live from perth, australia. we're going to make sure we know what the latest is out of australia. my colleague wolf blitzer is going to take over from here. thanks for watching. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com right now, the war of words other ukraine is heating up dramatically. lashing out against russia's, quote, illegal illegitimate actions. russia saying any use of force could lead to civil war. also right now, tuesday's black box search comes up empty, at least so far. no more pings detected. as we approach 33 days since malaysia airlines flight 370 went missing. and right now, president obama signed two measures to help ensure equal pay for equal work. critic, say it's all part of a democratic party push to win the women's vote in november. the white house says it's all about fairness. hello, i'm wolf blitzer

reporting from washington. russia is is now warning that ukraine could be on the brink of civil war. that warning comes as ukrainian troops began cracking down on pro-russian demonstrators in eastern ukraine. as many as 70 people were arrested in an anti-terrorism operation. demonstrators had taken control of several government buildings during a senate hearing just a little while ago, secretary of state john kerry put the blame squarely on russia. >> no one should be fooled, and believe me, no one is fooled, by what could potentially be a contrived pretext for military intervention just as we saw in crimea. it is clear that russian special forces and agents have been the catalyst behind the chaos of the last 24 hours. some have even been arrested and exposed. equally as clear must be the reality that the united states and our allies will not hesitate to use 21st century tools to

hold russia accountable for 19th century behavior. >> we'll hear more from secretary kerry in a moment including a testy exchange he had with senator mccain over foreign policy. first, let's get to the crackdown on pro-russian demonstrator. our own nick payton walsh is joining us from inside eastern ukraine in donets. the demonstrators took control of one government building there. what is the very latest on the ground? >> reporter: the real fear is while all this drama plays out on the eastern border, we still have tens of thousands of russian troops ready, say nato, potentially to make a move. in luhansk we have reports that as many as 60 people are being held by pro-russian protesters who they say are armed and have explosives. here in donetsk, a city that seeps to be carrying on normally, there is still a troublingly isolated patch, almost kind of anarchy, where pro-russian activists have taken

over the local administration. it's small, scruffy but noisy. this tiny space is the self-declared people's republican of donetsk, where days ago it was just a local government building. it's a bit like the pro-europe protests of midin square in kiev. molotov cocktail, tires ready to burn, and the lack a leader or concrete plan, fed by local donations. but there's one huge difference. these people want to join russia and russia, even its army, to help them do it. this man says he's from the eastern front, a new local group. we're about 6,000 people, he says, men ready to protect the fatherland, but women too, even the elderly. they say they've let us in because they want to show that

they're here entirely peacefully, but there are clear preparations ready here. they're worried about an assault by ukrainian forces, particularly from the roof, and they've barricaded the stair wells. the power went out last night. many, like these nurses, fearing special forces were coming. but they didn't. and their numbers and readiness grow. there's a feel that the rivalry between kiev and moscow will cost them their jobs. rising price, wages worth less by the day. some hanker for the soviet past. "my father was a retired kgb colonel," she says. and his genes must be passed on to me. that's why i'm here. we must stand until the end." the top floor here was the new office of a ukrainian

billionaire appointed governor by kiev to fix the economy and beyond rich by comparison. this man says moscow isn't behind this, it's mostly local complaints. "we've had a lot of negotiations with them," he says. "there are no people so committed here who would be prepared to sacrifice their lives." this rhetoric borders on bav vado, he says, adding the russian forces on the border are aimed at psychological pressure. this tiny pocket of grievances and whims sat at the heart of a massive struggle for europe's east, and so powerful far beyond its size. wolf, what you saw there of course looks in many ways local, almost parochial small in size. the real issue of course it how it feeds into the broader question. these tens of thousands of

russian troops. no doubt, really, these protests across eastern ukrainian cities happen in a coordinated fashion. they seem to calm and then flare again. the real fear, asking for constitutional reform, perhaps federalization of ukraine. the sense if that doesn't happen there could be further violence ahead and those in washington point to those tens of thousands of troops as perhaps the harbinger of tense times ahead. >> tough situation in ukraine. thank you. we heard the secretary of state talking about ukraine. his remarks came during a senate foreign relations committee hearing. ukraine wasn't the only issue on the agenda. listen to this, very spirited exchange between john mccain and john kerry on ukraine, syria, iran and middle east peace. >> the israeli/palestinian talks are -- even though you may drag them out for a while, are finished. and i predict, even though we gave the iranians the right to

enrich, which is unbelievable, those talks will collapse too. you can talk about mali and you can talk about other places in the world, but on the major issues, this administration is failing very badly. on the issue of ukraine, my hero, teddy roosevelt, used to say, talk softly but carry a big stick. what you're doing is talking strongly and carrying a very small stick. in fact, a twig. so, here we are with ukraine being destabilized. part of it dismembered. and we won't give them defensive weapons. i take strong exception to mr. murphy's statement. we don't want to provoke? we don't want to provoke vladimir putin by giving these people the ability to defend themselves after their country has been dismembered and there is provocations going on? we don't -- that, i say to you, sir, is the logic of appeasement. the logic of appeasement.

i want to know, and i think the american people should know, and maybe most importantly, the people of ukraine should know, why won't we give them some defensive weapons when they're facing -- and another invasion, not the first, but another invasion of their country? it is just beyond logic. and, frankly, when we don't give people assistance to defend themselves, then it just -- as the syria decision, it reverberates throughout the entire world. i would like to know why it is not at least under serious consideration to give them defensive weapons with which to defend themselves. >> well, senator, let me begin in the place you began with your premature judgment about the failure of everything.

i -- you know, i guess it's pretty easy to lob those judgments around, but particularly well before the verdict is in on any of them. geneva 2, my friend, i said will not succeed. maybe for a year or two. but if the truth is there's no military solution and there is only a political solution, you have to have some forum in which to achieve it. you know, the talks on vietnam, you know this better than anybody, went on for how many years? years. it took them a year to design the table to sit around. if syria isser going to be resolved, it's going to be through a political process. and that political process, geneva 2, is now in place. though the moment is not right because we still have to change

assad's calculation. and you know, as well as i do, because you and i have talked about that, that that has yet to happen. it has to happen. secondly, israel/palestine. it's interesting that you declare it dead, but the israelis and the palestinians don't declare it dead. they want to continue to negotia negotiate. >> we'll see, won't we, mr. secretary. >> beg your part be? >> we'll see. >> well, yeah, we well see -- >> it's stopped. it's stopped. recognize reality. >> okay. we'll see where the reality is as we go down the road here. there are serious problems. it's a tough issue. but your friend teddy roosevelt also said that the credit belongs to the people who are in the arena who are trying to get things done. and we're trying to get something done. that's a teddy roosevelt maxism. and i abide by it. i think it's important to do this. sure, we may fail. and you want to dump it on me? i may fail. i don't care. it's worth doing. it's worth the effort.

and the united states has a responsibility to lead. not always to find the pessimism and negativity that is so easily prevalent in the world today. finally on the subject you raise about iran, we're talking. the option is you can go to war. a lot of people are ready to drop bombs all the time. we can do that. we have the ability. but this president and this secretary of state believe that the united states of america has a responsibility first to exhaust every diplomatic possibility to find out whether we can prove what the iranians say, that their program is peaceful. before you ask the american people to go to war, we have an obligation to exhaust the remedies that are available to us in order to legitimize whatever subsequent action we might have to take. >> tough exchange there between secretary kerry and senator mccain. let's go to capitol hill right now.

north dakota's republican senator is joining us. thanks very much for coming in. >> good to be with you, wolf. >> thank you. so where do you stand on the u.s. army/ukraine right now? >> look, the primary thrust has to be economic and diplomatic sanctions. and i think they can be effective. certainly no one's talking boots on the ground. but we have to be careful about foreclosing any options. but there's no question that if we can get a united front with the eu and impose sanctions and go to banking and energy and some of these other areas, it will clearly have a deterrent effect on what putin is doing. >> you were just in ukraine. i know you're heading back. you're obviously interested in the subject. a very tense subject right now. so you heard senator mccain make the case for at least the u.s. providing defensive weapons to ukraine. are you with mccain on that? >> well, i think we have to be careful to analyze what we can do to help. we shouldn't foreclose that option. and i think that the sanctions

that i'm talking about can be effective, but we also have to work with the eu on an energy plan which is one of the things that i'm doing with our energy secretary legislation. in order to get them to stand with us in a united front on the kind of sanctions that i think the kind of economic and diplomatic sanctions that i think can actually be effective. >> so you have an open mind on defensive weapons for ukraine. but on sanctions, the administration, together with the eu and others, they've impos imposed sanctions. the nato allies are saying they're not going far enough? are they satisfied? >> they haven't gone far enough. as i listen to that exchange between mccain and secretary kerry, they talked about iran. one of the fundamental mistakes we've made with iran is that we didn't keep the sanctions in place while negotiating. sanctions take a long time to have an effect. but when you relax them, the

relief is immediate. that's the mistake. i think that's what senator mccain was pointing out. so we've got to work to get these sanctions in place. as a long-term strategy, we can't just kind of lurch from crisis to crisis, that doesn't work. >> senator hoeven, thank you very much for joining us. up next, no new pings. what does that mean in the search for malaysian flight 370? we'll go live to the search zone for the very latest. and it's a policy issue, but also a big political issue. president obama strengthens equal pay laws to a certain degree. what's going on? his senior adviser, valerie jared, joining us live from the white house this hour. eople a q, how much money do you think you'll need when you retire? then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. i was trying to, like, pull it a little further. [ woman ] got me to 70 years old. i'm going to have to rethink this thing. it's hard to imagine how much we'll need for a retirement that could last 30 years or more. so maybe we need to approach things differently,

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racing against time it the search for malaysian airlines flight 370 intensifies. even though the pulses detected over the weekend have not been pick up again, search crews are using those towed pinger locators to try to scan for the signals. the pulses detected earlier were consistent with the signals emitted from the plane's two black boxes. our panel of experts is here to weigh in. first, live to our correspondent will ripley in perth australia, the staging point for the search. he's got the very latest. what are you hearing, will? >> reporter: well, you know, wolf, we're entering day 33 here in perth. there are two simultaneous searches. there are the planes taking off, many of them from the air base where i'm standing, and they're heading out to a newly refined search area that is one-third of the size of the old search area. it's still a large area, 33 square miles. the planes are flying overhead, looking for any sign of debris from flight 370, because as of right now, we still do not have

one physical piece of this plane to verify that it even went down in the southern indian ocean. there's a lot of attention as well on this other area where the australian ship, the ocean shield, is towing behind that navy pinger locator. it's been going back and forth eight hours to do a sweep and it's basically like mowing the lawn. they're sweeing back and forth. the ocean is like a grid and they're scanning to see if they can relocate those two pings that they heard or they think they heard over the weekend. one signal held for a little over two hours. the other for about 15 minutes. it's now been more than two days and they haven't heard running the black box batteries. >> the batteries were supposed to last about 30 days. it's now entering day 33. those batteries may be dead which will make the search clearly a lot more complicated. will ripley in perth for us, thank you. up next, we're going to bring in our panel of experts.

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initial pings were spotted, heard, over the weekend? >> i think the biggest concern is just how long this is going to drag out now, to try to find a better refined search area before they can put in the bluefin sidescan sonar. so that's the main concern. >> bob, they're pretty convinced the pings they did detect were consistent with the two black boxes. one going for nearly -- about two hours-plus. one going for about 15 minutes. two different locations but near each other. they're pretty convinced that those were actual signals epn e epemanating from the two black boxes. so how difficult should it be, even if the batteries are now dead, to go ahead and find those two black boxes? >> as i understand it, the area that those signals do have come from is extensive. and assuming, and i think it's a fair asumming to make now, that the batteries have run out, i think you've got a tremendous

investigative project before you. >> those pingers, they say their range is only 2 or 3 miles. after 2 or 3 miles, they can't really detect it. some experts suggested if that's the case maybe they only have a 5 or 10 square mile radius of area, which is still a big area, to look for two small box, but presumably, there might be other wreckage in that area as well. >> if that estimate of the footage is correct, then that certainly is a more manageable kind of challenge. >> but they're not going to send in that underwater, unmanned vehicle, if you will, until they're sure those batteries are dead. is that your understanding? >> my understanding is just that. it kind of goes back to that old expression if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck. it was on the right frequency. it was on the right arc.

let's just hope this is the real duck. >> yesterday the u.s. navy said they were cautiously optimistic it was the real thing coming from those two black boxes. a relatively upbeat assessment. all of us were pretty encouraged by that. are you still pretty encouraged? >> pretty much. again, just knowing it's going to be the long haul is going to make it harder for everybody to stay as encouraged about the whole thing. i think the idea that they have it and the plane is somewhere in that area is encouraging, rather than just completely guessing. >> it's unusual, though, that they've heard pings from two black boxes without spotting any wreckage what of so, at least so far. >> i think that's true, but when you look at the amount of time since the aircraft disappeared, you know, wreckage could go a long, long way, even heavy pieces of the aircraft. >> there was a typhoon in that whole area that really could have spread any wreckage around. you're not one of those who

believes it's possible the plane could have basically gone underwater intact? >> it's like hitting concrete. when that hit the water, this wasn't a sully sullenberger type a landing. this went in at a pretty decent angle. it went in but broke apart. it just could not hit that water without coming apart. >> who gets access to those two -- let's say they find the flight data and the cockpit voice recorders. who should get access to inexpect i inexpect it? >> i think it's going to have to be the people who have the competence to read them. >> who's that? >> probably the australians. >> do they have competence? what about the ntsb? >> well, the ntsb certainly would have the competence and would be willing to do it. the british, the french. a lot of people are competent to read recorders. >> who would get custody of those boxes?

>> once the australians recover it, the malaysians will decide who specifically does the analysis and opens up the recorders. is there that could be a whole other can of worms. all right, thanks very much. just ahead, president obama aims to shrink the pay back between men and women. his executive order doesn't impact everyone. we'll have details. later, a crackdown in ukraine. are pro-russian demonstrations actually an invitation to invade? we're taking a closer look. ting? one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues with three types of good bacteria. i should probably take this. live the regular life. phillips'.

a short time ago, president obama signed two executive orders to make sure women make as much as men for doing exactly the same kind of job. >> today, i'm going to take action, executive action, to make it easier for working women to earn fair pay. so first i'm going to sign an executive order to create more pay transparency by prohibiting federal contractors from retaliating against employees who discuss their pay with each other. all right. >> president obama entered the white house back in 2009, the first law he signed was the lily ledbetter fair pay act. named for the grandmother who became a champion for equal pay after men in her champion plant who had been doing similar work had been paid up to 40% more. valerie jarrett is president obama's senior adviser, joining us from the white house right now. thanks very much for coming in. >> thank you, wolf, it's always

a pleasure to be with you. >> so everybody wants women who are doing exactly the same work as men to get equal pay. that's not controversial. here's the question. what has taken so long? the lily ledbetter act was the first step in this direction. now the president's taking additional steps what, five years later? so why has it taken so long to move on and make sure this really does happen in our country? >> well, every single year, the president has been supporting a piece of legislation that is sitting up on the hill right now called paycheck fairness. that law would do the same thing he did today by executive order, except it would apply to all employers. our goal is to get congress to act to cover all employers. as he said n thin this year's s of the action, where congress fails to act, he will take action. yet he's still pushing congress to pass a very important legislation that would benefit every single woman out there who has no idea whether or not she's

being discriminated against, does not have access to data that would show whether or not. and is concerned her employers might retaliate against her in the event she starts to ask what other people are making. >> in the house of representatives is basically saying what you, the administration, are planning on doing is going to wind up hurting women. i want to play a little clip of what she said today. >> so women understand the direct impact of the policies and the impact they have on them. so on this equal payday, i would urge us to stop politicizing women and let's start focusing on those policies that are actually going to help women and everyone in this country have a better life. >> she says basically you're doing this for politics and for politics only. >> well, i would ask her, what policies is she talking about, and why would she shy away from

supporting paycheck fairness? as you mentioned, we have lily led bedder with us today. when you listen to your story, for 19 years, she was being discriminated against by her employer. that's a fact. the other fact is, she had no idea until someone passed her an anonymous tip letting her know she wasn't being paid fairly. that's another fact. the reason why it was anonymous is that her co-worker was afraid about retaliation if she shared it. so just think, 19 years went by where lily had no idea that she was being discriminated against. so what we would invite the members of congressened an republican party who talk about policies, well, you know, you can support a policy right in front of you today. it is against the law to discriminate against women but we know it happens each and every day and there's still a pay gap. what the president is saying is shouldn't we all work together to close that gap? one way to do it is to make sure there are equal pay for equal work. another way is to make sure we

are opening opportunities for women to go into fields that has a disproportionate number of men and pays a higher wage. so what can we do to encourage women, girls, to take classes in science and math, encourage employers and professors and supporters to help women go into those fields so that they can get those higher paying jobs. what can we do to make sure our workplace is flexible so that women aren't faced with having to drop out of the workforce because of the need to have flexibility as they take care of their children? let's make sure we have day care available so women -- affordable day care so women aren't choosing between work and taking care of their children. so there are a whole range of issues we need to have a conversation about and what the president is calling for today is let's have transparency, let's all look at what the statistics are, and let's figure out how to close that gap. >> here's the criticism of the white house. nationally studies showed that women make 77 cents for every

dollar a man makes, even though men and women are roughly 50/50 in the workplace. at the white house, it's 88 cents, according to the conservative american enterprise institute. they came out with a study saying 88 cents for every dollar a man makes. jay carney was asked about this, the press secretary, yesterday. i want you to listen, valerie, to what he said. >> 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 we have as an institution here aggressively addressed this challenge. obviously, though, at the 88 cents that you cite, that is not 100, but it is better than the national average. >> is that okay, that white house employees, women, make 88 cents for every dollar a man makes? >> let's talk about the white house. here are the facts. in the white house, women earn equal pay for equal work. for example, i'm a senior

adviser. make the exact same amount that don pfeiffer makes, the other senior adviser. that's up and down throughout the white house. so the most junior people earn the same exact salary. we also have 16 departments in the white house. the majority of which are run by women. we have opportunities for promotion in the white house and one of the reasons why our number is at 88 cents is because we have aggressively recruited women to come in at entry level positions because the president has committed to making sure that women have opportunities for upward mobility within the white house. just yesterday, wolf, i was sitting around one of the senior staff meetings. one of assistants to the president, which is the most senior position in the white house, i looked around and 9 of the 10 assistants to the president i realized had been promoted to those positions while in the white house. so the president believes in providing that ladder of opportunity up and he also believes that when women are first coming out of school or at most junior levels, let's get

them on to the payroll. that's why our number is skewed to 88 cents. but the real important point here, wolf, is we can have a conversation about it because of transparency. our statisti tiftistics at the house are open for everyone to see. we aggressively are looking at ways to have women move up in the white house, and we're very proud of our track record, but you wouldn't have any idea about the details behind those numbers were it not for pay transparency. >> vallerie jarrett at the whit house, valerie, thank you very much for joining us. could ukraine be on the brink of a civil war? fareed zakaria joins me. i proc

let's get back to ukraine now.

there was fighting today on the floor of the parliament in the capital of ukraine kiev. lawmakers clashed while discussing a new law outlining separatist groups. russia has warned that any military move by the ukrainian government could spark a. and joining us now, fareed zakaria, the host of "gps." thanks very much for coming in. russia's foreign policy now using words like civil war when talking about the possible outcome in eastern ukraine. so what's going on right now? are the russians looking for an excuse to move in? >> it certainly looks like they're looking for an excuse to further destabilize ukraine so they can reassert their domination or their relationship

with ukraine. crimea was never the prize. ukraine is the prize. they took crimea because they realized the situation was spiraling out of control. suddenly they found ukraine moving very rapidly to the west. and putin decided really as a last-minute maneuver, i believe, because he had been stymied during the olympics, the minute the olympics got done, he initiated that kgb-style operation to take crimea. but the prize, the thing he has always cared about, was ukraine, and dominating ukraine, influencing it. so now we move to phase two of the operation. and that is, how does russia assert some kind of control over ukraine and what they're doing now is through local supporters, local sympathizers, probably a lot of money in some spots, they are trying to destabilize the

east so that they can perhaps have a pretext to move in, but certainly have a pretext to have a very tough negotiation with the ukrainian government. >> the pro-russian demonstrators, there are plenty of them in ukraine right now, they're asking the russian president, vladimir putin, to send in, quote, peacekeeping troops into eastern ukraine. so is that something you think putin might be ready to exploit? >> i wonder myself. i think that the reality is that while in crimea, there was an overwhelming degree of support locally for annexation by russia for becoming part of russia. in eastern ukraine, my understanding, talking to people on the ground, talking about some local politicians, it's more mixed. even the russian-speaking people in ukraine have mixed feelings about whether they want to actually become part of russia, whether they want to stay independent. so putin is probably trying to calculate whether those russian

troops would be received, would be given a hero's welcome. if they were, i think he'd consider it. it is likely what he's going to try to do is to go to the ukrainians and say, you see, you have demands from your countrymen. they want us to get involved. at the very least, you have to give them substantial autonomy and you have to give us, the russians, a special role in ukraine. that's what he wants, he wants a special role in ukraine, whether that means formal annexation or not, i think probably he's trying to figure out himself opportunistically what the best path is. >> the past 24 hours, the u.s., nato, members of the european union, they've all warned russia not to move into ukraine, no matter what. sanctions are in place. there could be more sanctions. bottom line, how tense is this current crisis right now? >> this is a very, very significant crisis, wolf. this is essentially the most significant geopolitical crisis

since the end of the cold war. because what you have here is one of the great powers in the world -- this is not a civil war in syria which tragic though it is isn't it have quite the same ripple effect. you have the great global power, russia, that has decided it is going to flaunt one of the great global rules, which is sanctity of borders and the idea you do not annex parts of neighboring countries when you want to. and so the europeans and the united states, the west, in a sense, has to figure out how they try to maintain that international norm, that rule, that post cold war order that has been put in place and that has very rarely been violated in the last 50 years by a great power. if you're talking about some african country here or there, that's very different. you have had substantial adherence to this idea. and russia is breaking ranks. so it's a big deal. >> very big deal indeed. the tensions enormous right now.

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origin, but it was a fight to get it passed. suzanne malveaux has the story. >> you had to like it. i mean, he was a big lovable texan. even though he made you feel comfortable, he made you feel uncomfortable. he'd look down on you and talk with you very intensely. and you couldn't say much to him. >> reporter: it was famously called the johnson treatment. lbj's power, as well as his quirks, were notorious, as depicted by this scene in a movie "the butler." >> i want you to get on the phone and call the naacp. >> reporter: johnson's speechwriter, richard goodwin. >> when you're in the military, it's happening all the time. and johnson was used to doing that. >> reporter: johnson also reportedly swore like a sailor, and occasionally used the "n" word. >> back then it was part of our

ven ak lar. but with martin luther king, he was always respectful. >> reporter: early in his career he was no civil rights activist. casting votes against the legislation. >> when he was a senator from texas, he really couldn't follow up that much. otherwise he would have lost his seat. >> reporter: so what was the driving force behind this momentous moment? many looked to johnson's childhood in texas where he grew up in a fall farmhouse as the eldest of five. >> he was poor. i think he felt guilty enough and had had enough pain about his own hardship and poverty as a texas schoolteacher. >> reporter: he was a shrewd dealermaker and politician drawing on his experience in congress. >> he had lived and breathed and been through a thousand battles

with these guys. there was almost nobody in the house or the senate that he had not done a favor for. >> reporter: johnson had a reputation for his lust of power and control. but those who knew him say his fight for civil rights was not politically driven. >> by going all out for civil rights, that was a brave thing. >> i think it had to be sincere, because it would have been too easy for him to get out of it. it was almost impossible to do. >> reporter: and so, wolf, you have really a combination of what was happening here. a larger than life personality, but a movement that was behind him, an intimate relationship with congress, whether you loved him or hated him, he reached out to members of congress. what we'll see over the next three days is an acknowledgement of those tumultuous times 50 years ago, and looking for it here, how is it that we can use those lessons learned so president obama, congress, and also we as american citizens can

move forward in some of the civil rights issues of the day. we're talking about gay rights, immigration and health care, among them. we're going to have four presidents who are going to be here at the lbj library to discuss just that. wolf? >> glad you're there covering it for us. we'll check back with you tomorrow, suzanne. thank you so much for doing this. that's it for me. thank you so much for watching. i'll be back at 5:00 p.m. eastern, two-hour episode of "the situation room." newsroom starts right now. wolf blitzer, thank you so much, as always. great to be with you on this tuesday. let's begin with the hunt for flight 370. really disappointment today in the frantic search to find a source of those pings, deep somewhere in the indian ocean. search crews are still trying to relocate the sounds that they hoped would lead them to the flight's black boxes. u.s. navy locator, tpl, we explained how thior