ukraine residents saying they want to join russia. will the u.s. sanction top russian officials? >> and a libyan ship carrying illegal cargo. >> your "new day" starts right now. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. >> i'm chris cuomo in new york. there was just a press conference moments ago with malaysian officials. they're pushing back that they've been withholding information. let's get right to kate in malaysia. >> reporter: and here is the very latest, chris. this morning a new report citing unnamed sources saying the plane could have been flying as low as 5,000 feet across three countries to avoid radar and we

learn the missing jet may have flown as far as central asia to the north and deep into the indian ocean to the south. plus now two dozen countries are now helping with the search. he let's get you up to date on the latest. the search area now expanding as the search for the missing flight deepens. >>s and we verified as to the last known area of the aircraft, we recalibrated our search efforts. >> and a shift on the investigation. the focus -- the pilots of the malaysian airline. this surveillance footage appears to show the captain and first officer passing through airport security. cnn cannot confirm the authenticity of the video or

exactly when it was shot. on saturday, plain clothed police were seen exiting the first officer's home, 27-year-old fariq abdul hamid. >> it's a reflection of his love for flying. he wants to share the joy of flying with his friends. >> the last words heard from the cockpit "all right, good night" were spoken after the plane's communication system shut off. the plane then reportedly makes a deliberate sharp turn toward the indian ocean, leading many to fear terrorism. >> there's been a lot of rumors that al qaeda was trying to recruit a malaysian pilot. >> over the weekend authorities expanded the as much area across thousands of miles of water and land, spanning 11 countries from kazakhstan to the indian ocean.

officials confirm the aircraft sent pings to satellites west of malaysia the morning it disappeared, possibly flying for more than seven hours after its communication system shut off. >> until the point it left military radar coverage, these movements are consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane. >> pakistan said sunday the airliner did not show up on its radar. meanwhile, india temporarily halted its search. now with the possibility that this aircraft could be on land, the search for this airplane and the 229 people on board has become more urgent. authorities are now looking deep

into the background of the pilots and the passengers and anyone involved with the plane. jim clancy has been tracking the investigation from the beginning. you've really been here watching it all and there's been a lot of criticism on this government. they address that today. let's talk about the pilots second. i want to get the new information that came out in in press conference this morning. >> great to have you with us. we looked at this press conference today, it's about we're in charge, we're handling all of this and in the meantime families in beijing are saying if only you had handled this. they're saying they didn't process the information quick enough, even though the radar showed it did fly that way, they lost days of searching. the number one question, they talk about their national security? they allowed this aircraft to fly right across their territory

and no jets were scrambled. one family asked today what if they had scrambled jets, what a different outcome we could have. >> the scope of the investigation is broadening rather than narrowing and they're now refocusing on the pilots here. we learned a little bit more about the timeline of the investigation in this press conference, the fact that they said they not on went to the homes on saturdays, but they vitsed the pilo-- visited the p homes the day after the plane went missing. >> they've got security video showing the pilots coming in, going through security. it's youtube video. we can't confirm it. we've seen this many searching the home, they seized that flight simulator. i want to share this with your viewers on "new day."

this family posted to youtube of the family at ahmad shah, it's a bit haunting. >> we were talking about this earlier. the music they played in it. ♪ somewhere over the rainbow, way up high ♪ >> like so many of the other family, the shah family really wants him to be remembered. this is how they view him. we have to remember something here, there's not a shred of evidence against -- they've looked for mote i, they have looked for involvement, they have looked for terror links and they have not found a shred of hard evidence. >> all they can say is they believe there was deliberate actions within the cockpit. stick close to me. jim and i are here. behind us, why we're here, this is the airport, chris, where the

departures where the plane originated and this is the hub where the press conferences are held daily as everyone continues to search for the plane and so many questions. >> you are standing in front of one of the only places that is a fact we absolutely knew and that is that's where the plane took off. mary schiavo, let's deal with this new information. that this plane could be flying below 5,000 feet, why would it ever fly that low? >> if you stay down low, there's a chance radar won't pick you up. >> this forwarded the theory that someone, not something

affected where this plane is. but you are not blown away by this theory. explain to us why you don't buy it. >> we just have the pieces of data, we're calling them pings but they're bits of data on satellite. satellite data is good on position, you might be here, might be there. in terms of altitude it's less accurate. the accurate thing would have been to have the transpond are on. so it not real accurate. >> there's a little bit about the suggestion that helps explain the investigation. it's helpful to the malaysians to say it might have beennd 5,000 feet, that why we can't detect it. >> it also helps in terms of believing whether this is mechanical or pilot suicide or terrorist hijacking. if someone is flying at 5,000 feet -- remember, you also have

to evade any land, terrain, mountains, et cetera. it's hard to skim the earth if you're flying. >> or maybe someone was forcing a pilot to do something they may or may not have wanted to do. >> we can't know for sure? >> the altitudes we can't know for sure. >> we would have known if we had the transponder. a big revolution from the authorities is that they believe someone, not something, made the transponder get turned off. do we accept that? what do you think? >> well, the transponder -- >> that would be over here. the transpond are stopped sending signals. it can be like your computer somebody pulled the plug, you had an electrical fire or somebody turned it off, click, click, put it on standby, turned

it off. whoever did it, the other one would have in theed. so that's new information. and then the acars system, aircraft, communication and reporting system, that's up here. that apparently was not turned off because you can't turn it off. you had pull the fuse and there are fuse panels up hire and oun the side. so for. >> let test that theory a little more. he is a cnn aviation analyst. certainly you understand this body of belief we're dealing with now. do you accept the premise that somebody must have done this? if so why and what would it involve? >> it's quite easy to turn over the transponder. as mary explained, you reach over, click, click and it's off.

in normal circumstances, the air traffic controller would say we just lost your transponder. but if the pilot did it deliberately, that is the most likely explanation, that someone turned it off dplib ratly. if it was accidental, the -- hold on a second, even if they did it on purpose, why didn't they get a message from the control center saying it's off? >> go ahead. >> a few possible explanations. they may have just been -- they were in the middle i think of transitioning from malaysian air traffic control to vietnamese air traffic control. i would like to add one point to this discussion of this airplane flying under the radar. a turbo jet aircraft is highly

efficient in the high air. if we conclude the plane was low, they would have needed more fuel. >> that's very interesting point. even if they're right about the 5,000 feet, it would change the search area because it would change the fuel economy and dynamics about the aircraft. the idea of the sophistication of dismantling the systems, some of it's done in the cockpit. some of it would not be. what else would you have to do to make this undeteblable? >> the authorities say they believe someone went down to the electronics bay. you'd have to go back into the passenger cabin, take up the

cash et and go down below where ood and -- you'd have to get through security with tools. >> they don't have the tools on board necessary? >> to do that kind of electronic in the electronics bag, no. >> and everybody eaves got cell phones now, your android, your iphones. why can't we trace the people's phones on board? why don't we know that? >> they might be way out of range of the air tower. depending where this plane went it, may not have been in reach without cell phones. if it was above and overcast, the passengers would likely have no clue that anything was amiss. >> and this plane didn't have wify. >> so there was no wffi on the

plan. >> that's right. >> stephen wallace, appreciate it. nick? >> back to our breaking coverage of the flight in a moment but additional breaking news this morning. nearly 97% of crimeans choosing to break away from ukraine and become part of russia. ukrainian's president calling sunday's vote a farce, as he authorizes the mobilization of thousands of military reserves in the face of the election. vladimir putin is already putting the wheels in motion to annex crimea. we have crimea next. >> reporter: mikaela, you can see behind me coaches.

they'll take representatives from the crimean parliament, they'll take a delegation to moscow to there are deeply practical issues ahead like where do they get water, phone services, electricity from. we have a lot more things for this newly staekd area. and of course to see what is ukraine's government response here and we've just heard that vladimir putin, who washington is waiting to hear his final word on, this he will address his own parliament tomorrow. people there are expecting him to embrace rhyme ia. >> are the, nick, naeng you so much. the white house is rejecting the

results of sunday's referendum vote in crimea. president obama is promising putin will pay if who doesn't remove his troops from crimea now. >> reporter: the white house is using its strongest language yet. it said the crimean kond mum is unconstitutional. it calls russia's actions dangerous, detablizing, and saying that the u.s. and others are preparing to impose additional costs. yes, this means more senses, which could hurt russia''s slowing economy and the european union that has avoid to russia

now. it doesn't look like the threat of western sanctions will stop or slow down. >>s is s >>s is -- the process starts on friday with the russian parliament will start debating motions, making it easier for territories to join the russian federation, if that's something they want to do. the information we're getting is putin has made the decision that he going to go through with this in spite of any sort of sanctions that are going to happen, in spite of getting

kicked out. and the big question everyone is asking now, far is he going to go? and is willing to put troops in eastern ukraine. chris? >> thanks. let's go to chris berman. >> the "morning glory" had been seized earlier this month by three armed libyans and is carrying a cargo of oil loaned by the libyan government. this ship is being sailed back to libya by the u.s. navy. >> and this morning officials are inspecting a delta airplane after the wing came off during

this comes after a sun wings and south korea now says north korea has fired 25 short-range missiles from its east coast into open water. it a move the south says is a response to joint drills between south carolina and the u.s. and is mant is stir military tngs and create uneasiness. the united states state department says it is closely monitoring the situation. north korea calls the exercises "justifiable south defense." and the u.s. is pushing a framework for additional talks. secretary of state john kerry met with abbas on sunday, urging him to make tough decisions before the april 29th deadline for this peace deals. >> we're just days from the official start of spring but yet

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welcome back to "new day," everyone. i'm coming to you live from kuala lumpur, malaysia this morning. the search efforts to location the missing fly 370 now spans two hemisphere and deep oceans. the "u.s.s. kit" -- kidd."

can you hear us? >> yes, i am commander of the "u.s.s. kidd." >> there is a delay. what is the strategy? >> the "u.s.s. kidd" along with helicopters have been performing a number of different things in our search, our quest to find any evidence whatsoever with the missing flight 370. we've been embarking -- i'm sorry, deploying our equipment, radars and visually with our cameras. as an extension of our ship, we utilize our helicopters and we're searching approximately 1,500 square miles of water every day, every 24 hours.

>> now, i know in the "new york times," a spokesman for the navy's seventh fleet said the indian ocean, it's like looking for someone somewhere between new york and california. that is a massive area. how do you do it and what are the chances you're going to be able to find evidence at this point? >> we've been working closely with the malaysian government and they've been identifying areas to search. it's interesting that you bring up the wide scope of area of los angeles and new york. i put it in the context, my ship, the "u.s.s. kidd" has covered approximately 3,500 nautical miles, which is equivalent from california to

rhode island. we will continue to do that every day until we find the missing plane or the search is called off for some reason. >> there's some thought that any big piece of the plane would no longer be on the surface this many days later. >> that's correct. we are meticulously looking at any piece of debris we come across. we haven't found anything that could be associated with an aircraft or associated with an aircraft crash. but we are investigating every piece as we come across it. there's not a single piece of debris that passes us without us identifying exactly what it is. to add to that, we've been cooperating with other units in the area --

>> go ahead, sorry. >> no, you please go ahead. >> well, whether or not debris is spotted from one of our helicopters or the ship itself, we go down and we identify each and every piece just to make sure that we're not missing anything. in addition, reports from other sources, whether they be other ships or other military units, we go and identify whether or not something that's been previously reported could be associated with the aircraft. >> and with a lot of that comes patience. commander gabriel varela, thank

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welcome back to "new day." i'm joining us from kuala lumpur. a new report says they believe the plane could have flown down to below 5,000 feet across three countries to avoid radar. i'm joined by the editor of the "new straits times." sum it up what you have heard from your sources. that they dipped below areas of 5,000 feet and what is terrain masking? why would they do it? >> this would be the closest way to answer this question that everybody's asking how -- where is it and how did it -- if it did pass the last point of detection, how did it pass

through this airspace? so we spoke to those close to investigations and they explained how it could be done and investigators, as they look into all possibilities, this is one aspect that they could be looking into. terrain masking. it obviously has to be up north in your search where you go that low, you would have to have the kind of avionics knowledge to fly through this type of destination. >> and the government has not confirmed one way or another, right? >> the best we can do is make sure this information coming in in bits and pieces make sense because everyone is trying to make sense of what has happened to the plane. >> i think a lot of people -- i mean, you've heard -- we talked about this earlier. there has been a lot of criticism on the malaysian

government, on the malaysian officials, on coordination and their communication with other countries and publicly with the media. talk to me from the malaysian perspective, is that fair criticism? >> as a journalist but i think as we enter into this tenth day of the search, the criticism against the malaysian government has now scaled back and i think people are beginning to appreciate that information that's coming from the malaysian government are verified and valid. and if you would have in theed the first few days it was the harshest because that's when all this unverified reports were coming in from the vietnamese side and from china and malaysia had not once confirmed this and when they did, it was not verified, it was not true. the reports were false. >> do you think there's a cultural deference with the way the government works with the

media and works with officials say in malaysia and in the united states? >> actually, when i read on the kind of criticism that's going malaysia's way, it leads me wondering how would other countries, even the most advanced countries who are left just as perplexed as malaysia would handle it. we are talking about advanced countries that have the advanced technologies that developing countries i guess my not even have seen. so when you are equally perplexed, what do you expect from us? that's why from the get-go, the fbi was brought in to look into the other countries with the kind of expertise that we need for this operation. i think you must be reminded that malaysia did say it has put its national security secondary to the search. and i guess at this point kuala lumpur would hope that all these countries that it has sought

assistance from would cooperate. are they willing to give that kind of information that malaysia is willing to offer, will they be as forthcoming, are you willing to risk your national security secrets, how far your radar can read. >> that's a big issue. and we heard the "new york times" reporting that there's frustration on the u.s. side that malaysian officials aren't accepting as much or more extensive help they're offering from the u.s. side. we can see not only are they searching for answers but there's a lot of push and pull on who is in church p charge and there are now 26 countries involved in the search. >> the prime minister was asked this in a press conference about ten minutes ago, why have we not brought in fbi and he said we did so from day one. >> that they were looped in? >> yeah. >> a lot more questions. we keep talking about it.

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it matters. ♪ welcome back. we're following breaking new details in the search for malaysia airline flight 370. there's a new report that the plane could have flown down to 5,000 feet. why? to avoid radar obviously. this follows reports the plane underwent highly technical maneuvers to remain hidden and

it was after the plane veered off course. all of this has renewed interest in the pilot's role of the disappearance. we're joined by a current 777 pilot, a contributing editor for "flying" magazine and gentlemen, thank you for joining us. let's deal with the idea that a pilot had to know this aircraft and understand this system to do these things. they're enough? >> fair enough. if it holds true. the only people i could see that would do that are the people in the pointy end of the airplane.

the plane is a flying laptop, a beautifully, well designed electronic airplane. my knowledge is limited in scope because there's not a lot i can do on mechanical issues. that be said, somebody really would require even more intimate knowledge than i have to be able to disable certain electronic aspects of that airplane. >> and you would need tools that you'd have to find a way to get on to the plane, right, tools not available onboard to be able to disconnect them. >> yes and no. what we call the b and e compartment, you could access that from the cabin area and go downstairs and there's a lot of equipment down there. i spoke with a 777 captain now retired that said he'd never

been down there. i have. there's a lot of equipment down there. >> alex, the new theory that this plane was flying below 5,000 feet, testing that notion, does it sound like something that's plausible? what would it take to fly it below 5,000 feet? >> it's plausible and doable. it's fairly straight forward to fly at that level. that's not going to mask your radar profile. you'll still be picked up on radar, especially military radar. perhaps lower than that, you'll still be printing a lovely primary radar present. >> let me stay with you, alastair. and if the authorities thought it was below 5,000 feet, wouldn't it have to adjust their

range due to fuel usage? >> well, they would have to adjust for fuel. this could still be a technical problem and the aircraft headed out over the eindian ocean and there's nothing new to suggest otherwise. when the malaysian prime minister stated and quoted authorities that the transponder was switched off and that acars was disabled, this suggests considerably more information than they actually have. all they could say is these two pieces of equipment ceased to transmit, an entirely different interpretation there. so they've evaluated it and i feel uncomfortable with the statement the prime minister gave on this. but as for the flying below

radar, it is possible and it would reduce the range he could fly at. but i really can't see where that's leading. >> alastair, thank you very much for that. if they believed this, why didn't they readjust their search area? it shows an urgency of getting out information as opposed to thinking it through all the way. they said pretty definitively we now believe someone did this, turned it off before he even said good night, the pilot, but alastair saying there's still just as much reason to believe that this happened because of something, not someone. how could that be? >> it's possible that some situation was occurring down in that compartment that i described that was slowly shutting down systems. remember, this is an electronic airplane. there could have been some

technicality that they were attempting to trouble shoot or go through a checklist and it was starting to get overwhelming. >> so a snowball effect is still very much an idea of what's happening here, despite what's coming out of from the malaysians? >> no accident ever has any one cause. we keep going back to air france. that had many factors involved with that accident? >> so to your minds, there could still be something that had gone wrong, as well as somebody hijacking it. thank you very much. >> coming um onp on "new day," navy storms a ship. we'll take you live with the latest on that situation.

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welcome back to "new day." we're going to continue with our coverage of flight 370 in a moment. breaking overnight, u.s. navy seals seized a tanker in the mediterranean. the "morning glory" had been seized by three armed libyans.

>> good morning. president obama personally approved the mission for the u.s. navy seals to board and raid that ship overnight. it had been followed very closely but it was a mystery. the strip seized earlier this month by apparently three armed men at a port in libya, which is part of the country that was seeking more autonomy from the federal government, a breakaway rebel group. it had about 200,000 barrels of oil on board, it was said oil that belonged to the government and the ship was boarded and seized in the mediterranean, as you say, between libya and cypress. it was boarded by the u.s. with the approval of the libyan government. no one hurt by all accounts, no shots fired. another move by the navy seals and the mission by all accounts executed successfully. >> do we have any indication what happened to the libyan suspects on board, the three men? >> right now the men are said to

be on board the ship. the ship is under control of the u.s. navy. they are piloting that tanker back to libyan port. >> let's head to the oscar pistorius murder trial now. a crime scene photographer is conceding that bloody pictures marked as being taken the day after the shooting actually wasn't taken until weeks later. and for the first time reeva steenkamp's mother was in court but left quickly after those pictures were shown. robin? >> indeed reeva steenkamp's mother was in court for the

first time. she didn't last very long. she left as a picture of oscar pistorius' torso bloodied was shown. the photographer went through each of these photographers, determining what time they were taken after the shooting. >> thank you very much, robin. appreciate the reporting. we'll check back in with you. look at the time. we're at the top of the hour. that means it is time for our top story. >> our priority has always been to find the aircraft. we would not withhold any information that would help. >> the authorities are looking at the pilot's flight simulator. >> it was a plan so well established and executed, it's in total silence.

>> many still hope for a miracle. >> i hope all of them come back safe to their families. >> i'm quite certain that he is still alive. >> good morning, well kcome baco "new day," i'm chris cuomo. we're following the search for fly 370, now in its tenth day. malaysian authorities under criticism for reacting too slowly. they say the information needs to be verified. let's go to kate bolduan in malaysia. >> new information, a report saying the plan could have flown below 5,000 feet, below radar.

and 26 countries are now helping look for the jet as officials expand the search. once again it stretches now from central asia to deep in the southern endian ocean. and this morning a renewed focus on the pilots. questions are swirling about these two as more theories point to a deliberate action to veer off course, deliberate action coming from the cockpit. their homes were searched this weekend. we'll see what police find in a flight simulator found in one of those homes, the pilot's home. chris? >> let's bring in former pilot and criminal investigator frank

lucic. let's start first with the investigation. they say we were waiting to vet this information before we put it out. but they're saying more pings, more radar to work off of. do you think that's what's going on, john? >> i believe they're doing the right thing. i think rushing the information out is what has ld to so much confusion about this investigation. we have a tail in the water, we have an aircraft door in the water that turns out to be nothing. how could you mistake that? this rushing of information out, i believe the malaysian government, if that's what they're do, it's the right thing. otherwise you cause so much confusion and lead the investigation into a different path than it should go. >> and, bob, people tell us we would have had our hands around

the neck of the information sooner, we would have been able to scramble and time matters in these situations. fair criticism? >> i think a bit of criticism is fair but i think that's an exaggeration. the ntsb does not got into a position that is as convoluted and complex and multi-element and multi-personnel as this situation. >> so it has unique challenges here. there will be its own set of rules about how it progresses. >> now, fran, let's go to where this new search area is. there's concerns about how it would have gotten through the pakistan airspace when it's on such high alert all the time. what's a chance that a plane of this size could make it through that region of airspace undetected? >> i think it's pretty remote. we can believe that this plane

could have gotten that far. indian and pakistan have pretty quick air defense systems, especially india. we've seen reports that the plane went below 5,000 feet. hard to imagine. this is a very big plane. it's a commercial aircraft, not a tactical aircraft. the notion it was able to successfully navigate below 5,000 feet multiple times to avoid the redar adar defenses o of these countries seems unlikely. and it seems more likely the southern arc would present a place for the plane. >> one, do they the radar ping,

and how would it change the search area in terms of the inreceives of the aircraft? >> let's handle it that in order. it shows that it was myanmar. this is supposedly flying at 5,000 feet coming in off the ocean, that's not too low to pick up radar. every day 777s, 747s come down below 5,000 feet, they main day and 5,000 feet. 1,000 feet, it's not going to be a problem. it is going to consume a lot more fuel than at 35,000 feet. so there are some issues and the so-called facts all seem to come in and conflict with each other and confusions the investigation. bob, don't we have, we being the

united states, don't we have sophisticated outposts in the indian ocean that would pick up something that size? >> that's right, chris. in diego garcia, there's a number of assets the u.s. has. some of our closest allies like australia, they were all working it but this is a vast amount of sea space to cover to try and find it. and you have to do that basically from the water. air assets can support that effort, but mostly you've got to pick up the initial ping based on either something that's observable or hearable in the water or on the water surface. >> bob, the idea of coming to a conclusion that investigators seem -- that they believe somebody turned off the transponder, somebody disabled the other communications equipment, which may have involved going below to do it, do you believe there's a substantial and sufficient basis for that finding? >> well, i think the thing you

have to remember is it also could have been some kind of problem, either short circuit or overheating or even a flame down in the bay down below. so, you know, i don't think you can be conclusive about any of this yet. so try to set up your priorities of what you think but there really isn't enough evidence to conclusively decide exactly what happened. >> it's interesting that they came out so definitively saying we now believe somebody did this deliberately, everybody went on their hijacking theories but it still could have been something, not someone, that set off these reactions? >> the one thing we know for sure is the transponders stopped transmitting. we don't know why they did but they definitely stopped

transmitting. >> would you know? they said it happened before the good night from the pilot. would you know your transponder stopped talk persian gulf. >> when you're talking to oonchts c.t., they'll tell up you're not transponding. but we have one transponder that goes off once and minutes later -- >> 14 minutes. >> we have redundant systems in the 777, an aircraft that has an excellent track record, it just so confusing, which is why it's led to where we are today. >> so if the investigators say they said good night after it went off, well, then where was the call from the control tower about why their transponder want working? >> when atc hands you off to the next air traffic controller, there's going to be a gap sometimes and controllers will give you a little time. let's say the theory that this was a hijacking. that would be the perfect time to start doing what you're doing

because you're no longer talking to atc and the other atc is expecting you but it might not come right away so it may be several minutes before the new atc starts looking for you. >> bob, the idea of the flight simulator's in the pilot's home, what do you make of the suggestion he has it there and that it somehow indicative of some type of bad intent. >> i think the important thing is to look and see what's on the simulator, if there's something that's indicative that he was planning something, then that's clearly an important piece of evidence. the fact that he had one of these devices really doesn't say anything at all. >> not that unusual, pilots have them, enthusiasts have them? >> absolutely. >> what's the capability of downloading what he had on the simulat simulator? will it be difficult or should it be done quickly?

>> no, it should be done quickly. the more confounding thing to me is they first visited the homes on march 9th but it wasn't until this weekend that they conduct the search. u.s. investigators will tell you you conduct the search for the missing -- here it seems they're off, which may help uncover what the motive was for this. >> fran, you had v a lot of well-placed sources in the intelligence community here, i on have a few, but i have it tell you i've never seen anyone so blank as this situation. thank you very much, we'll be leaning on both of you. appreciate the perspective. >> thanks so much. we'll have more of our coverage on the flight 370 in just a moment. but first today's other top stories starting with russia.

announcing the and exation of crimea will begin this week. nearly 97% voting sunday to break away from ukraine and join the russian federation. president obama and other western leaders are rejecting this vote promising vladimir putin will pay if he does not pull back. nick? >> reporter: the parliament behind me has today voted to declare themselves independent and ask russia to mack them part of the russian fed case. the only thing that could stop that happening now is for him to not actually bring crimea into the russian fold whole sale. and also they're suggesting they'd like an international

body formed to talk about political reform. we're still waiting to see whether or not european and u.s. officials are actually going to bring forward sanctions tough enough to punish what's already happened or if they're looking for a protracted political talk about this to try and keep their relations with moscow at a reasonably friendly atmosphere. >> we know let's bring anish shroff. >> more action is almost certainly to follow and soon. after a call yesterday, the white house said the crimean referendum done, calling

russia's actions dangerous, destabilizing, saying gone are the days when the international community will stand quietly by when one forces seize the airtory of another. and the european so far which has avoided imposing sanctions is expected today to agree on them. chris? >> there's a lot of news to give you. >> thanks so much. scary moments for passengers on a delta flight when a wing came off in air. the play was able to land safely. no one was hurt. this comes after a sun wings

layerlines rz forded to make an emergen emergency. >> today at the white house, president obama will talk to president abbas to speak about the middle east peace process. secretary of state john kerry met with abbas on sunday urging him to make some tough decisions before the proposed april 29th deadline for the framework. >> at last 25 rockets were fired into the open sea of japan on sunday, the u.s. and south carolina calling on the north to stop what they call provocative actions. north korea claims the launches are in self-defense of military exercises recently conducted between the u.s. and south korea. >> khaled sheik mohamed standing

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welcome back. it is day ten in the search for missing fly 370. muc much of the investigation is around what happened in the cockpit. malaysian officials say the transponders were deliberately turned off. >> let's go to the inside of a 777, looking at what investigators may be looking at. >> we're flying over pakistan, we're heading forth.

rich emwhat do we show you down quickly and the leastto bring it hoar 5,000 feet, it's not really going to take you a little below anybody's radar. that's a little misleading. and one of the thoughts is it could have been the 777 was trying to hide in the wide open. in other words airliner because the people who might be most upset, not souch ground control but the military radar. that's the problem when you're flying at an altitude of 5,000 feet? >> you're looking out for terrain, you're -- >> you can hear the alarm going off. it's already triggering certain alarms. but you're worried about obviously terrain, ground, this

is a heavily mountainous kind of region. has we bring it down here, you also have to realize it's nighttime that we're doing this flight. again, this pilot you would hope had some idea how to operate the aircraft but knew the terrain he was flying into. a lot, those are very -- most people are trying to hide. >> well, mikaela, if he decided to follow up as a regular airline crew, those highways. >> hiding in the open. >> interesting perspective you

can give us in a simulator inside of one of these planes. we know one of the pilots had a simulator. investigators want to look at this same lateor. what do you think could be glanned from looking at the simulator they're seeing and inform him of what hissin tend might be? well, the simulator he had was not anywhere nearly as sophisticated as this one but computers keep trying. >> it's like any computer at home, it has a hard drive. you're going to store any routes he's flown. it's all going to be stored on the computer. >> and that's what authorities would be looking for. what were the roots that they flu. does it take you to afghanistan, uzbekistan, any other "beckons

hold? in fact, we use them in certified -- >> it wouldn't be unusual for pilots to have those systems? >> no. it's their passion. it's even, it's a lifestyle. that's part of the lifestyle. >> martin, another thing that is interesting is that we know that the communication systems, the acars and transponders were switched off before the last words heard from the pilot, "all right, good night." does that give you or mitchell any indication that the pilots were involved or were somehow coerced? >> i would say -- it's hard to say at this point. the fact that they were turned off before he said that, it could have just been coincidence. i wouldn't read too much into it personally but you never know.

>> the this evenings we have talked about, though, is the timing of when this all happened. you're transitioning airspace, getting out of malaysian airspace and heading into vietnam airspace. if you're going to choose a point to disappear, that is the moment. vietnamese haven't accepted you yet and malaysia, you said good night. so you're in no man's land. you're off the grid. >> it's very meticulously planned, absolutely. >> we really appreciate it. it's help for us to see what's inside that simulator. >> we keep hearing information that's largely speck la live that has to be put to the test. we'll take a break now. when we come back, the mystery surrounding this missing ma lash

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let's get to john berman for today's top stories. >> let's begin with the latest on the search for malaysia fly

370. one report says the plane could have been flying under 5,000 feet. officials in malaysia are defending their choice not to release information until it is verified. and an aviation engineer was on that flight. >> the vote count is official. crimeans deciding to break away from ukraine and join the russian federation. president obama and other western leaders call the referendum illegal, are rejecting it and promising stiff sanctions if moscow does not pull out of the area.

>> and in the oscar pistorius, a photographer admitting that pictures labeled as being taken the day after the murder now testifying that they were taken three weeks later. >> and army brigadier general jeffrey sinclair is set to plead guilty to charges that he disobeyed a commander and maltreated a junior officer that was his mistress. >> now it's time to go "inside politics." john. >> top of morning to you on st. pat tricks day. driving our discussion "inside politics" today is a presidency in crisis, both abroad and here

at home. let's start with ukraine. the president says he speaks with president putin again and says this will not stand. but we're starting to hear more conversation from republicans that the president is weak and soft and is inviting this because of his office. the former secretary of state condoleezza right saying the united states government must stand with the people of ukraine. >> and we have to continue to speak to those people who want the liberties we have. we cannot abandon them. we were once them. and if it is god's will and if it is humans' power, they will one day be us. >> she didn't use the term but in an interview with the "new york times," she seems to suggest the president was naive,

that he had this hope as he pulled back from iran and from afghanistan, that good intentions would still the void and it's not necessary to inject u.s. power. >> i think he in a way ignored his critics. this is why this president was elected. this is what he ran on, retrenching from one war he called dumb and another he wanted to wind down. in some ways, he's doing exactly what the people elected him to do through the anti-bush figure and american retrenchment and republicans are trying to sort out what did this post-bush era mean in terms of the world. >> you make an important point. it is republican now because of their fight over imf funding holding up the apec. republicans have a little

looking at the mirror here. here's newt gingrich and lindsay graham, senator from south carolina, former speaker of the house, writing "theodore roosevelt is famous for a foreign policy he summarized as speak softly and scary a big stick. obama's policy is closer to scream loudly and carry no stick. their point is after drawing red lines in syria, he didn't do anything. >> the biggest concern is the fact that the president did not carry through with that syria threat. the white house says they're happy to resolve it diplomatically but they say that putin is not listening to you is the reason we need to ramp up our push. >> exports to wants to ei

alleviate the rms -- getting simply a $1 billion in loan guarantees is difficult to move quick threw through the process. >> what do you do if you continue to up the price tag? it's just going to get a lot harder. it may not even half on this content. >> and also escalating criticism on the's 41%. so lo and behold, maybe republicans could go on hold. kp listen to this, almost in agreement. >> there's real, reem danger the democrats could suffer big losses because the real estate and the turf on which these elections are taking place,

given with an advantage of the republicans. >> there was 14 seats in play and i think it's highly unlikely that the republicans pick up a majority. >> we talked a little bit about this yesterday. everyone is starting to think this map is expanding for republicans when it cops to the senate. one lauch in the "new york times" said the president is poisonous to the party's candidates. >> i remember back in 2010 robert giips gibbs said a similar thing about the nuk. >> i think they are pressing the panic button over and over given because it looks like the gop has been more disciplined this sickle and democrats just haven't been able to do it. >> it feels like 2006 in some ways where the republicans were running away from george bush in

all sports. he's still going to be beneficial for democrats when he did not do that in 2012. so they're going to need him for that. >> it does go back to the idea of the presidential having a party the day after st. patrick's day. there are obama democrats and they show up to where it usually stays a political conversation, it's tough for the white house as it was in '06, there are policy consequences. he was nominated back in november, he had his -- republicans oppose him. again, look at the senate map. look at louisiana and west virginia.

there's not an ibt coming there. look at all. >> he agrees with the president of the united states but he can't get a vote because the national rifle association has sfrd notice it will punish anybody who supports him. what's the rez to do? -- president to do? >> i don't think this is ever going to happen. i don't think this is going to happen. but the amazing power of the nra got to be in this fight. >> i'd walk the plank if you're a red state democrat. when the nri is scoring this vote and the also a at that democrat being saying think being kind of skittish about, it they think there might be about

ten democratic votes that don't go along with this. >> you know, it's strange for but the question is if. >> rand paul is at the top of the new cnn poll. he won the cpac poll, he also won a straw poll in new hampshire offer the weekend where he's very well organized and he's off to that noted conservative bastion, chris and mikaela you know it, berkeley. keep an eye on rand paul. >> there's one or two conservatives at berkeley. >> and he's got good hair. >> happy st. maddie's day for you. >> let's take a break here on

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welcome back. we have new information to share with you on flight 370. it's been ten days since the disappearance of this flight and as time passes, it becomes more unbelievable in this age of sophistication and technology anywhere, it seems like just about anything can be tracked. so why can't they find anything that leads us to this 777 airplane. here to walk us through, general mary schiavo and we'll bring in the vice president of a company ma makes locator beakons for airplanes. mary, let's start with the news today. this plane may have been below 5,000 feet. we don't really know that, it

coming off unsophisticated radar da data. >> it might have been at 5,000 feet because once the transponder is off, then your crash avoidance system wouldn't work and if you're traveling up to the 35,000 level, you're expected and required by law to have t-cas. if your tran troons. >> it's worth suggesting because even if this is true about the 5,000 feet, which we don't know, it also makes just as much sense because we're not going to avoid radar below 5 thune feet anyway. >> so now the big question of them all. when we're dealing with this, i have my phone and you can find it anywhere.

we're assuming so many people on board had it. what are the different factors we can check off about why the plane hasn't been located by those devices? >> well, this plane didn't have that system on board. it's a separate system from t-cas or transponds are and you have a separate system on the phone to have we five for your head fence. is sometimes when you're flying on the plane and up foye gch they actually had to hit a tower and that was one of the within. >> what about when they were going back offer malaysia, if it's true about this left-hand

turn. >> that's what suspicious to me, they did have to go back over land and there's a possibility they would have passed a power but there were none if it was taken and there, wouldn't they then come into play? >> they should. there's loss of, the cell phone was was within range of some program, you would think out of 219 with phones, there would be something. >> how are there not a dozen ways to identify it, the way my dog does, that has a chip in it.

is it really the case that each hair plane -- you're right, it does seem like there would be other ways to locate the aircraft. as far as new technologies and what not, i'm -- i had the same question to be honest with you. >> what do you make and why would it help? >> actually, we make the underwater locator beacon, which triggers when it comes in conduct of water. it's on this plane have one of your products sm. >> that is correct. >> so if this glam were to have hit the water, okay? >> it would emit a signal that would transmit for approximately

two naught california miles. >> so you'd still have to be within two naught california miles of it to pick it up. it not like it's sending a signal home to some base. >> that's correct. it doesn't transmit a signal. it is app audible signal picked up by a listening device. >> so you have to be pretty close and weep know the "u.s.s. kidd" and a dozen or so other countries are searching the water. how long does it last? >> it is certified to last 28 days. but the current system in place will last for 3 days. >> thank you very much for that again, malaysian officials saying we blow the play have been off future but they have

not adjusted the search zone. >> it's very efficient. at 5,000 feet you're going to burn fuel. we learned over the weekend the pilots did not call for extra fuel. they have enough fool to get to beijing and then 20, 30 feet more. this there's no way given the complete paranoia about each other and sending in anything that could be a threat, highly unlikely. >> and think-the-said they've checked the radar and there

wasn't anything. >> important facts as we continue to test what's going put ot. . .

welcome back to "new day," everyone. a quick update for you on the

search for malaysia flight 370. we're joining you from kuala lumpur. right now a new report says the missing jet could have flown over three countries by flying low, very low to avoid any radar detection. the search is now stretching from central asia all the way to southern parts of the indian ocean, a massive search area that seems to only be getting bigger. one person paying very close attention to every minute of the search is sarah, the girlfriend of one of the passengers who never made it to beijing. does she think she will ever see her boyfriend again? >> my bag is packed and ready to go. it has been since saturday morning. >> reporter: ready to go where? >> wherever he is. my son even helped me pick out which clothes to bring for him so i have an out fit for him my

backpack because he wouldn't want to wear his dirty old stuff any more and wouldn't want to wear a hospital gown if that's the case, so, yeah, it's all ready. if there's anybody who can survive a situation like that it's him. very level headed. and i think he's the kind of person who would help to calm a really chaotic situation. >> reporter: you need to be prepared for whatever the news is. >> of course i have to prepare for the worse. no matter what i have to go forward. no matter what, his family has to go forward. so we need to know where that fork in the road is going to go. and we're not ready to take either branch but we have to know what's coming because otherwise when it comes you won't be prepared and that's when you get into trouble, i think. the entire u.s. population is reliving things like 9/11 in this experience, right?

if an unthinkable thing can happen even after we've and the all of these precautions what could happen next? >> prepare for the worse but she's surely praying for something much better than that. maybe a miracle at this point. we're going to take another break. coming up next object "new day" more of cnn's in-depth coverage of malaysia 370. did one of the pilots fly the jetliner around 5,000 feet to avoid being detected on radar? that's one of the theories tracking the rounds. we'll be right back. when possibilities become reality. with centurylink as your trusted partner, our visionary cloud infrastructure and global broadband network free you to focus on what matters. with custom communications solutions and responsive, dedicated support, we constantly evolve to meet your needs.

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. good morning. welcome back to "new day". i'm chris cuomo in new york and we're following developments in the search for malaysia flight 370. there's a report saying the plane could have been flying as low as 3,000 feet across two countries to avoid radar. this comes from plmall's new

"straight times." >> reporter: thanks, chris. here's the very latest. officials here are standing firm on their decision, and how they are releasing information. they have been under criticism they have been slow to release information, they are withholding details built they say that they want to verify and corroborate all the information first before they release it. we've also learned a malaysian civil aviation engineer was on the flight. the 29-year-old worked for a private jet company according to his father. he'll be scrutinized because of his background but all of the passengers are being scrutinized, background are being looked at. the search area for the missing jet has expanded north into central asia and south deep into the indian ocean. a massive area. they have done very little to narrow the search area. so many big questions to answer. did the pilots play a role. did someone have a motive to sabotage the plane.

could have flight 370 landnd somewhere. the histories of the 239 passengers and crew are being dissected to solve this mystery. >> we recalibrated our search efforts as announced by the prime minister. >> reporter: ten days in the search area now expanding as the mystery of flight 370's disappearance deepens. new reports this morning claiming flight 370 could have flown below 5,000 feet avoiding radar across at least three countries according to the "new straights times." officials are looking into all passengers, including one civil aviation engineer may be of interest because of his knowledge. his father told cnn he's confident he's not involved. this now as the investigation shifts focus to the pilots. this surveillance footage posted on social media shows the captain and first officer passing through airport

security. cnn cannot confirm the authenticity of the video or exactly when it was shot. on saturday plains clothed police were seen exiting the first officer's home. later police seized this home made flight simulator from the captain's home. >> it's a reflection of his love for flying. he wants to share the joy of flying with his friends. >> reporter: the last words heard from the cockpit all right good night were spoken after the flight's communication system shutoff. the plane then reportedly makes a deliberate sharp turn towards the indian ocean leaving many security experts to fear terrorism. over the weekend authorities expanded the search area across thousands of miles of water and land. spanning 11 countries. officials confirm the aircraft sent pings to satellites west of malaysia the morning it disappeared possibly flying for

more than seven hours after its kwgs systems shut off. >> these moments are consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane. >> reporter: authorities are now looking deep into the background of the pi lots as you might expect. let's talk more about this and the news that came out today. jim clancy has been tracking this investigation from the very beginning for us. jim, i want to get your take. we hear these press conferences and sometimes people don't realize when the big news come out. they acknowledge they are looking into the pilots but they say they are not ruling anything out. >> i just listen toured report. it's correct. from what we were told days before. today in this press conference what they said is, no, we're not quite sure, we don't think that the com systems, the transponder and a-card were turned off before and now we know it's the co-pilot that said all right good night. suddenly what do we have?

>> reporter: we have a timeline that's been thrown up in the air. >> we think now there's a possibility that after that point in time -- they say everything is fine on their aircraft, the coroner om systems were working been thut you could have an catastrophic failure, could you have an invasion of the cockpit. that changes some of the fundamentals on the ground. will they change it again tomorrow? this is the problem, kate. you lose credibility when you have one solid source you made sure of all these facts and then you go back and we fine wait a minute we'll change that. sometimes it has to happen. we know. in this particular investigation one of the problems. >> reporter: and the frustration when you hear from malaysian officials they are not releasing information as fast as people want because they want to corroborate it. reading in the "new york times" u.s. officials are frustrated the malaysian authorities aren't accepting more assistance from americans that they are willing to offer up in order to move this investigation along. there's frustration on both

sides but not helping getting answers any quicker. what do you make of the new report from the "new straight times," another theory they are putting out there, another possibility that the pilots whoever was flying the plane went around 5,000 feet over some three countries to avoid radar detection? what you hearing about that? >> great theory. it scares you when you think of that kind of sophistication. let me tell you something. we have our own sources and the pattern has been this. we talk to an investigator, they all have theories. they are trying to disprove things. they are all testing out theories. there's no reliable radar evidence that the plane ever went down as low as 5,000 feet. you know, the reports it went up to 43,000, 45,000 feet, the plane not designed to do that. some wonder if it's capable to do that with a full load. we don't think the radar is reliable and i can tell you for sure that these investigators, these malaysian investigators

they are good but are really tasking themselves to come up with a scenario and disprove it or prove it. >> reporter: there's no hard evidence one way or another. frustration amongst the families of course and that's what matters because they want answers and they are not getting them. frustration, the story seems to change as will happen with such an unprecedented event with a plane that disappears into thin air. jim clancy leading our coverage for us. back to chris in new york. >> that's why our job is to test what comes out, what makes sense and what doesn't and keep the record clear. for more on that we'll come back to john and mary. we want to take a listen to what they just said there. two big points. first which is the news of the day. that malaysian authorities are saying we believe the plane may have been below 5,000 feet. mary, based on the radar data they have access to could they,

in quotes, know that? >> they couldn't know it positively. they are extrapolating from data they have and altitude radar data is not as good as directional. where you are on earth as opposed to how high. >> john would it help you avoid detection if you were to fly at 5,000 feet? >> remember, we have to -- come reported as many as three countries maybe more to get all three countries violating the airspace of numerous jurisdictions to get that far undetected? it's almost impossible i would believe. i'm not saying it's impossble it's unfathomable. >> even if the plane was flying at 5,000 feet there's just as good reason to believe it was being done by pilots for a legitimate reason as hijackers. >> right. if you don't have collision avoidance or transponder you don't want to flight at the commercial flight levels where you need transponders. you need to be at the general

aviation level. >> that takes us by way of segue to the other big disclosure. the malaysian authorities said something that opened a lot of eyes. we believe that when the co-pilot said all right good night that after -- they had the transponder off. that was the initial thing. the transponder was already off when they said good night. that suggested some type of sabotage. now they are saying maybe it was work. that makes a lot more sense. >> it does because often the co-pilot or pilot not flying handle the radio communications. it's very typical and makes perfect sense he would be doing the radios and the pilot in command would be doing the flying. >> even though we have something unusual, the hand off from tower to tower it will go from malaysia to vietnam there might have been a delay in doing the obvious, john, which is hey the

transponder is off, immediately communicate to the plane. we don't know that happened here. it makes more sense when the pilot said good night he had working coms. >> that's very possible. if you're going to do something like a 9/11 style hijacking that's the point you would do it. you already said good-bye. it's several minutes before they start looking four. one of the things that disturbs me about this case, when this thing went missing in the first hour they should have reached for this downloaded data service and asked them to turn it on. there's a lot of missed opportunities early on maybe because i don't believe other countries may not be as organized and resourceful as united states. >> take a half step back. what data downloading service that they don't have? >> the a-card system reports back. we saw this in air france out of

rio de janeiro where we got mechanical messages back. it was designed to send messages back to let you know it needs certain type of service. before the aircraft even lands they can get a crew ready to fix anything on board. malaysia airlines bought this aircraft but didn't pay for the data downloading service. the satellite was rejecting it like a cell phone would be rejected if you didn't have an at&t or verizon account. >> they wound up getting it but not early enough so that helps change the sophistication. last point. they are looking again at the manifest. we haven't heard about the cargo manifest. could be highly relevant. we do do know the passenger manifest. they find a civil engineer. maybe they know something about this. you shake your head no.

>> they say he works for executive jet. i know that company. they are in columbus, ohio. when i was an aviation professor at ohio state they were the number go for my students. they wanted to work for executive jet. they have worldwide security. they do background connection and they have cream of the crop of kids coming out of college. i would like very skeptical said they worked for skouf jet and in some sort of plot because executive jet does a good job on background. >> one reason it's so helpful to have people like you as experts the idea they find a civil engineer that works for the company, you know the company, it allows us to put it in perspective. your understanding of the plane what it would take to disable all these systems. makes it clear just because thing are being said doesn't mean they are 100%. thank you for helping us test these. before we keep going flight 370

there's a loet of other news. break overnight u.s. navy saels took control of a commercial tanker in the mediterranean. the morning glory was seized by three armed libraryians and carrying a cargo of oil opened by the libyan government. it happened in international waters. the ship is being sailed back to libya by the u.s. navy. at the white house today president obama will meet with the palestinian leader and talk about the state of the middle east peace process. president abbas rejects some of the provisions including recognizing israel as a jewish state. the meeting comes a day after secretary of state john kerry met with abbas and urged him to make some tough decisions. world powers set to meet with iran over its nuclear ambitions starting today on the agenda discussing iran's nuclear activity such as uranium

enrichment. a 6.7 earthquake hit chile's pacific coast. no reports of major damage or injuries. officials activated precautionary tsunami warning and urged residents to evacuate and nof higher grounds. series of shocks struck after the quake. let's talk weather now. the winter seems like it's never going to end. we already know this other storm is moving into parts of the east bringing with it more snow and ice. making that morning commute a pain. we've heard of some closures around the areas that's affected. meteorologist indra petersons, you got some explaining to do. >> you don't like this? once again we're still talking about some 25 million of us under advisories this morning thanks to the next winter system. it's not spring yet. we're so close.

unfortunately, again, overnight all that cold air spilled farther down. what started out as rain turned to snow and wintry mix. in d.c. 10 inches has fallen the. very narrow swath we're seeing heavy amounts. more snow in the forecasts d.c. could still see another two inches before all is said and done. it will move out of here quickly. unfortunately for the morning commute by the afternoon should kick out of here. here's one. here's two. this guy still bringing heavy rain in the southeast today and in through tomorrow. some good amounts. several inches will be out there and not the only story. got to go back to the midwest where another storm is the behind that. more cold air filling in behind that and this will affect the northeast by the middle of the week. for today this huge contrast. 30s for the next system in the upper midwest and down in the

southeast especially in florida, 86 degrees miami. you talk about that contrast and you have the threat for severe weather, thunderstorms and a threat for a possible tornado. i'm with you guys. this is a long winter. >> these winter storms will make the spring all the sweeter when it does arrive. >> it's very optimistic. that's who you are. j.b. sporting a little sprip. indra petersons celebrating st. patrick's day but mock the irish by putting this bad weather out. >> they can stay home and celebrate. >> i take exception. i say erin go b branragh. >> long way to go. >> i give you a break. have soda bread. when we come back we'll don't

give the latest on the search for flight 370. terrorism was ruled out. investigators are now saying we're not 100% sure. the longer the search is dragging on, anything is possible. we'll take a look what they are putting out, test what they say is theories and make sure it's the best information. >> crimea, landslide vote there to secede from ukraine. white house not buying it. christiane amanpour joins us next. [ female announcer ] grow, it's what we do.

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show 97% voted to secede from ukraine and join russia. lawmakers in crimea have approved the resolution to declare the peninsula independent from ukraine. the white house calls this referendum illegal and expected to announce new sanctions against russia today. with more here is christiane amanpour. so great to have you with us to look at this with us. let's start with that. we know the u.s. is saying there's no way we're recognizing this referendum, it's illegal. what are you expecting in terms much further sanctions being announced and do you anticipate those being announced today? >> reporter: probably, yes here in europe because foreign ministers are meeting. we should have heard about them last night sunday. but now the british foreign secretary saying we should know more about the specificity of these sanctions today. from what we know from western diplomats it will be the ash getted, travel bans in some instances, that would include

visa restrictions and asset freezes. we understand that they are not going off to the so-called oligarchs or ceos. what they are doing to begin with is targeting a type, a narrow band of people, individuals who specifically had something to do with organizing this referendum. so they are not is going to president putin even those of course, he did in the big picture, not going to foreign minister but working on those kinds of things right now. the other thing is president putin will address the russian parliament tomorrow and everybody is waiting to see what decision he takes. >> it seems full steam ahead. crimea lawmakers addressed the fact they are switching to the ruble, they will adhere to the moscow standard time while the rest of the world says hold on not so fast it seems they are taking some of these practical considerations of how life in crime jai will be shaped and rolling with it. >> reporter: you're absolutely right. this is being consistent with

how this crisis has unfolded from the beginning. it's really been like a slow motion evolving bad movie. and each move that the russians and the crimeans has made has been entirely predictable and consistent. the notion that we're even reporting the results of this referendum, you know, it has an absurd quality to it because there was never any doubt to what it was going to be, it happened at the end of a barrel of a gun and happened under the weight of massive state-run propaganda from russia being broadcast into crimea and with no option on that ballot to remain status quo as part of ukraine. this was all entirely predictable once this crisis came to a head. the only thing that's not predictable what will president vladimir putin do. president obama spoke to him yesterday generating the international community, the west would not recognize this referendum in crimea. will he decide to annex. this is the worse case scenario,

continue to go into other parts of ukraine. that's something everybody wants to know and hear from and we'll hear some tomorrow. >> another thing, what will happen to the ethnic minority groups. 60% of the nation, ethnic russian. look at the tartars. 12% of the population. let's say you didn't vote for the refer len durjs you're opposed to it, what happens to you? >> reporter: again, this is very, very unknown at this moment. if you flip it this is what the russians were saying when the new ukrainian authorities came in, to what about everybody's reits. well up until now all the rights of the ethnic russians had been respected under the current constitution, the ukrainian constitution and as you know russia had its black sea base. the real question as you point out is what kind of guarantees are they going to give to those who remain, and will those

tartars remain, will we see a mass exodus. fait accompli is starting now. what does this all mean? you know, it's up to putin to make these ultimate decisions. >> i want to take a left turn. you as we have been focusing on was going on with this search, the desperate search for malaysian flight 370, i want to talk to you about your take. there's been a lot of criticism of the malaysian government, of their handling of the investigation, a lot of countries have said hey we're willing to help, they are sort of rebuffing those offers. what do you make of that? is this a pride thing? is this a cultural thing? what's your sense? >> reporter: well, unfortunately, in a lot of these

events that happen overseas you sometimes get this sort of national pride thing that comes in and interferes with the speed of investigation, the western nations are used to. the united states is used to being able to investigate very quickly and it has fbi members, faa members, ntsb members and others in malaysia and they can't quite get the kind of speedy information and acceptance of their off towers help that they want and now the u.s. just like many other countries is starting to push and say we want to help but we need more information, we need to know what's going on. unfortunately for malaysia and a the malaysian people their government is shaping up to be the bad guy or the unhelpful guy in this dramatic scenario. it's the greatest aviation drama that any of us can remember and not only that it's a very human drama. while we're all focused on where is this plane, this mystery, those families who have no word are getting more and more upset. now they are demanding as cnn

has been reporting to have absolute quick and up to date information. malaysia is thinking of assigning each family group or each family member some kind of official to be able to get real answers but with this massive increase in these square area of the search this is going to be incredibly difficult to continue to pinpoint. but, foul play for sure they suspect. is it the pilots or were the pilots coerced? what was the motive? that is still anybody's guess at this point. >> to be sure the family's deserve pride being set aside so this investigation can be fully completed. we appreciate you lending your wise words and expertise. we'll take a break now on "new day". when we come back one of the questions surrounding the investigation into flight 370, could the plane have flown too low for radar detection across three countries? that's what's being suggested by investigators. we're going to unpack that. how low would they have to fly?

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welcome back, everyone. time now for the five things you need to know for your "new day". number one a report from malaysia's "new strait times" says flight 370 could have been flying low to avoid radar. reuters reporting kazakhstan didn't detect unsang shond use of its airplanes. and russia will take steps to annex crimea from the ukraine. middle east peace talks resume in washington today as president obama sits down with palestinian president mahmoud abbas. the u.s. is pushing a framework for additional talks. president abbas made clear he does object to some of the position. a major concession during the oscar pistorius murder trial. a crime scene photographer being cross-examined now earlier he admitted blood splattered pictures he said he took the day after reeva steenkamp's death

were actually taken weeks later. irish brewer guinness pulled its sponsorship of new york city's irish day parade because gay and lesbian groups were excluded. we're always updating the five things you need to know so go cnn.com for the very latest. back now to the disappearance of malaysia flight 370. investigators are focused on malicious intent on the disappearance of the 777. can terror be ruled out? what about our own investigators. what are they being told and what is not being told to them. joining us now is a republican congressman from texas and chairman of the house committee on homeland security. congressman, thank you for joining us. >> good morning. >> so let's get the immediacy of this. as far as you know, has the u.s. been asked for help and is that help being provided? >> we have helped, help is being

provide. i got confirmation as of yesterday the fbi is there. assisting. our navy is in the indian ocean trying to find this aircraft. could it have come sooner, i think. but the fact it became a criminal investigation really officially justin last couple of days. and so that's what we're very focused on. one thing is clear as you pointed out, this was an intentional and deliberate act. it was not an accident on an airplane. yet a transponder that was turned off. you had a flight pattern that was abruptly changed at the last minute. and there were a lot of flags and concerns out there about this. many unanswered questions as broadcasted earlier on your program, so many different theories being thrown out there right now. we still really don't know what happened. >> so, congressman, one of the thing we're focused on is testing what comes out to keep as clear a record as possible.

the idea that this was someone's work as opposed to the work of something as a massive decompression thing do you feel confident in that basis from malaysian investigators that you can say with 100% certainty somebody did this? >> well, i feel very confident that it was done by somebody intentionally. that's because the transponder was turned off, that's very significant. somebody did change the flight program from its original flight pattern. that's very significant. that's not just an accident that happens. and there are a couple of unanswered questions about these iranians who got on the plane with stolen passports. the police were not contacted with respect to that. there were, what they call these ugers on this plane, southeast asian al qaeda types that concern us. i think one of two things happened here if we're talking

about possibilities. and one is that it got turned back for whatever reason we don't know, but it ran out of fuel and it landed in the indian ocean where they are searching today. the other possible theory but more unlikely is that it landed somewhere to hook up with potential terrorists to use it as a weapon, as a cruise missile in a future terrorist attack. >> what are you hearing on our side of the fence. we're working our intelligence source. yours will be way better than mine. i'm struck by how little it seems american investigators know not as a point of criticism but just as a point of curiosity, what are you hearing about suspicions this was a terrorist act and if it is that do they have any notion who would do this? >> they have no ties to terrorism but they are not ruling out because we have so little access to the information. the pilots and co-pilots homes

were searched. laptops were taken, a flight simulator. we want access to that information. i think there's a level of frustration. you're dealing with a sovereign nation, have to be respectful and it's not terribly sophisticated. we want to push harder to get our federal law enforcement in there and homeland security officials to move forward on this so we can get answers to these questions that remain looming. >> post-9/11 it's shocking to so many including your interviewer today that airplanes don't have more on them to track them. it seems they have less sophistication to track an airplane than you do my car. is that something that's a red flag to you as well and then a second question four, congressman, diago garcia you have the out post out there, you would know if something would hit the indian ocean anywhere near you? two questions. >> well, look, i think there's a

bit of -- one thing we don't want to give a playbook to the terrorists. there's obviously a little bit of a dead spot when it comes to satellite coverage in this part of the area. i'm sorry the first question -- >> first question isn't it a red flag to you these planes don't have more sophisticated tracking equipment on them? >> that's a great question. let me just say this to americans. our u.s. carriers have better technology, better equipment. you're in a part of the world that's more primitive and quite frankly they had track device and some gps devices that if they paid the additional service like you would on a navastar in your car, malaysian air didn't want to pay that service. >> if this was a united airlines jet, would you know where it is right now? >> i think the tracking would be far more sophisticated and it wouldn't be as much of an issue. i think that's why it's such a

mystery because the technology is substandard, subpar to what we have in the united states and now it's possibly in the indian ocean that's so vast and so hard to find it may take many days to come. >> without revealing operational security, obviously, safe to assume we have not heard through our intelligence sources on diago garcia or elsewhere they spotted this plane opinion we would know that by now? >> i believe so. the fact is look on the northern boundary as well this, is a very important point, there are so many satellite radar detection systems as you go towards kazakhstan, as you go towards afghanistan with bagram air force base there and pakistan that i feel very confident that had this flight been northbound it certainly would have been picked up on radar. >> congressman, we appreciate the perspective this morning on "new day". we'll stay in twouch you so we can get the best information out there. thank you. let's take a quick break on "new day".

when we come back could this flight, flight 370 have dropped to 5,000 feet? why would they have done that? would that have made the plane undetected? there's a way to test it. we'll take you inside a flight simlutator and see what pi lots would have seen.

welcome back to "new day". we continue to test the information coming out of the investigation into flight 370. right now seems to be centering around the cockpit and whether one of the pilots had a reason to sabotage the plane.

we're hearing a report from a malaysian paper the plane i have dropped quickly to a low altitude 5,000 feet or below to avoid radar. how does that look if you're in the cockpit of a 777. how would it work and is it effective? let's go to martin savidge. >> reporter: we're trying to simulate what you described getting it down 5,000 feet and the difficulties would be to fly it there. we're at about 6800 feet altitude wise but above the ground. we're only 1400 feet. the reason is we're flying that northern route. we're over pakistan. this part of pakistan is extremely mountainous. the terrain is very undulating with very high mountains. we're having to navigate as you can see to pick and choose our way to go through these mountain passes or to clear the mountain

tops and, again, that's at about 6400 feet. let's take it lower because if we're really trying to avoid radar you have to do map of the earth line. this is when you'll start getting all sorts of warnings and alerts because this airplane is so automaticed and trying to tell the pilot look if you want to fly this low it must mean you're trying to land. we're not. we're just trying to fly low in order to try to appease the aircraft. we could lower the landing gear which i'll show you how. now we got the landing gear down. the problem with this, it quiets some of the alarms but the other problem is now we're drinking a lot of fuel. what's the handling of the aircraft at this level? >> puts it into the controls very firmer and quick and very dangerous because you're low to the ground not a lot of time to

attack. >> reporter: whoever is in control of the aircraft if is this route they took and this was altitude they tried to fly that they knew the terrain they were going into. remember for this simulation we made it daylight. but for that person at that time it would have been nighttime, which means that any of the ground hazards would have been extremely hard to see and without a transponder, transmitting it would have meant any other aircraft wouldn't know we were here. >> what's the difference, martin, of fuel burn rate flying at this altitude and making these maneuvers versus proper altitude. >> reporter: what's the difference, mitchell? >> you're talking about two separate things. high altitude a lot of time to think about what's happening, very sort of mundane. down here very high-speed unforgiving environment. >> what about fuel burn rate? >> fuel burn rate with the gear

down you're drinking fuel. easily 20%, 30%. >> it's interesting to watch to show how precarious the situation would be. the fuel burn rate we don't know if they would have made it in pakistan. there hasn't been an adjustment. so, that was very helpful. they have to look on land and at sea right, chris? next up on "new day" more of our in depth coverage of the search for flight 370. 239 people missing for ten days now. we're going to take a closer look at the agonizing wait for their loved ones. good job!

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he hardly sleeps he says and never turns off his phone. he hopes and prays the plane will soon be found. he can't bear the thought of losing his only son. like him many still hope for a miracle. >> i want to pray information. i hope all of them to come back safe to their families and friends. >> reporter: the missinging flight originated here at kuala lumpur airport where part of the airport this wall has become a gathering place of sorts. people from all over the world coming together to leave messages. they call it the wall of hope. if you look, it's even hard to read them at this point. the wall seemingly overwhelmed with the outpouring of support. take this message from a 9-year-old little girl simply saying, "please come home, let's pray." a plea and wish shared by hundreds of families who continue to wait. some fear the worst and struggle to grieve without knowing

exactly what happened to their loved ones. heartbroken, this father hopes the plane was hijacked because then at least there's hope his son is alive. he says his life will lose all meaning without his only son. it's been ten days but the malaysian government working with 24 other countries has yet to reveal any hard evidence of where the plane might be. instead of narrowing their search it's now expanding and with it frustration is mounting. this man waits for any news about his son in kuala lumpur where family and friends of the missing have been flown by malaysia airlines. he tells airlines officials he doesn't want compensation he want answers. he's angry and hauexhausted, demanding answers but getting little. one man asked those in the crowd room to stand up if they've lost

faith in the malaysian government as well as malaysia airlines. more than half of the room stands in agreement. you really get the sense when you take a look at that wall of hope, it's important that they do keep hope alive for the families and the whole community and all of them, so many nations now involved in this search. and that wall they are not saying good-bye they are clinging to hope and praying for a miracle. now ten days in. you can imagine what these families continue to go through as the minutes and hours continue to tick by. we'll continue to cover their story and bring it to you from here as well as new york. we'll take another break. a timeline is now in dispute in what happened with the plane and the belief the plane could have dropped to 5,000 feet to try and avoid the radar. we've been showing to it, talking about it, we'll have the very latest on the malaysia flight mystery that continues straight ahead. [ male announcer ] nearly 7 million clients. how did edward jones get so big?

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there are developments in the search for flight 370, developments going on in ukraine. let's get to you the newsroom and carol costello. carol, good morning. >> good morning. "newsroom" starts now. good morning, i'm carol

costello. thanks so much for joining me. ten days and still nothing from malaysia flight 370. no plane, no passengers. this morning we've learned australia will now lead the search for the missing plane in the indian ocean. another bit of information. the malaysian airline ceo believes it was the co-pilot who said those final words to air traffic control, all right, good night. then this the "new strait times" says malaysia flight 370 flu down to 5,000 feet through three countries to avoid radar. we're devoting the next two hours to this ever changing mystery. we beginning our coverage with martin savidge. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, carol. here's the scenario we set up for you now. given that new information we were talking about, the 5,000 feet or below to avoid radar. we