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>> hello, everyone you're watching cnn news room. >> welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. a frustrating weather postponement in the search for malaysia flight 370. >> this one grounding the planes hoping to research the search zone in the indian ocean. the storms are whipping up turbulence and zero visibility. the planes had hoped to scour an area where images of 122 floating objects were recorded over the weekend. >> one of those objects is of particular interest. it's 23 meters long and it has the potential to be a wing. >> even though the planes are not flight, five ships involved in this multinational effort will remain in the search zone. andrew stevens joins us live. what impact is this expected to

have on that debris? will they be able to find it? >> reporter: they are the key questions. and at this stage can't give any agree of certainty as to what happened to that debris when it is in the middle of a storm. this will be the second storm in two days of significant enough strength to drive airplanes out of the area and two days ago to drive ships out of the area as well. we heard from the australian defense force chief talking of conditions there then he was talking of waves 20 meters high and this debris field which was photographed by satellites two days before the first of the bad weather swept through it could have spread quite widely. we can't be any more certain than that at this stage. this has been a common theme throughout the search down here.

the objects that have been picked up by the satellites and spotter aircraft may have sunk. the pictures are taken of objects in the water. they are spotted from aircraft. but they are never relocated. so far, nothing to link anything, any debris, any object in that water to 370. >> yeah, it is frustrating and everyone would like to know, i guess how long before the search can resume? >> the australian search coordinators are saying they are going to check in 24 hours. they expect the bad conditions to expect for 24 hours. the conditions down there are very, very changeable. we were speaking to a pilot yesterday and he came back at 8:00 in the evening and said that the conditions had been really, really good, the best he has seen in the past few days and expecting conditions to be good again today.

obviously that's not the case. this is fast-moving weather. they are big storm fronts coming through moving quite quickly. we know 24 hours of bad weather is expected to congress and obviously the coordinators are keeping a very close eye on when they can get aircraft out there. you mention the ships are on station. that is a good sign but you have to ask if the weather is that bad how many sailors can they use to be looking for objects when they will need a lot of hands just to sail that ship and keep it going through those weather conditions. >> andrew stevens live in perth where the search is being coordinated from and the bad weather is a familiar story. the question is what is the forecast not just for the next 24 hours but the next few days. >> let's look at the weather. it's not going to last. it's not going to last forever, of course. it's looking better for weekend.

>> it is. it's beginning in 24 hours. and we are expecting this to continue all the way through saturday and early sunday. we are seeing vigorous thunderstorms in this region. some of the cloud tops based on the color contours, this is the infrared satellite imagery. the temperature in the clouds. that is up to 12,000 meters, 40,000 feet high. a lot of instability and turbulence in the upper levels of the matter and down at the surface making it extremely dangerous. there is the potential debris. the line of thunderstorms, the strongest storms are just to the northeast of where the degree, latitude/longitude was located at. based on the currents i have calculated 300 miles of movement just for the currents not counting the winds in the last couple days.

it could be here or down out of the box in another area of thunderstorms. that's why it is dangerous with visibilities down to the sea level there. but the models indicate clearing with scattered clouds and the winds beginning to quiet down friday afternoon and friday night. i want to show you how fickle the weather is in this part of the world. you see an expansive area of calm conditions saturday and sunday but those are hurricane-force winds. and that kind of a weather pattern moves to the north and that is the concern in the coming weeks. >> and there is so much debris and garbage there. one expert said it's not like look for a needle in a hay stack but looking for a needle in a needle factory. >> let's hope they have some success over the weekend. pedro, many thanks. we will have much more on the search for flight 370 later in the newscast. we will look at conflicting

information over the pilot's possible role in what happened on that plane and also why one oceanographer is convinced that the plane will be found. >> a veteran firefighter says he has never seen a fire escalate so quickly and travel so fast in such a short time. strong winds fanned the flames in boston, massachusetts. two firefighters died. more than a dozen were injured. the cause of the blaze remains under investigation. >> and on the other side of the u.s., in the northwestern state of washington, no survivors of an immense landslide have been found in several days now. >> officials have been able to consolidate some lists of the missing. they say the number of missing is now 90, down from 176 just a day ago. 16 bodies have been recovered. 8 bodies have been located but not recovered. >> search crews are preparing to

look for victims again. >> gary tuchman says they are not giving up hope of finding survivors. >> the top priority is still the search for survivors. and firefighters we've talked to who spent much of the day at the landslide scene have not given up on that quest. >> that miracle can happen. we love for that hope. we really live for that hope. >> but this has been a disappointing day in snohomish county, washington with no survivors found. the rescue and recovery work is done with choppers and police dogs, bulldozers, shovels and hand. dozens of structures buried in up to 40 feet of mud which is like quick stand which limits people's ability to work effectively and recover bodies. >> when we got here the crews went out and hit the hot spots.

let's get in through the roof and work on that house and see if anyone is in there. as you continue along you do a comprehensive search. now you are looking for stuff that doesn't jump off the page at you. >> the main highway remains shutoff. for the time being the general public and residents are being kept out while emergency vehicles go in and out. the recovery of bodies will continue. as will for now, the continued search for people who may be trapped and alive. >> we can't lose hope for anybody in this community. that's not what we're here for. we're here to find those people. >> gary tuchman, cnn, darrington, washington. just ahead, more tough talk for russia from the u.s. president. >> it's all about ukraine.

plus what did the pilot of malaysia flight 370 have to do with the plane's disappearance? it depends on who you ask. stay with us for that and more. ♪ ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit hungry ♪ ♪ and there's nothing really good around ♪ ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit tired ♪ ♪ of living off the taste of the air ♪ ♪ turn around, barry ♪ finally, i have a manly chocolatey snack ♪ ♪ and fiber so my wife won't give me any more flack ♪ ♪ i finally found the right snack ♪ ♪

. we turn now to conflicting reports on what role the pilot of malaysia airlines flight 370 may have played in the plane's disappearance. >> the "usa today" says an unnamed police official says that the pilot was solely responsible for the flight being taken off course. the investigators are pressing the captain's family for more details. >> while that points to a deliberate act by the pilot u.s. officials tell cnn a very different story. >> a senior official has told pamela brown that investigators are looking at the pilot and

co-pilot. right now, nothing is jumping out as a possible motive. here's her report. >> reporter: sources tell cnn the captain, seen here in a new tribute video posted online did not leave a suicide note or any evidence at his home that suggests he planned to take down malaysian airlines flight 370. after a preliminary review of the hard drive from his home flight simulators, u.s. investigators have found no smoking gun. >> i have teams working around the clock to exploit that but i expect it to be done fairly shortly, within a day or two. >> reporter: one official says so far it does not appear he went to great lengths to scrub the hard drive or that he encrypted any of the files. cnn has learned investigators have also not found any incriminating data on the hard drive of his 27-year-old co-pilot fariq hamid.

tonight, the fbi is still working to build a profile of the man's emotional, financial and personal backgrounds and to review interviews of family and friends. >> the first week people were looking at mechanical failure. there are two weeks of time to do a thorough investigation. that's not enough time to turn over all of the potential clues in an investigation like this. >> reporter: shah was a respected pilot who had been with malaysia airline since 1981 flying more than 18,000 hours. the 53-year-old seen here with his family was married with three grown children. cnn is not showing their faces. the family lived here in a gated community. but a source close to the family says that his wife routinely stayed somewhere else when he was flying. he posted videos like this one

online. >> as a community service. >> reporter: showing his home flight simulator talking about his interest in home improvement projects. while he posted to youtube and facebook less is known about fariq hamid who was on his first flight in the cockpit unsupervised on the jumbo jet. the co-pilot was engaged to his high school sweetheart. examining the pilots is a top priority for the investigators. i don't think there is a prevailing theory. there are counter arguments to every theory out there. the sense i get is that people are baffled by the plane's disappearance. pamela brown, cnn, washington. >> we have more on the missing flight a little later. but first a check of some of the other stories we are following. a new york jury has found

osama bin laden's son-in-law guilty on conspireing to kill americans. the kuwaiti cleric says he never joined al qaeda and helped only as a speaker on spiritual matters. he could face life in prison. sentences is set for september 8th. travellers in germany will have to pack their patience this morning. a union strike is underway forcing carriers to cancel hundreds of flights. the union called the 11 hour strike to pressure authorities there for better wages. i humbly come to you to announce my intention to run for egypt's presidency. >> a long-expected bid for the egyptian presidency. he had to resign from his post as defense minister and from the

army to make a run for the top office. he led the campaign to depose egypt's first democratically elected president next year. he is widely expected to win. u.s. president barack obama is warning russia yet again. >> he says that moscow's use of brute force will have consequences. >> mr. obama said that the u.s. and europe are united in their support for ukraine and in their efforts to isolate russia. >> now is not the time for bluster. the situation in ukraine, like crises in many parts of the world does not have easy answers, nor a military solution. but at this moment, we must meet the challenge to our ideas. to our very international order

with strength and conviction. if the russian leadership stays on its current course, together, we will ensure that this isolation deepens. sanctions will expand and the toll on russia's economy and its stanni standing in the world will increase. >> what he will likely be talking with pope francis about. it takes more than one day to see the sights in the eternal city. the masterpiece that mr. obama has to skip when we come back.

two of the most powerful men in the world will meet face to face today. >> u.s. president barack obama heads to the vatican to sit down with pope francis. wolf blitzer takes a closer look

at what may be on the agenda. >> reporter: for more than 200 years they have marked history together. on thursday, president obama and pope francis will open a new chapter at the vatican. in 2009 president obama brought his family to the vatican to meet the pope. >> they are going through these chambers. each time she would see somebody dressed up in the cloth and she's say is that the pope? how about that guy over there? no, no, you'll know when it is finally the pope. >> reporter: joshua dubois was the director of faith based and neighborhood partnerships during his first term. >> you think there is a shift with the relationship between the former pope and the current pope. >> i have a concern for issues related to the poor and making

sure that people can live lives of dignity. >> but there differences in which they will disagree. >> pope francis is pro life. president obama supports marriage equality. and pope francis does not. but they will not let disagreement prevent them from collaborating on other things, including addressing economic inequality. >> catholic groups in the united states are fighting the administration in court over the contraceptive mandate in the act. >> pope francis is a very, very clever man. he is pretty good at dealing with politicians. there are very, very big differences between the obama administration secularism and where the pope is. but my guess is they will have a positive, friendly meeting. this is a pope who wants to love you and witness to you, not yell

at you. >> like the history of meetings between popes and presidents there are no shortage of topic when the door closes on their private meeting. >> let's bring in our cnn senior international correspondent ben wiedemann. why was it so important to the u.s. president he meet with pope francis and what can we expect the two to talk about given their differences? >> there are differences on many issues but it's important to keep in mind this is a very popular pope, according to some opinion polls, he has an 88% approval rating, something that president obama can only hope for. so certainly, it's hoped, probably by the white house that some of that popularity will rub off on the president, who is due to come here in about an hour and a half. he's going to be meeting, first, of course, with pope francis,

then with the secretary of state of the vatican. then he has a working lunch with the 89-year-old president of the italian republic and afterwards, president obama will be meeting with the 39-year-old italian prime minister, recently appointed. he will end the day with a visit to the coliseum. there are other places, however, he won't have the opportunity to visit. no visit to the vatican is complete without seeing this, the sistine chapel. it's here where for hundreds of years where michaelangelo painted the ceiling and vivid scenes from the last judgment. every day thousands of visitors pass through here, craning their necks to take in the beauty and the majesty.

since the election of pope francis a year ago, visitor numbers have been increasing steadily, up 8% in 2013. [ speaking foreign language ] and according to the vatican museum, that number is up 20% this year. power may have its perks but time isn't one of them. it's unlikely that u.s. president barack obama, due here thursday will be able to squeeze in even a passing glance at this masterpiece. one of the advantages of being a cnn reporter as opposed to being the president of the united states is i have the time to visit the sistine chapel. president obama, however will not be able to make it here during his visit to the vatican. first lady, michelle obama was luckier. in 2009 she had a guided tour of

the chapel. >> i accompanied her and her daughters. but when i asked him if he could have pope francis convince president obama to pop in here for a quick visit he demured, saying that's basically above his pay scale. in any event with a jumble of more pressing issues from the ukraine to the u.s. economy staring him in the face, the president's mind may be elsewhere. >> and some of the pressing issues that they will be discussing here at the vatican this morning we understand is the u.s.-led middle east peace process, the situation in ukraine and the situation in the central african republic, john? >> ben, it's rosemary here. but i want to get an idea -- >> sorry. >> i know. how is this playing out in the

italian media? the build up with president obama arriving there? what do people think of him? >> it's been surprisingly low-key, given that this visit is taking place, really more than anything, people are most concerned about the traffic situation in rome. the president's movements around the italian capital mean that much of the city -- much of the major arteries in the city are going to be closed. in the bigger picture, for instance there is a lot of talk about the situation in ukraine. it's important to keep in mind between 30 and 40% of italy's natural gas comes from russia via ukraine. and therefore with the crisis there there's a lot of concern that if things get worse, if that supply of gas is in anyway interrupted it could really damage the italian economy. that's really one of the main concerns here at the moment.

>> very good point. thank you for reporting live from rome. many thanks to you, as always. and just ahead the agonizing search for flight 370. >> millions of pieces make up the boeing 777 but so far not one of them has been found. high seas are a huge obstacle to the search but high-technology is bringing some hope. stay with us for that. the day we rescued riley was a truly amazing day. he was a matted mess in a small cage. so that was our first task, was getting him to wellness. without angie's list, i don't know if we could have found all the services we needed for our riley. from contractors and doctors to dog sitters and landscapers, you can find it all on angie's list. we found riley at the shelter, and found everything he needed at angie's list. join today at angieslist.com