found the flight profile. is that what you are saying? >> did you re-enact the -- >> yes, we did. not another 777. >> good morning, everybody. so glad to have your company. >> 6:00 on the east coast. this is "new day sunday." >> listening to the latest news conference. flight 370. we want to get you caught up on the latest breaking news. examining information taken from a plight simulator that was inside the home of the flight's captain. here's him there sitting in front of that machine there. >> yeah. the latest development is comes as u.s. intelligence officials tell cnn they are leading towards, quote, those inside of the cockpit as being responsible for the flight flight's disappearance. >> moments ago, too, the number

ofmations involved in the search for the missing jet has jumped from 14 to 25. you see how -- india says it has temporarily halted search efforts until it gets updated instructions here. >> you see the map on the screen where we saw the map a moment ago that dash the northern corridor and the southern corridor, they are getting equal attention in this investigation. we learned that in this news conference. just before the start of our show from the acting minister of transportation there in malaysia. news conference this morning. mad to the pilots, malaysian police, looking at the entire crew and the passengers aboard flight 370. >> they are also investigating any engineers who may have had contact with that plane prior to it taking off on saturday. cnn's jim clancy is in kuala lumpur. it has been more than a week now. what else have they been saying?

i think a lot of people are wondering if that's pilots knew each other well and had new information about the two of them? did they not? >> well, they have done a certain much of their homes. one of the pill on the had a flight simulator he built himself. he was an enthusiast about flying. there is absolutely nothing in their backgrounds that really stands out. and -- although he had some, you know, political ties, a member of the political party in opposition for most of his life, so are millions of other indonesians. we don't have a motive from the pilots. we don't have a motive from anyone right now. this is -- we are more than a week past since this event took place and this plane disappeared. we haven't heard from anybody. there hasn't been any demand. there hasn't been any manifesto. if you were going to do something you would think you would tell people about it to make your point. who would you tell?

would you tell the news media? they are here. they haven't heard anything either. >> we had a technical problem with jim clancy there reporting live from kuala lumpur. the malaysians are asking for coordination, satellite data from the cooperating countries. that number jumped from 14 to 25 as part of this investigation. again, that's what we are hearing from the malaysian acting minister of transport this morning. >> one of the things we, too, heard from the minister as well, the fact that these pilots and co-pilot, they did not ask to fly together on that day. >> one thing that -- stood out to me in the recording from barbara starr is that they just went in -- reported this yesterday, on day eight, into homes of the pail on the. we learned from the u.s. officials we spoke on the conditions of the anonymity, the

malaysians were waiting for a reason to go in. >> which to us in the u.s. we think if plane disappeared, our poem there within two hours. >> they stood outside the home guarded for several days but never went in. can we get jim clancy back up and i want to ask him about the philosophy of law enforcement and going into those homes. when we get that signal back, we will talk about that. >> we want to talk about the other big story we are following this morning. voters in the hotly disputed region of ukraine casting ballots right now as we speak to decide whether to join russia or peckively to become independent. >> polls have been open in crimea for about four hours now. voters considering these two questions and these are the only two. support the reunification of crimea with russia or support the restoration of the constitution of the republic of crimea in 1992, leaving it as part of ukraine. >> diana is outside of the station in the village near the

capital. diana, has there been a heavy presence there and what's the move? >> about 600 people so far in the first four hours of voting. most of hem -- we have been to the ballot boxes which is transparent and you can see through. most of them -- voting to join russia. as you walk around the streets, it is clear that it is not impossible. every billboard says together with russia, every rally of a demonstration in lebanon square, you see people waving russian flags. the ethnic ukrainians here are not really showing much of a presence. the polling booth -- polling station here behind me, i'm at the military base. i will turn around and you will get a sense of this area. it has been so surreal. you have this music blasting out. this is the base. if you can make them out you

will see russian troops standing there. two weeks ago today russian troops arrived and surrounded the ukrainian military base. they have been demanding that they give up their oath to kiev and swear allegiance instead to the crimean authorities. we have not seeb any ukrainian soldiers come in to vote. apparently those that are registered on this soil are allowed to but they will be wearing civilian clothing says the deputy commander of the base so they don't cause any kind of provocation. >> diana, one of the people there -- a cnn reporter told cnn everybody -- this is in kiev. everybody believes the results were already rigged. we got video here to show people, camera crew. your camera crew. talked on voter. looking closely, dropping two ballots into the box.

watch this again. two sheets of paper here. what are the concerns about the legitimacy of today's r referendum? >> well, the west don't consider it legitimate at all. it is not in line with the ukrainian constitution. frankly the people of cripple why voted a referendum and all the people of ukraine should vote in a weak referendum. we did watch that voter drop not one but two ballot pain nears the ballot box. we asked just now if there is my way you can be allowed to vote for somebody else. they told us, quite frankly, month, absolutely not. it is one ballot per person. there are election monitors here. there is one upstairs in the polling station. i met some at my hotel yesterday. frankly these election monitors are a motley crue. th -- crew. deputy parties, communist

parties of greece. it is a strange selection. they all share the view the government in kiev is illegitimate. illegitimate referendum overseen by a strange bunch of observers as we ourselves have witnessed irregular are voting proceedings. >> we have heard the reports in some 60 russian crews that had six helicopters, vehicles, crossing in eastern ukraine. beyond the crimean border that they were in defensive mode. ing in fact, i believe that ukraine's foreign ministry has called this latest push of military invasion. wondering how much concern there might be there that perhaps president putin has his eye on more than just crimea. >> this is the big question, isn't it? is he going to push further north? this encouragement is not on the main land ukraine. it was on something called the outer back strip to the

northeast of the crimean peninsula and russian soldiers arrived there in helicopters said they were just starting the oil and gas facility there. that's in line with what we have seen as we have driven around the north of this region, they are guarding key telecommunication points, infrastructure points. they have a heavy military presence. we saw long-range artillery guns. they are blocking every bridge across a major waterway. you do wonder why is there this significant military presence there. are they looking to push further north in a the eastern region. of course, we have had that's very big demonstrations, violent demonstrations, in the city. now the russian foreign ministry said that they received lots of calls from ukrainians asking for russians protection. in eastern ukraine. that, of course, is the justification to come into crimea to protect people here and perhaps that is the reason russia would use to move further

north. >> thank you so much for bringing tuesday latest from that region. we will be checking in all morning with her as this continues. they expect to have the results by tomorrow. >> polls close at 2:00 p.m. eastern. 8:00 a.m. local time. still to come on "new day," the pi pilots' home search. investigateors trying to figure out what happened to flight 370. >> we are talking to a former transportation inspector general about what authorities specifically may be looking for here. [ garner ] there's a lot of beautiful makeup out there to cover up flaws and make skin look pretty. but there's one that's so clever, it makes your skin look better even after you take it off. neutrogena healthy skin liquid makeup. 98% of women saw improvement in their skins' natural texture, tone, or clarity. does your makeup do that? neutrogena® cosmetics.

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>> the developments are coming as u.s. intelligence officials tell cnn they believe that the pill on the are responsible for the jet's disappearance. we are joined by aviation analyst mary. it is so good to have you with us. what specifically are authorities looking for in that flight simulator that was in the captain's house? >> yes. some flight simulators save your recent work, save your recent routes flown. if the captain had flown a route similar to what they are picking up on the satellite pings or entered in other airports, maybe in the regions where they think the plane has gone, practiced landing will, or if he had checked out entering wave points, et cetera, on the computer, or if he brought in someone else to train on that flight simulator. two different possibilities. either he was training for another mission or that someone else was training for another mission on that placomputer.

or will is absence of that and maybe it has been one else other than him. >> this is something we have discussed this morning. it didn't make sense to us. you are the former inspector general, perfect person to ask this question. reporting from barbara starr from the u.s. official, speaking on the conditions anonymity, the malaysian be government went into the captain's home on day eight. the report sing the malaysian government had been looking for a reason to search the home but it is the only last 24 to 36 hours they felt comfortable. this official saying malaysians don't do this lightly. p this had been a delta flight taken off from la guardia u.s. officials would have been in that home within hours. why eight days? >> well, that's very mysterious to me because as i said before, it almost appears like malaysia doesn't believe its own words. it says it is looking for reasons within the cockpit. they said there was nothing wrong with the airline's maintenance. have to look at the piloting. i can tell you on september 11

after those planes crashed into the tower of the pentagon and ground, everyone on that plane was a suspect. they laooked at passpassengers, hijackers once they got the clues. it is really bad police work. it is police work at this point if they are looking at a crime to wait eight days. hopefully no one, if they are looking for that computer and that was the flight simulator, hopefully nobody messed with it. but it is really bad police work. >> i understand that they are searching for an engineer who may have had contact with that plane prior to it taking off and as well as possibly there is a report an aviation engineer was a passenger. what are they doing to find out more about the passengers and how widespread or expansive do you think this thing could be if it was deliberate? how many people could have been involved? >> it depends who they think in

the cockpit was directing the flight. if this is a pilot suicide it is a difficult to see why they went on for seven hours if that data is accurate. but another theory they had extra people onboard and someone went down into the belly of the plane to disable key communications systems. to do that, that hatch, that door, is back in the passenger cabin. you would immediate not only an engineer how to do that but somebody to guard or keep the passengers under control. plus you would obviously have to have somebody in the cockpit flaying the plane. it would be a large crew and also there was a report by another outlet that said that the wave points -- way off course points the markers, the places the plane was traveling to and then turning in the air, were entered in advance. a plight engineer could have done that or the pail cots have done that. that's another reason to search for that. there's still many mysteries, many clues, without answers.

they are coming very quickly now. >> all right. wear so grateful for your expertise. thank you for taking the time to talk to us today. >> thank you, mayor write. >> thank you. >> coming up, as the crimean people, as we go to the other big story today, crimean people continue to cast their bam on the. international community anxiously atwits see the results. what will be, if any, the political fallout? christiane amanpour joins us to discuss. malaysian authorities examining a plight simulator as we were talking about. as it is country's defense minister says the search entered a new phase.

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22 after the hour now. the world is watching as voters in ukraine's crimean pen iinsul go to the polls today. >> pushing on leaving it to the people there to decide whether had want to join russia. >> you have pictures here from a polling station in crimea. both have been open for more than four hours now. here's the question. when could be the fallout from today's election? >> for that we want to go to cnn's chief international correspondent christiane amanpour. joining us by phone from london. help people watching this understand the implications for, you know, for russia and even for the u.s. who have said we are not recognizing this and there is going to be sanctions.

there is going to be some recourse if russia does not stand back. >> reporter: that's right. it is an indecreedly tense situation still. the international community insisted the referendum should not go ahead. you is a that was vetoed by russian security council. now they are saying if it does go ahead, don't interfere in other parts of eastern ukraine. the real question is, everybody is waiting to see what will president putin of russia do after this referendum. so, yes, here in london and around the european community, there will be foreign ministers meeting and targeted sanctions to be voted on today or tomorrow. there is a bit of an argument between various different countries as to how wide those sanctions should be. but nonetheless, this is what appears to be on the table as a next -- next move from europe to the united states sanctions. in the meantime, very, very tense.

not crimea but eastern ukraine. that would be a major escalation of all of this p the russians were to move into eastern ukraine. there has been a hung amouge am tension. everybody is waiting to see if that happened. what happens at the russian parliament at the end of this next week, will they decide to act on whatever the result of the referendum is which has been some believe is manufactured by the russian zps will go russia's way. >> is there any evidence that these sanctions that will be voted on, that will be decided by international community will really discourage putin from moving forward even if he wants to move -- he looked at what happened in 2008 in georgia. there are still russian forces there. >> reporter: that's correct. unfortunately for those people there, the -- they are little dots in terms of europe's political strategy in terms of

ukraine. this is a major issue. the u.s. and europeans have a lot at stake here. ukraine is a massive place. tens of millions of population. this is now a direct confrontation between russia and the west. as i say, p it develops into a shooting war over eastern ukraine, then all bets are off. in terms of will -- will sanctions make my difference, look, there are very many different analysis over that. what we see new over the weekend, major reports saying that major russian businesses have started to withdraw billions of dollars from british and european banks, worried about asset breezes that could come starting monday. we know that the russians are saying well, this won't affect us. lit affect you. the sanctions will backfire. to an extent it will peak the west. of course it will. but it will probably also affect president putin going forward. there is no doubt that if sanctions are imposed and are

ratcheted up over the years, the increasing isolation of russia will become an issue. the real question here, honestly, to a diplomatic solution is whether president putin even wants diplomatic solution. there can be no diplomacy if there is month end game. if he just wants to keep going and keep ratcheting it up and keep playing to his nationalist base, there is no real -- knowing where this will stop. >> chief's international correspondent christiane amanpour. thank you so much. >> reporter: thank you very much. >> thank you. still to come on "new day," new data showing flight 370 may have been flying for more than seven hours after that last contact. what could have happened during this time? we have details for you ahead. if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, like me,

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day the flight disappeared. even now nine days, nine days, nine days after trying to piece together what happened to flight 370. >> new satellite data is emerging, too, and key moments in the plane's movements are becoming clearer. but obviously there are still so many questions. we take a look at the timeline. >> reporter: there are antennas on various parts of the plane intended to beam down vital information about the plane. all of them stopped communicating with the ground. the strongest language yet from malaysian authorities suggesting that this is no accident. it appears to be deliberate. all of this after the ntsb and faa analyze new satellite data suggesting that the plane's last moan position was the west side of the malaysian peninsula and not the east. takeoff from kuala lumpur 8:00 local time last saturday. flight 370 headed north along

its planned route to beijing. but then would communication systems stopped working within minutes of each other. investigators now believe someone almost surely turned them off. at 1:07 a.m. mere the east coast of malaysia the system stops transmitting information about the plane's operating condition and that was before the last radio transmission all right good night indicating everything was normal. 1:21 a.m. the transponder stops transmitting information. flight 370 headed west and authorities say that there is every indication someone was in control. >> up until the point at which it left military radar coverage,

this movement consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane. >> still unclear whether it was a pilot or a hijacker. cnn has confirmed the plane made erratic changes in altitude and was flying what officials described as a strange path. at one point it appears to have climbed to 45,000 feet. well above its approved altitude. then descending to 23,000. now a new analysis of satellite information shows the plane kept flying more than seven hours after takeoff. much longer than previously thought. the satellite searching for operational data from the plane detected the aircraft every hour in a so-called handshake. but no data was transmitted. its last contact, 8:11 a.m., somewhere along this arc that stretches as far north as

kazakhstan and as far south as the indian ocean west of australia. after more than eight hours in the air it would have been close to running out of fuel. something we haven't talked a lot about but there is a possibility we won't get all of the answers we are looking for in this mid stream. a docockpit voice recorder are the back of the plane and are only required to record the last two hours of the flight. if the plane flew for hours we may never know what happen medical the very beginning. the cockpit's data recorder which stores information on all of the airplane's system should have captured the whole flight. it records 36 hours. one other thing, so many people are asking why didn't any of the pass enjers text or call home. we know the plane did not have the equipment that would have allowed cell phone service. >> thank you very much. we are just getting a note from our producers who are on top of

this. had just heard from the ceo of the airlines that suggests this plane had no extra fuel. had the normal amount of fuel. the question has been if this plane was recognized, that ping, seven hours after it left that -- >> could it still have been flying at that point. it had seven hours of fuel left to begin with. >> we learned from the ceo the jet took off with a normal amount of fuel for the route and did not have extra fuel onboard. that's from the ceo of malair airlines. malaysia airlines. now on to other big story we are following for you today. the vote on crimea's -- >> voters are deciding whether they should rejoin russia or become an independent state. the u.s. and europe say the referendum is illegal and warned russia could face repercussions

as soon as tomorrow. >> erin mcpike is joining us live from washington. the national security team met on the ukraine crisis out of the white house. what do you know that came out of this? >> that's right. the cia director, secretary of state john kerry, and defense secretary chuck hagel and they met at the white house for roughly three hours. we don't know exactly what came out of that meeting. what i have heard from the white house aides is they expect another very busy meeting today. the president did get briefed on that meeting yesterday. i'm sure we will see much more activity come out white house today and the developments of what happened yesterday and how they are looking to proceed today. >> president obama said friday he hopes there is a diplomatic solution to this and hopes that one comes about here. we just had christiane amanpour on and she questioned and many people are does president putin even want a diplomatic solution? does it seem like one is more

likely? >> that's hard to say. he does not know how russian president putin is going to respond to this vote today. of course, if russia does move to annex crimea, that will then mean the united states is going to move further. likely with more sanctions. will are already sanctions in police. the question is do they clamp down even harder in russia makes these moves. we have seen reports of russian rooms moving further into ukraine and that, of course is presenting a big problem for the international community. >> thank you. we want to let you know investigators are focusing now on the missing plane's pilots, talking about 370, of course. and they have been looking for clues in their homes. we will tell you what is going on. >> yes. but first, this month marks 58th

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malaysian authorities now say that plight 370 was deliberately taken off course and her investigating the plane's captain and co-pilot. officials have searched both homes and we are seeing leaving with small zblags in the meantime experts say that, you know, they have been investigating this, whoever disabled the plane's communication systems must have had a lot of flying experience, very adroit at what they were doing. let's go to gary tuchman. >> reporter: these are the men who were in charge of malaysia airlines flight 370.

2 captain, 53 years years old. a very experienced pilot with 33 years under his belt at the airline. he liked his job so much he made his own flight simulator in his home. you could see it behind him in this youtube video. >> hi, everyone. this is a youtube video i made at the community service. >> reporter: the video has nothing to do with aviation. just talking about household air conditioners. >> this video is to be used to optimize your heat pump or compressor in order to reduce your electric bill. >> reporter: first off, he is a much less experienced pilot. he has flown for malaysia airlines for just over six years. he is relatively new on the trip. you can see him here in the white co-pilot seat. cnn's richard quest shot a story

aboard the plane he was flying. richard's visit to the plane was authorized. a south african passenger says she had a much different kind of visit to the co-pilot's cockpit. she says in 2011 the co-pilot and another pilot invited her and a friend to sit in the cockpit for an entire flight from thailand to malaysia. >> we boarded the plane normally with all the other passengers and went to our seats. a short while after taking our seats the air hostess came to us and asked us if we would move into the cockpit. that's where we spent the flight. >> if your system is suffering from any kind of heat month cold air coming in -- >> reporter: and his first officer. gary tuchman, cnn, atlanta. >> we just learned that the investigation into that flight

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ukrainian region of crimea, huge pro-russian protests have erupted in the run-up to today's referendum. >> voters in crimea casting ballots as we speak here to decide whether to join russia or to support the restoration of the constitution of the republic of crimea in 1992. leaving it as part of ukraine. >> ukraine's defense minister claims there are 22,000 russian troops in crimea. officials daulg latest push and this is a quote, military invasion. >> let's bring in our anchor. has there been a very strong turnout so far this morning at the polls? what's the mood there in moscow? >> reporter: according to the reports i have been getting, the turnout has been unexpectedly large, as a matter of fact. in moscow people are taking it

as blase. president putin has carefully weighed the consequences. on the one hand he is going to be seen wrong, supported by yeltsin in 1991. he will be seen as a hero. and he is going to get huge support from the russian population. on the other hand, he is being seriously criticized by the west and there will be sanctions but i think most people here think, well, sanctions are sanctions. but it is not going to be anything that terrible. i think the final decision, which will come within the next few days basically, is going to be if the people of crimea want to become part of the russian federation, then we are going to needless to say the russian government will say fine, we accept that. >> the white house said they

want a diplomatic solution to this. but i read in "the new york times" this weekend that there was this hardliner and between interviews on state television, i think that's important to say here, state television, he said that i'm afraid i am interested in a cold war with the west that is patient, waited 20 years. i did everything so this war would begin. he is going for a cold war with the west. and he is on state television. is there any evidence that there is a diplomatic solution and is putin interested in a diplomatic solution? >> you know, i wish i were in putin's brain and i could tell you what he wants. i think that probably some kind of solution that would be a positive thing for russia is something that would be attractive. such as a guarantee that ukraine would not ever become a member of nato. nato troops on russian borders. something like that. that obviously is not happeni h.

he has been on may show a hard time. she hardliner. when you say state controlled television, sadly enough, all of the main television networks in this country, will are three, are either directly or indirectly controlled by the state. in that sense, we are getting state television no matter where you look for those three networks. and the fact that he is very much a cold war partly cloudy -- how should i put this -- cold war warrior and -- does not want the relationship with the united states, does not trust the west. it is a well-known fact. this is the first time the name comes up, i guess, on cnn. but he is not a big name. she a writer. he is the editor of a rather small newspaper but he is not a policy maker. he is just effecting some of the views that exist today on what i would call the far left in this country.

>> all right. vladimir pozner, thank you. let's switch gears to the other top story as we talk about the families of the victims of that vanished flight 370. they say they are not going anywhere. this after malaysia airlines offers to pay their way home from beijing. apparently malaysia airlines is ready for them to go home. >> why some relatives accuse officials of not providing enough support during this understandablying a mizing time. the wrinkle cream graveyard. if it doesn't work fast... you're on to the next thing. neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair has the fastest retinol formula to visibly reduce fine lines and wrinkles in just one week. neutrogena®.

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closer look at who was inside the cockpit of vanished plight 370, family members of those onboard cling to hope and anxiously wait for wore of loved ones. >> i think we can't help but put ourselves in their shoes and think how are they coping with this. so many of them now, too, are really angry with malaysia airlines. saying they are not providing them enough support. paula chu joining us live from beijing. thank you for being with us. have family reacted to the press conference that happened earlier this morning with the malaysian defense minister? >> reporter: they have, in fact. i was texting with two different family members as they were watching that press conference live on television. it just ended a half an hour ago. and one of the bullet points that came out from that news conference was that one of the satellite signals that had contact with the plane may have shown that the plane was actually on the ground. for the family members here

that's actually good news because at this point they say that the best case scenario is the plane was hijacked and maybe the passengers onboard are still alive. i was texting with some of the family members. that's what their reaction was. earlier today, there was a family briefing here at this hotel behind me where tempers flared and the balk ground malaysia airlines has been paying for their hotels and meals the past couple of days. going into day mine. now the airline says that people can go home if they choose and malaysia airlines will pay their return journey home. many family members took that as an insult. one woman stood up and started screaming at the airline representatives. this woman was saying, we are not going anywhere. we will wait right here. there were other outbursts. one man took the mike phone and asked all the family members in

the room who has lost faith in the malaysian government? who has lost faith in mala mala airlines, stand up? half of the room stood up. the jensentiment here is that too much precious time has been lost. it is sunday night here in asia. and ending up day nine of this search. you can imagine the frustration. these family members want to know where the plane has ended up. >> thank you. >> thank you so much for starting your morning with us. >> we have much more ahead in the next hour of "new day" starting right now. we want to wish you a good morning on sunday. we have so much to talk to you about. sit back and relax a little bit. but this is just a story that continues to he volume by the hour. >> i was going to say day. but it is indeed by the hour. thanks for joining us.

7:00 here on the east coast. "new day sunday." we are following more breaking news for the search of malaysia flight 370. >> the defense minister said during a news conference this morning that the search has entered a new phase and 25 countries are now involved in the search for the missing plane. >> malaysia is asking the u.s. and china to turn over more satellite information as this search now refocuses to include remote oceans and you can see it in the map we are going to show you, large tracks of land. we also learned from malaysia airlines the two pilots did not request to fly together on the day the flight disappeared and that the jet was carrying no extra fuel. >> adding to intrigue here, of course, of the disappearance, one u.s. official called the spot where the plane turned in between malaysia and viet in

namese -- >> why is the focus now shifting to the pilots now? >> several u.s. officials across various agencies say that a bit of hair focus now is looking on the pilots, perhaps out sense of logic. if you begin to rule other things out, and really it goes back to the point that it appears by all accounts so many of the plane's electronic systems were turned off and possibly maybe turned off deliberately. the reason i caveat all this, nothing is for certain. as had begin to rule things out, that's what they are left with. it appears that -- it starts with that left-hand turn between kuala lumpur and vietnam.

it begins to disappear essentially, a very deliberate 90-degree left-hand turn. that's very well understood. the systems begin to turn off. perhaps only able to turn off at the hand of someone very experienced in aviation. that begins to point them towards the cockpit. malaysian officials, of course, searching the homes of the two cockpit crew members, the two pilots, taking the flight simulators from one of the houses. you can begin to see a pattern not just u.s. officials but malaysian officials today even saying they are looking at the cockpit crew. they are looking still at all of the passengers and still a lot of mystery about what happen. >> a lot of people watching this wondering if there had been a demand made, you know, if somebody took this plane and wanted to do something, where is it, what would they be? what is the motive of one of the biggest concerns? are they monitoring very closely some of those websites that they

know to be related to terrorist activity and to -- looking for any sort of chatter in that regard? >> the u.s. intelligence community certainly since this incident happened looking at everything and they always look at those websites very early on there was one claim that proved to be not credible. so far it is -- terrorism not ruled in and not ruled out. but so par they don't see any credible claim of that. let me go back to another point. you know, one of the big things that they are going to be looking for is any satellite or radar data of that northern track in the southern indian ocean, very little radar coverage. so that's not going to work very well. in the northern trek, go back towards asia, and the u.s. intelligence community, the u.s. military, and again scouring all of its satellite radar electronic signals data. one more time from that ream only to see if they can get any

little indication, anything that might have appeared on their screens and so far officials tell us they simply don't see anything. >> pentagon correspondent barbara starr with us this morning. thank you, barbara. all right. other big story we are following this morning, voters in crimea. they are going to be going to the polls. actually at the polls right now. casting ballots as to whether they are going to join russia or they are going -- >> voters facing these two choices. do you support the reunification of crimea with russia or do you support the restoration of the constitution of the republic of crimea in 1992, leaving it as part of ukraine? that's from the ballot. michael holmes is in the crimean capital. michael, we have been talking about the mood there this morning and we have also talked about the mood in moscow and kiev. what can you tell us from there

and what people are feeling as they look ahead to the results from this referendum? >> reporter: we are expecting a huge crowd out here in the next few hours. probably about four, five hours now, it will be packed. they have been testing out the music, blaring. thank goodness it is down at the moment. it is going to be a celebration of a vote that everyone knew the result before the polls have even closed. we are at a polling station earlier today and the people there were universally -- except for one lonely voice as saying they were voting pro-russia. and everyone has known all along that's the way the folk us will go. despite the fact that most of the world will see it on this referendum and says it is illegal and illegitimate and it won't count. in russia they say it is very legitimate and will very much count. >> let me ask you about something. there was -- as we understand

it -- a hotel there taken over by commandos yesterday. what do you know about this invasion? as i understand it it is almost an invasion of this hotel with without any real clear reason as to why. >> yeah. a very good idea. i was there. our crew was there. we were sitting there in the lobby having a meeting and all of a sudden we saw about a dozen guys come running in, uniforms, very heavily armed. they knew what they were doing. they went running across the lobby, went up the staircase, and as we were recovering from the site of that, another group came in, probably another dozen or so and another group came in separately. probably 30 to 40 soldiers. some of them were in plainclothes. some were in black. most were in green uniforms. very, very well armed. ran up the stair, sealed off a

lot of the floors of the hotel. basically conducted a certain much. a couple of our people went up to their floor, elevator doors open, guy was guns saying in clear terms get back downstairs. what her doing there, we had one spokesman say it was an anti-terror training exercise. i can tell you he is guynot look like they needed training. they knew what they were doing. another one came out and said they were looking for someone but didn't find them. all very much a mystery. who these guys were exactly, we don't know. i can tell you from my own observation that they were dead serious about what they were doing. some photographers had their cards removed from their cameras. a bizarre, bizarre scene, i can tell you. >> michael holmes. thanks. we will check back. still to come on "new day,"

search for the missing plane. >> search of the pilots' homes. we will tell you what they are doing with that system that was about that the captain's home. we will be right back. simulator. i quit smoking.

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malaysian authorities have taken away the flight simulator from the captain's home and are investigating the plane's captain and co-pilots. they were also seen leaving the homes with small bags. >> meanwhile, whoever disabled this plane communication systems must have had an awful lot of flying experience and been adroit at what they were doing. tom good to see you and thank you for being with us again. i want to get to a report victor and i were talking about earlier this morning. for several days, apparently,

the malaysian government had been looking for a reason to go inside of the home of these pilots. we know they were standing outside the home for eight days prior to -- or after, i guess, the flight disappeared. we know in the u.s. we would have waited two hours before they -- >> maybe not that long. >> not that long before they would have gone into those homes. why was a plane that they were piloting with 2 39 people that vanished not good enough reason? >> good morning. i think that, you know, one of the things we have to try to understand is that english is not their first language. when they put a term out like we were looking for a reason, that could have just as easily been we didn't have sufficient legal justification in our system to do that whale we were doing other checks on the pilots, passengers, crew, other people. they would have already already been doing the equivalent of when we subpoena financial records that they have a large

recent bank deposit or bank withdrawal, did they get a new life insurance policy recently? their phone records, internet service provider records. many of the records and items that you would need to learn about them could be done without going into the home. the fact they had the home surrounded i think was as much to keep possibly intruders out as it was to keep any evidence or material in because then you have all kinds of people showing up will trying to break in and get souvenirs or solve the case on their own. there is dash a problem understanding exactly what compares in their system to ours. you are right. in the u.s., and -- you know, when i traveled all over the world running the fbi's international program i heard frequently from many countries that, you know, the techniques and the abilities we have in the u.s. is too aggressive, would not be used or tolerated in those countries, and things we

routinely do. we put out amber alerts. many countries ban that. you can't put out bank robber pictures. you can't put out anything that would prejudice the case. there are many differences in these systems and in the way that the investigation is being described as they give it to us in english. >> interesting. let's put the video back up of the captain, youtube video. we learned from gary tuchman the youtube video that flows the plight simulator, the video is actually about home heating and air conditioning. we see it here and know investigators now are looking through this system and have taken it from the home, reassembled it at their own facility. what could this provide? what information can they pull from this? >> well, i talked to many pilots and individuals here at cnn over the last week waiting to go on the air. many of them have flight simulators in their homes and they say that, you know, you can look into the memory and see what previous plans or potential

flights he may have practiced. others say no, it would not record that and save that. i don't know technically. they have to look at that now and see, you know, if -- also, in the home, are there notes or other information on his personal computer, possibly of, you know, putting down information about some airport in the distant destination he normally would be unfamiliar with if he did fly that plane off to asia or kazakhstan, as has been said as a possibility. they would be looking for indications of knowledge, of him, trying to practice going somewhere else. don't forget also in their culture, their society, the captain of an airliner is a very prestigious elite position. they would have a great deal of respecting and from everything we having previously have heard about this captain, deservedly so. what we don't know -- unfortunately we may never know -- is that that captain,

they might have if hijackers got on that plane previously trained and knew what they were doing, he could have been killed if it had been hijacked. he may have had his life taken trying to defend the aircraft and, you know, this cloud will happening over him forever if we don't get to the bottom of it. >> i wanted to get to -- since you are talking about the morning press conference. one of the questions that was asked -- they were talking about that last ping at 8:11 we detected. somebody asked if the plane -- and that ping, if that would come from a plane that was on the ground. and the answer was yes. that there is -- electric power to the plane it could. does that mean that now they are going to be looking at where that ping was and the fact that -- or the thought that the plane could have been grounded and could have landed somewhere when that last ping was detected? how does that change the investigation? >> i don't think it changes the

investigation. i don't think that that's something that now they are looking at and i think much of the reporting over the last eight, nine days has been to make it look like everything is being done sequentially rather than concurrently. the idea that that plane could be on the ground somewhere, the idea it could have crashed and land or in the sea, has been something all along. you know, again, the authorities of malaysia, it appears that they have had a great deal of trouble interpreting their own data and interpreting their own radar systems and then now relying on other satellite systems, you no i, they have the expertise of the faa and ntsb investigators and from other countries, the investigators that arrived there, so, you know, they are -- they are not excluding any possibility and i don't think they have from the very beginning. and they didn't from the very beginning. either mechanical or human intervention. either a hijacking or a pilot suicide or a pilot forced to,

let's say, extortion situation. there are many possibilities that have been in play but they have been in place simultaneously, not sequentially. >> tom fuentes, it is good to have you as we extend this conversation. every time we speak with you we learn something how investigators are looking at this from so many different angles. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thank you. we have so much more to cover on flight 370. let's face it. a big might for college basketball fans. >> sure was. >> yes. march madness people, you are on a roar. >> getting ready to fill out your bracket, i will fill one out. we will tell you which teams to keep an eye on. ♪

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look at this. rise and shine, folks. >> no sun yet. >> not yet. shine through the light and spirits. we know you are here in spirit. outside of cnn headquarters here. 58 degrees. definitely rain in the forecast. there's also thousands of college basketball fans and they are ready to go. >> oh, yeah. walking through yesterday p college basketball experts are saying it is wide open this year. >> filling out your bracket. you can tell victor and i are like we are going to put it in. we have no idea what we are doing. >> i'm happy to learn. >> exactly. i'm hoping that, you know, us novices might do something. >> those that know the least usually end up going the furthest. >> thank you. so i heard. >> those of us that watch and

think we know, not doing very well with our brackets. you have a much better shot than i do. louisville won, of course, the championship last year. they lost a couple of guys. this is a team that essentially rebuilt itself very well at the right time. they are super, super hot right now. if you are looking for a team that's going to go very deep in the tournament, play in their best basketball had is them. louisville had a xwlgreat game yesterday. they beat uconn. some are saying they will be the number one seed tonight. most likely going to be a number two seed. still taking louisville if you are looking for a good team to go deep into the tournament. i will tell you that it is going to take a talent team to dethrone the cardinals. huge upset. beat number four arizona.

even though arizona lost yesterday, they are still likely going to come away with a number one seed. arizona likely number one seed going into the tournament. ucla likely a high number 5 seed. again, looking for deep teams. louisville and arizona. two teams likely to go very far in the tournament. this video, that's two basketball not going deep in the tournament. during the game the mascots started duking it out. apparently these two mascots have pretty bad blood. this is not a joke. >> really? i thought maybe they were just doing it to get the crowd going. >> no. who would think there was a heated rivalry between the mascots. the security had to come over and break up the melee. i will tell you that albany won the american east championship. albany will be in the ncaa tournament. their mascot trying to post bond. just kidding. i'm sure he will be there as well. >> good heavens. thank you, joe.

>> tonight's selection sunday. i will be looking forward to your brackets. i'm looking for the guy that knows nothing about college basketball. >> that would be me. >> if you want to get in all the march madness, which we will do, you can test your bracket skills. we have victor and the official ncaa march madness bracket challenge game. good luck to you. you are going to do fine against us. go to cnn.com/bracket. >> last place last year. yeah. last year, last place. yes. the big story this weekend, weigh have been following it, nine days, the search for flight 370. the home simulator, seven hours off the grid, and growing suspicion of a flying expert making a deliberate wrong turn. the mystery of this flight continues. we have more after this. [ male announcer ] alka seltzer plus presents the cold truth. [ coughs, sneezes ]

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want to wish you a good sunday morning. hopefully you are getting a little r&r. >> thanks for spending your sunday with us. nine days after now officials are trying to peegs together what happened to flight 370. here is what we know so far. leaning towards the theory that those in the cockpit may be responsible. police are also investigating the crew members and passengers as well. and they say the place where the plane turned around was the perfect place to disappear. >> they have not ruled out hijacking. the homes of the pilots have been searched and looking at any engineers that may have been near the plane around this time. we will get a good timeline

here. >> reporter: there are antennas on various parts of the plane intended to beam down vital information about the flight. all stopped communicating with the ground. the strongest language yet from malaysian authorities suggesting that this is no accident. it appears to be deliberate. all of this after the mntsb and faa say it was from the west side and not the east. takeoff, 12:41 a.m. local time last saturday. flight 370 headed north to beijing. but then two communication systems stop working within minutes of each other. and investigators now believe that someone almost surely turned them off. at 1:07 a.m. near the east coast of malaysia the system stops transmitting information about the plane's operating condition. and that was before the last

radio transmission all right good night indicating everything was normal. 1:21 a.m. the transponder stops transmitting. was someone trying to hide the plane? we also know blips seen on malaysian military radar were, in fact, flight 370 headed west and authorities say that there is every indication someone was in control. >> up until the point at which it left military radar coverage, this movement is consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane. >> still unclear whether it was a pilot or a hijacker. cnn has confirmed the plane made erratic changes in altitude and was flying what officials describe as a strange path. at one point it climbed to

45,000 feet. well above its approved altitude. then descending to 23,000. now a new analysis of satellite information shows the plane kept flying more than seven hours after takeoff. much longer than previous we thought. the satellite searching for operational data from the plane detected the aircraft's every -- aircraft every hour with a handshake. no data was transmitted. its last contact, 8:11 a.m., somewhere along this arc that stretches as far north as kazakhstan and as par south into indian ocean west of australia. after more than eight hours in the air, it would have been close to running out of fuel and something we haven't talked a lot about but there is a possibility we won't get all of the answers we are looking for in this mystery. the cockpit voice recorders are located right in the back of the plane and they are only required to record the last two hours of

the flight. if the plane flew for hours we may never know what happened in the very beginning. the cockpit data recorder, which stores information on all of the airplane's systems, should have captured the whole flight. it records 36 hours. one other thing. so many people are asking why didn't any of the passengers either text or call home. we know this plane did not have the equipment that would have allowed cell phone service. >> remember, investigators are looking at any engineers who may have had contact with flight 370, before it took off. this is according to a press statement. "the new york times" reports that authorities may also be looking at an aircraft engineer who was among the passengers. the 29 year old malaysian reportedly was on his way to china to work on airplanes. >> even as u.s. officials lean towards hearing that the pilots may have been involved, maybe the crew engineers, there's

still a lot of questions that have not yet been answered opinion. >> we want to talk about that with cnn aviation analyst mark weiss. thank you for being with us. we know investigators have taken this flight simulator that belonged to the captain from his home. they dismantled it and reassembled it at a facility to look at the data. i want to first point out we know that a lot of pilotses have simulators. this is not unusual. but what kind of information can they glean from this? >> good morning. it is nice to be here. thank you. well, what you are looking for in the simulator is whether or not -- we heard this before, is whether or not that simulator had any flights to destination that may have proven suspicious. that would be off the normal plight path. if that, in fact, could be kept on a home simulator, something like that.

one of the -- couple of other questions that really are significant, when you bring up the fact of the other engineer on the aircraft, we don't know. the cockpit voice recorder only takes two hours worth of data. we don't know who was in that cockpit. whether legally, illegally, it -- very well could have been somebody who had knowledge of the airplane and there could have been that struggle. certainly that it seems to indicate with that erratic altitude changes of the aircraft that there was a struggle in the cockpit. and that leads me to believe that there may have been another party in the cockpit trying to -- who had knowledge of aviation or flying or the instrumentation and how to disable some of that, trying to wrestle the controls. there is a major question. again, we are not going to --

unless somebody spoke during the latter part of the flight we are not going to i have any voice recognition. we are not going on know who was there. >> this is a pilot question. i'm glad we have you on. we have been in breaking news situation for days now. when you go to the supermarket, barbershop, the question is what they think happened. my question to you, as a pilot -- you look at all the information we have and those two corridors over land, one over the south indian ocean is there one baseline theory of what happened here and the others are just alternatives with varying levels of credibility? is there one theory here you think is probably what happened? >> yeah. there is. i mean, it is right or wrong as maybe else's theory. it is just that. it is speculation. may thinking is somebody -- this was a very deliberate action. may thinking from the very beginning has been that this had to be a deliberate action. the way a flight plan would be

put into the computer, if a paper flight plan given to the crew in kuala lumpur, flight plan uploaded by malaysian air operations into the flight computer, onboard the aircraft, you read back from if computer to the paper flight plan, all the way points, all the distances and headings, so it is checked off that the flight plan on the aircraft matches the paper flight plan that's been agreed to by air traffic control and airline. you check that off. to me what it says is that when that airplane made that left turn, somebody deliberately turned that aircraft. the erratic behavior, again, as i said before, it seems to me indicated a struggle in the cockpit. before weevil tie a crew or a crew member or anybody else, we really have to get more information. i know this is so premature and don't have had a information. we could have -- in these pilots who are perhaps even the flight

attendant could have been in there trying to help save that aircraft, we don't know. >> let me ask you a question about a theory somebody said yesterday. as a pilot you would be able to answer this question better than anyone. that there is a herey that the plane landed somewhere and that perhaps it -- to burn off fuel, we know this is over 600,000-pound plane. you would need a one-mile runway, they kept saying, to land it. somebody was saying if theyless -- if they land down the fuel, they wouldn't need a runway so long to land it. is there any truth to that? do you find that to be a possibility? >> well, it is a real stretch. you can burn down fuel. you can also dump fuel on that aircraft. it dumps fuel very quickly. that standard practice for emergencies because why you want

to land an airplane overweight. you still immediate a runway of at least probably 7,000 to 8,000 feet long to get that airplane on the ground. >> do you think it is possible that that plane landed somewhere without being detected? that's what has everybody so, you know -- perplexed. >> you know, it is within the realm of possibility. i mean, yank that you can completely discount that at this point. i mean, i know that, you know, in the past years ago there was, i believe, a flight that was a much smaller airplane though. it was a win engine turbo prop and had been hijacked and blown to a jungle air peeled. the passengers onboard weren't released for over a year and a half in some cases. the possibility exists. at this point you still can't discount that. >> okay. mark weiss, we so appreciate your expertise. thank you for taking the time to spend with us today. >> thank you. quick break and we will continue our breaking news coverage of the search for flight 370. ♪ ♪

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with malaysian officials. this morning, some relatives accused malaysia airlines of not providing enough support after it was suggested that their travel home would be paid for if they decided to leave. >> have families reacted to this press conference this the defense minister that happened in the last hour? >> reporter: they have. i know that they were watching from their hotel rooms here in the hotel behind me. 500 relatives gather every day. there are a couple of interesting threads that came out of the news conference. we learned the pilots, two pilots, did not request to fly together. we also found out that the last satellite contact with the airplane may have been coming from the plane on the ground and that last point is actually a sliver good news for the families here because they say at this point the best case scenario is that maybe this was foul play and maybe the plane

has landed somewhere with the passengers onboard. earlier today, there was a family briefing where tempers flared. that's because malaysia airlines, which has been paying for the hotel and the meals for all of the relatives, had said that going into day nine, if the relatives wanted to go home, the airline would pay for their return journey home. many of the families took this as an insult and one woman stood up and started screaming at the airline representative. this woman is saying, we are not going anywhere. we will wait right here. there were other outbursts during this meeting. one man took the microphone and asked all of the people in the room who has lost faith in the malaysian government. who has lost faith in the malaysia airlines if you have, stand up. more than half of the room stood

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thousands of pro-russian protesters turned out saturday ahead of today's referendum there in crimea. voting is happening right now on the peninsula. that's where voters will decide whether to join russia or to support the restoration of the constitution of the republic of crimea leaving it as part of ukraine. >> president of the eurasia group. >> you wrote an op-ed and it is for reuters. you say that the u.s. missed several chances to diffuse this crisis. how could the u.s. have calmed tensions there?

>> well, first of all, before we had the demonstrations in ukraine, the former president yanukovych was desperately looking to balance russian cash and the -- with the americans. forced with no other alternative but to go towards putin. the other point is that the united states has again said don't go into crimea or else, to the russians. but the "or else" is not seen as remotely credible by putin. we'll see this in the next 24 hours when the europeans and americans put sanctions on them. things like visa restrictions and some asset freezes will be see as incredibly asymmetrical in terms of the importance of

crimea and ukraine more broadly to the russians. >> the u.s. expects crimeans to vote to join russia. i think everybody expects that to happen. if it does, what would moscow really gain? >> it is a win for putin in the short run. certainly his popularity has gone up domestically in russia since this ukraine crisis has gone ahead. from the russian perspective they are the losers of the cold war. the americans have been happy to help that along through nato enlarge the that the americans originally said they wouldn't do, then we did. through energy diverse. ification away from russia. the caspian towards are the west. this is putin saying we're not going to tolerate you taking ukraine. having said that, the russians are also -- if crimea leaves and becomes a part of russia -- as they will -- you'll have 1.5 million russians that are no longer available to vote for russian candidates in ukraine and the ukrainian people are

clearly very strongly anti-russian at this point so it is hard for the russians to maintain any influence over the rest of that country. the question is what levers will they use? purely the economic lever, cut off gas to the ukrainians in if the united states and europeans decide we are not going to fund them, the russians can get some influence back. certainly over the coming days and week we'll be watching will the russians actually directly invade the east ukraine. very serious problem fon our a - hands. >> ian, thank you for taking the time. still to come on "new day sunday," the blade runner's murder trial enters its third week now. a heads-up on what you can expect as prosecutors keep pushing down their list of dozens and dozens of witnesses. >> really emotional trial, too. plus u.s. officials saying they're focused on flight 370's

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likely 2016 presidential hopefuls. there are plenty of surprises. see you at the bottle of tom of hour for "inside politics." 8:30 a.m. eastern. tomorrow marks the third week of the oscar pistorius murder trial. legal experts predict some of police officers who responded to the scene, also a ballistic expert or two will take the stand. the south african olympic runner faces charges for killing his girlfriend, model reeva steenkamp. pistorius claims the shooting was an accident but prosecutors are trying to make the case that it was premeditated and that he shot at steenkamp through a lock bathroom door after a heated argument. pistorius faces a life sentence if he's convicted. a very old gas main may have caused a building explosion in new york early this week. investigators still have not released an official cause. but they say the gas pipes were

127 years old. soil tests in the area after the explosion found natural gas at levels as high at 20% when no one -- none, rather, should have been present. eight people died. dozens of others were injured in that blast. we are so glad that you're starting your morning with us though. "new day sunday" continues right now. it is 8:00 right now in case you are looking at the clock wondering am i on time, am i not on tile. you're in perfect time. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. 5:00 out west. as we follow more breaking news on the search for malaysian flight 370. 25 countries are now involved in the search for this missing jet as opposed to the 14 prior. >> the defense minister also

said malaysia is asking other countries to turn over radar from the region. >> we're asking countries that have satellite acissetassets, ig u.s., china and france, to provide further satellite detail. to contribute certain assets relevant to the search and rescue operation. we've also learned from malaysia airlines that the two pilots did not request to fly together on the day the flight disappeared. also from the ceo, there was no extra fuel on 370. let's bring in cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr once more. you were told by u.s. officials that the focus is now -- this is a quote -- on those in the cockpit in the flight's disappearance. why has the focus shifted so heavily toward them? >> well, let's be clear. this is a theory. this is a theory that they are looking at.

no facts yet. not sufficient data to back up any single theory. everything is still on the table. but it is a hypothesis i think may be the better word to describe it. the malaysians themselves also looking at the cockpit crew. they are really leading the way on this going to the homes of the pilot and co-pilot and conducting searches there, removing the flight simulator from the home of one of the the pilots. it begins with that. why look at the cockpit crew, why is this a theory that's he beginning to emerge? well, several u.s. officials and agencies across washington will tell you, because the electronic systems on the aircraft appear to have been deliberately shut off and the plane continued in some form of a flight for four to five hours. it was under control of somebody. it didn't just go off completely erratically on its own. somebody who knew how to fly a

777. that suggests perhaps not someone from the passenger cabin who suddenly got up commandeered the cockpit -- though that's possible, no one really knows -- but it is laj cogical, the turn of the system, the continued flight, it makes everyone sort of look at what's left. but we need to be very clear. no one is yet accusing the cockpit crew. no one has any proof of anything. it is what they are beginning to look at. >> one of the things that's eerie is this -- what this official has said, he called this the perfect place to disappear. why is that and how much then obviously does that lead to the belief that there is a hijacking here? well, let me just be clee on what we are talking about there. we are talking about that crucial left-hand turn when the plane left kuala lampur and

those systems began to turn off, however they were turned off. the plane made a 90-degree left-hand turn. this is very well understood. this was a very deliberate turn picked up on malaysian radar. it makes that turn in an area where it is also well understood it was between malaysian air traffic coal antrol and vietnam air traffic control. it is possible both air traffic controls think they handed off to each other, meantime the plane is going on its way. some people who are pilots will tell you that might be a perfect way to begin to disappear. that's one of the first clues they are looking at. then everything that follows on from there. >> cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr, thank you so much. so the focus of the investigation, as we've discussed with barbara, shifting to the pilots now. also passengers, engineers

aboard flight 370. officials are going through the flight manifest as well. >> they've searched the homes of both of the pilots and the captain and co-pilot. cnn has a reporter outside pilot he's home. police we know searched that home yesterday. have they gone back there yet? >> reporte >> reporter: so far today, we don't believe that police have been back here. we understand that they did a thorough search yesterday. when they left when we arrived here late last night they left carrying bags. we're not sure what was inside them but they certainly it took away whatever evidence they think they need to. there were plain-clothed police officers, presumably investigators, looking into each anner person on-board, the passengers and of course the crew. this is actually the co-pilot's house. he lives here with his family. he's in his late 20s and he lived here with his parents and his siblings. we're not sure how many siblings

he had. just down the road there is a mosque where there are special prayers being carried out right now this evening by people in the neighborhood for his safe keeping and hoping that he comes back here safely. now some things we learned today about the co-pilot and the pilot. they didn't request to fly together. now look into to that however you will. right now we are seeing pictures of the police leaving late last night. there have been patrols, by the way, in the area around both the co-pilot's house and the pilot's house. now crucially at the pilot's house, they've been visiting every single day but finally yesterday they did go in to conduct that search. they were in there for up to two hours and today the defense minister confirmed they took that air flight simulator away. this flight simulator has caused a lot of intrigue and mystery and concern, of course, about

why he had one in his house. yesterday i spoke to a close friend of his. he told me, look -- he was an enthusiast. he loved flying. it was his passion and he brought it home and he shared it with his friend. he invited many of us over to try the simulator out and all he had was various snaer snacenari. a poignant part in that discussion, he tried out flights in thunderstorms, snowstorms, et cetera. he turned to me and said you know what? it is so much easier and nicer flying a real plane. sadly, this time around it didn't turn out that way. >> thank you so much. remember, investigators are also looking at any engineers who may have had contact with flight 370 before it took off. this is according to press statements by malaysia's transport ministry. authorities may also be look at

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is a vote going on in the hotly disputed region of ukraine to decide whether to join russia or stay in ukraine territory. >> this vote -- which the u.s. has already said it spebts to swing in favor of russia -- comes on the heels of a call by senator john mccain for the u.s. to revive more serious military aid to ukraine. here's what he said yesterday in kiev. >> ukraine is going to need a long-term military assistance program from the united states. equipment both lethal and non-lethal. >> mccain went on to say providing aid would be "right and decent thing to do." let's talk to general wesley clark about that, senior fellow at ucla's center.

do you agree? >> yes, i do agree with senator mccain's position on this. i think that this is a struggle hayes fought on three levels. you've got a diplomatic, legitimacy legal, political argument at the top, an economic argument in the middle, and at the bottom it's about who controls the territory. you can lose it on either -- or any of these levels. so yes, we've got to give economic assistance to ukraine as rapidly as possible. got to get their economy started. we can't let their currency go under and we can't let millions of people become unemployed. and we've got to contest it diplomatically. but we know the outcome of this referendum in advance. we know the russian methods at this point. they've already put russian irregulars, let's call them, into eastern ukraine. and so the real struggle after this will be what happens on crimea to the ukrainian forces

isolated there. then what happens in eastern ukraine. so for the ukrainians to have a chance they've got to be given the assistance they need, financial and they probably need some military equipment. now we need to be sending a nato mission in to assess this. this is not a nato intervention. it is just fact finding and information. but make no mistake about it, what happens in ukraine is of vital interest to nato because nato's all about the security and stability of eastern europe and nato members that border ukraine and border russia are paranoid about what's happening. they see a pattern unfolding that could be applied against them. >> general, senator lindsey graham and cross fire host newt gingrich have an op s-ed on cnn.com. "obama policies scream loudly

carry no stick." they criticize the president's staej here. they write anything short of providing arms and intelligence to the sovereign ukrainian government sun likely to deter putin. my question is -- which has been a non-starter for many -- should troops be included in that level of support for the people of ukraine? >> i don't see that at this point. i think you've got to bring nato together. i think the way it works strategically is ukraine has to hold on to what it has. it may be police and non-lethal riot gear. and it doesn't have to be provided by the united states. better if it isn't. better if it's provided by poland or germany or france or britain. but it has to hold on to the rest of ukraine at this point. and then you have to wage the battle at the economic level, at the diplomatic level, at the level of government legitimacy. you have to contest the polls. you have to advocate for the

safety of those ukrainian troops that are going to remain in crimea. there are many, many things that have to be done. i don't want this to go to a direct u.s.-russia confrontation on a military basis and certainly not through a shooting war. but, we do have to understand that what happens in ukraine is of vital interest to europe and what happens to europe is of vital interest to the united states. >> you talk a lot about diplomatic. but i think a big question a lot of people have is does putin even want a diplomatic resolution, and what sanctions -- if we do provide sanctions or set sanctions, what sanctions would move him? >> i think putin will take a diplomatic solution at some point. i think he's got crimea. that's a huge card in his favor. i think that he would take a diplomatic solution. it would roll everything back, get the west out of there and let him try to dominate

ukrainian elections. at least he would have a few days ago. whether he will now or not depends. but this could go to a diplomatic solution or it could go to a simply status quo confrontation that drags on and on and on. i think one thing we can be sure of is that this vote's not the end of it. this is going to it continue and the nibbling tactics of sending in these unindeniable russian troops, and irregulars that are engaging in demonstrations and beating up local citizens and attacking them, that tactic has thus far worked for putin. so that tactic has to be fought. it has to be fought by the ukrainian authorities. fighting that tactic is not something nato troops can do. it is not something the united states can do. but they may need some assistance and training for

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as the families of those on board flight 370 cling to hope, the vatican is urging people to keep the victims in their prayers. we know a lot of people have been doing that now for nine days but during his weekly sunday message earlier today pope frances told the crowd we are close to them in this difficult moment. now as information about the investigation trickles out, tensions in beijing are growing. you see here between the families and malaysian officials. >> i read a quote from a family member this morning, pauline, said what we ask for is the truth, don't hide things from us. they think the airline has been disingenuous with them. now we understand the airline would like those families to go home?

>> reporter: yeah. that has been the general sentiment impatience, frustration, anger. and malaysia airlines has been holding briefings here with these families every day and the relatives are saying the information coming out is fairly thin. these briefings are not very useful so they want more information and they feel that if any of them should get the information first, it should be them. now they are digesting new information from a press conference about an hour and half ago. we have learned that the two pilots of the plane did not request to fly with each other. we've also learned that no additional fuel was added to the planned trip so this gives investigators a pretty good gauge of how far this plane could have flown. the most interesting tidbit -- is that the last satellite

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voters in a hotly disputed region of ukraine are casting ballots right now to decide whether to join russia. >> polls have been open in crimea for more than six hours at this point. turnout already stands at a whopping 44%. voters are facing these two choices -- do you support the reunification of crimea with russia or do you support the restoration of the republic of crimea in 1992 leaving it as part of ukraine? >> matthew chance is in a pro-russian stronghold in ukraine. i understand there are reports of demonstrators chanting "this is a russian city." what's the mood there?

>> reporter: that's right. within the course of the past few minutes thousands of pro-russian demonstrators here in eastern ukraine have move down this main road to a location elsewhere in the city. they were chanting pro-russian slogans, waving russian flags, calling for the same kind of vote that people are undertaking today in crimea. they also want a referendum here to join the russian federation. this is a very deep russian part of ukraine. there are strong cultural and economic ties as well. because factories, coal mines, steel works that are here do all their business with russia across the border and they are very concerned about ukraine moving towards the european union and moving away from moscow. >> matthew chance in donesk in ukraine, thank you. go make some great memories

today. >> thank you for starting your day with us here on "new day sunday." inside politics with john king starts right now. a big republican win at a florida special election and a bigger debate about its lasting mid-term meaning. >> the american people are still concerned about the president's health care law. >> the republicans are wasting their time using that as their electoral issue. >> but most democrats now concede winning back the house is a lost cause and republicans are more and more confident of a senate takeover. together we're going to make 2014 a great republican year. plus, here we go again. republicans search for the next ronald reagan. >> you can call yourself republicans. that's fine. don't call yourself