illegal fashion, violating the sovereignty and territory of ukraine, but what they have also done is supported at minimum non-state militias in southern and eastern ukraine and we've seen some of the activity that has been taking place there. >> president obama also said that russia may face new sanctions. and that does it for us, make sure you set your dvr so you never miss "ac360," cnn with bill weir starts now. good evening, i'm bill weir, thank you for joining us tonight. just imagine what it must be like to head to the airport to pick up a loved one, but instead of a nice reunion and baggage claim you spend 40 days wondering what happened to them, hoping and praying and raging for answers but none are given. imagine what it must be like to put your child on a ferry ride sh ship, only to get a text message that the ship is sinking, and

your boy just wants you to know he loves you in case there is no escape. we'll have more on the race to find survivors on the sunken ferry ship in south korea tonight as the swimming robot searches for their missing kin, many stormed out of the conference room screaming at the malaysian authorities. >> and you're lying to us again now. the brother of american passenger philip wood joins us a little later in the show. meanwhile, in south korea, seven are dead, hundreds are still missing after that huge ferry heaved on its side, after many of them were forced to stay in their cabins or climb out into icy waters. >> put your safety vest on, as it is dangerous, kids were forced to stay put so only some of those who moved survived. >> incredible, we have

heart-rending text messages that appear to have been sent from the ship as it went down. and in other stories, vladimir putin and the drums pounding in ukraine. if you watch tv and the pounding in moscow, you may think that russia is menacing those terrorists. when the ukrainian government sent in troops to square off with pro-russian rebels, they didn't look all that elite. they watched as the people used their troop vehicle to do donuts in the street. christiane amanpour has more. and more on whether the power grab can be stopped. >> reporter: on cnn tonight we begin with the very latest news on the search for flight 370. the oil slick spotted over the weekend has finally reached a

lab in australia and we're waiting for test results. meanwhile, the bluefin is searching, and bringing data. michael holmes is in perth. nic robertson is in kuala lumpur. so michael, what is the very latest? >> reporter: yeah, bill, that is right. those conducting the searches using the bluefin-21 breathing i suppose a bit of a sigh of relief after it was lucky number three, the third mission going apparently well. a full mission under water, 16 hours crawling along just above the ocean floor, the first two missions, of course, are cut short because of a couple of technical glitches. glitches that the people running the bluefin say are really no big deal. they have worked it out and things are moving ahead now. the data from the first two showed nothing of significance. the data from this first full mission is being analyzed now. of course they are in the area

where the longest ping was taken, was recorded. and so they're really concentrating on that area. and they will probably go back over the area where the first mission was scrapped, because that is exactly where it was most promising. meanwhile, here in western australia the plane is up again, the ships are out looking for surface wreckage. but really the hope is fading they will find any of that, bill. >> well, help me understand the search size area. the last report was the size of chicago much smaller than all the other analogies we have been using. but it is still pretty big when you consider the bluefin only does about 15 square miles a day? >> reporter: yeah, it does, 15 and a half square miles a day on a full mission, including the first two that were cut shorter. down to a total of 35 square miles. you know, the area they're looking in now, the total search area includes where the ships are is quite massive still.

but the search area around where the pings are is a lot more concentrated. it is less than a thousand kilometers. they do say at walking pace which is what the bluefin does it could take six weeks to more than a month to cover the search area. you know, bill, you mentioned that oil slick that was near the ocean shield vessel. and they have brought that back to shore. it took a while, you have to think, it is a thousand miles off the coast, 1600 kilometers. they had to get a ship out to the area, fly that back with it, get that to shore with the helicopter to fly off. so the logistics here are remarkable. we expect results from the analysis within the hours to come, bill. >> within the hours, all right, thank you very much. let's go to nic robertson in kuala lumpur. we talk about the families, and they have seen all sorts of mood

swings and different outbursts in the 41 days, understand buildiable, what is the most recent? >> reporter: yeah, bill, the families are in beijing now. they were due to have a teleconference with malaysian officials here in kuala lumpur. the technicalities of it did not work out. and after an hour the families stormed out of that meeting in beijing. it didn't work. they were dissatisfied. and it left some of them saying -- some of those relatives saying they believe the malaysian government is involved in a cover-up. this is what one family member told us. we will request a taken of experts to come to beijing to conduct face to face communications and fulfill their commitment. if they don't come, i will go to malaysia again. i will ask the prime minister is it truly so easy to break your promise? what is the truth? what promise do they want to

cover up? >> so one -- 12 of those 26 questions all relate to the emergency location transmitter. they want to know how many of these are fitted to the aircraft. what frequencies they're supposed to work on. were the crew trained to work on them? were they able to deploy when the plane hit the water or float to the surface? they have so many questions, all trying to get to the key answer for them. to determine if their family members are still alive. they keep holding onto that hope, bill. >> very specific, i guess trying to manage their grief with details and wrap their brains around that for lack of anything else. nic robertson, thank you for your reporting. i'll see you back there tomorrow night. lots to talk about here, mary schiavo, now an attorney for vict victims of transportation accidents. and mike dean, director of salvage and diving for the navy. mary, what about the family's

questions? you have seen the families try to process this over your experience. do you think they're valid. do you think the malaysian authorities should have to answer them. >> yes, and that is what families do in every crash. they are desperately searching for answers. and it is this kind of information that helps them through a lot of things. not the least of which is understanding what happened to their loved ones. and these families are not behaving any different than any other families in other crashes. they want to know what happened. they become extremely educated about the accidents. they become experts in the accidents. so the malaysian authorities need to look at the other accidents and how people behave, to understand that this is as normal as can be when you suffer a tragedy in your family. this is how people handle it. and the more information the better. and in the united states, the ntsb does a preliminary hearing and makes all this kind of thing public. that is the difference. >> right, right, i guess you do

have to have a grief counselor in a job like yours. mike, let's talk about the bluefin and the area down there. this data when it comes back it certainly doesn't take 12 to 16 hours to analyze what it captures down there, does it? >> no, they will analyze it much quicker, but the most important thing is to get the vehicle in the water and back to searching. and again, they have time to go through the data and analyze what they have seen and put the information back into the next day's planning. >> right, mary, i want to go back to something you said last night. do you think there are no coincidences as an investigator. and do you think the fact the americans offered other underwater vehicles, the japanese japanese, the australians haven't asked for it, they have the bluefin, do you think they have a pretty good idea of where this plane is? >> i think they have zeroed in on where it is. of course even if they have not

asked for the equipment, they will need it. because not only once they find the plane they will have to consider it. because that plane will not only be an accident scene, but according to malaysia, all four theories are intentional wrongdoing, it will be a criminal investigation. they will need a lot more support teams to help once they find it. they will be asking for them later, they just haven't needed them yet. >> and mary was saying given the pings they found over the weekend they have a pretty good idea. do you think there is a chance they kind of know but absolutely have to confirm about telling these families? >> i don't believe there is any way to know from what we have today. again, the pinger locater is to try to put us in the right area. we need to confirm that and the bluefin is a good tool to do that. but as soon as we pick up some images on sonar that would validate what they have heard on the pinger locater then perhaps it will be time to bring in

other equipment to help speed up the mapping process. >> mike, we spend weeks talking about the garbage patch in that part of the indian ocean and what that does to above-water search. tell me what happens down below? is there any confusion what can happen as a result of stuff laying on the bottom of the ocean bed? >> well, sure there can be. the sonar has pretty good resolution and it can pick things up generally the size of a soda can. but the operators, and that is really where the test lies, the operators can detect what they're looking at very well. but if there is a lot of debris in the area it will slow things down and take them a little long longer. and that is why you rely not only on the sonar image but a camera, as well, to help them in the process. >> and what do you think about the japanese, they have not taken them up on the offer?

>> well, i think there are logistics challenge to getting them operating. but you also need vessels to get them operating from. you can't have too many assets operating from, you will need support vessels for them, as well. >> i'm sorry, mary, did you want to jump in? did i misspeak? >> no, i agree completely. >> let me shift to the other big story, there is a sinking story in south korea, mary, you investigated all sorts of disasters, what is your best guess of what happened? it sounds like they were in calmer waters and this thing just went on its side. what do you believe happened? >> well, there were a couple of reports that people heard a large thud and they were knocked off their feet. so there is indication they certainly hit something. there is a vast body of water but you have to follow the channels. and often when ferries do that and if there is any problem on

board you can take on water very quickly if the doors are breached where they take the vehicles on. and once the water starts to rush in there are so many ways for water to come into a ferry. they can capsize and sink rather quickly. we have had some in this country. there have been some around the world. the problem is once they take in water the physics of that is there are massive amounts of water quickly. so you can't get around that rushing water. so i think the instruction for those people to remain in place and not get on the life boats was terribly, tragically wrong. >> and mike, can we hold out there is a sort of air pocket to keep these kids alive? >> well, certainly from the images i've seen there are clearly some images of the hull that are above the water not flooded. so absolutely, there could be areas in there where there is breathable air. the trouble right now is the temperature and getting people

to them if in fact there are folks up there and how can you get them out of there? >> right, i think the water temperature, 55 degrees or so. hypothermia. so my concern, hang with us, please. and we'll look at the sonar information. and when we come back, the former chairman of the ntsb will tell us what all of that means. stick around. this is the car i fell in love with!

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christ . a sample from the oil slick spotted over the weekend in the search area has now reached a lab in aulds australia, and as we wait for test results to see if that has anything to do with the missing plane, mary schiavo, and chris ready, an expert who specializes in oil slickins. i guess when there is a big spill there is a certain urgency not unlike the hunt for this missing plane. and we were talking about crisis mode, in the investigation and what it does to plane. how? >> you have to be careful, you know, you have to be skeptical and prudent in terms of making sure you use the data very cautiously and not jump. so at this point, the perth lab should be very skeptical about the lab they just received for

analyze. >> and take me through the steps, how long does it take? what are they looking for? >> so what they're going to do is get the sample back in the lab. that lab is probably primed and ready for any possible type of analyze. so they will look for possibly jet fluid remnants, hydraulic remnants, jet fuel remnants, any possible sign that will be prepared and looked at. so any sample that comes in, it will be rushed to the lab and it will be standing at arms ready for it. so like you said they should be able to get some instant results. i would say in hours. >> in hours or so. and as mary was schooling us last night, it could even indicate location, right? if the oil is still bubbling up from the wreckage down below? >> that is possible. >> it is possible.

what is your -- what is your take on whether or not -- on why we haven't seen any sort of wreckage on the surface at all, after all of this time? >> well, my recommendation is that this is an unprecedented international aviation tragedy. the international civil aviation organization ought to assemble with the consent of the malaysian government some independent experts to review all the data and information. the factual data that has been compiled. so that the families as well as the world at large have a confirmation that there is an independent group that has looked at all of these facts and is helping direct the continuation of this investigation. >> and who would you recommend for that job? >> well, when i was with u.s.

air 427, we put together with alan millaly at boeing some of the top individuals looking at the rudder movements in that particular crash. it was very helpful to the investigation. it provided credibility and answers. and it provided a focus of individuals whose only job was to come in and focus on the facts and those -- and then interpret those facts. everyone else has been so involved in this media circus around this investigation that i think it has created an atmosphere in which it is very difficult for investigators to do their work. >> mary, what is your take on that idea? >> oh, i think yeah, and i -- jim and i had the opportunity to work together in d.c. and i think he is right. the keys to assemble the right

team and bring them together, and i think malaysia is on the right track when they admitted they couldn't do the black box and download the analyze. and that was a good first step. because they said look, we have got to have the authorities from around the world. there are four countries that can do that. and then it was announced yesterday they're setting up special committees, pretty much like jim did with the ntsb, there are committees already, they consulted with icao, who is in malaysia right now setting up their airport terminal. i think they're heading that way and it is a good suggestion by jim. >> jim, i also understand you're understand in the lithium battery idea, why? >> well, it is just significant. obviously, we've seen very recently some accidents occurred in the cargo industry, as a result of the carriage of lithium batteries. there was a whole lot of attention last year on the new

boeing aircraft and the subject of lithium batteries. so having that carriage aboard the aircraft is just one of the factual areas that obviously their investigators are going to have to rule out as they go through and try to determine what occurred. none of this, of course, can happen until the wreckage is found. and we're able, hopefully, to get whatever information is available off the black boxes. >> and you seem to want to set a very reasonable expectation for how long this could take. if you were advising, if you were talking to these families would you tell them to brace for months? >> well, as mary pointed out these families become experts in this accident. their loved ones have -- are missing. possibly perished. and they deserve -- they deserve answers. so i think the families have played a very responsible role

here. and -- and i hope that their answers, the questions they're putting forth will be answered in a responsible way. that is the responsibility of the investigation. >> yeah, we're going to talk to the brother, james wood, of one of those american passengers later about those questions, as well. and you just can't imagine what these people must be going through with such a dearth of information. but i appreciate all of you giving us what you can in terms of information tonight. mike dean and mary schiavo, jim hall, chris ready, thanks to all of you. and coming up, the tragedy in the south korean water, and the attempts to rescue hundreds of people, many of them teenagers, after the ship sank in frigid waters. [ male announcer ] this is the cat that drank the milk... [ meows ] ...and let in the dog that woke the man

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and now to that stunning shipwreck off the coast of south korea where 289 people are still missing after this ferry heaved onto its side in calm waters and capsized. it must have been absolutely terrifying for those 450 passengers thrown from their beds, the vast majority of the people, from seoul, on a trip south of the korean peninsula. as panic spread, loudspeakers

ordered people to stay in their cabins, while others jumped into the icy water. so far at least 179 people have been rescued. but the death toll is seven, and what is almost as poignant as these images of the rescues are the messages that appeared to come from the scared kids as it went down. you know it was over 100 years when the titanic went down, in the nation of south korea, most of the kids had cell phones with sms and twitter. and this is just a sample of what one boy texted. mom, in case i don't get to say this, i love you. his mother replied why? i love you, too. thankfully that was not their last exchange, he was among those rescued. a father texts, i know there is a rescue operation under way, but if it is possible get out of your room. no, dad, the ship has tilted.

i can't get out. no one is in the hallway. and this one kills you, i think we are all going to die, one kid writes, if i did anything wrong, please forgive me, and later, i love you all. those messages from our cnn affiliate, ytn. we cannot confirm they are authentic, but you can only imagine what these kids have been going through. cnn's paula hancock with more. first of all, paula, how much of that ship is above the water now? it is sort of deceiving when we see the old footage where it looks like there is plenty of room for people to be inside. how much of an air pocket, how much of a hull is still looking above the surface? >> reporter: well, bill, we still understand a smaller amount is still above the surface of the water. so it certainly is sinking. but as far as we can tell, and this is from local media

networks that are actually running these pictures, because from here, the harbor, this is as close as we can get on land. it is still about 12 miles from where the sunken ship has landed. this is where parents have based themselves. what we can see is it is still a little bit above water, bill? >> and how are the families there around you handling this? i hear some are even taking things in their own hands, frustrated at the rescue effort? >> reporter: it is a heartbreaking scene here. there are mothers and fathers that have been sitting by the waterside all night. they have literally just been sitting still and looking out into the pitch black. they can't see the wreckage from here but they have just been looking onto the horizon praying that that child comes back to them. and there is desperation here that they feel the authorities have not done enough. we are more than 24 hours since the distress signal came from this ship and still these

parents do not know what happened to their children. some of them have been going out on boats with the coast guard and they can see the ship and area where the accident occurred. the investigation is still happening. one man says it is not a search and rescue operation, it is a search operation. he said he only saw one diver, there should have been 20 divers to go out and find those children. >> i know if that was my kid i would be on a boat, as well. what about the cause? do you have a sense on what happened? i know this is like a 20-year-old japanese built ship. but any clues as to the cause? >> reporter: well, the only clues we have at this point is from the actual survivors themselves. one of the eyewitnesss, the students basically said he felt a very loud bump, a loud bumping sound. and he said that many people fell over. so we are hearing there was a

point of impact. then the ship started to tilt and he donned his life jacket. now there are different accounts. some say the ship tilted before they felt a bump. so it is very confusing, a very traumatic time for these survivors. but they do say there was a point of impact. officially we're not hearing anything at all. the investigation is still being talked about. they are talking about the search and rescue operation. >> thank you, paula hancock and we'll bring you the information on the rescue efforts as we get them. and coming up, is it already too late to stop vladimir putin's land grab? or does he really want the land? or does he want to influence the former part of the soviet union. or will nato take a part in the matter? two very smart people join me next to talk about that. it's chaos out there. but the m-class sees in your blind spot...

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what i have said consistently is that each time russia takes these kinds of steps that are designed to destabilize ukraine and violate

their sovereignty that there is going to be consequences. they are not interested in any type of military confrontation with us understanding that our conventional forces are significantly superior to the russians. >> and of course, president obama on the cbs news tonight discussing the russian nemesis, that is, vladimir putin, who doesn't seem to care what anybody else thinks, in the united states and elsewhere. and the meeting will happen tomorrow while events in the ukraine go from scary to surreal. and christiane amanpour a. i want to talk about make happened today. say there were separatists in montana, and they hand over the keys to the tank.

it is surreal to see how cowed they are by these locals. >> and it is surreal to see how many of them were captured and how many surrendered. but for sure, apc changed hands, and it does show two things, number one, the ukrainian government doesn't have the authority or strength yet to actually try to calm these situations down. and number two, they're not going to do anything to make it worse. they're not going to fire their weapons. they're not going to give russia a bigger excuse to do what it is already doing. which is, and we really shouldn't make any mistake about it, stirring the pot. i mean, president putin is doing this, oh, my goodness, there is a crisis in ukraine, which he happens to be stirring. >> yeah, and we must save them. i think it is important to show, it is not clear the ukrainian government is as incompetent as we're making it out to be or whether it is being restrained out of a wise

understanding of strategy. remember, just over the border in southwestern ukraine, there are russian troops, the russia former minister and vladimir putin says we may have no option but to intervene. what they're telling them, you do anything to clear out the buildings and if people are dying and we can make the claim there is chaos, we'll come in. so the ukrainian government is trying to figure out how to clear out the buildings and assert the control over your territory without triggering that. it is a fine balance and they may be doing something smart by not provoking the russians. >> but is it pathetic that -- >> remember, crimea was always a side show. the end for putin is to create as much crisis as possible, precisely the way christiane was discussing, what i think putin wants is for ukraine to come in

and say okay, what do you want? he will say i want substantial autonomy, and pledged in the written constitution that ukraine will never join nato. something like that. and churchhill's great line, they don't want war, they want the fruits of war without having to actually wager. >> they couldn't afford all the outposts everywhere, and this way he gets the fruit without having to spend. but what is next? i read things that they worry that this could creep into odessa down on the black sea. >> yes, i spoke to the supreme allied commander a few weeks ago that confirmed the troops. saying there are three things possibly going on with these tro troops. one, for sure they're not on exercises, let's put that aside. they're there either to come into ukraine itself or to go around odessa, and potentially around the moldovia area, and to

sit there with huge personnel and military vehicle, and pressure point as ukraine goes on, first of all the talks happening tomorrow and the elections coming up. in other words to try to influence the situation on the ground by their physical presence. but what is for sure is that today it did spike the activity on the ground spiked. with the russian flags flying through on ukrainian vehicles, with all of these masked military men, even more of them coming out of the woodwork now. it is very interesting. and i talked earlier about, there is a new poll that is out which defies all of what putin and the russians are saying. they're saying oh, you know, we're doing this because our brothers in eastern ukraine feel so much under threat. actually it is not true. the new poll done on the ground says the vast majority of the ukrainians whether in the east or west do not feel threatened whatsoever. furthermore, they want to have

better relations with the eu, the majority of them. >> first of all let's talk about what is happening in russia. you talk to people there who say there is a level of propaganda going on that you haven't seen since tass, the intimidation to keep people to tow the line. what is interesting now, they're not afraid of the gulag, the upper middle class, they're afraid of being bumped from middle class back to coach. and it is working for putin. his approval ratings are through the roof. >> and the worrying thing, the most worrying thing, bill, is that it may not be entirely the product of propaganda although there was clearly a great deal of propaganda. i think that the russians have a very different narrative of what happened. the way the russians see it, putin expresses this kind of stridentally. but a lot of liberal russians believe this. they gave up not only the soviet empire but they gave up the

300-year-old czarist empire. in return for which, what did they get? they have nato expansion into poland. the czech republic into hungary, there is a narrative that says we kept giving in. you kept pushing us. part of this is the russians have always been somewhat distrustful of the west. there is another argument, we gave them a lot of aid after the end of the cold war. but my only point is a lot of russians believe that propaganda. so it is amping up the volume. but there is a real alternative narrative that russians believe and putin is gaining ground because of it. >> i think it is true putin is very popular. tomorrow he will have his annual chat with the russian people. and you will probably hear him talk about the relations with the united states and the eu and what is going on. we saw it in the balkans, the

president played this very same card. this myth of victimhood, which is what putin is playing right now. unless he is really careful it could actually get out of his control. because they know perfectly well that this victimhood is not happening. that they are genning it up for their own political purposes, pumping up the russian propaganda that everything else is mute and silent. the u.n. just put out an important report on this yesterday. and the russians suddenly decide they don't like this report. what they're doing is playing a very dangerous game, stoking the fires and who knows what? because we still don't really know what putin's aim is. one positive note i heard, the ambassador said for sure we're not going to invade ukraine or anywhere else. >> and they're meeting with the government, the government they didn't even recognize a week ago. so there is some halting hopes

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malaysia airlines most of ue some in shock, some 0 no mourning an some storming out of a video conference. others are managing their grief by demanding facts. put out a list of 27 questions.

>> i'm trying to direct that anger in to something productive and useful. i think that's why we are headed in this direction of asking these questions and trying to use the anger and channel that energy in to something that will get us answers and truth to everything. >> take the matter in to your own hands. that's completely reasonable. nothing weird about that. tell me the questions that are most important to you. what do you want to know and what do you think it will get you? >> thank you for ask canning that. i think all of the families -- i don't want to be too general with it but the questions we're

really asking are what is the truth? tell us about radar data. is the radar data that's been shared, is it raw data? have australians been given information for all of the different countries where this airplane may have gone, are all of them really sharing what's really going on? that's the part we don't have any answers to. there's no transparency. there's a lot of information that's provided downstream. the information given to them, is it copies of information, tidbits of information? are we getting the whole picture. from the families' perspective we are get ing very little of the picture and we want the truth of what happened, how it happened, when it happened? did did they really know what they knew? how did we get to where we are at now? >> and have you tried to

organize together? obviously there are cultural and language barriers, but are you putting any sort of united front and who are you taking these demands to in malaysia? >> yes, we are uniting and we are trying to get organized. we have sent letters to the malaysian minister. we've talked to different organizations, including woods hull. we have contacted ntsb. we are trying to use any resource we can. anyone that will listen and answer is who we are trying to go to. of course authoritatively. the fbi, using that as a source especially since phil's an american. anything we can. >> the fbi or american diplomates willing to help? do they think they can pressure and get answers? >> well, i know they are working

in concert with the authorities. of course the malaysian government is leading the investigation. we know that. that's also a little bit of the problem in our eyes because from the get go we haven't had the answers given to us in a transparent manner. so the trust is broken. >> yeah. >> the trust is broken. so with that in mind, even when they say something that might be true now, we're not sure if we can believe it. i know some of the families over on that side of the world are even more feeling that way. with them walking out. there's just a level of mistrust that is so high. >> they think it is a cover-up. your brother's partner sara, she's been a regular with us and so eloquent on her facebook posts. she tries to keep the spark live and keep it going with beautiful sentiments. she joined us last night and said this about the search

itself. >> the authorities seem to be spending all of their energies looking in the water, but there's no evidence in the water either. the mrsat data has never been verified in its raw format to verify it is the right position and there's no debris. the position of the families is maybe they are looking in the wrong places. >> do you agree with that? do you think the bluefin search is misguided? >> i don't know if i'd say it's misguided. i agree with her in the fact they are only looking in one place and putting all of their eggs in one basket as to -- if this is not the place, what other leads do they have? they have really laid everything they have got on this one thing hoping they hit a home run, but what if they don't? how much time have we lost? how much time did we lose in the first two weeks by searching in every other location that turned

out to be not even valid. there's areas they just -- they have dismissed based on one real set of information. that's the mrsat data. there maybe some validity it to. we don't know. how much of that has been shared with independent organizations to say, yeah, let's validate this? let's go through the scientific process. >> well, james, thank you again. please give our regards to your brother, sister, nephew. our hearts go out to you. i hope you can keep the faith. >> thanks, bill. >> we'll be right back. we did a 27-point inspection on your chevy,ce, you got new tires and our price match guarantee. who's this little guy? that's birney. oh, i bet that cone gives him supersonic hearing. watch what you say around him. i've been talking a lot about his procedure... (whispering) what? get our everyday price match guarantee plus a $100 rebate on 4 select tires

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take the next selfy to post to instagram, you'llen only be as cool as joe biden. he joined instagram and found an interesting partner for his first selfy there and his 20,000 followers anticipated the shot. i'm bill weir. this is cnn tonight. see you back here tomorrow night. this is cnn breaking news. >> this is a cnn special report. the mystery of flight 370. i'm don lemon. we begin with breaking news. we are waiting on analysis of the data from the bluefin-21 search. the sub's commission complete. as soon as we know what the data shows, we will bring it to you. we are also waiting for results of samples from an oil slick found the search zone. tests underway to the tell if it is from flight 370 and the families of plight