-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello, i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. dramatic new developments are unfolding right now in the hunt for malaysia airlines flight 370. the search area has shifted by hundreds of miles and now multiple planes have spotted objects in the new location. this picture from cctv, chinese state television, that shows what's described as a suspicious object spotted by a new zealand military plane. here's the latest on where we stand right now in this mystery. australian officials say five of

ten search planes that flew over the new area today actually spotted objects in the waters below. investigators are going over the photographs right now, the photographs of the objects. the ship is expected to arrive at the site tomorrow. the new search zone is 680 miles northeast of the previous sites. it's 1,150 miles from perth, australia. analysts say this shift in location is based on new calculations of satellite data and fuel consumption patterns. they say the data suggests the plane didn't fly as far south as they originally thought. we want the to give you a sense of what it's like on board one of those planes flying over the southern indian ocean. our correspondent, kyung lah is joining us live. you were on one of the planes that just returned to perth after flying over this new search area. describe what happened when searchers actually spotted something on top of the water.

>> reporter: i was with the united states p-8 poseidon crew. and as we were entering the search area, it took about two hours and twenty minutes to arrive to the search area. as we got closer to the ocean, one of the crew members, one seated to the left, looking out at the ocean, suddenly saw white debris. a number of white debris spots on the ocean from that high, all he could see from specks. then another crew member to the right saw some orange rope, what appeared to be orange rope. and then another sighting, a blue bag. all of it in the same general vicinity. what they did was they marked the coordinates, they swept through it twice, got a good look at t. a cam did give us a look on board the plane, what it was. it was really hard to make out. it looked like a misshapen white object. that's the only part i saw, wolf. what we can tell you is that

it's definitely debris. but we definitely do not know if it is connected to the missing plane. the coordinates have been set and a sea vessel has been directed to go there. wolf? >> so the vessel probably won't get there for several hours. i'm assuming it's going to take a while to get out there. once they get out there, how did the waves look? how did the weather look? you think they're going to be able to get close to this specific location where you saw this suspicious object? >> reporter: well, the old search area was described as being so -- the waves being so violent, it looked like a washing machine. a very different story what we saw today. weather is unpredictable. these waters can change. but they were very, very calm today. it was barely any wave activity. there was one point where you could see some white caps, but it was only for a short period of time, maybe ten minutes. the rest of the time, very calm waters. we understand the sea vessels are staying out there in the

overnight australia hours, and they're going to try to pick up some of this debris. >> a lot less violent weather further north where the new search area is. the waters, as you correctly point out, a lot calmer right now. so maybe that will help in identifying what these art questions articles, these items are. kyung lah back from this flight. a surprising turn in the hunt for flight 370. a new search area, new objects seen floating in this new area. let's discuss what's going on. mark weise is an aviation analyst, former 777 pilot for american airlines. peter goelz is a cnn aviation analyst, former ntsb managing director. tom fuentes, cnn law enforcement analyst. former assistant director of the fbi. so mark, let's talk about this. so what do you think when you see what's being described as these objects? you've flown 777s. does it sound, does it appear to be based on the initial

indications wreckage from that plane? >> you know, wolf, we heard this before when we heard the 300 objects. the 122 objects. and those seem to be debris fields. again, trying to manage expectations. we have been down this road before. and certainly everybody is hopeful. you know, some of the pieces, single pieces, may or may not really be part of the wreckage. we just have to wait. this one, fortunately, is close enough to a ship that's being repositioned that will have hopefully have it in our hands tomorrow. >> if it is wreckage, peter, and you've investigated a lot of these disasters, is it likely there's one individual piece floating around in an area? wouldn't there be a whole bunch of stuff sort of clogged up together? >> well, you would have hoped that that was the case three weeks ago. but today with three weeks worth of wave action, the debris could be well-separated. so it's not surprising you could have individual pieces floating alone. >> what are you hearing? is this a real breakthrough, potentially?

or is this potentially another false lead? >> well, i think they're pretty optimistic. they have been working nonstop over the past ten days, recalculating the numbers that they got from inmarsat. this is their best effort. if this falls short, if this is not the site, boy, they're going to have to go back to square one. >> this is, what, almost 700 miles, tom, from the other locations where they had been spending the last couple weeks desperately looking for something. they found nothing. they found a lot of objects, but nothing could be confirmed to come from that malaysian airliner. what's your assessment? >> well, the fact that this time the airplanes have seen the debris, not five-day-old satellite information. that was the problem before, the satellites would say five days ago, this object was at this location. the time they got out there, a day or two later with aircraft, they couldn't find anything. this time, they have dropped the sonobuoys on the debris so they would float with the debris if

the waves take them in a different direction. and now theoretically, should be able to get to the ships to the actual debris this time for sure. before the airplanes couldn't find it so the ships couldn't find it. that's the optimistic part of this one, at least they'll be able to fish something out of the water hopefully in the next 24 to 48 hours. it may not be the plane, but a better chance to look at something physical and make that assessment. >> and what's encouraging, peter, the water is a lot calmer, 700 miles further north than that original area. and the weather is a lot better too. >> yeah. things are lining up. let's hope that the new calculations are good, because if they're not, we're getting into the final days of the life of the pinger on the recorders. and boy, that's going to present a whole new set of challenges. >> and assuming those pingers are still pinging. >> exactly. >> that's another matter right there. how could they get this wrong, this destination?

because apparently they recalculated how fast the plane was flying across the malaysian peninsula after it made that left turn moving away from beijing, heading in the opposite direction. how did they miscalculate where the end point was? what did they do to refine it now by 700 miles? >> well, if you remember early on, we had the aircraft turning in multiple directions. we were concerned if the waypoints put it on the ground, in the air, we didn't really know. and there was so many potential variations in altitude, which certainly would change the entire fuel calculations, which would be the range of the aircraft. so i think what they were doing now, based upon the pingers, and different altitudes and different speeds, they have refined it now to a point where they really believe that this is going to focus in on the search area. >> this reassessment, you buy it? you gave us an indication yesterday that they were -- they had discovered this new area where they want to devote their search efforts. >> i think they had really put

the pencil to the paper. remember, this was always a term of art. i mean, this is not something that's been done before. they were breaking new ground, and i think they're confident this is a more accurate analysis. >> very quickly, tom. to those who say we're now back at square one, you say? >> i say that if peter and mark are optimistic, i'm optimistic. they know the calculations that were done at ntsb and the recalculations. so, you know, that's what i would base it on. >> all right, guys. we're going to continue our analysis. stand by. we have shown what it's like searching above the indian ocean for flight 370. up next, the view from under water. i'll speak with an ocean search specialist about what crews are up against right now. the hunt for flight 370 so far has only raised a lot more questions. by the way, if you have a question you want answered, send it to us. tweet us. aut use the #370qs.

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moved north around 12 degrees of latitude. and so as we go into the southern winter, the australia winter, it means that conditions will be better for any later under water search. >> so what about the currents? how accurate would -- this has been now the end of three weeks, about to enter the fourth week of this search, the plane goes down, let's say, in the indian ocean. how accurate, assuming they have a rough idea where it may have gone down, would the search be in terms of the currents, where they could move all the wreckage from the plane? >> it's a very good point. you know, the search area is going to be immense. there's been so much time elapsed now that the debris has had a long chance to dissipate. and, of course, not all debris drifts at the same rate. some items like seat cushions, for instance, propelled by the wind and the waves, less so by

the current. other items, such as the aircraft tail or wing tips, will be semi submerged and they're propelled mainly by the current and not so much by the wind. so the elapsed time has allowed debris to spread over a vast area. >> so this could really wind up anywhere. let's say they find some wreckage from the plane in the indian ocean. what do they do next to start deep water searches? is because the challenges will be enormous, especially if they're looking for those black boxes, the flight data, the voice recorders. >> the next step is to assess what items of did debris are recovered from the surface and then to run an exercise of navigation, which is a marriage between engineers, hiydro gravis and oceanographierses and apply that knowledge to the individual

parts and backtrack back to an original source. >> how good is that retroactive analysis, if you will? how reliable should we expect it to be? >> retro navigation is mostly a science. there is a little bit of an art to it, as well. it can be very definitive if you're dealing with a short time frame. but after the elapsed time so far, it's going to be quite a complex exercise. in our business, it's actually much better to be thorough and precise than it is to be fast. so this is not going to end any time soon. but these -- the general channel of the search at the moment is a good one. there's been a lot of area covered and gradually the clues are come together to provide us with at least a starting point. >> and one poifinal question. you say it's better if wreckage is found in deep water. why is that?

>> the -- if the water is deep and there's a lack of oxygen in the water, it's calm, it's settled, there's not a lot of marine life down there, then it makes it easy for us to search. our equipment works well down to 6,000 meters or 20,000 feet. so all of the areas that are in question at the moment are within range of the s.o.n.a.r. equipment. we like nice, deep, quiet water, so that the -- you know, the akouftices can be used to maximum effect. >> robert mccallum, thanks for your expertise and joining us, rob. >> thank you. >> mystery has certainly surrounded what could be on the flight simulator found inside the home of the flight captain. fbi agents have been closely examining the hard drives. up next, we'll sneaking speak to the unanimous who helped the captain put together the flight simulator. your eyes really are unique.

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the flight simulator owned by the captain of malaysia airlines flight 370 has been under the microscope since the fbi got hold of it for inspection. we now know investigators examining the hard drives on that simulator so far, repeat so far, have not turn up what they're calling a smoking gun. cnn's saima mohsin has more now on the international intrigue surrounding the device. >> reporter: it's a high-tech piece of equipment that's been the subject of much intrigue, concern, even suspicion. the flight simulator captain zaharie ahmed shah had built in his home. police certainsearched the homee pilots and co pilots of mh-370, taking away the simulator for investigation. cnn has spoken to tannis, who writes a blog on flight

simulato simulators. he sold the captain additional parts and helped him put it all together. >> he wanted to build a platform that it can create the rear motion of the plane. in a degree, it has its limits. >> reporter: that's done with a chair for or platform that moves, as though the pilot is seated in an it actual plane, to give the sensation of flying. he and captain zaharie exchanged at least 15 e-mails, which have been shared with cnn. they mostly discuss technical details, the pilot looking for guidance on setting up his simulator. it's a passion that extended beyond the job. captain zaharie often invited his friends over to try out the simulator. they say they saw nothing sinister. but investigators still have to ask tough questions and files from the simulator have been sent to the fbi for inspection. >> it's very normal for pilots to have something like that to practice themselves. >> reporter: malaysian authorities mentioned concern

over some deleted files. something he says is normal, like deleting data from a game drive or computer. he says he never discussed with captain zaharie what he used the simulator for. but he wasn't concerned. >> i think that it was actually someone we know that is devastate for us. we've got to be sad about it. and on top of that, we couldn't believe the things that were said about it, that it wasn't close to true. i couldn't believe that a man that had passion for a simulation like that wanted to to build something like that, would do something stupid or, you know, like sinister. >> reporter: captain zaharie seemed to have nothing to hide but his enthusiasm for flying. as one of his friends told me, if we were on a plane in trouble, he would want a pilot

as passionate as captain zaharie in the cockpit. saima mohsin, cnn, kuala lumpur, malaysia. >> even though there has been so far no evidence, the pilots had anything to do with flight 370's disappears, malaysia airlines announced today a new policy to try to ensure all of its new pilots are mentally stable. from now on, pilots joining the airlines must undergo psychological tests. but what about when there's a hijacking or another stressful situation? how do you best counster that threat? there is reportedly autopilot technology out there, patented by boeing, that takes complete control of the plane, rendering a pilot or are a hijacker powerless. brian todd is covering this part of the story for us. so brian, tell us about this system. how does it work? >> wolf, it's called the uninterruptible pilot system, reported on seven years ago by the homeland security news wire and daily mail. according to these reports, boeing got a patent that would enable the plane to be flown by

remote control from the ground in the event of an emergency. in a situation of distress, in this scenario, the pilot could flick a switch or maybe some kind of a sensor could trigger the autopilot. the autopilot could then be activated by radio or satellite. and our aviation analyst, mark weise, explains what would happen next. >> everything now that the pilots who try to do would be inconsequential. because the ground controller would be handling its flight path, its landing gear, its flap system, configuring the aircraft for a landing to a safe place. and really taking away hostile threat. >> mark weise says that if that technology was in place now, if this was in all planes and this -- had widespread capability now, there is a chance -- a chance, wolf, this could have saved malaysia air flight 370, but also may not have. again, we don't know a lot of detail about what happened in that cockpit. but if this had been in place then, that's why we're raising this now, it may have played a

factor and possibly saving that plane in a certain scenario. we have to say, boeing is giving us absolutely no comment on this. we have come back to them repeatedly, tell us about this patent, tell us about this technology. are you still pursuing it. nothing. they want nothing to -- they have nothing to say about it. >> from what i understand, autopilot, you can apply at a cruising altitude, but really can't land the plane on autopilot. the pilot has to land the plane. this new technology -- let's say a hijacker is in control and you want to control from the ground to save the passengers on board. could they actually land the plane from the ground, as well? >> there's certainly an implication in some of these reports the technology could take control of it and could land the plane. that could be possibly a pretty clumsy landing, but there is an implication it could happen and the auto brake system that every plane has would be employed to bring the plane to a full stop on the ground. again, there has to have been a lot of testing and probably still needs to be a lot of testing for this to become a reality. >> amazing technology. >> absolutely. >> thanks very much.

still ahead, much more on the hunt for flight 370. the search area shifting dramatically so does the focus. crews now zeroing in on new colored objects spotted from aircraft. we have details. also, tweet us your questions about the search for this airliner. use the #370qs. we're going to get anticipates answers for you later this hour. d save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that. well, did you know pinocchio was a bad motivational speaker? i look around this room and i see nothing but untapped potential. you have potential. you have...oh boy. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance.

welcome back. i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. we're following major new developments as the search for malaysia airlines flight 370 moves into day 22. the search area has shifted by hundreds of miles, and multiple planes have spotted objects in the new location. australian officials say five of ten search planes reported sightings in the water. this picture from cctv, chinese state television, shows what's described as a suspicious object spotted by a new zealand military plane. the new search area is 1,150 miles from perth, australia, 680 miles northeast of the previous site. analysts say this shift in location is based on new calculations. they say the data suggest the plane didn't fly as far south as they earlier had thought. joining us now from new york is keith massback, expert in satellite technology and

airborne reconnaissance. keith, thanks very much for coming in. what's your reaction to these new photos showing various colored objects on top of the indian ocean and this new search ar area. >> thanks for having me, wolf. what's exciting about these new objects, i think, they have come from the aircraft. doing this from 400-plus miles in space through clouds is tough. when you've got these aircraft down under the cloud deck with very sophisticated sensors, you're really getting a new level of information that adds to this puzzle. >> based on the radar and satellite data, the investigators have now concluded, the plane was traveling faster than initially thought. why do you think it took this long to draw that conclusion and come up with this new search area nearly 700 miles away from the earlier search area? >> well, i think as an intelligence professional, wolf shall we're looking for more information. we can never have. enough. you want to get every bit of

information and every time something comes into the bucket, it's adding to your analytic picture. it's adding to your knowledge of what's going on. and you get a better idea of honing in on possible alternatives. and you're also excluding possible alternatives, as you add more information into the problem set. >> the transportation administer of malaysia says all of the objects spotted earlier in some of those other satellite images, french, thai, chinese, australian, they could still be parts of the plane, because ocean currents have pushed them in various directions. do you buy that? >> well, i'm telling you, until you've got a piece that you've seen and you've got it up on a ship and in somebody's hands, in the hands of an aviation expert who knows that aircraft, how do you rule anything out, wolf? >> well, apparently, the australians don't believe the earlier 122 images spotted, i think in the french satellite, the 300 spotted in a chinese

satellite image, they don't believe these are parts of the plane. that's the australian assessment. >> look, we have certainly done a lot of polluting of our oceans. there is no dispute about that. but again, you know, you've got to work in absolutes. we owe answers to these grieving families. we want to solve this mystery that has sort of captured the attention of the world. and until you've got a piece of that in your hand, i don't understand how you can rule it out. >> you're an expert in u.s. geo spacial intelligence gathering. we have seen all these images, these satellite images from china, japan, france, australia. but we really haven't seen much from the united states. the u.s. has terrific satellite imagery capabilities. why is that? >> so the united states and china and a number of other countries have very capable systems, which they hold closely, which they protect. so that people don't understand their full capabilities, or as we would call in the intelligence community, sources and methods. you have seen digital globe, the

leading commercial satellite provider out of the u.s. they have put some imagery out into this, and doing some of that crowd sourcing through their tom naught platform. 13 years ago, we have a 3 p-3 aircraft have a collision with a chinese airplane and they get that technology. and that was a big deal. people are forgetting that. now we've got these aircraft working together. you can imagine that this is very, very sensitive. right? you've got these chinese and u.s. spy planes, if you will, sitting on a tarmac together in australia. they want to protect what they're able to do, because they are actually built to look for each other's submarines and surface aircraft. >> i assume, and i'll leave you on this note. i assume all the sensitive imagery that the u.s. is collecting is being shared in the ntsb, the faa, with confidential u.s. government sources. even though they're not being released publicly. >> i can't speculate to that, wolf. i would imagine they're doing everything they can. just like the chinese who have

their citizens. so impacted by this. you can imagine they might be going to the malaysians and saying, hey, here's a place we really think you ought to look. but they're really not revealing the sources and methods behind where they gathered that information. >> yeah. i hope they're revealing the bottom line information. and as you point out, not necessarily compromising u.s. sources and methods or classified information. but helping in the overall investigation. i assume that's what's going on. but we'll learn more. keith, thanks so much for joining us. keith masback, helping us better appreciate what's going on. the only constant for the families of those missing on flight 370 is their grief. how can anyone deal with that kind of personal stress? we'll speak with our own dr. sanjay gupta. that's coming up.

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chinese relatives of passengers on the missing malaysia airlines flight have had all they can take. they're so angry over malaysia's handling of the search, they want china to launch its own investigation. our own david mckenzie has more now from beijing. >> reporter: for days, family members have been sitting, listening calmly to briefings from malaysian authorities. many of them complaining they're not getting the answers they want. so today they stood up. this man getting up, saying that

they are united, that the malaysian authorities have been hiding the truth and that they will get their punishment. all of them. family members stood up and walked out. this hotel has been their environment for weeks now, stuck in the cycle of meetings, recrimination and anger. now they say they want to go to kael to complain. david mckenzie, cnn, beijing. >> the families' frustration certainly adds to their grief. you can see it on their faces. for three weeks now, they have had to deal with competing emotions, unrelenting fear, while clinging to hope. sometimes those emotions certainly boil over into deep anger. it's hard to imagine those -- the agony those families are going through right now. our chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta, is joining us now from the cnn center in atlanta. sanjay, we have seen these family members crying, even collapsing from the strain carried out on gurneys, wheelchairs. what's the physical impact of

such intense grief and stress? >> well, as you alluded to, wolf, it's unimaginable in so many ways. obviously, it's going to be different from person to person. you know, just the pragmatics, people aren't eating as well, they're not sleeping very well. the idea of somebody collapsing from just pure fatigue is probably not that surprising then. but also your stress hormone levels, cortisol levels, for example, typically go up and down in anybody's given day. but in people going through this sort of thing, those cortisol levels may never come down. so you're always -- have an additional level of stress that affects your heart rate, your blood pressure. but it also really puts you on edge. perceiving what would otherwise be harmless threats as potentially dangerous. and it just becomes this never-ending cycle. so it's a really difficult thing, hard to sustain for a long time, wolf. >> and with so much uncertainty, sanjay, the experts -- i want to know what they say, the best

hope for these people as they prepare themselves. i assume they are preparing themselves for the worst. >> reporter: yeah, you look at the various ingredients of things, unpredictability, uncertainty and loss of control. and really all thee ingredients are here. but the notion of hope, the notion of still not knowing, not having full closure, is really interesting. and, again, people are going to vary in terms of how they respond to this. but the idea that this is in some ways a more heroic period. you know, the whole world has been focused on your loved ones, as have you. and they're looking and caring in some ways. it's called the heroic period. and that can actually be beneficial in terms of just the concept of hope overall. the problem, wolf, though, is that at some point that goes away. the media attention starts to die down, the heroic period starts to come to an end and the grief that may have been just delayed as a result of just all this lack of closure and anticipation and waiting could be even -- the decline could be even greater. the fall could be even greater

when that period ends. so, you know, people are going to respond in different ways. but that's a real concern, wolf. >> because, you know, i keep hearing closure. we always talk about closure. and people get -- they move on with their lives, but for so many of these people, you lose a child, you lose a mother or a father or a wife or a husband, you never really, sanjay -- you never really have complete closure. it's going to stay with you forever. >> it does. and, you know, the idea that you never fully get over it, i was talking to a couple people who specialize in this area last night. in anticipation for the segment. and i was asking about this very point. and they say, look, at some point, even if there is not absolute closure, subconsciously, a lot of people do eventually get closure. even if they can't vocalize it. but also this pain, wolf, that you're describing. this visceral pain. at some point, it actually starts to be greater than the pain of the loss itself. i don't know if i'm explaining that very well. but when the physical pain of

this just going on for so long exceeds the pain of the loss itself, that is a type of closure, as well. and it's heartbreaking to think about. but that's what happens, especially when you lose somebody, you know, like a child or a loved one. >> certainly. sanjay, thanks very much. good explanation. up next, what do you want to know about the missing flight 370? tweet us your questions, use the #370qs. our panel of experts standing by. we're going to try to provide some answers.

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22 days since flight 370 vanished without a trace. apparently not a whole lot closer to discovering what happened than we were three weeks ago. many of you have posted questions using the #370qs. let's bring back our panel to try to get some answers. our aviation analyst, mark weise, and peter goelz and tom fuentes. peter, let's start with you. since the new search area is more northern and calmer, would there also be more debris from regular ocean traffic? >> who knows? but that is an area that is well-populated with we have got to get eyes on the water and pick up some of it and get a look at it. in the next hours. >> more traffic going through that part of the world.

they throw junk overboard and don't care about it. here's a question for tom. how can they back track the plane from 22 days ago when they can't retrace the debris from two days ago? daunting. >> that will be a challenge even if they find the debris to go back three weeks. in this part of the ocean, maybe the currents and wind won't be as strong and they might have an easier time. >> sharon is wondering, did any of the five aircraft that spotted the debris drop bus by it so they can find it again? >> the idea was that you not only want to know the position longitude and latitude, but understand how the currents will take that debris. >> we asked before and got an answer. i will ask it to you again, tom.

your former assistant of the fbi, where are the americans? haven't seen it. >> the early first day that the australians announced that that was going to be the search area. there have been. that can underline the national security. we heard it a lot. here's another one. you are a 777 pilot. do planes have tracking devices that send signals to the airline company when off track their destination? >> actually no. >> they didn't get anything special? >> not to boeing, but as an example, if we have to divert to an alternate airport, we have to let the company know.

>> malaysia airlines, would they get special information? >> no. >> not automatically. it would have to be initiated by the flight crew. >> that's a good question. >> here's another one. if the plane was comment ear-- commandeered, how likely would it be been for the passengers to break down the door. >> if the captain came out to use the restroom and somebody was able to squeeze in there, that person could lock everybody else out and that would be it. >> on the egypt air suicide flight, what happened there? there two pilots. >> yeah, the captain in the left seat left the cockpit to get a bite to eat and go to the restroom. the door was not reinforced. it was shut and locked and the

copilot initiated the suicide dive. the captain fought his way back into the cockpit and into his seat and broke the dive, but the copilot eventually shut the engines off. >> here's another question for you. are the me put it to peter. who takes financial responsibility for the search efforts of malaysia flight mh 370. just curious. i'm sure it's pricey. >> each company is covering their own cost. going forward, that will be reassessed. right now each country is covering their own cost. >> has anyone checked the flight attendants on board this ill-fated flight? >> absolutely. >> you know that? >> for a fact. >> assume they checked all the passengers as well. >> everybody on the plane. >> based on everything you heard, nothing suspicious jumping out including the two iranian young men who had the

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. >> much more coverage of the missing plane at the top of the hour, but first let's look at the other stories making news right now. russian troops massing along the eastern border could invade woud warning. it's not certain how forces will respond. russia said its troops are nearly engaged in exercises, but

president obama was skeptical, especially after russia's swift annexation in southern ukraine. >> you have seen a range of troops massing along that border under the guys of military exercises. these are not what russia would normally be doing. it may be an effort to intimidate ukraine or may be that they have additional plans. >> u.s. officials asked the men up to 40,000 troops are along the ukrainian-russian border. they believe the number is more than double that figure. fresh off his visit with the pope, he is now in saudi arabia where he is meeting with key saudi officials including saudi arabia's king abdullah. today's meeting an important one. they hope to shore up the sometimes tenuous relationship with the saudis among items that

are likely to be discussed. iran, syria and human rights. still facing state and federal investigations, chris christie will hold his first news conference since january later this afternoon. he can be expected to take a bunch of questions about the scandal over lane closures of the george washington bridge. he never knew his staffers created the log jam. critics alleged it was political pay back. attorneys hired by the office issued a report that found no evidence tying christie to the scandal. the death toll from saturday's landslide is expected to continue to rise. county officials will update the numbers later this afternoon in and a district fire chief said it is likely to rise. 17 deaths have been confirmed and seven more bodies have been located and not recovered.

rain is certainly complicating the efforts. geologists are assessing for the potential of another landslide. that's it for me. thanks for watching. i will be back at 5:00 p.m. eastern with a special two-hour situation room. newsroom with brooke baldwin starts right now. >> as we begin the hour, the hunt for flight 370. the biggie is the search zone that moved. not just a little bit, but a lot. this is based on the assumption that they ran out of fuel earlier because it flew faster than originally thought. >> the new information is based on analysis of radar about the aircraft's movement between the south china sea and the strait of