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newsroom." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning. i'm carol costello. thanks for joining me. russia and ukraine trade accusations. lawmakers in kiev trade punches. [ speaking in foreign language ] this brawl in ukraine's parliament underscores the reality of a nation torn by rival loyalties and incensed by cold war hatred. fists began flying when one pro--russian lawmaker took to the podium and nationalistic radicals took offense. saying the country was pushed to this point when the president was toppled, backed by moscow. more on the unfolding crisis in ukraine in just a few moments. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. but we begin with breaking news. it could be the most important day of testimony in the murder trial of olympic runner oscar

pistorius. moments ago in his own words the disgraced track star described the final moments before he shot and killed his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. >> then i heard a noise from inside the toilet, but i perceived it to be somebody coming out of the poilt. before i knew it, i'd fired four shots at the door. my ears were ringing. i couldn't hear anything. so i shot -- i kept on shouting for receive sa eva to phone the. i still was trying to retreat because i wasn't sure if there was somebody on the ladder, if there was somebody in the toilet. >> let's bring in cnn robyn kurnow from pretoria south africa and kelly phelps, a cnn legal analyst. robyn, you were inside the courtroom for that dramatic moment. take us through how oscar pistorius described that night, when he killed reeva steenkamp.

>> reporter: well, you heard it. you know, and you don't even need the pictures. you don't even need the image of him to get a sense of what was said and how he came across. just that faltering voice. initially, he had been quite composed throughout the day, but the closer and closer he got to that crucial moment where he shot her, his voice became more and more wobbly and, of course, he seemed to -- i noticed throughout the day -- he seemed to hunch over and over and observer as the day got on, but crucially, i think also, he looked directly at the judge through all of this testimony. he was talking to her. she was often piercingly looking back at him. but, however, at that last moment when those details just became too much, you heard it. you didn't need to see it. it was uncontrollable, devastating sobbing. >> just to shed a little light for our viewers about what he says happened that night, he says he was in bed. he heard a noise.

he thought reeva steenkamp was also in bed. he whispered to her to, what? get down? and that's when he got up without his prosthetic legs on, grabbed ahold of the gun and went to investigate it. went to investigate. can you take it from there, kelly? >> reporter: well, it's a little bit different to that version of events, actually. he got out of bed because he couldn't sleep. he spoke to reeva steenkamp as he got out of bed and it was only once he had gone out to the balcony, come back in, that he then heard a noise in the bathroom. it's at that point hi whispered into the room to reeva, there was an intruder, and they were in danger, he got his gun and went on the corridor down to the bathroom and essentially was checking out all directions an intruder could be coming from. having heard the bathroom door had been opened. while in that corridor, he screamed out further to reeva steenkamp, because she hadn't answered, to phone the police and get down and take cover, and then once he got into the bathroom itself, he stopped

speaking, because, according to his version of events, he was worried that if he shouted out from inside the bathroom, whoever was inside the bathroom would know where to shoot at him from. he then heard a noise in the toilet enclosure and shot in a frenzied panic through the toilet door. he still wasn't convinced whether he had got the so-called intruders that he believed were behind that door, and was still very fearful that they might be on a ladder outside the open bathroom door, and that he and reeva were still in danger, and it was only sometime after that, he'd gone back into the bedroom, had gone to look for her. sat on the bed. realized she wasn't there. says he still thought maybe she was hiding under the bed or behind the curtains in the bedroom before the sick realization dawned on him there was a chance it was her in the toilet enclosure, and then he put his prosthetic legs on, ran back into the bathroom, tried to kick the door, and when that was

unsuccessful, retrieved the cricket bat and bashed in the door. >> i'm going to interrupt you there and let oscar pistorius take it from there. let's's listen. >> the first time i hit it, i remember hitting, i hit the frame of the door, and the shock in my hands. it got a small piece open, and at that point all i wanted to do was just look inside to see if it was reeva. >> -- i then hit the door -- i think i hit the door three times, and there was a big

plank, i grabbed it with my hands and i threw it out into the bathroom. i leaned over there, the middle partition. i tried to open the door from the inside, but there was no key in the door and i leaned over the middle partition of the door, and i saw the key was on the floor at that point. all i wanted to do was climb into the toilet over the middle part of the door. i -- once i leaned over the partition to get in the door i saw the key. i opened the door. i threw it open and i sat over reeva and i cried. and i don't know -- i don't know how long. i don't know how long i was there for. she wasn't breathing. >> we'll take an adjournment.

court will adjourn. [ sobbing ] all right. at that point, the judge called for an adjournment. she ended the court session for today. oscar pistorius will continue his testimony tomorrow. robyn, i wanted to ask you, steenkamp's family was in the courtroom. then were listening to this testimony. what was their reaction? >> reporter: you know, as you can hear, it's gut wrenching for anyone to listen to it, whether you have a stake in it, whether you believe he did it or didn't do it, it's a very, very powerful piece of testimony. but reeva steenkamp's mother largely, i must say, pretty stony faced throughout it. through much of this entire court case. there was a moment or two where she bowed her head down, holding her head in her hands. she was supported by her lawyer. reeva's cousin and a few of her friends also in court sitting around reeva steenkamp's mother.

they also largely unemotional. nobody really breaking down in tears, in reaction to any of the details. the one person who was consistently crying or at least sobbing was oscar pistorius' sister. she spent much of the day sort of dabbing her eyes. her lips sometimes wobbling. it looked like she was always just on the verge of bursting into tears. what you saw was a very emotional day for both sides, and i think just being in court also, it was quite difficult, and i've said it before. in this trial. yesterday when he turned around and apologized to mrs. steenkamp, it felt so personal, so intimate. it felt like all of us in the gallery were intruding. there were times, particularly in some of these crime scene photos, when they're flashed up, that really this should be a personal thing. either between oscar pistorius and the family of the woman he killed, or between the police and the legal experts.

you know, i think at times it does, you know -- it does feel quite disconcerting having to be there. >> kelly, the judge will decide the verdict in this case. there is no jury. so she's going to listen to the rest of oscar pistorius' testimony tomorrow. his emotions seem real to me. i mean, if they're not real, he's the best actor ever. >> reporter: absolutely. i think anyone who's been in the court, whatever side of the argument you stand on is that at this stage not in doubt of the sincerity of his emotional response. i expect the judge is equally not in doubt. of that you could see today by the request of postponement, she essentially unilaterally called, but that won't weigh in her decision-making process. it might lend credibility to his testimony, but that will not be the thing that will decide her outcome, her verdict, on this case. she is very experienced at separating her emotions from her reason.

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any russian who seizes a government building as a terrorist. it's that back and forth that led to this. pro-russian and pro-ukrainian lawmakers fighting inside the ukrainian parliament. this absolute brawl comes as ukrainian lawmakers pass a bill toughening penalties for anyone calling for separatism. diana magna joins us from moscow with more. good morning. >> reporter: hi, carol. that's right. well, now anyone charged with separatism, or being involved in activities that redraw national borders, for example, will get much tougher penalties than before. so any kind of violence by people described as separatists will now have a penalty of between, up to five years for first offense. up to ten years for a second offense and then a more strict penalties across the board. so that is the legislation that was pushed through the

parliament today. it still has to be signed into law by the acting president but effectively means, as you said, those protesters who have taken official buildings in various southeastern cities in ukraine are categorized as terrorists and will have severe penalties as a result. >> so these pro-russian protesters that are operating in the eastern ukraine, who are they? >> reporter: well, it's different in crimea, where you had a majority russian ethenic population. in large parts of south and eastern ukraine you have many people for whom russian is their first language who don't feel as though the authorities in kiev respect or in any way reflect their legitimate interests, but it's very hard to say exactly who's behind all of this. the west, the united states, kiev, has intimated that it is russia who is orchestrating this kinds of uprisings that we're seeing. the u.s. secretary of state and the russian foreign minister had

a telephone conversation yesterday where john kerry said, you know, there have been arrests recently of russian intelligence operatives operating in that part of the country, and reminded sergey lavrov that kiev believes they are behind all of this. this is something that lavrov himself has completely denied and just says that this is the u.s. ascribing to them what, in fact, the u.s. is doing itself. and interestingly, the foreign ministry here in russia today, carol, said that there were kiev forces -- forces from kiev alongside various people from the right sector, with american mercenaries, they said, belonging to the contracting firm graystone, who were operating and trying to stop protesters from having their voices heard. of course, this is an allegation that we've heard in russian propaganda in the last couple of weeks, really. it's difficult to confirm ourselves, but that is certainly the claim russia is making.

carol? >> reporting live from moscow this morning. thanks so much. still to come in the "newsroom," the best efforts of man and machine as search cres s raise -- the most promising lead yet in the recovery of mh 370. will is covering the search this morning. will? >> reporter: right now the search for signals from the missing plane. we are live in western australia monitoring this massive operation underway as we speak. ♪

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now the latest on the mystery of malaysian air flight 370. this morning the search narrows but more precious time is slipping away. crews scrambling with new urgency but found no trace of

the faint underwater signals heard over the weekend. today the search area for malaysian airlines flight 370 has been drastically scaled back. that red box you see is today's focus, dwarfed by the sprawling gray areas earlier searched by sea and air. one expert says the search area has shrunk to the size of texas to merely the size of the city of houston. still a big area, though, right? with the batteries on the flight recorders either dead or dying, search efforts are holding nothing back. cnn's will ripley isality the hub of tthe -- is at the hub of the search in perth, australia. good morning. >> reporter: you're talking quite a large area. 30,000 square miles. if you think about one ship towing a very long line and basically doing kind of a ladder person. kind of like you do when mowing your lawn. back and forth. each segment of that ladder takes about eight hours. that includes three hours for the ship and the tow line behind it to make a turn, and we've now gone more than two days before

hearing a signal underwater. as you know, the ocean shield towing behind the u.s. navy's pinger locator listened to a signal more than two hours over the weekend and tried again. heard it about 15 minutes, but it's been silent ever since. and so the big push right now is to try to relocate that signal, because what needs to happen is, this pinger locator needs to hear the signal multiple times to be able to get a pretty approximate idea of where debris, where wreckage might be, and right now we just don't have the answers. the area still too big for the other equipment that's in the area to work effectively. >> all right. will ripley, reporting live from perth, australia. let's talk more about this. is all hope lost with now mary schiavo, cnn aviation analyst and cnn inspector general for the department of transportation and peter golts, a cnn analyst and former ntsb managing director. welcome to both of you. >> thank you. >> good to see you. >> nice to see you both. peter, the batteries are likely dying or dead in those black

boxes. how long will they continue pinging? >> well, there's no question that this is a setback for the search. the boxes are designed to have the batteries work 30 days. if they were well-maintained, it might last 35 days, but that the ocean shield has not reacquired the ping is a genuine setback, and we're talking now an investigation that could go on months, if not years. >> oh. so mary, searchers have refined the search area. i would assume that still means they're fairly sure the plane went down in that area? >> right. by refining it down to the search area, i think the pings that they did hear were tremendously helpful, because you remember they had that big, long arc they had gotten from the inmarsat data. the pings helped localize it. the pings can extend a wide

area. a radius of maybe five miles. so diameter would be ten miles. they still have a really big area based on the pings they did hear. if they were able to pick up more pings they would have reduced the syce and given submersibles just a small area to search. all hope is not lost by any strerch of the imagination but it means the submersibles will have a really long, as they say, mowing the ocean's path and block by block cover the city of houston. >> so, peter, does that mean they'll send the submarines down sooner than later? >> well, i think they're going to keep towing for the sounds. probably for another week or ten days. and then they're going to have to re-assess and decide how they're going to examine this area much closer, and they'll have to use side scanning sonar, and as mary knows, as she just said, boy, that's going to be a

block by block search. so i think we're in a very critical stage of the search, and some big decisions are going to have to be made in the next week or so. >> thanks to you both, mary schiavo, peter golts. still to come in the "newsroom," equal pay for women and men takes center stage at the white house as president obama prepares to take action on the issue. jim acosta, live in washington. good morning, jim. >> reporter: right. later this morning president obama will focus on equal pay for women. what about the pay for women located at the office at 1600 pennsylvania avenue? we'll talk about that in just a few moments. [ laughter ]

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will continue to move ahead and around congress in his year of action signing a pair of executive actions designed to strengthen equal pay laws. an issue the president highlighted during the state of the union and one democrats hope gives him a boost in the midterms. bring in senior white house correspondent jim acosta and chief business correspondent christine romans. jim, start with you. walk us through the specifics. who will be affected? >> reporter: right now the president doing it through affirmative action, the president will speak in a couple hours at the white house about equal pay for women and throwing out a statistic women only make 77 cents for every dollar a man makes. the president will issue two executive actions, orders, basically making it a problem for federal contractors,

prohibit federal kocontractorse to retaliate against worker who ask about their pay and pay issues and instruct the labor department to study the issue. they're kirned about here the a the white house, pay secrecy, because of pay secrecy in the workplace people can't ask what colleagues are making and can't figure out if they're getting equal pay for equal work. several fact-checking news organizations have taken issue saying women only make 77 cents for every dollar. it's closer to 93 cents for every dollar according to several fact-checking organizations saying they don't account for women working fewer hours and that sort of thing. >> a little controversy about this, too, inside the white houses supposedly. study stows women are making 88 cents, to every man's dollar. is that true? >> reporter: right. well, you know, this is a study that was put out by the american enterprise institute. conservative think tank, you

know, carol. at the white house, press secretary jay carney was asked about it and didn't deny it. basically, yes, this is happening over here at the white house as well, although the white house says, look, the president has many top senior advisers who are women. the national security adviser, susan rice to the senior political adviser to the president, valerie jared. here is how jay carney answeraled the question when asked about this yesterday. >> i think those studies look at the aggregate of everyone on staff and that includes from the most junior levels to the most senior. what i can tell you is that we have, as an institute here, have aggressively addressed this challenge, and obviously, though at the 88 cents, that you cite, that is not 100 but better than the national average. >> now -- >> come on. really? >> exactly. and this question that you raise, carol, goes to a very real political problem for this white house. they're trying to move on to

other topics here with the midterms coming up and talking about these women's issue, but yet here they have a rollout of an issue of equal pay that didn't quite work out the way intended. >> christine, were you going to say something? i'm stunned by his answer. >> i'll say this. depensds. look, everyone thinks you should be paid the same amount for the same work. there's no -- that's a bipartisan kind of sentiment. it's not just one switch you can flip and suddenly women and men will get paid the same for the same job. there are a lot of different factors at play here. the courts have been arguing about it for years. you look at, for example, experience, the networks women have. shorter tenure, jim mentioned, on the same job. off ramps they take to have children or differ priorities. women still seen as the caregivers. still a legacy of discrimination, still women, jobs that are seen more as the kind of jobs that are women's work. even in those jobs, jobs for a long time seen as women's work, women make less than men in some of those same jobs.

there's a lot of different factors at play here. we pulled numbers for you. analysis from the institute of women's policy research. in nursing women do better. make 88 cents. customer service, closest level of parody, in retail, 68%. weekly earnings of american and women, see it there, too. the average male worker brings home more per week than a woman does. this is not dependent on what they do for a living, just on average. women make $706 a week. men make $860. i think this is changing when you look at millennial specifics. millennial women, much, much closer to men, carol, and a lot of different factors for that, but as time has gone on, this wage gap, i think, i hope, is going to shrink. especially booked like sandberg, "lean in." how to make sure you're treated fairly in the workplace. >> and the fact we're an educated group. we women, right? >> exactly. >> right. >> you are.

>> we are, jim. sorry. so christine, ispossible within the white house women are holding the types of jobs that just don't pay as much as the types of jobs that men hold in the white house? >> here's the thing. when people research this they look at the same jobs. this is what disturbs them. when in the same job women are paid differently than men, that's where the real problem comes in and that's why you want the department of labor to look at that, find out what are the trends here. is it because women network different? because women don't negotiate early on in their career the way men do? by the tame they have the same job as a man in the white house, he's asked for two raises. she didn't. that's the disparity? maybe experience, taken more time off or taken time off to take care of a sick relative or baby. what are all of these factors and there are hundreds of factors. it's not just one thing. it's not just, you know, discrimination. it's not just sexism. it's not just because women have children and men don't. there are a lot of different reasons, all of them little levers that taken together mean there is a little disparity

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caught in the act. a married congressman from louisiana is in hot water today after a local newspaper published surveillance video of him kissing a female staffer. that would be republican vance mccallister. elected last november in a special election, and ran on a platform of faith, family and hard work. this morning, the christian conservative and father of five is asking for forgiveness. cnn's aaron mcpike has more for you. >> reporter: another congressman

caught canoodling, with a woman who is not his wife. instead, a congressional staffer. this time it's republican representative vince mccallister of louisiana. images caught in december by a security camera in his louisiana office, and obtained by the "washington citizen." a compromising image for a southern republican who ran on fae values just last year. >> count on me to take those values to washington. >> reporter: he's in his first term, just winning last november in a special election, and faces voters again later this year for a full term. he hastily issued a statement saying, "there's no doubt i've fallen short and am asking for forgiveness, and asking for privacy for his family." but privacy is hard to come by in washington. especially for a freshman who made headlines a few months after arriving in congress by inviting "duck dynasty" star willie robinson as his gates to the state of the union.

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minutes past the hour, defense secretary chuck hagel becomes the first foreigner ever allowed to board a chinese aircraft carrier. the visit came at the request of the united states, but hagel also used his visit to warn china creating an air defense zone over a chain of disputed islands with japan could have consequences. >> every nation has a right to establish air defense zones, but not a right to do it unilaterally with no collaboration, no consultation. that adds to tensions, misunderstandings, and could eventually add to and eventually get to dangerous conflict. >> china and japan each stake claim to uninhabited islands which could be a reserve of

natural resources. sitting down with chuck hagel one on one, his interview tomorrow starting at 8:00 a.m. eastern on "new day." people in the southern united states cleaning up today after a strong line of storms drenched many areas yesterday. heavy rains caused flooding from mississippi to georgia swallowing cars and stranding drivers. in birmingham, alabama, residents of this apartment complex had to be rescued by boat when the parking lot filled with water. in money news, today microsoft is officially ending support for windows xp. that means no more updates to the 12-year-old operating system, including no more security patches. nearly 95% of all bank atms still run xp, and if your pc still uses it, now would be the time to consider an upgrade or to get a new computer altogether. this morning, in the vast indian ocean, search crews had no luck in finding the faint

underwater signals heard over the weekend. the search area from malaysia airlines flight 370 has been dramatically scaled back. one expert says it shrunk from the size of texas to the city of houston. had or if any wreckage is found, an even bigger challenge lies ahead. jean casarez joins us with a loot haek ahead to phase two. >> reporter: carol, so many challenges we have to deal with as we watch the explorers and the oceanographers and searchers. one of those are the naturally occurring things that are under the mysterious deep, dark sea. >> now, i stress this is very deep water. >> reporter: very deep, and very mysterious. search vehicles may have to travel 2.5 miles down to try and find aircraft wreckage, and much about the ocean floor is unknown. >> it is a mystery. it's very -- we know it's deep. it's 4500 meters. >> reporter: kristine dennison is an ocean explorer who says

what adds to the mystery is the terrain. >> you have valleys. you have gullies. you have mountain ranges. it's very much an area as it will miami mic what we have top side. >> reporter: they're trying to find acoustic pings, the black box. in air sound travels in a straight line, but it's not like that in the sea. it can angle and bend up to 90 degrees. that means you can't be exactly sure where the sound is coming from. >> acoustic energy sound through the water is greatly affected by temperature, pressure and salinity. >> reporter: if they're able to hear another ping and fix the position, it will likely unleash bluefin 21 into the water and attempt to find wreckage on the seafloor. if wreckage is located, though, one aspect of the deep sea conditions may work . >> cold water does preserve everything much, much better

than shallower warmer temperatures. >> reporter: the search for flight mh 370 continues. >> what i'd like to see now is wreckage. but that will basically help solve the mystery. >> reporter: and of course one other challenge is to find another acoustic event. strange things do happen in the sea. and carol, think about it from a common sense aspect with mount continue ra mountain ranges and gullies and rages. that makes it so much more difficult if you finally do locate the black box because it could be lodged somewhere. >> so far still trying. so far weeks of scouring the indian ocean has turned up nothing. but if search crews do find debris from the missing flight, how might it help solve the mystery? still ahead, a look inside the aviation institute where this type of work has been done

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they made an unlikely run to the championship. unfortunately, like with many college championship win, some students took to the streets and they were not good citizens. they tore down light poles, busted out windows. police made dozens of arrests. after the game, shabazz napier took a swipe at the ncaa. uconn was banned from last year's tournament and even lost scholarships for failing to meet academic standards. napier says the punishment pushed the team to work that much harder this year. >> how do you describe this one? >> honestly, i want to get everybody's attention right quick. if i could have your attention. ladies and gentlemen, you're looking at the hungry huskies. this is what happened when you banned us last year, two years. we worked so hard for it.

hungry huskies. >> cbs cut away at that point. two weeks ago, napier told reporters he sometimes goes to bed starving. he certainly knows how to start a controversy. >> reporter: yeah, he sure does. as the saying goes, if you walk the walk, you can talk the talk. and napier, he sure did walk the walk in last night's championship game. he was absolutely outstanding in the game. just hitting pull up threes from all over the court. before the game, everyone was talking about the super freshmen from kentucky, but it was napier, the senior guard, who outshined them all. finished with 22 points, named the most outstanding player. and i'm sure he felt tree and clear to speak his mind after the game because he's not going to be in the ncaa next year. he'll be in the nba making millions. >> well, he did catch the attention of the connecticut state legislature, right, with

his going to bed starving comments. now they're considering maybe uconn should be unionized. so his words matter. >> reporter: well, i think he was more going to bed starving as motivation, you know, to stay hungry. i think the uconn basketball players are definitely well fed. they get three meals a day. they get free lodging. he's doing okay up there and so is connecticut. >> well, there is a whole controversy over whether college basketball players, college football players, should be paid. but that's for another day. we'll talk brackets after this. rachel nicholas sat down with shabazz napier and the coach. >> we've been doubted for so long and we kept grinding. we kept pushing it. >> somebody told me we were cinderellas. i was like, no, we're uconn. this is what we do. we were born for this. we are bred to cut down nets.

>> so there you have it. okay. let's talk brackets now. because i can't brag, but you can. i did come in sixth, though, after being in 18th place early on. >> reporter: yeah, you did rally. i'm proud of you. i got four, just a tad bit better than you. the thing i'm most happy about, joe carter worn an. makes us look like we're smarter than we really are and maybe we really are basketball experts. >> but so much of it was luck this year because who would have thought kentucky and uconn. nobody. >> reporter: dryeah. no one had this unless maybe you went to one of these schools. you won the bracket early on or you just built it out some funny way like fight songs or your favorite mascot. if you're in love with huskies, maybe you had uconn going all the way and you probably did pretty well in your bracket pool if that was the case. >> andy schultz, thank you so

much. next hour of cnn newsroom starts now. happening now in the newsroom, the blade runner and the night of the murder. >> i had taken my firearm and i placed it next to -- under the bed. >> oscar pistorius taking the stand again this morning. >> and i sat over reeva and i cried. time is running out. >> today is another critical day. >> officials waiting for another signal from the pinger. >> there have been no further contacts with any transmissions. >> and ukraine. becoming a tinder box. new warnings of an all out civil

war. you're live in the cnn newsroom. good morning. i'm carol costello. thank you so much for joining me this morning. the search for flight 370 narrows as more precious time slips away. crews now scrambling with new urgency, but they found no trace of those faint underwater signals they heard over the weekend. today the search area, though, for malaysia airlines flight 370 is drastically scaled back. that red box, today's focus, gar offed by the sprawling gray areas earlier searched by sea and area. one expert says the area shrunk from the size of texas to the size of the city of houston. but with the batteries on the flight recorders either dead or dying, search efforts are holding nothing back. >> you can be assured that we are throwing everything at this

difficult complex task in at lease these next several days while we believe the two pingers involved are still active. >> this is day 32. the battery life expires on the guys at 30 days. but experience with the kit from around the world is that they usually last languager than the 30 days. >> will ripley is in perth, australia. are they still out there, will? >> reporter: they sure are. and there are two searches happening right now. the air search, 14 planes, many take off from the base i'm standing at. they're floying over the area trying to find any sign of take br debris, also looking at the currents and trying to figure out where the debris field could be.

we have yet to find a single piece of physical evidence from plight 370. much of the focus now is on the ocean shield. the most promising lead yet in this investigation, there is that pink pinger locater lookin the signal heard twice by this u.s. navy ship over the weekend, once for more than two hours, second time for about 15 minutes. it's now been more than two days since we've heard those signals. there is other technology on board including an underwater drone that essentially would scan the bottom of the ocean floor. but angus houston says that will only be deployed if they can get a better idea of where this wreckage might be. >> we will not deploy the submersible. is that clear? we will not deploy it unless we get another transmission in which case wield probably have a better idea of what is down there and we'll go down will and have a look. we're very hopeful that we will

find further evidence which will confirm that the aircraft is in that location. >> there is a reason why he's saying that. one day's work for the pinker o oig locater would take a full week for the submersible. so if they don't find a seg natura signal, the search effort will get much slower. >> will, we appreciate it. each new lead sounds promising, but ends in dashed hopes. let's talk about that. an social search specialist and a company that produces advanced underwater communications systems joins us pull welcome, gentlemen. >> good morning. >> is it surprising that searchers koochcouldn't pick up anymore pings? >> it's disappointing, but not surprising. we've all learned a lot about

debris. now we're learning about underwater acoustics. we're learning that sound when it's traveling through water does not travel like sound through air. it's bent by temperature, bylen factors. >> does the absence of any new pings mean necessarily that the batteries are dead on the black boxes? >> absolutely not. first of all, the pink ee ee ees have a margin. they last a minimum of 30 days. so the life time is dependent on a lot of other parameter, how it was handled, how it was stored. it could be much longer than that. two, three, five days longer. so it could be out there pi

pinging. and just pick up the signal is very complex. as you look at the water, you could be very close to where the pinger is and see no acoustic response and you could be further response and see a response. so the needle in the hay stack problem is really true. >> even though the search area has shrunk so much. rob, i wanted to ask you about that. they won't send a submarine down until the search area is narrowed further. right now eithit's the size of houston. you how small must it be? >> well, sonar, you know, the so he mar ussonar used to acquire f the sea floor can be deployed by an auv, or by a towed sled. an auv might cover 10, 15 miles a day, a towed sled might cover 100 to 200 square miles a day. so they want to get that area as small as they can before they

put sonar assets into the water. >> so thomas, 133 searches so far. all of them fruitless to date. should we still hope? >> absolutely. i mean, you look at the problem. it's a very, very hard problem. but right now, there is a lot of information that has come from the inmarsat data that was analyzed. there is some narrowed area of the search that the team feels is highly probable from how they're describing it. you don't stop. there is no reason to. but there is no -- you really have to understand that it is a hard problem and it will be hard for them to be really successful the way you'd like them to be in a short period of time. this will take time, especially if they do not hear anymore signals from the pinger. >> we understand than that c.

thank you so much. let's talk about ukraine. tension is rising. lawmakers started fighting on the ukrainian parliament floor. this is right before a vote today to stiffen the penalties for anyone calling for separatism. but this fight is not just taking place in kiev. russian protesters have taken control of three ukraine crepian government buildings and the foreign minister says any crackdown against 240those protesters could lead to a civil war. joining me now, nicholas burns. thank you so much for being here. supposedly these row teproteste are in eastern ukraine saying they would like to be part of russia. will is a sense russia is behind these protests.would like to be. will is a sense russia is behind these protests. what do you see? >> there is very strong speculation and well deserved.

is this right out of putin's strategy in crimea. he is instigating the protests, the russian government pushing these protesters to take over municipal buildings, create a sense of crisis. and that in turn allows the russian government to accuse the government in kiev of chaos and you showed pictures of chaos in the parliament. and that russia has no alternative but to protect the rights of these ethnic russians in the eastern part of the ukraine. it's part of a strategy to weaken the ukranian government and to prepare the goupd if pot it for russian military introduction into eastern ukraine, at least for russian influence into eastern ukraine. so it's quite a negative development. this is a real threat to the territorial integrity to ukraine and to the credibility of the new ukrainian government. >> so you're saying this is an effective strategy on the part of the russians? >> unfortunately, yes. it's the same strategy that president putin followed a month ago go in crimea and it seems to be playing out now.

he's masked thousands of russian troops on the border with ukraine. he said in his speech to the parliament a couple weeks ago that he reserves the right to protect ethnic russians wherever they are and most notably that is in ukraine. so obviously there has to be a response now from the ukranian government, from the united states and from europe and that response has to be to threaten russia with significant sectorial sanctions should russian troops cross into eastern ukraine. that really is the only defective deterrance that the united states has. and secretary kerry raised that threat of sapnctions in his phoe call with lavrov yesterday. >> you talk about how the u.s. is responding. i think it just responded in part. barbara starr is at the pentagon with news that u.s. navy ships are -- tell us more. >> reporter: good morning. you'll see a replay of something the u.s. navy did a few weeks

ago. by thursday, the day after tomorrow, a u.s. navy warship, the uss donald cook, a destroyer, will move into the black sea we have learned. how, this will take it up into the black sea near ukraine, a very significant visual statement, if you will, by the u.s. that it is there, that the u.s. military is there, to reassureas sh reassure eastern european allies to the commitment to ukraine. when i say a visual message, will it do any good, will it change putin's mind, nobody here at the pentagon thinks that will happen, but they do want to send this message of support for some very nervous countries in the region. because those 40,000 russian troops not only remain on the border with eastern ukraine, not only the u.s. believes the russians are stirring up trouble

already in eastern you're crepe, b you're crane, but the military calculation is if the russians made the decision to roll into ukraine could basically roll right through the country and achieve all of their military objectives in something like three to five days. they have that kind of military fire you powpower built up on t border. so it means a real challenge for nato and president obama. sanctions the next step, but will that change putin's mind. will he pull back those 40,000 troops which is what the u.s. wants to see. >> so a good move by moving this u.s. navy ship into the black sea or will that even matter? >> well, i think the u.s. is trying to do two things here. first and foremost, deter president putin from going into the eastern ukraine. and the only device is the threat of economic sanctions from the u.s. and you're rap. this other move of positioning a

u.s. warship in the black sea in international waters, that was also done by president bush this 2008 when russia invaded georgia. it's largely symbolic and second objective that the u.s. has and that is to reassure the nato allies, in this case bulgaria, romania, that the united states will protect the nato allies. ukraine is not a nato ally, but bulgaria, row maniamania, furth nos, poll north, poland, all those allies are worried whether you putin will go further. so president obama's test is to let putin know that nato is s g sacrosan sacrosanct. i don't think it will come to that. president putin is highly rational. he does respect power and strength. that is in nato. but will he respect the threat of sanctions in eastern ukraine, i think that is the question for

today and this week. and we certainly need to hear more from the united states and germany on that threat of sanctions. that is really the only hope to deter the russians from going further into eastern ukraine. >> nicholas, barbara, many thanks to both of you. and that picture of the ship you saw was the uss donald cook, on the way to the black sea. still to come, oscar pistorius in his own words. the disgraced track star testifies for a second day about the night he shot and killed his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. >> it was at that point that i started screaming and shouting for the burglar or in-frtruders get out of my house. >> coming up next, the tragic moment when pistorius says everything changed. [ children yelling ]

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it's certainly one of the most compelling days of trial in the murder trial of pistorius. this morning the olympic runner took the tstand and described te night he shot and killed reeva steenkamp. >> i heard a noise from inside the toilet. i perceived to be somebody coming out of the toilet. before i knew it, i'd fired four shots at the door. my ears were ringing. i couldn't hear anything. so i kept on shouting for reeva to phone the police. i was so scared to retreat because i wasn't sure if there was somebody in the toilet.

>> so he kept shouting, he said he couldn't hear any response because his ears were ringing after he shot the gun four times. it was at that moment that changed everything for him. listen to the story as he describes the realization that it was reeva steenkamp in that toilet. >> the first time i remember hitting -- i hit the frame of the door and the shock on my hands, maybe a shawl piece opened. at that point, all i wanted to do was just look inside to see if it was reeva.

i think i hit the door three times and there was a big plank and i threw it out into the bathroom. i leaned over the little partition, tried to open the door from the inside, but there was no key in the door. and i leaned over the middle partition of the door and i saw the key was on the floor at that point. all i wanted to do was just climb into the toilet. once i got over the partition, i saw the key so i took it and i flung the door open. and i sat over reeva and i cried. and i don't know how long. i don't know how long i was there for.

>> can we take adjournment? >> court will adjourn. >> at that point as you heard, oscar was sobbing uncontrollably and the judge called for the court to adjourn ofadjourn. pistorius will return to the stand tomorrow. i want to go to pretoria. so oscar pistorius brought us through that night, he's terrified that an intruder is either coming into his home or already there. he says he's going through the dark, he whispers to reeva steenkamp to get down and then he fires off these four shots. he doesn't know who is in the bathroom. behind that locked door. and then comes to discover it indeed is reeva steenkamp.

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we got it together. before the break, i was talking about the compelling testimony in south affair characterization pistorius describing the night riva steeeva steenkamp was shot

killed and how terrified he was, thinking an intruder had broken into his home. he shot out those four shots through the bathroom door and as you know, those shots hit reeva steenkamp killing her. he then described breaking down that bathroom door and he sobbed uncontrollably at the this point on the stand. he could not go on and the judged a joushjudge ed adjourned the trial. kelly phelps is in south africa. he certainly sounds believable, but some believe, the prosecution, that he shot reeva steenkamp on purpose. is it possible that there was no way he could know where reeva steenkamp was? he was in the same bed as she was. surely he would have noticed she wasn't there. >> well, if we break his version of events down, it becomes easier to understand why on his version of events he wouldn't have known where she was.

so according to his version of events, he woke up in the bed because he was very hot and at that point she woke up, as well, spoke with him briefly and he got out of bed, got the fan from outside and it would have been at this stage on his version that steenkamp while he wasn't in the room had gone to the toilet. when he comes back in, he hears the noise, whispers to her to be careful, screams to her to phone the police and then keeps quiet when he's in the bathroom. at the point that he screams on his version of events, that's when he hears the bathroom door slam shut. so in other words, what he's saying essentially what happened there is a tragic misunderstanding, that she heard him scream, didn't realize he thought she was the intruder and she protected herself by slamming the door shut and locking herself in the bathroom. so nothing fundamental about the version that is improbable. and this is why what the judge will need to do is decide by looking at all of the

surrounding evidence that is proven, that isn't just one person's word against another, whether she thinks his version is more believable over the state's version. >> i was going to ask you, there was some damaging testimony earlier against oscar pistorius. how will the prosecution handle this when they get their turn? >> well, if you're referring to the text messages that were read earlier, he went over some of the text messages that showed the fights that he and reeva steenkamp had had in the months leading up to her killing. the defense septemberpent a lot placing those messages in the context. we already knew there were four negative messages in the con test of over 1700 positive messages. the defense was essentially trying to create the impression that those four fights were just part of normal ups and downs in

a relationship. they had been resolveded a the couple had moved on from them. but certainly the prosecution will try and shift the balance back when it comes to cross-examination and try to establish through perhaps tripping him up that in fact those fights were not as resolved as they led the court to believe. >> we'll know more tomorrow. thanks very much. coming up, riots in parliament and talk of a civil war. now there could be more sanctions ahead. we'll take you live to moscow and the white house. my name is jenny, and i quit smoking with chantix.

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contrived crisis with russia's clear involvement and it won't stand. he's been talking with foreign minister lavrov over the last several days trying to make clear to russia that there will be very strong costs if russia continues. but clearly president putin seems undeterred and it's just really what the u.s. is going to do. what is that formula that will make president putin stand down and certainly they haven't figured that out. >> let's go to lomoscow. what is the reaction there? >> reporter: it's a case of trade trading accusations really. the u.s. accusing the whole situation as having been orchestrated by russia, russia's foreign ministry issuing a statement this morning saying looks as though there are american mercenaries involved trying to control the issue in

the east of ukraine. saying according to the available information to the russians, ukranian forces accompanied by 150 american mercenaries belonging to the greystone private security group and members of the right sector characterized at fascists, that they are all on their way to the east to try and suppress these pro russians from their protests. and that any kind of military preparations could lead to a civil war. so very strong terms also from russia accusing the west of basically orchestrating this situation. >> and of course the best and the united states accusing russia of sending these fake protesters to destabilize the governments across the country so russia will have to go in on its white horse and rescue

ukraine like it did crimea. so jim, what is the next move for the obama administration? >> reporter: i think that is the key question. because they have not figured out the magic formula to stop russia from violating ukraine's territorial sovereignty. and you heard jay carney say yesterday it was another threat from this white house if russia goes in to eastern ukraine, there will be further consequences and that means sanctions and sanctions going after russia's very lucrative and oil gas industry. the question is whether or not that is enough of apn impedimen. and you heard the talk of the mercenaries and evidence that these row teprotesters are paid not local residents. sounds very familiar to what we saw happen in crimea. the question of course is whether or not this white house,

whether this president can stop this from happening again in eastern ukraine. if he cannot, that is going to be a very, very serious challenge to his credibility on the world stage. >> any meetings between the u.s. and russian dep lo russian dipl know of? >> secretary kerry is trying to get together a meeting of the ukranian and russian foreign ministers along with himself and the eu hoping to get that together in the next ten days, possibly somewhere in europe. but carol, if you start to see as we've been talking about russia going into quote/unquote protect these so-called russian separatists, if you will, and there is active fighting, i'm not sure whether those talks about too ta plaake place. but certainly the allies are trying to find a way to diffuse the situation. russian and ukrainian foreign ministers are tiptoeing around each other. unclear whether they will be willing to sit down in the same room. ukranians are saying they to want to meet with russia, but

russia doesn't even recognize the government. so it really is kind of dragging russia kicking and screaming to the table. >> thanks to all of you. still to come, crews race to go locate the pinglike signals heard in the indian ocean, but so far nothing. we'll have the latest on the investigation to find that missing flight next. are you ready grandma? just a second, sweetie. [ female announcer ] we eased your back pain, you turned up the fun. tylenol® provides strong pain relief while being gentle on your stomach. but for everything we do, we know you do so much more. tylenol®. [ male announcer ] when fixed income experts... ♪

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in the 32 days since flight 370 vanished, they have scoured the indian ocean and so far nothing has been found. but if it is, how will the debris be used to help solve the mystery? stephanie elam joins me from the university of southern california's aviation safety and security program with more on that part of the story. good morning, stephanie. >> good morning. there are a lot of clues that you can discern by looking at wreckage. something you may not think about, but we wanted to bring you here to the accident investigation lab where you can see we have plenty of wreckage here that can help piece together clues and tell us things. this is tom anthony, the director of the program. when you take a look at this, you're saying there are somg clues that you can take away from an accident. >> an accident site is inherently overwhelming.

it's overwhelming by the violence conveyed by the torn metal, but the complexity of all the pieces. and it's also overwhelming from the perspective of the general disorder. >> and when you look at this, it's impressive. when you see just how torn up a plane could be, even down to like the door that is ripped off. >> indeed. but this aircraft here it's important to remember only weighed 10,000 pounds. malaysian 370 weighed 600,000 pounds. so imagine while this aircraft and the malaysian 777 were powered by two jet engines and both flew high above the earth, this aircraft is only 160th the size of the wreckage. >> so when they find it, the debris field will probably be a lot larger, if they find it.

>> and such a thing as this, we could expect this as a door from this wreckage aircraft, could could have been expected to floats on the surface no longer with the turboed engine. but we teach the discipline to observe and document, but also to step back and notice. notice what? notice the overwhelming energy this has been absorbed by this part of the wreckage. this is the part of the aircraft that struck the ground first. this is the part that absorbed the energy. >> and this is the lesson that could be taken from looking at planes like this and taking a look at this kind of wreckage. and taking the data and applying to another case like the 777 and looking at this wreckage saying this may have been what happened. so these are the kind of clues and technology and science that

they will be breaking down if and when that wreckage is found. >> and as we look inside to the -- >> have your guest finish his thoughts. >> really quickly, tom, just to show us this part. just to show that the gauges sometimes are a clue. >> quhil these gauges may or may not be true, the lesson that they apply to us is that we have to look beyond the surface of the gauge and to look at the memory and what they it actually represent, what is behind them. >> and that's where that clue is. it may not be on the surface, it may be behind the gauges, carol. >> thank you so much. thank you so both of you. quite fascinating. okay. so let's talk about the investigation, where it goes from here. as i said, they didn't detect anymore pings coming down from

deep in the ocean. 133 searches. they found no debris either. i'm talking about searches in the southern indian ocean. i'm joined by tom fuentes and john mcgaw. welcome, gentlemen. thank you so much for being here. tom, it seems like nothing is evolving, but that is not exactly true. they have narrowed the search area based on what they gathered on land, right? >> right. they're going by the pings they heard over the weekend and hoping that narrow it is down and somewhere in that vicinity they will find the rest of the boxes themselves and the wreckage. >> and are they still studying radar tracks? is there something still to find out from the satellites or something out there? >> well, i think that they have looked pretty hard at that and i think by now that they have probably used up all of their

availability to find something there. but the key thing here, too, carol as we move forward is don't forget the who, what, where, when, why and how of this aircraft tragedy. i know we position of we think. but if we don't keep on the investigative side of it, and cnn started the discussion of how can we fix the aircraft so it reduces the risk in the future. we should keep that going at the same time looking for the pieces. because if you let it get it too far beyond the event, it takes a long time to get something done. as now you have rear view cameras in your automobile in the next two years. took 25 years to get that done. so you've been out front on the who, what, where, when, how, why. don't lose that as we go along. >> we'll try. thank you for saying that. i appreciate it.

tom, back to the investigation for just a second. do you know if the fbi is still involved? >> yes, the fbi is very involved. they don't want more said about that fact, but the fbi is closely working with the royal malaysian police. has been from the first night the plane disappeared. >> so we know that the plane made that turn around indonesia and we don't know why, but it seems like somebody was trying to evade radar maybe. do we know anything more about that? >> i wouldn't even say we know that as an absolute fact. many people are not convinced that the indonesian radar is even good enough to maybe have -- that it could have missed the plane going an cross the indonesian land mass, the island of sumatra. so they're basically saying because indonesia says they didn't see it on their radar, it had to have made that other loop around the island of sumatra and then head south in the indian ocean. but it's kind of based on a

negative, pot tnot that they absolutely not that that that is a fact that handed. and then of course when they assume that that is what happened, then they assume why it happened. and what was the pilot thinking. well, he must have been avoiding radar or doing something he iel. all of that is conjecture and many are not convinced of those facts. not that it didn't happen, but they don't know for a fact that it did happen. >> and john along the lines of what you were saying, if we had better tracking of aircraft, maybe we wouldn't be wondering these things today. >> well, that's correct. and i think that is one of the things we need to look at and also the black box, the transparency in the cockpit. all those kind of things which are going to put lives in jeopardy in the future if we have a copy cat. and that's what we have to be careful of now i believe throughout the world, a copycat.

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pictures of the baby. so what more can we expect from prince george's first official public appearance, victoria? >> i think that was what everyone was waiting for and hoping for was to see kate walk off the plane holding george. the first time we've seen him out in public since his christening. tomorrow will be a highlight. george is expected to join his parents for an informal engagement at the governor general's residence in wellington, ten multicultural families have been selected to meet william and kate and baby george. each of them has a baby born a week or two either side of george. so of course depending on his mood and the jet lag, we're hoping to see him make an appearance tomorrow. and actually we'll see history come full circle. it was back in 1983 at that exact same residence that the public saw prince william crawl for the first i'm. so lovely to see the family make a return. >> so richard, can we expect to see prince george more often? >> well, of course we couldn't

see enough of him. and i think i speak for much of the rest of the world. there is no doubt that every photo opportunity which features prince george has got a vast audience of every newspaper and every television station knows this. as a result, there will be tremendous pressure. we would wish to see more of him. if i would choose a moment in the tour where we might see him, may i suggest the visit to the zoo in sydney because about you could imagine an australia that seems fairly stagnant these days, if we have a photograph with a marsupial or some compbei thinkenchanting.

>> and her red coat brings back images of diana, too. is she doing this deliberately? >> no, it's just kate's cross to bear being married to prince william, so that of diana. it doesn't matter what she does, if she wears a black dress, somebody drudges up a photograph of diana and says she's emulating her late mother-in-law. is he looked fantastic on arrival yesterday. she was wearing a dress by one of diana's favorite designers. katherine walker. and i think we'll see lots of references to diana during this tour simply because australia and new zealand were the very first countries that william got to visit with his family. so i think that is just going to continue no matter what kate does will be the comparisons to diana. >> that's true. but i must say, richard you can that the royal couple, they're batting 1,000. they can do no wrong. >> how right you are. because this is what is so fascinating. if we have to continue comparing

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act. an extraordinary time in our history. going to be talking about really a who's who talking about civil rights issues of today, whether it's gay rights, immigration, health care. but they are also going back to the '60s to talk about the tumultuous time. you how was it that the president lbj, the congress and the people managed to get through that period and get this le legislation passed. the nation was in turmoil. young predominantly black protesters against public discrimination on buses, in bathrooms and at lunch counters, were beaten and hosed down in the south. america's very democracy was at staying. and then president john f. kennedy was assassinated. lyndon baines johnson was sworn in and decided to stake his early presidency on passing the civil rights act. >> no memorial or eulogy could more he wieloquently honor pres

kennedy's memory. >> reporter: but politics was nasty on the hill. southern democrats who felt their way of life was being threatened threw up hur after hurdle in the house. senators tried to talk the bill to death. richard worked in the white house for kennedy and then for president johnson. >> he was from the south and he had seen firsthand of course the poor blacks and poor mexican americans and others who were not getting a fair break in society. >> you wering swift passage for the bill -- >> reporter: lbj not only supported the bill, he also knew how to get it passed on capitol hill. >> johnson was the master of the senate. and as majority leader, he knew where all the bodies were buried, he knew what everybody's weaknesses with you es were. >> reporter: so he worked the

phones. >> he would be on the phone with dr. king, then he would call governor wallace, then he'd call senator dirksen. and then he'd be on the phone with richard russell. and he was pulling out every stop. >> he'd call them in the morning, he'd call them at night, he'd have a cocktail with them. there is a story of calling a senator at 2:00 in the morning and he said i hope i didn't wake you up. and the senator said, no, just lying here in the bed hoping my president would call. >> reporter: johnson's arm twisting worked. the bill fought its way through congress. the filibuster was broken by republicans and democrats. with his signature, lbj made the civil rights agect of 1964 the w of the land fouling a ground swell of public support after violence and hate had tested the nation. and carol, seems like such a long time ago, but i remember as a little girl growing up my parents telling me stories about how they were not able to go to

the neighborhood school or the swimming pool or church because it was for whites only. they grew up in the rural south in louisiana. and it's about how far our country has come. and the question here, what makes it different the times of lbj to the times now. why can't we actually get more country in washington and our country. clearly there was a movement behind the president that he had a different relationship with congress, but it was also the man himself. and that's what we'll be examining tomorrow. what was it about this president that made it even possible for something like this to happen, this legislation. and of course the movement that was behind it. >> suzanne malveaux reporting live this morning. thanks so much. and thank you for joining me today. i'm carol costello. at this hour with burma michaela starts now. the search area shrinks, the urgency grows. crews desperate to find flight 370 hear nothing. no new pings that m