telling us no one survived, everyone sank into the ocean, what's your proof? >> translator: our relatives were on that flight. this wasn't an accident. instead, it was caused by the malaysian government. they are covering up something. >> translator: it's been 17 days. they simply just give us this result. how can people bear this? the chinese government of ours should come forward and clarify and tell us. my mother, this happened on the 8th. she died on the 9th. tell us, how do i live? [ speaking in foreign language ] >> reporter: wolf, some of the people there reacting to this were taken away on stretchers and to ambulances in the area. just really horrifying scenes of anguish in this time and the people there, some of them not all reacting this violently.

many of them also just quietly coming out of the conference room, shedding a tear, resigned to the reality that they lost their loved one but a portion not accepting t. saying that they want concrete proof and they are certainly pointing the fingers at the malaysians at this time. wolf? >> the chinese government not necessarily accepting the malaysian statement that everyone is dead. they issued a statement, david, as you know, saying they want more information, they want all of the information and they are anxious to get it. clearly they are frustrated that they are not getting everything that they want. >> reporter: well, they are and they have pointed out several times over this two-week period, wolf, that they are not happy with the way that this has been handled by the malaysians. also, you have to consider that the chinese government is trying to point the finger to malaysia to deflect any criticism of themselves. so it's all kind of creating

this very unfortunate level of anger, frustration, it's all boiling over and you've got to feel for those families, hundreds of them stuck in this hotel and this cold room as they get this information, this terrible information for them. they just haven't been able, really, to process it at this point. and some of them feel they are political pawns. wolf? >> david mckenzie in beijing for us, thank you. let's bring in our senior analyst peter goelz. david, this is from chinese family members. such despicable acts not only destroyed us families of the 154 chinese passengers but also misled and delayed search efforts and wasted most precious life-saving time. if our 154 relatives aboard lost their lives due to such reasons,

malaysian airlines and malaysian military are the real murderers that killed them. our heart goes out, peter. when you were working with the ntsb and dealt with families, you understand their pain? >> i do. i've done family briefings. i did it for five years and they were extraordinarily difficult. and what we learned was that both transparency and giving them facts from day one are critical. and unnorfortunately, that has happened. >> did they do the right thing based on the inmarsat data, if you will, announcing that everyone is dead? >> well, i can see what they were trying to do but it was kind of ham-handed again. they did not preference this, they did not build up to it. to drop it on the family members like this, and there is no new information today. when you look at it, it's the same information repackaged. >> you understand why the malaysian government made this

announcement today, based on this analysis, as opposed to tangible evidence, if you will, wreckage from the plane? >> i don't. obviously, they have been improvising, to say it charitably as we go along, this didn't settle or resolve anything. >> and the text message sent to family members n. a text message to family members said this. "malaysia airlines deeply regrets that we have to assume beyond any reasonable doubt that m-370 has been lost in the southern indian ocean." you're our legal analyst. what kind of recourse do these families have? >> there's a treaty called the montreal convention that in any

crash, the carrier has to pay the family of the person $170,000. that's the start of the process. beyond that, individual family members, the estates of the people who died can sue if if they identify fault. was this the fault of the airline, of the airplane manufacturer? was it the fault of a subcontractor? that's where things can get very complicated and, of course, that conversation and the litigation can't begin until we know what happened. >> which country's court will have jurisdiction over lawsuits that will emerge? >> think about the complexity here. you have a malaysian airline, mostly chinese passengers, an american manufacturer in a plane that apparently, apparently went down near australia in international waters. most likely, as i understand it, the litigation would start in china and malaysia but there will certainly be an effort to bring it to the united states because that's where the deepest

pockets are and that has the most plaintiff-friendly litigation. >> and boeing is a manufacturer of the 777. there are 1100 777s flying. >> exactly. >> this is a very safe plane. you're familiar with this plane. if it was a mechanical problem that caused the plane to go down, is boeing doing anything to check that? i assume they are trying to go through it. i haven't heard that any planes have been put on standby as we investigate. >> boeing's hands are tied. like all participants in the investigation, because of the way in which it is structured. but the answer is yes. they are going through their own investigation. they dedicate tremendous resources it's their flagship product. >> but they are not standing down or recommending to airliners, don't fly this plane for now as we investigate? >> no. there's absolutely no evidence

to indicate that that is the correct decision. if there's a problem, they will stand their fleet down and fix it but in this case they have nothing. >> guy s, thanks very much. we've all seen the satellite that shows there may be debris. repeat. may. richard quest is standing by. we'll join him in a moment. in's pronto lunch starting at $6.99. an entirely new menu created with your busy schedule in mind. handmade italian sandwiches, flatbreads, and our signature soup and salad. starting at $6.99. and all served "pronto!" at olive garden. when folks in the lower 48 think athey think salmon and energy.a, but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. thousands of people here in alaska are working to safely produce more energy.

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it's day 18 in the

disappearance of flight 370 and even though malaysia's prime minister says flight 370 bent down somewhere in the southern indian ocean, plenty of questions remain about the information used to reach that definitive conclusion. china, in particular, wants malaysians to share all of their evidence. let's bring in cnn's richard quest. what do you think of the headline that based on the inmarsat data, the malaysian government says everyone basically is dead right now? is that enough to tell these families that their loved ones are gone? >> i think you have to take it as more than just inmarsat. inmarsat looked at the data, the pings. they went much further in the triangulation. they then passed that evidence on to the aaib, the british equivalent of the ntsb. enormously experienced. and there was a very large peer

review of what they said. and then they went on and said, look, we've got no evidence of any radar from any country in the northern corridor, not from thailand, not from myanmar, not from kazakhstan. no one has said they saw it. it's not just one piece of evidence that they had. they took the data, then mapped it on top of everything else they knew. and yes, wolf, i think you do come to a point where you have to say, this is our best information and it takes the story beyond a reasonable doubt. >> and they couldn't have waited a few more days to see if they found any wreckage? >> and upon that, wolf, you and i would have been the first people to have been screaming how dare you not tell us that you sat on information that could have -- >> no. on that i disagree. i would have said, here's the report that inmarsat gave us. we're going to release is publicly.

miles o'brien can read it, richard quest can read it. here are the footnotes. we are not yet ready, though, to conclude 100% definitively that everyone is dead, because even inmarsat, the senior vice president told us today that most likely this is the conclusion, but they can't reach it 100%. >> fair point, wolf. i think that's something that the malaysian prime minister will ultimately have to live on his own conscience if it's proved to be incorrect. and looking at the statement today from the malaysian prime minister this morning, it seems -- and speaking again to chris mclaughlin, they are more than fairly confident. they are saying that the level of integrity is such. bearing in mind they may not find objects and debris, for days if not weeks, if not months, that it was the right

con decision to come to that conclusion. >> what's this information about the plane going from 45,000 down to 23,000 and then up to 30,000 and then down to 12 and back up to 35? if it's on autopilot, you're not going to see those kinds of shifts. >> well, the 45 to the 23 have not been confirmed. sources say that the plane went down to 12,000 and backtracked over the peninsula. that was to prevent likely any traffic coming in the opposite direction but then it would have had to have gone back up to 35,000. because one pilot i asked specifically, if you're flying at 12,000 feet, how much is your fuel burn increase? he says about 40 to 50%. so at 12,000 feet, it would have never got anywhere near the south indian ocean and we don't know on that point.

that is one of the key issues that has to be confirmed by the malaysians, by the investigation. did it actually go down? because as you rightly point out, going down and going back up again, that does show human intent, not autopilot in command. >> are we any closer to figuring out whether a human being caused this plane to disappear or some sort of catastrophic mechanical failure? >> that's a very, very tough question. i would say that it starts to move -- no. i would say we're not. and from my way of thinking, and i've been in the middle all the way here and i've been looking one way or the other, there will be those who say this clearly shows "x" or "y." i would say it merely shows the

tragic end of this flight. >> i have a so-called black box here, even though it's orange, and the pinging noise is still going on for another, what, how many, 17 days, 13, 14 days now. >> 12 to 17 days on a good ratio. yes, the best hope now is that they retrieve objects which turn out to be debris because from that they will be able to work out from where the main debris field should be and even those individual pieces of debris, as rene was explaining earlier, even they will be able to give clues if they are the right piece of the right part of the plane. we have moved considerably forward in the last 24 hours. make no won'bones about that. we've moved forward in terms of where the plane will be, might be. we haven't moved forward in understanding why or how it got there. >> that's absolutely true.

richard quest, thank you so, so much for all of your excellent reporting. we're going to continue to follow all of the developments in perth, australia, and the indian ocean where it's tuesday morning. planes will be heading and they have already started, by the way, to resume the search for flight 370. another search is under way in washington state where at least 108 people are now missing. missing after a deadly landslide. now officials worry there could be new landslides. we'll have a new report. (dad) well, we've been thinking about it and we're just not sure. (agent) i understand. (dad) we've never sold a house before. (agent) i'll walk you guys through every step. (dad) so if we sell, do you think we can swing it?

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we're certainly keeping our eyes on the latest news coming in from the search for flight 370. in washington state there is deep concern about new landslides as searchers and emergency officials try to

locate 108 people reported missing after a deadly landslide this weekend. we know eight people are confirmed dead but some of those missing might be alive. let's go to george howell on the scene with the latest. >> reporter: we know that earlier this morning they announced a very robust plan to go in there with search dogs and people on the ground to search the land for survivors but pulled the plan back because geologists say the land is just too unstable. for many of the families here it is another day of waiting, wondering. we know the number of unaccounted for has risen significantly. it's unclear exactly how many people could still be trapped in this square mile of mud and debris. as each day passes since this cliff gave way the uncertainty of not knowing is the worst part for people like caroline neil. >> my dad is a quick thinker.

>> reporter: her 52-year-old father who work as a plumber was on a service call in the area when the mall of mud slammed through in seconds. >> we have to think he is somewhere and is safe and they just can't reach him right now. >> reporter: the number of missing has shot up dramatically as officials try to compile reports from social media or personal websites the families may have set up in search of loved ones. investigators are looking into 108 reports of people unaccounted for. >> it is a consolidated list. in some cases the list is very detailed. it is john who has brown hair, blue eyes and live in this particular neighborhood. and a lot of cases it is a name like frank. i met him once. i think he lived over there. >> reporter: a little more than 48 hours since the massive mudslide, the rescue effort intensified monday with crews probing the ground with electronic equipment to search for survivors.

by mid day they had to scale the operation back because the ground was still unstable. so far they have not found survivors. >> we are still in a rescue mode. i want to let everyone know that the situation is very grim. we haven't -- we are still holding out hope that we are going to be able to find people that may be alive. we have not found anybody alive on this pile since saturday. >> reporter: as it happened on a saturday officials believe more people were at home instead of being away at work. we learned today they are searching an area of more than 100 properties that were in the slide zone. 49 of the lots had some sort of structure on the property like homes, vacation rentals or rvs. officials say 25 of the homes were occupied full time and ten part time. majority of the homes damaged, buried or destroyed.

we know this is being called an active search and not a recovery operation at this point. we know the ground is still very unstable. the search on the ground has been halted until geologists give the okay to go back. >> george howell on the scene for us. thanks for the update. we are getting new information on the search efforts for flight 370. stay with us. we'll be right back. so our business can be on at&t's network for $175 a month? yup. all 5 of you for $175. our clients need a lot of attention. there's unlimited talk and text. we're working deals all day. you get 10 gigabytes of data to share. what about expansion potential? add a line, anytime, for $15 a month. low dues, great terms. let's close! new at&t mobile share value plans our best value plans ever for business.

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this is cnn breaking news. the search operation for today has been cancelled.

the australian maritime safety authority just released a statement saying because of bad weather they have suspended all air and sea search activity today. the australian maritime safety authority says it has undertaken a risk assessment and determined current weather conditions would make air and sea search avenues dangerous. they say they have consulted with meteorologists. they say weather conditions are expected to improve in the search area in the next few days. they say search operations can be expected to resume tomorrow if weather conditions permit. in the meantime no search activity today going on. it is already tuesday morning in the search area in australia and in the indian ocean.

unfortunately, the search activity for wreckage will not happen. that's it for me. thanks for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in the situation room. erin burnett outfront starts right now. next breaking news. the search for missing flight 370 has just been suspended. we are live in perth for the latest. and the malaysian government says the plane crashed into the indian ocean killing everyone on board based on satellite data. just how sure are they? breaking news in washington state tonight. we will go live to the scene of a deadly landslide. more than 100 people still missing at this moment. let's go outfront. good evening. i'm erin burnett. the search for malaysia airlines flight 370 has just b