tomorrow, helping you with your march madness bracket and cheryl casone has advice for millenials and maria menounos will be here. fox news alert. brand new week on "america's newsroom." there are new details in one of the more baffling aviation incidents we've ever known. what happened to flight 370? that investigation taking a brand new turn. the focus shift together pilots and there is a lot to talk about that on today. happy st. patrick's day. i'm bill hemmer. welcome to "america's newsroom." martha: good morning, everybody, i'm martha maccallum. here is what we learned over the past 36 hours on this we now know it was the copilot to last spoke to air traffic control, signing off, after the plane's communication systems were

deliberately turned off. that raises a lot of questions. the boeing 777 dropped to an altitude of 5,000 feet. that is very low for a plane this size. a lot of questions why that may have happened. investigators now looking into the pilot's background for possible extremist views. bill: catherine herridge leads our coverage this morning live in washington. what are we learning now about the new evidence, catherine? >> reporter: well, thank you, bill, good morning. new information shows the flight maintenance system known as the acar system that sends regular updates on status of the engines and overall function of the aircraft was shut down before the pilot's final communication that everything was all right. about 14 minutes later the transponder went dark. while the crew signed off with vietnamese air traffic controllers they never connected with chinese air traffic control. investigators believe the aircraft was purposely diverted at this point when flight 30 was in kind after no-man's land between chinese and vietnamese

airspace, bill. bill: what about the pilot and copilot? seems to be, they are zeroed in on these two gentlemen. >> reporter: that's correct. with new searches of the pilot and copilot's homes the scrutiny is intensifying on the 53-year-old pilot's political views. it is widely reported that is a larry shah was ties to opposition leader. and on the day of the flight this opposition leader was sentenced to five years in prison, suggesting that the trial of the pilot dejected with a motive to sabotage flight 370 though the pilot's friends deny he is terrorist with any political motive. bill: where are they searching now? they checked out their homes. what's next? >> reporter: as i mentioned earlier while both communication systems were shut down the maintenance system and the transponder the aircraft satellite communication link was still operating and continued to push out signals and reset until the last transmission around

8:11. this data, taken from the tilt of the satellite is being used to set up a broad arc or corridor for two dozen nations that are now searching for 370. these corridors now stretch from kazakhstan to northern thailand, indonesia to the southern indian ocean. emphasize again, this was new technology that was never designed for this purpose but it is the best satellite link or data link to the aircraft at this time. bill: catherine, leading our coverage in washington. a closer look some of what you're talking about in a moment here. martha has more. martha: as catherine is saying there are many theories emerging what may have happened to flight 370 and some of those reports are to a possible pilot suicide. republican congressman peter king of new york saying this, there is growing consensus this was a suicide by the pilot or copilot. they wanted to get as far away and land in the further deepest part of the ocean.

king says that the pilots may have taken the plane deep out to sea so nothing was found and family members could still collect life insurance. a recent study by the federal aviation administration says suicides by plane are most likely underreported and underrecognized hed. we're hearing from the pilot for the first time in a youtube video posted last january. in it the zaharie is talking about air-conditioning units and not flying. appears he is sitting in front after flight simulator much discussed that he built in his home. take a look at this. >> hi, everyone. this is youtube video that i made at community service after learning a lot from youtube and quorum and wikipedia regarding the household air-conditioning unit. martha: talking about airing units there and focus what is behind him. he posted photos online before

of that simulator. bill: very good look at some videos online now. martha, this where we think we are now. five days ago this was the search area, south china sea, gulf of thailand, andaman sea. remember the two search areas about five days ago? roughly 35,000 square miles and look where we are now on this monday morning? just advance it one time for me, if you can, thank you. 2500 square miles, okay? that's the fuel capacity that was on board this 777, suggesting that if you were to consider all the possibilities that this plane could have gone north into beijing, possibly into india and well into the west coast of australia. this area here is really where the focused has shifted. bay of bengal south. that is rough approximation there. if you look at this square mileage compared to where we were five days ago that area is 300,000 square miles.

somebody suggested it would be like flying over the continental united states and looking for one person on the ground. 2500-mileage what we thought on friday. they have expanded that to 3200 miles. gives you two possible scenarios based on satellite pings and some speculation and guessing going on to this route. they think it could have gone northwest towards kazakhstan. the other possible route is south in the indian ocean west coast of australia. a guest will come on saying that possibly option number two is the most regarding the information we have taken in. united states has helped in a big way. this is the p-3 orion. it's a prop plane. kind of old and can search over water and look at what is floating on the water, possibly picking up something the size after basketball. flies up to four hours. over the weekend on saturday, they added another asset.

the ta poseidon. a modified 737. this is big jet and con cover eight hours and a lot of surface area looking through the water for debris underneath. this has a lot to do with the uss kidd that moved into the northwestern section of the straight of ma lackca. that is what the united states is doing this. -- straight of malacca. you're as many of 24, or 28 that offered some sort of assistance to try to find flight 370. martha: extraordinary effort. investigators are not looking just at the pilots but they're now looking at the roster of passengers on this flight, inconcluding a flight engineer who was on board. police are looking for anyone who would also have hadn't mat knowledge of the plane's systems and may have helped to sabotage it because they now think it may have been someone up front in conjunction with someone in the back. the flight engineer's job is to

oversee all the systems on the plane during these flights to make sure they were correctly and to make repairs in necessary. so evidence now that points to a deliberate act. house homeland security committee mike mack call, we'll ask him about when he joins us live later this hour. bill: what do you think at home? what do you think at work or on your mobile device watching today? was this a suicide mission? talk to us on twitter @billhemmer and @marthamaccallum. we'll be online next hour and 52 minutes to share some of our thoughts with the rest of the audience throughout the day. martha: big, big story is this. fox news alert on another major issue front and center. the results of referendum in crimea are in. although the choices on this ballot were pretty narrowly crafted, 97% evident voters chose to break away from ukraine and become part of russia. attention is now shifting to the united states and european allies getting set to announce

new sanctions of russia to stop it from the next step which would be russia annexing crimea. shannon bream live from the white house. what is the latest reaction on all of this from where you are? >> reporter: martha, the white house is only referring to what happened yesterday as a referendum in quotes. they're saying it is not valid. they're not even calling a legitimate referendum. they say it is unnecessary ukraine is discussing way that is crimea could be more autonomous. they also point to the fact that there are presidential elections set for may 25th in ukraine and the people will have a legitimate chance under the government that is in place there now to make decisions about their future based on that vote. the white house of course pointing a finger at russia in its latest statement saying this, quote, russia's actions are dangerous and destablizing as the united states and our allies have made clear, military intervention and violation of international law will bring increasing costs for russia. in this century we're long past

the dates where the international community stands idly by where a one country forcibly seizes the territory of another. the white house emphasizing that our european allies are on board with this together they plan to send russia a very strong message, martha. martha: what kind of the support would the president have do we believe, shannon on capitol hill or for sanctions or other tough measures. >> reporter: sounds like growing bipartisan support on the hill for any package the president puts together to push back against russia. a rare sign of bipartisanship in the united states. capitol hill is so much dissension, one thing that is uniting folks up there as they look at the complicated relationship between our president and and president putin and russia. both sides of the aisle spoke out yesterday on "fox news sunday.er" here is a little bit what they had to say. >> president putin start ad game of russian roulette. i think the united states and the west have to be very clear

in their response. because he will calculate about how far he can go. >> this is very important time for us. it is a defining moment for us and europe. we need to be strong and do it over the long term. >> reporter: remains to be scene exactly what type of sanctions the white house will push forward with today but this is clearly at the top much their priorities list. martha. martha: shannon, thank you very much. bill: a jam packed snow this morning a lot of snow out there. have you seen this? what's up? republicans not only want to repeal obama care they have a better plan to replace it. details on that, martha. martha: calls are growing forethe fbi to join the search for the missing plane. we'll talk to one top lawmaker leading that charge. >> one thing we do know. this was not an accident. it was an intentional, deliberate act to bring down this airplane and the question who is behind that. ♪

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martha: fox news alert. a team of navy seals taken control of a oil tanker hijacked by armed rebels of libya. this was off the coast of cyprus in the mediterranean sea. according to pentagon nobody was hurt in this operation. the seals acted on a request from the libyan and cyprus governments. it was taken from a port in libya. developing story and more pictures coming in. bill: back to our top story, the disappearance of flight 30. new focus on the pilot and copilot seen here. reports that this was all planned. our next guest says it was intentional and deliberate act. he is with us now. congressman mike mccaul, from texas chairman of homeland security with his from husband home state. how are you. >> good morning to you. bill: i heard you over the weekend with chris wallace, of the two options, route number

one towards pakistan and kazakhstan and rout number two going off the west coast of australia you believe the focus is on option number two. why is that? >> well i believe, if they went north towards cats sack stan there are some radar detection capabilities, military facility ies, afghanistan, bagram air force base, india, pakistan, right frankly if it hit some of those airspace it is may have been shot down. i personally think it would have been picked up by radar, we would have found out about it. the indian ocean is wide open. there is not a lot of detection going on there. most experts that talked to believe that is where the aircraft went. that is why it is so hard to find it. bill: why could this plane not have flown directly west? why is that not on apone should be on that map? >> well, we have pretty good technical capabilities that

indicates, it did go south and to the west. bill: okay. >> and not north. not north but south. that is, that is why our navy is in the indian ocean. that is why we have jets in the indian ocean and quite frankly the malaysian government, the they have better cooperation from a military standpoint in trying to find this aircraft. bill: you're a former federal prosecutor and you have talked about the motivation and the intent because that is what you look at first, right? and when you think about the pilot and think about the copilot, this bit of information now being reported that the copilot is the one who said, good night. i don't know if that is significant or not. is it? >> will, you know it is significant they say good night and the transponder turns off. then the flight pattern is abruptly changed.

and goes completely different direction. that is why i said yesterday i believe it is an intentional, deliberate act, not just an accident that just happened out of thin air. and so what is the motivation intent behind this? some would say as you know you talked about it could be suicide. that is a possibility. we saw that on the egyptian airline. it could be, you know, psychological problem. it could be also a possible link to terrorism although we have scrubbed the manifest. we have done a lot of homework on the counter terrorism side of this. and there is, not a lot of leads on that particular front. but two scenarios are possible. one, it ran out of fuel and crashed in the indian ocean. the other one the plane landed somewhere in the, in the southeast asia, possibly indonesia, that could be used later as a weapon. bill: since 9/11 the

intelligence community has been asked to expand their imagination and i don't know where this scenario ranks, ranks on that list but you mentioned terrorism. i mean how high is that possibility on your list now? >> well from my perspective that is always my first question and we do have to use, you know, imagination. this is one of the most mysterious flights, probably since amelia earhart's disappearance. and so the idea from a terrorist standpoint, either somebody on that plane or the pilots attempted to hijack it but, what would be the purpose behind crashing it into the ocean? so the other possible theory we're looking at it could have landed somewhere, filled with explosives and sent somewhere else to cause some great damage. i think we have to look at all possibilities right now. we don't have the answers. we just got the fbi in there and

we have two pilots homes being searched, computer laptops, simulator being acquired. that will lead i think to more information in this case. bill: certainly will. when the fbi does go in on a case like this what's, what's the team made up of? how many people go and what would their role be now? >> well, anytime you're in a sovereign nation, the sovereign nation takes the lead. but i would hope that malaysia would grant our fbi agents, homeland security officials great access because i personally believe they have greater sophistication and greater expertise to get to the bottom of what happened. you know, as you can see, this morning, filled with all these different theories out there. and no one really knows the truth behind the motivation. we do know what the plane did in my judgment. where it went but we don't know the motivation behind why it crashed. bill: all right. mike mccaul, thank you for your time. really appreciate it.

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bill: have you heard? st. patrick's day today. shamrocks, beer, whole lot of people up and down fifth avenue

a whole lot to drink before noon. ireland holding its annual celebration as new york gets ready to host the 253rd parade later. people from dublin to boston celebrating irish history and the life of st. patrick. corn beef and cabbage for lunch, right? shamrock or two. martha: yep. bill: as for drinking, guinness says americans will down about three million pints today, just do. martha: oh, boy. bill: before 5:00. i'm catching grief for not wearing a green tie. i don't own a green high there is greenish brown in. martha: he is imagining there is green in this tie. bill: on this particular tie. martha: we'll say there is green on your tie. there is scary day driving into new york and it is dark out and people are dressed like they're going out and 7:30 at night. i hope they have a good time. bill: 7:30 in the morning you mean? martha: yeah. they come in, i'm coming in at 5:00 in the morning and they all look like they're on they're way

out to 8:00 dinner at night ready to go. bill: good for the economy. martha: excellent for the economy. green beer all day. be careful out there, folks. they have be been the central voice in highlighting the problems with obamacare to be sure but now republican leaders are starting to lay out their plan for what they would do to fix it or to scrap it and come up with something completely new, offering a unified vision really for the first time for fixing the country's health care system. what have they got? stuart varney joins us now, host of "varney & company." stuart, a lot of people are saying what would you guys do? they keep saying we put forward lots of new ideas but this time they're doing it slightly differently, right? >> they're coming up with basically a replacement model. they don't like obamacare but they want to replace it with something else. they're discussing basically four principles, four ideas which would be the replacement model. let me go through them real fast. number one, restrict the costly

medical lawsuits. number two, let insurance companies sell all kinds of policies in all states. let them compete for your business. number three, expand the health savings accounts so that individuals control more of their own money. and number four, make sure if you get sick you can not be kicked off your policy. in other words a policy can always be renewed. offer protection for those people who get sick. those are four principles, all grouped around the idea of competition, individuality and choice. the republicans are saying, that is the alternative to the top-down, bureaucratic mandates of obamacare. it is a replacement model. martha: obviously the preexisting condition tenet would be one that both sides could agree on. >> yes. martha: kind of look for places where they might be able to come together on this. seems to me, stuart, a lot will be in the way it is presented. whether scrap the old bill and start with a new one which you seem to be suggesting it is, or as some democrats said this bill is already a done deal. if you want to come to us with

fixes we're open to that. >> i don't know how open democrats are to a fix because once you open up the legislation, who knows what gets put in the democrats wouldn't like. i think this is a replacement model. it is repeal and replace it with this. but this approach, with the very same approach that david jolly used in florida last week, very successfully. he won the election by two points. and he campaigned very strongly in favor of an alternate plan to obamacare. and he won. martha: now they want to codify that as they head toward the midterms so they have something concise to offer for people to think about. stuart, very interesting. we'll see you later. bill: there are new reports that flight 370 may have dived to a low altitude right after communication was cut off. if true, why would it do that? a new focus and look at the background of the pilots on board. martha: warren buffett wants to give you a billion dollars, folks. all you have to do is come up with the perfect march madness

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westwood, california, near the campus of ucla it was felt at our bureau and felt as far away as glendale, california. this is 6:30 in the morning. folks getting up right now. in all likelihood you would have felt this and gotten out of bed pretty quickly. we're trying to figure out if there was damage and more coming up on that. martha: new information that malaysia flight 370 maybe dropped its altitude as low as 5,000 feet, possibly to avoid radar detection. that is the focus of this investigation shifts now to the pilots and any possible motivation to divert that plane. robert mark is a commercial pilot and editor of jet line.com, and he joins me right now. robert, grade to have you with us this morning. >> good morning, martha. martha: you say you believe this incident, whatever it turns out to be will redefine airline security in a way we have not seen since 9/11.

what do you mean by that? >> i think simply because of the fact that this snuck up on us at a time when we thought the aviation industry was pretty secure. i mean, and there have been so many pieces of misinformation as well that have come out since the airplane disappeared and now we've been chasing our tales in how many different parts of the southeast asia region? martha: that's for sure. >> now we're looking at a different place. martha: what about this theory that the pilots may have dropped the altitude to 5,000 feet? or that these shifts may have been designed to kill all those passengers on board? >> well i think that is something that no one really wants to talk about too much. and whether the passengers are alive or dead. i like to think that they are. maybe it is just the pilot in me but i also think that they took an airplane full of people for a reason, not just to get rid of them. there were easier ways to steal

airplanes. as far as going down low, if i were trying to steal the airplane, that is what i would have done and get away from the places where there is certain there is radar and head off in some other direction. martha: there is also story that is the plane went up high to 45,000 feet and then back down to 30,000 level. what do you make of that? >> well, for one thing we don't know, i mean i think we certainly do understand that there's information that we're not privy to that security forces have. martha: yeah. >> but somehow they believe it went to 45,000 feet. that could have been in a way to, you know, starve the people of oxygen in the back. it basically makes you unconscious, for how long, depend on how long you stay up there. but again, if i were trying to steal an airplane, i would go where i would, at least expect people to look. personally i would be headed toward australia. martha: you make a great point. there are, perhaps, other easier ways to steal an airplane. there may have been a reason they wanted one that was loaded

with passengers. they could have taken a cargo jet or something that was empty or just, you know, full of cargo going from one place to another. i mean, obviously we're all just guessing here. every day there is a few more piece that is come together. this altitude shifting and also the fact that the pilot's last comment, he said, good night to the controller, came after the transponder was turned off. what do you make of that, robert? >> well that is strange. there is no doubt about that. and that is one of the fact that is we keep shaking our heads about but there have been so many. people have had these various and sundry plans that they think, well, they're going to do this, they're going to do that. then someone throws in a fact that kind of shake that is up. i spent 10, more than 10 years as a controller myself and on a night shift, this was in the middle of the night,

everything's pretty lax. this may have been the only airplane this controller was talking to. so saying good night to the controller, it doesn't mean much to me at least. >> i got to go but i have to ask you one last quick question in the piece you wrote. you don't think if the pilots were involved they could not have done it alone, just two of them or one of them. >> yeah, i don't believe this kind of planning was carried off with just these two pilots on random, last minute kind of effort. i believe, if this is what it is beginning to look like, it was much more sophisticated than it looks to be on the surface. martha: robert, thank you very much. >> you're welcome. martha: see you next time. bill: just mentioned this a moment ago. our folks in los angeles right now, our foxboro reporting a -- fox burrow in located five

miles west of westwood campus of ucla in the westwood neighborhood. this is what we know, 6:25 a.m., pacific time, the monday quake occurred at a depth according to associated press of five miles and ap is citing the u.s. geological survey. what you're looking at on our screen is our fox la, kttv helicopter shot. morning rush hour is priority for local news. they may have been flying this route to begin with. the sun is not up just jet. kind of a spooky scene as they pan down on the lights on the road and we'll drop in there and picks up coverage from fox la in a moment. the l.a. fire department has received no reports of damage. can we hear anchors in los angeles? >> i want to interrupt in a moment, new information coming

in. usgs said this was near mulholland and sepulveda near the sepulveda pass. we'll check in with sandra. let's go see what she is up to. bill: we'll stay in touch with our friends at fox, kttv in l.a. and our bureau certainly working the story. we'll figure out whether or not there is damage to speak of, which is high priority when you think about the morning hours and 6:25. a lot of folks still in bed sleeping at that time, which can be in a lot of ways worst time for something like this to occur. 4.7 is the preliminary indication. back to that breaking news in a moment. martha: we'll stay on that. in the meantime the white house says it won't delay another major obamacare mandate any longer. but is there enough time for everyone to sign up before the end of this month? bill: so you thought it was over, didn't you? no. martha: did say that, didn't i? bill: man, oh, man, the winter

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could probably cure most of the world's problems. [ male announcer ] that's how we run, and nothing runs like a deere. visit your dealer or johndeere.com/1family. martha: investigators are still trying to find out what caused that deadly explosion in new york city last week. firefighters tearing through all the debris to reach the basement of those two collapsed buildings, trying to test the bass pipes to figure out where the leak came from -- gas pipes. memorial services were held or the victims over the course of this weekend. eight people were killed in that explosion. dozens were injured in the blast that happened wednesday. >> can you rule out the idea that the president doesn't delay the individual mandate? >> yes, i can. >> you can? that will not happen? >> that will not happen. bill: senor white house advisor dan five vows the administration will not delay the mandate.

they have two weeks to get coverage or potentially face a fine. katie pavlich, townhall.com and fox news contributor and mary anne marsh, former advisor to now secretary of state john kerry. happy monday to you. hope the luck of the irish is with both of you. >> bill, happy st. patrick's day. bill: katy, is this is possibility now? or are we supposed to take dan pfeiffer for his word on that. >> i think dan pfeiffer is not being very honest what the administration actually has done. if you go back to last week there was a regulatory change that allowed pretty much everyone uninsured to claim a hardship exemption and not having to pay the individual mandate tax. they have delayed it in a sense and but not come out and said we're delaying the mandate. they haven't done that because it could be embarrassing to the administration. it would further prove people are not signing up to obamacare like they want them to be. we have to remember that the

individual mandate holds up obamacare as a mandate of law. this is centerpiece because once again people are not signing up proves people are not working. bill: you say they do not delay this, that's what i take from your answer? >> they don't delay it in the public sense. i want to remind people last week they issued a new regulatory change that allows anybody who is uninsured to simply say i had a hardship i can't find insurance. and i get a waiver as a result of don't have to pay the fine that. >> would give them the out. mary anne, what do you think of the delay? is that a still a possibility or you agree with katy, look, the individual mandate is what holds the law together? >> i think only worse than extending the individual mandate is to lose the midterm elections because you didn't. and you can't say in about the same week, when florida 13 was lost by the democrats and the affordable care act was front and is noter on it you can't say you're growing do do that i think it is a jump ball. we'll see if it happens. reality the midterm elections

are being fought on affordable care act. republicans are outspending democrats. democrats are not turning out and democrats have to do something to change all those things. affordable care act -- bill: you're saying it is a possibility then still? >> i think it is. i mean we'll see what the white house does but the reality is, if the midterm elections is about the affordable care act, if republicans keep outspending democrats and turning out more republican than democrats it will be ugly election for democrats in fourth port. bill: if you look at all the delays so far, katy, our last tally is 34. 34 different delays. you ask what are those? there are a lot of them too. we can show our viewers at hole right now just the number of delays we've gone through. whether it has to do with employers, based on size, on the screen for our viewers. put it up right there. we'll show them at home what we're talking about there here is number one. employer mandate delayed until 2015.

small business open enrollment delayed until later this year. individual mandates for some delayed until later this year. try to figure out what that means. and employer mandate for mid-sized employers delayed until 2016. makes you wonder what is still left of this law, katie. >> makes you wonder what is left of the law but when comes to elections, democrats and obama administration claim to be party of fairness, when you look at list of exemptions and delays you do not see exemptions for individuals and families. it is very unfair that big businesses get an exemption with obamacare and they're not paying for it while at the same time the administration is putting cost of obamacare on the backs of the middle class which they claim to be supporting it. very hard for them to take that message out on the campaign trail. bill: okay, mary anne? >> bill, the fact is, only thing there have been more of than exemptions and delays there have been twice as many votes in the house to repeal health care. that is not going to happen, okay?

that is waste of time. there will be yet another vote on it. here is what has to happen. people don't care about delays. they do care how this turns out in the end, whether they have health care off coverage and have coverage they can afford. that is what is happens between now and november. bill: you believe there is still possibility of delay in individual mandate. if that is the case that is another black i've. this election last tuesday in florida. now you start to think about the midterms. pfeiffer was arguing in that interview on "meet the press," democrats will maintain control of the senate. do you believe that is be the case? >> if we continue to improve the affordable care act and shift the terms of the debate to economic fairness, raising minimum wage, yes i do. we have to be competitive with republicans on spending. we have not been. we have to turn out democrats like it is 2012. the president has to get out there and campaign like it is 2012. everybody president thinks their last election for re-election is last campaign they will do. president obama has to get out

there in the election cycle like he is on the ballot. bill: some say that is a big risk because it liability. he is at the moment. >> the more -- >> i would say when it comes to improving the affordable care act, there is really nothing at this point they can do to improve it. they have delayed it. what matters to people, yes, that they're getting punished for not having insurance that they did have before and broken promise from the president in his own words who said you can keep your insurance, keep your doctor if you like it, period. they can't keep their doctor or their insurance. they will notice when democrats go out to say they want to fix something that isn't working. bill: thank you. katie. mary anne marsh. thank you as well. >> thank you, bill. martha: chocolate, you know what? does your body good, folks. a brand new study to see if chocolate pills can prevent heart attacks and strokes. why not eat the chocolate? bill: teenager taken custody in a hospital and battle for what her ailment is and how to treat night she is the strongest

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bill: a bit more from southern california in los angeles with the earth moving a few minutes ago. l.a.p.d. telling fox bureau in los angeles there are no reports of injuries. there is not much reporting on damage if there is any damage. william la jeunesse is working on that. we'll talk to william live in l.a. in a pat matter of moments on that. martha: fox weather alert. spring is only a few days away, right? winter seems to be getting in its last licks today. mixture of hitting east coast. deja vu in the nation's capitol. the snow bringing federal

government to a screeching halt at the start of the work week. carl cameron is at work this week. carl cameron in d.c. hey, carl. >> reporter: hi, martha. happy snow st. patrick's day. it has been raining since sunday evening, shutting down d.c. on mondays last few weekend. a number of records broken as well. last night the storm started around 7:00 in the d.c. area. by midnight, six inches of snow had fallen. that is record. reagan airport was closed considerable amount of time. they have opened up one runway in national here in d.c. dulles is only three. there are flights being canceled all up and down the east coast. a number of problems, d.c. government is closed. federal government is closed. schools are closed across the region. there was a pretty major accident on i-95 about four a.m. on the interstate. a bus flipped over on its side.

54 passengers were taken to the hospital. three ad serious injuries but not life-threatening. this is exhausting school days because so many schools had cancellations this part of winter and spring and budgets are wrecked too. it has begun to lighten up. roads are clear. house and senate were off. they didn't have any work planned. frankly at love americans are happy they're not around anyway. martha? martha: that could be, carl. that could un. the cherry tree blossoms started to come out. now they will have snow piled inside of them. >> the st. patrick's day parade came off great yesterday. the second thing people are look looking forward to cherry blossom season in april and if the snow keeps going it could be a bit of a problem. martha: thank goodness they celebrated st. patrick today's say or snow patrick's day a day early. thank you, carl. bill: information about the pilots of that missing plane. was this a hijacking? was this a suicide plot?

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>> william, what did you feel? >> it was a jolt and died down and you thought that would be the end of it and then it came back. 6:25 a.m. and lasted about five minutes. people starting their day. it happened in westwood where ucla is located. 4.4 earthquake but only five miles deep so a shallow quake. so a pretty good jolt with things falling off shelves and pictures and building sway at 5.0. again, you know, it was felt -- westwood is five miles from the ocean, we are only two miles from that and it was felt within a one hour driving distance from

the epicenter itself. the primary waves travel three miles every second. southern california, edison, saying no power outages and california highway patrol now road damage. no accidents being reported. any damage will be minor it appears. but it did wake us up. >> we will stick with coffee on this coast. president obama announcing sanctions against seven russian officials after the referendum vote in crimea. here is the scene from hours ago. [cheering] >> hundreds turned out to

celebrate after 97% voted in favor about receding from ukraine and going with russia. they share a common boarder and a lot of history between ukraine and russia. this is really the area that vladimer putin has a lot of interest in because of the black sea and ultimately because of the access out to the mediterranean. this is where russia's black sea fleet has been head quartered. capital city up in the north you know that. and this is crimea where this referendum was health. based on the vote totals, take it one time, this is where the russian black sea fleet is located, 90-95% of those who

voted voted recede russia. there are questions being asked about the vote totals. we can tell you here the history of ukraine, the history of russia, you can go back several hundred years where crimea was part of russia and many believe this has been putin's quest to make a part of russia again for a lot of reasons. amy kellog is live. >> reporter: it is very hard to know how fair the referendum with was. we are getting reports about people who boycotted the vote but there were no independent observers there. the people in ukraine are depressed about the situation

because very recently they lost a lot of people on the square behind me, people who were fighting for independence, they got that momenetarily and now i is being torn apart again. it is clear a lot of people want to join russia, but there is a massive protest and military action. europe and the united states have all denounced the referendum as totally illegal. europe targeted 21 people they would sanction and the united states sings singled out people

as well. global flight mh370 is turning into a criminal investigation now as the focus turned to the two malaysian pilots and whether the disappearance was a highjacking or a suicide mission. nothing found as we enter day ten. reports services that al qaeda affiliated wants to recruit a captain to crash a plane. >> i think the one thing we need to remember is the government published the letters they took from laden's hide out and it was clear in those letters that al qaeda had a high priority on maintaining operations against aircraft. >> chris simmers is here now and

he worked on the crash of tw 800. good to have you. >> thanks for having me on >> what do you make of the statement and the questions on whether or not there is a terrorist connection to this? >> we know that al qaeda wants a plane to blow up in the air. they have never stopped trying on that and frankly they will not give up. for indicators on whether one of the pilots were involved, i would be looking for any indication they put their affairs in order and did anything at all in order to depart. typically they have a destination and there would be indicators of that. >> we are looking at the video that surfaced today and it is

you tube video where one of the pilots is discussing air conditi conditioning and has his flight similator behind you. does that strike you as unusual? -- >> it doesn't seem all that unusual. the good thing is the fact they are computers and there should be quite a bit of data on that. with the amount of planning that went into this event, there should be information of this or if we wiped it out, it might be a sign he is trying to hide something. so it might be a source evidence. >> that is a great point. we know the investigators are starting to look into their computer and figure out who they

have been talking to. if it is wiped clean, that would be a troublecome indicator for sure. when you look at the very dramatic higher altitude, you have done a lot to study highjacking, what kind of work might have been at hand in those mo moves? >> it looks intentional and preplanned. it doesn't look like someone experimenting or even a struggle in the cock pit. so the more planning the more that tells you to look for plans of the planning. it shows expertise for flying.

unlike the 9/11 highjackers who practiced long enough to fly into a building. >> we heard the fbi is getting involved now and you are a former fbi special agent. how will that change the investigation? >> they have probably been involved early on. they have great relationships and were present in the command post from the beginning. they have been offering a great deal of assets the fbi has. the critical response group is designed to set up and manage the massive investigation this is. >> massive is right. christopher voss, thank you very

much. >> was this a suicide mission? sent us a tweet at bill hemmer and martha maccallum and we will discuss your comments. a possible tornado ripping true a town taking out trees, and power lines and even a building. >> she is the strongest person i know. she is my hero. >> the story of a sick teenager who says she feels like a prisoner at the hospital. the battle over what her ailment is, and her parents role and how to treat it. >> next kt mcfarland and jack keane on this: >> we sent the secretary of state to london to negotiate

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dramatic video of a storm in alabama northeast of mobile. sent one car flying to the edge of a river and nearly flattening a retail building. no one was injured through all of this. there are a lot of developments in the crisis in ukraine. just a short time ago, president obama announced sanctions against seven national officials calling them cronies. john mccain is saying this is an important step. >> russia is a gas station acting like a country. it is

corruption and a nation that is really only dependented upon oil and gas so economic sanctions are important. >> we have kt mcfarland here and jack keane who is a fox news military analyst. welcome to you both. kt, what is your reaction to the new sanctions being brought forth? >> big whoop. putin has been telling them to get your money out of western banks and bring it back to russia. so if they have assets seized or frozen, she is going to say i told you so. and their visa is denied so they can't summer in hampton?

one of the aids said you should summer in sochi. we should build the keystone pipeline and that would get their attention. >> i am interested in the statement the white house put out on the crimea vote: we are passed the day when the international countries stand by while another country seizes another. >> that is amazing because that is what we are doing. we are three weeks in the crisis and the fact of the fatter is the policy of the united states has been to de-escalate it and talk putin down. and that has failed. here we're right now. we are sanctions against seven hoods in russia as opposed to hundreds of leaders. we need robust economic sanctions and we are talking about things that have been said

on the show and that is denying russia access to united states banking and creditable capital and europe should be doing the same thing. and we should be shoring up nato countries so they understand this isn't going any further. >> we are saying we will not stand for this but we are standing for it. >> when you keep drawing red lines and don't enforce it makes someone like putin more bold and he keeps crossing the lines. he sees there is nothing that will stop him from taken eastern ukraine as his next move. so it is showing paper tighter and that leaving from behind makes you left behind. the only people that matter in

the event now is the german minister and putin. >> most of the players here, wouldn't you expect the president and her would be getting together? the forcefulness of the discussions is a disappointment and let me play this from john bolton. >> we sent john kerry to london to negotiate with the russian foreign minister and that is like sending a cupcake to negotiate with a steak knife. >> what do you think of hat? >> he is on the mark.

i think he is trying to shore up the united states and president obama to be frank about it. and there should have been meeting of key european leaders on this subject as opposed to phone calls. the united states didn't cause this crisis and i don't believe president obama's foreign policy called this. but the fact of the matter is our position is contributing it to. look at iraq, egypt, syria rise of al qaeda. iran moving to the nuclear weapon and what china is up to. all of that is a pattern and we see it being carried out by putin as well. >> the stakes are very high some for and then others don't seem

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we are back and president obama getting ready to make a statement on ukraine and the crimea vote over the weekend and that is going to happen at 10:45

in the brady room we are told you. a lot of headlines on the additional sanctions and what they could mean in 15 minutes. >> a team of united states navy seals taking control of a commercial tanker hijacked by three libyans. loaded with 200,000 barrels of oil is headed back it the pentagon now. why did the pentagon feel they needed to make a move now? >> reporter: well, bill, the oil was stolen from an opec nation. there was concern it could have led to a large oil spill in the mediterranean see. it was off the coast of cypres.

the entire mission was bloodless. they surprised the three-man libyan crew around midnight. quote no one was hurt at the request of the libyan government took of the vessel seized by three armed libyans. tanker is being escorted by the united states navy back to libya. but the rebels who don't answer to the central government have taken control of three of the ports and the central government is too weak to take control again. >> what has been happening in libya? >> reporter: the government attempted to use their navy and

air force to retake the ship and when it filled they voted no confidence and a pro-u.s. leader led the country on an unmarked plane. the u.s. carrier was in the mediterranean and now members are on the tanker but rebels still control the ports and the eastern parts of the country. in benghazi there were several car bombs just this morning killing eight people. the surreal mystery of flight mh370 and the growing possibility that this may have been one pilot's death wish. a former top fbi agent on the

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word from the whitehouse the president is about to make a statement on ukraine and the vote in crimea from sunday and the results are coming in and at least based on reporting in crimea well over 90% who voted voted to recede from ukraine. 10:45 eastern time is the expected time for the statement from the whoitehouse. folks this morning on the west coast got a wake-up call with a 4.4 magnitude quake hit the area. watch as our fox affiliates in los angeles got the news. >> okay.

whoa. >> all right. that is an earthquake. and that is a big one. >> wow. okay. >> that was an earthquake. did you see the whole studio rock? >> it was 15 miles northwest of the downtown civic center. no reports of damage so that is good. that looks like a big one. >> with more than 230 on board and were they the member of a pilot's death wish? peter king said quote there is a growing agreement this was a suicide by the pilot or copilot and wanted to get as far away and land in the deepest part of the ocean. sir, good morning to you, what

do you think of what peter king said there? >> he probably isn't far off from the truth. since there has been no establishment of the plane being on the ground anyplace, it is a good chance it was the suicide mission of one or both of these individuals. it is very obvious whatever happened in the cock pit happened at the hands of themselves. they have a transponder they set off and they have a frequency they can use to signal distress and they didn't do that. there is so many possibilities but the thun that makes the most sense is the plane is possible in the indian ocean >> the pilot or copilot it was

suggested would ditch the plane and the families can collect life insurance on the policies. have you considered that? >> i don't think there is a big problem -- i think that stretches it a little bit in terms of the families being able to collect the life insurance policy. >> listen, we are just way on the wing or edge of speculation about this. there is an fbi team according to michael mccaul who is on the ground in -- says there is a team in asia who is on the ground. what can they do? >> they can bring in technical

aspects and investigative process. i think perhaps all of the information that is available to the folks in malaysia hasn't been shared with others. so with a team of fbi agents on the ground they would be enhanced with experts. the united states has some ju s jurisdiction as much as this is a crime commit would united states people on board. >> but the fbi is only going to be able to do so much as the government in malaysia allows them to do right? >> that is absolutely true. whatever the government says they can do, they can do. and they can put the clamps on any investigative effort be any party. this should be something, bill, that doesn't pertain to any

country. it ought to be the best research and investigative technical efforts of anybody involved to get people together so they can do their best job. >> out of boston today, thank you. the united states is announcing plans to let go a measure of the federal government control over the group that is in charge of internet addresses. this is coming from the applause of international critic and the alarm of business leaders and lawmakers. james rosen has what this is all about. good morning to you. explain to us what is happening here and which federal agencies are involved and what this means really. >> so, marta, something called the national telecommunication

administration issued a press release today. n ntia said they are preparing to give up their control over a non-profit called ican which is the group that manages web domain names. the dot coms and other suffixes that appear at the back end of the internet addresses and govern if you are on and off the web. nti wants ican to come up with a power sharing plan that will administer this important business. since 1998 said jay rockefeller, the united states has been committed to transferring this to a broader entity. they announced this is the next

phase in the transition and rockefeller added it is consistent to promote a free and open internet unquote. so important is this function that is man who first exercised this authority was known as god. >> if this has been the policy and expected for some time, why is everybody so alarmed? >> the internet flourished under the united states control and it isn't clear what the plan they are coming up with. the conservatives wonder if they would come under control from another government less committed to free speech. >> let's give away the recipe for oreos. the united states, primarily the

military, governored the whole concept of the internet. i fear when it is goes into the this global mismatch who whas te ability to control and monitor >> they said it is possible due to quote the technical abilities. i believe giving away the recipe to oreo's would be too far. >> we will see you soon. >> and oreo the dog stranded here on a 90-foot cliff and a helicopter pulling to dog to safety. we thought that was the coolest

shot of the day. >> good day for oreo. bill mar making an appearance on "meet the press" and what he said about republican voters. >> and could the battle between a 15-year-old girl and the doctors caring for her be coming to an end? >> we want the government out of our lives. we want this judge to admit he committed an error. is ca

fox news alert. two minutes away from seeinga m statement about ukraine, crimea, russia and vladimer putin. russia could face additional sanctions if it proceeds a

formal anaxation there in crimea. there is quote concrete evidence that ballots arrived pre-marked on the issue of if they could succeeds. and another voting anomaly after washington announced visa ban and asset freezes on 11 russian and ukraine officials. jack keane is here and i want to bring you back. what would you expect the president to say now? >> i think he is going to talk about how reprehensible the situation is, how unacceptable putin's action are, and announce the sanctions he is going to

enforce. i think it is too late. we should have been moving on this after the invasion not after a phony referendum. >> what is putin thinking? >> he probably has this right. he suffered humilliation after his stooge was run out and he felt he could get away with it. >> good morning, everybody. in recent months, as the citizens of ukraine made their voices heard we have been guided by a principle that the future of ukraine must be decided by the people of crane ukraine. international law must be upheld. so russia's decision to send

troops is draw rightly drawing global confrontonation. we saw this unity over the weekend when russia stood alone in the council defending their actions. and i told putin yesterday this was a clear violation of ukraine constitution and international law and it will not be recognized by the international community. today i am announcing a series of measures that will continue to increase the cost on russia and those responsible for what is happen in ukraine. first, as authorized by the executive order we are imposing sanctions for vinyl people responsible for underlining the

sovereignty, territory and government of ukraine. second, i have signed a new executive order that expands the scope of the sanctions. i am authorizing them on individuals who provide material support to senior officials of the russian government. if russia continues to interfere in ukraine, we stand ready to impose further sanctions. thirdly, we will continue the close talks with our european partners who today in brussels moved ahead with their own. tonight, kerry is meeting with european nato countries nearby and i will go next week. we will uphold our commitment.

fourth, we will take clear to russia that further provocations will achieve nothing but to further isolate russia. the international community will continue to stand together to oppose any violations of ukraine sovereignty and continued russian military invasion will only deepen their isolation and put a further toll on their economy. we can calibrate our response on whether russia chooses to escalate or de-escalate the situation. i think there is a way to resolve this diplomatically and that includes russia pulling their forces, supporting the deemployment of additional international monitors in ukraine, and engaging in

dialogue with ukraine who is open to constitutional reform has they move forward this spring. but we are standing firm in our unwavering support of ukraine. the united states stands with the people of ukraine and their right to determine their own destiny. we will keep working with congress, and our international partners to offer ukraine the economic support they need to get through this crisis and improve their lives. we can look at the range of ways we can make this happen. thank you very much. >> just waiting a moment. >> vladimer putin and obama spoke and the president said he

informed putin the referendum was a clear violation of the law and the white house is imposing sanctions, some who had top advis advisors to putin, and those who interfere with ukraine affairs and the united states is prepared to do more in cooperation with their european allies depending on what russia does next. reaction from kt mcfarland. what do you think about what he said? >> i don't think anybody cares. if this is their dire consequences, they have a another thing coming. a lot of senior people have removed billions in the banks and the ones with money level there, putin is going to say i told you to get it out of there

years ago so how can you blame he. the other point that i think is significant is when president obama said at the end, we have firm and unwavering support for ukraine and the people of ukraine. well, what is that? you going to loan them $30 billion? figure out a way to give them the natural gas? weapon systems? he is not prepared to do any of those things. and russia has the whip hand because they supply the gas to western and central europe. up till we find a way to get free of russian natural gas, putin is going to have the whip hand. >> unless you minimize their

overall energy implements in that sector and that would help them not need russia and that is one of the only things that could change the dynamic. we are saying we don't recognize the vote that happened over the weekend. we didn't want the vote to take place in the first place. that is why john kerry went over there to insist they don't allow there vote and wait until may. now the next line is you better not annex them officially and how much more obvious could it be that is the next thing? >> people in crimea voted they want russia, not ukraine. and what is going to happen is russia will start handling out

goo goodies to crime. watch what happens in east ukraine. i talked to the deputy prime minister of russia who said we are interested in that part because that is where the factories are. and another red line from obama that no one will enforce. >> to jack keane now. general, good morning to you. kt said no one cares. do they? >> i do think people care. the fact of the matter is i am somewhat stunned and disappointed by the president's comment. if you understand what he is saying as a result of invasion the only thing sanctions is freezing russian leaders assets. he said if further interference

in ukraine we will think about imposing other sanctions. so score one for putin. his calculation of not much being on on the invasion is right. >> if you go after be his advisors, does putin care? >> no, absolutely not. he cares about his country and the fact he has economic issue. it is an oil and gas economy to bebegg begin. with the sanctions the would take time to play out, but we could get started. >> who makes the next move? >> it is up to putin. we just played our card. he is going to annex crimea,

that is decision is done. and eastern ukraine is a real issue. we are para troopers occupying a gas facil taity in ukraine. and there are agents causing unrest that would justify another invasion like we have seen playing out. >> thanks to kt mcfarland and jack keane. there is going to be a lot of analysis throughout the day. >> next we will have the latest on one family's fight to regain custody of their 15-year-old daughter who is ill and confined to a wheelchair. more on that story coming up next.

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