he always had his faith, always had his belief, more positiveness than negativity. because the negativity can just suck you in. >> i've been there.

this was the prime minister of malaysia saying all lives were

lost and clearly these families are very upset by that, saying they want an apollogy for that announcement. they said they wanted to meet members of boeing, they wanted to meet the technical staff to find out whether or not there was a problem with the aircraft. they said the fact that they haven't been able to meet with any of the technical staff makes them think something could have been wrong with the aircraft. the message is they wanted to see evidence and wanted people to talk to them about what happened because they did not think they had enough information. >> right. they're all wearing prayer for mh-370 t-shirts. so obviously the malaysian officials knew that these group of relatives were coming. what has been their response, if any, and do they plan to meet personally with them? >> reporter: you can only assume

they will be meeting with them. it would not be good if they decided not to. they have been with families in the past. the transportation minister is meeting with chinese and malaysian families, although only after the chinese families complained that he did carry out an impromptu meeting with them. they're coordinating, if you like, trying to organize the meetings and they said in the next few days they definitely want to have interaction. >> paula hancock covering that part of the story for us from kuala lumpur. we want to get the latest on the search efforts now. let's go to atika shupert.

what are you hearing? >> reporter: search planes continue to comb through the area there. we haven't had any reports of reported debris at this point. we do expect the first planes probably to come back in about two hours or so. in addition to the planes, ships are now looking for any potential objects as well. there's just been a report from the chinese news agency of finding a potential orange object, but it was not a life vest or anything else from the plane. in this case, it was simply jellyfish they reported. so these are the kinds of things they've been seeing in the ocean. natalie? >> we know that the conditions are going to worsen. will they continue to fly planes and keep ships in the region if the weather gets bad? >> reporter: yeah, they will continue to fly planes and keep the ships there. the ships are, in fact, in the

search area over 24 hours. none of them ever leave the search area once they get there. they just continue that search. the weather is improving in our location here, so hopefully it's not too bad out there in the search area. the one new development is the ocean shield. this is the australian vessel that will be carrying a towed pinger locater. this has been given by the u.s. navy used to hear the signal coming from the flight data recorder. what we understand is it's already been placed on the ocean shield, which means the vessel can go to the search area. but it's likely to take a few days before it reaches the area. once it gets there, it will help to join that search. so hopefully between -- when it leaves now and when it gets there will have some sort of lead to go off of. >> as far as what they have found so far, we know nothing is connected up to the airliner.

have they pulled out or have they taken pictures of anything significant that they want to check out as far as size goes? >> not yet. really when we're talking about the size of images, those are usually the images picked up on satellite. they've had a number of countries contributing satellite images, france, china, even nasa has been using satellites to try and locate what they think might be potential objects to look at. we haven't seep any of those new images today and what we're hoping is that the planes can get a better look at what's there and sort of refine what the ships are chasing after. it's really up to the ships to get to an object, check it out and see what it is. >> as you say, another day of searching is almost done, 3:00 there in the afternoon in australia. thank you. let's get more on that stormy

weather that might threaten the search. karen mcginnis has that part of the story. >> we have watched the unsettled weather move in across southwest austral australia in the area of perth. it is more active toward the west. that search area is 1800 kilometers off the west coast of australia, roughly the position they're searching in. but there you can see it's not yet reached the search area. this over the last 12 hours. you have to remember this is going to be the changeable time of year. across the indian ocean, anything can happen, because you've got many thousands of kilometers of space where these weather systems just aren't bumping into anything, so we are just roaring right across the indian ocean, and in this particular time now we're looking at not the roaring 40s,

that 40 degrees latitude south, but an area that's shifted towards the north and a little further towards the east. so as a cops quens, we're not seeing quite the activity that we typically see in the south central indian ocean. none the less, monday into tuesday, as we let this loop again, between 60 and 70 kilometer per hour winds expected and some higher gusts than that. here's the projected rainfall. sunday, monday, going into tuesday. and yes, much of that search area is going to be shrouded in some rainfall and cloud cover. but it's not really the rainfall that is going to be problematic. it's going to be the visibility associated with the rainfall across the area. if you can imagine the surf kicking up as well, you've got those gray seas, the gray skies, it's not going to give them much

dimensional space to look for objects. but the aircraft going into these -- into the search areas, they are really -- have been the workhorses across this region and they can fly at various altitudes. but it does look like this is going to be very unsettled monday, and even going into tuesday. natalie, back to you. >> we'll wait and see how they have to deal with that. thank you. we've been talking about the agony of the families and you just heard that report about the families who recently arrived in kuala lumpur. some of them say they are caught in a web of politics and crisis management. we have the story of one group who feel they have become captives of the malaysian authorities. >> reporter: for weeks, malaysian airlines representatives in kuala lumpur

have been overtly protective of those aboard flight 370, shielding them from everything, including the media. the families initially appreciated it. but some of the family members from china now say malaysian airlines staff have gone too far, making them feel more like captives than guests in their hotels. >> translator: i just wanted to come and meet the minister and other family members but i was not allowed to leave and they wouldn't arrange transportation. they wouldn't even let me take a taxi. i lost my freedom. >> reporter: tempers flared saturday when the mandarin speaking families were told they could not attend a briefing nor the malaysian families. most have separate briefings in their native languages. waiting for details has been excruciati excruciating.

so with no briefing in mandarin, they asked to attend the malaysian briefing. the answer was no. the chinese families balked. about an hour later after some arguing, malaysian airlines offered to take them to the briefing. but when they arrived at the hotel, the chinese families were told to wait in the room next door. finally with frustrations boiling over, malaysian officials came to them. this is video taken from inside the private meeting as the chinese families met with the ceo of malaysian airlines, a translator, the transportation minister and his wife. a pregnant woman whose husband is missing begins by asking authorities can you search as long as it takes? >> i promise her i will do everything i can.

>> translator: if he's injured, at least i can see him. now he's not here. it's been so many days and there isn't any evidence. >> reporter: she is comforted by the wife of the malaysian transportation minister. but she reminds malaysian officials that this is not the time to make the families lives more difficult by restricting their movement. >> translator: please tell the staff not to regulate our movement. they cannot handle another shock. please let them be free. >> reporter: the families say all they want is the truth. >> simply feel for what they are going through. again, more family members from china have arrived and we'll continue to follow their plight there in kuala lumpur as they seek answers. coming up, rescue and recovery crews in washington state, it was a brief moment of rest and pause to remember the

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welcome back. we'll continue to follow the latest on the search for malaysian airlines flight 370. but we're also following other stories. the russian foreign minister set to meet with u.s. secretary of state john kerry today. despite thousands of troops massed on the ukrainian border, lavrov insists his country has no plans to seize more territory. recovery teams are still in the town of oso in the state of washington. they observed a moment of silence at 10:37 in the morning. it was that time a week ago that

the mountainside swept over the rural community. 18 people have been declared dead. the teams say they've encountered a wide range of conditions in the wreckage. >> what you have out here is houses that have been picked up, run through a blender and dropped on the ground. you have everything out here. we've had to go piece by piece through the debris piles and also piece by piece through each house to make sure that we look for everything we can find. >> officials still believe there are many people missing. they have reduced the possible number from 90 to 30. there have been three medium sized earthquakes in the last two weeks in southern california. friday a 5.1. another on saturday reached 4.1.

none caused any serious injuries or property damage, but it has some people worried about the big one that may be coming but when? >> a major earthquake, at 8:00 we had one that was about a 3.6. this felt like it was about a 10. >> reporter: it may have felt like a 10, but friday night's earthquake in los angeles was nowhere near the big one. still, people are wondering. >> is there a chance that tonight's earthquake could be a precursor to a larger earthquake? >> it always is. >> 5% of california earthquakes are followed by something larger within three days. >> reporter: the tremor was one of the strongest in california since the 1994 north ridge earthquaking 20 years ago. that quake registered 6. 7, killing more than 50 people and causing an estimated $42 billion in damage. cnn meteorologist alexandra steel says the chance for a

catastrophe like north ridge exists anywhere a fault line is present. >> our planet is constantly moving and it's composed of enormous rock that's slowly moving underneath our feet. when they rub and touch and crack, then there's a massive release of energy. that's an earthquake. >> reporter: the big one is unpredictable? >> in the last 100 years, we can detect them, we know their origin, magnitude, but we don't know when they will happen. >> reporter: while scientists can't predict the big one, that hasn't stopped some from imagining the doomsday scenario. california has a 46% chance of a 7.0 in the next 30 years. >> the waves travel through that corridor towards los angeles and

essentially guide it into the sedimentary base that underlies los angeles. once they're in that basin, they reverberate, they get amplified and cause stronger shaking. >> reporter: the scale of disaster that hopefully won't become a reality any time soon. >> when we come back here, the government in malaysia has seen much criticism of its ability to handle the flight 370 crisis. but now there are more complaints and they're coming from an unusual source. we'll have that story when we come back. 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.

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their loved ones be returned. meantime, search planes and ships continued to comb part of the southern indian ocean looking for any remnants of the airplane. but their efforts may once again be stalled by bad weather. ships did manage to retrieve some objects from the water on saturday. but so far there's no connection to the missing plane. authorities in malaysia have come under fire for their handling of the situation. families of those on board the flight have been the most vocal critics. but now cnn's nic robertson reports, interpol is taking to malaysia to task for what it considers lax airport security. >> reporter: three weeks ago, these two iranians traveling on stolen airports triggered interpol's investigation of flight 370's passengers. now in a statement, surprising for its frankness, the international law enforcers are lambasting malaysian officials for lax controls. the truth is, in 2014, prior to

the tragic disappearance of malaysian flight 370, malaysian immigration department did not conduct a single check of passengers passports against interpol's database. the agency said in a statement. and they are not alone in their criticism. >> the idea that somehow governments don't want to query the databases because it takes too long is absurd. >> reporter: opposition politicians are also heaping on their criticism. >> it's quite clear that the impression given early by the government that it's not practical, takes too long is not an acceptable answer. >> it comes as malaysia's government is taking heat for their entire investigation. >> i don't think we have done anything different from what we've already done.

no matter what has been thrown and labeled at us, history will judge us as a country that has been very responsible. >> reporter: but still, there are unanswered questions. a lot of them. for instance, the transport minister wouldn't disclose the altitude of flight 370 over the last six hours. despite acknowledging it flew faster earlier in the flight. key because it could indicate if someone was in control of the flight. and while the australian government said it was immediately shifting the search location based on the new speed data, the malaysian government spokesman said it would continue especially debris identified by french and thai satellites. spotted hundreds of miles away. >> the malaysian government is

incompetent to handle this investigation. and so you have to ask when any of this information comes out what is the factual basis behind it? >> reporter: one former malaysian airlines executive told cnn while he is proud of malaysia and proud of the airline, the investigation is tarnishing the country's image, and could have and should have been handled in a much clearer way. nick robertson, cnn, kuala lumpur, malaysia. >> again, it must be so hard for the grieving families to hear these reports. a father that we talked with is trying to be as brave as possible as his two children ask when their mother is coming home. his wife was one of the flight attendants aboard flight 370. paula hancocks has more on his heartbreaking ordeal. >> reporter: his 10-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son keep asking where she is.

18 years as a malaysian airlines flight attendant, she was working aboard flight 370. >> mommy is going to take a bit longer to come home this time. i even promised them i'm going to bring her home. but i have no idea where is she now. and now i'm not sure whether i can bring her home. you see? >> reporter: lee asks me what he should tell his daughter? he said his wife is caring and loving. he speaks in the present sense. >> of course, i'm still hoping for the god's miracles. what we want is the true story.

>> reporter: showing me photos of his wife, he tells me he's angry at the way he's been treated. his wife is part of the cabin crew, but he feels the airline tells the media more than they tell him. part of the reason he's hired a lawyer. >> it is not their fault that this happened to the plane. so therefore, they have to be compensated for their damages. >> reporter: they were together for 20 years. he says they were happy. now she's lost, lee says he has lost all direction. paula hancocks, cnn, kuala lumpur, malaysia. >> and that is cnn newsroom. thank you for watching. i'm natalie allen. for our u.s. viewers, our cnn special report is next. for international viewers, stay with us for open court.

a high tech aircraft. an experienced crew. and 227 passengers. what began as a routine flight for malaysian airlines 370 became the total opposite. leaving behind unending grief and unanswered questions. flight 370, the final hours. here in the cockpit of this