happening now a situation room special report. the search for wreckage resumes with more planes and urgency. we are live in the region. plus -- explodinging anger. hundreds of flight 370 relatives protest against malaysia, demanding proof of the government's claim their loved ones are dead. stand by, you will hear their emotional pleas. a final signal from the missing airliner revealed. we want to welcome our viewers

in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room". this is cnn breaking news. >> and the breaking news the search for flight 370 is back underway. it was suspended 24 hours ago because of stormy conditions in the southern indian ocean. the weather has now improved. cnn forecasters tell us strong winds and currents might still be a serious problem. 2 1/2 weeks after the plane vanished investigators can't afford anymore delays. analysts are tracking every new development here in the situation room and around the globe covering the story as only cnn can. let's go first to jim sciutto. . >> within the hour some new advanced equipment is going to be arriving in australia from the u.s. to help potentially aid in the search including unmanned

submarine pinger locaterer. we are told they are so far from finding where the plane went down, no closer we are told by the pentagon. this happens as many victims' families frustrated and anger. today the malaysia airlines ceo said it in the starkest terms so far, all hope for survivors is gone. >> the aircraft is not lost and none of the passengers or crew on board survived. >> reporter: many family members refuse to accept flight 370's fate. >> no evidence that the flight was crashed. >> reporter: and today they directed their frustration at the malaysian government joining an angry protest outside the malaysia embassy in beijing. >> they said no one survived, no

evidence. >> reporter: many of thor answers they are demanding may lie with the aircraft itself, now most likely somewhere at the bottom of the southern indian ocean. >> we are not searching for a needle in a hay stack. we are trying to define where the hay stack is. >> reporter: the latest satellite data indicates the plane went down in an extremely remote stretch. much of the sea bottom has never been thoroughly charted. >> this is an extremely remote part of the world. it is 3,500 meters deep. it is a massive exercise. >> reporter: that is in the best of conditions. gale force winds. >> it is very, very dangerous

even for big ships. >> reporter: in a rare international coalition six countries are now taking part in the search including at least four aircraft and one ship from australia, two aircraft each from the u.s. and south korea, one from new zealand and 15 ships from china. flight 370 is being sought by air, sea and sound. the u.s. navy tweeted this photo of a pinger locater. the device will be lowered into the sea to listen for the pings for the plane's flight recorders. they sound something like this -- the devices won't reach the area until april 5 just three days before the batteries in the signaling device will likely go dead. malaysia airlines announced the families of the passengers have been paid $5,000 each to help cover costs, that is just the down payment on the millions of dollars that the airliner is

likely to be liable following loss of flight 370. >> let's get the latest on the search for flight 370. i take it the first surveillance plane has taken off, a chinese aircraft? >> reporter: that happened about an hour ago. and the flights are continuing to take off. i can hear some of the turbo props revving up about five minutes ago. these planes will stagger throughout the day leaving from this air base as well as perth international and heading to that search area four hours away. a different tactic today. they will split the search into three different areas, trying to cover more of the sea. 80,000 square kilometers. one of the key search areas will be done by sea. the australian ship is going to be steaming to the area where debris was spotted by an australian plane two days ago.

that is going to be one of the key search areas. there are noi sw six countries involved, a massive show of search in the air trying to bring evidence home for families. >> i know it is wednesday morning where you are in perth, australia. i heard from one u.s. official involved in the operation they are feeling pretty good about potentially what could happen today. the weather relatively decent. there are a lot of planes flying over it. there is some debris. they are hopeful they might spot something. are you getting the same upbeat assessment from folks in australia on the ground? >> reporter: nthey are feeling better about how many countries involved. more planes and ships flooding the area than before. if they are going to find it today may be the day. the problem is even though conditions are improved as you point out they are not ideal.

they were ideal a few days ago. the interesting thing we are hearing here is that all people getting into the search planes really feel driven by this. they really want to bring an answer home. that is something that they all have seen pictures on cnn and they know that they need something in order to have closure. >> closely in touch with you. thank you. in china handling of the investigation, anger while hundreds protested outside the malaysian embassy in beijing. what is the latest there? >> reporter: the latest is this angerer which has been simmering for days here in bay ying has

finally broken. >> these are the families and friends of those on board malaysia flight 370. they are angry and frustrated. they want answers. they want to know where the plane is. >> don't even get evidence that the plane crashed. they said it is over. they say no one survived, no evidence. if you find something -- >> reporter: police prevented the bus from leaving the beijing hotel that has been their home base so they took to the streets on foot marching to the malaysian embassy. >> from the beginning they just hide everything. i don't think this kind of government, liar can solve anything. >> reporter: according to the passenger manifest 154 of the 227 passengers on board flight 370 were from china. and their loved ones say they are resilient and resolved and

willing to rest until their questions are answered. >> nothing found. we will stay here or go to malaysia to fight for ourselves. >> reporter: highly unusual for the chinese government and the communist party to allow protests to happen here on the streets particularly in beijing. one has to believe at least tas udapproval of the protests or the government knows if they get involved to crack down on them like they would with pretty much any other protest they would face the wrath of the family. a tight spot for the government. >> any improvement with the chinese relationship with malaysia. they want answers and so far have not received satisfaction as far as providing information about what happened. >> the chinese now according to

state media are sending a special envoy to malaysia. that will apply more pressure on the malaysian government from the chinese side. and while you have seen a great deal of cooperation between countries in the search effort when it comes to the information flow and managing of this process a lot of pointed fingers from here in china towards malaysia. that is stewing their anger of the fam eilies that depend on state media. >> the pollution is very heavy at this early morning hour. thanks for that. >> let's bring in our panel to discuss. joining us renee marsh, cnn aviation analyst miles o'brien. aviation analyst peter ghols.

have you ever seen anything like this? this explosion of anger from the families in any of the investigations you were involved in? >> no. the family assistance act in the united states really set up a process to deal with these kinds of very challenging situations. but this is really unprecedented and is so heart rendering. >> miles, you have covered these investigations for years. have you ever seen this kind of anger and protest coming from family members? >> nothing like this. the family assistance act sets up a whole mechanism which provides counseling, grief support and frankly briefings in advance of news conferences so the families feel they are being informed and facts laid out for them, not conclusions, facts. that is the least the families are entitled to. >> there is a limited of time before they find the black box.

are you optimistic they can find it? >> no. i'm not optimistic they will find it in that timeframe. over time it might happen but it might be years. >> the life span of information? >> pretty much indefinite. >> it can go down to 20,000 feet. this is 10,000 feet of water we think. >> you did reporting on the pings getting and now half a ping as some are calling it. what is the latest on that? it does suggest that this is more of an art than a science, this investigation. >> it really is, wolf. every day we are hearing about a new piece of data that perhaps they will be able to drill down on and gain a little bit more information about. so this partial connection or partial handshake as they are officially calling it, it happened after that 8:11 ping that we have been talking about for weeks. they picked up something that happened around 8:19.

here is the thing. they are kind of stumped. what does it mean? does it mean that is the point where the plane went down or does it mean the plane was flying at at 8:19. they have been honest in saying we are not quite sure but we will be looking into it. here is why it is significant. it may if they are able to drill down and pull out more information we may get a better idea as to where the plane truly did go down and then we can narrow the search and have a smaller area to search. as one person put it searching the moon is easier than searching the bottom of the ocean. >> three weeks later it could have moved hundreds of miles by the time the currents took hold of it. where do you come down on this? more likely some sort of mechanical failure or criminal activity? >> wolf, it's very difficult to choose one side or the other. i can make an argument either

way. neither argument is without fault. so it's too early. there are a lot of things that we don't know that hopefully more information coming from the satellite can give us. we are getting conflicting reports whether the aircraft was at 35,000 feet or as the malaysian air force tells us it was down to 12,000 feet. that is a big difference in terms of how quicklyt that plane would have reached the location that they say is where it has crashed. and because of that we don't know the motives, the how and the why depends upon what altitude and how that aircraft was flown. it is just too early. >> what are you hearing as far as u.s. investigators? are they more inclined to believe accident, mechanical failure or criminal activity? >> they still think it is the pilots based on the fact it was someone who was able to redirect the plane and turn the

transponders off. the likelihood is that it was a pilot. sure maybe someone on the crew. the other thing they say is they haven't gotten a lot off the computer. this is the computer that the u.s. took to look for deleted information. they have taken it and are looking at it. that is really the fbi's expertise. so far they haven't found anything. >> what about the co pilot? >> nothing new in any oft that. as the u.s. steps back they say we are still not that involved. we have four agents on the ground listening. we have computers that don't say a lot. besides that we are not that much there. >> we don't know, it is possible the two pilots were just doing their job but somebody got into the cockpit and took over for whatever reason. >> absolutely right. we have no evidence to indict

the pilots for anything. they seem like perfectly fine aviateers with good records. we just don't have the facts yet. >> as you learn more about this -- every day you could say we are back at square one right now. >> when i saw the track that was laid out i thought this -- every day is a new event. what is interesting about that is it lays out three turns. the first turn is easy to explain as result of rapid decompression. the next two turns don't make as much sense when you are dealing with catastrophic failure. it looks like a willful act at that point. however, you can make arguments at both sides of this. here we are deep into this and we can't rule it out. >> adding to your point that goes to show why not one piece is more important than the other.

the debris isn't more important than finding the data recorder. you have the information where the cockpit voice recorder isn't going to capture the last two hours. we need every piece we can to paint the picture of what went on because we spent days with all of these theories. then, of course, it begs the question, what kind of changes will come about after all of this? it seems like this is a turning point for the aviation industry. >> the malaysians announced that all of the search going on in the northern over land, that has ended. is that smart? >> i think it is. i think that when you are searching an area larger than the state of texas for a tiny piece of wreckage, i think you want to put every resource you've got into the most likely locale. you have to narrow that down. if you can't do it you are never going to find them.

>> you talk to u.s. officials all the time. what are they saying about the decision to say it is over, the people aboard the plane are dead? >> they say the malaysians made a lot of missteps here by not being transparent from the beginning. the u.s. says they are trying to book end this here but they understand why the people don't take everything they say so seriously. >> because they made so many blunders, the malaysians. >> what a tremendous credibility problem they made for themselves. still ahead the enormous challenge of searching a section of the ocean that is more than twice the size of texas. we are going to show you the target zone is being mapped out. and a passenger's wife shares her sorrow. she says she doesn't have the courage to tell her sons their father may not come home. >> i can't trust malaysia government. it's a growing trend in business: do more with less with less energy.

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the search for flight 370 is back underway after a 24-hour delay because of bad weather. there is a huge expanse of the indian ocean to investigate. tom foreman is in our virtual studio to break it down for us. >> i can't hear the show. >> tom is not hearing us. let's try to connect with tom and make sure he can break it down for us. >> let's bring down colleen keller. senior analyst that helped with search for flight 447. tell us about the search underway. this is an area they are searching that is a whole lot

bigger than the search in the atlantic for the air france plane that went down. >> we are covering an enormous area with a large number of search assets in a multiple day search here. what they are doing right now. you might wonder how they pick the size of search areas they cover with different aircraft. i'm sure they are using a process that is outlined in the international air nautical search manual which takes into account visibility, sea state, size of target, altitude and speed of search aircraft. most are probably using visual search looking out the window, trying to pick up the signature, just a visual of pieces of floating debris. and the manualual will tell them how long they have to stay on station, how close they think they need to get before they can

see something. and that is how these search areas are laid out. >> i want you to stand by. i think we have re-connected with tom foreman in our virtual studio walking through the search. go ahead and explain what you have come up with. >> wolf, this is a big search area, still. there is still an awful lot of territory that needs to be covered, about 621,000 square miles. that is still five times as large as air france search area and essentially unsearchable at that size. so part of what they want to do is bring this down to size a little bit. let me show you how that might be accomplished here. if you went out to the water and you had to bring the search area down you impose a grid on your search area. you bring your image of where you think the plane went and put it in the grid. not all of the squares here for searching are created equal. some are of higher value than others. if you imagine the middle to be

the highest value area and move to the edges less value let's say you had data that suggested that maybe the plane was going a little bit slower. t that could shift your search area values over towards me over here. they would become higher value here and less so over there. you would intensify efforts here. one of the projections would say it would be a little bit more to its right as it flew this way. likewise we don't know precisely when it ran out of fuel. when a plane is traveling this fast a difference of ten minutes could make a big difference. if it went out of fuel and had virtually no glide then you have a search area that searches way up here in terms of importance. it has to move to the first part of the big box. you are looking for evidence of that. but imagine the opposite which is also possible. we don't know when the fuel ran out but let's say the fuel lasted as long as it possibly could and the glide was as far

as it could then look what happens? then your primary search zone moves much further down the line. that is one of the concerns here, this idea that even though you have a big area they are looking for any evidence they can, anything floating in the water, anything that helps cut it down and assign values to each search area so some of them become more important than others. that's how you manage a site like this as best you can. it is not perfect and doesn't necessarily lead you right to it but lets you control the space so it doesn't crush you by demand on resources. >> thanks so much. an oceanographer. how rough is the weather sth the waves, currents, how difficult of a search could this be over the next week or ten days?

>> wolf, this is a hellish area. this is really not the easiest area in the ocean to go and search for a plane. actually, i would argue this is maybe the worst area where the plane could have gone down. this is home to the strongest current in the world. gusts of three and four feet per second washes down. it means every day things move on the current for 50 miles. it has the biggest waves in the ocean and the strongest winds. it is so close to antarctica that it becomes a very difficult place to work in. >> if people involved in this search are taking off right now from perth, australia and heading out there in a lot of different planes and ships, if you hear what eric is saying this may be mission impossible right now. >> they are giving it their best effort. they are doing all the right things in this search. they are covering the area as

best they can to maximize probability of finding the piece of wreckage. we don't know if we are in the right spot but basing it on satellite detections. we are giving it our best shot at this point. >> and the weather is clearly in that part of the world, the weather is only going to get worse rather than better, right? >> absolutely. i was down there is in the southern ocean slightly further to the east in december. it was in our summer down here when scientists like to go to these places because the weather isn't too bad yet. as you approach winter and autumn it is going to get worse and worse. the only thing is the day light gets shorter. it will be our winter. it means the days get shorter and makes it harder to work on the surface of the ocean. >> when you are looking for the flight data recorder or the voice recorder, it's orange but

called the black box and emitting this little ping that can be picked up for a mile or two miles and you see the vast expanse you have to say this is probably not going to happen although they are searching for it and have sophisticated technological equipment. it is pretty daunting. >> we have the gear. we might as well use it. we want to pput it in the water and give it the best shot we can. this is the science of search theory. we take little pieces of information with lots of uncertainty and put it all together and give it our best shot. i mean, we would love to get another lead but at this point it is looking like we have all of the information we are going to have. we need to get the equipment in the water in the highest probability areas. >> is there anything they should be doing that they are not doing right now based on your experience? >> well, i think that we are kind of in our stride at this point.

the search is going fairly well to the best that it could. i would love to see the data that they are using. being a little more transparent in why they choose their search areas it would be interesting to see that. i have confidence that the australian surface search area is expert and they are doing the best they can. i can't think of anything else at this point. >> i understand surface ships probably have a lot of problem given the waves, currents, certainly planes flying over potentially could have problems. what about submarines or other under water vessels, submergeables. do you think they have a better shot? >> yeah, well, as soon as you get below the surface of the ocean actually you don't feel the waves anymore. absolutely you have a better shot there. but still this is unchartered territory. there has not really been any mission down there. we haven't explored the sea

floor. we roughly know the depth of the sea floor. i would argue we know more about the surface of the moon than we know about the ocean down there. >> really? why do you say that? >> well, because it's easier to point a telescope or point an instrument to the moon to the surface. we have had landers on there. we have had satellites floating around the moon that actually data from the moon. as soon as you go down into the ocean you can't work with electromagnetic data anymore. it is pitch dark there. you can't use light. the only thing you can use is sound and sonar. that doesn't work so well. we hardly have an idea of what the bottom of the ocean is like there. >> there were satellite images showing suspicious objects. we don't know what they were.

australian satellite images, french, chinese. so far nothing has been picked up. why is it so difficult to at least find what the satellites spotted and then go ahead and try to detect them? >> i was talking to somebody just earlier about what it is like to be at sea when you have high seas. he was a fish spotter. he said they would see something and then the ocean would move and lose sight of it and go to where it was and it would disappear and then turns out it was behind them. it is very difficult. we are talking i don't know what the sea state is. six to ten foot seas you might see it catch a glimpse of something. it might be wind whipped waves and not a piece of debris. it is a very difficult place to search from the surface. if you could coordinate that would help. moving to a location where an aircraft saw something is a precise science and takes a lot of coordination.

very difficult. >> very difficult. thanks very much. good discussion. just ahead more anguish from flight 370 families. why one passenger's wife is convinced the malaysian government is lying. and first hand impressions of flight 370's copilot. anything to raise alarm? richard quest standing by to tell us what he knows. dear sun, meet your biggest competitor: philips slimstyle led bulb. beautiful quality light with a slim design, at a slim price. save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance.ould yep, everybody knows that. well, did you know the ancient pyramids were actually a mistake?

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executives insist they are giving the families of flight 370's passengers all the

information as quickly as possible. at least one relative of a chinese passenger tells cnn she can't trust the malaysian government. tell us what she said. >> reporter: look, she was distraught. she actually called us. we had been trying to talk to some of the family members. many of the chinese families whose family members were heading to beijing have been silent. they haven't said much to the media here. she called us because she felt strongly about wanting the world to know how she felt after 18 days of all of the ups and downs. her husband, passenger number 57 has not returned. and she is not leaving until she sees some kind of physical concrete evidence that he is never going to return.

what is the most difficult thing for you right now? and do you think you will ever really know the truth about what happened to this flight? >> translator: i don't know. i can't trust malaysian government. i can't work now all because all i can think about is my husband and children. i don't have strength to go to work. my head is a mess. >> some of the families in beijing have had very harsh words for the government even saying and going as far as saying the government is responsible for the deaths. >> translator: yes, i think the same. because they have been hiding the truth. even though they know the truth they have been delaying it. >> why don't you believe what you have heard from malaysian authorities? what makes you think your husband is still alive?

>> translator: because the answers don't make sense. >> what have you said to your children about what has happened to your husband, their father? >> translator: i don't dare to. i have no courage. every day i am scared to call my sons because once i call them they will cry out daddy, mommy. my heart can't handle it. i don't want to hurt my children. >> talking about not being able to bring herself to tell her 1 and 5 year old boys that their father is missing and that he may never come home. as far asthmailation government and the airline itself, they have said that they have tried to tell the families everything they can as soon as they can. in the beginning the families felt left out and felt like the media and the world was getting information first and they were sort of left behind. but that has changed. they do admit that malaysian

airlines and malaysian government has taken good care of them. they have given them a place to stay and food and clothing. they have given them what they needed to be here and try to wait for information as well as counseling. but what they do not believe because the information has changed so many times is the ultimate, that this plane did go down in the indian ocean. they simply don't want to believe that. >> one of the things that i'm sure the family members would like, a lot of people would like and the malaysian government could do it is provide either the transcript or audio of the conversations the two pilots had with ground control during the first 40 minutes, 45 minutes or whatever it was of their flight. why won't the malaysians release that? >> reporter: you know, it is a really good question. i think we are still talking about being in the investigative phase. and i think there is a fear of releasing information during that phase because at this point

from what we are hearing from our sources, what we have been reporting for the last couple of days, there is a general sense that this was deliberate, intentional. who was the person behind this? we don't know. why did it happen? we don't know. most people in the investigation believe it is intentional. if there is a sort of sinister action there is a fear of letting information out before they have fully investigated the situation as to how flight mh-370 actually disappeared. >> thanks very much. even though search planes are heading back over the southern indian ocean right thou to try to discover what happened to flight 370 malaysian government hasn't shed real light on why the plane went off course or what may have happened in the cockpit.

cnn's richard quest interviewed the co pilot last month. a week before the plane disappeared you spent time with the co pilot. what was he like? >> charming. charming, polite. suddenly he had a very -- he knew we were filming. he had a very senior captain sitting with him. t that check captain that we heard about, that check captain was also there, as well. although he was in charge of the aircraft he wasn't in command the captain remained in command. he was absolutely delightful. he loved flying. he made polite conversation. not that i am an expert on this. when asked the captain said this man has trained in the simulator and trained for many hours. he is an experienced first officer and did a picture

perfect landing. >> when you heard that this was the co pilot of this tragic flight, what went through your mind? it was only a week apart. >> horrified. it was absolutely -- i realize -- the picture that everybody is using on the screen is the one that we took with him in the cockpit, he took on his camera and was on his facebook picture. that is me sort of over his left shoulder. it is one of those awful coincides that we happen to have filmed with him on that occasion. >> and what do you think when you hear like michael schmidt telling us the fbi is spending an enormous amount of time going through this co pilot's hard drive, the pilot's hard drive, the flight simulator that they have. there is a lot of suspiciont that one or both pilots may have been involved in this.

what do you think? what goes through your mind when you hear that kind of discussion? >> that it is entirely proper and there will be something absolutely wrong if the actions, the friends, the family, the financial circumstances, the medical history, the psychological profiles, it would be very improper if they were not looked at in the gravest detail. wolf, whether we think or not that the pilots were involved the fact is they were at the helm of this craft. we need to know what role, if any, they played in saving, attempting to save or dooming or simply being present because they were the men at the controls. so that is not an accusation. i will not go that extra stage but i do agree we need to know

everything we possibly can. there is a point about pilot involvement. some human has to fly the plane. and frankly if it is the pilot that is involved there is not a lot really you can do about it because ultimate there will always be a human at the controls. >> good analysis, as usual. coming up a very different search and rescue effort here in the united states. crews in washington state want to know where to look. rain and mud is slowing down the hunt for 176 people now missing after a massive landslide. we will have more on the search for flight 370. planes are now in the skies over the indian ocean. [ male announcer ] this is the cat that drank the milk... [ meows ] ...and let in the dog that woke the man who drove to the control room [ woman ] driverless mode engaged. find parking space. [ woman ] parking space found. [ male announcer ] ...that secured the data that directed the turbines that powered the farm that made the milk that went to the store

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much more on the breaking news on flight 370 in just a moment. first that deadly mud slide in washington state where they're

trying to find 176 people who remain unaccounted for right now. let's go straight to cnn's george howell on the scene for us with the very latest. george? >> reporter: wolf, we understand today that a volunteer search and rescue worker was injured when a piece of debris was thrown up by helicopter watch over head. that hitting him in the head. we understand that the injuries are minor injuries. still, it's a difficult job but rescuers are doing their best in the mud and muck. we understand today that that effort is also a recovery effort. the rain doesn't help. it only makes the 30 to 40-foot deep debris field even messier. the piled on mud and trees, crushed homes and cars, damaged propane and septic thanks making the search for survivors all the more challenging >> this is going to be a very long-term event. this will be something that goes into the weeks. >> for the first time, we're hearing some of the 911 calls

from the day the cliff gaveway and a wall of mud destroyed a community within a matter of seconds. >> i got a big emergency. there is a house on 530 and a big slide and it is covering the road. >> my neighbor's house and their neighbor's house have been completely taken out. it's collapsed on several of them and they're trapped. >> okay. let me get that sent through. advise them. and you know they're inside the home still? >> yes, i'm standing at the location right now and i can hear them tapping underneath. >> okay. >> and yelling at us. >> the search in this disaster zone is now being called a rescue and recovery operation. the hope of finding nina live is dwindling. but more help is on the way. the washington state national guard is joining the search and neighboring states like california now sending in search and rescue teams. volunteers are also showing up like lisa bishop and her especially trained dog cody

bulis sa was told to stay back. >> we are disaster search and rescue. so we're specifically trained for this type of situation and then they called us off because of the danger to the searchers. >> reporter: on the other side of the slide in darington, officials, are getting more help than they need on the ground. something mayor dan rankin is trying to manage. >> at this time, we're not accepting any more volunteers here in darington. thank you so much for those that have come from near and far to volunteer. >> as families continue to wait for word about missing or uncanned for friends or relatives, officials promise to keep searching the grounds for answers. uncertain themselves though about how long that search could take. and the latest numbers that we have confirming with cnn 176 people still considered missing or unaccounted for. 14 people died from this mud slide. we are expecting a news

conference expected to happen right about now. that has been pushed back to 9:30 p.m. eastern time. we will bring you the latest information, of course, as we get it, wolf. >> george, thanks very much. good luck to you an the folks out there. coming up, the search resumes for the missing flight 370. the details coming up next. 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

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the developments in the mystery of flight 370, breaking developments right now. the search for wreckage is back under way after a 24-hour break because after bad weather. australian officials say a total of 12 aircraft will comb for

possible debris. equipment to find the plane's black box was due to arrive in perth, australia a little while ago from the united states. the locator beacon on the black box is expected to stop working in less than two weeks. thanks very much for watching. "erin burnett outfront" starts "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com at this hour, certainly efforts for flight 370 have resumed. there are still more questions than answers tonight, plus, what we're learning about the two pilots tonight. investigators are now focusing on their professional and personal lives. and the latest from the deadly landslides in washington state. at this hour, 14 people confirmed dead. nearly 200 missing. let's go "outfront." >> good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett. out front, the breaking