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strategic positions. and in the united states, the last-minute rush to sign up for obamacare. hello and welcome to cnn newsroom, i'm rosemary church. >> and i'm johnvause. we'd like to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. we'd like to begin with the new twist in the investigation of malaysia airlines flight 370. >> an if you believe official map of the era darr track raises new questions. >> separately, a malaysian government official has told that the change of course is being considered a criminal act. >> malaysia now says the last words from the plane were "good night malaysian 370" not "all right, good night" as previously reported. >> let's get the latest from

search headquarters in perth, australia. we heard from the man coordinating this search just a little earlier, he was very down beat during that news conference, really bringing home just how difficult and how long this search might take. >> reporter: and by long he said this is not a situation that's going to be resolved in a matter of weeks and he put it into perspective saying they've got 12 planes up in the air today but they're searching an area the size of ireland. that is a massive operation. take a listen to what he said in the press conference. >> we will continue pursuing the search with much vigor. i have to say in my experience -- and i have got a lot of experience in search-and-rescue over the years -- this search-and-recovery operation is probably the most challenging one i have ever seen.

>> reporter: of course, the big problem is that we do not know exactly where the plane could be and so this is why the search area is so big. but it's critical for these planes to try and find anything, any part of the plane, because once they have that piece of debris then they can bring in the specialist equipment to look for any wreckage that might be under the water. until they get that debris, they really don't know where to locate the plane, where to really begin this search, john. one of the problems, too, it seems is that this seems to be like a search far needle in a garbage dump and they just keep coming up empty. >> reporter: yeah. i think the key here is that when you say looking for a needle in all of this, they don't even know that where that haystack is to begin with and so once they find that, then they can begin looking for the needle. but they haven't even gotten to that point of locating where the general area is. this is where the planes are so

critical but they've been sight ago lot of objects but they've turned out to be fishing equipment, even jellyfish or whale carcasses. there's a lot of stuff floating out there and none of it has come from the plane. and we heard from angus houston there saying this will go on for quite a ways yet, but obviously things will change in the next week or so when the batteries on the so-called black boxes start to die and they no longer have the ping, the pinging sound. so is there a plan in place for when that actually happens about a week from now? >> reporter: i think there's certainly a plan in place but they haven't given us any details. at this point they say they're ramping up the search efforts hoping to find that debris. there is a window that is closing. once the battery dies on the pinger and the flight data recorder it means it won't be able to be located with that pinger locater, thepl-25. but it doesn't mean you can't find the plane, it just means it will take more time to bring in sonar-scanning equipment to try

and map out the seabed and look for unusual objects. but, again, it's the size of the area that's the problem. trying to use that kind of a sonar scan in an area the size of ireland is going to taken a extremely long time and that's why they're trying to narrow it down as soon as possible right now. >> very quickly, atika, the malaysian prime minister heading your way tomorrow. what can we read into that trip? >> reporter: well, i think it's clear to australia has taken on a pivotal role here as the coordinator not just of the the search but also the investigation because, remember, anything that is found out in the indian ocean will be brought here to the port, free mantle, and this is where they'll try and physically assemble the pieces. it seems fitting the prime minister will come here, be briefed on the search. legally malaysia is still responsible for the investigation, even though clearly it is asking for a lot of help from australia. thank you, atika shubert

live in perth, australia, with the latest on what will be a very long search by the looks of things. thanks atika. >> and the australia vessel "ocean shield" is headed to the search area with equipment to detect pings from the flight data recorders. will ripley is on a boat just off freemantle australia to tell us more. will, the frustration is that until that search area is reduced significantly in size, none of that high-tech equipment can be used to try to locate those black boxes, right? >> reporter: absolutely right, rosemary. but they're moving the technology into the search area any way in hopes that perhaps by the time they arrive we might have better news on the front of recovering some verified debris if flight 370. the "ocean shield" has been sailing for about 19 hours. we're told they're sailing into bad weather. weather here right now sunny and relatively calm but i want to show you video that we took when

we headed about 12 miles into the indian ocean earlier today off free mantle. this is considered a clear day but you see from the video that we took there were waves that splashed right up over the hull of the ship. getting us wet on the upper decks, gets the windows wet as well. i emphasize, this is a clear day on the indian ocean and we were still getting thrown around quite a bit. actually had to hold on at times because you could almost lose your footing as the boat is getting knocked around and we were also going relatively slowly, whereas the free mantle is traveling about 15 knots. so when you're moving more quickly through rough water and have waves that can be several stories high and as the depth of the water continues to get deeper and you have not only the waves but the surge above them it really is quite a tricky situation and a squeezesy situation for those 30 crew members on board. we were just told from from the australia defense force the "ocean shield" due to arrive in the search zone late thursday

most likely friday at the latest. so they're about a third of the way there already rosemary. >> will, of course, the big concern, too, is the time is fast running out for those black boxes to continue emitting pings. what's being said about that and is there, perhaps, a temptation to just give it a shot? try to pick up something despite the enormity of the exercise? >> we're down a matter of days now and exactly how many days is really anybody's guess because, you know, even though we know how long the batteries tend to last, as you know, if you have a battery in a device at home sometimes the battery will drain more quickly or sometimes for whatever reason you get more life out of it. so obviously everyone is hoping that these batteries will have a longer life and perhaps we can go beyond these six or so days that we believe they have left because that would put us in a very difficult situation. they can utilize the technology, they can put the underwater ping locator in the water but,

remember, it only has a radius of about 1.6 kilometers, 1.5 kilometers that can hear a ping being emitted so with a search area the size of poland your chances of being one mile from the plane are extremely low. >> many challenges and many frustrations, will ripley reporting there just off freemantle australia. john? now, the mystery of flight 370 continues to take a heavy toll on the families of the passengers. many have gone to the malaysian capital looking for answers only to find more frustration. paula hancock now reporting from from from kuala lumpur. >> reporter: praying for lost souls. chinese relatives of the missing airline passengers seek refuge in a buddhist temple. looking for comfort in the words of a monk. this woman says "i really hope my husband and other passengers

come home." the monk replies "i hope they'll come back in peace." of the 239 people on board the missing flight, 154 were chinese citizens. chinese are kind-hearted people, this relative says, but we can clearly distinguish between good and evil. we never forgive those who hid the truth and the criminal who delayed the rescue mission. these families traveled from beijing to kuala lumpur sunday to be closer to the investigation and they hope to information. they've accused malaysian officials of withholding information since the plane vanished more than three weeks ago, despite government claims they're being transparent. they chant their demands. "we want evidence, we want truth, we want our family." these families are physically and emotionally exhausted.

today's prayer was an attempt to try and find some peace in the midst of such tragedy. paula hancocks, cnn, kuala lumpu lumpur, malaysia. it has been more than a week since the devastating landslide hit the u.s. state of washington. >> still to come on cnn newsroom, we'll look at the fears which are now affecting recovery teams. plus, russia pulls some troops from its boarder with ukraine. we will show you what it means for the balance of power on the ground. stay with us. [ female announcer ] take skincare to the next level with roc® multi correxion® 5 in 1. proven to hydrate dryness, illuminate dullness, lift sagging, diminish the look of dark spots, and smooth the appearance of wrinkles. high performance skincare™ only from roc®. and smooth the appearance of wrinkles. your education is built to help move your career forward. here's how: we work with leading employers to learn what you need to learn so classes impact your career. while helping ensure credits you've already earned pay off. and we have career planning tools to keep you on track every step of the way.

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welcome back to cnn newsroom. glad you could be with us. while u.s. markets rallied on monday, general motors shares plunged almost 1%. wall street is worrying about the company's handling of a

recall of cars with faulty ignition switches. >> gm ceo will testify before congress. in particular, she'll be asked why the automaker did not announce that recall sooner. 13 deaths have been linked to the design flaw and on monday gm recalled another $1.3 million vehicles for another reason, this time sudden loss of power steering. russian president vladimir putin says he's ordered a partial withdrawal of his troops from the border with ukraine. western leaders are reacting with caution to this as phil black reports, the number of troops falling back may not make any difference on the ground. >> reporter: news of russia's withdrawal came not from the kremlin but from germany where berlin's account of the phone conversation between vladimir putin and the german chancellor angela merkel says putin committed to pulling back soldiers from the ukrainian border. but how many? russia's defense ministry

announced that one motorized infantry battalion have finished exercises meer the border and was going home. a battalion is almost certainly less than a thousand soldiers. nato believes there are more than 40,000 russian soldiers positioned along the ukrainian border at a high state of readiness so it's going to take the pullback of more than just one single battalion to satisfy the united states' ongoing demand for deescalation along the border. meanwhile, russia's president, dmitry medvedev, has vid ted crimea. he's the highest ranking official to fly in and his visit is yet another power shl message that russia has no intention of giving crimea back to ukraine despite ongoing international condemnation. phil black, cnn, moscow. despite reports that russia is withdrawing its troops from the border, government sources in kiev tell cnn that russian soldiers are not backing away but rather repositioning to the north. meantime, russia's state news

agency reports that one infantry battalion was returning to base in russia's samarra region, that's hundreds of kilometers away from the boarder with ukraine. and as cnn reports from the ukrainian side of the border, the military is on alert. >> reporter: all the diplomatic maneuvering seem far removed from what's going on here on the ground. throughout the day the ukrainian army has been preparing for the worst. the russian boarder is just a few minutes drive that way and throughout the day the military have been pulling up armored vehicles and tanks, digging them in to strategic positions. take this, for example, the-64 tank built in the soviet era but still very much one of the ukrainian army's main battle weapons. i can't show you for strategic reasons, but across there, lower lying ground and a bridge. the ukrainian army say their order to to defend that bridge

or blow it up if the russians roll in. they're taking the threat of a possible invasion very seriously. in part of the same battle unit as that tank this, another armored vehicle. it's got a cannon on top of it, again, pointing towards the russian border, an area where the ukrainian army say russian tanks will have to come if they decide to advance in other positions as well we've seen anti-aircraft guns because the ukrainians know the russians also have attack helicopters. now, while the ukrainian soldiers are taking very seriously their preparations for war, there's also great sense of disbelief. why? because the ukrainian and russian militaries have for years, since soviet times, in fact, trained together, they've studied in the same military academies and they still very much see one another as brothers in arms so they really can't grasp that right now they're staring at one another down the barrels of a gun.

cnn on the ukrainian/russian border. >> russia's top natural gas company, gosprom, plans to hike its rates for ukraine by almost 44%. the move marks the end of a discount agreement that was reached before ukraine announced that its moscow backed president and russia annexed crime. gosprom says ukraine's bill stands at almost $2 billion. rescue workers continue to dig through mud and debris in the u.s. state of washington. >> 24 people are now confirmed dead from last month's rain-soaked landslide and the toll is expected to rise. of the identified victims, the youngest, four months old and the oldest was 71. >> recovery teams are starting to rory about sewage and chemicals in that muck and are taking precautions to keep hazardous materials from escaping the disaster area.

it's coming up to 3:20 on a tuesday morning on the east coast of the united states. 3:20 tuesday afternoon in perth, australia, and right now the search for malaysia airlines flight 370 is taking place in the air and on the ocean surface. >> and we will show you why that may end up being the easier part of the mission. that's next.

well, malaysia's prime minister arrives in australia tomorrow to check on search operations for flight 370. >> 11 aircraft are looking for debris from the missing boeing 777 in the southern indian ocean, some getting a pre-dawn start. night ships are in the area, one of them has a remote underwater vehicle and a black box locator ready to be deployed if, in fact, any objects from the plane

are found. let's take a closer look at the multinational effort under way. it involves 21 countries, the "washington post" has compiled this nation-by-nation list of resources. on the far right of your screen is malaysia. it is providing 18 planes and 27 ships, the most of any country, which makes sense, of course. mow the u.s. has assigned three planes, two ships, two helicopters and a satellite to the operation. and singapore is even providing a submarine. during today's news conference in perth, the chief koord in thor said search operations could drag on for a very long time. even so a u.s. commander on board one deployed ship says air and sea teams remain optimistic despite all the challenges. >> i was talking to one of the air crew yesterday and they can confirm every time they go out they have near 100% certainty

that the area they covered is completely searched. so every time they go out, they can confirm that certainty. so at this point it's just getting to the different places that we have not searched yet. you just keep at it and you keep at it and this is what we do. this is what we train for. these planes by nature are built for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare as their primary mission so they're used to looking for small objects. that's what they do. so there is a lot of enthusiasm still. the air crews everyday they go out there and are really positive. >> so some encouraging twlords from commander william marks. the big question is what happens once they find some of the debris from flight 370. >> of course at that point the search gets really tricky and even more time consuming as anton foreman shows us.

>> reporter: all of the searching so far up in the south china sea over the malacca straits into the edge of the southern ocean has been part of just the first search. the search for one solid clue to tell them where to look underwater. the search above water can be fairly fast. we're off the coast of australia now, they've been moving through those areas over there that they've defined and redefined and moved them around. they can search maybe 90,000, maybe 100,000 square miles in a day because they can fly over it and look. but when you talk about diving down into the water, when you talk about getting deeper down under the surface there, it gets much more complicated and far, far more time consuming. let me show you what we're talking about here. if you talk about being underneath the water you can no longer look with your eyes in any fashion because it's dark down there. you actually have to use a device of some sort, whether it's a sonar device to image the

bottom of the ocean or whether it's a pinger listener trying to find those data recorders back there. but what you get is a very small window that you can look into, not a vast vista. and this may only reach out a mile, maybe two miles even in good conditions. that limits how much you can search, maybe 50 square miles a day. so if you have 90,000 square miles to search, that's a big, big difference and it will make a big difference to how much ground you can cover. still, they must get the top part of this equation worked out before they can even think about starting the underwater part. >> thanks to tom foreman for that report. the weather so crucial at this point of the search. at last report i read it wasn't great so ivan is with us at the international weather center with a look at the forecast. not great at all. the next couple of days it's going to get even worse here as an area of low pressure moves in. you saw will there along the inshore waters not looking too bad. but once you get offshore seas

are churning soup that will be an issue and the visibility will be a problem remember we need the visible satellite to see from up above if we have any debris down there and also obviously from the spotters, from the planes when they go off here. here's perth and this is a search area here. this is the infrared satellite presentation. not depicting the clouds as clearly here but it is obscuring the view here and then we have this development, this system that will be moving in over the next couple of days. it is going to be bringing some stormy conditions, that's, again, going to be bringing the obstruction as far as the view but also it's going to be churning up the seas because the winds are going to get kicked up as this low begins to move in. in fact, let's some in closer with our exclusive high-resolution model here and i'll loop this and you can see that is not what you want. this very unsettled pattern setting up here in the next 24 to 48 hours with even this bounce of heavier weather moving

through, especially through the day on wednesday and then some improvement towards latter part of the week. but a rough part of the world here when we get to these storms that move in with some strong winds and heavy rain and it looks this week will not be an exception. >> time is fast running out and, of course, too many challenges on the weather front. >> thanks, ivan. another story we're watching, another airline story, south korea's asiana airlines now admits that pilot error was the likely cause of a deadly crash last year in san francisco. >> three people died, almost 200 were hurt when the boeing 777 flying from seoul crashed while trying to land. it clipped a sea wall with its landing gear, skidding off the runway, burst into flames. the airline also cited other factors that contributed to the crash, including problems with the plane's autothrottle system. >> we're going to take a very

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welcome back, you are watching cnn newsroom. i'm rosemary church. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. >> a quick check of the headlines right now. the search continues in the southern india ocean for signs of malaysia airlines flight 370. malaysia has now revise it had last words from the plane from "all right, good night" to "good night malaysian 370." that's raising some questions about how the investigation is being handled. tensions may be easing along ukraine's boarder with russia. according to the office of german chancellor angela merkel, russian president vladimir putin has ordered a partial withdrawal of forces. ukrainian officials call it a repositioning. u.s. officials say russia could have up to 40,000 troops on that border. at least six people are dead after an explosion in nairobi. it happened in a largely somali

neighborhood. there's been no claim of responsibility. past attacks in that area have been blimed on al shabaab militants. let's get latest now on the investigation of flight 370 and we turn to jim clancy live in kuala lumpur. jim, we understand you have to transcript from the cockpit of flight 370. how much of that have you got there? >> reporter: we've got the entire transcript from a government source highly placed that wishes to remain anonymous at this time. it is the full transcript between the tower, air traffic control in kuala lumpur and the pilots of flight mh-370. i can tell you that it is a complete version of this, there's three pages of it and it ends at 1:19:29 on the morning

of march 8 saying "good night malaysian 370." that coming from mh-370. now, we're double-checking this to have somebody in aviation really look at this to tell us if there's anything inside that gives any indication but i can tell grow reading through it what i would stress here is that it is routine, written and read and underlined three times. there are no surprises that i know of. i don't claim to be an aviation expert, i'm not an airline pilot, that's why we want to have somebody else look at it. but looking through this transcript, there is no surprise that i can see rosemary. it does point up that this kind of a report, because of its accuracy, does away with all the questions about "all right good night" or "good night thls malaysian air 370." it does away all of that when the media can have this kind of

information and go directly to it. it doesn't solve the mystery by any stretch of the imagination, perhaps it only intensifies it because things were so routine on that night. rosemary? >> jim, it's john. i guess the problems people are having right now is that if you have a copy of the transcript, surely this has been floating around for three weeks now, how is it as something as basic as the last words spoken from that cockpit could be confused and confused for such a long time and only now is the malaysian government correcting that? >> well, you know, i think you have to give the media some of the credit here because i've been here since day one, john, you know that, and the media's constantly speculating and i believe it was a news reporter who said "all right good night." they reported it from one of their sources and then repeatedly people tried to confirm that, perhaps somebody up there on the podium who hadn't read the actual

transcript was acknowledging that that was the correct time. but they really didn't know what was said. this is how these kinds of errors start. are they big? do they affect the investigation? i don't think so and i think that's what you have to put in perspective here. you also have to put in to perspective, john, there are so few known facts here. the media, the investigators, the people that are on the search-and-rescue missions out there in the southern reaches of the indian ocean, all of us are clutching at straws because there is so little real raw data like this transcript. john, rosemary? >> that's the point, though, there is such little data, such -- so few facts out there that surely this is the kind of stuff which they should have been putting out much earlier and this is why there are so many questions now being asked about their credibility, about their ability to conduct this

investigation. they're getting simple facts like this wrong and allowing those misperceptions to continue to be out there for such a long time. >> well, you have to put some of the blame on the shoulders of the media as well because they have been willing to speculate all along and what they have and what they don't have, what their source have. and it becomes a game of telephone where the story changes down the line. would it have been better to release this transcript early. well, i'm many the media. i think certainly yes. but an investigator, if there was something there and they wanted to go through it, they would tell you no, i don't want people to see this until i have a chance to interview everybody that touched that aircraft. i want to find out what the real facts are. i don't want to reveal those before i go into some of these other elements in my investigation. >> so there's understandable reasons why they haven't been forth coming in handing out everything that they have. it isn't much. john? rosemary? >> and that's the problem, jim, there isn't much but a malaysian

government source has told cnn the plane's change of course is being considered a criminal act. on what evidence are they basing that and what other information is coming out of this very slow-moving investigation? >> you know, different sources say different things. my sources say criminal act, certainly. criminal act is being investigated. so, too, is a major mechanical malfunction. so, too, is a hijacking. so, too, is some problem with one of the pilots. all of these things are being investigated right now. whether it's a criminal act or an act of god. they're all being investigated. that's the one thing malaysian officials have been perfectly clear on since day one. >> jim, thank you. jim clancy in kuala lumpur. he has the transcript of the -- all of the communication between the air traffic controller and the cockpit of flight 370. jim said it looks routine, by

his owned a mission, though, he says he's no expert but he has covered his fair share of plane crashes in his day so he probably knows a little better than the average person on the street but we are going to get that checked, we'll have it looked at, we'll have an expert look at it to see if there is anything out of the ordinary and as soon as we have that we'll bring it to you. right now a three-page transcript all looking very routine. >> and you can be sure over the next hours people are going to go through this and through this word by word and see what can be read into it. we don't know. at this point it's all speculative, not a lot to go on. but the debate over exactly where flight 370 went in the hours after communication was lost is, of course, heating up. >> that's as new claims emerge about the plane's flight path and who may have changed it. here's nick robertson. >> reporter: this map of flight 370's radar track was much of the reason for upset by survivor families last week. the image captured by still photographers in the family briefing. it shows a very different route

from the left turn depicted until now and it's raising even more questions about what exactly happened to flight 370 -- questions the family members were unable to ask at the time. >> the family briefings were closed door. next? >> reporter: chinese relativesover flight 370 passengers say they created the map from publicly available data. a source with knowledge of the investigation tells cnn that beyond doubt the new map, if accurate, shows that someone with excellent flying skills was at the controls of the aircraft. that no one on board would have felt the turn. it's a claim that's getting heavy pushback from malaysian officials. >> as regards to the issue of information as being revealed outside the press conference or speculation and diagrams in

google or anything else on the internet, i cannot confirm or discount, i can only base on what i've informed you in my pieces. i investigation officials insist privately this new map is not theirs, that it doesn't match malaysian radar readings. despite refusing to comment publicly, malaysian officials did say all the radar tae a is central to their investigation. >> the manner of the air traffic control at the time of the aircraft make an air turn back is one of the very important criteria for the investigationors to look at. >> reporter: malaysian investigators say they believe mh-370 was "flown by someone with good flying skills." now a government source says they consider the turn a

criminal act committed by one of the pilots or someone else on boar board. >> oh, this is great. he's at the controls of the aircraft here? >> yes. >> wow. >> reporter: captain zaharie's friends refuse to believe he could be the criminal controlling the plane. >> i think you'll come to a stage where people will think he's a hero. when it comes out i think he's a hero. >> reporter: they are rallying to his defense, showing me pictures of a young captain zaharie at flight school. >> he's not around to defend himself. that's why mr. lee and i feel we need to tell the whole world. >> but for some, the new map is casting a shadow over captain zaharie's memory. the source with knowledge of the investigation who is also a friend of captain zaharie's tells us that emotionally he doesn't want to believe it but logically, he says, he has

nowhere else to turn. for him, a question, the flight path of the plane in its final hours flying an arc towards the sunrise, possibly because whoever was piloting it wanted to land it on the sea, sink it intact, make its discovery that much harder. nic robertson, cnn, kuala lumpur, malaysia. still to come, tens of thousands of americans try to beat the deadline to sign up for obamacare. >> but the web site ran into technical glitches -- again. the details just ahead. at any minute... ...you could be a victim of fraud.

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coming up 3:45 tuesday morning on the east coast. here in the united states it may take a while before it's known how many people have signed up for health care under president barack obama's affordable care act. >> monday was the final day of open enrollment on the

healthcare.gov web site but even though the deadline has passed, obamacare likely will be a top issue in november's midterm congressional elections. michelle kosinski reports. >> reporter: the last day to sign up was a surge, a scramble to beat the deadline. lines at sign-up centers around the country, the vice president on rachel ray's talk show pushing for young people to get on board. >> do it for mom. >> reporter: dozens of celebrities tweeted their reminders in support of obamacare. from zach braff "there's nothing sexier than something with health insurance." less sexy was the web site. slammed by more than 100,000 people accessing at a time. those problems, telling people to wait, were fixed fairly quickly and the administration did a sort of victory lap as one reporter called it. >> looking at the numbers, it's crushing interest on all the different mediums which is terrific. it means people are getting insurance. >> reporter: the white house says the number who have registered is significantly

above six million, even more than the congressional budget office projected because of those dark days, as jay carney put them, of october and november. but they don't have exact numbers, more on how many of those signing up didn't have insurance before, how many are paying their premiums, how many are young and healthy, sparking fierce republican criticism this weekend. >> a lot of these people are just changing from one insurance poll city to the other to a more expensive one, i might add. >> i think they're cooking the books on this. >> to which the administration responded? >> it's lied courthouse. when the numbers were low the same numbers were willing to tout the numbers. now that the numbers don't match they want to say the numbers are cooked. that's ridiculous. these the numbers coming in and it's great. >> reporter: solid numbers characterizing the enrollment won't be available for a couple of weeks but if enroll system greater than expected there's a question of how this will shape politics in the midterms and beyond. democrats, will they embrace obamacare more. will republicans be able to criticize it as much if pushing

for repeal would mean taking away the insurance that millions of americans now have opted for? michelle kosinski, cnn, the white house. she has been on death row for 13 years and was set to be executed last weekend, now she's granted a new trial. >> reporter: mississippi state supreme court has reversed her conviction for capital murder. back in 2000, buy ram was of orchestrated a murder for hire plot to kill her husband. according to court documents, her son admitted to killing his father. >> he later recanted on the stand. the court itself noted it's extremely rare to reverse a death row inmate's conviction. >> we're going to take a short break right now. just ahead, the quest for the holy grail may be over. >> indeed. at least that's what two historians and a lot of faithful pilgrims believe. we'll show you what they found. here's a hint, it's the holy grail. >> plus, southern california's

shaken by earthquakes. but are residents ready for the big one?

welcome back to cnn newsroom. a recent series of light-to-moderate earthquakes in southern california has residents on edge. >> indeed it does. they are wondering if the big one will hit any time soon. jason carroll visited one community to see how people there are getting ready. >> reporter: friday night's performance of "bye-bye birdy" at this high school interrupted when the earth started to shake. [ screaming ] >> ladies and gentlemen, please stay seated! >> reporter: surveillance cameras rolling when a magnitude 5.1 quake sent this convenience store owner jumping the counter for cover. >> my first reaction was "i'm going to run" and i saw them run and i said "let's go." >> the others ran outside. a small part of the store's roof

was damaged, food knocked into the aisles. >> the floor started shaking and the ceiling started shaking. something's wrong, you've got to go. >> reporter: in bray ya, a bedroom camera showing how violentedly ground shook while customers at this ice cream parlor, former home of a creation called the eight scoop earthquake sunday, got a taste of the real thing. in la habra, at an apartment building near the epicenter, fallen pictures, frayed nerves. >> i ran out of my car and ran right into the arms of this man and we were in the middle of the street just like hugging. >> reporter: more than 100 aftershocks hit the region, including a magnitude 4.1 that struck saturday afternoon. the quake centered around 25 miles south of downtown los angeles on the puente hills fault. one seismologist has been closely watching. >> when we have a big earthquake on the puente hill it is strong shaking will be downtown los angeles, hollywood,est l.a. and we're going see a much higher level of damage. >> reporter: while there were no

injuries reported and damage mostly minor, the tremors were a wakeup call of what it means to live in quake country. california hasn't seen a major one since the 1994 northridge quake. the magnitude 6.7 was felt as far away as las vegas. 57 were killed and 5,000 injured. property damage estimated at $20 billion. what was learned after that happened? >> we saw in northridge that we need to have those channels of communication open, that we need to be able to respond very quickly, not just internally and among ourselves but with city and some of the nearby agencies. it's probably one of the big focuses that came out of northridge. >> reporter: the l.a. county office of emergency management estimate there is's an l 6% chance of a manager any tuesday 7.0 or greater earthquake hitting california in the next 30 years. aiken says the recent quakes are a reminder to be prepared and while the tremor sent some ducking for cover, his message not being felt by everyone.

>> nervous? not prepared. >> i'd say we're sufficiently -- we're sort of ready. as ready as one can be. >> reporter: emergency officials hoping people do get the message. they say one of the basic things you can do is have emergency supplies on the ready. that includes food, water, and medicine and they say you should have those supplies ready to last for at least 72 hours. jason carroll, cnn, los angeles. >> good tip there is for you. a new federal rule passed in the u.s. will require certain vehicles to have rear view cameras. it will apply to many cars, buses, and trucks made after april 2018. experts say some 210 deaths every year are caused by drivers backing up. about a third of those fatalities are children. and here's an accident where -- well, no one was hurt. take a look at this. this person forgot to put the

car into park. it was left unattended at a dock in florida where it just started to roll off. >> well, the car was found bobbing in the ocean the next morning, divers had to help bring the car back out of the water. no tip for him. and drivers in hong kong, southern china having a bit of trouble getting around because of some heavy rain. how's that for a segue? >> do we have ivan back with us. yes, it has been raining there heavily in hong kong and we'll take you back to california. some lightning video to show you. but look at this. this is not a valet mishap, just a torrential downpour across portions of southeastern china over the last couple of days. since saturday, mind you now, moving into hong kong here we have been talking about record rainfall, upwards of 200 plus millimeters of water. this is live radar from the hong kong observatory. not as bad today but we have seen showers rolling through. now getting into the wet season

here so we'll see thunderstorms bubbling up through the afternoon. look at this, 238 millimeters since saturday. about nine inches there and monthly averages only 82 so more than january, february, and march combined, very heavy rain in just a couple of days. it will take a while to recover from that. there you see still some storms rolling through, just not as heavy for today and the next couple days. you can see this disturbance pushing out towards the east china sea and heading up towards japan. something to check in with you here, this would likely be for next week, an area of low pressure with a low chance of developing now but there are the philippines there. computer model forecast pushing this towards the philippines. so something to keep an eye on here. now, in the u.s. we have one storm that has departed, another one in the midwest and then this one moving through the western part of the country and san francisco and, in fact, specifically in berkeley with some showers and storms rolling through. lightning splitting a tree in half, had some significant

damage across berkeley there, waking some people up with very heavy downpours. we've been around significant drought in california so any rain is helpful here. but this time around it came with some severe weather across california there. much improved at this point. still seeing some showers rolling through but certainly nothing like we saw over the last couple of days here. you see that last impulse beginning to move in. so not looking too, too bad at all. but by the time we get into the middle part of the week things will get more interesting hear what a potential for some severe weather across the midwestern u.s. is john still awake? falling asleep? >> i keep nudging him. he's hanging in there. >> we're still on the u.s. side, right? it's not even 10:00 p.m. in honolulu. >> there we are. >> on the evening news there. >> it's prime time somewhere in the world. >> it is, it is. >> every time. >> thanks again. >> hope to see you soon. all right. it is the stuff of legend but

could the search for the holy grill finally be over? big question being asked. >> well, it is. there we are. [ laughter ] that's at least according to two historians who say this gold chalice is the cup jesus himself drank from at the last supper. in a new book entitled "kings of the grail" they say three years of investigation led them to a spanish museum and then voila, this goblet. >> and curators are have removed the cup from exhibit until they can find a space large enough to accommodate throngs of pilgrims anxious to see it. >> it's their holy grail. >> and that does it. thank for watching cnn newsroom. i'm rosemary church. >> early start is coming up for our viewers in the united states. for everyone else, stay tuned for "world business today."

breaking news overnight. the search for missing malaysia airlines flight 370 inn intensifying, the mystery of its disappearance widening. a new report that poor communication could have wasted days in the effort to find the vanished jetliner and new information now about the last words from the cockpit. who said them and how even this information keeps changing. we cover all the angles and all the twists and turns as they unfold this morning. good morning, everyone. great to see you today. welcome to "early start." i'm john berman. >> and i'm poppy