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new this morning. the search intensifying for missing malaysia airlines flight 370. new clues helping to narrow the search. right now, investigators scouring the sound indian ocean by air and by sea for any sign of the vanished jetliner. we have live team coverage. welcome back i'm poppy harlow.

>> i'm christine romans. nice to have you, poppy. >> let's begin with flight 370. it's resuming in the indian ocean. more than a dozen planes. china now heavily involved in the mission sending in four ships and five aircraft to assist. so far, so far nothing has been found. meanwhile, family members in china coping with this agonizing grief. mountinging anger. many trying to rush the embassy in beijing for answers. let's bring in andrew stevens. he's monitoring that search from perth, australia. it's agonizing. the weather has called off the search. it was postponed for a day. now they're all back out there and waiting to see to find any shred of an airplane to put the pieces together, andrew. >> reporter: yeah, indeed, christine. the world is waiting. and at the moment, we have no fresh leads on the search, about

1500 miles from where i'm standing, it's been the biggest air search so far. a total of six countries in that search. there are airplanes going down there, small commercial jets with a dozen or so spotters on them. they have not reported anything back. we're still waiting for the search coordinators' answers. maritime authorities, here in australia to release the latest information about what they've seen down there. we have before this hour, it's now 4:30 in previous days, known that they've seen anything, we've got the news before now. so it doesn't look good at this stage. christine, more and more importantly, getting more ship surface vessels in that area, the australian naval ship, the success is back on location. and chinese icebreakers there.

three chinese naval vessels there as well. but it is so frustrating for everyone, obviously. there have been sightings but those sightings are now two days hold. there are sightings of what can be described as significantly large objects surrounded by smaller white objects. very indistinct. they need the eyes on those objects. they need to get those objects over the side of the boat to identify, either discount them or pick up the charge from there. at this stage, we don't know if there's any more news. but it would seem we're getting late in the day here now, christine. no news yet. >> thank you, andrew stevens. we know time is of the essence. because the technology is waiting to go under sea waiting to -- but they just don't know where to put it. >> exactly. finding any piece of debris connected to flight 370 is critical to locating the plane and finding that data recorder.

take a look at this exclusive video of the high-tech autonomous underwater vehicle, auv, being sent to the area by the military. it's sophisticated sonar that can detect wreckage at depths of 15,000 feet. the the pentagon says it's there just in case they use it. >> in addition, searchers have hydrophones at their disposal. these are microphones used under water to identify the ping and hope flip the wreckage. then the sonar comes in with a 3d map of what's on the ocean floor. our stephanie elam off the coast australia has a demonstration. >> reporter: it's a difficult task i'm talking about. i'm joined by james coleman, he's going to show us the hydrophone, first of all, show us the difference between this and the sonar.

let's start with the hydrophone. how does this work? >> exactly. so this is a hydrophone. there are a number of variety of hydrophones. basically, a hydrophone is an underwater microphone. this is going to be towed along a boat in long tails or tipping it over the side of an aircraft. in order to listen to that underwater pinger. >> how far can it hear, how wide? >> only about five miles. >> only about five mills. this is where you find the basic idea of where the flight might be? >> exactly. >> take a look is he sonar, the sonar is what you use when you get closer or that battery dies? >> exactly. the sonar is going to actively emit sound down to the seafloor. as it receives a signal coming back from the seafloor, it's going to interpret that and build up a 3d map of what's on the bottom. so this device can be used to map out what's on the seafloor. >> but you got to be right on top of it for that to work?

>> yeah. >> it's also painstaking and extremely time consuming. china is demanding that malaysia turn all over the satellite data that was used to term that everybody on flight 370 are gone. the dat is being used to narrow the search area in the southern indian ocean but what does it tell us about the fate and what may have happened. our jim clancy is tracking it throughout. he joins us live from kuala lumpur. jim, i understand there say new investigation by malaysian authorities, is that correct? >> reporter: right. this has got basically three investigations going on right now. the one that andrew is talking about, the search for the plane, using data, using oceanographers, and everyone else, the visual searches. that is an all-important one. then we've got the search for motives. we've got the search for

individuals who might have links here, you know, writing all of these people off. just yesterday, the ahead of the malaysia police here told us, they're not going to release anything on that investigation until some later date when they can could actually draw some conclusions. they say it would prejudice the investigation. but now we have a new military investigation that was announced. the malaysian royal air force is going to investigate. they're really investigating how it was that it took so long to arrive at some of these conclusions. they have, for instance, the radar data that showed that the plane left the south china sea within 90 minutes of takeoff and headed towards the indian ocean. why didn't that information come out earlier? was there some dereliction of duty by the radar operators? did civilian radar inform the military that they were missing a plane in a timely fashion? what exactly happened there? those are the likely -- we say

likely, because they didn't announce any details of it, those are the likely subjects of that investigation, an intriguing one, but one not relevant for the search for the plane right now. still, it's one that could cause repercussions right here in kuala lumpur, because it's very much an internal look at how this whole case has been studied. how it's gone from the very stark investigating the disappearance of flight 370. poppy. >> you know, jim, the malaysian government authorities, the airlines have come under intense scrutiny and criticism from some for not releasing more details. do you get a sense being there on the ground that they have shifted and that they are being more open, forthcoming with details or has it remained steady? >> reporter: they're trying to be more forthcoming with details. they're trying to release them as soon as they can. but in the case of the inmarsat

data that led to the definitive statement, we've lost the plane, you saw the pushback coming from china, they don't want to make a mistake. right. >> reporter: they want everything to be corroborated. they got burned on that at the outset but they've improved. >> we appreciate you reporting throughout, jim. it's been three weeks since that plane disappeared for family members this has been a period of grief, outrage. many of them suspecting the malaysian government is withholding information. few of them accepting the announcement that the jetliner is there is gone. paulina chiou joins us. it's been in the absence of information in the past three weeks and conflicting information, but sometimes hope can delay a natural grieving process. these families are in a very,

very precarious position right now, aren't they? >> reporter: yeah, they are. and you could call it denial, but these relatives say, before they say that, they just want concrete evidence. they want proof. in fact, there's a meeting going on between officials and relatives and malaysia airlines. i have a producer in there. she's been telling me what's going on. they're getting information about the satellite data and also about inmarsat and civilian radar and the search procedure. and it's a power point presentation. one relative says how can you reach a conclusion that a plane went down from a power point presentation? give us proof. that's the sentiment we're getting from the relatives here. also this whole ordeal, this whole tragedy over the past 18 days has burned up social media.

we were on sina weibo. there's an actor here. he says, if you agree, please repost. another tv host said i've never from malaysia and i don't plan to go. and a writer who has 1 million followers he talks about the dollars that chinese tourists have brought to malaysia last year. he believes at least 1.5 million chinese went to malaysia. he said from now on, i hope the tourism dollars will be zero. you see this emotion going from kuala lumpur and hitting the social media world and getting very emotional. >> pauline chiou has been following the families for some

days now. thank you. president obama in a war of words with russia this morning blasting the country as he met with world leaders criticizing its grab for part of ukraine. we're going to take you live and tell you what's happening right now. straight ahead.

president obama is in belgium this morning for the e.u. summit, talks expected to be dominated of course by the crisis in ukraine. european leaders will reportedly press president obama for nor

natural gas exports from the united states so they can reduce their dependence on russian energy and punish moscow for invading crimea. michelle kosinski is live in russia. michelle, a lot of developments out of the norm overnight. >> reporter: yeah, definitely, some u.s. lawmakers have been pushing for more gas exports from the u.s., trying to reduce that dependence on russia. of course, the ukraine issue will dominate today as well. the white house has said when president obama today gives a speech to the belgium people which he hasn't done before, lots of eyes will be on that speech. they don't really want to focus down the ukraine crisis, but everyone the president goes those questions are what follows. especially yesterday, he was really pressed on the u.s. response. should it have been stronger? what about all the criticism? what do we do next? where is this going from here? are sanctions working? what if they don't work? does russia really seem to care

about any sanctions? we've heard those questions over and over again. president obama said, look, i kind of know where this is going, you're asking if there's going to be a military response. but both he and the european leader that he was with during this press conference, the prime minister of the netherlands, both said they don't see this becoming a military issue or military response. but, remember, some lawmakers in the u.s. have been calling for at least supplying ukraine with some military equipment. that hasn't happened yet. although the white house said they're considering many options. from here, it's unlikely at least today we'll see more action against russia because the situation is as it stands. i mean, troops are amassed at the ukrainian border. unless there's some change in the situation on the ground. it seems unlikely that the sanction situation, as relates to the u.s. and the e.u. will change. but that development that happened during this trip of russia essentially being shut

out of the g-8 was the most significant development so far. poppy. >> and of course, michelle, also a development when it comes to those there to protect the president. what can you tell us about a few members of the president's detail being sent home? >> reporter: yeah. i think as often happens a fun expected things have turned up. so we found out that three members of the secret service detail, the advance team, they arrive before the president arrives. apparently, this happened 24 hours before the president arrived in amsterdam. it appears they were out for a night of drinking. one of them ended up asleep in the hallway of his hotel. the secret service confirmed that three were sent home. and that an investigation it under way. but didn't give much more detail than that. but of course this turns heads all over the world because of that scandal in 2012 in cartagena when so many agents were involved in drinking, dancing and prostitution.

some agents were fired. others resigned because of that. so this is just in the initial stages, but not the greatest image for others to see, as the president is traveling, of course. >> sure. development, but certainly not the headline of his talks over there. we'll be following it, michelle. thank you. all right. about 24 hours now of searching. it is evening in australia, off the coast of perth, where they've been looking for malaysia airlines flight 370. we'll tell you how they narrowed the search. giving investigators a better idea of where the vanished jetliner could be. we're breaking down the very, very latest on this for you. live in the same communities that we serve. people here know that our operations have an impact locally. we're using more natural gas vehicles than ever before. the trucks are reliable, that's good for business. but they also reduce emissions, and that's good for everyone. it makes me feel very good about the future of our company. ♪

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♪ sleep train ♪ ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ malaysian officials say flight 370 crashed into the indian ocean on march 8th some time between 8:11 and 9:15 a.m. what they still can't say is why

or precisely where. until they find solid evidence there will be no relief for the suffering families. joining me is alastair rosenschein. he's been giving excellent insight over the past few days from the london studio. we thank you for joining us this morning. among the mysteries according to the malaysian government, there's analysis that the plane didn't answer the final ping about 9:15 a.m. local time. leading them to think that the electronics on this plane stopped working some time between 8:11 and 9:15 a.m. do you accept that analysis? and what could it possibly mean? >> well, i assume that they're referring to the final -- the end of the flight, where it was -- after it impacted the water, if that's indeed where the aircraft is. and that's presumably why they received no signal at that point. and i have to agree with you, that until they get concrete

evidence, basically, we're talking here parts of the aircraft on board one of those ships as positively identified as coming from the boeing 777, until that point, we're not going to be sure that the aircraft did go down there. it takes quite a lot to convince people, you know, especially relatives, that their relatives have died. and to do that, one does need evidence. if you look back at -- you know, this is not the first time this sort of thing has happened. look at the mias, missing in action, families, many of the families, find it very difficult to accept that their loved one has actually perished on a battlefield. and they manage even years later for a door bell to ring and they're going to walk in. so, yes, we need that evidence. and that last -- failure to receive that final radio ping is more or less coincidental with

when the aircraft disappeared. >> hope is a powerful motivators. hope is something that people can hold on to a dire situation fire long time. and then the three-week investigation by the malaysian government. basically the messengering that is contradictory or late. you can see why the families now that the malaysian government is trying to give them something concrete, the flight went down in the area of the ocean, you can see why families would say, we don't really believe you? >> well, i mean, grieving families, the very difficult to rationalize things. i do, in fact, feel a little sympathy for the malaysian government, in the sense is this a very, very unusual occurrence they've had to deal with. but having said that, i don't think they've dealt with it very well. for me, the worst moment was when the grieving relatives were man handled by some rough men out of the press room in kuala lumpur.

but, you know, speaking as an airline pilot here, watching this, i've rarely done this before during my career, it throws up the enormous option crippling responsibility that people in the industry, and particularly pilots in this case, have with the lives of the people they're carrying. it really, really drive that message home to everybody working in this industry. >> and now, we need to find some piece of that plane, you're absolutely right, so we can start to follow these clues and find out what happened to that flight. to give the families something concrete but also to begin the investigation so something like this doesn't happen again. alastair rosenschein. thank you so much. >> we'll be back with more news straight ahead. 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.

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well, the search narrows and intensifies for the missing malaysian jetliner that vanished from the sky nearly three weeks ago. right now, investigators scouring the southern part of the indian ocean by air and by sea. new technology on board to help find that wreckage and reveal

what went so terribly wrong. we have live team coverage of everything you missed overnight. good morning, everyone. i'm poppy harlow in for john berman today. >> nice to have you here, poppy. i'm christine romans. it's wednesday, march 25th, it's 5:00 a.m. on the nose in the east. let's start with the search for 370. back in full swing. china is now heavily involved sending in four ships, sending five aircraft to assist. nothing so far. meanwhile, family members in china, they are furious, many of them trying to storm the malaysian embassy in beijing in search of answers. let's bring in andrew stevens he's monitoring the search from perth, australia, this morning. it's morning here, but evening there. this is the time of day when you look to hear from authorities what they have found. have they spotted anything? they have brought anything on board a ship just