thank you for watching "legal view." wolf starts now. right now ukraine on the brink, pro russian demonstrators seizing more government buildings with no sign of a promised crackdown by the ukrainian government. this as a russian military plane nice provocatively close to a u.s. navy warship in the black sea. also right now a brand new clue in the search for malaysia flight 370 that involves a signal from the first officer's cell phone that was detected hundreds of miles away from where the flight's transponder was turned off. right now police and the fbi, they're calling the deaths of three people outside the jewish community center in kansas a hate crime. we're learning more about the 73-year-old white supremacist accused in the shooting. hello, i'm wolf blitzer reporting from new york. we start with ukraine where

pro-russian militants are gaining ground. this was the scene today in one eastern city. demonstrators there attacked and overran that police station. in many cases police have stepped aside to let demonstrators in. this violence comes after a deadline said by the ukrainian government passed with no action. the acting president had warned of an anti-terror operation if militants didn't surrender. now there's this news coming from the pentagon concerning a russian fighter plane and the "u sr " " "uss donald cook." barbara starr joins us with details. >> reporter: this happened on saturday one of the most significant encounters between the russians and u.s. military in year. two russian fighter jets two su-24s flew near a u.s. navy ship. one of the fighters stayed a

fair distance away, but the other one made 12 passes on saturday near the "donald cook" in the eastern black sea. that su-24 flew at various times just 500 feet off the surface of the ocean and 1,000 yards off the side of the ship. so think of it this way, very low, very fast to the side of the ship. this was an encounter that the u.s. snaef is now calling provocative, unprofessional, aggressive. those are the words we're hearing around the pentagon hallways right now. the u.s. believes that the russians were clearly trying to harass them, send a message, but this is not the kind of thing they want to see happen because accidents can happen, things can go very wrong. the navy captain tried to call the russian fighter jet several times, got no response. after about 90 minutes of these passes near "the donald cook" the russians broke off and flew

away. >> are the russians saying anything, explaining why they would do anything like this? >> publicly so far we're not hearing anything from moscow, but you can believe this was at the direct orders of the russian military. they don't fly near navy ships, u.s. navy ships just because. they would have had orders to do this. the u.s. navy, the pentagon interpreting this very much as a harassing action by the russian military saying we know you're out there, we'll fly near you if we want to. but look, wolf, no one thought that the russians were going to start anything. the problem is this kind of provocation is very open to misinterpretation, accidents at sea. it's just too close. and the u.s. sending the message to the russians, back off. >> that's a significant development right there. barbara, thank you. ukraine's former president is now speaking out about the worsening situation in his country and in a speech sunday viktor yanukovych blamed the united states saying that the cnn director john brennan went

to kiev and sanctioned the use of force against pro-russian militants. the cia responded with a statement. we have no comment on director brennan's travel itinerary as we do not speak publicly about the cia director's travel. but the claim that director brennan encouraged ukrainian authorities to conduct tactical operations inside ukraine is completely false. let's turn to our chief international correspondent christiane amanpour. she's watching this story very, very closely. it's not every day that a russian plane effectively buzzes a u.s. warship in the black sea. that u.s. warship has every right to be there. >> i think it's absolutely imperative for us to understand that all the aggressive moves are coming from russia even though in the security council in their press they're accusing the west of being the aggressors and the authorities in kiev of being the aggressors. but from the moment this has started the russians have been the aggressors.

some say they're testing, testing to see what the response from the west will be. as you know it's sanctions tomorrow but the top commander of nato is set to report to nato alliances what he recommends in terms of upped military proposals to confront russia including, he told me, the possibility of putting ground troops inside nato countries to give russia a very strong signal. >> but the key question right now, and it's a source of significant debate in washington, should the u.s. provide at least defensive weapons to ukraine? >> well, this is going to be something that everybody's going to be judging and trying to analyze as much as they can, but what's clearly happening here according to all the allies is that russia is behind all these so-called spontaneous eruptions of discontent in eastern ukraine. the pro russians there saying they want russia to come in and do what they did in crimea.

people believe that russia is stirring that up as a possible pretext for either invading or for standing there, to keep this very hard warning to the kiev authorities while they go through their presidential election which is due for may and to try to influence what happens on the ground there. but it's clearly getting really dangerous as they start really sort of messing around with close military calls, that is going to be something that becomes increasingly hard to control. >> do you sense even stepped-up sanctions, u.s., european, other sanction, nato sanctions, economic sanctions, political sanctions against russia in the end will make a difference? >> well, look, the western allies are saying that today the only stepped-up action will be more sanctions if this continues in this way. but as i say, there are other kinds of military defensive maneuvers that can be done by nato. they already have stepped up their air surveillance and air patrols but the supreme allied

commander has said that he would propose to governments the possibility of putting ground troops in some of those nato countries that are very close to russia as a double and triple-down signal to russia, don't mess around with us. >> are the europeans, the germans and others really ready to sacrifice themselves? because if the russians retaliate, cut off energy supplies to europe, that could be very painful. >> it could be very painful. foreign ministers have told me we're going to have to start weaning ourselves off russian energy if we don't want to be held hostage like this in the future. president putin has sent 18 letters to the members of the european union watch out, this thing with ukraine may threaten your energy. they've very crudely and outside of any kind of market demand sxwraked up the price of natural gas to ukraine which they use as sort of a hostage situation to

ukraine. and we keep playing this game. what they want is a friendly government in ukraine. they're trying to manage whatever political transformation in ukraine to make sure that whoever comes in in this next election is friendly to russia. they want a federalized system which is more chance for russia to wreak its influence there. >> the temperature is going up and up. >> definitely. >> the search for flight 370 is about to enter the next phase. authorities the are warning we could be in it for the long hall. the search for pinger locator ships is all but over. the belief is that the batteries in the plane's sew-called black boxes have likely died. the blue fin 21 unmanned sub will now slowly scour the ocean floor for signs of the plane. we're also learning an oil slick was discovered a few miles from where the last pinger signals were detected. a sample has been taken and is now being analyzed. should get the results fairly

soon. the search on the ocean surface for signs of debris are going down. a search could be called off at any time. breaking news. sources tell cnn that 370's co-pilot had his cell phone on when the flight was midair. pamela brown brings us this development. what are officials telling you about the co-pilot's cell phone use? >> we're learning that malaysians have shared data with u.s. investigators indicating that the co-pile pot's cell phone made contact with a cell tower about 250 miles away from where the transponder turned off, in an area near panang. it is believed that a cell tower made a connect with the phone similar to the way the satellite made the handshake with the plane. at this point there's no evidence to suggest that an emergency call was made or a call of any kind was made from the co-pilot, the captain or

anyone else on the plane. we know investigators have been looking through the phone records from the very beginning of the investigation. so there's no evidence, according to sources, that a phone call was made. but it is interesting to note that the fact that that cell tower made a connection with the co-pilot's phone is an indication that the phone was on. it reaffirms what we've been reporting that that plane made the westward turn to the straits of malacca and that it was likely flying at a low enough altitude in order for the co-pil co-pilot's phone, fariq hamid's phone to be detected by that cell tower. >> do we know if any of the other passengers or crew member ps may have activated their phones at the same time? >> at this point sources i'm speaking with say it was only the co-pilot's cell phone that connected with that cell tower, that there is that transmission only with the co-pilot's phone. but i want to reiterate here

that this is according to data that was shared by the malaysians with u.s. investigators so there could be more information we're just not privy to. but the information shared was just the co-pilot's phone. and we know that standard operating procedure is for passengers and crew to turn off their cell phones when a flight takes off. why was the co-pilot's phone turned on? >> pamela brown reporting with the latest news for us. just ahead we'll dig deeper into this new phase of the hunt for flight 370 as investigators hope an underwater sonar device will help locate the plane on the ocean floor. also coming you, the southern poverty law center calling him a raging anti-semite. now he's charged with the shooting deaths of three people. humans.

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the latest clue in the hunt for 370 is an oil slick a few miles from where underwater pings were detected last week. analysis of the water sample will determine if the slick possibly, possibly came from the boeing 777. no wreckage has been located on the ocean surface. so now the search shifts to below the waves. let's bring in cnn analyst david soucie. and tim taylor, president of rv tiburon and an expert on rv submersib submersibles. the co-pilot's cell phone had been activated while flying

around close to indonesiaing for some cells. what does that say to you? >> first of all, i'm kind of skeptical about anything. we talked about the track for a while and now this cell phone thing. i'm a little skeptical. let's say it was and that's a true indication, on our check lp list we shut off personal devices. he ignored that possibly. could be one of the things or just left it on by mistake. >> but if he ignored that, i'm sure a passenger probably kept their cell phones on, too. >> i agree. that's curious that there had to be at least one passenger who did the same thing. >> what does it say to you in. >> i think it's very suspicious because of just that fact. if other cell phones -- i mean in the back, usually i'm in front. but when i'm on the back, people are leaving their cell phones on all the time. you would think that this would hit. but his that hit. very strange to me. >> and this notion that they may have found some oil that potentially could be related to the plane. they're doing analysis right

now, that would be significant if they did find it because that's actually where those four pings in that general area. >> very significant. the very specific kind of oil used in aircraft, not used in ships typically or anything else. it's in aircraft and hydraulic fluid as well. that would tell a lot of tales about it. then thirdly you have fuel mixed with it probably if it's with that aircraft. >> they should be able to determine relatively quickly if in fact that oil came from the plane. >> yeah, they should be able to. >> that's not that complicated. >> it isn't. i don't know about the search planes if they drop fuel sometimes but they shouldn't. >> not oil like that. >> they should be able to figure that out if it came from a 77 which probably has -- they could see it was fueled up in kuala lumpur, they might be able to get a match. so take us through this next phase. they assume the batteries for the black boxes are dead, so

they won't hear any more pings. so they have a relatively small area that this sub messible has to go back and forth to try to find some wreckage. >> they'll send the av down. in order to take sonar images of the bottom, you have to get close to the bottom. that's a fact. the av will drive down there and run a pattern. and it's limited. it's 16 square miles a day plus or minus. that's not exact. that's if everything works perfect. because two hours down, two hours back, four hours of downloading data, changing batteries, reprogramming the system, firing up the -- >> so this could take a few weeks at least. >> yes, every dive -- >> if they're lucky. >> exactly. the system is designed to come back. if it hits a problem, a depth it's not supposed to or hits something that tells it stop, come back up, it's not safe, it will come back up. the 16 hours could be 8 hours, 4 hours. it's not rocket science, but it

kind of is. >> your 777 pilot, it would be unusual if they found a black box but no wreckage anywhere near there. wouldn't that be crazy? >> i would think there would be some wreckage. >> the black box is small but there could be big chunks of wreckage nearby that would be presumably easier for it to find. >> it's in the empennage of the airplane. >> if they find the bigger section, they can actually change sonar frequencies and go down fly closer, fly ten meters off the surface maybe and then get real high resolution pictures where you can see definition, shapes of item, then they can change the payload, send it back down and take pictures. >> oceanographers say the water, the floor of the indian ocean there is relatively, relatively smooth. they've got some silt, but not like huge rocks and boulders and canyons and stuff like that that would make it a lot easier.

>> we were talking about that, the fact with the sonar if it's in silt it can help because you don't have rocks that appear to be pieces of the aircraft. that it's underneath, it's got a smooth place to look. from what tim and i were talking about, it makes it simpler. >> all of you agree the batteries are almost certainly dead on those two black boxes. >> no question about that in my mind. >> time to send in the -- >> bluefin. and other submersibles. a risky, complicated mission, thanks, guys, very much. we'll have more on the investigation into the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370 later this hour. also ahead, this isn't the first time the suspect in the kansas city shootings has been in trouble. he was once the focus of a nationwide manhunt. [ male announcer ] this is the cat that drank the milk... [ meows ] ...and let in the dog that woke the man who drove to the control room [ woman ] driverless mode engaged. find parking space.

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just a short time ago investigators announced the shootings in kansas city. outside of kansas city where a hate crime, a white supremacist and former ku klux klan member is charged with shooting three people outside the jewish centers on sunday. frazier glenn miller scheduled to appear in court today. president obama called the shootings horrific and heartbreaking. >> as a government we're going to provide whatever assistance is needed to support the investigation. as americans, we not only need to open our hearts to the families of the victims. we've got to stand united against this terrible kind of violence that has no place in our society. >> george howell is joining us

from overland park, kansas. authority just held a news conference. give us the main headlines that emerged. >> reporter: wolf, the main headlines in that news conference is that this case will be investigated as a federal hate crime. prosecutors are filing hate crime charges. and throughout the course of news gathering, i mean, you saw the evidence from witnesses who said that cross came here on to campus and asked people if they were jewish. you heard the neo-nazi slogan that he uttered when he was in the bag of the police car. it all seemed to add up. but keep in mind there's an investigative process to bear and we're seeing the results of that, that investigators are now calling this a hate crime. i want you to listen to that news conference, the fbi explaining their position and how they'll move forward. take a listen. >> in the last 22 hours we've learned that the acts that this person committed were the result of beliefs and his -- were the

result of beliefs that he had and that he was trying to hurt somebody based on their ethnicity, race, religion, a whole number of categories under a hate crime. >> investigators wouldn't give much more information about the suspect, but they tell us that we will learn more, obviously, as the case continues. >> what about the families of the victims, how are they coping right now? >> well, you know, we are hearing from one victim's family. william corporan, he's a grandfather of reat underwood, a 14-year-old boy who was here on the campus with many other teenagers. he was here for a singing competition. mindy corporan spoke about losing her father and losing her son. i want you to listen to this. >> i'm the daughter of the gentleman who was killed and i'm

the mother of the son who was killed. i want you to know that i came upon the scene very, very quickly. i was there before the police and i was there before the ambulance. and i knew immediately that they were in heaven. >> it's hard to listen to that. just understanding that that's how she's choosing to grieve in front of people to talk about her loss. and wolf, we also learned about ter terri lamanno. she was shot and killed at the retirement home visiting her mother at village shalom when she was shot and killed. again, she worked here in the area for many years. people knew her, describe her as a very good person. again, three people who were shot and killed senselessly. >> when he was arrested he was shouting out heil hitler. that's on videotape. you've seen that. people are reacting to that. he has a long history of

neo-naziism -- i don't know if you can hear me -- of anti-semitism, the whole background is pretty well documented. >> yes, sorry about that, wolf. the wind's pretty tough out here. but yes, it's all documented. you see it online. he has a lot of hate speech, a lot of hate theories online. you heard it in the video from our affiliate knbc. you heard that heil hitler, the neo-nazi slogan that he uttered. it all seemed to add up from the evidence that you hear from witnesses, from what we've seen, but again investigators are now at the point where they've listened to those statements, they've looked at the evidence and they are now looking at this case as a hate crime. >> george, thanks very much, george howell on the scene in overland park, kansas. later this hour i'll be talking to george avalon. he wrote an important article about this guy, the hate and the fact that hitler is being mentioned in the heartland of the country right now. we'll have that interview coming

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so much misinformation being passed around here at this point. and it may actually have been misreporting. in fact they seem to have moved in on an airfield in slovyansk. that spectacularly failed. interesting to hear the white house now confirming john brennan's travel here. they have said it had nothing to do with issues on the ground, part of a trip to europe. this suggestion that he gave approval for the crackdown. if he did give the green light which is what russian media alleges, there's a remarkable absence of ukraine government and military wherever you go in eastern ukraine. a brief sighting of two helicopters passing over our heads here in central donetsk probably the closest we've got to that much of the day and otherwise i've only seen two ukrainian policemen who slowly

walked past the demonstrators. but this white house admission will feed into the russian machine here that's very keenly trying to focus blame upon what's happening in eastern ukraine on the west, suggesting that their desire to turn ukraine towards europe has fomented the trouble here. the ukrainians are dejected by how little support they feel they're getting from nato, from the united states at this point. appeals for more assistance have been launched by kiev. confusing times indeed, wolf. >> very confusing. the so-called donetsk people's repuck l republic, that's where you are, has asked putin to help in. the pro-russian element that's there. >> it seems to be the case. i mean, when you go between towns, these are groups of often young, angry men, often quite

xenophobic, anti-western, certainly, aggressive, to take over these key buildings. they wear the symbol of st. george's banner, black and orange, a symbol from what we refer to as world war ii fighting fascism as the russians call it across europe. that finds them that mostly expressed propro-russian sentiment too. and they want some sort of independence or federalization of ukraine that will bring it closer towards russia. is there a central command politically? we haven't seen much of that although officials inside that seized regional administration building a couple hundred meters from where i'm standing gives the suggestion that they're in charge over all of this, but that seems to be less the case on the ground. someone said when you go to slovyan slovyansk, give us a call, we'll make sure you get through easily. actually, we don't know anybody there. but pass the phone when you get there. it's clear when the traeks

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the search for flight 370 is entering the next phase now. authorities are warning we could be in it for the long haul. here are the latest developments. the search by the locator ships is all but over. the police is that the batteries of the two black boxes of the plane have likely died. now the bluefin 21 unmanned sub will slowly scour the ocean floor for signs is of the plane. cnn is learning the plane's

co-pilot had his cell phone on while the plane was about 250 miles away from where the transponder stopped working. this from officials with knowledge of the malaysian investigation. and a search of the ocean's surface for signs of debris is also winding down. planes and ships doing a visual search of the indian ocean, that could be called off at any time now. so far they have found absolutely no debris. let's bring back our panel, our cnn safety analyst david soucie, les abend and tim taylor, the president of rv tiburon. the bluefin, talk about what it can do and can't do. >> the bluefin is simply launched to the bottom and it slowly maps the bottom with sound. what it can do is get about 15 square nautical miles of bottom coverage to see if there's wreckage. then it has to be deployed again, they go down and look

closer and take pictures. >> not like they're streaming live pictures to the service. >> all downloaded. the vehicle is very high-tech system that protects itself. 16 hours of bottom time, two hours to go down, two hours to come back, two to four hours of turnaround. and downloading data. it could come back on you and you only get eight hours or four hours that day. we have to couch the expectations of the public that this is a slow process. the 16 square nautical miles could be four one day, could be ten one day, zero the next day. >> are you confident, david, they're looking in the right place? the whole thing is based not on any wreckage or debris, based on the four pings. >> i'm basing it on the big long ping for two hour. i think the others are artifact or bouncing off the thermal layer like we talked about before. that's the place to start the search. that's the general area they need to start digging. i'm sure that's where they are going to begin.

>> is it surprising to you as somebody who studied this kind of stuff for a long time, they heard a two-hour ping but spotted no wreckage any place? >> it's very peculiar to me that there isn't some kind of wreckage especially with an aircraft of that side, if it breaks up just a little bit into small pieces, yes, i can understand that there would be debris all over. but we're indicating that there's no breakup, no pieces, no cushions, nothing, very strange to me. >> must be strange to you too. >> this whole mystery has been unprecedented. you would see something, life jackets, cushions. it's a big ocean, granted. >> you also had a hurricane go through and storms. and we didn't get zeroed into this location for almost 30 years. i've been on the ocean all my life and things scatter and travel. >> do you remember a time where they heard pings but never spotted any wreckage? >> no. >> any of you? >> no. >> this would be unprecedented if they go down there and actually find the cockpit voice

recorder or flight data recorder without any wreckage at all. >> satellite data. >> actually there was one in the '80s where it went downaltogether but it was more of a ditching, then ra sinking. with that there was some wreckage but they were there quickly and able to retrieve the box. that was the only other one. >> what would make you most confident, say they find one of those black boxes, who should get custody of that and inspect it. >> annex 13 section 3 talks about custody, chain of custody, everything about the legalities the of it. it's in international waters, so therefore the country of registry, which is malaysia controls where it goes. if they delegate it, they already said they don't have the capability to deal with it. so i expect it will go to australia. we like to think the ntsb can do this. but australia handled the qantas, they did an excellent job on that. >> there's speculation the british might get their hands on

it first. >> there's a lot of great experts out there, the ntsb, the british. >> and you would trust the british and the australians? >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> and the french have experience. >> the french do as well. >> that black box, this may be a silly question, the black box on the boeing 777, is that unique to the boeing 777? or is that a standard -- >> that's a great question. i don't really know. i think it's a standard unit. >> it is. >> it records all sorts of digital data. >> the manufacturing specifications on that black box are very specific. >> i asked you the question because even if it's a flight data recorder, you would think the u.s. has the greatest experts to actually review it and go through it and you want to do a thorough job, give it to the ntsb. >> we pull data off it almost every day to look at certain safety trends. >> thanks, we'll get more on the

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that means miller did not go through federal background checks to get the three guns he had when he was arrested. investigators are trying to find out if miller knew anything about the pass and plans. miller has a long history of spouting hate. he is the former leader and founder of the kcarolina knight of the ku klux klan. let's get more with the editor in chief, i read your piece today. tell us a little bit more about this guy. >> reporter: this guy's got a whole resume of hate. he was a decorated green beret in vietnam but got sucked into joining really the nazi party in the united states and then

formed his own branch of the ku klux klan and taking direct inspiration from hitler. he served time in prison and threatened assassination for folks. he is a terrible terrible kind of individual. exactly the kind of hate that you see percolating on the fringes of society but really erupting in violence yesterday. he has run for elected office with no success. a frequent protester on white supremist weapon sites. one of the questions we will be asking is whether folks should have seen this coming. >> he was clearly a racist, still is, and a neonazi when he was arrested we saw the video he was shout iing heil hitler. >> he is deeply invested in a

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>> a small country in west africa is dealing with a grim and emergent outbreak. this one is spreading fast and experts want to make sure it doesn't go global. here is our chief medical correspondent, dr. sanja gupta.

>> this is a strange box containing one of the most deadly viruses in the world on its way to be tested. the fate of three parts depends on what's inside. simply getting the blood samples is a life threatening job. one of the workers tells us he has a nine month old baby at home. they will do everything they can to protect themselves. three pairs of gloves, booties and lair after layer of gowns. they go in to see the patients, every single inch of their body in impermeable suits. even a drop can infect you and we all have breaks in our skin. this is the pain staking detail and process you have to go through to be able to interact with these parables with ebola. this is as close as we can get. they have taken the blood samples and put them in this ice

chest and it is highly suspicious that it contains ebola. >> lab technicians suit up next. they have just been hand delivered the blue boxes. it is their job to test the sample in the blue boxes. they will have the results just two years from now. just two years ago, being able to test on ebola on its own turf was impossible. pilots would sometimes refuse to fly the dangerous pathogens. even if it did it could take days or weeks to get the results. 8:00 p.m. we get the call. >> two of the three patients now have confirmed ebola. >> cnn. >> sanja is doing incredibly

important work for all of us. to find out how you can help the victims of the ebola outbreak, go to cnn.com/impact. i will be back at 5:00 p.m. eastern. newsroom starts right now. approximate. >> hi there. thanks so much for joining me. breaking news into cnn. new evidence that flight 370 had turned around and was traveling at a low altitude. this coming from the co-pilot's cell phone. it turns out it was on. a u.s. official with first-hand knowledge says malaysia knows this because the phone was searching for service after the jet lost contact. we will go live to the flight simulator, but first, today, a new and critical phase of the search, 39 days after the