disappearance in "vanished: the mystery of malaysia airlines flight 370". thank you for joining me and join me back here at 4:00 for "the lead." brianna keilar picks up our coverage of the missing airasia flight. hello. i'm brianna keilar in for wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. here in washington and 8:00 p.m. in jerusalem and 1:00 a.m. in jakarta. the mysterious disappearance of flight 8501 the search for the plane will resume at daybreak in roughly 4 1/2 hours from now. here's a look at the latest headlines. the flight for 8501 is expanding. the agency in charge of the operation plans to add four more search zones in addition to seven zones that crews are already focusing on. also we just learned that indonesia has formally asked the u.s. and other countries for

help with the search. one of the latest theories is that the plane might have stalled during flight. the theory is based on this. it's a screen rab and it's said to be leaked by an air traffic controller. this appears to show that the plane was climbing but that it was losing speed. and police say that they are not asking family members for information to help identify the passengers at this point. earlier, some police officials say authorities were asking for photos medical records, fingerprints and dna. they are now saying that is not the case. airasia flight 8501 is the second missing flight in southeast asia in less than a year. so far, searchers have found no sign of the plane with 162 people on board as we hear from andrew stevens, authorities are fearing the worst in this latest aviation mystery. >> reporter: grim new details as the search for 8501 continues. indonesian authorities leading the rescue think the plane is

likely on the bottom of the sea. based on coordinates of the plane's last transmission. here at surabaya airport, it's become crisis central. the distraught family members were briefed here earlier today behind closed doors. monday marks the first full day of searching since 8501 disappeared early sunday morning. so far, the plane has not put out any signals that could help pinpoint its location. instead, crews focus on this very broad search zone over the shallow waters of the java sea where the plane was last tracked. the airbus a-320 took off from surabaya. rough roughly an hour later, it vanished en route to singapore. the pilots encountered severe storms that may have contributed to the fate of the passengers and crew. >> usually it's not one thing that brings down a plane and for a modern jetliner or a big

jetliner to be brought down by turbulence it's rare. >> reporter: one theory the plane may have stalled as it climbed to a higher altitude. this was leaked by an air traffic controller and seems to report that. >> what it shows is this particular flight had an altitude of 36,000 feet and climbing but traveling at approximately 105 miles per hour too slow to sustain flight. >> reporter: cnn could not validate the authenticity of that image. we know that at 6:12 a.m. pilots asked for permission to climb from 32,000 feet to 38,000 feet. it would be the last known communication from the crew. >> we are very devastated by what's happened. it's unbelievable but we do not know what has happened yet. >> reporter: for these two teenage girls whose parents were aboard the flight all they can do is wait holding on to hope that their families will soon be

found. >> cnn's andrew stevens with that report. for the latest theories of what haf may have happened let's bring in analyst peter goelz and from charleston south carolina, we have mary schiavo and in new york i'm joined by david soucie author of "why planes crash." why do you think it took so long for indonesian authorities to say there's an emergency here? it took an hour and a half. >> you are reluctant to call an emergency. you think maybe the pilots have inadvertently switched their radio dials, any number of problems. but people don't like to call an emergency. particularly if in a structure that is a military form of

monitoring. they just don't want to do it. >> mary, you heard in andrew's piece, you said it's generally not just one thing that causes a crash here. let's talk about the weather, though. obviously this was some pretty severe weather. the pilot had asked for permission to climb to 38,000 feet because it was so bad. but what else could have contributed to this? >> well the weather might have been a precipitating or caused a cascading effect. in other crashes that i've worked here's how the sequence went. you had particularly bad weather that stressed the plane and the pilot. the pilot made decisions on how to climb or what to do with the plane and then a piece of equipment did not respond as the pilot thought it would be and in most of those, accidents that i worked three things combined and in two of those cases, the plane fell from 35,000 feet. >> okay. so you're looking at this david, you hear what that screen

grab says. we haven't confirmed it. climbing at 36,000 feet that's why experts are thinking that the plane was climbing because it was at 32,000 when the pilot made the request to go to 38. 105 miles per hour it's not very fast. not fast enough to sustain flight. how does a pilot make a mistake like that? >> well the optimum climb attitude at that point or speed at that point for this aircraft is about 270 knots. so that's where it should have been to get through the climb as quickly as possible with the power settings it had. so obviously something had gone wrong there. there was something that the pilots did not anticipate or they didn't have the information that they needed to make the proper decision which was the case of air france 447 when the pitot tubes had been blocked off and they didn't have air speed indications. one of those two scenarios is likely at this point. >> let's say they didn't have air speed indication. what is the safest thing for a

pilot to do at that point? to descend? >> well not necessarily. because in these aircraft there's a shaker. and what that does is give you the same indication if you're under an underspeed situation or an overspeed situation. if you're in an overspeed situation, would you pull back on the aircraft and try to make a climb to slow yourself down. now, if you're in an underspeed situation -- excuse me. overspeed situation, would you go up and underspeed situation you would go down to increase the air flow over the wings to prevent the stall. so without that information, you're relying on the ability to simply look out at the horizon and see if you're climbing or not. air france 447 did not have that option because it was dark but in this case there would have been horizon that they could have seen and been more aware of their angle of attack. >> it makes you wonder if perhaps these things came together peter. because you have the pilot requesting to ascend and air

traffic control saying no denying that request and yet we believe, based on this screen grab that the pilot went ahead and went for the assent. how unusual is that? under which circumstances would a pilot disregard air traffic control? >> well a pilot's fundamental responsibility is a safe flight for himself and his passengers. he has to look after the plane. and if in his judgment climbing is the most immediate and safest thing to do and he's in open air space, he's able to see what's around him, he needs to do it. and that's his judgment. so it meant he was under some degree of stress to make that decision though. something was going on. >> that's your impression mary? >> yeah. i mean that's the piece -- one of the pieces of information that doesn't make a lot of sense because you really don't. if the air traffic control says you can't climb, you've got traffic, you're risk a midair collision. and if that had occurred

obviously the planes have midair collision avoidance but that didn't make a lot of sense to me. if air traffic control said no it's very odd that you would do it. i was wondering if at that point they were experiencing weather that gave them unbelievable up or down drafts and had to fight for their lives against tough weather. >> right. if they were being forced in a certain direction. mary peter, david, stick around. we'll talk with you more at this hour. still to come we have a closer look at this storm. the pilot appears to have been trying to avoid it. plus, airbus, the maker of the missing plane is jumping in to help find this flight. the new numbers of those rescued and killed after a fire tore through a ship stranded on frozen waters. (vo) nourished. rescued. protected. given new hope. during the subaru "share the love" event,

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let's get more now on a second day of searching for the missing airasia jetliner has turned up nothing. as we've heard, the head of indonesia search and rescue agency says speculation is that the jet is quote, at the bottom of the sea. indonesia has asked the u.s. to help in the search.

we have aviation correspondent rene marsh, tom foreman who is also following the story for us. and you have this speculation, tom, that weather could have played a role in this. you have the pilot asking air traffic control while at 32,000 feet to go up to 38,000 feet. request denied. but what kind of weather was the pilot dealing with here? >> it was not unusual weather for that part of the world at this time of year but it was still extreme weather. and that's the kind of weather the pilots always have to worry about because weather is always an issue out there. let's take a look at the weather map here and the area that we're talking about where the plane went down is right in here and at times you can see in the cycle of the weather at the time it filled in almost entirely with the red areas that show very dramatic winds, very dramatic lightning and the potential for dramatic pressure changes. and those pressure changes, i'll tell you, can make a huge huge difference. if you think of a plane in flight when it gets up into the air and it's trying to go through the air, if it hits very

low pressure or very high pressure it has the risk of getting, in a sense, mechanically confused, in the sense that at one moment it's flying through very very strong forces that it pushing it hard forward and at the next moment very low pressure where it's shooting forward. all of which can lead to some of that mechanical confusion of the plane where, in effect what you can have is a separation of the air flow over the wing. the only way to describe this best is at the right speed, the reason the plane is flying is because the way the air is moving over the wing and under the wing create lift. if you get your speed completely wrong and the attitude of the plane wrong, these can separate from the plane and if they effectively separate from the plane, brianna, this is the same as if you were driving down the road and you lose traction with the road. once that happens, everything that you use to control the car is no longer there. so that's why weather really matters. not so much because lightning

would hit the plane because lightning would not likely bring it down or because the weather would tear the plane apart because that's also unlikely but because weather conditions can make the performance of the plane get changed in just the right ways and if you lose that control suddenly you have to have a very experienced pilot who does everything right to get back under control while falling maybe 1,000 feet per second in the sky. >> that's assuming all of the instruments are working correctly, too, which is another concern, i think, of some experts. rene the search area is being expanded and you also have airbus-320 a french company, that is getting involved now. >> right. 30 ships, 15 planes involved in the search today. of course the aerial search called off until daylight tomorrow. at this stage, airbus tells me that they have sent two experts

from france. they are there in neesh as we speak and they will simply be to identify pieces of the plane and when they find it also help investigators if they don't have certain systems on the airbus they will be there to fill in those blanks. we know that the french equivalent of ntsb they sent two of their investigators there as well to help move this forward. obviously key is finding the wreckage. they are at a standstill until they actually have physical pieces of the plane. and we also just learned that indonesia has asked the united states for help as far as the search efforts go. so that might mean equipment to help to find this plane. >> like sonar equipment for an underwater search? >> absolutely. we heard officials say that they believe the plane is at the bottom of the ocean. you have the aerial search going on with the naked eye. if it's the bottom of the ocean, you need that sonar equipment.

>> tom, some comparisons that experts are drawing between this particular flight perhaps whatever happened and an air france crash, going between rio and paris, that plane stalled as it was climbing and we were just talking about the instruments being an issue. is there -- is that an accurate comparison do you think? >> well we don't know until we know what happened with this plane but it's a scenario that makes sense. in the air france crash, what happened is the plane -- if we use this as our example right now -- was dramatically losing air speed. it was slowing down but, in particular they had a problem with these things down here. you see this tiny device on the airplane you may have seen it if you have flown on one. the pitot tube tells you how fast the plane is moving through the air. in the air france crash, there had been previous problems of ice crystals forming giving false speed. if you look at the idea of a

plane flying here, if that happens and you don't know how fast you're going, which they did not know in the air france crash, the pilot, who is chiefly in charge up here he kept trying to pull the nose of the plane up saying well i've got to get back in the air. i'm losing ground here and i've got to raise this plane up. obama when they were way too close to the water did the other pilot say, no no no you need to point that nose down to get control of the plane again. and by then it was too late. that is a mistake that can be made if they don't know how fast they are going and they are essentially falling through the sky when they think they are moving forward. >> yeah. if you think you're going fast and you're going down then the instinct is to climb but if there's an instrumental problem telling you you're going fast and you're going slow it can be a disaster. tom foreman, rene marsh, thank you to both of you. still to come the weather conditions in the area of the missing plane, they were less

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would be the easiest accessible and there are some of the crew members on board that have been given that the death toll inched up through the day, you can appreciate a lot of anxiety for those survivors that we've been speaking to that have been separated by their family members. >> the fire nema is tremendous. do we have any idea what caused it? >> reporter: well that is the question really that everyone is attempting to figure out. one woman i spoke to said that what woke her was the two explosions clearly something ignited. she said when she first boarded this ferry, immediately she felt a sense of unease because she saw it loading up with tankers carrying fuel and she said it was quite an old ferry.

so already she wasn't 100% comfortable but then seeing all of that inflammable gasoline coming on board this ship she said immediately it became a source of concern for her and throughout this ordeal, coming up through the soles of her feet were these continuous explosions more and more of this flammable liquid came to light. italian authorities are beginning their investigation right now as we speak brianna. they are trying to figure out how this could have been allowed to happen and we understand from the prosecutor's office that they are trying to request to the ship support here so they can start looking over it forensically. brianna? >> we'll be looking for answers along with you. nima from italy for us. monsoon rains and a massive thunderstorm. hear from one man who has known the exact flight path of missing flight 8501. and we want to hear from you. send your questions about this

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welcome back for our viewers in the united states and around the world, i'm brianna keilar sitting in for wolf blitzer today. let's get back to our major developing story, a second day of searching for the missing airasia jetliner has turned up nothing. the official search has been called off because of darkness. it is right now about 1:30 a.m. in the area off the coast of indonesia. you no when the search does resume that's expected to take place in a couple of hours at daybreak china has said that it will join in and cover an area 30% larger than today's search. indonesia has formally asked the u.s. to help in the search. joining me is les ahben.

you've traveled this route covered by flight 8501. tell me about the weather issues at this time of year and how much of a role this could have played. >> well there is an area of unstable area. so with the warm water in that area and we're talking about the java sea here that provides the fuel for the source of weather buildup and we're talking about vertical winds, highly unstable air which causes formation of thunderstorms which can be very large and vertical winds and 100 miles an hour going up in the warmer part and vertically down in the colder part and causes

rain and hail. it is primarily the thunderstorm -- it's primarily the turbulence and icing which are the two main problems for aircraft flying there. lightning is less of a problem. it is not a dean injury toanger to the aircraft itself. this particular aircraft was flying in a particular of time when the weather was particularly bad and certainly from the radar pictures we've seen on the television pictures it shows that some of the swells were indeed very large and tens of miles across which would have made it very difficult to fly around them. normally one cannot go quite easily around these storms and i have not flown in this

particularly rough weather even with the thunderstorms that do get through with the aircraft-based radar systems. >> so les, that said if this plane is somehow forced in or does travel through this air, through this storm, this is something that even though certainly the goal of a pilot is to avoid this, this is something that pilots are trained to deal with right? >> well it's something that we're experienced at doing just by sheer operation all the time and the experience that we have with professional aviation. in this day and age, we have sophisticated onboard radar as it airasia 8501. this radar adjusts automatically to show the intensity of the storms. you can take over the automatic function and adjust it. it becomes an art. a lot of us are familiar with

that adjusting the tilt of the radar to see where the most intense areas are, right or left or up or down. but this is a very typical process that we go through to avoid weather and keep it at a comfortable, safe ride for our passengers. >> right now there seems to be a working theory that the plane stalled, meaning that the plane is essentially ascending and the speed is reduced. >> it looks legitimate. we here at cnn have not verified that that i'm aware of. i guess the 105 knots was what was said but that would probably be ground speed. i don't know what the tail wind would be at that time. so the airplane doesn't care what it is doing across the ground at that altitude. it cares what is happening

across its wings. if indeed it was 105 knots, that would certainly be a very slow air speed and if that was the case to me no pilot is going to fly transport category aircraft at that speed intentionally. so something possibly could have gone wrong, maybe analogous, similar to the air france 447 a-330 accident in 2009. it's hard to speculate at this point in time. we just don't have enough information. >> alastair you've written that this plane will be found, that this is not going to remain a mystery. how certain are you and why do you say that? >> well you know i'm not absolutely certain, but historically we do find the aircraft. the malaysia mh-370 was rather an exception. the main reason is that they

only had an hour and a half fuel onboard at the time that the aircraft disappeared off radar. now, if it indeed would have descended and, therefore, went all the way down to sea level or ground level, that is probably why i felt reasonably confident that they would find it. how quickly they will find it i don't know. obviously i can't be certain. no one can be certain in these cases but, you know no one expected the previous malaysian n mh-370 to never have been found after all of these months. it's quite extraordinary. so that's why i just feel that this is not -- there's no likely a repeat of that instance. >> the challenges of finding these planes are much lower, is the expectation than in the

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among the 162 passengers and crew aboard airasia flight 8501 three were young classmates from the same school. our rosa flores spoke with that school's principal. tell us about these kids rosa.

>> well you know, brianna, such a tough conversation with this present principal. she knew the students and their parents. these are five people on this flight that she knew. she's torn. she says it's a very tough time for the community. they are hoping for the best. take a listen to what she told me about one of these students. >> she was always fun and joy she jokes with her friends. we are all so shocked with this news. we are praying every day and every second and we waiting for good news. >> now, again, this is from a principal that knew three of the passengers on board, three passengers and their parents. the community is coming together. they are really not answering and trying to just keep it

together and they are hoping for the best. they are still hoping that they are alive. >> the daughter rosa of one of the pilots apparently sent out a heartbreaking tweet. what did she say? >> let me read this to you brianna. it really is heartbreaking. this one is very very touching and you're looking at it on your screen. she says, "dad please come home. i still need you. please return dad. dad, come home dad. you have to come home." now, these are very tough words for a young girl to say on social media about her father. in another tweet she also calls him his hero, brianna. very tough for this family and for all of the other families who have loved ones on board this plane. >> it's heartbreaking. rosa flores thank you. we do want to let you know that you can ask some questions of our experts. there's still time to get those sent in.

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the disappearance of flight 8501 has raised many of the same questions that surrounded the disappearance last march of malaysia flight 370. how can satellite technology track a cell phone but lose a large airliner? we've pulled your questions together from twitter. we've asked you to use #8501qs and we're going to put the questions to our panel of experts. rejoining us we have cnn aviation analyst peter goelz and mary schiavo and david soucie. jump in if you know the answer to these questions. this comes from steven. he tweeted, have some of the airlines become overly confident that their planes and pilots can fly through and around severe storms? >> i don't think overly

confident is the correct phrase. pilots avoid flying through thunderstorms at virtually all costs. occasionally you're trapped in one, there's no way out, you've got to go through it. but, no i don't think there's a sense of overconfidence simply because the planes can make it. the primary goal comfort and safety of the passenger. >> mary david, have you seen any sort of overconfidence when it comes to bad weather? >> sure. i certainly have. >> ahead, david. >> go ahead, mary. >> oh. okay. well i certainly have but in a different way. i think there's a cultural difference and the risk of having the uproar from raising the cultural issues you know in the united states i've had many accidents where the first officer has started to challenge the pilot and was, you know it wasn't a welcome comment and that all changed with the crew resource management and they will challenge each other. that happened in little rock

arkansas american airlines crash, june 1, 1999. after that, it was a big push. in some cultures that is not welcome. we have a very pilot in command with a huge amount of hours and a co-pilot with lesser hours and we have three carriers now, all from malaysia for example, flying over a war zone. mh-19 that was shot done. that's a serious question in judgment. same thing here entering a thunderstorm. it's a serious question of judgment. >> what do you think, david? >> well i think the question of overconfidence is a very good question but i might rephrase it and call it an over reliance on the automation systems. peter goelz has been talking about this as well, the fact that the pilots are relying on the equipment and technology. the more you make it safer and automated, the less you rely on your own instinctive abilities in managing the aircraft in difficult situations such as this. >> i want to go to another

tweet, sort of alerting my crew in the control room the jacob rossi tweet. he wants to know why in this day and age do we rely on the physical recovery of black boxes? flight data should be continuously streamed to the cloud. this isn't novel. this is something that we talked about back in march when we were talking about the malaysia air flight. what do you think, david? >> i'd like to defer this to mary because she's been talking about this for almost decades. excuse me to the age reference, mary but it's been a subject to you and peter goelz. >> you're right. it's been on my radar screen and something i've been bugging about for years because it's so antiquated. the black boxes were invented by australians, by the way. there's no need to have that when we have streaming data. i do a lot of accident investigation work and it's

frustrating to know that we have to rely on this antiquated system. the flip side of that is many people say we don't have enough satellite, enough bandwidth, technology but that's a cop out because right now if we started the fitting of all new planes for it and required it for new planes i think only about a sixth of the planes that have the ability actually subscribe to the service where they can do this and it's way over due. it's flying in the dark amgges and no excuse for it. >> here's a question for you, peter. jay asks any eyewitness reports of anyone seeing anything? this is a major shipping corridor. fishermen, boats, anything? >> we have not received any information from the indonesians about eyewitnesss or anyone on the ground or two, how many different radars were tracking this aircraft. the indonesians have been quiet on the technical side. i think it's time for them to start speaking.

we have not received any reports. >> all right. and i want to throw this one out to all of you because this fascinates me. craig blanton writing, how can we track asteroids, comets billions of miles from earth yet we continue to lose aircraft. where is the technology? >> well i'll take the shot and then go to mary. the technology is there. it's the question of the will. and, as mary indicated, we have been fighting for this for a long time and it's not as though -- they say, well the data pipes and the satellite capacity is not there. you can program the transmission so that it only starts to stream when a plane gets outside of a certain set of parameters. it would not be a challenge. and the airlines and particularly dreadful in terms of its speed, they need to act

now. >> we certainly could answer many more questions but i have to end it there and appreciate all of you being there for us. peter goelz, mary schiavo and david soucie thank you. don't miss "vanished" tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern. we have a new poll that shows jeb bush with a commanding lead as the gop front-runner for president but how well does he do up against hillary clinton? we have interesting numbers to share with you.

to politics now. former florida governor jeb bush the clear leader in a new cnn poll on the respective republican field for 2016. bush who recently announced he's considering a run tops the poll with 23% pup have new jersey governor chris christie in second. dr. ben carson is in third. rand paul mike huckabee round out the top five. remember none of the front runners have officially declared for the 2016 presidential race. let me bring in zeke miller rebecca berg and cnn senior digital correspondent chris moody. zeke, i guess this isn't a surprise that you have jeb bush

as the early front-runner. >> he's the son and brother of former two presidents. name recognition alone. he's also the fronts runner with the donors. actually surprising to see the base like him as much as the donors do. but he has the ability to reach out to the donor community and bringing a significant amount of the establishment -- his support comes from the chamber of commerce republicans, the type of republicans that you see that fill the mainstream part of the party. he'll have trouble with the base the folks who vote for rand paul or ben carson. this is a good show of support for him. with chris christie coming in second the two combined it's a good indication the republican party is still a mainstream republican party. >> rebecca, what's the advantage. on the democratic side you have hillary clinton hanging back now a little bit more than we thought she would initially. do any of the kind i guess, on any side but talk to us about

the republican side as well do they get an advantage if they declare first? >> well absolutely because you look at these early polls before there are any official candidates very few official candidates maybe jim webb on the democratic side. >> one person he gets in our poll. >> some for jim webb. for the serious candidates on both sides, basically these polls at this point are reflective of their name i.d.. who has the biggest name i.d.. with jeb bush the bush name he's basically an incumbent with his father and brother having been president before. hillary clinton you can say the same. then you have people like paul ryan pulling very well he's been a vice presidential candidate. if you look at this same poll so this was a "the washington post"/abc news poll from 2006 at this time if you look at the republican field the top three were mike huckabee sarah palin and mitt romney. so mitt romney a former you know governor of massachusetts who ended up winning the

nomination in 2012 and palin and huckabee known from the fox news circuit. it's a question of name i.d.. >> let's talk about mitt romney chris. if he were sort of in the mix here, if he was included in the poll how would that shift things >> one important thing is mitt romney was in our cnn poll last month and got about 20% and they did not put him in this one and that's right after jeb bush made his announcement he's thinking about running and propelled jeb into that space, basically the so-called establishment candidate. shows there's a want and a need to fill for that and with mitt romney not in the poll at all that's where jeb bush can really rise up and shine. on the name i.d. one anomaly we've had is the rise of ben carson pulling at 7% to 10%. you were talking about name i.d. hillary clinton has an incredible name i.d.. jeb bush as well. but ben carson? >> he was a fox news contributor. >> that's how he built some of

his name recognition. >> you poll him in iowa he polls better in iowa and new hampshire. he has been there frequently. he has staff in each of the states. he can be a real surprise as we start hitting the road. >> i think a lot of people look at ben carson and don't think this is a guy who will make it in the long run but this is someone who could shake up the race if he doesn't make it in the long run, right? with some of the folks that he appeals to with fact he can play the role of upset in iowa? >> he can make people nervous who are not only the establishment candidates but vying for that top conservative candidate the hard right-winger. it's very difficult -- it will be a real challenge environment. >> a spoiler then for, i think a rand paul or ted cruz who can go the distance but don't have that sort of support with the grassroots. >> i want to end here on a bit of a talker. there's a story coming out of

hawaii first reported by bloomberg. the president is vacations in hawaii. and he played golf this weekend and it appears according to bloomberg that his golf game forced a couple both of whom happened to be in the army to move the location of their wedding. so you can imagine what an upset this would be as it was initially to the bride. but what do you guys think about this? weigh in. >> the amazing thing not only did the president's golf game force this couple move to their wedding when they heard he was going to be in hawaii during the time of their wedding they invited the president to their wading and he decline. he declined their invitation and made them move their wedding. it's adding insult to injury. >> i was earn mailing someone and i thought there is no way the president knew he was forcing them to move their wedding. my suspicions were confirmed by one source who said the president didn't know the white

house didn't know and the golf course made this move without telling the president. >> the couple was warned in advance. >> i guess it's standard. >> this happens every year. >> let's give them the benefit of the doubt and let's say he no idea no staffers had no idea the optics are hilarious bad. service man, service women having their women, golf is involved president obama is taking some hits on that. even if maybe a staffer can get a slap on the wrist for not knowing this it looks bad. >> not going to happen again. the president did call the couple the bride was ecstatic so that was good but i don't think this is ever going to happen again. thank you all. some other headlines now. iran's supreme leader is villifying u.s. police through his twitter account. the ayatollah khomeni compared

the police attacks to sectarian attacks in the middle east. he tweeted it expects people who follow jesus follow him in his fight against arrogants and his support for the oppressed. #blacklivesmatter. and last month's hack on sony pictures. the fbi said north korea was responsible for attacking sony but some hacking experts aren't convinced. the cyber security firm norse did its own investigation. a former employee may be a culprit. lindsey graham has his doubts about north korea telling cnn this weekend saying if the reclusive dick dayorship was involved he can't imagine china didn't play a role. >> we can't talk about north korea without talking about china. need to have a heart to heart

with china. >> that's it for me. i'll be back at 5:00 eastern on "the situation room". for our viewers in north america and around the world, "newsroom" starts right now. hello, thanks so much for being here. developing right now, in just a few hours search crews will be back on the hunt for airasia flight 8501. the search area is growing from seven zones to 11. now it's been almost 44 hours since the airbus a320 bound for signature important vanished from radar with no may day call and very few clues what may have happened in the last few minutes. >> the weather conditions were not good but further than that we don't want to speculate on anything more. obviously there were storm clouds and the pilot had made a request to change