it's just on 3:30 on a thursday morning on the east coast of the united states. >> we want to welcome viewers in the united states and across the world. the headlines now this hour. the air search for malaysia airlines flight 370 has been postponed due to bad weather but five ships will remain in the search zone. the air crews hoped to focus on a spot where french satellites had captured images of 22 floating objects. one was big enough to be the plane's wing. officials in the u.s. state of washington say 90 people are still unaccounted for in a massive landslide. but that is down from 176 people on wednesday. rescue workers will continue searching for victims today but they have been unable to locate

any survivors. u.s. president barack obama calls on russia to reduce focus on ukraine. and a russian invasion of eastern ukraine is more likely that previously thought. as we have been reporting the bad weather impacting the search for the missing flight 370 and the storms could make it much harder to find debris from the boeing 777. >> but when the weather clears what should search teams be looking for? renee marsh shows us what kind of debris might be spotted out on the water and the difficulty in finding it. >> reporter: three million parts to a boeing 777 and not one piece of flight 370 has been found. satellite images from australia,

china, and france showing floating objects in the south indian ocean. the latest suggests 122 floating objects but nothing is confirmed to being from the plane. the larger piece could be a portion of the wing. the total wingspan of a 777 is 200 feet. >> the wing carries fuel. so the liquid doesn't leak out it's sealed. when a plane uses all that fuel and the tanks now are empty, the voids in the wing will now be with air and that would float a wing. >> but the large objects could be multiple pieces. >> intermingled with wire and other debris. you could have a lot of smaller pieces which might look like a larger piece. >> reporter: the size of debris depends on how the plane hit the water. if it hit the water nose first,

the plane would shatter into thousands of small pieces. a mid-air explosion could produce larger debris and a wider field. but if someone attempted a controlled landing, the plane could break into large pieces. what sinks and what floats depends on what it's made of. >> i think floating today definitely seat cushions and definitely insulation. >> plastic and composite parts of the plane like overhead bins and the tail could be floating. air france 447's tail was floating days after it crashes. heavy metal pieces would sink. all of that considered these satellite images may not even be the lead that the crews immediate. >> the eddie currents that are collecting this stuff is like a whirlpool effect. 120 items. this could be garbage, plastic

bottles, things like this from merchant vessels. >> reporter: time is of theess sense to make that determination. here's another possibility in this rough part of ocean it's possible that search crews could miss floating objects because of the fallibility of the human eye and the possibility these objects are blending in with the water. historically visual searches have a 78% possibility for detection in a first search in flat, calm water. but when you is a lot of wave action that decreases. renee marsh, cnn washington. there are conflicts reports about the pilot of flight 307 and what if any role he played in the plane's disappearance. our jim clancy joins us now. the spotlight keeps coming back to the pilot. and yet there, is not one piece of evidence to suggest he is criminally intent in this.

>> no, there isn't. that's what we are being told by the investigators and officials in charge of this. they're not holding a press briefing today. about two hours from now is the usual time they have it. but this the past they have said they are not going to make any comments on the investigation. that would prejudice the outcome at this point. frustrating for the journalist and some of us find different sources. "usa today" reporting that investigators here are pointing a finger at the captain, the senior pilot on that flight saying that he's the only one who could have steered it off course as it went. but we sat down -- most people don't want to comment, by the way. that's obvious. we sat down with the former ceo of malaysia airlines, the man who founded this airlines and

asked him about the pilots. a pilot he knew from the time he went to flight school 30 years ago. listen. >> you knew captain shah. some people point a finger at him. >> he's an excellent pilot and i think also an excellent gentleman. i think they're going to wrong way. they're pointing a finger at him. >> you also knew the co-pilot. what can you say about him? >> his father learned the quran by heart. so he also learned the quran by heart. he's a good muslim. i know he's a good muslim. >> now the former ceo of malaysia airlines told us he's hoping they find the aircraft and locate the flight data recorders. he says that's the only way the pilots and their families are going to be able to clear their names. otherwise it's just too

difficult to overcome the doubts. no one has any evidence and the pilots can make all too easy a suspect. back to you. >> exactly right. you mentioned the families. the elder son of the pilot has spoken out. tell us what exactly he's been saying and whether other family members are saying anything. >> well the family is -- i think we can say they are in seclusion. they are said to be moving around among relatives. you have to understand the co-pilot's family was harassed by the media. people camped out in their front yard. this family has moved away since the crisis unfolded. his son came out and he said this today, whatever i read has not changed my heart. i have ignored the speculations because as a son i know who my father is compared to other people. i may not have been very close to him because he was always on duty but we understood each

other. that's from his son, seth zaharie and he gave an interview to a local newspaper. it's the first time that anyone has tracked this family down and got them to make a comment on this. and as i said at the official level they really don't want to talk about it. politically charged, some say that those who are in favor of this government versus the opposition are casting a light -- casting dispersions on captain shah because he was a strong supporter of the anti-corruption opposition and its leader. >> jim clancy reporting live. many thanks to you as always, john? the search for the debris from the missing malaysian airliner is like chasing a moving target. >> reporter: this is what search teams looking for flight 370 is up against.

strong winds and massive swells as high as 5 meters. even china's ice breaker the "snow dragon" struggles against the waves. >> it's one of the most hostile regions in the world. we call it the roaring 40s which has always strong winds and big waves because there is no land to interfere with the wind, which generates the waves. these are ocean gliders. >> reporter: this is a professor of oceanography. he uses these gliders to study the currents of the indian ocean. >> the main current is the antarctic circumpolar current which is the largest in the world. to identify the debris you can use aircraft to pinpoint them and the ships to go and collect it. then you use sonar to map the

seabed to find out where the plane is and where the debris may be scattered. and once you find that you have to go out with a different instrument and a vehicle which can recover the material. >> we are not talking about a few days here? >> no, no. >> reporter: nasa satellites have joined the search. the professor has a theory. >> it sort of tells me that the way the plane crashes, there wasn't that much debris. that most of it probably is intact at the bottom of the ocean. >> reporter: is it possible we will never find it? >> no, we'll find it. >> reporter: somewhere the fuselage may be sitting on the ocean floor, still intact, waiting to be found. and you know although the storms today have halted air search efforts for the day at

least, the largest window of favorable weather may be hours away. >> this is a forecast that is always changing. let get a few more details on this. we talked about this is an isolated part of the world and the weather is fickle to say the least. >> you know, the stretch is definitely going to be the best since the search began. it's one of those unusual stretches of weather for this time of the year. but first i want to show you something we haven't talked about because of the trash patches around the world. there is five. one off the u.s. and one off the south america and in the north atlantic and the south atlantic. the one glaring difference the 122 objects found and the reason we get more credence and credibility to that object is this garbage patch is different

in that the concentration is scattered about. here it is more like an island in the north pacific between hawaii and the west coast of the u.s. compared to what we're seeing here. once you get in the south indian ocean the concentration becomes limited. very unusual to see large clusters of trash in this region. and the vast majority is going to be invisible to the huge eye. the credence of the debris found in this region is something that officials are trying to get to as quickly as possible. and the storm system that halted operations today is moving out very quickly. in five or six hours the clouds will begin to clear up over the region and remains this way for friday and saturday into sunday. the early part of sunday. this was the scene on wednesday afternoon in the region where they resumed the search. these are the clouds you would

expect in this part of the world. this is what you'll see out there as you are scouring the region. notice the 12 hour loop begins to exit the storm system and we have scattered clouds tomorrow afternoon and the winds die down. we have winds to the north and east and hurricane-force winds down to the south. unimaginable conditions down to the south and you see how fortunate the next two days will be at least. >> we should say, though, we were expecting good weather all day today. that was a sudden change no one was expecting. >> i did mention we would get storms in the afternoon. when i woke up this morning i was surprised they were able to get the efforts underway but it's it shows how serious this is. the storms came in in the afternoon but they were out from there in the morning hours.

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welcome back to cnn news room. the u.n. general assembly meets today. >> they are expected to vote invalid the annexation of ukraine by russia. it is a rare event when a world

power is judged by all the member nations and no one has veto power. >> hundreds of supporters of a ukrainian nationalist leader have turned out for his funeral and they are angry. >> they carried his picture and coffin through the streets of the village where ukrainian police shot him to death this week. but many see moscow's hand in his killing and they are ready to fight back if russia invades. >> a final fare well from mother to son. parting shots from brothers in arms. the killing of ultra nationalist leader is enough to make paramilitary hard men cry. [ speaking foreign language ]. >> translator: he was like a brother to me and my comrades.

but that bastard putin murdered him. . >> reporter: he was a regional command over of the right sector that played a key role in protests that toppled ukraine's president. this woman met him on the barricades in kiev this winter. >> he is an inspiration for millions of young ukrainian people because he is a local robin hood. >> reporter: the ukrainian interior ministry says its special agents seen here gunned him down monday night. they accused him of being a gangster. but his loyalists say corrupt government officials ordered his murder, acting, perhaps on orders from moscow. these are the scenes likely to worry president putin, the sight of well organized militias.

that is an excuse he is using to meddle in ukraine's affairs. this woman is ethnic. >> reporter: no one in my life has abused me. i don't need protecting. >> reporter: 30,000 russian troops are massing on ukraine's border and could roll in any time. if that happens, right section's top leader says his fighters will start a war. >> translator: the right sector will do its best to launch an insurgency. the land will burn under the feet of the invaders. we will not be lambs to the slaughter. >> reporter: right sector's public call assecent is growing. but they may harbor right wing

extremists. charges he rejects. >> translator: we have nothing to do with german nazis or italian fascists. we are opposed to zenophobia and anti-semitism. >> reporter: his death is raising a worrying spector. the political partners in new ukraine may have supporters in moscow. the second largest bank in the u.s. has reached a settlement with federal housing entities. >> bank of america has agreed to pay more than $9 billion to settle claims that it sold them faulty mortgage backed securities before the housing

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