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council. we're monitoring his comments and check out the situation in russia where president putin has started a new round of war games. like 100,000 troops. it is a very busy news day. >> good thursday afternoon to you and yours from the deck. first from fox at 3:00 in new york city. one of the weirdest conspiracy theories about that missing jumbo jet is now under real consideration in the united states government. that was the stunning game-changing report from "the wall street journal" newspaper in this morning's edition. it indicates computers attacked to the engines of the malaysian airline jet -- computers -- were sending back information that shows the plane kept flying long after it dropped awful the radar screen. sources said the plane flew for four hours after its last

contact. enough time to cover thousands of miles. just a short time ago those at the white house seemed to confirm it hat information that the plane could be in a place where it was never supposed to be. >> it is my understanding that one possible piece of information or pieces of information has led to the possibility that a new area, search area, may be open in the indian ocean. >> in the indian ocean. this new information is raising alarms among u.s. national security officials in what could be the most stunning line of the report, a source told "the wall street journal --" i want to show you this -- officials were told investigators are actively pursuing the notion the plane was diverted with the intention of using it later for another purpose. think about the possible ramifications of that. using a 777 jet for another purpose. let's trachea look at the ball

and see what -- take a look at the wall. we know the plane took off from kuala lumpur. it lost contact right there. that was the end of it. it continue ted -- if it continued to fly four more hours it flies 5900 miles an hour and could -- 500 miles an hour and could have crashed anywhere in this circle and could have landed anywhere, including next china, part oft pakistan you think it would have shown up on radar if it landed safely. compare that to the search area where the teams are now looking. if "the wall street journal" report is true their task got harder. locations do in the jungles the him la ya -- himalayas, australia. an area of more than 20 million square miles.

nearly six times the size of the united states. as incredible as it sounds that's at the truth. as for the clue from chinese officials, that's another dead end. search teams did not find anything at the spot where the chinese satellite picked up objects. for its part, malaysian government official says the journal report is not true, either. >> i would like to talk report suggesting the aircraft hey have continued to fly after last contact. confirm shortly those reports are inaccurate. >> b with all the different claims about what could have happened to this jet it's hard to know what to believe. catherine herridge is live. >> based on conversations today we understand that investigators have not physically discounted the possibility the jet flew for several hours and the data,

including meant data transmitted by the aircraft, is being evaluated in that light. we're learning more about this apparent false alarm. the malaysian authorities were quick to dismiss the reporting about these floating objects on the chinese government web site which called it wreckage. investigators saying today that they sent up their own satellite aircraft to search the area but the crews came up with nothing. >> we deployed our assets but found nothing. we have contacted the chinese embassy, who notified us this afternoon that the ims were -- images were released by mistake and did not show any debris. >> the key thing here according to u.s. investigators is whether they actually get an admission from the chinese that posting those images was in fact a mistake, and we have not heard that yet. >> we have not. are they taking a closer look at the flight crew? >> they are. malaysian investigators are now

interviewing the screw former tsa officials say that investigators will scrub the passenger manifest for anyone with flight training and will comb through the cargo records for anything that seems suspicious. >> i think one of the things that has not yet been investigated is what cargo was aboard this aircraft. it's possible that there was some illicit cargo that somebody wanted to get from point a to point b for nefarious reasons. >> as the search continues, officials in the united states say cargo has to be searched but that's not always the case in other countries, and if you look at the satellite images that have come to a dead end, investigators say the time seems to be running out to find wreckage. >> without accuracy how to would they be tracking it? if they new it three days ago, did they give up? >> that was clearly a reference to the satellite images, and i think a legitimate question.

if the chinese were tracking this apparent wreckage on march 9th, did they at that time suddenly turn the satellite cameras away from it? the likely scenario is they continued to track and it the reason for the delay is there's so much competition over whose satellite is best they chinese did not want to tip their hand to the sophistication. >> let's find out more about how these engines communicate. sending maintenance information and stuff tothat's the size of . this is the actual size on the wall. it's to scale so it's taller than i am. the engines are so wide a row of five economy seats could fit inside and one of the most sew fess -- sophisticated engine

this is. they can send information. >> they cack. airliners and military aircraft have engine health monitoring systems like this. now, for example, i flew an airplane during flight training that had a rolls-royce engine, the same -- the company that moves the 777's engines, and the plane i flew also had an engine health monitoring system that would gather information during flight, and then once we landed the information was looked at by pointers -- maintainers. here's a picture of the monitoring system. this is on a rolls-royce engine, and this unit senses vibrations to pick up possible problems with engine components. that's one example. now, we don't know if that's the same type of system used on the 777, the missing 777 engines, and other systems on the aircraft have monitoring systems that gather information hour

they're operating during flight. that operation can be transmitted to control centers on the ground, so aircraft data and air speed and altitude and engine data can be seen on the ground. according to "the wall street journal" information is sent every 30 minutes and much of this is for maintenance purposes. if maintainers on the ground have information how the different aircraft systems are operating they can be quicker in their turn-around. >> you have to subscribe to the service and my understanding malaysian airlines did not do that. >> there's some conflicting reports -- >> imagine. >> i've heard from boeing they did not describe to boeing's service. boeing is a service that would almost be a third party. so that information could be transmitted from the airplane to somebody within the airline on the ground, but boeing would not

be getting that information. so, in other words, boeing offers a service that would gather the information and help provide maintenance information. >> the fact is everything contradicts everything else. leah, thank you very much. let's get to peter gold, former managing direct at the at the ntsb, knows what he is talking about. this is the most confusing one i've seen. how about you? >> awfully challenging and awfully chaotic in the early days. >> two matters of great interest to me at this moment. we got word from the military they're moving assets west and word from the white house a new search area may open in the indian ocean. what does that lead in to believe? that's thousands of miles away. >> well, i think that leads us to believe that they are looking at different radar tracks from different radar locations, starting to see something that might be interesting that got

attracted. all of this radar they're getting now or all of the tracks they're looking at now are primary returns. that doesn't include the identification of the plane. so this is -- there's a great deal of art in the interpretation of radar tracks as opposed to just turn on the machine and take a look. this is extraordinarily challenging. >> lea just reported on the communications that the engines send back, whether they subscribe to the service or not is another matter. but wouldn't those transmissions be of assistance? >> absolutely. air francisco 447, there was a burst of, i think, 14 of these kinds of data dumps from the engine, from the aircraft itself, and at the very least it told investigators that there was something terrible going on and challenging going on in this aircraft during the final moments. so if there were these tell --

telemetric messages it would be very helpful, and as your previous guest cade it, they could have been sent to the engine manufacturer to boeing, or to the air carrier or the air carrier's maintenance operation. so, if somebody has the information, it's long overdue to release it. >> it's our understanding the malaysians are sharing information now, chase new thing. peter, i'm also -- "the wall street journal" reporting there's a theory they're actively considering that somebody may have taken the plane, leaned net an unknown location with plans to use it later. a paraphrase of the reporting of "the wall street journal." do you see that as a real possibility? this is the kind of thing people were joking about. >> you can't eliminate anything but you need quite a runway to land a 777. it's pretty hard to disguise it. it can't be eliminated. i wouldn't put it at the top of

the list. but the malaysians are sharing information now and cooperating with more fully with the other groups involved in this investigation is really good news. >> good news and overdue news. peter, nice to see you again. thank you. >> good to see you. >> much more ahead on this missing jet. we'll hear from a pilot and air nautical engineer saying therer zeros holes in the information. seven people confirmed dead and dozens more hurt after the crazy explosion that leveled two apartment buildings in new york city. the blast was so strong it registered on the machines that scientists use to measure earthquakes. that and the temperature of a woman six months pregnant who is still waiting to hear about her husband, missing inside.

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>> rescuers pull the remains of more victims from the pile of bricks and twisted metal in new york city. seven people confirmed dead and search crews still looking for more people who are right now listed as missing.

it happened yesterday morning at 9:30. east harlem, the upper east side of manhattan, 116th street and park avenue. this was the escape. explosion and fire, two five-store buildings just brought to the ground. the two of them crashed at almost immediately, and the blast sparked a large fire, as you can see here. a lot of rescue efforts afterwardswards and shock wavesf explosions blew out windows in several buildings. hundreds of firefighters riched are rushed -- rushed to the escape. it was five airplane blaze, some people in critical condition, including this 15-year-old boy. self people a few block away from the site tell us they had trouble sleeping the night before because the -- last night because the smoky smell of the smoldering debris was so powerful, and many actually

smelled gals the night before -- smelled gas the night before. laura ingalls is in east harlem. what's the latest on the investigation? >> those big questions still remain. when did the gas start laking, from where, and how much lead time was there before all of this went down? we'll push in and show you a live look. this cities ill very much an active scene here in east harlem with the fire hoses still hitting the deb, hot spots. the firefighters are still digging through the debris, and this is still being called a rescue mission, despite the grim findings earlier today when four bodies were pulled from the rubble, bringing the total of dead to seven. the building yesterday, so severe, seismic waves were registered. we got the readings from columbia university which measures seismic activity in the city. you can see the lines moving up and down. there's been a lot of debate about when the gas first wagged

some. con eddies son said one person reported smelling it the night before but never called to report it. they told people they smelled it but a call was never made and that will be a key part of the investigation. >> some said they might have made one but none ever registered. i'm wondering about the people who are still missing, loved ones. >> there are still five people still missing, and we want to give you a look -- you have seen this before -- the picture of these buildings before they exploded and collapsed yesterday. one of the more heart breking stories reported by the "associated press" of a 21-year-old father to be, his six month pregnant wife still waiting for news with her family members. she had to go to the hospital at one point yesterday, and we went to the nearby shelter where those who are displaced and waiting for word are hanging out, and just not getting any news as of yet, understandably. no one wanted to talk at the shelter. a rep at the american red cross

described the range of emotions. >> i think the range is absolute shock and numbness, crying, grateful that they made it out alive. a lot of people said, i was running for my life. >> the national transportation safety board is expected to hold another briefing in the next hour, shep, in east harlem. >> we'll look for updates. thank you. >> we're learning it could take -- all it could take to cause a nationwide blackout of our power in this country is for attackers to target just a few power facilitiesment fewer than a dozen of some 55,000. we'll talk to a former homeland security director about the details and what they are doing to safeguard this. and this happened quietly. we opened good this morning. 10:45 this morning in the last few minutes the dow has plummeted. wedown to 250. this is fox news channel,

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those nine, would achieve a nationwide blackout. those substations take electricity from power plants and send it to homes and businesses. this map shows the flow of power out of those plants. mike is a former new york homeland security director and is with us this afternoon. i didn't even like reading what to hit because it's like you're give them information but it's out there. >> it has been for a long time. when we talk about the age of the infrastructure and it's so distributed, from the towers to the actual substations. what changed is an attack in april in california where very determined people with skillsets used sniper fire and cut cables in a vault and then got away. we don't know who did it. that has increased the vulnerability consequence of this whole network. so the report has pointed out we are vulnerable, and all we have to do is go back to 2003 when we

had the power outage. >> on the east coast. so a year and a half, are we doing anything to try to prevent people from being able to do this? >> they're coming up with a requirement that the industry that to come by june 1st and say here is our plan for protecting distributed assets. people say it's a lot of money. people say it won't be that much. you have a harden the structures and have interlocking capabilities so if one system comes down, another one can come and backload on that. that is being work out. because they're separate grids s and you don't want the cascade effect. >> 90% of more of the power grid system was installed before the computer existed. >> correct. and now computers have been add on it to, so now not only the physical threat but the cybersecurity threat where the industry is concerned about.

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more on our top story. the ongoing sample for the missing malaysian airlines jet. it's knew been morning six days and -- now been more than six days since officials lost contact with the plane. analysts say it may be rare for investigators not to find wreckage but it has happened. in january of '07, boeing 737 disappeared eve the coast of indonesia and took ten days for

crews to find any wreckage. that means nothing to the families of passengers and crew members still missing after saturday's flight disappeared. as we reported, some people say they're lovedded ones cell phones were still ringing for days after the disappearance. many of you have tweeted us about this. a lot of us tweet volume has been on this. why not locate the passengers cell? if the plane crossed land again some cell phones were on and mobile networks would. what about pinging these cell phones? it's my understanding they tried that. with all the cell phones and devices and technology, can't they track the passengers' phones, tablets, et cetera? unbelievable exhibiter is. according to the reporting of "wall street journal," china tried to find passengers by testing if phones were connected to the network but no luck. trace gallagher is here. regular folks are getting involved in the search by the

thousands. >> by the millions. it's called crowd sourcing and now two million people are involve. a company in colorado, digital globe, have five different satellites and they're taking images before the plane went missing and after the plane went missing and asking people to compare them. for example, this is a picture of the gulf of tie -- thailand and these are the search boats and asking people to scan these, go on to a web site and then go over them. look at the next one. people go on and if say see something they think might be suspect they tag them. this one on the left, someone thought that was a piece of the plane so they tagged it. the one of the right, someone didn't know what it was but they thought it was worth at least tagging so they tagged that. and then what digital globe does is take all of these various tags, some 600,000 of them, shep, and they compare them, take the top ten, analyze the top ten, and if there's information worth sending on to the authorities, they then send

them on so two million people so far involved in this search. >> from crowd sourcing. and i understand nasa is in the mix now. >> ey, using its satellites satd it's iserve camera on the international space station. that is not necessarily looking for wreckage but looking more for other sites that teams can look into, other areas of concern. so what they're saying is, while you have search teams focusing on maybe he gulf of thailand, their cameras can search for objects as big as 98 feet and then they send that information down to scientists on the ground. the scientists on the ground will analyze it, and i it has merit they will send it on to authorities. so a big group effort. >> we have a form commercial pilot, marine corps test pilot

andary not tall engineer. >> incredible. >> malaysian authorities have never been under thing scrutiny before. this report from the white house they search area may sand to the indian ocean that makes me wonder. >> you're talking about an ocean. an ocean. that's huge. tens of thousands of square mile, 16,000 feet of water. now, why is it out there? that's more important. why did this aircraft get diverted? what is the reason? where it ends up is not to me the real problem. the problem is the malaysian authorities, as far as i'm concerned, have been totally negligent in this entire, from the get-go of the first time i it was reported missing. there are too meaning things missing to me as a pilot. from the 41 minutes after takeoff that t stops, right there, from now the

transponder stopped reporting, which means the air traffic controllers decide not have a coached those are various. now, you're telling me, for hour ours, the system, engine, instrument, all reporting either to boeing, rolls-royce, malaysia? and now why? what kind of reporting is coming out of these meetings out of ma shall? they seem totally confused. >> if the plane continued to fly, we don't know. can you imagine the scenario -- they have five different ways to report back to home base or somewhere. wouldn't you figure out a way to get some kind of message out? >> every pilot trained first, fly the airplane and then communicate. so they're not doing that and the airplane is airborne, they're disabled. and the persons flying have enough knowledge to know how to evade primary radar. down low, whatever else.

the passengerness the back, that could be a catastrophe. not very hard to liquidate all those passengers, unfortunately, onboard the aircraft aft altitude. that is awful. but the aircraft reporting, if they're telling me they have been receiving data from the engines, from four hours, then that airplane should have been able to have been triangulated and certainly malaysia should have come up with that information hours, days ago. >> if in fact they were reporting for hours, we know something happened. there's no question at all about whether this airplane was compromised. >> we know something happens if rolls-royce give maze asset of dat with a time set and bling has the same data. what do i assume? the air craft stopped flying? if the data shows it's four hours of time stams, the aircraft has been trapsing.

it can't do it on the ground because it stops when it drops the gear. >> if they had just been better at communicating. we would be in a better place. the government does not have this communications arm that our government has, and i know that's been part of the problem. hopefully their search has been more effective than their communication. otherwise we're all in trouble. it's go to see you. >> my pleasure. >> sorry for calling you cj i-i've been called lots of things. >> ukraine's new prime minister just spoke to the united nations security council, as russia makes big moves. it's been quiet about this. remember the question was, will vladimir putin be sufficient to just have crimea in his system or is he going to go into the east of ukraine? news from the future. based on facts from today. 100,000 droops -- troopers trood the sabre is rattling.

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>> waiting for new developments on the put puts and ukraine fight going on and just happened. ukraine's acting prime minister just spoke at the united nations about the crisis there. take a live look at the u.n. we'll get an update on what the prime minister had to say. russian officials confirm they have begun large-scale military exercises involving tens of thousands of troops near the ukraineie

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continuing coverage of the crisis in ukraine. the acting prime minister in ukraine the united nations.

where do you see this now, mr. ambassador? >> well, believe that its useful to have some kind of strong demonstration, condemnation at the united nations, even though the russians can veto, but where i see it right now is, obviously the vote in crimea is going to pass. but maybe there's a little bit of a diplomatic window, shep. secretary kerry is going to meet with the russian prime minister -- foreign minister on saturday, and then after the vote in crimea, there is possibly a little window because the russian parliament has to ratify the vote in crimea. look, i think it's going to be annexed. there's probably no question about it. but i don't think putin is going to go beyond annexing crimea. the costs for him is huge because what you're seeing now

is two russian pipelines have been cancelled. for instance, germany, third of their gas comes from russia. is putin going to risk economic sanctions from 28 european countries, some like france and germany? and the united states? asset freezes, all kinds of visa denials. i just think putin -- he is at 71% in russia, his popularity. he is affirmed what he wants to do about the russian empire. illegally. but is he going to go fur center i'll good on record as, i don't think so, but you never know what this guy's going to do. >> i wonder if he wouldn't have done it at the time had his own stock market not collapsed in front of his eyes. it's not as if the people in the east of ukraine don't want him there. some of them do. >> well, that is true, but also, shep, you just mentioned another

lever on putin. the rubble. the whole neck? i, energy trade. economies in russian and europe are interdependent. even eastern europe. so he is going to really get a huge economic cost if he continues this way, especially from germany, which is the biggest trader when it comes with the commerce in -- >> the russia oligarchs, too. >> and germany and europe. that's right. and it's going to be those oligarchs, the russian businessmen that eventually said to putin, look, you have made your point. we don't want all these sanctions on us. on our visas, on energy, on our trade with europe, with the yates. they're -- the yates. they're the ones that are going to say to putin, stop. that's my hope.

>> nice to see you. at least two people are dead and nearly two dozen others hurt after a suspected drunk driver plowed into a crowd people at south by southwest. happened at a night club in austin, texas. police say an officer tried pulling over the driver at a nearby gas station but the guy took off, sped the wrong way down a street and nearly hit a cop. and then crashed through some barricades barricades and hit lots of people. witnesses say the car came out of nowhere. >> i saw all these people flying. it was terrifying. >> i looked up and someone hit looked and i saw a gray -- looked like a subaru, like a '90s something subaru and bowled over some people, and people bouncing off the street. >> looked like a subaru. actually a toyota. they say the driver then tried to make a run for it but an officer tased him.

he is facing murder and other charges. >> the blade runner, oscar pistorius, in court again today after poors accidently showed photos of his model girlfriend's dead body. he has a bucket. witness says he got sick when pictures of the skull and bullet injured appeared on a monitorment observers say they operator scrolled through the ims trying to find the scenes from the crime screen. prosecutors claim pistorius killed reeva steenkamp after an argument he said he thought her by mistake thinking she was an intruder. >> a more headlines. cops say a tanker truck carrying thousands of gallons of gas collided with a car and burst into flames in new york, new jersey. nobody hurt. delayed thenh morning commuter trains for up to an hour. >> an suv crashes into a hair

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on this day in 1942 the united states army first started

training dogs for the canine corps. their main jobs back then, carrying messages through the trenches and giving soldiers comfort. the united states stopped training dogs for military purposes after world war i, but then brought it back during the second world war. a whole new program. this time around the animals went through intense training before they hit the front lines. one dog managed to attack a team of italian soldiers on its own. forcing them to surrender, as the story guess. but man's best friend went to boot camp 72 years ago today. i have a dog. i can think of a few italians i would like it to attack. not any armies, just some particular ones who hang out in the wrong places at the wrong time. >> we got this great news on jobs, right? the jobless numbers were better. and february retail sales were great. so that's why it started off in the green this morning. and then investors started

worrying bat slowdown in sales in china and in the economy in china, and on top of that. worried about the russian thing going on. so there's a little nervous. cavuto will settle them down. here he is. >> no hope settling these guys down today. stocks tanking. the u.s. and russia ratchet up the rhetoric. growing concerns about the stability of the chinese recovery, and economy itself. it's slowing down markedly, and that has us slowing down markedly. so sandra smith has been keeping track of it all. what happened? >> well, when you see that the dow big board, we closed at the lows of the session, still looking for the dow to settle but down 230 points, wiping out all the gains it made earlier this