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people are dealing with, and only time will heal them. thank you very much. we appreciate you. thank you so much. >> lemon. sorry to end on such a sad note. "wolf" starts right now. >> right now, divers are searching the cold murky waters for vickties of the capsized ferry. while south korea's president is calling the action, of the captain and crew, quote, akin to murder. also right now, a massive anti-terror operation is under way in yemen, targeting one of the world's most dangerous terror groups. hello, i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. in south korea, the death toll from the ferry disaster is likely to rise sharply now that rescue divers have located many of the victims. most of them are teenagers. one by one, the bodies are
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brought back to port, oiidentifd by their heart broken families and added to the total. right now, 87 are confirmed dead. another 215 are still missing. divers say they're crying either day as they carry out the grim task. underwater conditions are extremely dangerous. with powerful currents, bone-chilling cold and low visibility. yet many families continue to hold out hope their loved ones are still alive within air pockets in the hull. our paula hancocks is joining us live from the port city of jindo in south korea right now. we're six days into the tragedy. how likely is it there possibly could be more survivors? >> reporter: wolf, at this point, this is still a search and rescue operation. we spoke to the spokesperson of the joint task force. he said that at this point they haven't found any air pockets within the ship. but it's not out of the realm of possibility there could be air pockets. he said basically the reason he thinks that is because the ship
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has not sunk any further. it's about 30 feet below the surface of the water according to this official. he says it's about there for a number of days now. it's maintaining its flotation level. this is why he believes it is possible there could be air pockets inside. of course, it is incredibly difficult for divers to even get close to the ship, let alone get inside those cabins they haven't reached yet. the visibility is very poor. we're hearing it's something between 30 and 40 centimeters. some divers can't even see their hands in front of them, it's such bad visibility. they are continuing to try to get inside the cabins. they're trying to get inside the cafeteria at this point. because it did happen earlier in the morning, about 9:00 in the morning is when the distress signal cawas starting. most people they believe would have been in breakfast and may be trapped inside the cafeteria. >> four crew members are facing
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charges in this tragedy. tell us about that. >> that's right, yes, four more crew members. this just adds to the crew members that have already been charged. the captain has been charged on five counts. if found guilty, he has a maximum of a life sentence that he conserving. also, the third mate, we know was behind the wheel, steering the ship at the time of the accident, she has also been charged on three counts and also a second crew member. so at this point we are seeing more crew members being brought into litigation. we're also seeing an unusual statement from the president of south korea. park gun hi saying what they did was akin to murder. so a very strong statement at a time when the investigation is still ongoing. >> paula hancocks, thank you. we could be seeing some big changes ahead in the search for flight 370, the underwater robot, so-called bluefin-21, is
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now in its ninth mission to scour the seabed in the southern indian ocean. it's already scanned two-thirds of the search zone so far, has found no, repeat, no sign of the plane. officials from both australia and malaysia say it's time to regroup and reassess the search operations. aaron erin mcgluf lynn is in perth with the latest. >> reporter: the next few days are critical to the operation. right now, latthey're looking i the area which is their best guess where the black boxes are, based on analysis of the pings. the strongest of the four signal, lasting 13 minutes. what they're doing is they're searching a six-mile radius around that point. as of this morning, they were
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two-thirds of the way through with that particular narrow search area. australian authorities say they expect to complete that search area by the end of the week. that was dependent on a couple factors. it was dependent on the bluefin-21's performance as well as the weather. and the weather could be an issue. to the north of the search area today, a tropical cyclone called jack which was making its way towards the search area, although forecasters say they expect it to largely dissipate by the time it gets there, though it could lead to heavy winds and waves. officials already beginning to think next steps if, at the end of this time period, they've exhausted this search area and ruled it out, what will they do next? authorities say it is possible they could broaden out the search area, introduced more submersibles. something they're definitely thinking about in perth today. wolf. >> erin mclaughlin, thank you. coming up, we are going to
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bring in our panel of experts. i am going to ask them what needs to be done next as a major reassessment of the search could be coming. moving to yemen where the government there has launched, and i'm quoting now, a massive and unprecedented attack on al qaeda operatives. they're targeting members of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, which certainly is one of the most dangerous groups of the terror organization. joining us now, our own muhammad jungug who has followed this story for us. we did see some videotape come up, videotape first shown by our own barbara starr here on cnn, showing a sort of celebration, al qaeda operatives in yemen. high definition tv images. and now all of a sudden the u.s. with the cooperation of the yemeni government goes in there, drone strikes, and starts killing a bunch of these
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al qaeda operatives. >> and there's definitely a connection there. my sources telling me because this tape that was released so brazen, such a display from yemeni al qaeda in the arabian peninsula leaders that they are comfortable there in yemen which is their home base that the u.s. and yemeni government had to respond. this was a major embarrassedment for them. you're talking about two countries that have collaborated to try to vanquish aqap, which is the most dangerous wing in the al qaeda network. now you're seeing them thumbing their nose at the americans, the yemeni, showing how at ease they are in yemen. what's more interesting of the fact that just -- not just there's drone strikes but there's yemeni commandos on the ground in parts of yemen looking for high-value targets. that operation is ongoing. >> when you have a big group of suspected terrorists together, 30 of them in one particular case, this would require the
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president of the united states personally to sign off on using these drones with these hellfire missiles to go in there, target for assassination these individuals. it's a big deal when you're going after a big target. do we know if any of the so-called high-value targets were eliminated or killed in this operation? >> what i've been told is that last night there were yemeni special forces, an elite group of special forces, on the ground in a real hotbed for militancy. it's surprising enough they were actually there because this is a part of yemen that the military, for a weak central government, doesn't usually go into. there's boots on the ground there. they ambush a group of militants they suspect being high-value targets in the aqap organization, they're all killed. then a yemeni helicopter lands there. they risk the bodies away. they've started dna testing. they seem to be coming to a consensus that possibly they have killed some major high value targets in this organization but they want to be sure before they announce it. because they don't know if it will have any kind of degrading
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effect on the organization. >> there was some speculation maybe they tried to kill that moster bomb maker, al what sasi right? >> there is speculation perhaps one of those killed is this man who is a master bomb maker, responsible for huge attacks against the u.s. and middle east, neighbors of yem be and yemen. now there's speculation he's been killed. the yemenis i'm talking to, they don't want to go that far yet, they want to proceed with dna tests. >> mo hamd jamjoon, thank you very much. up next, ukraine, including the arrival of the vice president, joe biden. what's the message to the ukrainian government? we'll take a closer look. salesperson #1: so, again, throwing in the $1,000 fuel reward card is really what makes it like two deals in one. salesperson #2: actually, getting a great car with 42 highway miles per gallon makes it like two deals in one.
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now to eastern ukraine where russia is denying having a hand in that separatist movement. they also say they don't have any troops there. but new evidence obtained by cnn points to the contrary. the ukrainian government provided these pictures as evidence, they say, of russia's direct involvement. they show troops in familiar green uniforms in parts of eastern ukraine. the green uniforms are identical to those worn by the russian army, though they don't have insignias. cnn has not been able to authenticate these photos that were provided. the vice president arrived in ukraine earlier today. he's meeting with u.s. embarrassed staff. tomorrow, he'll meet formerly with ukrainian government leaders in the capital of kiev.
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the vice president delivering a strong message of support to ukraine from washington. a very tricky time for ukraine's new government. pro-russian militants continue to occupy around a dozen militant buildings in eastern ukraine and the deal they made last week in geneva has gone, at least so far, nowhere. last week's deal should have ended the occupation but militant leaders are ignoring the leaders and now ukraine is giving in to some of their demands over language and autonomy. joining us now from london is our chief international correspondent christiane amanpour. are the 40,000 russian troops right across the border from ukraine along that border, they are still inside russia? some are suggesting that that is such intimidation and that's to blame for the inaction. what do you think? >> well, those troops are there precisely to bring pressure on the ukrainian authorities in this political transitional
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period. their elections are coming up and russia's president putin wanting to get maximum coverage in terms of decentralization in the east. that's what they're threatening, saying they could invade if they have to. what is incredibly important are these pictures that the ukrainian government has provided. also cnn's arwa damon last week got accession to the state security offices who showed her passports they have captured of russian military officers they said along with weapons and ammunition, also western intelligence operatives. so nobody really who knows this story believes that the systemic taking of buildings and sites inside eastern ukraine was just sort of random pro separatist militias there. they've been described as heavily armed, highly disciplined military formation.
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the nato supreme commander has said the same in his latest blog. everybody has known that is happening, now there is visual proof of it. don't forget president putin himself in his marathon address confirmed what he previously denied, that in crimea, russian forces were behind the taking of crimea and the taking of those buildings and the referendum and succession that then followed. >> these pictures made available by ukrainians, they show faces of individuals they say they have identified these individuals by name as individuals who formally worked for ruck russian security forces or russian intelligence. has there been any reaction from the russians themselves to this evidence? >> yes, the russians deny it, but they've been denying a lot of things for a long time. as i say, even some reporters and some residents in those parts of eastern ukraine, when this have asked these russians
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or, rather, these masked and camouflaged people who they are, they have said, many of them, they have come from russia. this is now right out into the open. it's interesting because according to military and security expert, what's happened is there's a graduation of militant separatists personnel. you've got the very disciplined -- now we're being told russian operatives who are sort of on the periphery and doing the heavy work, and then you have sort of the ragtag local residents who come up and sort of wave some flags and wear some kind bandanna around their head and probably occupy a couple of buildings. there is actually, they're saying now, being absolutely directed and militarily by russian military officers. that is what ukrainians are saying. they've shown evidence to cnn, passports, other such things, that they say they've captured. beyond that, many in europe,
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particularly in the baltics, eu members and nato members of the former soviet republics that border russia are concerned that nato quote/unquote doesn't get it, that people don't understand how determined putin is to, as he sees it, right an historical wrong, grab what he calls new russia. he called that area that on thursday. and the baltic state, particularly the estonian president, said a lot more needs to be done to really be able to match what putin is doing, and push him back and don't let him go any further. >> how important is the joe biden visit to ukraine, that has just started? >> well, you know, it's really interesting, obviously, the united states is the new ukrainian government's biggest and most powerful backer. that's causing a huge amount of anger in russia. even today, the russian foreign minister lashed out at the united states saying, hey, we're not to blame for any of this,
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you're to blame for the unraveling of this peace deal. let's not forget that those separatists have not gotten out of any of the buildings in eastern ukraine as they were meant to. but ukraine obviously needs u.s. support. they're not going to get u.s. military support but they need u.s. political support, u.s. financial support, and maybe even some kind of advice and help on how to form the kind of military security service to confront and be able to stand up to what russia is doing. >> christiane amanpour reporting to us from london, thank you. we're going to have more on ukraine a little bit later this hour, including newt gingrich, the former speaker of the house, he's weighing in passionately on the dispute. we'll get his thoughts on vladimir putin. still to come, a teen's incredible story, supposedly being a stowaway raising more than just eyebrows, raising security concerns. that and more coming up. n...i'm. that would be my daughter -- hi dad. she's a dietitian.
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what are they saying at san jose airport where you are, dan? >> well, wolf, first, you can certainly understand that skepticism for the reasons you outlined. you talk to the public information officer here, the woman who represents the airport, she says she's been in touch with both the tsa and fbi and at this point they are believing this young man's story and, in fact, it did occur, there are really two separate issues here, wolf. first, we're talking about a security breach, which would be monumental, the fact he could scale a fence here at the airport, at least that is what this young man saying, that he scaled a fence and then somehow made his way to the hawaiian airliner and then got into the wheel well. that is a huge security breach. then obviously the survivability angle. the fact he could go some 38,000 feet in the air, as you said, wolf, with limited oxygen, temperatures 80 below zero, that he could survive that is truly remarkable. i want you to listen now to the public information officer address those security concerns.
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take a look. >> we have a security program here at san jose airport that we coordinate in conjunction with tsa, with our san jose police department and so many other people that work hereby at our airport. however, no system is 100%. and it appears this teenager scaled a section of our perimeter and was able to proceed on to our ramp under cover of darkness and enter the wheel well of an aircraft. >> so one of the unspoken things here, wolf, is that if this young man did it, and there's some skepticism here, but if it did occur, it raises the concern that a terrorist could essentially do the same thing, that a terrorist could get on to a tarmac and maybe even put a bomb inside the wheel well of a plane. those are the questions that are being asked at this point. in terp terms of the survivability angle, if, in fact -- again, we want to stress
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we don't know, in fact, this did occur, but if it did, we've spoken to medical experts that theorize one thing that could have happened is his body could have gone to a so-called hibernation mode, almost like a bear, where when the temperatures get that low, your body doesn't need a lot of oxygen to survive and that whatever oxygen was available, his body used that in a very efficient manner, at least that's what the doctors are saying at this point, wolf. >> to me, a stowaway is possible but he probably stowed away some place where it was warmer, where there was some oxygen. maybe he said he was in the wheel well or whatever, but it doesn't pass the commonsense test, that somebody could survive that long of a period. that kind of altitude. with no oxygen really for no practical purposes, freezing, freezing temperatures, and survive and be in relatively good condition. as apparently this boy is. what is the condition of the boy right now? >> he's apparently in decent condition. he was taken away by ambulance.
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went to a hospital. simply for observation purposes. what he told authorities is that he got into some kind of argument with his family. he is a runaway child. and that's why he made his way to the san jose airport. >> maybe he got on the plane and hid out some place else and survived that flight to hawaii. we'll find out. dan simon reporting for us from san jose, thank you. much more coming up on the ferry disaster in south korea. including charges of abandoning ship filed against the captain. an expert in maritime law will join us with some legal insights. and later, vladimir putin's plans for a new russia. is expansion and occupation part of the plan? the conversation about his car loan didn't start here. it began way, way back. before he had children. before he got married. it started in his very first apartment. see that overdue bill? it arrived after he moved out.
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call... and ask about all the ways you could save. liberty mutual insurance -- responsibility. what's your policy? welcome back. i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. at least 87 bodies have now been recovered so far from the sunken ferry off the coast of south korea. another 215 people are missing, most of them high school teenagers who had been on a class trip. the captain and six crew members now face serious criminal charges in the disaster. the captain ignited public fury by being among the 174 people rescued before, yes, before the ship sank. even south korea's president lashed out. basically calling them killers. >> translator: first and foremost, the actions of the
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captain and some of the crew are absolutely unacceptable, unforgivable actions that are akin to murder. >> trial attorney jack hickey is joining us now. he's an expert in the laws of the seas. joining us from miami. thanks very much for coming in. is it premature to charge the captain and crew members with these crimes, effectively charging them of murder, based on what we know? >> well, you know, wolf, i don't know if it's premature. certainly we see here a series, not just one lapse or failure, we see here a series or chain of failures, one after the other, which contributed or really caused this disaster. first of all, you know the captain was not at the bridge at the time of the event. i'm not so sure whether that was a horrible thing orb a bad thing, because the captain does not always have to be on the bridge, but certainly if it's in a navigationally sensitive time
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of the navigation of the vessel, he should be. secondly, the miscommunication to the passen je engers about "n place." thirdly, what people have not really talked about, is the fact that he had 45 life rafts and failed to get them to the life rafts at all. at the time, he was talking about "stay in place" he should have been talking about, get to your muster stations, get to your life rafts. then of course the vessel is completely in peril, it's listing by all accounts early on 10 degrees which is a very significant list or tilt off of center to the port actually in this case, and at that time, the vessel goes into a disaster situation and, as you say, as you point out, he got out the vessel long before other passengers got off. which that, in and of itself, even though it's technically, let's say in the united states
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and under international convention, technically is not -- that in and of itself is not a crime, certainly it is a complete dereliction of duty. because how can you supervise the passengers and the crew members if you're not on the vessel? at that critical point in time? >> we saw the costa concordia, you remember, the captain, he fled, while others were still stuck on that ship. in this particular case, the same thing. maybe one or two of those lifeboats were used. he got out okay. but so many others remained on the ship. there used to be a tradition, the captain is the last one to leave, right? >> yes. there is a tradition. in fact, it dates back to the 1850s with a particular incident where the captain and his crew assisted women and children off and then the captain and crew went down with the vessel. but it's more than just romantic lore. because, you know, the captain
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is the master of the vessel. under any international convention and understanding, the captain is the master and in charge of the safety of every passenger, either crew enin, the cargo and vessel itself. how can the captain supervise and be in charge of the safety at a critical time, at a critical time, if he, the captain, not on that vessel? he has to be on that vessel and should have been in this situation. you bring up a very good point about the costa concordia, a lot of parallels to be drawn here. >> because usually if you've got 40 lifeboats, 40-plus lifeboats, you see what's going on, don't you begin the process of evacuation? you get those kids on those lifeboats right away? >> yes, in fact, you bring up a really good point, there were no lifeboats on this vessel. there were only life rafts. and life rafts require a certain
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amount of time to, a, get to and, b, to unattach them, detach them from the vessel, and to get them into the water and then get the passengers into the water. a little bit more time then a lifeboat. so yes, timing was critical here. and he really blew it. i mean, by all accounts, he absolutely blew it by not initiating the course of action t to get the life rafts out and to get the life rafts into the water and the passengers into those rafts. >> so many of those kids and others are still missing right now. jack hickey, thanks for that explanation. we appreciate you joining us. >> thank you. up next, vladimir putin's role in the ukrainian crisis. our own newt gingrich, he has some very strong views. standby for that. later, the underwater drone is on its ninth mission for any
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let's get back to the awful situation in ukraine right now. there were new calls this weekend from pro-russian separatists asking the russian president vladimir putin to send troops into eastern ukraine. all this coming a few days after the so-called peace agreement signed in geneva. joining us, newt gingrich, one of the co-hosts of cnn's "crossfire." thanks, mr. speaker, very much for coming in. what do you make of these latest developments? i know you have some very strong views on what's going on. is putin likely to blink? >> well, as you know, we released a podcast today that spends like 30 minutes talking about putin. i think putin is likely to be
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very cautious right now. he's gotten into crimea. that's gone. he's pocketing that. i think he's waiting to see how big the mess is in kiev and whether or not the interim provisional government can put things back together. i don't think he will go into eastern ukraine but i have a very close contact who has remarkable ties inside russia and says for the very first type the russian elites are talking about the possibility if the bloodshed continues that there will come a moment when they'll go into only the eastern most part but that's substantial part of ukraine. >> what is the vice president from your perspective joe biden need to do today and tomorrow while he's in kiev? >> well it's really very troublesome, wolf. general wes clark submit a report which was then leaked in which he spent some 35 meetings with ukrainian officials and the amount of help we're not giving
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them is very troubling. for example, somebody in the bureaucracy has said a kevlar vest is an offensive weapon. night vision equipment is an offensive weapon. you go down this whole list of things that's just crazy. if i were the ukrainians, who have been our allies in iraq, our allies in afghanistan, i would feel dramatically unsupported today. so let's see if biden brought them anything other than words. if all he's got is words, vladimir putin doesn't particularly respect obama and he sure doesn't particularly respect biden and words won't change the situation in the region. >> as you know, they're more than just words because the u.s., congress and the president did approve a $1 billion loan guarantee to ukraine to help them deal with the economic crisis they're now facing. that's $1 billion in loan guarantees which is pretty significant. the word off the street is the vice president has more in store when he meets with the ukrainian
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leadership. >> well, remember, the number one place the ukrainians spend money is to buy natural gas from russia. so if we're now guaranteeing the ukrainian ability to borrow money to pay putin, putin must be sitting there looking at his bank account, chuckling. this is not going to affect dramatically what happens in eastern ukraine. we have a deep interest, the europeans have a deep interest, in propping up ukraine. i suspect it's going to end up like finland was in the cold war, neutralized and very, very cautious about the russians. the best we can hope for is the russians will not invade eastern ukraine and that's the best we can hope for. >> one of the main arguments administration officials put forward in not providing so-called lethal weapons to ukraine is the ukrainian military, the intelligence services, widely they believe penetrated by russians right now and many of them are in fact
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sympathetic to russia, maybe even more loyal to russia than ukraine. it's sort of like with syria. the u.s. doesn't provide weapons to the syrian opposition because it could wind up in the hands of al qaeda elements there. what do you say about that argument, that they're afraid where these weapons would eventually wind up? >> look, if -- first of all, who cares about kevlar vests? i mean, if kevlar vests are defensive weapons that the russians know how to make as well as we do, but if you're the ukrainian military and you don't have any of them, you feel more vulnerable to small arms fire when you're facing russian forces that have kevlar vests so some of this is just nonsense. the other question is are we serious about trying to help ukraine or in fact is the pentagon analysis saying to us this is a government so penetrated by pro-russian forces that we can't help them, in which case, why is the vice president taking them $1 billion? you can't have it both ways. we're either in the game or we're not in the game.
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and that's part of why this administration is so confusing in foreign policy. >> newt gingrich is the former speaker of the house, could host of cnn's "crossfire." mr. speaker, thanks very much. >> thanks. there could soon be a major reassessment of the search operations for malaysian airlines flight 370. we'll ask our experts. i'm beth... and i'm michelle. and we own the paper cottage. it's a stationery and gifts store. anything we purchase for the paper cottage goes on our ink card. so you can manage your business expenses and access them online instantly with the game changing app from ink. we didn't get into business to spend time managing receipts, that's why we have ink. we like being in business because we like being creative,
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time now for this day in history. it was on this day in 1926 that queen elizabeth ii was born. the majesty turns 88 today. she's the longest serving british monarch since queen victoria. here she is in 1953. gun salutes ring throughout london today to honor the occasion and there will be an official public celebration in june, traditionally done in the hopes of better weather. baby george isn't making it to the birthday, the prince and his parents continue their tour in australia. he was introduced to australia's version of the easter bunny at a
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zoo. the bluefin-21 underwater drone has now scanned two-thirds of the search zone with absolutely no sign of the plane. australia's prime minister says it's almost time to regroup the entire search operation. here's what malaysia's acting
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another hello it went north and arrive.
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they could have taken that plan. there are so many asemss as to plane got that far. >> all of the experts say, the pings, the pings lasted for four hours, one for 15 minutes. could not have come from anything but a mechanical device. but remember it was not at the right 27.5 -- >> 37.5. >> it was 32.5. >> it was lower. so that throws a little bit of question to it. so i think this is their best
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effort. it's coming up short and they need to reassess. >> they are still frustrated that none f the four electronic emitting devices went off when they're supposed to go off when they go into water and crash land. >> another part of the mystery. >> one of them should have blown off. >> you would have thought. if they have to restart the whole thing do they get a new team? maybe some fresh blood. >> they need to address the issues of the family. they need to move forward on financial compensation for them sooner rather than later. >> thank you very much. let's see what this ninth blue fin comes up with anything. the first eight came up with nothing.
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>> second soeepisode of season three was excellent as usual. anthony bourdain went to vegas and explored beyond the wild reputation but he did splurge, landing a luxury villa usually reserved for the vips, the uber rich. he got it by telling a little white lie. watch this. >> a little bad they give you if
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your credit line runs into the eight figures. i told the ceo that wolf blitzer may be coming. i suggested he may be hungry. i plan to live large until they figure out that wolf ain't coming. >> i'm going. looks nice. thank you for that. next sunday, by the way, ootd episode of parts unknown. anthony explores one of the most beautiful and unknown areas of india. 9:00 p.m. eastern. you will enjoy it. he is really amazing. >> it's been a white house tradition now for 136 years, about 30,000 people have crowded the south loun lawn looking for easter eggs and baskets.
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it took him three times to find the net. the theme was hop into healthy shape. part of michelle obama's initiative aimed at her chish's health. he shoots. let's see if he scores. okay. >> one year after the bombings at the boston marathon, competitors are back stronger than ever. the first american to win the marathon since 1983, crossed the finish line. he and thousands of runners moved that last year's ruthless acts of terror can't define this tradition. >> last year i was on the ground, this year i will be running across it. it proves to people that evil isn't going to win. >> this year for me it's like a
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new starting point it's a day where i'm going to do the things i was supposed to do last year and didn't get to. it's a celebration of all that i have been able to accomplish this year and a time to start new memories. >> brooke baldwin picks up our special coverage of the boston marathon right now. >> hi there. live here in what has really turned out to be a beautiful day in boston for special coverage of the 118th boston marathon. it's a day of victory here today for the city. the people coming together. i talked to so many runners. just really embodying boston strong one year after the explosions at the