combat if diplomatic efforts fail. phil black is tracking all the developments. >> reporter: the world's largest country looks set to get even bigger as put defend's crimea right to join the russian federation. more after the break.

in ukraine signs this morning that the nation's armed forces are ready for combat. new video from the ukrainian minute strip of defense shows troops taking part in exercises. the army is not calling for full mobilization at least not yet. phil black is in moscow covering this for us. good morning, phil. >> reporter: good morning, carol. yes they have to mobilize their army to some degree because the ukrainian government believes it has been invaded by russia. but ukraine's leadership also believes to use that military as an option would be to invite further disaster upon their country. because they believe that

moscow, russia is trying to provoke them into responding militarily a move that would then invite russia to come back even stronger, harder, do enormous damage to the ukrainian military which cannot fight against russia and the end result quite likely would be russia occupying a larger slice of ukraine than it does now. their only option is the diplomatic one to invite the international community to apply as much pressure as possible to russia but what reality is in the short term that sort of pressure does not look like it's going to force russia out of crimea any time soon. >> phil black reporting live from moscow. we're moments away from the opening bell on wall street. the s&p 500 could hit another record high today and that's good news for retirement accounts that track the index and good news for a few top stocks. christine romans is in new york. >> reporter: hi there, carol. 2 1/2 minutes to opening bell. futures look soft.

maybe as our money headline stocks are the bulls hung over. why hung over? yesterday was a five year anniversary of the bull rally, carol. five years and it's been amazing. that's the s&p 500 up almost 180%. the dow this year now just 1%, about 125 points away from a record high there. we had a really rough january and things had really come back but let's look at the stocks that have really just exploded, carol. some of these stocks, imagine $600 investment, just ten shares of amazon.com five years ooig, today it's word $3,500. ten shares of apple, worth $5300 opinion priceline, 1600% gain. $780 for ten shares five years ago, $13,500. starbucks, whole foods, netflix, there's a whole list of consumer stocks that have done very well. no one can tell you what will happen tomorrow or what will happen going forward but that's

just a really good look at for half of americans that do have some investments in 401(k) or retirement account in the stock market those are the kind of stocks that help push you up to 30% last year in some stock averages so it's been a very, very goodyear. looks soft this morning when the opening bell rings, carol, but a lot of people saying there's still more room to go eventually. >> we're back in a minute. [ male announcer ] this is joe woods' first day of work. and his new boss told him two things -- cook what you love, and save your money. joe doesn't know it yet, but he'll work his way up from busser to waiter to chef before opening a restaurant specializing in fish and game from the great northwest. he'll start investing early, he'll find some good people to help guide him, and he'll set money aside from his first day of work to his last, which isn't rocket science. it's just common sense.

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get a $1,000 fuel reward card and 0.9% apr for 60 months. . more now on the disappearance of malaysian airlines flight 370. investigators are trying to figure out how two people were table board the flight with stolen passports. house genes committee chairman mike rogers says it happens more than you think. >> it's not common but it is not unheard of either that stolen passports can be repurposed and used mainly for the quality of the passports themselves. they would be doctored up. they would be individuals who would have the skill set to change those passports just enough that they could identify with the individual that was using it. >> let's bring in the former under secretary of the transportation security administration, the tsa. also the former director of the secret service. welcome. >> good morning, carol.

>> so what mike rogers said, that's pretty disturbing because you would like to think this could never happen. >> well, it is very common as you can see as many passports have been stolen and lost. and a lot of times the terrorist groups, the groups who want to import drug personnel into the country, excuse me, and others, fugitives, use these passports and they steal so many of them that pretty soon they can get almost a look-a-like by adjusting hair or a little bit of facial features. they can use these passports almost as they were. we need to get to the point where there's fingerprints and iris so it would reduce it a great deal. >> apparently investigators have these two men on close, a close circuit security cameras but

they are not releasing those pictures to the media. we know these were not asian looking men because the passports were stolen from italy and from an austrian citizen. they were not asian. as i said investigators have them on security cameras. should they release that to the public? >> well, i don't know that much about the details. if i was on the scene you could answer that question. a lot of times you need to keep that quiet until you run it all the way through. so many times in order to get the information out we giveaway investigative techniques and things like that which then help the terrorists or would be bombers. we don't want to -- we need to stay a step ahead of them because they look for the weaknesses. if we start talking about how we're doing these things then those weaknesses they capitalize on them and they obviously noticed a weakness in that

airport. they will go, they will do dry runs, they will find a way. and then these passports may have looked quite a bit like the individuals who actually boarded the aircraft. >> well we've heard officials talk about how the pilots -- i'm sorry i'll ask you this question first. we know these two tickets were purchased together in thailand and that they were one way flights. you said this liens heavily towards terrorism. is that another indicating factor? >> that's a big indicator. it's one way it's purchased just the day before, two of them together, the same two with the fake passport. but, again, we can't have tunnel vision because they could be just wanting to get to europe. although on the board that same day the airline board they could have went to europe nonstop out of there on three other flights. so why did they take this one? that's another indicator that they wanted to be on this one

for a particular reason. >> now you mentioned something about a dry run. what did you mean by that? >> well, they steal passports. then they got a stack of passport, this is a terrorist group. they got a stack of passports. they have about a list of maybe five or six, maybe it's ten of airlines, viewed places or locations that they may want to cause damage. and they do a dry run. for instance, in this one, you would go to the airport. you would take that flight. and fly that route and see when they are over water, at what altitude because the captain will normally say we're at altitu altitude, cruising altitude. where to sit in the aircraft in order to blow a hole. they blow a 12-foot round hole

in the side that aircraft is going to come apart very quickly. and also then what are the kind of weaknesses in these checkpoints along the line at that particular airport. and then they lay their plan. there's the weaknesses. here's where we can get through. let's go ahead and do this one. and, you know, our bombers or person to cause some kind of a problem we'll put them on there. if you take it in in too much of a tunnel vision you miss that ground crew. how about that cleaning crew back when we had the philippine airlines that was going to fly arose atlantic, not philippine airlines but the country of the philippines, flying across the atlantic and they wanted to blow eight or ten of our airliners up at one time. that plot had blastics that would be put underneath the seat cushion or in the life jacket and not be seen and they could

be put in there by cleaning crews. you have the caters. there could be a bomb right there. so there's so many ways this could to be done. they try to figure out within our plans and within our capabilities, terrorists, what's the best plan for us? okay. here's one. let's do this one. >> in your mind, sir, could this have bean dry run? is it an educated guess? >> an educated guess, estimate, no. this would not be a dry run. they already did a dry run. this was the actual flight. >> do you think that this is terrorism related? >> all the indicators are there. but let's let them decide. they have to run down all these things. what happened while it was on the ground. how much was secured when it was totally empty. who put the baggage on.

the baggage could have been contaminated inside the terminal and just not picked up and put on the plane and it discharges at 35,000 or 37,000 feet by an detonator. there's so many things to figure in here. but when you start listing all of the pros in terms of being a terrorist event, they way out number the negatives. doesn't mean it is. but it's quick, it's devastating, it's gone. what bothers me a lot right now why there's no, no debris. and, you know, in the last few years there's also been things happening in the cockpit that caused problems. so every element has to be looked at here. >> thank you, sir, for your insight. we really appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> i big part of me hopes you're wrong. still to come the parents of trayvon martin and jordan davis

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george zimmerman was all smiles this weekend at a florida gun show autographing photos and greeting a small crowd and i mean small crowd that came out the see the maniac quitted of trayvon martin's murder. hard to believe but it's been two years since zimmerman killed trayvon martin. two years since florida's stand your grounder law became national news. right now in tallahassee trayvon martin's parents as well as jordan davis another armed teenager who was shot to death are uniting to march and rally against the law. also there nicole olson the widow shot and killed by a

police captain at a movie theater. welcome, gentlemen. >> good morning, carol. >> first question, the florida legislature has no intentions of tweaking stand your ground and nra back bill expanding self-defense statute failed through a house committee. joey will this latest rally really make a difference? >> you know, carol, you would certainly hope so but to your point i think there's large public support in florida for your stand your ground law. in fact they did a poll that suggested 60% of floridians did, in fact, favor the law and only 34% that opposed it. in addition to that, carol, as you know, the governor appointed a task force a couple of years ago which came out with its recommendations last year as a 19 member task force where it was led by the lieutenant governor, herself an african-american woman a number of people on that task force, politician, members of the community, attorneys, prosecutors and, in fact, they said that the recommendations --

they made some recommendations but at the heart of it, carol, they said the law should stand. there needs to be some tweaks perhaps that's the case but an all out repeal the committee said no. >> interestingly, paul, mark o'maro o'mara, george zimmerman's attorney says stand your ground confuses jury. he wants to give judges the power to stop that. will that fix the problem surrounding this law, paul? >> well, i think it will make a little bit of a dent in it. there's a big misconception about the stand your ground law and that's something mark o'mara was talking about. stand your ground is another way of saying you don't have the duty to retreat if somebody threatens to do serious bodily harm to you in a place outside of your home. and, you know, if you look at those two case the dunn case and zimmerman case, in the zimmerman case, of course not with

standing his bad taste in appearing at gun shows now, at the time of trial he indicated that he was, in fact, attacked by trayvon martin, he was on the ground being pummelled, and he reached for his gun in self-defense. now there would have been no opportunity to retreat on that fact pattern so stand your ground wouldn't apply. similarly in that dunn case, the loud music, so-called loud music case dunn claimed a shotgun or another kind of rifle was pointed at him. and you couldn't really retreat in the face of a shotgun because you just pulled the trigger and it goes off and you get killed. there was no duty to retreat there. but these laws create, i think, sort of a trigger happy atmosphere in stand your ground states because you kind of get this feeling hey, i can stand my ground and shoot back and there's no analyzing the situation saying maybe i should be careful about it. you know, possession of guns and gun permits in florida, i saw an

interesting statistic are way up since stand your ground cases started to get publicized. so it's encouraging people to carry guns to act in self-defense. >> i think maybe the case that will make the difference and tell me if i'm wrong is the movie theater case because if that defendant uses stand your ground it's just so egregious to most people i don't think throwing popcorn s-you know, threatening someone's life. zmu what, carol? there will be a lot of people out there that agree with that. the mass public support for that proposition including me. when does reasonableness turn to the point of ridiculousness? that's certainly if someone's life is in imminent fear that's one matter but to suggest that popcorn does you want is quite another. tissue comes down to is whether there's public support to get it done. do we have the climate now with trayvon martin's parents marching today with reverend al sharpton and jordan davis' parents and miss olson the widow now.

the climate is there. whether there's the will to do it i think is another matter. i think recommendations that were made from the governor's task force can certainly be implemented. if you're not going repeal the law you tinker with it so that you make effective changes to stop the madness. >> thank you both so much. >> have a gate day. >> still to come rand paul says a bid for the white house could be in his future but so is broadening the republican party. will cpac's straw poll victory help him with both? [ julie ] the wrinkle cream graveyard. if it doesn't work fast... you're on to the next thing. neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair has the fastest retinol formula to visibly reduce fine lines and wrinkles in just one week. neutrogena®. until you're sure you do. bartender: thanks, captain obvious. co: which is what makes using the hotels.com mobile app so useful.

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great lakes. lake michigan is now 93% covered in ice. the national weather service says last month's frigid temperatures caused the ice concentration on the surface to rapidly increase. the previous record was setback, way back in 1977. he is the darling of cpac, two years running and talking about rand paul, who once again took the top spot in the cpac straw poll coming in far ahead of ted cruz. paul admits he is thinking about a 2016 presidential run. national political reporter, peter hamby joins me now from washington. the biggest surprise to me was that ted cruz got only 11% of the vote. >> that was surprising, carol, we all thought he would do better. he finished in a distant second to rand paul who cleaned up. he got 30% of the vote. this was his crowd. cpac is a conservative event traditionally. it has been around for 40 years. in recent years, it has become

younger. it is almost like spring break for college republicans. young people are trending libertarian. that favors rand paul. this was absolutely his crowd. he gave an unapologetic, libertarian speech on friday. it was the most well-received speech of the conference. almost half of the vote of which he won were from people between 18 and 25. a lot of students there. this is a really good talking point for him at the moment. it also raises expectations for him. next year at the straw poll when the republican presidential primary will really be under way. rand paul, it is no secret he is thinking about running for president. i would be shocked if he doesn't. >> rand paul says he wants to broaden the party, not criticize

other republicans. seemingly a swipe at ted cruz was criticized for slamming others. >> this is an interesting thing that rand paul is doing over the last couple of years. he was elevated to the senate in 2010 on the back of the tea party. unlike a lot of his tea party peers, he hasn't really taken a hard line on every single issue across the board. he is splitting the baby between making nice with his hib bertarian base. the people that supported his father, ron paul. also, trying to reach out to the republican establishment, expand that sort of idealogical appeal to a larger segment of the electorate. he recently met with eric holder, the attorney general, who he is suing over nsa surveillance. he also met with him on something they could agree on, which was reducing mandatory minimums for drug convictions shall sentencing reform.

he is really trying to expand the party's reach. he is at least talking about it in a little bit more of a substantive way than some of his conservative come patriots who are thinking about running for president in 2016. >> peter ham beby, many thanks. the next hour of "cnn newsroom" after a break. (vo) you are a business pro. seeker of the sublime. you can separate runway ridiculousness... from fashion that flies off the shelves. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle... and go.

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happening now in the "newsroom," the malaysia airline mystery at sea. >> there was a report today we just received that an aircraft dropped. >> new information coming in every hour as the families of more than 200 people wait for word. >> this is pretty fresh. we are processing it and we've

just had a little bit of time to be together as a family. >> investigators trying to figure out how two of the passengers boarded the plane with stolen pass ports. >> stolen passports can be repurposed and used. they would be doctored up. >> who were they? did the plane disintegrate at 35,000 feet? you are live in the "cnn newsroom." good morning. i'm carol costello. thanks so much for joining me. this morning, desperation grows by the hour. potential leads seem to crumble just as fast. a second u.s. navy ship joins the massive international effort to search for any signs of a malaysia airlines jet missing and presumed crash. a short time ago, investigators confirmed thoo an oil slick, that had raised hopes for a possible clue, did not come from the missing airliner. cnn justice correspondent, pamela brown, live in washington with more. good morning. >> good morning to you, carol.

many more questions than answers. right now, authorities are working to figure out what the intent of those two passengers who boarded flight 370 with stolen passports pay have been and whether they were associated in any way with a terrorist organization. the fact that this could have happened is raising questions about security on international flights. it is one of the biggest mysteries in the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370. how did two passengers board an international flight with stolen pass ports. even more surprising, they were in plain sight. among the names listed in interpol's lost and stolen database. both stolen in thailand. the two passengers were an italian and austrian citizen, bought their tickets together. >> when you book your ticket, the airline is not able to make an inquiry with int perpol,

whether you are wanted or the passport is stolen. the country, the government does. >> according to interpol, last year alone, passengers were able to avoid planes without having their passports screened against interpol as data base. it con stains an astounding 40 million record of stolen documents. >> the 190 members that belong to interpol are not charge a fee for accessing any of the databases. if the country has sufficient resources and technical capability to wire into interpol's virtual private network that is running 24 hours a day, then they certainly would be able to access that database and check. it is just up to the will of the country to set it up and do it. interpol secretary, general, robl noble sa ronald noble says, now, we have a real case where they are asking whether they are terrorists.

they are taking care to make sure persons possessing stolen passports are not boarding international flights. >> people use stolen passports for a variety of reasons, such as drug smuggling, human trafficking. there is no credible link to terrorism though it hasn't been ruled out. 250 million times a year. out of 800 million searches a year worldwide in interpol's data base, there are 60,000 hits of people using lost or stolen passports. that says a lot. >> pamela brown, thanks so much. >> terrorism could have brought down that plane. pilot error or mechanical failure could be to blame too. >> with me, mary sciavo and dr. allen deal, an air safety instructor and consultant. thanks for being here. >> mary, i want to start with

you, stolen pass porports, no s of wreckage. you are an expert. what do you think? >> i look back to previous accidents. it has similarity to a couple different accidents. it is very similar to air france 447. in that case, it was a situation where an aircraft entered bad weather. the pilots let the air speed deteriorated, lost lift, spiraled into the ocean. the other similarity is a philippine airline case where a terrorist group used that as a practice run in advance of the bogenka plot, to take out 12 u.s. jet liners over the u.s. ocean. they used fake passports. they planted the explosives. they didn't want to be detected, because it was a trial run. two very different possible outcomes. >> everybody is searching for a clue like that proverbial black box that could help investigators figure out what happened. there has been no transmission.

why? >> well, mary mentioned air france 447. there was no transmission there. they spiraled in for several minutes. mary might have mentioned the air india loss of the 747 a couple decades ago over the atlantic. there is not always communication. these pilots are very busy. we certainly can't rule out some kind of accident or event. >> mary, if the pilot did try to turn back and investigators say he might have, why wouldn't he have told air traffic controllers he was having mechanical problems. now, on a 777, it is very difficult. it is not just redundant. it has triple redundancies. whatever caused him to turn back would have had serious impact on the plane. there are other situations where one could turn back and envision

a hijacking event. a hijacking event, you have some other options. you can send computer messages, squawk a certain code that is secret. you can squawk a certain code saying you are being hijacked. the lack of information from this plane. this plane, itself, sends messages. it sends system status update messages, electronic messages from the plane checking on the health of the plane. that leads most people to conclude there was a catastrophic event at 35,000 feet. >> is it possible malaysia airlines could have received some sort of transmission from this 777 if it had different technology? >> well, that's one of the things that is certainly been advocated over the years starting decades ago. people have talked about on board transmitters. once an aircraft gets into any kind of distress, recorded data for say the last ten minutes is instantly transferred. that technology exists and i'm sure we're going to have to revisit this.

i would also say that if they had some minor mechanical situations, i'm speculating here, i'm not suggesting this happened, but say a windshield crack. that's the kind of thing where they know they are not going to go on to beijing. they are probably going to go back to kuala lumpur for maintenance. they may have started a turn and the windshield failed. that's the kind of sing narrow that there was a turn. the pilots until they knew they had a major problem. would focus on flying the airplane and getting their oxygen mask on. you can envision mechanical failures in this situation also. >> mary sciavo, dr. allen deal, thanks to both of you. edward snowden will be back in the united states this morning, sort of. the fugitive and whistle blower, scheduled to speak at the south by southwest festival in austin. it is kind of controversial,

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susan candiotti, live in new york, she is following the story. tell us more. it is heartbreaking, as you said. peter lanza says, he doesn't think anyone would have predicted his son, adam, would have become an ex murderer, not even his ex-wife, adam. describing his own son, adam, he says, you can't get any more evil. >> peter lanza, the father of sandy hook shooter, adam lanza, has broken his silence. saying, with hindsight, i know adam would have killed me in a heartbeat 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 has met with two families of his son's victims saying, a victim's family member told me that they had forgave adam after we spent three hours talking. i didn't know how to respond. >> twenty little children, six adults. >> unimaginable horror grips the

nation. >> police have identified the school shooter as adam lanza. >> adam says, 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 said he knew his son had problems but he was difficult to treat. in his words, he did not want to talk about problems and didn't even admit he had asperger's. lanza also 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 says, as things got worse with his son, adam's mother, lanza's ex-wife, nancy, cared for him primarily. in his words, she wanted everyone to think everyone 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 show an open gun locker, several firearms, and lots of ammunition inside the home. andrew solomon interviewed lanza for "the new yorker" and gave his take on adam's mother, nancy, on the "today" show. >> nancy lanza was always trying to give adam a good day. she didn't think enough about giving him a good life. >> 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 also says he wishes his son, adam, was never born. lanza chose to tell this story with writer, andrew solomon, who has written extensively about mental illness. lanza's spokesman tells me peter lanza does not intend to say another word publicly about his son. >> it is just really sad,

something that's a bit confusing. mr. lanza, he knew his son was dangerous but mrs. lanza, his ex-wife, wasn't frightened and kept guns in the house. didn't she realize that adam lanza could hurt someone? >> you know, according to peter, he did not think that his wife could have foreseen what happened. he believes she did her very best as he puts it and certainly even peter himself did not think that his son was dangerous. carol? >> susan candiotti, reporting live, thanks so much. >> he can't set foot in the united states for fear of arrest. in less than two hours, nsa whistle blower, edward snowden, is on the schedule to speak at the annual south by southwest festival in austin, texas. he won't be there in person but live via teleconference from

russia. lorie segal is live in austin and will be ringside. >> reporter: people are very, excited about this. they are already heading up to the convention center. what he is expected to say, he is supposed to talk about the impact of the surveillance that it has had on the tech community. he is expected to do a bit of a call to arms to the tech people. you need to build out better tools to protect user privacy. this is an audience full of technologists, full of entrepreneurs. congressmen are in town. he is expected to take "q" and "a." it is a big deal. this is the first time we are hearing from him with this kind of audience. >> are people excited to hear from him. >> reporter: absolutely. people are lining up right now. this is the talk of south by southwest. this is the conference about what's next in technology, what are the conversations we need to be having. snowden is the guest of honor

when all is said. a certain representative wrote a note to the organizers saying, you need to rescind this invitation for snowden. they don't want him speaking. so what we're really seeing is that there is also a growing tension between silicon valley and washington. >> lorie segal, thanks so much. a grabreakthrough in the fi of alzheimer's disease, a breakthrough with the blood test. >> doctors are calling this game-changing. this could be the key to someday preventing alzheimer's disease. we'll be back. a fortune with discounts like safe driver, multi-car, paperless. you make a mighty fine missus, m'lady. i'm not saying mark's thrifty. let's just say, i saved him $519, and it certainly didn't go toward that ring. am i right? [ laughs ]

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researchers have reported a medical breakthrough as doctors struggle to understand alzheimer's disease. a blood test can accurately predict whether a patient will develop the illness. elizabeth cohen has the story. >> reporter: there hasn't been a good way to predict who will get alzheimer's disease, whose brains will get the plaques and tangles that destroy memory and concentration and who will be spared. in a first of its kind study, a simple blood test was able to predict who would get alzheimer's. >> this is a wonderful piece of science, the most significant observation we have been able to report. >> the research looked at the blood of healthy elderly people checking for 10 fatty molecules,

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like in 40-year-olds. i don't want to know now. not that i'm 40. just to be clear. i wouldn't want to know at this stage of my life. it would be in the back of my head and depress me. a psychotherapist said to me, she would be worried that people would commit suicide. >> let's look at the glass half full. this could actually lead to some sort of effective treatment. >> that is the exciting thing about it. right now, if you want to test out a drug to see if it prevents alzheimer's, it is hard to do. you give it to 100 people. most of them aren't going to get alzheimer's. if you had 100 people that you knew were pretty much destined to get alzheimer's. what a great study population. you give them a drug and see whether it prevented the disease. that's really exciting. that could make a big difference. still to come in the "newsroom," experts are puzzled

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issued a distressed signal. there was word that two passengers used stolen passports to board the plane. investigators are desperately trying to figure out how it vanished and where it is now. joining me now, daniel rose. welcome. >> good morning. let's talk about the so-called black box. this transmission box is used by investigators to gather information about a flight. what are the chances that black box will be recovered in this case. >> i think they are pretty good. the analogous situation was air france. it did take a long while to do it. really, probably, under even more difficult circumstances but eventually, they were able to be retrieved. we have a pretty good sense of a couple of areas where the aircraft could have impacted the water. i think over time, we're going to see, with all the resources that are in play, air, sea,

below sea, that we will eventually find out where those black boxes, even though they are actually orange, are located and will provide a lot of information for us. >> i want to read you something from the british publication, the guardian. the ongoing mystery of malaysia airlines flight 370 is the fault of a bizarre quirk in our network society. even cars have broadband connectivity. the broadband airliner still exists in the age of radio. a system that powers the plane is limited to pre-dialup internet speeds. why is that? >> it is a very good question. it is going to be teed up as an area of inquiry in the u.s. for the future. there is no excuse in this day and age to not have an exact location for an aircraft at a minimum. not to mention what's going on.

there is systems that provide radio information about the systems. and location. there is a vast area of the world where aircraft are just literally disappear off the radar screen for hours and hours. that's routine when you go across the atlantic to europe. people don't realize that for a long period of time, you're out of radar contact. >> i didn't realize that. it is pretty creepy, actually. >> i spoke to the former undersecretary of the tsa about the possibility of terrorism. he said investigators are likely to ask questions about the flight even before it took off. listen. >> what happened while it was on the ground. how much was it secured when it was totally empty? who put the baggage on? the baggage could have been contaminated inside the terminal and just not picked up and put on the plane and it discharges at 35 or 37,000 feet.

so there is so many things to figure in here. >> you've been in the cockpit. how secure are these flights ahead of takeoff. >> it depends on what part of the world you're at and what the resources behind launching the aircraft. once you clothse the cabin door and the cockpit door, that's the last line of defense. what you need to do is, before that, have accountability of who is getting on that plane. i think that's going to be another area that's ripe for re-evaluation. certainly, outside of the u.s., we do a pretty good job of knowing who is on our aircraft here. once you go abroad, all bets are off. it is a different standard. it needs to be improved. >> how alarming is it to you that the pilots didn't issue a distress call to air traffic control? >> i think that remains a

critical clue at this point. it suggests that whatever happened obviously happened imminently right away and catastrophically in all likelihood. there is always the possibility that they were prevented from communicating ala a terrorist attack. i think a lot of the other scenarios in flight breakup, fire, mechanical failure, decompression, a lot of these are consistent with this one bit of information that we know for certain, which is, there was no communication. that is very unusual if you have an environment that's a protracted event developing where the pilot can at least communicate. that's one of the first things a pilot would want to do, say, hey, i've got a problem here. i need help. that didn't happen here. >> daniel rose, thanks so much for your insight. i appreciate it. >> still to come in the "newsroom," at&t making the hearts of her customers slashing

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fighting broke out between pro-russian and ukrainian activists. a few days left to determine whether crimea will join russia. we have a look at the border and anna coryn is here to show us. anna? >> reporter: that's right. carol, as you say, less than a week before the people of crimea vote in that referendum. the russian military will certainly intensify in the next few days. we received reports that they were creating a in you border separated crimea from ukraine. we drive up and this is what we found. packed along the highway linking crimea from ukraine, a convoy.

armored personnel carriers. we are approaching a checkpoint 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 had sworn allegiance to russia agre agrees to an interview. >> translator: we are protecting our people. this is not about russia by protecting our homeland. >> reporter: once out of view from russian troops, we stop the car and resume filming. russia says it has no military presence on the crimean peninsula. here is your proof. russian troops have dug in armed personal carriers, dug in fence

posts an there are signs that indicate there are land mines in the area. >> a local resident says they aren't just signs but this is a mine field. one of my neighbor's dog ran in there and was blown up. why are russians running land mines. for those living here, the military buildup is larming. >> reporter: i'm fridayened about the future. we don't want a war. we just want to work, live peacefully and feed our families. several miles up the road, the ukrainian checkpoint appears. they too are digging in, setting up camp, well aware the standoff could turn bloody. >> translator: we are warriors following the orders of the people of ukraine. if they want us to defend crimea, we will do this. we are willing to die. a sacrifice they are prepared to make for the sovereignty of ukraine.

>> reporter: carol, we were very lucky. we didn't have our equipment confiscated. that is happening in the media crackdown here on the crimean peninsula. they did not want us filming, certainly not that new border. from what we can see, they are digging in and the russians are here to stay, carol. >> anna coren, white house continuing. president reaching out to several world leaders over the weekend, including a call with the french president. white house correspondent, michel michelle kosinski joins me now. >> reporter: a busy weekend, a working vacation from president obama. when you look at these calls he has made, he has spoken to the world leaders of china, japan, germany, u.k., france rs italy, latvia, lithuania, astonia. when you look at the readouts of these calls, what the white how thes house puts out is a summary of them, stressing the unity and

cooperation of these nations. telling russian president, vladimir putin, he needs to do three things. pull troops back in crimea to their bases, let in international monitors, which have been turned away at the border for days now and participate in the formation of a contact group that would facilitate discussion between russia and ukraine. so far, none of those things have happened. so these calls emphasize if things continue the way they have been in crimea and ukraine, that russia will face continued international isolation. for its part, russia has also been participating in calls. the foreign minister has been talking repeatedly with our own secretary of state, john kerry. vladimir putin has been making calls over the weekend with germany and the u.k. what they say is that they agree basically. when they put out their summary that they feel that there is a consensus there. there needs to be a diplomatic

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colorado is about to find out how profitable legal marijuana has been for the state. this week, the state's tax

department will release figures for sales taxes paid by pot dispensaries for the month of january. that number could be as high as $70 million. while the state counts its cash. some pot shops are left wondering where to put all that money. >> all this week, cnn is taking a look at colorado's pot boom. annika cabrera is finding out where they are putting all that money when they get turned away by the banks. a budding business, already bringing in big-time money but with few places to put it. >> reporter: how much money are you making? >> last month, we did about $1 million in sales. >> reporter: we wanted to know what happens with these pot profits. we agreed to hide this dispensary owners identity for safety reasons. >> reporter: what do you do with all this cash? >> we are fortunate enough to have a bank. we bank with a company.

>> reporter: they don't know you are actually a pot shop? >> very have a strong suspicion that we are. you have to turn in all your documentations to the bank. it says exactly what you are. with them, we can ignore it. we take great pains to help them ignore it by paying our vendors with cash and we also if he bree febreze the money so it doesn't smell like marijuana when they get it and use an armored car to take it to the bank. >> the majority are forced to hide their earnings elsewhere. >> we try not to keep any amount of cash in high levels in any one location. >> big stashes of cash locked away in safes. guard dogs to discourage attackers. for everyone, it is an elicit business. security is a huge concern. all dispensaries are required to have surveillance cameras eyeing

every corner. a lot have alarm systems and panic buttons like this. just in case of an emergency. then, there are dispensaries that are taking security to a whole other level. >> i say, you mess with the russian, you face the repercussion. >> reporter: 6'4", 275 pounds, leo covlusion is a former member of russian special forces. he is now a member of the blue line protection group, a private company providing armed security for dozens of dispensaries. >> they can try to do whatever. they can be unpredictable. >> reporter: in denver, 150 reported b reported burglaries of licensed marijuana dealerships in the pas past year. it needs to be addressed for the sake of safety. >> i hope we don't have to see something bad happen before the

federal government takes some serious action to resolve this as a problem. >> reporter: annika cabrera, cnn. >> dr. sanjay gupta hosts "weed 2, cannabis madness. the annual conservative gathering known as cpac has just come and gone. our national political reporter, peter hamby joins me from washington. what are the next steps? >> reporter: well, look, carol, we saw all of these potential 2016 republican candidates really try to stake out their space in the republican field. didn't learn too much new. rick santorum is the unapologetic social conservative. mark huckabee is your plain spoken. the two most interesting to me

were rick perry, the texas governor. rand paul won and blue out of fashion with the heavily libertarian crowd. rick perry gave a great speech and reminded people he is a much mortal en more talented politician than we saw in his 2012 campaign. the other was intriguing was chris christie. he finished in fourth place there in the straw poll but actually gave a speech the conservative crowd really liked and reminded the conservative audience he opposes abortion rights, named off the coke brothers, talked about beating back the unions, hit the media, a robustly conservative speech. it showed that he is not afraid to start to pivot to the right as he starts to lay ground work for a gop nomination bid in 2016. this was language sfrom christi we would not have heard in 2013. he is definitely positioning himself for 2016, carol.

let's go back to rick perry. he was an awful candidate. it is amazing he would want to run again and think he has a chance. >> the stench of his terrible campaign is going to follow him. donors are going to be suspicious. if you are buying stock in a presidential campaign, you want to buy low, rick perry is a three-term governor who has run before. do not underestimate him, carol. >> i'll try. thank you for joining me today. i'm carol costello. at this hour with berman and micayla starts after a break. through all the bitter cold and snow, the long-running winter has brought long-awaited water. the head of the marilyn farm bureau, says that's a big relief. >> whether it is a dairy farmer

on the east coast or whether you live in d.c., your food comes from there and that is all hedged upon the water. >> winter water counts. >> as a rule, every 20 inches of snow will melt into just 1 inch of water. that may not seem like much. a year ago, well over half the country was in drought conditions. the dry spots are down to around 35%. that's mainly in the west. >> they are not going to get to normal. >> reporter: with enough snow and rain, a farm like this can more than double its output of corn and soybeans and so much else. as john sul prepares for planting. >> i hope it does this in the summertime, not snow but precipitation. if this keeps up, that would be fantastic. >> reporter: high hopes amid the high waters that winter is leaving behind.

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