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>> and stick around for the after show show. janice will stick around and tell us about the time when she was in an elevator with. >> i'll see you tomorrow, everybody. make it a great day. and we start with a fox news alert. more on the missing malaysian airliners jet. and it is a growing mystery this morning on exactly what may have happened to that boeing 777. military radar not ready kidding that the plane may have started to turn back shortly before it disappeared from the radars. that boeing 777 was on its way from kuala lumpur to beijing when it vanished so far without a trace. >> good morning, everybody. welcome to america's news headquarters. >> we have to emphasis without a trace because that is still the case. i'm jamie colby. we'll have a lot more on that story at this hour. there are still absolutely no signs of wreckage.
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and from the latest press conference moments ago, investigators say they're looking into multiple possibilities to explain how this large aircraft could just disappear. >> we are not ruling any possibility, however, it's important to state that our main concern is to focus our efforts in finding the missing aircraft. if we find aircraft, it will definitely help us to establish what exactly has happened. >> mechanical failure? hijacking? foul play? we don't know. david piper streaming live from bangkok, thailand. what's the latest coming that press conference? >> well, hi, jamie. a huge international search operation has been going on all day now, trying to find the malaysian airlines jet. they haven't found anything, of course. there's more questions than answers, of course, as to what exactly what happened to it.
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radar signals show the plane may have tried to turn back to the country for some reason before it vanished. the crew, though, didn't notify ground control about any change of course. the international search is now looking in a broader area for the plane in the gulf of thailand. taking into account the aircraft may have turned back. the vietnamese military said yesterday their aircraft had seen two oil slix in the south china sea and could have been from the fuel tanks. the malaysian airlines 777 went missing in the early mornings hours of saturday on a fly to beijing in china. two hours into the flight, the plane should have been flying close to the veietnamese coast. vietnam said the plane didn't enter vietnamese air space. there were 14 different nationalities on the plane. investigator res focussing on two passengers on board traveling on italian and
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austrian pass poured ports. the two men were holding passports that were lost or stolen a couple of years before here in thailand. their tickets were bought together and they have onward trips from beijing to ooirp. it might be just a coincidence, but investigator res studying cctv video of the passengers boarding to see if they can recognize them. and the malaysian authorities say the fbi and other agencies are now involved in the investigation and they haven't ruled out any possibilities, of course, including terrorism. back to you, jamie. coming up in our noon hour, we'll have from the homeland security committee congressman peter king who will break news on this story. the investigation continues. eric. >> and jamie, we'll learn more about the american passenger on board that flight. he is 50-year-old phillip wood. mr. wood is an ibm employee from texas. his ex-wife has released a statement on facebook. she says, quote, phillip wood was a wonderful man. although we are no longer married, he is still family. his sons and i just want peace
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and quiet right now. the search and rescue crews are searching near the gulf of thailand where the vietnamese air force jets say they did find two large oil slicks, though no wreckage, we're told, at this time. >> all right. our other top stories this morning, the ongoing crisis in ukraine. the white house confirming ukraine's acting prime minister will visit the u.s. and that will happen this week to discuss the standoff with russia there. meanwhile, there are new reports that russia is tightening its grip in the strategic crimea region taking control of the border posts, trapping doesz of personnel inside. former defense secretary robert gates appearing on fox news sunday saying he believes the region has been lost to russia for good. >> i do not believe we're going to -- he's -- that crimea will slip out of russia's hands. >> crimea is gone? >> i do.
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>> we'll talk to credit a little bit more that that soon. amy is in kiev with the latest. >> hi, jamie. people here keep saying what snx? it's not going to stop with crimea, it might want stop with ukraine. they feel the region is really at risk to further russian incursions. in the meantime, jamie, the question does remain and we've been asking this for days what further pressure can be applied to russia? what more can be done to keep it from an exing crimea. what is president obama saying to all these leaders he's been speaking to over the phone the last few days and what will he say to ukraine's acting prime minist minister? these are really critical days. we've got the referendum coming up in crimea a week from today. today in kiev, flags from around the world were paraded through independence square which is where the revolution took place. very peaceful demonstration
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going on and it continues to go on right behind me. literally, the fog that we saw for so many days has listed. the sun has been out. today is a holiday in ukraine. it's the birthday of the beloved poet. people are celebrating and wearing ukrainian flags so there is a sense of nationalism. but there's more of a carnival atmosphere on the streets than there is of a country frankly on the verge of war. but more military vehicles are moving around crimea today. they're promised to be russian. still everything in this military build up is unmarked. but ukrainians are convinced that they're russian. kremlin denials aside. more mine fields are being planted, more border posts are being taken owe our surrounded by russians. ukrainian troops have been on the move in the last few days. a few thousand people held a rally in linen square today to
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show support for a yes vote on crimea. this shows pro ukrainian supporters have been beaten in crimea. i think another thing that is difficult to know at this point is what the people of crime use really want. it's a tense situation with all the mill tarzation. i went to buy a book on crimea today. the woman in the store said tell us the truth. i'm sitting here in kiev and getting phone calls from russia who with think we're in the state of war in the capital, that i don't have food, that we're all being block aiadebloc. the mood here in kiev is very normal in contrast to crimea. but russia tv is talking about there horrible regime that's taken over in kiev. so there is a lot of fog, even though the sun here has finally come out, jamie.
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>> we continue to watch it as it is it develops. we're glad you're there. how did the crisis all again, you may be asking? it all started back on november 211th. that's when the ukrainian government suspended preparations for sign ago trade agreement with the european union siding instead with russia and triggering the first widespread protests. then a couple months later, january 22nd, the first protest faye facilities were reported when two civilians were hit with hive ammunition. february 22nd, ukraine's parliament votes to remove the president at the time, viktor yanukovych. then pro russian gunmen seize kooel key buildings in the crimean capital and as recently as tuesday, russian president vladimir putin says ukraine's leaders seized power in a coup
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while denying russian toopes have taken over the region. >> ukraine's acting prime minister is set to visit the u.s. this week to discuss the crisis. he says, quote, our fatheres and grandfather ves spilled their blood for this land and we won't budge a single centimeter from ukrainian land. let russia and its president know this. but it appears that vladimir putin is not listening. russia appears to be more em boldedened with those 11 border posts now under moscow control. what will be vladimir putin's next move? good morning, ambassador. >> did morning, eric. glad to be with you. >> good to see you, as always. next sunday, one week from today, they're going to have that referendum in crimea. you know was going to happen. they'll vote to join russia. putin will come out of the kremlin doors and say i'm enforcing the people's will. if that does happen, what do we
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do then? >> well, i still think putin is playing for the whole of ukraine. i would disagree with secretary of defense gates. it is certainly possible that he would -- that putin would settle for the crimea. but i think putin still believes that he can get a government in kiev that will be subordinate to russia's wishes. the ukrainian foreign minister said yesterday ukraine was prepared to negotiate with russia. that's what putin has been waiting to hear. i think he's going to continue to play out the summer raid in crimea. the vote will be overwhelmingly for annexation by russia, maybe 90%. but i don't think putin actually wants to get to that point unless that's the best he's going to get. and i don't think he's there yet. >> do you think that he then has his ames on southern ukraine, eastern ukraine? and, in fact, what type of negotiation could there be for the whole country? >> well, i think putin is
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negotiating in the best soviet era fashion. he puts his boot on ukraine's neck and then says let's negotiate. people should understand, ukraine is not a 90/10 country. if you look between ukrainian nationalists, pro russian political forces, it's much closer to 50/50. if putin slices crimea off, he diminishes the chance for the pro russian forces in ukraine ever to win an election again. i don't understand why he would want to do that. the momentum is still in russia's direction. i think putin believes he can get a government in kiev that will do what russia wants on issues critical to are you sure ya. if that fails, i still think plan b is to hive off much more of eastern and southern ukraine than simply the crimea. >> how about other baltic countries, lithuania and the former soviet states, do you believe this is the beginning potentially of the roll back of the victories that we achieved
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in the cold war? >> well, i think if you're sitting in estonia, latvia and lithuania today which are nato members watching the weak, limp reaction of europe and the united states to what's going on in ukraine, nato member or not, you have to be very worried. ukraine is the big prize of the former soviet republic and if putin gets his way here, i think you have to say for all of the rest of them, they are in danger. and what ukraine and the others are looking for is some kind of coherent, strategic, well thought out western response. and so far they haven't seen it. these sanctions people are talking about are pinpricks. i think putin thinks he can with stand them and still get his way. i don't understand why he would settle just for the crimea hat this point when he could well still get the whole thing. >> what do you think, ambassador, we should do? the former prime minister who
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was jailed is now free and undergoing hospital care in germany. she said the west's credibility is on the line. do you agree? what should we do? well, i think the west's credibility has been on the line sis 2008 when nato's european members rejected a proposal to bring ukraine and georgia, let's not forget, into nato. i think what the united states needs to do is to make it clear that we are prepared to come to a democratic ukraine's assistance. i think we should go back to saying that we want ukraine and georgia in nato, whether the europeans will go along with us or not, i don't know. but events are moving very quickly and the idea of on symbolic sanctions on visas and the like just isn't going to work. people talk about freezing the assets, the key russian business leaders and political leaders. you know, we've been talking about that for two weeks. where do you think those aetss are today? you think they're just sitting in banks waiting to be frozen? not at all. so time is working in putin's
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favor here if there's no strong western response on. >> ambassador, quickly, how do you think this ends? >> i'm afraid it ends with the government in kiev that's largely subordinate to putin's desires. not reannexation, but a thinlinization that ends up in russia's interests. that's what a failure of the leadership will mean here. >> ambassador john bolton, who joins us every sunday. next sunday is the big vote and we will analyze it next week. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> great to see you, ambassador. coming up, we will tell you about a frightening scene at a high school musical in california. there's new information now on the accident and the injuries. plus, kentucky senator rand paul taking the top spot in the cpac straw poll. his take on what that could mean for a potential white house run in 20 16. will he? won't he? we'll find out, straight ahead. hey kevin...still eating chalk for heartburn?
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everybody was waiting to see the results and kentucky senator rand paul ended up winning the cpac straw poll for the second year in a row. today he was asked what that could mean for a possible presidential run in 2016. he said cpac is full of young voters and the votes show they see eye to eye with him on things. >> the president won the youth vote 3/1. but his numbers have dropped 20%, 30%. the public at large are less trustful of this president. i think there's a real opportunity for republicans who do believe in the fourth amendment to grow our party by attracting young people and bring that energy to our party. >> and joining me now is the anchor of fox news sunday. chris wallace, good morning to you. >> good morning to you, jamie. >> well, there is no question
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that there is an opportunity, but it could be be seized eff t effectieffec effectively by republicans? once there's more than 26 unable to get insurance for many of them without those jobs. what would the republican party and rand paul in particular do to attract them? >> well, a couple of things. one is the thing that rand paul is doing here, espousing -- and i'm not saying he's doing it chasing them, but pushing his views, his libertarian views when it comes to issues like government surveillance, the nsa, the use of drones. he met and had lunch and we talk about it in the interview with eric holdtory talk about reducing the penalties for nonviolent drug offender and allowing felons, particularly those kinds of felons, to vote after several years. but more than that, and you put your finger on it when you talked about getting out of college with no jobs, he's going to have to offer a -- an
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economic package of not only the young people, but to a lot of people in this country who are hurting that says this is the way to get you back to work or to get you working for the first time. but the thing that i find intriguing about rand paul, and i think a lot of people find intriguing, is the fact that he is not sticking to just a simple message. you know, you've got the establishment with conservatives, you have the tea party, he's a hybrid in the middle and a lot of it, of course, is his libertarian view. but he's saying stuff that nobody else in the republican party is saying and it obviously is attracting an audience. >> i guess, but talk is cheap. they have to decide if he'll follow through with action. >> well, yeah. he's a senator. he can't put them into action. he's not running a state, he's not running the national government, but it does give people an indication of where he would like to take the country. and he felt pretty strongly about it. he filibustered on the drones for 14 hours on the senate floor. >> right. back to the nsa situation, i think that's interesting that he has an opinion and feels that's
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an issue where he would connect with younger people. because it seems to me that those in that age category don't have as big expectation of privacy when it comes to using all the mobile devices and computers that we do today. why does he think that's a key issue for connection with the young voters? >> because, you know, it's one thing when you want to make a phone call or go on facebook. but i don't think most of the people who do that think that big brother is watching. and he's interesting when he talks about the fourth amendment against unreasonable search and seizure, he says it's just as important as the second amendment about guns. interestingly enough, he's going to go to berkeley in about ten days and speak about the nsa and government snooping. berkeley, of course, the university of california, berkeley not exactly a bastion of conservativism. >> it is anything but libertarian. but that's interesting. we'll have to monitor the response. looking forward to the
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interview, chris. i know we'll learn a lot from you about rand paul. thanks. >> you bet. >> so don't miss it. tune in to fox news sunday at 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. eric. >> jamie, coming up, dozens of students arrested at a st. patrick's data party. not what they had in mind. at od, whatever business you're in, that's the business we're in. with premium service like one of the best on-time delivery
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the scene of the stage, 240 people collapses. that incident occurred during a musical event at a high school in anaheim, california. between 30 to 40 people were injured. a witness described the scene. >> they were on their final frrch performance. all of a sudden, the very front row completely fell under. we were all in shock examine
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then we realized what happened. >> thankfully, none of the injuries were life threatening. injuries included broken bones, bruises and scrapes. and dozens of students at the university of massachusetts at amherst arrested after a massive off campus party. the party reportedly getting out of control, four police officers injured. they were trying to disburse people. 3,000 students were throwing beer cans and at this wild melee. the university released a statement saying unruly students in the blarney blowout. coming up, could there be new hope for some prostate patients? coming up right here on the fox news channel, sunday housecall. okay ladies, whenever you're ready.
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hi, everybody. it's time now for sunday "housecall." >> joining us is dr. mark siegel, he's the author of the inner on unlocking the inner coat of the secret to health. >> and dr. david samadi is here. chairman and professor of urology and chief of robotics surgery. great to see you, doc. >> nice do you see. >> welcome. >> happy sunday. >> we are going to begin with the spotlight on multiple sclerosis week. helping to bring awareness to

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