search for malaysian flight 370. the fear is it flew toward the indian ocean has new support. reuters is reporting that it may have been deliberate. that someone directed the plane perhaps toward the andaman islands. the basis for that report is that the radar data apparently suggests the plane was following a navigation l route investigated someone with flight training was at the controls. this comes after a senior u.s. official told cnn there's a significant likelihood the plane is at the bottom of the ocean. malaysian authorities say there were signals transmitted. those pings came from over the indian ocean which would put the plane 25 to 2,800 miles off

course and an area with no significant land masses. >> so the focus is still on finding that aircraft. we have just learned that that search is expanding. it's pushing further east and further west. the u.s. is also trying to help. they are sending in the uss kidd to the indian ocean. and also activity on the sea floor hours after the plane went missing nearly one week ago. we are turning to our reporters all around the world. we will start with jim clancy in kuala lumpur. >> reporter: let me give you a little bit of perspective on what we're talking about about the deliberate track the plane took. malaysian officials are in a press briefing right now. they told us that the pilot may have attempted a turnback.

transponder went off. they can turn that off if they think there's a short and it's causing a problem. maybe that's why they turned it off. they had a problem. then the pilot turned. they think he was trying to turn back to come back right where i am. but he didn't make the turn sharp enough. suddenly nothing. we don't know what happened in the cockpit. but that same course carries on. yes, it passes over the andaman islands, but it doesn't have much significance and obviously there was no attempt to land there. there would have been places right here in the malaysian peninsula much closer to land in an emergency. all of this really has setoff alerts today. listen. breaking this morning, reuters citing unnamed sources that it

was deliberately flown towards the andaman islands. >> we went from a chest board to a football field. >> reporter: that's just what the malaysian government is doing. using radar to follow the likely course of the plane. a senior u.s. official told cnn that malaysian authorities believe they have several pings from the airline's service data system in the four to five hours after the last transponder signal suggesting the plane flew toward the indian ocean. both india and the u.s. dispatching ships. this after satellite images emerged giving families of the missing false hope that pieces of the vanished aircraft had been found. today, new intel from chinese

researchers reporting a sea floor event roughly 72 miles from the plane's last location and an hour and a half after the plane dropped off radar. adding that the event could have possibly been caused by a plane impacting the south china sea. >> there's still not a shred of evidence that it crash landed anyplace in that search area. >> reporter: one week after vanishing and the multi national pursuit continues. you look at the families. they were angry today in beijing. they were demanding answers. as they hear the various theories coming out, they support the hijack theory. that gives them a glimmer of hope that perhaps they would see their families again.

back to you. >> this is an agonizing wait for those families to be sure. all of this points to several big questions. among them, were flight instruments deliberately shut down. did someone on that plane try to land on that remote indian island. cnn correspondent barbara star. we know the u.s. is aiding by sending the uss kid to the indian ocean. >> the indian military also now joining the search. in fact, the u.s. navy 7th fleet saying they have now finished their first sweep out into the indian ocean, about a thousand miles out finding nothing so far. look, all of the theories are being looked into, but as they say, first, they have to find the aircraft. they have to find the wreckage

and get includes from the aircraft data about what did bring it down. u.s. officials saying they do believe there's a great probability that it is somewhere on the bottom of the indian ocean, even though that search now expanding out to the south china sea. it's fair to say the u.s. focus will remain to the east of malaysia for now. >> barbara, thank you very much for tracking this down for us. let's bring in the former inspector general of the department of transportation as well as richard quest, our in-house aviation expert. let's do this the most efficient way. instead of going each report, mary, let's begin with all the new universe of information, reporting and speculation, give

us what you believe is the best course of suspicion right now. >> it focuses on what we know and that is the transponder and other equipment on the plane stopped sending signals. there's not a shed of evidence that somebody turned it off. we know signals stopped and we have the pings from the aircraft further on. we should never jump to the conclusion that it was hijack because it still points to some sort of catastrophic problem on that plane. if someone was still flying the plane to survive that and keep that plane going. in the past other accidents, we've jumped to conclusion on terrorism and it wasn't, such as twa 800. if they had gone with that, we would have left a potentially a very dangerous situation on an airplane uncorrected.

that's why we must stick to the facts. all we know is the transmission stopped. we don't know that someone turned them off. >> let's unpack that a little bit. what you're saying is whatever sources reuters says they have about it being turned off isn't something that's overwhelmingly convincing to you. >> mary is talking the voice of common sense this morning. all we have is a series of facts. one plus one plus one and it does not necessarily add up to half a dozen. what we have here is the fact that the plane appeared to fly waypoints. these way points, think of the interstate of the sky. they're the junctions that you fly from one to the next. >> they're like buoys in the ocean. >> absolutely. you go from one and your flight

plan maybe told you turn left at air point x. all we know about what reuters are reporting is that this plane flew way points. >> could that be done by auto pilot. >> absolutely. >> we don't know that these things were turned off separately manually by a person. we just know that they went off. that's suggestive of a massive decompress sieve event as it is anything deliberate or terrorism, right? >> that's really what i think it is. if you jump to conclusions, you miss the potential to save untold lives in the future and correct problems that otherwise will be lost. >> let's take another step and keep common sense going here. what happened with egypt air is fueling a lot of the confidence and speculation about this being

a terrorist act. but that doesn't mean it's compelling. we have another example, the golfer payne stewart. the plane continued on for several hours because the engine wasn't de commissioned by what happened. >> this is the airliner where the pilots became overwhelmed by decompression, but the plane also carried on. mary reminds us to keep coming back to this point. the eventual cause of these incidents was something deep in the technology of the aircraft. the chain of events began. and that led to unknown and untold consequences. >> here's the question of the day and one that has not been asked, at least by me. what is your take on this? we do not know what was in the

belly of that plane. we have not heard about the cargo manifest. isn't it possible at least if not increasingly probable that that plane was carrying something that was haz material, causing a massive decompressive event? isn't that in the realm of possibility? >> it certainly is. but what we need to know is if malaysia air followed the modern property contr-- protocols for inspection. >> you're talking about something in the belly of the aircraft. yes, it is possible. >> we have not heard what was the cargo. >> it was a flight -- we have from -- to beijing, so it would have had good cargo capacity. in the press conference we just

heard in kuala lumpur, the malaysians now say they are sharing information we don't normally share on grounds of national security. until now, the criticism by the u.s. has been, we're just getting their interpretation of the raw data. they're not letting us see the numbers and charts and graphs. now it seems that the malaysians are handing over the raw data. in other words the u.s. are doing the analysis. >> this intelligence committee, they want to know what was in the belly of the plane. they're going down that road of speculation, so i think there's something to it. as we leave this segment here, we're going to stay with this throughout the morning, in fairness to them, this theory of this dramatic turn in flight and it wound up leading to the demise of people on board, the

malaysians have had this theory for days now. >> since the beginning. >> as you said, we will stay on this certainly for that missing airliner, but we want to look at headlines right now. secretary of state john kerry is in london for last-minute talks with sergey lavrov. the goal is to stop russia from trying to annex it into ukraine. they are expected to become part of russia on sunday. right now, a massive russian troop build up along the border. he fears russian forces may be preparing for a large-scale invasion. want to go live in crimea. nick? >> reporter: this really is crumple time in london. will john kerry have any influence at all on russian policy here when he meets

lavrov. the focus of this meeting seems to be shifting. now we have this 8 1/2 thousand strong russian army, many say to familiarize these troops with that territory. that's causing a lot of nerves. i think many consider what's happening here in crimea a bum deal. the issue now with one day in the clash between pro russian and pro ukrainian rallies and 17 people injured last night, is that violence going to make russia intervene. crim crimea, i think that decision is being made. we're looking to see if diplomacy is dead or if we'll see very tough sanctions from the united states and that could spark another freezing in this new cold war many are talking about here. >> thank you very much. we are busy testing new reports

about the malaysian air flight this morning. we're trying to get you the best information on what may have happened. but there's other news to tell you about this morning. a lot going on, chris. president obama meets at the white house are a group of immigration activists pushing for reforms that don't seem likely to have this year. this comes as he ordered a review of deimportantation practices -- deportation practices. the president receiving pressure on this issue from some in the immigrant community. >> reporter: that's exactly right. the president has been under inincreasing pressure. these groups say that even as the white house and democrats try to push congress to pass immigration reform, they say the president himself can do more to

stop these deportations that are tearing families apart. some activists are even calling the president "the deporter in chief." they are looking to see how they can do it more humanely, but also within the confines of the law. the dream action coalition said that actions speak louder than press releases. you get a sense there that they're going to be keeping this pressure up on this white house. john? passengers on a philadelphia-ft. lauderdale flight describing immediate panic and a fairly orderly evacuation. the u.s. airways flight blew a tire on takeoff and the pilot just decided to abort. look at the pictures here. 149 passengers and five crew members evacuated. an eighth body pulled from

the rubble in new york city following a massive gas explosi explosion. several people still unaccounted for. federal investigators are on site waiting for the all clear to inspect the gas pipe that may have caused this crash. airbag failures in two gm models led to 303 deaths from 2003 to 2012. the auto maker should have taken action sooner. gm calls the findings flawed. they are already being investigated to faulty ignition switches linked to 13 deaths. investors are hoping for a market rebound this morning. it plunged to one-month lows overnight after concerns in ukraine and china's declining

economy. pointing slightly higher after the dow sliding thursday. the nasdaq and s&p also suffering sharp declines. >> we're going to return to the search for flight 370, but we want to get you the weather today. indra? >> we still have a lot of cold air in place, but the big story is going to be these morning temperatures that are really freezing out there. a little clipper is going to be making its way through the north. maybe a little bit of a chance of snow, most likely rainover night. it's going to keep the old air around just for another day or so. freeze warnings all the way down to the south where many places are seeing temperatures in the 20s and 30s and it is march, guys. just 37 d.c. new york city waking up at 23. a hint of good news is on the

horizon. that's all that matters, right? we're going to be warming up. d.c. goes up to 58 today. even new york city will rebound to 46. saturday will be even nicer. notice rain in the south? this is what we're going to have to be watching as we go through the weekend. we have severe weather threat by tomorrow. austin, dallas, looking for a chance for thunderstorms and isolated tornados. that's going to be the new story. by sunday night in through monday, a lot of people thinking about st. patty's. doesn't mean good news. i don't think anybody's going to be troubled by that rain. green rain, does that count? >> rain makes rainbows. much more on the miss tear just disappearance of malaysian

flight 370. conduct amid all the confusion they caused since the jetliner fan issued. >> and what can we conclude from all this reporting now that it's revealed it may have been flying for hours after it disappeared from radar screens. we're going to talk to a retired air force general on what he makes of the situation ahead.

welcome back. breaking new details on the mystery of malaysia flight 370.

the search is expanding further east. it may have been flown deliberately toward the indian ocean and it could have stayed airborne for up to five hours after losing contact with the ground. the malaysia airlines are not elaborating on details. the credibility of malaysian officials have taken a serious hit. >> it's been confusing from the first moments flight 370 went missing. a day later, after issuing six statements, a new time on when it was lost, 1:30 a.m. where did it go? the flight path a major point of confusion for six days. malaysian officials said it first vanished in the south

china sea. another malaysia official said it wasn't correct. >> there's a consistent failure to get the most accurate information before the world's best experts who i assure you are there ready to help. >> malaysian police say they searched the home of the pilot a day later. >> malaysian officials searched the homes are not true. >> now sources close to the family say police have been outside the captain's home, but haven't gone inside. they are constantly giving conflicting accounts, holding back on information, can't control the flow of information. and if american officials were in charge -- >> you would have every aspect of it. >> there's no indication the

malaysians haven't done that and they're fiercely defending their handling of this. >> this is a crisis situation. it is a very complex operation and it has not always been easy. >> analysts say part of the problem could be cultural. there's been one coalition managing malaysia for decades. >> they haven't had to account for themselves in the way they have to now in the view of international publicity. >> so much scrutiny because there's so few answers. >> the predominant theory of the plane is one they've been that watering almost from the beginning. as well as new questions and answers coming up. we do have late breaking details on the search. we're going to take a break. when we come back, there's new reasons to suspect that it flew for hours.

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. welcome back to "new day." there's a lot of news this morning. let's get to john berman for the headlines. breaking over night, reuters reporting that the plane was flown a few hundred miles northwest of the plane's last

known location. american experts are using satellites to try to find flight 370. a senior official told cnn there is a significant likelihood the plane is at the bottom of the indian ocean. that's based on signals from after the plane lost contact but apparently kept flying 2,800 miles off course. see floor point though this a different area than the u.s. is now searching. thousands of russian troops are conducting war games along ukraine's eastern border. secretary of state john kerry is trying to head off the vote. he is in london right now for discussions with sergey lavrov. at least six people dead

after it turned violent. the suspect ran and was i -- killed by police on the scene. ra shaud owens will face two counts of capital murder. his brother told the statesman that austin was performing a club under the stage name, killing all beats rnlts firefighters are giving the all clear this morning after a leak scare at a halifax place. that compound is used for nuclear use in missles. all the employees were scanned. they all turned up clean and we're now told, in fact, there

was no leak. >> return now to the top story, the search for malaysian airline flight 370. let's talk about this with general michael hayden, former member of the cia. thank you very much for joining us this morning, sir. >> good morning. >> let's go through a checklist of what you believe are possibilities, probabilities or things that are more of a distraction. the chance this plane made a dramatic turn in course, do you believe that is a good suggestion at this point? >> it's certainly one of the high pothcys we should follow. seems we get one each morning. there seems to be some evidence. but, chris, we have to keep in mind, none of this is definitive. these are data points that seem

to suggest one direction or another. they've all got to be checked out to see which of those actually leads to the truth. right now, isolated data points and a lot of theories. >> isn't it true that a dramatic turn like the one that is hypothesized could have been done by a pilot just as easily as auto pilot? >> i think that's correct. but again, we don't know. look, i learned in my old profession in intelligence there's a difference between a secret which is something you really learn hard to discoverable and knowable and a mystery. >> when we think about the idea of terrorism, is there any reason to believe that it's more likely this was a deliberate act versus a massive decompression event? >> right now, what you need to do is look at the background noise, look at the background chatter. it's not absolutely conclusive.

if this were a terrorist event, we would probably be picking up chatter about it. after 9/11, the al qaeda network went crazy. i'm sure the u.s. intelligence is looking for that. none of that has known up yet to the best of my knowledge. >> are you aware on this growing speculation in the u.s. intelligence community about what was in the belly of the ship, demands about the cargo manifest, whether there was cargo improperly stored. >> i'm not aware of the specifics. but again, chris, like i said earlier, a hypothesis that has to be run to ground. here's what you do, you line them up, you take the data you know and drop that data into each of those hypotheses. frankly, the one that makes the most sense of the data points

you have, that's the favorite at least for that moment. >> is it fair to dismiss right now the idea that someone flew this plane and landed in the andaman islands? wouldn't we have known that? there's an indian naval base there. >> that seems a bit farfetched. i fear the worst is true, that the people on board are already dead. again, you have to follow these things to their logical conclusion. look at this, explore it, but it seems very, very unlikely. >> do we know anything about malaysia airlines or the practice in that world on whether they manifest cargo and protect and store hazmat in their cargo the way we do here? is there any speculation there? frankly, i don't know. but i watched your earlier piece here commenting on how the malaysians are actually handling this. they seem to be, fair to say, a bit overwhelmed by this.

an awful lot of things in life are better explained by incompetence rather than malice. >> okay. so let's take a turn from -- that's a perfect segway from the idea of mistake versus malice. let's talk about that in the context of senator fine tine about the cia spying on the senate. a little bit of a loaded question. do you believe you can say with any confidence that there's no chance that the cia was spying on members of the senate? >> there was a chance that cia looked well after the fact at the data logs of computers that were used by senate intel committee staffers and contractors. i think the agency already admitted that. if you want to call that spying on the senate, i think that's a bit of a reach. let's let all the facts come out

before we rush to judgment here. >> this fuels concerns about whether we know enough about what the agency does. we live in a more dangerous world than ever, we can't just have a rogue agency involved. is that fair concern? >> absolutely fair concern. there should be no secrecy between the agency and it's congressional overseers. they have to be kept fully and fairly informed about all activities. i don't think that the issue here. the issue here is over the content of the senate report prepared by senate democratic staffers and contractors over the cia interrogation program. i think the agency's issue isn't that it's sensitive or secret or embarrassing. i think the agency's issue is they think it's wrong. >> and at the end of the day, you think the facts will show it

wasn't spying, it's something short of that? >> it will be something well short of that. a lot of people will still object, but i think we're being overly dramatic right now. >> we don't want to do that. thank you. >> thank you. next up on "new day," we have been telling you about the breaking news, the report that missing flight 370 flew deliberately toward the indian ocean. we're going to speak with someone who lives on the andaman island. also late breaking developments in the pistorius trial. there are serious questions being raised about the way the evidence was handled at the crime scene on the morning that reeva steenkamp was killed. so i get invited to quite a few family gatherings. heck, i saved judith here a fortune with discounts like safe driver, multi-car, paperless. you make a mighty fine missus, m'lady.

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all right. welcome back to "new day." we'll of course bring you the latest on the disappearance of flight 370 in moments. but we are looking at your other top stories including the oscar pistorius murder trial now in its tenth day. this morning we're hearing about bungled aspects of the investigation. we're also seeing pictures of pistorius covered in blood the night he shot and killed his girlfriend. we're at the courthouse with the very latest. robin? >> reporter: hi there. well day ten has all been about blood and bluungling. the second week ending with a bombshell confession by former

commander g.s. van rensburg. rensburg was present shortly after revealing his investigation unit miss handled evidence. the 9 millimeter handled without gloves. >> i ask him, what are you doing. in return he said to me, he was looking, and then he realize there was no hand gloves on him. >> reporter: and a watch worth thousands of dollars went missing from this box, only after forensic experts and officers investigated the crime scene. >> i said i can't believe it. we were just there. >> reporter: the defense grilling van rensburg on the importance of telling the truth. >> of course you know when you make a statement, you tell the truth in a statement. >> reporter: he recounted the

moment he arrived at the crime scene in vivid detail. >> i ask him what happened, but he didn't answer me. he was in tears and as i said, he was emotional. >> reporter: more than 100 graphic photos were shown. t him photographed shortly after steenkamp was found dead. they continue to try to discredit the police's version of events. this is all about the credibility of this investigation. back to you. >> all right. thanks so much for that. next up, we're going to have much more on the missing malaysia airlines jet. when we come back, we're going to take you live to the add da man islands to talk to someone who lives on that very island. gunderman group is a go.

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welcome back to "new day." we are following break news. reuters is reporting that missing malaysian airlines flight 370 was flying deliberately toward the andaman islands before it vanished. cnn is trying to be everywhere this story is. so we will be the first to take you to the andaman islands. joining us by phone is the editor of the andaman chronical. can you hear us? >> yes, i can hear you. >> the speculation is that the

airplane could have been flying toward your home and that there is a possibility it could have landed there. we know there is a naval base. do you know anything about the possibility that a 777 landed anywhere near where you live? >> there is no chance -- no fat chance that any aircraft of this size can come to us on the islands and land an any island. as of now, there are four airstrips and all of them are owned by the andaman command which is india's only unified command. there are -- but there are speculations that the plane might have come to us and the nicobar islands. the chances are, apart from these four airstrips, it cannot land in any other island.

and if -- and with the kind of surveillance, regular and 24-hour surveillance done by the command, there are no chances that such a big aircraft can be missed. >> okay. let me repeat what you're saying. you're saying you heard nothing about this and you would know because there are only a few airstrips, they are under mostly indian naval command. so it would be immediately discovered if a plane of this size were to land there. you've heard nothing like that. have you heard anything report of people who frequent the surrounding waters that they've seen anything unusual or any reason to believe that something may have hit the water? >> if you try to understand the andaman-nicobar group of islands, there are around 572 islands. around 36 islands are inhas bbi.

i would like to correct you. it is not the naval command. it is a flight command or a unified command under which the air force, navy and army come under a single command. and this also includes the -- >> okay. >> all the vectors comes under a single command headed by the commander in chief. >> good. that's very helpful. including the coast guard, there's one single command over the 570 some-odd andaman islands. you would know because there's one command and there is no report of anything in surrounding waters and there is no report of anything landing on the lie land. we appreciate the information.

it's just as important to find out what is not true as what is true as we continue the search for this plane. okay. so we have his perspective from there. we're lucky we have the resources to get ourselves to the story in a situation like this. the man controls the local paper there. he's a reliable source. only 36 islands are inhabited. they would know if the plane had landed. they would know if something had hit the surrounding waters. >> but it doesn't mean the plane wasn't headed in that direction. >> absolutely true. let's take a break here on "new day." as we come back, new questions. what does this new report about flight 370 heading toward island in the indian ocean mean? we're covering from the investigation from every angle. and of course the agonizing wait for the families of the people on board. it has been a week. a whole lot of speculation.

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good morning. welcome back to "new day." it's friday, march 14th. we have break developments on the search for malaysian flight 370. new evidence of reports to fly the plane to the indian islands in the andaman islands. that's a few hundred miles northwest of the plane's last known location. moments ago, "new day" spoke with a journalist from the islands who says there's quote, no chance the plane landed

there. that doesn't mean it wasn't on auto pilot versus someone manually flying. >> u.s. officials confirmed to cnn that signals from the plane were emitted hours after. the plane could have felony up to 2,800 miles out of course. one official says there's a significant likelihood that the plane is on the bottom of the indian ocean. also this morning, reports out of china about seismic activity on the sea floor hours after the plane went missing. >> on top of that all, we're hearing that key on board systems were shut down at separate times. it was turned off 14 minutes before the transponder. some people indicate that that means they were turned off on

purpose, not because of a technical failure on that plane. >> lots to dissect this morning. let's get straight to jim clancy in kuala lumpur with the latest. >> reporter: we just had a press conference. not a lot of new information coming out of that one. they did talk a little bit about that turn back, when the plane changed course. the transponder quit working. then what we saw was a change in course. we were told that the plane was quite eradic as it -- eye rad ik as it began that new bearing. then it's tended to fly straight on into the indian ocean region. it may have gone as much as 2,500 miles. the indians are telling us the search area they're looking at in that area is 17,000 square nautical miles. that is a huge search area. you've got u.s. warships, the

uss kidd on the way out there. you have indian naval ships as well as airplanes from both the u.s. and india. it's a tresk job in front of -- terrific job in front of them. no new news on any front right now. >> normally you're narrowing in on a certainly area right now. not the case here. it is widening. what does the u.s. intelligence community have to say about all this. let's bring back barbara star. >> good morning. why is the search widening? there is specific information. sources are telling us those blips from the aircraft have been looked at by analysts. that satellite data that received those blips began to calculate the fact that the plane likely flew four to five hours out into the indian ocean. they matched it to airframe and engines that correlated with

this aircraft and aircraft that was not showing a transponder signal. that led them to believe it is the malaysian airlines aircraft. they believe it's on the bottom of the ocean now. what is the latest? the u.s. navy airplane has now completed its first sweep 1,000 miles to the east. it reports finding nothing. the u.s. destroyer also there. its helicopters will fly all of the u.s. attention now focused on this area of the indian ocean east of malaysia. chris? >> thank you very much for the reporting. we're chasing down all these different threads. it certainly doesn't make it easier for the families waiting for answers. they deserve it most of all. paulene is in beijing where the flight was headed.

paulene? >> reporter: credi it's been such a challenging week for these relatives. the family members gather at this hotel behind me every day trying to get some sort of grip on information from these family briefings. yesterday, i spoke with a man whose son was on that flight. his son had been in malaysia for work for four months. mr. lee today told me that his heart is broken. he says, my tears have run dry. at this point i'm hoping that this plane was hijacked. at the very least in that scenario there could be a chance that my son might be alive. i also spoke with another family member. his mother was on the flight. he asked me with tears in his eye, how can you lose a plane and not find a plane after seven days. these are the very straightforward answers that

these relatives are hoping to have answers to at some point very soon. >> they need them and they deserve them. thank you for the reporting. it is now one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history. let's analyze the outstanding questions. we have fran towns send and mr. quest. and mr. david sussy. it's great to have everybody here. fran, let's deal with this kind of over argeing issue. there's really one theory to unpack. is there good solid reason to believe that the plane made a dramatic shift in path and that then something else happened that wound up leading to the plane going down? are we comfortable with at least that as a theory? >> well, i think we're

comfortable based on the radar data. what we're getting now, the technical data points that the plane didn't make this turn. i don't think we have confirmed by technical data or sort of, you know, a source that's willing to be named that they're confirming that the plane went down. look, i think everything -- it's the logical conclusion. but we ought to be clear about when we're drawing conclusions and looking at facts. we don't have the facts yet that the plane went down. that's what we're beginning to hear out of the investigation, but they haven't confirmed it yet. >> richard quest, so little facts. >> fran is right. so little facts. on this core fact of did the plane make a turn, there are these radar pings which is not a radar track. it just means something was trying to communicate i'm here.

we know the malaysians this morning did say they are still extending the search into the south china sea. now that's on the eastern side of the certainly. >> not on the west. >> not on the western side. back to fran's very important point and we don't have facts. and i think that at this point we -- we've got more information, we've got minor pieces of this puzzle, but we are certainly a long way of seeing a picture from it. >> one of the points of fascination is the timing of the turn offof the communication equipment on board. is this something that suggests deliberate action or coiled it have been a massive decompression event on the plane? >> i've been saying all along that because everything went out at once that it had to be intentional. but this new information about 14 mince later would explain something to me about a

mechanical failure. if a bus came offline, if something happened to turn the transponders off, then later other things were turned off, that would tell me there was some kind of failure that had to be reacted to. 14 minutes would give you time to transfer the bus power, to deploy emergency generator. >> highway would you then -- how would you then explain no radio contact during that time? >> the fact that is if something happens dramatic in the cockpit, you have to deal with it. the first thing you do as a pilot is fly that airplane. >> aifuate, navigate, communicate. >> that's right. so that's the focus. >> i want to talk to you, richard, we were talking in the office a little earlier about the idea of this plane was navigating via way point. that would argue that somebody who was an aviator was at the

helm of the plane or would it not? >> not a bit of it. that merely means that the plane was flying a predetermined route. it could have been on auto pilot. it could have been by hand. in fact, it probably would have been on auto pilot. if it's flying a carefully structured route through its various junctions, that would more likely suggest it was on some form of auto pilot. this idea that it was flying a way point path and the way they're doing is, they're starting to look at the route from the pings. they've over layed it with a map basically. actually that looks like that's a way point to there, that's a way point to there, this thing is flying a track. >> you three may be the experts. but the most helpful thing i've heard so far is her saying

aveeuate, navigate communicate. that may explain why we haven't heard the radio transmissions. we keep talking about why this would have happened, a major decompress sieve event. something happened on board the plane that knocked out the people, god forbid. what do we know, fran, about what was in the belly of that ship, the manifest of cargo and whether or not malaysian airlines is known for taking care of hazardous materials the right way? >> this has been a controversy since post-9/11. there's an concerns around the world about in the belly of passenger planes the fidelity one has about the cargo and the screening it goes through. since 9/11, we've done a lot here in the united states. there's questions about the cargo but about the

investigation apart from the certainly. we focus on the search because of the importance of finding the plane, but there are other things going on. it's the investigative steps and material related to all the passengers, the pilots, the cargo. there's a lot of information that investigators will be looking at right now with the help of their american allies and intelligence services around the world. those are the sorts of things that the malaysians are not talking about publicly, either to dismiss concerns like the cargo or to address them publicly. i think that's also a very frustrating point for folks. >> that seems to be the word we're using so much is the frustration in the absence of this information that everybody so desperately wants. >> you don't want to get distracted by a bunch of other information. but the point about the weight and balance or inflight decompression, it would have to

be a massive decompression to disable the aircraft and the electrical system. in 1989, a 747, the cargo door came off. the side of a 747 is huge. that aircraft was able to land. >> so many redundancies on board. >> there are. >> all these scenarios, your decompression, your cargo door, all these different scenarios are possible, some maybe even be probable. they don't explain of course why none of the electronic systems. this is a very modern airliner that was able to send automatically. >> that's my point about the door is the decompression theory doesn't carry weight with me, nor does the weight and balance shift. >> here's what we know. something happened, right? there were 270 soul -- 239 souls

on board. that's why the search has to continue. this panel is very valuable. we're going to keep them here with us. there is other news this morning. let's get you to john berman. a large russian troop buildup underway along ukraine's eastern border. they fear a possible large-scale invasion. those russian forces are conducting military exercise in at least three key locations secretary of state john kerry is in london. the goal to get russia to withdraw troops from crimea and not simply annex the area. a philadelphia-ft. lauderdale flight was taking off, then a fairly orderly evacuation. the u.s. airways flight blew a tire on takeoff and its nose gear collapsed.

149 passengers and five crew members evacuated. immigration will be front and center at the white house today. president obama meets with a group pushing for reform that has stalled in congress. to find quote, more humane ways of handling the deportation of immigrants in the united states illegal. general motors responding to a report that airbag failures are related to 333 deaths. general motors says that is purely speculation. they say the two models led to these death. gm calls the findings flawed. gm decided against fixing a problem nine years ago because of the cost. >> the retired police captain who allegedly shot and killed a moe patron was reportedly also

texting just moments yesterday. curtis reeves had just sent a message to his son before shooting a 43-year-old father to death. he was charged with second-degree murder. he has pleaded not guilty. before we turn back to the missing flight 370. let's get to indra petersons for a check of the weather. >> looks like once again we're talking about a very cold morning today. even freeze warnings down into the south. raleigh right now 26. d.c. right at that freezing mark the we are going to be rebounding, meaning temperatures are going up as we head towards the weekend. d.c. will jump up to 58. new york city, up to about 46 degrees. we do have a chance for a little clipper, so light rain can be expected tonight through the morning. the real system, what are we watching? all this moisture in the gulf

combine wg that cold air mass kind of dropping down. very typical offspring. chance here for severe weather again. thunderstorms and isolated tornados can be in the forecast. austin, dallas, definitely in through houston as well. all this moisture making its way in towards the mid atlantic and the northeast. potential here especially through saint patrick's day looking for wintery mix and light snow. a lot to be watching. >> thank you. we're going to have the latest for you on the search for flight 370. is the key to solving this mystery surrounding the plane's disappearance in the cockpit? who were the pilots behind the controls? we'll also bring back the panels of experts. john king goes inside politics with the latest. captain obvious: i'm in a hotel.

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welcome back to "new day." was the missing plane from malaysia deliberately flown toward the andaman islands. reuters says it was according to radar data. saying flight 370 sent signals for hours after losing contact. as search crews turn their attention to the indian ocean, investigators are turning their attention to the pilots. >> all the unanswered questions about what happened to flight 370 and why it possibly changed course have put the two pilots

and their previous behavior squarely into focus. what we do know is what was said in the cockpit right before the plane vanished says few includes. all right, good night. those were the words. what we don't know is who in the cockpit said them. was it the captain or the 27-year-old first officer. or someone else. like everything with flight 370, the meaning of the words and the pilots themselves are a mystery. just weeks ago, our cnn's richard quest was granted legal access into the cockpit with the first officer seen in this exclusive video. it wasn't the first time hamid had a gust in the cockpit. they told cnn's pierce morgan, while on vacation, she and her

friend flew to malaysia with them ♪ ♪ -- smoking in the come pit. we don't know much about the pilot. the sources told cnn that police have been outside his home every day since flight 370. vanished. they have not yet entered or search the the home according to malaysian officials. flight 370 may have flown up to five hours after the last contact with the pilots. there are more theories and questions about what happened with their mechanical and communications failure. could it have been a suicide crash by one of the pilots, or did someone enter the cockpit and take over the plane. >> there seems to be a real trail to someone taking that

aircraft. >> right now officials say they're looking at every possible scenario, including whether the pilots had any psychological issues. >> let's get back to our panel. we have an investigator of these flights, he's written a book. we have richard quest. i think there's one -- all these branches of speculation. here's a big one. is there any reason to believe that this was -- this plane was being flown by people as opposed to being flown by itself on all toepilot. >> i don't think that's -- there's no way to distinguish that in my mind. >> because that's the big report out of reuters this morning, that it was deliberate, that somebody, not some thing made this plane change course. do you believe we have good reason to believe that? >> certainly. whether the auto pilot stayed on

or didn't stay on isn't the issue. it doesn't change course on its own even though it has an automated flight path. without radio communications, without the communications we have we know were off, that really wouldn't be possible fsh it to follow a path. it would be possible to set up the points ahead of time and then fly from point to point to point. but -- >> so you're saying somebody had to do something? >> absolutely. there's intent. >> and then the discussion bringing in the andaman islands. this far off the coast of india, closer to asia if you will. the plane heading in that direction from the information that we're seeing today. we just spoke to a journalist on those islands. he says they have heard nothing. that it's highly unlikely that a plane could actually land there. should we be looking around the indian ocean? >> they've done their first

sweep. they have found nothing. they're also looking over in the south china sea. i think you do need to keep in mind you're talking about very small fragments of information here. you're talking about radar pings which went extrapolated seem to show a route which seems to show way points which seems to show design and intent. but these are not firm facts. >> because there are no firm facts you have to understand -- >> of course i do. which is why david quite rightly will sit here and tell us we must row down the questions. what experience has shown is that ever time it's your decompression theory, your terrorist, your this, it's something completely different. something way off beam. something deep in the technology

of the aircraft. that's why it's boring to do it, but we keep saying row back. >> one of the ways we do that is by testing the different pieces of information that come out. they had activity on the floor of the sea. >> seismic activity. >> they may have been wrong as they were the last time. what do you make about this? >> i'm no seismologist, however if it's an earthquake or something like that, i would think you could distinguish that from an aircraft hitting the bottom of the ocean, i would think. >> right? >> yeah. >> we always go back to those families. we look at the 239 passengers on board and the agony of having to wait for those fragments of information. is the investigation going the way you believe it should be? is the communication flowing between all the nations involved? >> absolutely. now it is. >> now it is. >> you can hear yesterday's news conference and this morning's

news conference. there is a new sense of order, direction, integrity. the information is being released in a timely fashion. there's a way in which it's now happening. the raw data is being shared. they announced that this morning. data that they would not have ordinarily shared. rolls-royce is arriving. we are now starting to see a more traditional-looking investigation taking shape. >> we're going to take a short break here. we will continue to follow the latest on the search for missing flight 370. and we're going to take you inside the cockpit of a boeing 77 like the missing airliner. we're going to go into a similar later. >> next, we also have the question whether things have

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welcome back to "new day." want to bring you up to date on the break news on the search for malaysia flight 370. reuters reports the plane may have be deliberately flown toward the andaman islands in the indian ocean. they are a few hundred miles northwest of the plane's last known location. a witness that lives on those

islands said the plane is not there. this after a senior official told cnn there is a significant likelihood that the plane is at the bottom of the ocean. now, that's based on electronic signals that the plane kept sending after it lost contact indicating it kept on flying for up to five hours. malaysian authorities are denying some of these reports, but also they're not elaborating on others. with this certainly ex-kpanding east and -- search expanding east and west, the u.s. is stepping in to help. the uss kidd is heading for the indian oceanment american experts are using their satellites to try and locate this plane. additionally reports out of china are pointing to the activity on the sea floor hours after the plane went missing although that location is not anywhere near the islands the plane was apparently flying towards. that gives you sort of a breakdown of where we are right now. >> we'll continue the job of

cultivating information and seeing what is actually fact in the search, but there is big political news this morning as well. let's get to inside politics on "new day" with mr. john king. >> good morning, chris. we'll get back to you quickly so you can continue that remarkable work. it's also a very, very busy day. let's start with this, new documents released today, 4,000 pages from the bill clinton presidential files. the question is, will we learn anything that could impact hillary clinton and her white house ambitions. 4,000 pages, julie. the health care files from 1994. there was hillary care before there was obamacare. west wing documents about what they thought about what was happening in florida. what are you looking for? >> i think that the 2000 election campaign is going to be the most interesting part of this file. maybe not for hillary herself,

but we all remember what was that like. i think that's where we're going to get a lot of our best information today. >> so great material maybe for new history books, new profiles to be written, but anything that's going to show up in a political ad should she run? >> i think hillary clinton really has to be worried about the health care files from the early 1990s. republicans are trying to tie her to obamacare. republicans really believe come 2016 health care will be a really big issue. >> when we first reported this, former massachusetts senator scott brown has been talking about jumping into the new hampshire senate race. today we're told he's going to announce he's forming a committee. for one thing, it expands the map. now they're defending maybe 12

or 13 seats. it expands the map, increases the odds of a republican senate. >> i think he's been enjoying retirement. he's had a lot of fun. however, this is a real winnable seat. i think scott brown is very tempted to run. >> tempted to run, but a lot of republicans are frustrated because he's toyed with this for a while. he appears to be in now, but still only doing exploratory. >> still, a lot of moves he is taking that make you think this is for real this time. until scott brown is standing on a podium with flags behind him, they're not going to believe it for sure. >> let's move on. the president of course wants congress to pass an aid package and a sanctions package to sand stand up to russia if you will. john mccain, listen here. he's hopping mad. >> you can call yourself

republicans. that's fine because that's your voter registration. don't call yourself reagan republicans. ronald reagan would never let this -- this kind of aggression go unresponded to by the american people. >> what's this about, robert? we've seen this, the growing libertarian streak, people who stand up to the more muscular foreign policy that mccain advocated for years. >> this is not really about ideology, it's about money. house republicans, the conservative wing, they're resistant to giving this kind of money to foreign projects. >> let's get the white house perspective. lindsey graham is telling his old senate friend john kerry, how can i help you, buddy. >> let me know what i can do to

help you with boehner. >> that might hurt lindsay graham back home. >> the white house looks at this and says, you have democrats and republicans who agree that the united states needs to send some kind of financial assistance to ukraine. ukraine is caught in this battle between east and west. this whole thing started because russia was offering ukraine quite a lot of money. they say, what kind of signal does this send to ukraine when the united states congress can't get their act together on a billion dollars loan guarantee. they're saying let's get this done and sent to ukraine. >> the president of the united states, we've talked about how this is a year of politics. the president now apparently going to try to change his own policy. the latino community has furious for years. now the president's all of a sudden saying what can we do to

alleviate this. is this anything more than you need the base to turn out? >> this is an interesting announcement. they put this as one line in a read out the president had with hispanic lawmakers. they're saying we're going to review our deportation policy. we don't know details about that. we don't know whether that's going to actually significantly cut down on the number of deportations. it does show us though that immigration reform is not going to happen this year. the president knows that. and the white house has to show the democratic lawmakers that he's going to be able to take action on his own even if the legislation is dead in the water. >> he thinks all of a sudden his policy is wrong or smart politics? >> i think it's smart politics. they're not sure how to move forward. the white house is saying 2014 is coming up. let's go to immigration, let's hit them on that.

they're telling hispanic lawmakers they've move on the policy. >> nice to hear you talking about that mr. president, let's see you do it. they want to see action. >> i think that's where the big question is going to be. is this just a statement, a review that's going to happen without a lot of teeth to it. >> so chris christie has had trouble. but he has still continued to have his town halls around the state of new jersey. i don't know whether you guys think this is a good thing. is this proof he's going to be dogged. he has a town hall yesterday and low and behold, hecklers. >> it's hard for a state home mom. >> listen, let me just -- good. i'm gradualad you do. either sit down and keep quiet. >> isn't that the return of the old chris christie who was known before for being very tough.

now he has a national audience watching him. >> i've been to a few of these christie town halls over the past few months. what he has to be careful about is these hecklers are going to keep coming and they're just trying to get under his skin. that's going to send a signal to a lot of national republicans that he may have trouble on the trail. >> i do think what's interesting about this though is those kinds of moments, prebridgegate, were the things that people loved about chris christie. that he had this raw reaction to hecklers, that he was willing to take people on. how does he balance trying to make sure that he's not over the top in his reaction with maintaining some of that authenticity that's what put him in the spotlight in the first place? >> can he be his old self. back to you. interested in your take on that one, whether christie can show

his temper or whether he has to be joe cool at the moment. >> we were listening very intently back here in new york. we had two minds on it. you know, i think that he may not have to worry about it because of his numbers. i think that deal with hecklers, he's a tough guy. i think sometimes people want you to be quiet or get out. >> be quiet or get out. >> let's use that theory right now. >> she says that to me all the time. >> when we come back, we are certainlying for answers in the flight -- searching for answers in the flight 3790 mist -- 370 mystery just like you. we can know what happens inside. we're going to take you inside a simulator to find out.

welcome back. there have been lots of

developments over night in the search of the missing malaysian airlines jet. reuters reported it was flying toward the indian ocean. a journalist there tells "new day" there is no chance that a big plane landed there and that they have not heard any reports about hitting any of the surrounding waters. still very locked down about what happened to the airplane. this morning, we are trying to pursue one particular angle. we are going to take you inside a boeing 777 to get a better understanding of what the pilots may have experienced. joining us live are cnn's own martin savage and a man that trains pilots to fly 777s. take it away. >> we set this up to try to emulate everything we know about flight 370 and where it was. we actually took off about 45

minutes agro from kuala lumpur. of course it's a simulation. this was the point of last communication with the aircraft. in other words we're just a few miles away from that particular point in the flight. we are on automatic pilot. that's why we're not touching anything here. we're at 287 knots and 35,000 feet. again, exactly how everything was that night. and as you see, it is night. the night sky as we fly other the south china sea. let's point out the transponder. that's down here. it looked rather innocuous but it's vitally important. can you turn it off? yes, you can. how is it done? like this. basically three clicks to the

left and now it's off. mitchel who a playing the role of pilot, you wouldn't do that would you? >> you would never do that. >> that would be considered absolutely a no go? >> the only time we turn it off is when we're on the ground, taxing off the runway, you're no longer a factor for any air traffic controllers, you turn it off. >> if it turned off, what would happen? >> you get a challenge from the ground. they would think something really bad has happened. >> we don't know if it actually happened. you coiled use it in a hostage situation. it's possible to switch it back to normal and enter a code. i'm not going to tell you what the specific code is. but you can enter a code and immediately, this aircraft is transmitting that it's taken over. so we also know that didn't happen. one last thing, taking the plane

off course, you can do it, but -- there's an alarm. there's no way that you're going to do that without somebody knowing your plane is going off course. chris? >> so good to have you there giving us a sense of what happens in the cockpit. we keep focusing on whether someone did something to turn off these transponders. how likely is it that not someone but some thing would cause the transponders to turn off in sequential order like that, one some 15 minutes after the other? how would that have worked? >> that is a very unlikely scenario. for the equipment to turn off systematically like that, especially the transponder. it draws about the least amount of electrical power of any system on this airplane. so it would stay on the longest. if there was an electrical

problem, that would probably be the one to stay on the longest, the last one to go out. it's very, very unlikely. >> we've tried to go over the scenarios in any way to make them make sense. in your professional point of view, they just don't add up. >> it doesn't. it's connected to a battery bus on all the time, hence hot. it would never happen. it would have to be a one in a billion chance. >> and there's so many backup systems on this aircraft. it is such a safe plane. we can't stress that enough. >> we also can't stress that we know something happened and it wound up making this plane disappears. this is helpful to see how it works in that cockpit from someone who trains people to fly it. thanks so much. thank mitchel for us as well. >> that was fascinating. so glad to look inside that cockpit, even of a simulator.

next up on "new day," we're going to have much more on this expanding search now for the malaysian airlines jet that is missing. but first, pennsylvania state police releasing surveillance video and a 911 call all in an effort to catch a road rage killer. we have the latest on that case just ahead. how did we do it last time?

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welcome back to "new day" in just a few minutes we'll bring you up to date on the latest for missing flight 370. we want to bring you an update to a story we have been

following. the final chilling words from a man who was killed in a road rage incident in pennsylvania back in january. police are releasing surveillance video and the victim's 911 call all in an effort to catch a killer. jean casarez is following developments. >> how can we forget this case. the interstate 81 case. you're trying to go home and someone confronts you with road rage and here are the hard, cold facts. the killer of timothy davidson has never been found. police are releasing for the first time surveillance video from those early morning hours of january 4th, minutes before timothy davidson was murdered after being pursued along interstate 81 while traveling home to maine. someone driving a dark pickup shot at and drove his car into the median. moments later davidson calls 911. the last time his voice is ever heard. >> were you the one that called

about the ford ranger, right? >> yeah, yeah, yeah. the one that just hit me. >> what do you mean they hit you? they hit you with the car? >> they hit me with car and pushed me across the median. >> reporter: the road rage killer is not finished. he makes a u-turn and this video shows the killer's car now going southbound. >> he is actually a few hundred yards just north of mr. davis' vehicle. so, we're talking about literally moments before the fatal shots were fired. >> reporter: vehicles including a semi truck then approach the crime scene. >> we know that there were people out there at the time that probably have seen something regarding this case. >> the killer is out there and two months have gone by and people get back into their routine and they think everything's okay. and that's why i want to keep it alive because those people are not safe. >> reporter: theresa, timothy's mother, is leading a crusade to

find her son's killer. he was an avid outdoors man, loved his family, but was taken far too soon. >> i woke up to a phone call your son is dead, he was shot on the highway. i don't want another mother or brother, sister, aunt or uncle to go through that. it's just horrific. this person needs to be caught before they ruin someone else's life. >> dark blue ford ranger, 1993 to 1997. $20,000 reward. the family has a website and here's the thing that is so ironic. timothy davison was so adamant against gun so adamant he had a tattoo on him that said, all we need is our arms. >> heartbreaking story. let's hope they track this person down. we'll take a break. when we come back, in the news from one navy commander the flight from gone from a chessboard to a football field. we'll bring you the latest on

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airlines flight 370 may have been sending out electronic signals five hours after its last contact and new reports that two communication systems were turned off minutes apart. we have the very latest. face-to-face. secretary of state kerry meeting his russian counterpart. can he convince them to pull out of crimea? your "new day" continues right now. >> this is new day with chris cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. we are breaking news. good morning, it's friday, march 14th, 8:00 in the east and all about the search for malaysia flight 370. new fuel to the fire that the flight was deliberately flown off course. reuters is reporting that it was flown towards the andaman

islands. they cite radar data and the plane appears to follow a navigational path, but some of our experts say that could be a coincidence. then a journalist from andaman islands says there is no chance the plane is there. this all after an official told cnn there is a significant likelihood that the plane is at the bottom of the indian oceans. signals transmitted to satellites hours after the last contact came over the ocean, possibly as far as 2,800 miles off course and no land mass in that area. >> with the search expanding to the east and to the west the u.s. is trying to help sending "uss kidd" to the indian ocean and also using satellites to search for the plane. reports out of china about activity, seismic activity on the sea floor hours, about an hour and a half after the plane went missing, but no where near those andaman islands. does it add up to a mechanical

failure or add up to sabotage? we fry to piece it altogether. it's quite like a puzzle. let's start with jim clancy in kuala lumpur. >> let's rewind back to sunday. the first time malaysian officials talked about the original change in course' after heading to beijing, flight 370 suddenly and abruptly shut off the transponder and then the pilot, it would appear, or someone changed the direction, the heading of the aircraft. the officials on sunday said that they thought the pilot might have been attempting after an emergency to make a return to kuala lumpar airport, right where we are right now. whatever the event, a new course was set and it remained on that course as it flew out. that took it over the andaman islands. different points and zigzagging

back and forth and that's not how the plane would be doing it. we don't have an answer on why he would do that or what happened there. a lot of speculation spawn by all of this that somehow the pilots could have been involved in this, the transport and defense minister said that they had not yet searched the pilots' homes. some u.s. aviation experts think that odd if, for no other reason, than to rule out the pilots involvement in any kind of a foul plot. in the meantime, though, let's take a look at some of the reports that we've had. >> breaking this morning, reuters citing unnamed sources reports the radar data suggests missing malaysia airlines flight 370 was deliberately flown towards the andaman islands. the focus in the search shifting west to the vast waters of the indian ocean. >> we went from a chessboard to

the football field. now we have to come up with new strategies, new tactics. >> that's just what the malaysian government is doing. using radar to follow the likely course of the plane. a senior u.s. official told cnn that malaysian authorities believe they have several pings from the airline service data system transmitted to satellites in the four to five hours after the last transponding signal, suggesting the plane flew towards the indian ocean. both india and the u.s. dispatching ship to aide in searching the radius. this after images of floating debris off the coast of vietnam emerging giving families that pieces of the aircraft has been found. new intel from chinese researchers recording a sea floor event between malaysia and vietnam, roughly 72 miles from the plane's last known location and a little more than an hour and a half after the plane dropped off radar.

researchers from the university of science and technology in china adding that the event could have possibly been caused by a plane impacting the south china sea, notably in an area that has already been searched in previous days. >> not a shred of evidence that that plane impacted the water or crash landed anywhere in that search area. >> reporter: one week after vanishing and the multi-national pursuit for answers continues. >> jim, what do we know about what was in the belly of the ship? what information has come out about what was onboard, the cargo? >> there's been no information about the cargo onboard the aircraft that i have heard here in kuala lumpur. it just simply hasn't been discussed. it is a good question because, of course, that can always pose a problem. if there had been an explosion or had it had any kind of risk there. the question would have to be asked. after the pilot or someone

changed course like that because of a significant problem aboard the aircraft, how is it possible that the aircraft was still able to continue for so many hundreds and thousands of miles. michaela, back to you. >> jim clancy, just one of the questions the questions only grow as officials from many nations try to map out this search area. the u.s. now is also increasing its role in the search. let's bring in pentagon correspondent barbara starr to talk about that and so much more. barbara? >> good morning, michaela. a lot of theories and speculation about what has happened here but for the united states assisting the malaysians, they are sticking to the facts. which is they do not know what happened to this airplane and they don't know where it is and what brought it down but they do believe the likelihood is they believe it is on the bottom of the indian ocean. so, let's go to the search. earlier today a u.s. navy p-3 aircraft, a surveillance aircraft conducted its first sweep about 1,000 miles out into

the indian ocean east of the malay peninsula in this new area that they are searching and it reported that they found nothing. the "uss kidd" now at the northern end of the strait at the entrance to the indian ocean, its helicopters will also conduct sweeps in this area. this is now the area focus for the united states assisting the malaysians that indian navy also getting involved on their side further to the west. all of this taking place to the west of the malay peninsula. they also are looking. u.s. officials are saying that they don't know. what they do know is that these pings from the aircraft were then analyzed and it matched the profile and the engine type of the plane that was flying and there was no correlating transponder information. of course, they believe the transponder was off at that point. that was the puzzle.

the clues that they have put together that lead them to the conclusion that they need to search in the indian ocean. chris? >> we'll take it here, barbara starr, thank you so much. we know so many complicating factors in this mystery. we want to talk about it with mary sciavo. going from a chessboard to a football field. i want to ask you about that. this far into the investigation, generally, you would expect the search field to be narrowing to zero in on a specific area, the exact opposite is happening now. >> well, that's right. and that's because the data has come so late. ordinarily that's the first thing that you do while after dispatching the go team to the accident site which, of course, was a mystery. but you got the data. you should have had this data the first day. you get the maintenance records, the data records, anything from the plane, the engine logs and

those data points and those large, voluminous amounts of data helps as the usa is now helping them analyze and tell them what they mean. this is what helps solves the mystery in crashes. you find the mystery on the work bench. what last happened to the plane and then you find it on the field. the most important thing are these black boxes but i see the new information as helpful, narrowing the search because we have four pings. four data points. it was following a track, a known navigational track. i think that's very helpful in the investigation and i see it the other way down, i see it as narrowing it. >> fair criticism, however, if they had their hands around all the data earlier, there wouldn't have been this dribbling out of inconsistent theories because they would have known what is the best earlier, yes? >> exactly. and not only are the black boxes so very important, but the wreckage itself because there's

so much evidence that is contained on the pieces of the plane and the longer they drift in the ocean, the longer key evidence is going to deterrierate or be lost to the bottom of the sea. so, the time has worked a toll on the investigation. but it is hopeful that they have at least a direction to proceed. >> talk more about these pings. do they speak to you about intent? >> no. actually, the pings to me speak to me about the airplane. and we saw the same thing in air france, the air france crash investigation because the plane is trying to relay its help. what these are are sort of like health checks on the plane and the plane is relaying back to its base, this is okay, this is okay. in the case of airfrance, this is not okay, things are going wrong. here, since apparently the malaysian air company did not subscribe to the information, all you have is pings. directional points. but if they had, it would have just given a wealth of

information and i think richard quest provided to you the printout that we had from air france really detailed information and it certainly should be a lesson to airlines going forward. getting that information away from your plane and back to home base could be very helpful, so would changing the functioning of the black boxes so they are periodically downloaded from the plane in flight. but, this information from the plane tells me that the plane was still trying to do what the plane is supposed to do, which is fly and provide data. >> now, it's interesting, mary, how you put it. the plane was still trying to do what it is supposed to do. here's a lot of pressure on saying someone, someone, someone did this. someone turned off the transponder, someone was floiing it, it was deliberate. was it terrorist, was it trauma, we don't know. is it as likely that something did this as someone? >> i think it is just past on past investigations and past accidents. you know, when i learned to fly, it was a stick and the rutter

and the seat of your pants, but planes aren't like that. planes are engineered to do so much more and we had several accidents where, you know, it was blamed they said pilot suicide, it was a rutter deflection or they said it was an intentional action or a bomb and it wasn't, it was an exploding fuel tank. i'm reluctant to say and assume that somebody did this just based on past accident investigation. so much can go on on these wonderful, modern planes but when it goes wrong, it can go wrong without any pilot input. >> because we have all this technology on board and because there are these redundancies and these systems, how come we heard nothing beyond a ping and beyond that last radar communication? >> in my opinion because the plane was severely disabled. we also have the question of why didn't we get any cell phone

either attempts in or attempts out. remember the four planes on 9/11, every plane, god bless those souls on every plane they got something out or they tried and the cell phone records later show that people were trying both ways. trying to reach them, trying not to. but we knew that was going on and, really, we broke the case. the passengers themselves broke the case by getting information from those hijacked planes on the phones. it was, you know, it was really a tribute to them, but we don't have any of that here. i don't want to attribute it to humans just yet. we need to look at the data. >> is there a chance, mary, jim clancy, the idea that if there were a major decompressive event, the plane would have never been able to fly for any distance after that? is that something that is so easy to say? >> oh, no, not at all because there have been major events. the biggest problem on a depressive event unless you lose the total structure of the plane, you have just a few seconds. the pilots would have had 30 seconds or less to get on their

oxygen. it doesn't last forever. the passengers just have little canisters and that will run out. most likely if a major decompression occurred, you'd lose consciousness. >> but the plane could keep flying. >> the plane could keep flying. >> thank you, mary. >> all right, mary, we appreciate it. we'll get back to the search for 3. testing the ideas that are out there. but a lot of other news this morning. for instance, thousands of russian troops are gathering along ukraine's eastern border at this hour. what does it mean? has ukraine's interim president now wound up in fear of a large-scale invasion. the troops are engaging in military exercises as secretary of state john kerry engages in a diplomatic exercise. he's meeting with russia's foreign minister trying to convince moscow to pull its troops out of crimea. this comes two days before they are expected to split and join the russian federation, a vote

many believe will be invalid. very confusing there . nick paton walsh live from crimea. nick? >> this meeting between may be the last chance for diplomacy here. it looks unlikely that is going to necessarily yield positive results because it shifted from crimea meeting and maybe stall the referendum on sunday and now switching to the east of ukraine, the border with russia. 8,500 russian troops to familiarize themselves with that area and along with that, violence in those key eastern cities. in the east, one person killed and 17 injured, we're told, when a pro-russian and pro-ukrainian rally clashed. concerns we may see some russian escalation here and the russian foreign ministry saying quite openly after the violence it

reserves the right to intervene and protect its compatriots or those loyal to moscow. tension certainly rising without lessening. back to you. >> all right, nick paton walsh, thank you so much for that. ahead more on the missing flight, 370, but let's turn to john berman with more on your headlines. president obama meets with activists pushing for immigration reform which has stalled in congress. the president has ordered an administration review of the deportation process with an eye towards finding more humane ways to enforce the law. this move was unexpected, considering as late last week, as late as last week mr. obama said when it comes to deportations he stretched his presidential powers to the max. some usairways passengers now describing the panic they felt when the tire popped during takeoff. they say the philadelphia to ft. lauderdale flight came down hard and smoke started coming out of an engine as they evacuated thursday. the plane's nose gear also

collapsed during this incident. 149 passengers and five crew members evacuated. no searier injuries reported. search teams this morning picking through the ruins of two collapse building in new york city looking for survivors following that powerful explosion. the blast killed eight people in east harlem and as many as five are unkaeaccounted for. a natural gas leak may have triggered the explosion, but the exact cause is still under investigation. investors are hoping for a market rebound this morning. asian shares plunged to one-month lows overnight on concerns about ukraine in china's declining economy. at this hour, the dow, nasdaq and s&p 500 futures are all lower after a sharp selloff on thursday. dow plunged and the nasdaq and s&p also suffering sharp declines of over 1%. michaela. >> john, good to have you with us this morning. we're going to get you back to the top story about the disappearance of flight 370, but you're trying to get out the door and you want to know do i

wear a rain jacket or winter co coat. >> we're talking about low temperatures in the northeast and extending down to the southeast where we have freeze warnings this morning. the good news the temperatures will rebound and just in time for the weekend. we're flip-flopping the pattern of how big of a gap we're talking about. today 58 degrees a lot better out there in new york city and go from just freezing as your high yesterday and today rebounding to 40s and by saturday we'll continue to see the trend in the temperatures going up. chance for light rain overnight tonight into tomorrow. not really the big story here. what's going on out through texas and watch that system making its way through. what does that mean? a chance for severe weather tomorrow out towards dallas, houston, look for thunderstorms and even a chance for an isolated tornado could be out there and then we have to continue to watch the storm kind of track and look at all that moisture there. looks like right by sunday night

in through monday as we go through st. paddy's a chance for another storm. michaela and chris? >> thank you so much for that. let's take a quick break on "new day" pings, data points, transponders. what messages that triple boeing sent. let's get a closer look at how these high-tech marvels send. to whom, why? an in-depth look. to south africa the oscar pistorius murder trial. a former police official telling the court about a ballistic expert who may have mishandled evidence at the crime scene. we'll take you live to the courthouse with the latest. ♪

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welcome back to "new day." we're closely following breaking developments in the flight of 370. another top story this morning, oscar pistorius' murder trial. today's focus evidence and how it was handled, specifically that ever-present door. the question, did the police commander in charge at the time handle it properly? i say at the time because the commander later resigned on accusations he mishandled evidence. blade runner defense team is having a field day with that. is it relevant? is this more tactical? is it significant? let's debate. danny and mr. vinnie politan, gentlemen, happy friday. thank you for being here. danny savalos, what are you doing? is this just a lot of attorney or are you making a real point here? what is your tactic? >> i'm not familiar with bibble,

babble, chris. >> now you are, continue. >> the defense has to explore how this crime scene was processed and they are correct. they need to explore why were people moving things around? why were watches going missing and why were you using a body bag to transport a door instead of, really, should have just been taking photographs. the defense needs to explore this because they need to develop the idea. also, remember, the prosecution is trying to avoid calling its original case agent. if they do, look, it has to raise the question, is the prosecution about winning or are they about justice because he will know more than any other witness but they do not want to call him. >> because? >> because, number one, they prosecuted him. number two, he may get on the stand and just start, how favorable will he testify to the

prosecution if he's being prosecuted himself? >> so, vinnie, the basic argument from the defense is this, you messed up the krocrim scene and brought the door to the office and didn't collect the splinters right and didn't catalog it well and we can't trust anything that comes from this door and the door seems to be the best thing you have, other than all these people who want to call the defendant reckless and a gun lover. >> here's the thing, you have a judge who's hearing the case. i'm sure the judge, like me, has been criminal courtrooms before. for the last 15 years covering criminal cases around the country, every single trial it's the same thing. every police investigation is botched and you can never trust what they do. the problem that the defense has here, okay, don't trust the police, don't trust their experts, don't trust the investigators, don't trust any of the ear witnesses, don't trust any of the eyewitnesses and don't trust oscar pistorius'

friend or his ex-girlfriend. the only one you can trust in this case is the man who put four bullets through a closed door and shot and killed a smart, wonderful woman. >> danny cevalos, i'll continue vinnie politan's outrage. you're all heat and no light. what have you shown with your questions for investigators and witnesses that is compelling at all of proposing any theory that there is a good explanation for what happened here? >> i would ask you to look past vinnie politan's fire. we know oscar pistorius is the one that shot reeva steenkamp. we already know he shot her through a door. this entire trial is not about that. what was in his mind? what did he realinably believe at the time he fired the gun? we know that he caused the death of another human being and that is a tragedy. however, the entire trial is about what did he reasonably think when he pulled the

trigger? and the defense has an obligation, whether you're in south africa or the united states, the defense has obligation to test the prosecution's evidence. if they don't, they're not doing their job. when you process a crime scene in such a deadly, serious case, then you have to do so properly. and, look, the judge will be the final arbiter. did the police correctly process this crime scene or, on the other hand, were missing watches and missing pieces of the door and the way the evidence was handled, will that demonstrate that maybe the evidence they're putting forward is not as reliable as they hope. >> vinnie politan, we end on you. what danny talks about is interesting and what he does not talk about is also interesting. the key you brought up, we still haven't heard about it at trial. oscar pistorius wind up opening the door that is locked to his toilet room with a key. what do you think that is going to mean here?

>> i think it means, number one, if you look at the door, what's really interesting is it has to be locked with a key, as well. so, why in the middle of the night if she's just getting up to go relieve herself is she sneaking into the bathroom and then locking the door with a key behind her. i'm glad danny used the word reasonable. because we have to look at pistorius' story and say is it really reasonable? yes, the killing was a tragedy, but more than a tragedy, it is also a crime and that's why we're inside this courtroom. >> a huge question that looms over this trial for everybody who is observing it and those fact assessors and that judge, is it reasonable for oscar pistorius to believe there was an intruder in the home when the door needed to be locked on both sides? how would an intruder have done that? very intriguing question and we'll see how it unfolds at trial. vinnie, of course, looking forward to your coverage on hln.

>> thanks so much for that. up next on "new day" the search for flight 370 expands further east and west into the indian ocean. coming up, the last message from that flight. and how flights like it communicate with the outside world. dear sun,

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investigation is looming as troops build up along his country's eastern border. president obama ordering his administration to find more humane ways of handling deportations. meets with activists at the white house today. a grim search through the rubble following that explosion and building collapse in new york. eight people were killed, five others still unaccounted for. 4,000 pages of previously unreleased papers from the clinton white house set to drop today. topics will include the 2000 florida recount and the clinton/bush transition. we're always updating the five things you need to know, go to cnn.com for the latest. back to the latest on the missing malaysian jet. reuters saying now the radar indicates it headed for the islands in the indian ocean. we've also talked about the signals the plane sent hours after it was last heard from. and we've made so much about that last point of contact

between malaysia and vietnam. egz questions have been swirling on why certain instruments were shut off about whether the pilots were somehow overtaken so they couldn't relay a problem to the ground. now, we want to give you a look at exactly how these planes communicate with controllers and why all of this is adding to the mystery of flight 370. renee has more in washington. renee? >> this is a model 777, just like the missing flight 370 and at 35,000 feet in the air these planes there are three ways the plane can get an urgent message down to the ground and that critical information is transmitted by voice or data through satellites or radio frequencies and this morning we're going to take look at all the ways the crews or the plane systems could have communicated to someone on the ground that something was terribly wrong. inside the cockpit of a boeing 777, there are multiple ways pilots communicate with the

ground. the a card system beams down information about the health of the plane. >> giving information about what kind of information is beamed down. >> engine parameters, temperatures, the amount of fuel burn, any maintenance discrepancies. >> reporter: another way to communicate. radio. all right, good night. the final comfrall from the pil. a common phrase when changing controllers. >> in a dive here. >> reporter: in alaska airlines flight 261 when the plane dived out of control, pilots radioed what was happening, but no may day from flight 370. in the event of an emergency, is communication secondary? >> yeah, the first thing is to fly the airplane, navigate the airplane and then communicate. that's the order of precedence. >> reporter: a third way to communicate, by transponder. 1:21 a.m. the transponder signal goes dead. it transmits the plane's

location, speed, altitude and position. is there any good reason that a pilot would want to switch that off? >> clearly, if all the power was lost to the aircraft or something happened to take out that part of the electronics, the electrical system, that would turn it off. but, certainly one aspect to turn it off is because you don't want to be seen. >> reporter: but the one piece of the plane that is likely still communicating, the flight recorders. only sonar equipment can detect their pings and time is of essence. the signal only lasts for about 30 days. and another way the plane could communicate a problem is through the plane's emergency locater transmitter or elt. it can be manually activated or automatically activates on impact. now, the signal is sent to the search and rescue teams via a satellite system, but, it stops working once it sinks below the water surface. we know in this instance,

according to a senior official telling cnn that emergency beacon did not activate in this case. michaela, chris? >> all right, renee, thank you for taking a look at all that technology onboard those planes. we appreciate it. >> there's no question that experts and analysts are looking back at what happened in the past to try to understand it, looking at it through a lens of the new information they get. we'll take a break here on "new day" when we come back the longer flight 370 is missing the more conspiracy theories grow about what happened. coming up, we'll tell those theories and see what is fact and what is likely fiction. we'll also look at other famous aviation mysteries with a pilot. stay with us. y projects on my h. i love my contractor, and i am so thankful to angie's list for bringing us together. find out why more than two million members count on angie's list. angie's list -- reviews you can trust.

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welcome back here to "new day" we'll continue to follow these breaking developments in the ongoing search for flight 370. this morning reuters reporting the plane was deliberately flown towards a group of islands in the indian ocean as new information indicates, the airplane could have flown for several hours after all initial contact was lost. but each new piece of information really only leads to more questions, more theories about what exactly happened to that plane and what exactly happened in that cockpit. we're joined by colonel pete field, retired marine fighter pilot who specializes in downed aircraft. thank you for joining us. given your level of expertise, i want it get your take on all these conflicting reports, the radar clues and the seismic activity on the sea floor. are you confident in the focus of the search efforts right now? >> well, i think the malaysians

have been face would a very difficult accident investigation process. they immediately assumed that the airplane had gone down and it appeappears to me they marri the two radar tracks and they have been able to more or less follow the airplane. i'm of the opinion that turning that transponder off is really the first signal that whoever was in control of the airplane didn't want to be seen any longer. so, i am not at all surprised to find out that they are looking at various airports in that string of islands north of malaysia in the indian ocean. >> let me run with that for a minute then. so you're not speaking to a catastrophic event, necessarily, taking this plane down. you think there was deliberation and intention here? >> it sound that way to me. the 777 has an absolute marvelous safety record. no in-flight failures of that airplane and only three fatalities involved with the

asiana landing at san francisco a year and a half ago. and it's built on 747 technology and boeing builds pretty solid, pretty sound airplanes. air malaysia has 17 of them, of these 777 200 ers and they've been operating them for a long time. so, the airplane has a superb safety record. it's a little difficult for me to believe it's a mechanical problem. >> looking to the past sometimes can give us clues to the future. let's talk about some of the other incidents that we've seen and some of the theories that have risen out of them. let's look at tw 800, paris-pound flight exploded mid-air off the coast of long island 1996, serveral theories came about and all of them were disproven. >> that accident occurred

because aging maintenance on the airplane and the center fuel tank exploded. we would not expect that to be a condition that could affect the 777 because since twa 800, most airliners now have nitrogen in the fuel tanks. so, i'm doubtful if that could be one of the possibilities. >> and then, of course, you go way, way back to amelia earhart and arguably the most mysterious plane, you look at the technology vastly different from what they were dealing with all those years ago. >> michaela, you're exactly right. amelia didn't have good nav aids, she certainly didn't have global positioning and there weren't many ground-based nav aids in that part of the world. in fact, there were none.

so, it was all done by dead reckoning. no really good way to know what the weather ahead was like or what the winds were like at her cruise altitude. a lot of it is just, in that day in age, was just by good luck. it's also her airplane has been down for, you know, well over half a century now, so, the ocean's taking care of disintegrating it and it's not likely that we'll find it now. >> back to our missing flight 370, we need answers for those families and certainly need answers to prevent something like this happen in the future whether it was mechanical or some sort of intention. colonel field, thank you for your expertise and lending your voice to our conversation today. >> my pleasure. >> all right, chris back over to you. coming up, much more on the search for 370. but first, here to talk about his new book and some of the realization about recovery from addiction that can help us all. co: i've always found you don't know you need a hotel room

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he has been studying addiction and understanding what it can do to you for 25 years. he's taking a new look at it in his book called "what addicts know" ten lessons from recovery to benefit everyone. great it have you on the show. >> great to be here. >> the timing very good with this. society dealing with addiction more and more all the time. want to talk about the book, but let's put it in the context of the news, whether it's philip seymour hoffman but addiction playing out a role in a mass shooting or some type of violence, people immediately go to the idea that addiction is a choice and when drugs are involved, you did this, just stop. and the problem goes away. how do you get past that idea towards what addiction really is? >> well, we have brain science now. the great thing is the new neuro science shows us that this is a disease centered in the brain. there is a genetic component to it and an element of people, i do believe in personal responsibility. i believe when people know they have this illness, their response is get it treated. we have good treatment now.

one thing that is coming up, obviously, legalization. i get a lot of question on that. do we want a society that is still begins to perpetuate this kind of behavior in terms of legalization because it's going to increase prevalence and we know the two most dangerous drugs on the planet alcohol and tobacco. do we need another legal drug? i say no. >> legalizing marijuana for personal use is a mistake? >> i think it's a mistake and i think it's a mistake for a number of reasons. we don't need another legal drug and what it will do to our young people. i don't care what people do in o our private lives as long as the rest of us don't have to pay for it. down the road everyone is talking about the millions of dollars colorado is making in tax revenue, i think it will cost money down the road. >> i also think it's interesting it see how we still stigmatize drug use, when it's marijuana, coke, heroin, those kinds of things, meth. in this country a real increase in the rise of prescription drug

abuse. >> absolutely. >> that is a concern because it's kind of invisible in a way and people turn the other cheek a lot of the time. >> or chris mentioned phil hoffman who was a friend of mine. this was his story, basically. a guy sober 25 years, clean and sober and got prescription drugs and became readdicted to them. a doctor gave them to him. when he couldn't get them, he went back to the street. heroin is very powerful and he overdosed. prescription drugs is a major problem in the stow because it's in this country because it's under the radar. and people think it's legitimate. i think that you mentioned, michaela, the most important thing and the reason i did this book is stigma. people don't understand addicts have a lot to give the world. they're not just people who are only good for getting and staying sober, although that's a good thing. a lot of wisdom and the world could use it. >> you're talking about philip seymour hoffman the 20 years he was clean. the tragic part of this story.

what are your tips to someone out there who has been clean for so long? can you ever let your guard down? >> you can. the problem is, this is, the alcohol, the drugs, the behavior is really a symptom of a more fundamental disease. underlying causes of conditions. you know, addicts feel things greatly. they really and those are the things that need to be addressed. people do after a time begin to think they've got it licked. and this is something that requires constant vigilance. >> it's interesting you say that. you break down the ten lessons and easy to read and apply to you whether you have addictive problems or not and it's also for families and who have deal with that and circle is getting bigger all the time and almost everybody has someone they love or someone they know who is struggling but you just made the key and we've done a lot of work on recovery over the years. you deal with the drugs and you deal with the alcohol, which is a drug, as well.

that's only the beginning of the problem and people say they don't want to deal with the problems underneath. do you think we have enough sensitivity to it's still just treating something bigger? >> that's what this book is about. this is book is for families who don't understand this illness and i think as a society we're getting there. i mean, we've come a long way since i've been doing this. i've been doing this ten years as an advocate and i've seen serious progress and people misunderstanding and people, you know, being willing to talk about this and i think it's going to bug well for this as an issue. >> keep up the great work. keep doing it. >> it's important. and becomes more important all the time. >> exactly. >> chris, great to have you on the show. >> thanks. now to this week's cnn hero. a study released this week found that the underground sex economy generates nearly $300 million a year in the city of atlanta alone. but the human cost is much harder to calculate. that's where vernida carter

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>> they wrestled him to the ground and broke 19 bones. >> oh, my goodness. turns out if you eat a samona or ta tagalong congratulations, young ladies. i will take five boxes of the tagalongs. let's head up to the newsroom with carol costello. >> have a great weekend. "newsroom" starts now. happening now in the "newsroom" breaking overnight, the search turns west. >> we went from a chessboard to a football field. >> the hunt for flight 370 now focusing on a small group of islands almost 1,000 miles from takeoff. >> there seems to be a real trail that leads to something taking that aircraft, that doesn't just happen by accident. a new report