unlike closing arguments in court we are up against a time limit here. >> we are see you next monday night. >> "ac360" is next. good evening, everyone, still no sign on that missing jet. but there is a break. a search for answerers involving mystery passengers, stolen passports and an iranian connection and more. we'll get the latest from the best minds of the aviation and security business. also tonight, james and tom wood talk about the brother they know and love, philip wood, who is missing on board that flight. later, you'll see what reduced the blade runner to tears and made him sick, sick to his stomach.

the most dramatic day yet in the oscar pistorius murder trial. in our crime and punishment segment tonight. we'll have late breaking news in the flight of 370, two passengers on the flight from kuala lumpur were passengers, were traveling on stolen passports and had tickets purchased by an iranian middleman. j shoe -- jim sciutto joins us with more. >> what's the latest you're hearing about the possibility of terrorism and stolen passports? >> the latest we've received in the last hour, i'm told by a u.s. official that there are more and more indications that the loss of mh-370 is early in the investigation. more and more signs are being reported that it is not a terror event. they keep all lines of investigation open, malaysian authorities passed on to u.s. authorities, some of the

biometric data from these two men that travelled on stolen passports, including their thumb prints which have now been received by the fbi, and the fbi will now run through a u.s. terror database, to make sure that nothing turns up, that these people and based on their biomet trick data were not tied to or suspected to having ties to terror. they're keeping all lines open, but the read i'm getting from u.s. intelligence officials, they have more and more indications it's not a terror event. >> presumably some theorys may be able to be ruled out, based on those fingerprints that are being analyzed by the fbi. when they say it's not a terror event, when you hear there are stolen passports, it raises suspicions. there are other options not related to terror, stolen passports and the ring and the like? >> that's what i'm told. this is not definitive yet, they're still looking into it. the circumstances of this, including this iranian middleman you mentioned.

the tickets bought through an iranian middleman who paid for them in cash and bought one-way tickets to europe. all suspicious but it's the pattern including the middleman who had a history with this travel agency where the tickets were bought, it fits the pattern of a human smuggling ring. it fits the pattern, they haven't established it with clarity yet. the signs look more likely to be a human smuggling case than a terror case. >> it remains to be seen how significant this all is, we'll know more when searchers find the wreckage. they have not done that yet. jim clancy reports their effort is growing. >> beginning to increase it. enlarge our area of search in the next few days. >> reporter: the massive multinational search for malaysia airlines flight 370 grows by the day. the u.s. is sending a second vessel to aid in the effort joining 40 ships and 30

aircrafts from a dozen countries already there. a number of false leads have already been chased down by investigates, samples from an oil slick, nearly 10 miles long, discovered saturday off the coast of vietnam, did not contain jet fuel and objects thought to be debris. a life craft and the planes tail weren't. >> after more than 30 hours without contact with the aircraft, we believe family members should prepare themselves for the worst. >> reporter: family members have spent the last three days worrying about their missing loved ones, becoming increasingly frustrated by the weight and lack of information relatives have gathered in beijing's airport, where nearly two thirds of those missing are chinese. among the missing, three americans, including 51-year-old phillip wood, an ibm executive living in kuala lumpur, described by his family as incredibly generous creative and intelligent. >> pretty calm, pretty strong.

we're hanging in there. >> jim joins us now from kuala lumpur. i remember when that air france flight disappeared from rio to paris. it took five days to actually find the wreckage floating in the water. it took two years to recover the black box. but officials are now expanding the search radius. time is not on their side, the longer it takes, the harder it gets, doesn't it? >> it certainly gets harder, but you know, i think the simple answer is that they don't know what else to do. they have searched the area where they believe that that plane was at the time that it disappeared from radar, they found nothing. every lead has proved false. you have no choice but to expand the search area, they're under pressure, the relatives are distressed, we've got chinese families flying in on extra flights, that have been put on by malaysian airlines, they're coming here to be closer to the last place they saw their loved

ones, before they got on that flight and an hour later vanished into thin air. authorities here have been pushed by the chinese and others to come up with answers, they're pushing themselves. they say, we're going to try to intensify this, we're going to expand the search area, we're going to find that plane. anderson? >> jim clancy appreciate the update from kuala lumpur. later on in the program, philip wood's two brothers are going to join us tonight, talking about their brother and the faith they share that is getting them through these incredibly difficult days. we want to run through as many possibilities. how the investigation is proceeding, joining us, two women who have been on the front lines when airliners have been brought down. george w bush's homeland security adviser, mary schiavo, former inspector general for the u.s. department of transportation. she currently represents victims and families of transportation accidents.

fran, jim sciutto reporting that they seem to be moving away from the thoughts of terrorism. what do you make of all this? >> it's natural investigators were going to take the leads that they have. stolen passports from thailand, austrian and italian travellers, paid for in cash. same travel agent, they were going to look at that and kuala lumpur has a terrorism expert. it was natural the law enforcement and intelligence communities were going to take that seriously, of course as you begin to run these leads down. now they're going to look at, if it's not terrorism, is it a larger criminal network, is it a passport operation, smuggling operation. >> it may have been coincidence it was on this plane? >> exactly right, they're going to look to see were there other stolen passports used on that plane, by the way and working with interpol.

the other thing this may raise, we find now, the united states and european unions checks 100% of the passports against the interpol database. obviously not every country. >> i was shocked by that. and we're going to have more reporting on that tonight on the program. how common stolen passports are, and how you would think there's no way someone could use a stolen passport. a lot of places you can. >> this is going to raise for international standards, what are they, why don't others all scan for that database and what can we do to increase the security screening protocol. what. >> what do you make of the fact that the debris has not been found? i keep going back to this air france flight, the closest one i could think of where it took five days. if something occurred at 35,000 feet, you would think there would be a wide debris field? >> yes, a widely scattered debris field. air france is not the only accident where it took several days. there were many accidents in history where it took several days for them to find it. the ocean's a very big place. so much on the plane is able to float.

the seats, the life vests, the life raft, the service carts. there have been cases where parts of the wing and the tail have been able to float, so i don't have any doubt that they will eventually find it, and i believe firmly they will get those black boxes, they always do. but this won't be the first case where it has taken four or five days for the debris to appear. >> the good news on this compared to that air france flight, that water was 13,000 feet deep. the water where they are searching is 296 feet which is not deep at all. >> that's right, it will be easier on the searchers, they have to listen for the pings from the black boxes, the batteries can last up to a month. they have the submersibles. in many accidents, for example, in valuejet, it was divers that found them. in valujet, they touched them. they're far from out of hope at this point. they just started on the black boxes. >> in terms of when something

like this happens, how involved is the u.s., fran? >> well, you have americans -- you're going to have some of the family members of one victim, but once there are americans involved, the u.s. law enforcement, the fbi takes the lead for the u.s. role. and they'll coordinate and provide support to malaysian authorities. they'll work with their thai counter parts where the passports were stolen. they'll work with interpol and they'll work with the other countries where they have victims. >> mary, what do you make of the idea that officials are now moving away from the terrorism idea? >> well, i think statistically, you look at it, for example, in 80% of the cases, our natural transportation safety board, finds some form of pilot error. three large causes are mechanical, including maintenance and manuals, pilot error and weather. we don't have a weather component that we know of. statistically speaking the odds are it will be a mechanical with pilot error. terrorism actually ranks far

less in the number of accidents. and because it is a boeing, boeing will be there in full force. there's 1,000 reasons for them to participate, and it's called 777. >> a lot being made of the fact that the pilots didn't communicate. but again, i go back to that air france flight, the pilots didn't communicate then either even though they were wrestling with the aircraft that we know now it took two years to figure out. people shouldn't assume just because the pilots aren't communicating, that doesn't mean they couldn't have communicated, right? >> that's right. in many catastrophic crashes they don't. they didn't there and didn't in tw 800. it wasn't terrorism, but something very catastrophic happened at a high altitude, there just wasn't time, they were fighting. >> great to have you on, your expertise. thank you very much. as i mentioned, more now on the passport angle and how common passport theft may be, this is surprising. pamela brown reports. >> reporter: it's a scary thought to think you could be flying on an international flight with a passenger using a

stolen passport. but authorities say it's very possible. >> so many governments do not check outbound passengers. and by the way, that's over 1 billion tickets a year that are issued without a check being performed to see if the documents were stolen or lost. used to get those international tickets. >> the database at interpol headquarters contains an astounding 40 million records of stolen passports. it's the responsibility of each country's government to check that database for passengers on international flights, not the airlines. >> the airline is not able to actually make an inquiry, with interpol or even the local police about whether you're anted or the passport has been reported stolen. the country, the government does. >> while the u.s. routinely checks every passenger's passport with interpol database, many other countries do not, leaving a gaping hole in the security of international flights. >> the member countries, the 190 members who belong the interpol

are not charged a fee for accessing any of those databases. if the country has sufficient resources and technical capabilities to wire into interpol's virtual private network that's running 24 hours a day, then, they certainly would be able to access that database, and it's up to the will of the country to set it up and do it. >> reporter: according to interpol statistics, 60,000 passengers try to board planes using lost or stolen passports. many of those people are your garden variety criminals like traffickers and drug smugglers. >> 60,000 people trying to use lost or stolen passports is a huge number. i'm amazed as at how few countries are checking for these things. how does the u.s. handle inbound international flights. >> well, anderson, the u.s. routinely checks all the passports of passengers coming to the u.s. and depending on when the u.s.

gets a manifest on an inbound national flight, they may determine it once the plane is in the air. when that happens, customs and border control meets the plane to confront that passenger as soon as it lands. this is an issue that officials with interpol have been screaming about for years, trying to get more countries to use their free database, it is clear the u.s. is one of the biggest users of the database, running passports through it more than 250 million times a year. >> wow! pamela brown, appreciate that update. you can follow me at twitter @andersoncooper. i'll talk with the brothers of one of the missing americans, where they find their strength at a difficult time for any family. later, the evidence that made oscar pistorius lose his cool and throw up in court. still ahead. aflac.

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our breaking news tonight, attention being focused on a pair of stolen passports. and the passengers who used them to board the malaysian airlines flight that is now missing. the fbi running their thumbprints through their database. american authorities have pictures for potentially any bad actors. i don't want to focus on who we don't know, but one we do. philip wood, an ibm executive who was relocating to kuala lumpur in malaysia. saturday's flight was supposed to be his final one. he was heading back after a visit with his family, including brothers tom and james, who join us tonight. i can't imagine how difficult this time is for you both, james, how are you and your family holding up? >> we're doing okay, we're getting through. we're taking it -- sometimes an hour at a time, sometimes just a

minute at a time, but we're holding together and we are working on this, because of faith. honestly, we're getting through this on our faith. and taking it just a little at a time. it's been a little bit numbing, to be honest. >> understandably. and james, i know philip has two sons, one of them is in college. are you in touch with them constantly? how are they holding up? >> absolutely. they're doing okay too. we just saw them a couple days ago, they're with my mom and dad right now. and so we all process our grief a little different. and so they're being a little quieter right now. so -- >> james, how did you first learn that your brother's plane was missing? >> my dad. he called me left a voice mail on my phone and just said, hey,

james, give me a call. about 17 minutes later. i remember looking at the phone. and when i called him back, i knew from listening to his voice mail something wasn't right. he let me know. >> i know phillip's girlfriend was waiting for him in beijing. initially she said that the information, access to the information was very slow from malaysian officials, has it gotten any better? >> honestly, her name is sarah, and so we want to reach out to her as well. and just tell her how much we love her. we know she's going through a tough time there in malaysia, and we've got communication with the state department and the embassy in kuala lumpur, but as of yet, we know as much as everyone else. it just seems to -- it seems to be getting more bizarre, the twists in the story, where they can't find anything. we're just relying on faith and

we've got a lot of people praying for us. and church and family and friends, they're helping us through this, and thank goodness we had two good parents that instilled that in us, you know, a belief in god and that's really what we're trying to get out there to everyone, that people need to have god in their lives, because everybody's going to go through difficult situations, and that's what's getting us through this right now. >> well, you know, you talked about wanting people to know your brother, what's he like? >> phil is probably one of the most intelligent guys i've ever known, deep thinker, deep thinker, it's funny, i said the word gregarious at one point. even though he could be gregarious, it was in a small group, he could crack you up.

but then, he would switch over and be a deep thinker that real philosophiesed down deep. >> he was a guy that always had good advice for us. we were very close. and he was an incredible artist. a great father to his boys, and, you know, best friend to his sister and james and i. and we just want everybody to know that as well about him, i mean, everybody that knows him already knows that. and we've just been getting calls and e-mails from people we haven't heard from that have been a part of our life and his life. and we're trying to keep his memory going, we're holding out hope, because as of yet, there are no answers to any of this.

>> can i read something to you just really fast? >> sure, go ahead. >> this is a scripture that's keeping me going, personally. from colassians 3: 1 through 3. real quick. since you've been raised to new life with christ, set your realities on heaven where christ sits on the place of honor at god's right hand. honor at god's right hand. think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth, for you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with christ in god. and that is what i'm thinking about. >> those words keep us going. those words. >> i can understand why. james and tom, thank you so much. >> thanks, anderson. >> stay strong. >> as you can always, find out more on the story and others that we're covering at cnn.com. the airliner at the center of the mystery tonight, the boeing 777, one of the most popular, safest planes on the planet. it was flying at the safest time on a flight. we'll have more details on that. plus a dramatic day in court

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fbi running two sets of prints through its database. trying to identify the passengers who used the stolen passports to board malaysians

airlines flight 360. the mystery of the malaysian flight could not be more of a mystery right now. it's one of the most high-tech planes on the planet, the boeing 777, built for long distances, considered one of the safest planes in the world, which only deepens the mystery. >> the boeing 777 is one of the most high-tech planes in the sky. and a workhorse of international travel. >> the 777 i have to say was probably the nicest, most sophisticated, but also one of the easier airplanes to fly. >> reporter: it's 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 monitor the health of the engines, automated reports. >> reporter: 777-200 extended range models, are capable of flying from new york to almost anywhere in the world nonstop. >> really has an excellent safety record.

>> reporter: that's why the mystery behind how this flight vanished has stumped the world, even pilots like mike weiss 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 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. >> the priority indeed. the perspective now from captain chezly "sully" sullenberger, and

jim toman. he flew commercial jets for near 30 years. captain sullenberger, for a boeing 777 to disappear, it's one of the most reliable airlines out there, isn't it? >> it is. and it disappeared during one of the least risky phases of flight, during cruise. the most risk, obviously, is during a landing or takeoff. long haul planes will be spending more of their time in cruise and be statistically safer than short range aircraft. >> the 777, it's got built in redundancy, it has backup systems if something goes wrong. those systems weren't enough to right whatever went wrong and the crew didn't have enough time or wasn't able to for whatever reason, to actually communicate. what does that tell you? >> it tells me that something -- some kind of catastrophe took place there that was sudden and

unplanned and they had a lot to deal with quickly. >> captain sullenberger, you know what it's like to have to make a quick decision when something goes wrong on a flight. you say that when faced with a sudden emergency, pilots have a list of priorities, can you explain what those are? >> absolutely, in fact, most pilots know them by heart. they're very simple. first aviate, then navigate and only last, communicate. the pilots would have been working together as a crew, there would be one pilot to his assigned a pilot flying in charge of controlling a flight path, the other pilot was monitoring to assist, aid and monitor the performance of the airplane and the other pilot and make sure that everything was being done according to their procedures. that pilot monitoring would be the one typically who would be using the checklist, who would be talking to air traffic control on the radio, every way supporting and assisting the pilot flying. there are very well-defind roles and responsibilities. we've learned how to take

individual pilots and use techniques, human skills to make them more synergistic, to make them better as a team than they ever could have been as a collection of individuals. >> what do you mean, captain toman, of the malaysian military, the plane may have been turning around before it vanished. i would imagine when planes change course, there's a protocol they follow? >> i like the fact that they say it may have been turning. i'm not sure it was. let's say the airplane broke up because of something that happened there. radar returns may not be as accurate as it is normally. so i'd like to examine that radar return a lot more carefully and i'd like to look at a lot more things before i make the determination that he's going to do a 180 out there. i'm surprised to think the captain would make a 180 at that point in the flight. >> captain sullenberger, in terms of actually finding this aircraft, if it is in the water, i go back to that air france flight.

that was in water, i think about 13,000 feet deep. my understanding, the water in this area is only 296 feet deep. in terms of the black box, that has actual sonar device, it sends out a signal, doesn't it? >> yes, the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder would have acoustic beacons that operate on a battery power about 30 days. and they should be sending out pings that would be audible to vessels that have under water listening devices. of course, that's assuming they're functioning and not buried in the mud of the sea floor or buried in the aircraft wreckage and assumes that the vessels that are listening are in the range of the acoustic beacon. >> how far away can they be? >> i think it depends on the conditions in the ocean, how deep it is, and whether there's a thermal layer, temperature gradient that might channel the acoustic signal away from the

surface, it's hard to say, but probably tens of miles if it's not buried in wreckage or the sea mud. >> do you agree that it must have been something catastrophic that happened quickly? >> i think all indications are that it was something catastrophic that happened quickly, we just don't know yet what it was. and we probably will not know until the wreckage is found and the recorders have been recovered and analyzed, hopefully they'll provide useful data about what was said and done on the cockpit in the cockpit and what the flight parameters were in the moments leading up to this event. >> always good to have you on the program, sorry it's under these circumstances. >> thank you, anderson. oscar pistorius literally got sick to his stomach in court today, during graphic testimony about reeva steenkamp's injuries after the shooting. it's a growing trend in business: do more with less with less energy.

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an emotional day in the oscar pistorius murder trial. he broke down in the courtroom, he got physically ill throwing up as the pathologist testified about his girlfriend's fatal injuries, he described the damage caused by three bullets that pistorius fired into his girlfriend. through a toilet door. it was probably the bullet that hit her in the head that killed her almost immediately. robin was in the courtroom and joins us tonight.

robin, obviously an emotional day in the courtroom. i know you were inside. what happened? >> it was clearly very emotional for oscar. all of us watching, we were obviously just bystanders to what was clearly a gut-wrenching experience for him. he vomited, he wretched, he gagged into a bucket that had been given to him in the dock. he found it physically difficult to listen to the testimony of this pathologist who quite clinically, i must say, went through the list of wounds, of exit wounds, of different injuries reeva steenkamp had on her body. no matter how clinical the testimony was, that she had been hit in the hip and the arm and the head, he really could not deal with it. and literally there was a soundtrack of him gagging through this quite clinical testimony, it was quite

harrowing, i must say. >> i don't know that i've ever seen a defendant throwing up in court during testimony and it being allowed to continue. this is not a jury trial. it's not something that would impact the jury about did the judge respond in anyway? >> reporter: i think what was key about the judge's questions at one point she did sort of say to his defense, you know, what's up with your client, kind of scenario as if to say, is he going to continue making this noise. if he is going to continue behaving like this is he fully away that he needs to be paying attention to what being heard. she wasn't the least bit interested in his emotional or physical health. she was keen to know if he was so sick and so disengaged and traumatized by the whole procedure, that he might not be taking in the details. >> did the pathologist's testimony bolster the prosecutions version of events,

how this killing played out? >> from our understanding of what the pathologist said was interesting. he said each of her wounds, the one to her hip, the one to her arm, the one to her head would have been potentially, actually, if not fatal. so he said you could not possibly have screamed or had a series of screams and yells for help after these very traumatic injuries, which of course, plays into oscar pistorius' defense. and the time line of what's going to be argued. and as we talked about this over the past few days and weeks ahead, it's going to be whose time line works out, fits into the details it's all very crucial, when did she scream. if she couldn't scream, how does that fit into each of the time lines. so at the moment what we're hearing are little bits of this puzzle. and i think if we look back over

the past six days we're getting a clearer picture of both sides' case but it hasn't quite formulated. >> robin, thanks very much. let's bring in our legal analyst, sunny hostin and criminal defense attorney mark geragos. mark, how does pistorius, i mean, throwing up in a court, "a," have you ever seen that before? and how does that play out? it's not a jury, there's just the judge. >> i think the way it was described today is what i would imagine, if there were a jury there my guess is they would have immediately called a recess, they would have sent the jury out of the room, since you've got a judge, and at least by all accounts the judge was basically saying, look, if your client can't handle this and is not going to be able to assist you, then maybe we're going to take a break. i understand that, to anticipate what sunny's going to say. >> you can't anticipate what i'm going to say. >> you fake throwing up? i mean, obviously, he's traumatized. maybe it didn't resonate with

the judge emotionally, but if you see somebody there who's listening to the pathologist and has that kind of a visceral reaction, you can't help but be affected. these are human beings we're talking about. >> you don't buy the throwing up? >> i don't buy it, either he deserves an academy award or he's off. either way it doesn't work for him. i mean, i have never seen -- >> or he was physically ill and emotionally upset by this -- >> which means he's volatile. and i think that can help a prosecution. >> wait, wait, wait, are you saying the fact that he threw up means that he is angry and more prone to killing somebody? >> exactly. someone who couldn't sit in the courtroom and listen to testimony, that to me, if i'm the judge, i'm thinking either this guy deserves an award for his performance or there's something off about him and i think it's not helpful -- >> or option number three, that he's -- >> there is no option number three. >> that he does feel an immense

amount of guilt over what happened. >> sunny interprets that as a sign of being off. >> volatile. emotional unstable. >> she interprets that as off. could you imagine if there was someone you loved and you had -- accept for a second that what he's saying is true, he thought it was an intruder, he's behind gates. he's scared of crime and someone who feels vulnerable because he's had his legs amputated. how bad would you feel? >> it's almost impossible to judge someone based on how they are acting or reacting in a courtroom, there have been many cases where people say, the person's not emotional, and therefore they must be hiding something, they must be guilty. >> you're right. we can't read too much into it. but let's look at some of the facts. the reason her injuries were so egregious, is because he used these hollow point bullets that are designed to sort of blow out from the inside. who does that? and i think in terms of someone --

>> well, someone who doesn't have legs and is afraid. >> someone who wants to inflict that kind of damage. when you look at the charges and you're looking at premeditation, perhaps he gets away with premeditation, but culpable homicide -- >> but let me just say -- first of all in south african, especially in johannesburg, it's not all that atypical for to have a gun in the house. >> not necessarily with the bullets that were outlawed and then we're talking about someone who's shooting into a locked bathroom door is incapable of perceiving the threat behind the door. >> for you, the main question is, if he didn't know it was his girlfriend in the bathroom. why didn't he check -- he got out of the bed, allegedly he is sleeping next to her. >> who does that? you turn to the person that you love next to you and say, did you hear that? we know from the testimony of his ex-girlfriend he had the same exact situation, and he turned to her and said, did you hear that? he didn't seem to do that this time.

and i -- his story doesn't make sense. >> how does the fact that it's not a jury trial, which they don't have in south africa. it is a judge. a lot of times you think things boil down to jury selection. in this case -- how does just having a judge impact it? >> that's the wild card in this case. the judge and when you get a -- when you have to have a bench trial. in a lot of -- here in the u.s., there are certain misdemeanors where you don't get a jury. it's the biggest determination. it's a crap shoot. you never know how the judge is going to rule. in a case like this that is so emotional, you have someone who is famous and would normally in front of a jury get a presumption of innocence. you don't have that. >> up next, new proof that russia does have troops in crimea. check points, russian flags and signs warning of land mines. what our cnn crew found and what they were not allowed to do, in a dangerous situation on the ground. also ahead, george zimmerman signing autographs at a gun show, details ahead. [ male announcer ] this is the cat that drank the milk... [ meows ]

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new development tonight in the showdown over ukraine, a planned referendum on whether crimea should breakaway. members of the parliament have appointed the prime minister as the region's commander-in-chief, clearing the way for a crimean army. the decision to form an army was because of illegal armed groups in the area. russia says it doesn't have a military presence on the crimea peninsula. cnn has found evidence russia not only has a presence, but they're constructing barbed wire borders and bringing in land mines. we report from crimea where she was involved in an intense encounter with armed forces. >> reporter: parked along the highway, linking crimea to ukraine, a convoy of russian

military trucks and armored personnel carriers. we're approaching a checkpoint flying the russian flag where troops are searching cars, targeting media crews, and confiscating equipment. we hide our cameras as soldiers search our 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 agrees to an interview. we're defending our people, he tells me, this is not about russia, but about protecting our homeland. as we drive through the check point, we see the new border that's being erected on this wind swept plain. once out of view from russian troops we stop the car and resume filming. russia says it has no presence on the crimea peninsula, here is your proof. the russian troops are dug in

armed personnel carriers, dug fence posts and are signs that indicate land mines in the area. a local resident says they're not just signs, this is a minefield. one of my neighbor's dogs ran in there and was blown up, he tells me. why are the russians laying land mines, why are they being so aggressive? for those living here, the military buildup on their doorstep is alarming. i'm frightened about the future. we don't want a war, we just want to work live peacefully and feed our families this grandmother tells me. several miles up the road, the ukrainian check point appears. they too are digging in, setting up camp. they're well aware this stand-off could turn bloody, we are warriors following the orders of the people of the ukraine, says is soldier, if

they want us to do this, we'll do this and we're willing to die. the sacrifice they're willing to make for the sovereignty of the ukraine. >> referendum in crimea set to take place march 16th. let's get caught up on some of the other stories we're following. >> the father of sandy hook gunman adam lanza is breaking his silence. peter lanza said that his son would have killed him in a heart beat if he had had a chance. he thinks about his son and the massacre and wishes adam was never born. he said that adam was never typical and the family and mentalal health professionals never saw the potential for violence. he killed himself after he shot his mom, 20 children and six staffers at the school in 2012. when joran van der sloot finishes his sentence in peru, he will be extradited to the united states. he's accused of extorting money from natalee holloway's mother. by offering bogus information about natalie's disappearance in aruba nine years ago. george zimmerman who was

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as the search continues for malaysia flight 370, we still don't know what happened. dozens of planes and ships from ten countries are look but haven't seen any signs of wreckage or the plane. what we do know, there were 239 people who were on board. for them and the people who love them, we want to end the program honoring those who are missing. for three agonizing days, family members of the missing, waited with tears and prayers for any news on their loved ones. i'm not going home until i know what happened, this father says, we lost loved ones, they need to answer our questions. when are you going to tell us and what are you going to do? we still don't know if they're alive or dead. the oldest of the 227 passengers is 76 years old, the youngest just 2 years old, five of the passengers on board are under the age of 5. they come from at least 12 different nations in the world, including three americans.

50-year-old philip wood from texas is known as a kind and gentle man, a man of integrity, a man of god, according to his family. a malaysian national who lives in pennsylvania works as a process engine at a chemical company. 12 malaysian and eight chinese ploys of a texas-based semikublgter company were also on board. most of them engineers who were traveling on business. this couple live in beijing and had been on vacation in vietnam. they have two young sons. also on board, a group of chinese artists, they took this photo at an art exhibition in kuala lumpur. before the flight home. not everyone pictured here was on the flight. >> hi, everyone. this is youtube video. >> the 12 crew members are all from malaysia. including the captain who posted this youtube video a little over a year ago. the search continues for any clues on the missing plane, with no sign of wreckage, some

families hold out hope that a miracle may still be possible. that does piers morgan live tonight, vanished, where is flight 370. friday night when we first came on the air to tell you live about the missing malaysian airliner 777, 239 people on board, including pilots and crew. was it an act of mechanical error, terrorism or pilot error? i'll talk to my panel about that. one of my favorite guests is here, you would think she is an international expert, uganda be kidding me. i'll ask her about everything from international relations to angelina jolie. no sign of missing malaysia airlines flight 370 that vanished with 239 people on