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maine, they're going to be pounded with rain, ice, snow and sleet. indra petersons is tracking who will be hit the hardest. good morning, welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> and i'm john berman. great to sigh. it's wednesday, march 12th, 5:00 a.m. in the east. we have new developments and frankly new confusion. the only fact that anyone seems to agree on it's missing for five days with 239 people on board. search crews this morning seem to be fanning out over an even wider area trying to find this jet that simply disappeared. but there is conflicting information about where it went. a senior malaysian air force official had told cnn it appeared the plane may have strayed hundreds of miles off course. others, though, are new refuting this information. saying it's not clear what happened. the latest briefing from officials there is just about to get under way. i want to get to nic robertson with the very latest on this investigation. nic, and what seems to be,

again, just flat-out conflicting information? >> reporter: we certainly seem to voluntary a sense of that have the vietnamese. the plane was flying past vietnam, passing through vietnam airspace when it apparently, probably, according to the sources we have, made a turn back towards malaysia. the vietnamese say they have insufficient information from the malaysian authorities. they only had official contact one. that they don't get to talk to senior officials. and right now, they're scaling back their search which focuses more of the efforts on the malacca strait which is where we understand the plane had reached after making that almost u-turn in the sky. and flying back across malaysia disappearing at 2:40 a.m. the prime minister in malaysia is calling for families to be patient. i understand the government is doing everything to pray to god and to be united and all of this. but it does seem that the military at this stage, the air force in particular, the air force chief, coming out and

saying that he hadn't spoken to journalist, and given specifics about how the plane had possibly turned around and gone back. and it does seem that he is pointing to the government to follow their lead on this, as if there's some disagreement within the malaysian authorities about who should take the lead on the information here. he's lanning the government not the military. and it does seem again when we listen to the vietnamese does highlight the amount of confusion about where this plane is, which is of course exacerbated by the fact nothing has been found so far, john. >> nic, they're asking people including the families to be patient. i imagine it's hard to be patient when there is this confusion. and it does raise questions about whether the malaysians simply have their act together in this search? >> you know, there have certainly been other incidents around the world. and we can think of the westgate

terrorist attack, for example in kenya, were there were for a number of days conflicting information coming from the government. a huge apartment of pressure has been placed on the malaysian authorities here. and it does seem internally, they don't appear to have a strong mechanism to get out the information in a way that they want to get it out. the information they provide lags the facts on the ground. the search was under way for several days in the straits of malacca before reporters and the rest of the world were provided information that the flight might have actually turned around and been over the straits of malacca when it disappeared. so it certainly seems that the government at the moment is struggling to get its message out and control what's going on here. and that only leads to this frustration from the families that they're not getting enough information. but when we hear from people like the vice transport minister in vietnam saying they're not getting enough information, they've only had one official contact with malaysian

authorities. and they were a major part of the search. let's remember that in the beginning. it does point up that there is a paucity of useful information for all of those involved. >> and again, the plane has been missing for five days and the facts are they seem to be no closer to finding where it went. nic robertson covering the story. thanks so much, nic. all right. this morning, the drai is denying a shocking allegation that it spied on senate staffers and even took documents off of their computers. senate intelligence chair dianne feinstein took to the senate floor on tuesday to make the claim that cia spies went into those computers without authorization. as the staffers worked on a report about the agency's controversial prison interrogation programs. >> i have grave concerns that the cia's search may well have violated the separation of powers principles embodied in the united states constitution. >> nothing could be further from the truth. when the facts come out on this,

i think a lot of people who are claiming that there has been this tremendous sort of spying and monitoring and hacking will be proved ong. >> senator lindsey graham says if it's proven that the cia has interfered with a congressional investigation, senator lindsey graham says someone should go to jail. happening today on capitol hill, the top u.s. commander in afghanistan is set to discuss the future of forces in that nation. general dunn is likely to address the upcoming election there and what the u.s. will do if afghanistan will not sign off in an agreement to keep u.s. troops in place. also, canada marks the end of its mission in afghanistan. the last canadian troops are expected to be out of there by the end of the week. new details on who is signing up for obamacare. the government says the enrollment is now 4.25 million people and now a quarter of them

are younger adults. >> president obama is doing interviews with zach galifianakis. and looking into a huge general motors recall and whether the automaker was criminally liable for not disclosing it earlier. last month, gm declared and recalled 1.4 million cars. gm is conducting its own review, as is a senate committee. a guilty plea expected today from a credit suisse banker accused of hiding billions of dollars. they're accused of taking actions worthy of a spy novel to help their clients hide cash including hiding cash in panty hose and private elevators. they didn't have to go to their bank in zurich, they could go straight to their ski vacation.

credit suisse is apologizing. slowdowns in china's economy are worrying investors. stocks down 2.2%. that's a big move. hong kong sharply lower. european markets off to a rocky start as well. stocks in the u.s., dow down 67 points yesterday. futures are flat right now but really watching the red arrows overseas. fannie mae and freddie mac, both of those stocks tumbling, tumbling on news of a bipartisan deal to close them. no time line of when that will happen. no concrete details president obama gave a speech back in august where he mentioned winding down the nation's top two mortgage lenders. now we're hearing democrats and republicans have potentially reached a deal in the senate. the government recently turned a profit on a $187 billion bailout of fannie and freddie. those stog stocks hammered yes. the good news in the northeast, the last day and a

half it's been beautiful. the bad news, it's not going to last. it's pretty much over, folks. indra petersons will explain where it's going. >> look at this, temperatures in the morning hours in the 40s, guys. as we go through the afternoon, it will warm up, look at d.c. looking at 56, new york, 56 today. but let's show the drop of that cold air really makes its way, so tomorrow, look at that difference. 30s in d.c. 20s as your high in new york city. so definitely a lot of changes are coming your way and a lot has to do with the storm already dropping snow around the chicago area and kind of herding farther into the east. let's talk about what we're expecting. keep in miengd, the storm is expected to strengthen as it builds its way into the east. anywhere from 4 to 8 inches in chicago and detroit. over 8 possibly two feet of snow up through maine. that's the concern. several models bring lower amounts. that's the extreme we need to be prepared for. keep in mind, midwest, ohio

valley, overnight tonight, starting to develop bringing rain towards new york city and switching over to snow so by tomorrow we're still dealing with that snow. keep in mind, strong winds are going to be out there as well. we talk about the warm and cold air, right? you have that clash out there. 15 million under the severe weather threat. that means strong winds and a threat for tornadoes. also into the mid-atlantic. a lot going on. unfortunately, warm and cold air not a good thing. >> did you say 22 inches of snow in vermont? >> yes. >> still, it's vermont -- >> another couple of great ski weeks throughout. president obama paying a visit to the northeast. he was in new york city for a pair of democratic fund-raisers. and he did some shopping at the gap. it was a surprise visit at the at the gap. the gap recently moved to raise the minimum wage for its employees. something the president has urged businesses to do. yes, that's why the president was there. in case you're wondering he did

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votes on succession from ukraine. anna coren live in crimea. you've seen russian forces flooding into a port city there. tell us what's happening on the ground. yeah, absolutely, christine. the military buildup is definitely intensifying here. you mention that the acting prime minister of ukraine, arseniy yatsenyuk is meeting with president barack obama. he's also meeting with secretary of state john kerry before heading to new york to address the united nations. they are trying to come up with some diplomatic solution here in crimea. it is is an invasion. we travelled to the eastern tip of this peninsula. we saw convoys of trucks carrying russian troops, military equipment. you know the border or the land i should say between the russian

tier of russia, it's between the ferries coming across these troops bringing this equipment. the port has been taken over by local militia, there are also russian forces on the ground. when they approached them, they told us to put our cameras down. to stop filming. they were quite hostile and aggressive, with appearance everywhere we've gone, we've come across these local militia. they don't want us showing this military buildup. but it is happening. without a doubt. at the check points. at the ports. they're taking over these military bases. these military installations. you know, christine, i think it's fair to say, definitely that crimea has already become part of russia. we spoke to the mayor of the city we were in yesterday, he's planning, the russian prime minister, to build a bridge that would link crimea to russia. construction is due to begin in the next couple of months. it's fair to say it's set in

stone crimea is now part of russia. >> anna coren a vote, just a few days away. in san francisco this morning, fire officials are warning it could be some time before they get full control over a really big fire there. this is an apartment complex under construction. flames were climbing some 40 feet into the air. hundreds of people in nearby buildings had to be evacuated. one firefighter was reported injured. crews are hopeful they're getting the upper hand in this place. score this one for the gop, the first election going to david jolly of florida in a squeaker. he beat his democratic opponent by 3500 votes to replace the a lot of congressman bill young. the race was seen as a bellwether for november when the seat along with the congressional seats up for grabs. >> this is a punch in the gut for democrats. they really wanted this race. this was a district that president obama won by two

points in 2012. it's a race that a lot of people believed it was a key pickup for the democrats. they didn't get it. and a lot of people think the anti-obamacare message is one that be will be fruital for the midterm elections. washington, d.c.'s mayor is defending himself against allegations that he was involved in a purchase reported use of secret funds to help him get elected. and gray says that's not true. and used his state of the district address to respond. >> i ask you, who do you believe? a greedy man attempting to save himself? or me, a public servant who has dedicated my entire career and my entire live to giving back to our community in the district of columbia. >> mayor gray has not been

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a really high-profile football player on the move. the miami dolphins jonathan martin, you'll recall, he shed light on the bullying scandal. said he was bullied in the locker room. he's been traded now to the san francisco 49ers. andy scholes has that in today's "bleacher report." >> hey, andy. >> good morning, guys. after the bullying scandal there were really two ideal spots for jonathan martin to land. one would have been with his college teammate andrew luck and the colts. the other with his former coach at stanford, jim harbaugh. that's where martin is headed. on the first day of nfl free agency, the dolphins traded martin to san francisco for a conditional seventh round pick. after the news broke, martin tweeted opportunities are few in the nfl.

can't wait to get to work. #ninerempire. four more teams punch their ticket to the ncaa tournament last night. former nba hall of fame john stockton on hand to watch his son david lead gonzaga. check out this monster shot from stockton. number one lineup section of bleacherreport.com, the rocket and thunder rivalry continue to be a heated one. there were multiples scuffles during last night's game. four technical fouls and a flagrant foul were issued. dwight howard kicks it out to omar. and he's not even in the game. and the thunder get to win 106-98. the greatest coach in nba history is returning to the

game, not on the sidelines, but to run the new york knicks. phil jackson has agreed to become the president of the knicks, the zen master won two titles before his coaching days. jackson could be in place running the knicks by the end of the week. guys, we all know he can coach a team. certainly a chance to see if he can run a team as a front office executive and put the players in place to win a championship. >> and our backs on the line, phil jackson the greatest coach of all time. >> by nba title standards. >> you know, with phil jackson coming to new york with the knicks is really not a great thing. but we were just talk about baby stockton's block. >> he looks like his dad on the court, you know. >> yeah, he looks just like him. i'm sure his dad never had a block as impressive as that. >> never had a block, period. andy scholes, great to see you this morning. we do have a lot of news to tell you about. new developments in the search noor missing jet flight 370.

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happening now, the new search area and new confusion in the disappearance of flight 370. with his mystery getting bigger by the minute, new questions about just how this investigation is being handled. we're live. breaking news overnight. a high-rise up in flames. a neighborhood evacuation has

hundreds of firefighters battle that. wow. look at that blaze. new this morning, a huge blow to democrats overnight. republicans running a closely watched special election. one the democrats really, really wanted. so what does this mean for the president's future and the future of obamacare. >> only 3500 votes. every vote counts. that's one of the those elections that shows it. welcome back to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> and i'm john berpen. there is growing confusion over what happened to malaysia airlines flight 370. it's missing five days with 239 people on board. no idea where this flight is. search crews fanning out over a wider area today after a malaysian official told cnn radar shows the 777 was hundreds of miles off course. hundreds are denying that is

true. no one seems to know when that it. simon is live in kualoala laual. still no signs of this wreckage or site. great confusion where it was even last recorded, sima. >> reporter: yes, absolutely, a lot of confusion from our end. a lot of confusion coming from the officials monitoring our situation. a massive search operation has been expanded. instead of narrowing it down to a specific carrier where they believe this plane could possibly have been headed to. they're now expanding the operation. this press conference getting under way. as a matter of fact, walking past me right now is the head of the civil aviation authority here in malaysia. we're expecting him to speak any moment here as well. we're waiting to hear from the

defense ministry, too, as to what exactly happened to flight mh-370. as you say, not a lot of clarity. we're getting information perhaps a day or two after we believe it's been confirmed. first, we had a lot of confusion over these stolen passports. who were these people. what were they doing on board. there were fears link to terrorism. thens are of course, we in fact heard they were not connected to that in any kind of way. by the way, that frustration, brimming over into the loved ones, relatives of people on board who are still missing five days on. i went and spoke to some of their family members today. a young man whose brothers, two of them, its elder brother and younger brother on board that plane. he spoke of their sadness. their deep sadness and their young children, 10 years old, 4 years old, 1-year-old, asking where's daddy? when are they going to come home? one of their wives was there as

well, too distraught to talk. too distraught to speak. she was in tears. back to you. >> and they have no clues yet about where that plane went or what happened to their loved ones. saima, thank you. >> you keep looking at that plane taking that left turn. that is in dispute. the vietnamese and malaysians seem uncertain whether or not it did make that turn. that is the big question. all right. this morning in washington, safe to say it's in an uproar over allegations that the cia spied on senate staffers and even took documents off of their computers. senate intelligence chair diane finestein making that claim on the senate floor. she said cia spies went to those computers without authorizations as the staffers worked on a report about the agency's controversial prisoner interrogation programs. >> i have grave concerns that the cia's search may well have

violated the separation of powers principles embodied in the united states constitution. >> nothing could be further from the truth. when the facts come out on this, i think a lot of people who are claiming that there has been this tremendous sort of spying and monitoring and hacking will be proved wrong. >> senator lindsey graham says if it is proven that the cia has interfered with congressional investigation, he said someone should flat out go to jail. on capitol hill, senators will hear from the top u.s. commander in afghanistan, general joseph dunford who is likely to answer questions on what the u.s. will do if afghanistan does not sign off on an agreement to keep troops in that country by the end of the year. also today, canada markings the end of its mission in afghanistan with a form flag lowering in kabul. the last 100 troops expected to be out by the end of this week. very important visit at the white house where president obama will welcome ukraine's new

prime minister for talks over the crisis in crimea. the talking come days after the decision whether or not crimea will succeed from russia. new this morning, president obama's job approval hitting a new all-time low. and nbc news/"wall street journal" says 41% of americans approve the job the president is doing. that's the lowest it's been since the president took office. could have an effect on the upcoming midterm elections. 48% of voters say they're less likely to cast their ballot for a candidate who backs the president. one sign, a special coxal election in florida have gone for the republican. voters conclusion david jolly to replace bill young. 3500 votes. a turnout not terribly high in the special election. some were painting this race as a rejegz of the president and [ kare nap was the key issue in

so many ads. also democrats really wanted this race. this is a district that voted for president obama it would have been a key switch to the democratic column. and presents a lot of problems for them heading into the 2014 elections. as for the health care overhaul, obamacare, more people did sign up for coverage in february. but not enough, it seems to meet the government's goals. the administration says enrollment through february is now $3.4 million. about a quarter of signups are young adults. the trend is pointing upwards but doesn't seem like it's pointing upwards fast enough to reach the 7 million people the government wanted to have signed up by the end of the march. stocks are lower in asia. u.s. futures trying to hold steady this morning. big losses in hong kong and china led to worldwide selling all week. stocks in europe the dow down more than 100 points this week. this after two consecutive weeks of gains. we saw more than 2% gain on the

dow for those twoks. back-to-back for the s&p 500 target seeing a drop in customer traffic following the huge security breach at the end of the last year. customer traffic at target is at its lowest point in three years both in stores and online. 33% of u.s. households shopped at target in january. compared with 43% in january of last year. that's according to the consulting group cantar retailer. we do have breaking news right now. malaysian officials are conducting their latest briefing on flight 370. the key question, where was the last place they saw this plane, where did they get signals and where are they now searching. let's listen. -- 12 countries have done a search with india japan. this is a multinational condition. we are thankful for our

neighbors with its unwavering, quite overwhelming. and we welcome even more expert assistance. the way forward, ladies and gentlemen is to bring more experts to analyze both the civilian and the military data in the east or in the west. and then all in the water. and this is exactly what we're doing today. we are now working with many experts, the u.s. aviation authorities and the u.s. national transport safety board. any questions? >> yes?

[ question inodd about ] >> i cannot confirm that. [ question inaudible ] >> basically -- [ speaking in foreign language ] >> this is the new template where i will attend on a daily basis. >> okay. we're listening to a press conference. officials are talking about the search for flight 370. at this point, not shedding a whole lot of light on information about when they may have last received contact from that flight. it's now in dispute that it happened at about 1:30 a.m. that

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which oscar pistorius shot reeva steenkamp assimilates the scene behind which the exact mirror image of the bathroom. and then that cricket bat. and then we've seen the bat trying to establish the angle by which the cricket bat hit the door. and what we're also seeing is the state trying to prove. or at the beginning of trying to prove that oscar pistorius had his prosthetic legs off. that he was on his stump bhs he was trying to hit this bat against the door. and, of course, this goes against his statement, his affidavit during that bail hearing that he had his legs on. so what we're seeing is the beginnings of an understanding of what the state's narrative is going to be, around all of this physical evidence of course, remember, this forensic expert hasn't yet been cross-examined. and, of course, pistorius' own legal team will interpret the same physical evidence perhaps una different framework and a different way.

this is very much the beginning of a long process. for everybody in court, and of course, for the judge, this is the first time we've seen the door and cricket bat. >> playing out the forensic case here will be key. robyn kurnow in for george rush, thank so much. and the missing airlines flight. the 42 ships, 39 aircraft, 12 countries, 27,000 nautical square miles. just a huge effort. we're monitoring though details of that press conference for you. let's tack a look at what's coming up on "new day." chris cuomo. >> hey, how are you doing, guys. we're checking out the press conference. so far, it's just a rehashing of what they seem to know. the problem is that's far less than what they don't know. i don't know about you, but is this a very difficult story to follow. there's conflicting information and there's scenarios that just don't make sense. the mystery just continues to deepen. so we're going to try to suss through what is known, what is

unknown, and what is fueling the speculation right now. because of these latest conflicts reporting that the flight was hundreds of miles away. hundreds of miles. what does that mean? that means time? that means intention? what does the flight path tell us? then we have malaysian officials denying that and expanding the search area to the rege wherein it's now theorized to be in the strait of malacca which sounds exotic but it happens to be probably the most traveled shipping route in that part of the world. we're going to bring in people who have investigated these situations before to try to make sense of what's going on because this is really getting into the land of the bizarre. we also have congressman mike rogers here. this is it important. senator dianne feinstein says i believe the cia has been spying on my subcommittee that is investigating the cia. this is a huge allegation. it has constitutional implications. what is the basis, does mike

rogers on the intelligence committee, does he believe it? if so, what would they have to do to the cia? this is rare we've ever heard conversation like this john and christine. so we're going to are congressman rogers on the show which is very important. we're going to test the ideas about what the senator is saying. what the response will be. the same for the ukraine as well. for ukraine, because mike rogers very big with intelligence there. we're going to talk to him about the passports used on this malaysian flight. >> rare with the senate and cia, it's virtually unprecedented. it raises so many concerns of the constitutional variety. all right, chris. we have breaking news overnight. hundreds evacuate weathercuated high-rise goes up in flames. dramatic video of this intense fire. that's next. ♪ ♪

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good morning. welcome to "early start." it's "money time." futures are lower here with the european stock markets lower. asian stock markets steep losses today. boeing stock up sharply as the malaysian airliner disappeared. it's considered to be one of the safest planes out there. still, when a plane simply disappears, investors worry. i spoke with airline virgin and i asked him how a plane carrying nearly 250 people could instantly vanish.

>> you mow, i'm grateful that we found out what it was. and every time that something like this happen, on the rare . >> and he was applauding, applauding, frankly, the climate change senate democrats and their big -- >> i think he sounded a little nervous there. not because -- you know, the unknown makes him nervous. as an airline executive not being able to explain something like this is very difficult because it does make people jittery. >> and he also doesn't want to speculate. he wants to find out what happened to that aircraft. anyway, also looking at this

today. new information that president obama is about to force businesses to expand overtime pay for millions of americans. "the new york times" reporting an executive order could come tomorrow. it would apply to overtime for everyone from fast food workers to professional employees. as you know, the president has been using executive order to try to move through some job initiatives. this looks like it's going to go. >> this this is like low-level managers that do similar work. and 90% of the time, the president says he wants you to get overtime, too. it will be controversial. thanks for watching everyone. "new day" starts right now. they turned the transponder off. if they did that, they were doing it to disguise the route. >> mystery flight. how far out of course was the malaysia 370.

more important, finding the 239 people on board. we have the latest. and stunning accusations this morning. a top senator accuses the cia of spying on the congressional committee. if laws were broken, will heads roll in washington. face to face, president obama meets with ukraine's new prime minister today. can they head off the crisis before sunday's referendum vote? your "new day" starts right now. good morning. welcome to "new day." it's wednesday, march 12th, 6:00 in the east. brooke baldwin. great to have you in for kate bolduan. here's the big story. a bizarre turn. new questions abo