appreciate all of you again this evening. i'm don lemon. thank you very much for watching. that's it for us tonight. "ac 360" start right now. good evening, there's breaking news tonight. growing doubt about what has seemed to be breaking news on what doubt there was, a piece of metal that washed up on a western australia beach, just one of several new developments in the investigation that we'll address tonight. also tonight is the search for the missing. the ferry crew member who did not abandon ship, this is her, she stayed and saved dozens of young lives, sacrificing her own, we'll tell you her remarkable feats. and later on "ac360," we'll tell you what is truly outrageous, what this investigation reveals about a hospital that kept patients, veterans, waiting months for care. 40 people died waiting. one doctor says the hospital covered up their delays with lies. tonight, we're keeping them honest, we begin with the new

discoveries, possible with the growing questions in the search for flight 370, the discovery, the metallic object that washed to shore on australia, there is word on that. and the bluefin has less than 10% ocean bottom to cover in the search area. it may take far longer to do that than we have been previously told. several weeks instead of a couple of days. deepening questions about the search and why we haven't yet seen a sign from it. and one expert re-thinking everything on the table. and in beijing, malaysia, growing demands from malaysian authorities. a lot to cover, with michael holmes in perth, and miguel, what washed to shore in augusta, what do we know about it? what does it look like? >> reporter: yeah, local officials say it looked like it was about eight feet tall, a couple of feet wide. it was attached with rivets, the local person said they held onto it for a couple of days to get it to the local airport and then they got it to investigators.

photographs were taken of it sent to not only kanbera and the u.s. >> now what are authorities saying about it? >> the folks are now heavily discounting and saying probably this is not part of mh-370. i can tell you that police and public here across the area are very, very focused. people walking up and down the beach today saying they have been looking for pieces of mh-370 just in case it came here. police say in all the towns, they knew about it, they had sent it up to the police itself in perth so it could be in investigators' hands in case they needed to look into it more. anderson? >> all right, miguel, thank you very much. michael holmes, the latest on the search, what is it? >> reporter: yeah, bluefin-21, we heard just a short time ago anderson that it completed mission 12 under way.

the search officials are telling us how 90% of that, let's call it a focused search area that we have been reporting on has now been scanned. and the news of course is saying nothing of significance. a few days ago we would suggest the entire area would be covered by week's end. that seems to be likely by the numbers, but the australian defense minister said it could take two weeks. no estimation on why they believes that. some experts say the remaining area could involve deeper area but with 90% covered one imagines that focused area will wrap up pretty soon. >> and the next phase of the search, do we know any details of it? >> yeah, there have been consultations with china and the next phase of the search, details could be likely announced next week. but we can say certainly it will involve that wider arc of several 100 miles along the

flight path just to the north really of where they're looking right now. also likely more assets would be brought in. we're talking about the powerful side scan sonar equipment. but this time instead of going down on its own it would be towed by a ship. there is one, for example, called the orion, sending back realtime data. and it doesn't have to resurface like the bluefin. all right, thank you, michael holmes, and cnn analyst david souci, author of "why planes crash." and cnn analyst, david gallo, director of special projects who co-led the search for air france flight 447. we heard from the australian defense minister saying it could take two weeks. >> the only thing i could think, anderson if they're going to go lower and slower, or go over

areas where they fill in gaps, something like that. but it is hard to understand exactly why it is going to take more time. >> and richard, there is a preliminary report on the disappearance prepared by malaysia since the international civil aviation organization. the malaysian officials, i understand you have details of what is in it. >> reporter: yeah, i asked at the press conference yesterday, whether the report had been sent as had been required by annexed 13. and the malaysian officials yes, it had been sent to montreal as required. i then was told about the safety recommendation in the report. let me read you. it has been confirmed. the safety recommendation that the malaysians are asking, they say it is recommended that icao examine the safety benefits of introducing a standard for realtime tracking of commercial air transport aircraft. now, that is pretty much stating the obvious bearing in mind that

for several weeks now possibly months and more will be spent to find a plane that was not being tracked in realtime. and anderson, the only issue is why the preliminary report which tends to be non-controversial, a basic statement of facts, why that has not been released by the malaysian authorities. i will be asking that today. in every case that i can remember so far the report is always pretty much released when it is sent to icao. >> david souci, in these type of preliminary reports with the questions that the families want answered, would that be typically cleared up. they have some very good questions, questions which frankly i'm surprised have not already been answered for the families. >> yeah, they're easily answered questions, i don't know why they haven't been answered. there is no explanation for that. but what is in the preliminary report, anderson, is not earth-shattering information.

there is a synopsis piece, but what would be found in the wreckage may be a little bit sensitive, would be the names and particular qualifications of the pilots and also the air traffic control people, the people involved in moving the aircraft from one control center to the other. those names would be in the report as well and identifiers as well. so they may be sensitive, but there is no reason not to redact that information and release it to this phase of the investigation. >> and david gallo, we talked about the bluefin-21, the side scan sonar. but let's talk about the human side of all of this. what it is like for those people who have been undertaking the search. when you involved in the search for 447 you were given 95 certainty that the plane would be found in a particular area. >> that is right. >> and you searched aggressively in that area. >> two months the team was out there. in fact we talked about the

benefit of air france 447 where we had floating debris which was retro-drifted to the spot. and we were told in this box, day and night, 24/7, the team worked their heart and soul out and worked with nothing. it is a horrible thing because you have self-doubt and criticism. >> fortunately, the people involved in the search for 447, it is devastating. >> absolutely positively devastating. you were out there putting your heart and soul into the mission and said the guys couldn't produce afterward. that is a tough one, as co-leader when you get together to talk about next steps you do have to go through self doubt, re-thinking, did we miss something. >> so what do you do? do you just go back to the data? >> you have confidence, you have to fall back on the confidence and the team and the plan, get together with the team in our case the b.a., with the air france bus, they all had confidence in us. that was reassuring, in a room, going over what we did know and

didn't know. it took a lot of thought. months, before we came up with the next plan on what to do. >> wow, richard quest is there anymore explanation of why the questions that the family members have asked, that they have submitted that you have been reporting on all week why those questions have not been answered. has there been an attempt in the last 24 hours to even answer some of those basic questions? >> not that i'm aware of, anderson, and i think we're waiting for this more senior technical team to go to beijing to provide answers. and but in the next few hours, certainly we'll be asking again, about when these questions and -- will be. and more importantly, why they have not been answered. there are two -- there are two distinct groups of questions. there are those family members that choose or wish to believe that the plane landed somewhere

in afghanistan or whatever. and they are to some extent dismissed in their questions. and then there are the deep factual questions, which will require some detailed technical knowledge. and that is going to take time. what we need to understand is why that information has not been provided. since in many cases it is not controversial. >> good questions, we'll continue to try to find the answer to that. there is a lot more to talk about shortly. first, let's return to the debris and quickly try to drill down on why there is so much skepticism about it. simply put in this part of the indian ocean, there is just a lot of junk and debris. we don't like to think of the sea as one big junk yard, but as randi kaye discovered that is precisely what this is. >> the debris you might see in our home, all around our homes, here is a toy grenade, a paint brush handle. a toy leg from a baby, flip-flops.

>> reporter: not items from a landfall but from the ocean, more specifically the end ocean gyre, essentially a garbage patch swirling with trash and overflowing with plastic. the massive rotating current spins counterclockwise. marcus ericsson is the director of research for the five gyres institute of california, and says they're like soup. in 2010, he sailed through the indian ocean gyre, the same area where the search teams are now looking for doomed flight 370. >> what we found there were things like fishing nets, multi-colored buoys, like the one that is behind me. lots of buckets and crates, other consumer goods like bottles and caps and bags and knives. there was so much stuff already there. so the aircraft is blending into all that. >> reporter: which is one reason why locating the missing plane is such a challenge. satellite images once thought to be debris fields likely just

floating garbage. recently, a chinese ship in search of the airport came across trash instead. even sea life can't tell the difference. fish, sea lions, birds, they all ingest this junk thinking it might be food. >> you know, i hear this talk about there being 300-plus pieces from the aircraft. there are 300,000 plus pieces of trash already there. >> reporter: the indian ocean gyre is not the only one that exists, there are also two in the pacific and two in the atlantic. they form when ocean currents bounce off the continents and create a vortex of swirling water, which pulls the debris from the shores to the center of the ocean. the gyre in the indian ocean is thought to be about 2 million square miles. keep in mind the entire united states is just under 4 million square miles. and this garbage patch is not just huge, it is on the move, traveling about half a mile per hour or about 12 miles per day and it may be carrying parts of the plane with it.

>> it has moved away from the crash site, moved 150 miles by now. and it dispersed, as well. and it is joining background of other debris. >> reporter: leaving the search planes to try to catch up. randi kaye, cnn. >> and we have a short break coming up, set your dvr so you never miss a show, you up next, the tools used to take the search farther and deeper, we'll show you where they are and where they are sent to. and later, coming up, the veterans, we owe them a great debt, and a new story reveals how badly promises were broken to patients. including this one's father-in-law. >> they called you and said. >> i said what is this regarding? she said we have a primary for him. i said really? you're a little too late, sweetheart. >> a little too late, because her father-in-law had to wait for care.

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new word from officials on bringing additional assets to bear on the search for flight 370. by now you probably have heard and seen a lot about the bluefin-21 search vehicle.

but you may be aware of its limitations. well, tonight, gary tuchman has more on what is waiting in the wings that could surpass it. >> reporter: the names are intriguing, what they have potential to uncover is amazing, the orion, all autonomous underwater vehicles. auvs and rovs, equipped with technology to search more closely than the bluefin. >> the idea is if there is a black box, it is not a problem at all for the rov to put it in a basket. >> reporter: for example, there is the orion rov, connected to a ship by an umbilical cord, and send signals to the bottom. this can stay down weeks at a

time. the bluefin only lasts about 24 hours. then, there is the remus 6000, an auv, operating without connection at all. the team from woods hole, massachusetts, already met dramatic success locating the wreckage of air france flight 447 two years after it crashed in the south atlantic ocean. the discovery only possible because of this auv. this is the initial shot of the air france debris captured by the remus 6000. >> they can go up and down mountains, and are very stable so you get really good data almost all the time. >> reporter: another auv that could be used. the dorato, based at the research institute in california, where stephanie elam visited.

>> this is good to 6,000 meters deep. inside we have all the sonar electronics. >> reporter: the other option for a new phase of the search is the manned subs, the submersibles. the british government has already sent out a sub and other governments could be asked to join. this is based in florida, this sub located wreckage in the atlantic ocean after the tragic explosion of the challenger in 1986. this sub is about 24 feet long and also about 11 feet tall. and it weighs about 28,000 pounds. it has enough oxygen and emergency provisions on board for the people to survive under water for up to five days. >> this sub is retired, though. but other subs that could go even deeper could be brought into action along with auvs and rovs ready to assist, if asked. gary tuchman, cnn, los angeles. let's turn back to richard quest and david gallo, we should

point out for full disclosure, the remus 6,000, that is where gary was, besides that, what other vehicles do you think at this search phase would work in a search like this? and was the bluefin-21 not the right -- >> no, no, i think bluefin was, in fact, you remember the idea that was -- what captain matthews called was a tactical survey, the pinger, that got the job done with a couple of days to go. the club that can work here, where it is pretty deep, 6,000 or so that club is very small. but there are quite a menu of different vehicles, you saw the orion. that is a towed sonar. >> and there are multiple pieces. >> what needs to be done, they have to take a close look at where the potential surfaces. are they deep or shallow, and

can you fit these vehicles? they're all good at something, some of them every place. the first thing is to find out where the next survey is and then pick the vehicles. >> richard, is there consensus between the malaysians and australians and other malaysians participating in the search with the assets? are there enough of them in the water at this point? >> reporter: well, that is the interesting part of the next part of the investigation, anderson. what we learned yesterday from the malaysian authorities is that they're going to have that very discussion with angus houston. what are the next assets? do they need some of these? do they need more of them? do they need different types? who is going to provide them? who is going to pay for them? there are deep pockets available. the malaysians do have assets, funds, so that will all be part of the next discussion.

and what i think is really interesting is what david gallo just said. because everything got to where they are now in a hurry. they had 30 days to hear the pings. they had to get down afterwards to see if they have could find it. everything you are looking at was put together very, very fast. now, you start the deep understanding of the terrain, the different types. the different assets, the payment mechanisms. the sort of thing, anderson, that goes into a long-term search that may go down once, twice, three or four times over the next year, two or three years. >> do you -- david gallo, do you believe they're looking in the right place? or do you have to just kind of trust -- >> well, it is a place they had to look. they had the pings and the inmarsat data, the fuel consumption. everything pointed to this area. i have said all along i don't know how you leave this area if you're confident that those

pings were from the black boxes, how do you begin to leave this area and think about any place else? so maybe to expand that bull's eye to include three or times wider than they have been looking now and just widen that area with the sonar. so you see where every pebble is. i just don't know how you leave this place before you really take that part of the sea apart completely. >> all right, david gallo. coming up, fading hope of finding anybody alive. the divers have found no air pockets in the part of the ship where they thought they could be. also the remarkable story of one crew member on board that ferry. a 22-year-old woman who stayed on board to help passengers while the captain and other crew members left. she alone is credited with saving dozens of lives before she lost her own life.

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so the death toll rising, but the divers behind you are still on a mission to rescue passengers who they hope are still alive, right? >> reporter: very much a rescue, and this may, anderson, may be a case of what you say versus what you know. everyone here is calling it a rescue. it certainly does appear to be a rescue mission if you look at the number of divers in those orange boats and black boats they are still going under the water to look for people. but this has apparently moved beyond that given all the facts that we know that you just said, no air pockets, no survivors for a week, why are they still calling this a rescue? the government being extraordinarily careful with what they call this, given this unbearable loss. hundreds of families losing their children. and if you think of it this way, almost an entire sophomore class was wiped out in one single high school. so this is just an unbelievable

loss, anderson. >> and kyung, do authorities at this point have any idea? are they any closer to figuring out what may have caused this to happen? >> they say they won't know conclusively until they get into the ship. they are looking at sea floor, and whether or not there were problems with the ship. mechanical issues. whether there were balance issues, because this ship was retrofitted when it was purchased from japan. it was made to be bigger, to hold 200-plus more passengers. there were cabin issues, was it carrying too much cargo? the coast guard telling us they won't know the answer to that until they're able to lift this ship off the sea floor using the giant cranes that you see around this area. and then the other thing that they're looking at is the financial backing of the owner. the owner who runs the marine

company. he is a curious figure. he is known as the millionaire with no face. his company was in the red. he runs it with his sons, and there are a lot of questions of whether or not maybe it was finances before lives that happened in this case. >> kyung lah, appreciate the update. thank you, of the 174 people who survived the ferry disaster, dozens of them are alive because of a crew member, a passenger who helped others get out and lost their lives. paula hancock has more on the story. >> reporter: a mother cries, i love you, i'm sorry as her daughter's coffin passes by. park-ji-young was just 22, a crew member on the ill-fated. a crew member who gave up her life so others could live. these men were part of a group of 17 school friends heading to jeju island for their birthday. four of them are still missing. they say they owe their lives to park.

she describes how the ship listed so much the wall became the floor. an open door made the gap between them and the exit too great to step over. her colleague was lying on the floor, he says, hanging onto the microphone telling passengers not to move. park took the keys from him, forced her way to the door, closed it and locked it to keep it shut so that passengers could walk across. she was right next to the exit, he says, she could easily have escaped. that door saved so many lives it was like the bridge of life. i asked, how many lives? they estimate around 50 escaped through that exit. that is nearly a third of all passengers who made it out alive, helped by just one woman. she was just a girl, says this man, but she was so brave. if every crew member on that boat was as brave as she was the disaster would not have been this bad.

among the first to be rescued, kim says the captain and other crew members were already on dry land by the time he got there. while the captain ran away to save his own life, she gave her life to save others, says this family friend. we are so proud of her. park's relatives don't want to talk publicly but tell cnn they want to follow her example of thinking of others, although they say they could never do anything as courageous. park dropped out of college two years ago when her father passed away to help support her family. she was transferred to the sewol just six months ago, a step up within the company. praised for her professionalism, and ultimately for her courage. >> heroic young woman. paula hancocks joins us now, i heard there was a private family service for her today. what else do we know about her and her actions? >> reporter: well, anderson, survivors say that while she was on the ship she was giving out life jackets to a number of the

students that we do know managed to escape. and she was doing this all the time. she didn't have a life jacket on herself, she was making sure others were okay first and also making sure they could get to one side of the ferry which was under water and sinking fast to the other side where they could actually escape. and all the while she was doing this, she was on her walkie talkie, and she was trying to get guidance from those that were higher up in power, but that guidance, as we know did not come. one of the survivors said to me he really wished she had escaped. and that he wished he would hold onto her and help her. they say they felt very guilty that she had not managed to escape but that she had saved dozens of lives. >> and amazing, she was handing out life jackets to others even though she herself did not have one, paula, thank you.

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hospital in phoenix, arizona to hide as many as 1600 veterans. waiting many months just to get a doctor's appointment. cnn has learned at least 40 veterans left waiting for care, many who are on that secret list are now dead. and what is worse? according to multiple sources, the management's plan included shredding the evidence to hide the fact there was a waiting list at all. >> we've heard as many as 40 veterans here in arizona in the phoenix area could have died waiting for care. >> that is correct. the number is actually higher. >> reporter: dr. sam foot just retired after spending 24 years with the v.a. health system here in arizona, the veteran doctor says the hospital did have a list that showed the v.a. was providing timely appointments within 14 days. but that was a sham. >> the only record that you have ever been there requesting care was on that secret list.

and they wouldn't take you off that secret list until you had an appointment time that was less than 14 days so it would give the appearance that they were improving greatly the waiting times, when in reality it had been six, nine, and in some cases 21 months. >> reporter: in the case of a 71-year-old u.s. navy veteran named thomas breen, the wait ended much longer. >> he started bleeding in his urine. if said we have to get you to the doctor. >> reporter: he said his father, so proud of his military service would go nowhere for v.a. treatment. and on september 28th, with blood in his urine and cancer, teddy and his wife rushed him to the emergency room where he was examined and told to wait. >> all they wrote on his chart, must have primary doctor, urgency. and they sent him home. >> reporter: this is a copy of mr. barn's v.a. medical chart,

stating on the top, urgency, that he should be seen by a primary care physician or uroligist. >> you called? >> we called numerous times. i got a response, would you like to hear the response? well, you know, we have other patients critical as well. it is a seven-month waiting list and you're going to have to have patience. >> reporter: sally kept calling, and then she no longer had a reason to call. thomas breen died, the bleeding was from stage four cancer. >> they called me on zemg 6th, he is dead already. >> they called you and said? >> i said what is this regarding? she says we have a primary for him. i said really, you're a little

too late, sweetheart. >> reporter: dr. foot says that mr. breen is a perfect example of a patient who needed an urgent appointment with a primary care doctor, and instead he was put on a waiting list. >> if you died waiting for your appointment? >> they could just remove you from that list and there was no record that you ever came to the v.a. for care. >> pretty convenient. >> pretty sad. cnn has obtained e-mails showing top management, including the phoenix v.a. director knew about the actual wait times and knew about the off the books list and defended the use to her staff, which makes this statement to cnn from hellman all the more strange. it is disheartening to hear allegations about the veterans being compromised, the director writes, and we are open to my collaborative discussion that assists in our goal to continually improve patient care. sam foot says that response is

stunning. >> this was all planned and it was planned by the very highest authorities here in phoenix. >> correct, this was a plan that involved the director, the associate director, the assistant director, the chief of nursing along with the medical chief of staff. in collaboration with the chief of has. >> basically, you have medical directors cooking the books? >> correct. >> reporter: the phoenix's off the books waiting list has gotten the attention of the house veteran affairs committee, the chief has been investigating delays in care at veteran hospitals across the country. in a hearing this month he later learned even the under-secretary for health of the v.a. was not being told the truth about the secret list. were you made aware of the unofficial list in any part of your look back? >> mr. chairman, i was not. >> reporter: congress has now ordered all records in phoenix, secret or not, be preserved.

that would include the record of a 71-year-old navy veteran named thomas breen. >> this is unbelievable, drew, incredible reporting. this waiting list for care, secret or not, must still exist which means vets must still be waiting to see a doctor. what is the v.a. doing about it? >> anderson, later, they sent us yet another statement. they acknowledge they have been having trouble but are improving wait times. we have no way of telling if this is true or not and the v.a. in phoenix will simply not answer our questions about the reporting and secret lists, and the fact that they're trying to hide the fact that the veterans are on that secret list. >> no one is held accountable. and the v.a. itself doesn't really seem to have an answer for any of this. >> this is now the third story we've reported about veterans dying while they wait for care at v.a. hospitals on your show, anderson. it happened in georgia, south carolina, texas, florida.

now phoenix where the management tried to hide the true waiting list and still we get no answers from the veteran's administration. as far as we can tell absolutely no one is being held accountable for this. and one more thing, but for this committee and congress, one committee, all of these politicians who campaign on taking care of veterans including congressmen, senators and in the white house, they don't seem to be paying much attention. >> it is incredible, this is our third reporting on this matter. and the v.a. doesn't seem to be talking to us. incredible reporting. up next, we'll hear from a california father whose son attempted to climb into a wheel well. also, the deadly climb on mt. everest, and how a sherpa, the mountain guide saved this man's life.

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everybody else. the dad, a native of somalia said he was so confused when he got a call from the police and asked for explanation. he said he did not receive education when he was in africa. since we came here he had a lot of education problems and was not good in math and science. the father said he was always talking about going to africa where his grandparents still lived. the teen told investigators, though, that is not where he was going. he had a fight, ran away, and climbed into the first plane he saw. he is still hospitalized in hawaii and is expected back home. dan simon joins us, dan, we have this photo that shows the wheel well that allegedly held the stowaway. do we know if the footprints are from this young man? >> reporter: hey, anderson, we can't say for sure those are the

footprints. but it is the fascination people have with this story. we're here in the neighborhood where the family lives, there are media crews staking out the family's home around the clock. there is just a tremendous amount of interest here on what happened. >> the father did speak out today, as we said i just read some of his comments. what else did he say? did he say a lot more? >> reporter: well, he gave this interview in his native tongue to somalia, they put it on their website, the bottom line here is the father says this is a young man, a teenager who had some emotional problems. he was having problems learning in school. it seemed like he was homesick, the family moved to california i guess fairly recently from africa. he doesn't say when, i guess the teenager was having problems

adjusting. so add it all up. we have been saying this, this is a teenager who acted out in a very irrational way to say the least. and what more can you say? it is just a miracle that he survived. >> the airport manager who spoke to the teen when he arrived also spoke to the teen, did he have any insights? >> reporter: well, yes, he did. i mean, he talked about the impressions that he had when he first encountered this young man, i guess security had apprehended him. i guess they asked him lengthy questions and this is what he had to say. >> obviously, being up 30,000 feet for that period of time would be pretty interesting. and you know, he mentioned that he blacked out. so you know he must have been out for that whole time. we did get him some food prior to the paramedics getting here. we asked him if he was hungry.

he indicated, yes, he was. we got him some maui-style teriyaki meat balls and rice, and a package of cookies and a bottle of water. >> reporter: well, in terms of what is next in this case we know that the boy is still in the hospital. he is being monitored. we're told that he is in pretty stable condition. that he is doing okay. the father said he is still being monitored by health professionals. and according to the father he will be returned to california relatively soon. we don't have a time line on that. but the word that we were given was soon. >> all right, dan simon, thank you very much. >> and next, the troops arrive in poland for a show of force. and next, a climber describing how a sherpa saved his life on the deadly climb up to mt. everest. constipated? .yea dulcolax tablets can cause cramps but not phillips. it has magnesium and works more naturally than stimulant laxatives. for gentle cramp free relief of occasional constipation that works! mmm mmm live the regular life.

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duchess of cornwall. in a statement, the family said they are devastated. on mt. everest, dozens of sherpa guides reportedly walked off the job today after the deaths of 16 of their colleagues in last week's avalanche. the american climber on the left witnessed the disaster and said his sherpa on the right saved his life. >> when the avalanche came down, it was -- it was a bit overwhelming. and a lot of thoughts go through your head quickly. but the sherpa is so used to this situation. and they have been up through that ice fall so many times he just quickly, you know, he just quickly started yelling get down, get down and just kind of pushed me behind the large block of ice. pretty amazing the climber was not hurt. and this was tweeted, it shows the outside of the international space station space station today.

he and another astronaut replaced the backup computer. he said it was a little difficult in the space suit, it was a little short, but he got it done. >> all right, that does it for there's no shift in position. there's no red line that's been drawn. >> siding with an ally, the u.s. president takes a stand on a thorny issue between japan and china. the underwater drone looking for the missing plane is almost finished with its search area so what's next? >> hamas, the political deal that's angering israel and making many palestinians skeptical. the big plunge. the heart dropping and record breaking jump from the tallest building on the planet.