college, he was 39 years old, dr. eric hitchcock, just destroyed me last night. hug your family. he was 39 years old. my thoughts are with the city of pittsburgh and mechanicsburg. you lost a dear friend. my thoughts are with that family today. we begin with a fox news alert on the missing malaysian airlines jet with the u.s. ramping up its role in the search for answers. crew members on board the american destroyer uss kidd are in the waters securing to find any sign of that missing plane. welcome to america's news headquarters. this comes as 11 more countries have joined this international search. they're contributing intelligence, airplanes, vessels across two commercial airline

travel corridors. you see those two there, one in the north and one in the south. investigators also looking into the pilot and co-pilot of that flight as police search their homes, saying only a person who has engineering experience could have executed the maneuvers to evade radar communication. a pilot has brought down an airliner before. it happened in 1999 when officials say an egypt air pilot killed himself and everyone on board after it took off from jfk to cairo. that plane crashing in the atlantic ocean. for the latest we go to david piper streaming live from bangkok thailand. what's the news? >> the search for the missing plane is having to cover a vast area. as you said, 25 nations are now involved. of course so far they found no trace of it. thanks to a satellite feed from the plane, investigators believe it flew on either a northern or

southern arc for several hours. the area that covers is colossal deep into the indian ocean. ships and planes are taking the lead to search the sea and looking into the possibility it managed to reach land in one of 11 countries. the malaysian government says there's a high degree of certainty that somebody switched off the tracking devices on the plane before it changed directions. the focus of the investigation now is on the crew and passengers. malaysian police have been searching the homes of the two pilots and speaking with their families. they took away for analysis a flight simulator the chief pilot had built in his home. >> it's not intentionally done by the pilot or anything, it must be controlled by another person or some kind of cult

cooperating with the pilot themselves. >> investigators are also going systematically through all the passengers on the plane for any red flags. some have already been cleared by the investigation, but they are awaiting background checks on others. they're also interviewing the engineers and also the crew of the plane that got it ready for the flight, eric. >> thanks so much, david piper reporting live from thailand and welcome back for understand throughout the hour as they are warranted? we have a fox news alert. voting is under way in ukraine's crimea, deciding whether to become a part of russia. the referendum sparked deadly violence but it is expected to pass. western nations say it's completely illegitimate.

crimea is made up primarily of ethnic russians who are apparently taking orders from moscow. let's go to amy kellogg from the ukrainian capital of kiev. >> reporter: hi, jamie. what is happening in crimea is in many ways, really the tip of the iceberg. the aggression and the propaganda and the intimidation there are stirring and fermting a lot of distrust and anger and possibly even hatred in other parts of ukraine. this as the voting goes on in crimea. with 22,000 russian troops in that relatively small region, there's not much concern that it will be anything but a fairly ordererly vote today and a resounding yes for russia. we may never know how people really feel about this referendum. there would be widespread reports of detentions and harassment of those who oppose e

it or speak ukrainian. last night russian troops took over a gas distribution center just outside crimea. their pro-russian government said they were local self-defense defenses doing this out of necessity because ukraine turned off the gas but local forces probably don't have military helicopters. there's debate about the 15,000 ukrainian soldiers remaining around crimea. they will soon be declared illegal. given that the search is powerful in both ukraine and russia you would think that their leaders might be able to help this standoff but the head of the ukrainian church said the head of the russian church doesn't want to meet or talk. the ukrainian church had this to say about the situation. >> we must call things by their names, aggression must be called aggression. >> now, jamie, the one possible

bit of good news coming out of events today is that ukraine's defense ministry said there will be a truce for a week or so which would imply that these ukrainian soldiers should not be getting into confrontations with their russian counter parts who are basically sealing them off at this point if they haven't already kicked them out of their military bases. the ukrainians have been good about resisting provocation but when the result of these votes are made clear tonight and there is an immediate push to get them off their bases things could get intense f the americans and europeans are trying too think about what further sanctions might be put in place depending on how all this plays out and depending on what russia says about it. it's not clear how russia will respond to the pressure because we know that president vladimir putin really want crimea and the question is at what price. >> that part is pretty clear.

sounds like the vote results are predictable. the reaction is not. stand by, amy, and we'll be back to you throughout the day. thank you. here in our country more demonstrations are planned against vladimir putin and the russian invasion later today. that as the ukrainian prime minister got a lot of support from americans as he battles for freedom. look at this fox news video that captured an emotional scene outside the united nations just before the prime minister spoke there. that's are ukrainians and russians alike. they hugged theminister. he joined them with greetings and hugs and even chimed in singing their national anthem, putting his hand over his heart. if the vote passes as expected, the question today is will he lose his full country, and will ukraine be chopped up.

john, former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. and senior fellow with the american pride institute joins us now. you know what's going to happen. they'll have this vote, putin will come out and say the people spoke, he'll take crimea. what do we do? >> i think the vote will be overwhelmingly in favor of says seeding ukraine and russia. if there were no propaganda emanating from moscow and no russian troops in crimea, the referendum would still be overwhelmingly in favor of crimea joining russia. putin wants to have this vote in his pocket. i do not think he would be satisfied with hiving off crimea from ukraine. i think he thinks he can get the whole thing, a government subservient to mass cow's wishes and i think he will use the referendum's result to pressure the interim government in kiev to give him what he wants which

is a government we can control essentially. >> can he use the vote for more than that? they've's got 80,000 or so troops on the boarder within three hours' drive of kiev? what about the south eastern part of ukraine and one, two, three, they knock them down as he tries to take more? >> if partition is really what putin wants, the entire eastern and southern parts of the ukraine, he's set up for that, too. it's consistent with either get the country to be a satellite of russia or plan b, partition it. when the obamacare administration a -- obama administration talks about it, nobody in the ukraine ever voted to be part of the ukraine before. it was created by the soviet union. there haven't been votes on this before. so arguing about legitimacy here based on this referendums is

treacherous ground for the united states. this is about power. putin has it and he's using it and we have not. >> in terms of power, tomorrow they will likely slap sanctions on officials, the inner circle of vladimir putin but they're not sanctions putin himself. they're not sanctioning the foreign minister of russia, lavrov, why isn't they sanctions the inner circle? >> i don't think they will be much impact. i think the obama administration and the europeans are demonstrating weakness. the sanctions are pinpricks. we sent secretary of state john kerry to negotiate. that's like sending a cupcake to negotiate with a steak knife. >> a cupcake negotiating with a steak knife, so when they have the shif out, what does that do to the people of crimea and the

ukraine? >> i think putin has the high cards politically, economically and militarily and he's not afraid to play them. we've got in the west collectively a failure of leadership. we've ignored the security issues in the ukraine not being part of n.a.t.o. after the europeans rejected it in 2008. after five years of failing to even think about this issue, we're now seeing the consequences. i think we still need the administration to say we want to bring a democratic ukraine into n.a.t.o. and our failure to do that tells vladimir putin he's going to prevail here. >> has that been a mistake? the united nations debate yesterday echoed the cold war. we haven't seen that in a generation. >> vladimir putin sees those victories as defeats for moscow and i think he made it clear 8

years ago that the breakup of the soviet union was as he called it the greatest political catastrophe and he's trying to reverse it. yesterday russia vetoed the administration effort and said my goodness, russia has never been so isolated. they're advancing in the ukraine and we are retreating. >> finally, your prediction? >> my prediction is the referendum will go overwhelmingly. i think putin with his boot firmly on ukraine's neck starts negotiations and tries to get what he really wants which is a government subservient to moscow. >> ambassador john bolten joins us from florida. always good to see you and thank you for your analysis. >> thank you. of course, including the cupcake and the knife. incredible comparison. rand paul is back on top of the polls again, edging out

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scott walker and former pennsylvania governor rick santorum. back to our top story as the u.s. intensifies its role in the sc search for that missing jet. chairman of the homeland security committee, congressman michael mccall commented today about the investigation into what happened. listen. >> a lot of mystery behind this. one thing we do know, this was not an accident. it was an intentional deliberate act to bring down this airplane. the evidence is pointing towards the cockpit, towards the pilot and the co-pilot. >> joining me now as i look forward to every sunday is the anchor of fox news sunday chris wallace. good morning to you. >> good morning to you, jamie. >> how does he know that it was not an accident? >> well, because there were too many steps that were taken, deliberate steps. we know that the transponder was

turned off deliberately, we know at a separate point that the data stream system was turned off. we also know and this is really interesting and why we now think it's the pilots or one of the pilots rather than the passengers is because some of those actions were taken before the pilot sitting in the cockpit said good night to the air traffic controllers in malaysia headed northeast towards china. so the fact that he was there after the transponder had been turned off seems to be an indication they were still in control of the plane. i suppose there's a scenario that somebody had broken into the cockpit and forced them to do that. there are so many things that were so technical, where you turn off the transponder, where you turn off the air care system, the almost evasive moves that were made by the airplane. you would have to have a very experienced pilot who was experienced on a boeing 777 to know how to do this and the two

people that are the prime suspects in that regard are the two pilots. >> i guess the reason i ask you that question is because it sounds like then that he's relying on a lot of the information coming out of the malaysian authorities which we're finally getting. how much independent intelligence does it sound like the homeland security committee and our intelligence sources have been able to gather on this? >> well, i think they're picking up some because of the possibility and it's still out there of a terrorist threat, that the object here was to h h hijack the plane or if it was one of the pilots to command ear the plane, take it someplace, land it and turn it into a low tech cruise missile. i know people still speculate about that. he's talking to all of those folks and some of fit they're getting from the malaysian authorities and some picking up independently. >> sounds like it's got

frightening implications for the war on terror and our concern about it. you obviously on this important day of the vote in crimea you are talking about foreign relations committee members as well, correct? >> right, the chairman and the top republican in the senate foreign relations committee, bob mendez and bob corker, concerned about the vote and that russians have moved across the crimean border and of course those thousands of troops on the border. i think they're prepared for the beginning of a new, if not a full fledged, at least the beginnings of a cold war. as russia acts that there will be more sanctions. >> we're going to cover it all day. thanks so much. we look forward to the show. don't miss fox news sunday. great questions from chris wallace always, 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on the fox news

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tragically the syrian war shows no signs of ending and it's been three years of unimaginable human catastrophe. here's a closer look. >> three years after the start of the uprising of bashar assad, emotions are high. it's described by the u.n. as the world's biggest security and humanitarian crises, nearly

100,000 people have been killed. over 9 million refugees are displac displaced. >> civilians are bearing the brunt of the war of destruction by its regime. >> a new round of peace talks is going nowhere. syria is missing more deadlines for the disposal of chemical weapons. >> there cannot be further days. >> reporter: president obama has relied on vladimir putin to depende democratic efforts alive. hopes of putin working with the u.s. on syria are shot down. >> it's extremely unlikely under the circumstances that we're in now that we can expect any major cooperation from the russians. >> reporter: after theof a mosc in ukraine there's more bit for

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