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it is all "happening now." a chocolate pill i might consider. gregg: i already had my almond joy this morning. >> the search for the missing malaysian airplane is grown. suspicion and i have played a role in the aircraft disappearance. gregg: happy st. patrick's day. 26 countries now trying to find any trace of the boeing 777. as i the search goes west, litte radar coverage which further complicates the hunt.

somebody with considerable flight experience may have deliberately diverted a jet causing suspicion to the pilot and copilot raising concerns the airplane could have been hijacked as part of an antigovernment protest. plus, we are now learning it was the copilot to give the final communication heard by air traffic controllers right before the plane vanished from the radar screens. following all the breaking developments live in washington. what are we learning about this new evidence? >> setting regular updates to the status of the engine and overall health and function of the aircraft was shot down before the pilot final communication that everything was all right and 14 minutes later the transponder went dark and vietnamese air-traffic controller signed off, and are

irritated with chinese air-traffic controllers in the theaters play the aircraft was perfectly diverted at this point when the flight within kind of a no man's land between chinese and vietnamese airspace. gregg: is the focus of testifying on the pilots? >> with new searches of the pilot and copilot's homes, fox news confirming the hard drives have been recovered for both men as was a pilot flight simulators. he was apparently a strong supporter of the opposition and other daily flight this in his to five years in prison. the just and the trial lefty pilot somewhat subjective with a motive to stop the flight. >> it could be suicide. that is a possibility. it could be psychological problem, it could be also a possible link to terrorism.

>> the pilot's friends his the terrace of any kind of medical moves. gregg: things did jenna: part of the search for missing airline and are the search of the region includes the most advanced long-range antisubmarine and anti-surface warfare aircraft in the entire world. you are seeing that on your screen right now. that aircraft is scouring the indian ocean. also at work, the destroyer uss kidd in the south china sea. that is where we find the commander on the ship, a spokesman for the seventh fleet. we spoke last week on the phone in the last seven days or the last 24 hours, have you learned anything new bringing us closer to finding this plan? >> we haven't learned anything new. for us in the fleet of the u.s. navy we take it day by day.

this is what we train for. we're on the water. to be honest we don't know what happened to the airplane. really it doesn't matter. our job is search and rescue. matter how it happened or what happened, we are going to be out here doing our job. >> can you describe for us in a way that we can understand just how difficult it is? >> sure, the first thing we do kind of walk you through it, when you have a crisis like this you start with the helicopter creating a well-defined area. when you move into your devoti devotion, we have it followed on

board. there are long range fixed wing aircraft flying 1200 nautical miles at a time. they can fly back, so right now they are flying at least today through northwest. just to give you some contact as to how expensive this area is, if you took a map of the united states, superimposed it from the north to the south, it would be like trying to find a person summer between new york and california, not knowing where. jenna: that hits home. one thing that has changed his you have gone from searching in a predominantly shallow sea, relatively speaking, to a very, very deep sea in the indian ocean. how does that change how you work? >> the depth is not a factor right now. maybe later. right now our focus is on

debris. debris can float at least for this long. they have very advanced radar from an altitude of five, 10,000 feet it can see things as small as a basketball. it can pick things up on the radar, you can get lower, visualize it and get a picture of what that was. we have found a lot of trash, debris, but certainly nothing associated with the airplane. jenna: the debris is very much a factor, something you can locate, you could expect something to be floating. here we are about 10 days in, how much more time do you realistically have that debris from the crash was still be floating on the surface? >> they're out there with a 24

hour operation, they are standing giving up their free time, looking on the surface of the water for any sign of debris whatsoever. we know if this was us, if it was our family, our friends, we would want them looking as well. that is what we are doing in that is what we train for. jenna: do you give another .4448, 72 hours before the focus is not on the debris or do you focus on other naval assets joining the search from the ones we have mentioned? >> write right now frankly not . we will take it day by day. we have to take it a little bit day by day. our long-range patrol aircraft is by far the best asset, it has covered as much area.

right now our belief is long-range patrol aircraft. i cannot tell you how much longer. jenna: it sounds like you guys are doing a lot of really hard work. the navy is the finest that are out there. i am biased because i am married to a navy guy. speaking of all of your team, what about fatigue in general from because you are out there in the element. what about for the searchers? >> we watch fatigue very carefully. they did find bodies were are sensitive things of that nature. we watch fatigue very carefully not only on our people, but on our equipment.

we are watching not very carefully. we feel very good right now. we have been training for this all year. not only now, but when we get into crisis situations when we do that. from north of japan all the way south of australia. when a crisis does occur, we already have these relationshi relationships, they already know what to do. jenna: commander, sounds like you're putting the practice to good work. we thank you as always for joining us and we look forward to talking to you again. thank you. gregg: right now the oscar pistorius murder trial focusing on his past history with guns. a gun expert taking the witness stand testifying he wants overreacted to a noise inside his home and went into a "combat

mode." the athlete known as the blade runner is accused of shooting death of his girlfriend. he acknowledged the victim's mother today enter the courtroom for the second time since the trial began. we're joined now from johannesburg. talk to us about the testimony and evidence. >> yes, indeed. he knew very well the rules of when and where a gun can be fired. the head of a firearm training academy told the court in an exam, oscar pistorius wrote he knew the importance of target identification, the shooter must be able to see the target. when he told him on one other occasion the blade runner thought he had heard an intrusion and went into what he called "code red" combat mode searching the house until he found the noisy heard came from

a tumble dryer. he knew even when actually threatened by a burger, it wasn't permitted to fire a gun. they read out an exam question and he answered it, here's how it went. >> when the burglars become aware of your presence, they turn in order you to go away or they will kill you. you are behind a security gate, 10 meters away. can you discharge a firearm because you fear for your life? >> more blood in the bedroom. i could plainly see what's battered up the wall behind the headboard of the bed. this goes with other photos seen today showing smears of light across a box of watches in the bedroom where he carried the

body to the front door downstairs. the mother was briefly in court twice today, but left in apparent distress when first photos of a bloodied oscar pistorius was shown and when the shot of a toilet bowl was put on screen. covered in what is thought to be her daughter's blood. gregg: live in johannesburg. thank you very much. coming up, our legal panel will be here and we will talk about how the firearms testimony could actually help osca pistorius ine end. jenna: a new study reveals a third of uninsured americans plan to stay that way. why, and what it could mean. plus, republicans hope america's displeasure with obamacare could help them win control of the senate in november. one top political analyst things there is a good chance that could happen.

>> 14 seats in play in a couple of seats play on republican side. i think it is highly likely republicans get a couple of the majority. jenna: it is nice how that works out. they're taken the midterms in the republican chances next. ou for $175. our clients need a lot of attention. there's unlimited talk and text. we're working deals all day. you get 10 gigabytes of data to share. what about expansion potential? add a line, anytime, for $15 a month. low dues, great terms. let's close! new at&t mobile share value plans our best value plans ever for business.

gregg: right now the midterm elections are getting closer with control of congress on the line. republicans increasing confident campaigning against president obama and obamacare would let them take over the senate for the first time since 2006. to do that, republicans would need to pick up a net six seats. it gives democrats a five seat majority. 14 seats are considered in play, if you will, three of them in states where incumbent senators are retiring.

several races are in states where president obama's popularity is low. karl rove, former white house deputy chief of staff under george w. bush, fox news contributor. also a fox news contributor. where is your green tie? listen, let me begin with you because we say 14 democratic seats are in play, but you said so, break down as you and i are talking, but here is my question, looking very strong for the g.o.p. how likely is it republicans will pick up the majority? >> nothing is certain in politics. the first three states you had,

the democratic incumbent has retired, republicans leaving those races were strong candidates anywhere between 14-20 points in the public polling, and each of those straight races republicans have a significant cash on hand advantage versus the democrats. alaska, arkansas, louisiana, north carolina in states carried by mitt romney in 2012 from two to 20 some points. republicans have strong candidates in each one of those republicans are slightly ahead, tied or slightly behind the democrats. far less wel well-known in the democrats indicating as they are better known to have a chance to move up. the president's job approval at or below the national average, some of those could develop. gregg: the numbers favor republicans, but the states where democrats normally would

win, the president's approval rating is in the tank which likely lead to "the new york times" story over the weekend democrats are fearful. what about it? >> the president's approval rating on the one that matters the most is midterm elections particularly in a second term is the president's approval rating, so where they are today and they don't improve, it will be a drag on the democrats chance to hold the senate. democrats are likely to move between 4-10 seats in the senate. republicans are primed and ready to take control of the senate. the real thing may not be the president's approval rating, it may be what happens in the republican primary. whether they get the magic number six or not, an a number f races, georgia, mississippi, kentucky, among them when

republicans are having establishment versus the tea party like they have had previous years. how those play out could actually decide whether republicans can take advantage of the situation. gregg: what about the kentucky, georgia republicans might need more than six, right? >> they might. senator mitch mcconnell poised for a big win over his challenger. georgia is up in the air. if they win the nomination, republicans are in deep trouble. we will have good candidates providing enough opportunities. gregg: karl rove, good to see you both. jenna: the president announcing sanctions in ukraine today. will it be enough to deter russia?

one russian journalist, this is for state media. journalists a state media telling the viewers russia could turn the u.s. into radioactive dust. his retaliation something we should worry about? next.

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not valid, it is not legal. they talked about this new round of sanctions aimed at going after russian leaders and those who aid and abet them with regards to what is going on in crimea. here's what the president said. >> i've signed an executive order that expands the scope of our sanctions. as an initial step from authorizing sanctions and russian officials and operating in the arm sector of russia. and 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. reporter: a senior administration official characterized this as the most comprehensive sanctions applied to russia since the end of the cold war. so far they did not go after putin himself because the u.s. doesn't generally start sanctions by targeting heads of

state. but there aimed to design a message. the latest round aimed at top government officials, those in the arms trade, organizations that support those officials actively engaged in russia's push potentially further, that administration official deemed the cronies, those assisting the government. these sanctions, at addition to those coming from the european union banning assets. there is some overlap between the sanctions. the president wrapped up today by essentially reaffirming the u.s. is working very quickly with european allies and will continue to put together that united front giving them a chance to make their own decision about the future as the country as a whole coming up on may 25. gregg: the president started talking about it two weeks ago.

thanks very much at the white house. jenna: for more on this, joining us from the washington institute. based on what we have heard thus far, how much of a deterrent are they? >> it is unlikely these will really get president putin attention. moving a force into eastern ukraine wilmar a reaction, but this a relatively modest reaction. >> there were further sanctions to come. there was talks about the arms industry in russia, they talk about those who provide materials to russian officials that clearly means the oil and gas industry, a signaling that may be more to come but it is an

incremental strategy. is it really the right thing to do with the russians moving so quickly? jenna: answer your own question, is it? >> we need bolder action. now with this referendum on the books with annexation coming up, with what we see happening by russian forces, swifter and more decisive action is necessary. it would look like some of the things the u.s. has in store for later. during those more up front may be a better strategy. you see this in other scenarios as other situations as well where we try to be soft at first in hopes of getting negotiation when in fact you are doing this not willing to put up a very much of a cost.

jenna: if you look over at russia, they have state media and a russian news anchor, we will show them. this is what they were talking about last night. the only country in the world capable of turning the usa into radioactive dust is of course russia. that seems to be a different sort of shot across the bow. that is highly inflammatory to see a mushroom crowd behind a state news anchor but what about that retaliation? >> we should not over interpret one anchors comment. it shows you a supercharged atmosphere in russia right now being encouraged by the russian government tracking down on the moderation encouraging this kind of very hyper naturalistic talk. i don't think necessarily we will see that, but we will see counter sanctions. for tat counter from russia. can we impose a cost or can the market impose a cost on the

president that will affect his calculations? jenna: a big question of what that will mean. in the meantime we will be skeptical of any and all news anchors on the topic. we have to be careful. great to see you. gregg: not us. the missing malaysian airliner specifically diverted? we will ask an aviation security analysis what could have played a role in the disappearance. the polar vortex could be a blessing for the great lakes. how all the snow will change the water when the temperatures begin to rise. the day we rescued riley was a truly amazing day.

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gregg: brand new developments in the hunt for a missing malaysia jetliner with the search expanding almost on a daily basis. right now the equivalent of 32 million square miles is being searched. that's bigger than north america, south america, africa and europe combined. the last communication from the boeing 777 coming from 30 minutes after takeoff more than a week ago. copilot believed to have spoken the final words from the cockpit without mentioning a word about trouble on board then. the transponder shut down but its last satellite ping came seven hours later, all of this raising suspicion that the plane was intentionally diverted by

the pilot or somebody else on board with considerable flying experience. police searching the homes of the pilot and copilot and investigators checking the backgrounds of all 227 passengers and the 10 other crew members but what would somebody want to do with a boeing 777? joining us is michael boyd, aviation security analyst. what would somebody want to do with that big, fairly new jet? >> that's the big question. we have to ask. the plane is now in somebody's court. obviously it was taken someplace. it may have hit the water. it may be at some strip somewhere. i don't know how you get that airplane in and out but now what are they going to do with that airplane? that's what we should be searching for is now where could that airplane be? and how do we defend ourselves if they want to do something with it? what is that something? gregg: you're essentially saying that you think the plane may be intact and available and not just ditched in the water. is that because why would somebody fly the plane for many, many hours over water if they

simply intended to suicide dive in the water, right? >> exactly. that doesn't make a whole lot of sense and they were aiming it at some place. we have to assume that they aimed it someplace so the real issue is where are there runways, current, abandoned or whatever, 6,000, 7,000 feet where they could land the airplane and maybe take off again with fuel and no passengers and do something with it? we don't know. that's where i think we should be looking. >> the malaysian authorities appear to be looking closely at the pilot and the copilot. would you also be looking at the two iranians who were using stolen passports and they paid for their tickets one way and with cash which is reminiscent of 9/11? >> absolutely. that could be -- some security experts, that doesn't mean it happens all the time. these were not good people.

so that it is a group of people that probably did this but, hey, as far as the malaysian dpovt goes, they're coming across as keystone cops in this and i don't think they're a credible source at this point. government airline, we haven't gotten straight information from them. >> the dramatic changes in altitude, up and down, back up again, suggests to some that there may have been a on board the aircraft. others say, no, those were fairly deliberate. do you have any answers? >> it's almost like this information is being put out to confuse us all. one report says it was dropping 140 feet a minute. airplanes don't drop that fast. we don't know if there was any kind of fight on the airplane or what but we know this. it was going someplace intentionally it was not intended to go to start with. gregg: to disable the satellite system, the pings at some point

in time, it would require, i understand, somebody with intimate knowledge of aviation and that particular plane to crawl under a bay that may have been adjacent to or underneath the cockpit. that sounds like the work of a pilot. now maybe the pilot was coerced but what does that tell you? >> somebody knew something. again, that's part of the information we've got that doesn't make sense. turn off a transponder takes off a lot of skill. it does, two fingers, snap. we don't know. it could have been in the cockpit pulling a couple of buttons to turn something off. somebody knew something because somebody did a 180 and took the plane somewhere else. gregg: there's such a vast area to search, six times the size of the united states and people are on the streets. you talk to them and they're baffled, they're bewildered, even a great many experts. do you think we'll ever know

what happened to this plane that just seemed to vanish into air? >> i would suspect we will. it's such a big piece of machinery and there could be things floating in the ocean if it did go in the ocean but i think right now it was taken someplace and it wasn't for parts. connell: we see there pakistan, maybe even kazakhstan. would you be spending more time looking toward the south, maybe into i understand meesh a which is home to a great many terrorist organizations? >> yeah. that would be a real thing to look for and again, again, the thing to look for is any kind of a landing strip that could take that airplane one time and that would be where you would want to take satellite pictures or whatever. we do it to the soviets. we look at their places. they look at ours. why can't we do that? gregg: there are hundreds and hundreds of those strips and sometimes in places we don't

know about. thanks very much. good to see you. >> thank you, sir. jenna: more on that story throughout the show today. meantime, while most people will probably be happy to see this winter end, turns out all that snow and ice may be a blessing in disguise for the great lakes where water levels have been below normal for years. garrett is in chicago this morning with looking at the brighter side of winter. garrett? >> yeah. finally a positive note to this record setting bitter cold temperatures and record snowfall that we've been seeing this winter. we're here on the shore of lake michigan that is still frozen over but it's amazing to see the difference a year can make. take a look at this satellite image from a year ago of the great lakes when the lakes were at their lowest levels ever recorded. then in this image from this year, you can see how the lakes are almost entirely covered in ice. 93% covered. that's the second highest amount ever. all of that ice is preventing the lake water from evaporating which, in turn, is boosting

water leveld and when all of that ice will melt, it will only add to increase which will allow commercial ships to carry larger loads than they've been able to the last few years and that could mean savings that eventually could be passed down to all of us. >> the commodities that are shipped on the great lakes are used nation and worldwide so when you do have increased costs to move those commodities, those costs are passed on to the consumer no matter where they are. >> ice cover is lasting a lot longer than normal as well and that's been making it difficult for commercial ships trying to work their way across the lakes this winter but as that melts, that will be a good thing, especially for people looking to head out on the lake this summer. water levels will be higher and they don't need to worry about getting their boats shuck -- stuck on the shores trying to get out of the marina.

even with all of this water increase, the water levels are expected to be just around average or slightly below average on historical levels still. people on the water as far as the lakes go, they're hoping for a couple more winters like this to get the water levels back up to where they should be. i'm okay without that, though. jenna: brighter days ahead. that's the theme we're looking for and you delivered, gart. thank you very much for that. gregg: obama administration admitting that health insurance enrollment has been low under obamacare. now a new survey suggests it could stay that way. and you have to expect the unexpected in live television but this? oh, yeah. that's not just the cameraman shaking the camera. a strong quake throwing the seasoned anchors for a loop in the middle of a news cast. we'll show you where this happened. co: i've always found you don't know you need a hotel room

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jenna: new insight on how the uninsured view obamacare. survey shows one third of them don't plan to buy health coverage with most saying they can't afford the premiums. joining us is kate rogers with more. >> the affordable care act was meant to provide greater access to health care by making it cheaper, particularly for the uninsured but a new survey finds the price point for coverage still isn't low enough to get this group enrolled. one third of uninsured americans plan to remain uninsured despite the obamacare mandate they have to have cover janl. one thing might be they don't realize they have subsidies out there. 70% of uninsured say they were not aware of the premium tax credit that the law provides for low income americans. those making up to 400% of the federal poverty level at about $45,000 per year for an individual and $94,000 for a

family of four are eligible for subsidies to decrease their monthly premium payments. monthly premiums are about $325 for a mid tier silver plan without any subsidies. the young and uninsured are also not flocking to enroll in coverage. nearly 30% of 18 to 29-year-olds plan to remain uninsured. administration has been heavily targeting this group, most recently with president obama appearing on the parity show to plug the law. obamacare is approaching the one-year enrollment deadline two weeks from today. 4.2 million have enrolled on state and federal exchanges with 25% being between the much needed demo of 18 to 34 years old. those who failed to enroll by march 31 will face that penalty of $95 a year or 1% of their annual income for failing to comply. jenna: we'll see what happens in the next two weeks. we have two weeks until the end of enrollment. then maybe we'll get some final

numbers. thank you. gregg: how much do you love chocolate? jenna: scale of one to 10, it's pretty high. maybe an eight. gregg: how about taking a pill for it? benefits of chocolate without the extra calories. details on a new little pill you could take that could pack the healthy benefits of dark chocolate. what it could mean for the candy and pharmaceutical industries. hank the dog wandered into the milwaukee brewers training camp last month. we'll tell you what's next for adorable hank. ed. seriously? the last thing you need is some guy giving you a new catalytic converter when all you got is a loose gas cap. what? it is that simple sometimes. thanks. now let's take this puppy over to midas and get you some of the good 'ol midas touch. hey you know what? i'll drive! and i have no feet... i really didn't think this through.

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jenna: researchers are looking for a way to help you get the benefits of chocolate without the sugar and calories. mars, incorporated, behind m &

m's and snicker $ sponsoring a study to see if pills containing the nutrients in dark chocolate can help prevent heart attack and strokes. dagen is joining us from the fox business network. what is this all? dagen: this will not give us a reason to eat bucketfuls of chocolate, unfortunately, but this study is the first large test of cocoa flavinols. it's similar to plant nutrients to protect them from toxins and damage. it's a study done. there have been smaller studies in the past that did show some cardiovascular benefits of eating these cocoa flavinols. the study will be extensive. 18,000 people over a four-year period. as you pointed out, it's sponsored by the national heart, blood and lung institute but also mars, the company behind m & m's and snickers bars.

this is not necessarily because it thinks it's going to sell more chocolate. it's because mars owns a patent to extract these flavinols from cocoa pods in concentration and put them in flavorless capsules. i should point out that candy in and of ift doesn't have these cocoa flavinols in it. jenna: i was curious about that. i know i have, you know, had a piece of dark chocolate and you think it's good for you. but it's not necessarily -- all the good stuff is not necessarily there, right? dagen: these nutrients that will be studied are for the most part processed out of regular candy. this does raise the question of it will help the candy industry or not. probably not. the chocolate business in this country is about a $20 billion a year business so for it to move the needle, it probably wouldn't do much and by the way, the government, the federal trade

commission and the f.d.a. have more so in recent years been cracking down on companies and preventing them from advertising health benefits of foods if there isn't solid proof and not one but two studies. jenna: i would try it. dagen: i would find some reason to, you know, explain away the fact that i ate five bars last night waiting for the rain delay to end for the nascar race. jenna: that sounds delicious. i love that. thank you. gregg: fried dove bars? jenna: i think she had five. can we confirm with dagen? dagen: i said -- you have to translate for me because i speak southern. it's five. jenna: i got it. i got it, dagen. i heard you crystal clear. gregg: i thought it was deep fried because she's from the south.

jenna: but i think we're on to something. gregg: state fair you can deep fry everything. we'll have an update on the story of little hank, a stray puppy taken in by the milwaukee brewers at the start of spring training. every dog really does have its day and frank's was yesterday. the brewers g.m. even presenting him with his own jersey. canine, of course. there you go. isn't that cute? he quickly became a fan favorite especially with kids after showing up at the start of the camp in arizona. since then he and the team have been helping raise money for animal shelters. hank has been flown tohe's been team executive. he will make several public appearances and spend time with the team at the ball park. jenna: he looks well behaved as well. the baby, the whole thing. gregg: you just want to give him a hug. hope he doesn't have fleas. jenna: new developments in the search for the missing malaysia jet line ir as authorities try to figure out whether one of the

pilots diverted the flight. how passengers can protect themselves if a flight is sab tamed. we'll get into that a little built. president obama and the russian president failing to yoefrcom their differences. we'll have that next.

jenna: big developments on top stories and breaking news this hour. u.s. slapping russia with sanctions. president obama now in a faceoff with the russian president as vladmir putin gets closer to annexing crimea. we'll bring you up to date on that. a witness testifies that pistorius was obsessed with guns. could that help the defense in the murder trial? folks in los angeles getting quite a jolt this monday morning as an earthquake rattles the region. dramatic new video of the quake hitting during a live news cast. this all happening now. gregg: investigators now looking at the possibility of one or both of the pilots sabotaged the missing malaysian jetliner

welcome to a new hour of "happening now." jenna: happy st. patrick's day. authorities say someone shut down part of the plane's messaging system on purpose when the jetliner carrying more than 200 people disappeared off the radar. the airline is now believed the copilot gave the final communication calmly saying, all right. good night. joining us now is international commercial airlines pilot. everyone wants to read into everything because we know so little. we have so little fact. that comment coming from the pilot, is that typically what is said when you leave a certain region, you're talking to air traffic control? would someone say all right, good night? >> absolutely. sure. when we change frequencies and we change controlling frequencies as far as radar coverage, there's nothing wrong with saying that. however, i do want to preface that and say usually whoever is on the radio is not the person necessarily flying, that the captain was probably flying at this point and the first officer was handling the radio signals

if that was who was talking at the time. and i just wanted to also add that just because something stopped working, they don't know if it was deliberately turned off or something else happened there. all they do know is a signal stopped being emitted from the aircraft at that point. jenna: why do you want to bring that up? that's bothering you as far as what you've seen of news coverage so far? everyone is focussing on the one pilot doing something intentionally and we're very light on facts at this time. >> exactly and that's what it is. it is all conjecture. people want to book their travel this summer so it's about having a peace of mind and people understanding that this is language. the malaysian government is using certain language for people to try to accept what they want people to understand about this. now, it's just language. was it turned off or was it deliberately turned off? we don't know yet. i'm not quite ready to throw the pilots under the bus yet. i'm a pilot myself. until all the facts come out, i

think we still have to judge what is being brought out as it goes along. now, the simulator, it was just a fixed simulator. jenna: let me just stop you there because you're talking about the simulator. i'm imagining that's inside one of the pilot's houses. etches a veteran pilot that he had this -- what seemed like for us, for someone that doesn't fly like me, there's a picture of it, video off youtube. it seems like it's elaborate but what do you think about this? what do you think it tells us? >> what it tells us is that he really cared about his training. he set this up just to run procedures possibly, to run sam scenarios. yes, he could have set up a scenario where a possible hijacking taking out the airplane could have occurred or maybe he just wanted to use this for his own information, his own education. maybe he helped other people in their flight training also. this is just a training dwois. it's not an elaborate simulator that can simulate maneuvers and that we normally use for

training on hydraulic jacks. this looked like a simplified flight training device that he had in his home. jenna: a couple of questions focused on the expertise of a pilot. one of the things that's come up is a difference in altitude and it's a question that a lot of viewers have been asking, how the altitude affects the distance you can fly. we've heard this plane maintained regular altitude but some reports are from a local newspaper in malaysia that the plane may have gone as little as 5,000 feet. can you walk us through why that's significant? >> absolutely. for an airplane to fly at 5,000 feet, it's going to use up so much more fuel than an airplane flying 35,000, 38,000 feet. that's why airplanes fly that high. we don't use as much fuel at that altitude. if a plane was flying a long time at 5,000 feet, it would only be able to fly a couple of hours compared to what they're saying it was flying at five to

seven hours. to say it was going for a long distance at 5,000 feet, that doesn't hold water at this time. jenna: this is also confusing for someone outside of a pilot. we're talking about these satellite pings and we keep saying that the plane had some sort of contact with the satellite for almost seven hours but then just stopped. why would it just stop? >> there's a couple of possibilities. either it was intentionally ditched, which i have said before could be a possibility, or it ran out of fuel and it ditched at that time and went deep underwater. or maybe when it got to its destination, then it was completely shut down and we like to say it was completely powered off if it did arrive at a final location and it was hidden in a place. so with those difference scenarios, if it was completely powered down, then at that point, yes, those signals would stop emitting. jenna: that's wide ranging, the scenarios you lay out. so many questions and so few answers.

great to have you on the program today. >> you're welcome. any time. gregg: we are learning more about the pilots who commanded the missing malaysian airlines flight. investigators are combing through the homes of these two men this weekend trying to find clues that one of them, maybe both, may have wanted to sabotage the plane. it's a scenario. william is live in the west coast news room with the latest. >> 10 days, still more questions than answers. terrorism not ruled out as the search area expands dramatically and investigators now focus on the pilot, married, father of three. police raided his home this weekend and took his computer as well as that homemade flight simulator. friends say it showed a passion for flying. others see a red flag, a sophisticated pilot capable of turning off two tracking systems and flying below 5,000 feet. he's a strong supporter of government reform and had personal ties to a jailed

opposition leader. one photo has him wearing a t-shirt saying democracy is dead. here's a picture of the pilot and copilot going through security. officials say hamid's voice was the last heard before the plane vanished telling controllers, all right, good night with no apparent sense of distress. >> i think from all the information i've been briefed on from, you know, high levels within homeland security, national counterterrorism center, intelligence community that something was going on with the pilot. i think this all leads towards the cockpit with the pilot himself and copilot. >> the search now extends over 10 countries and two oceans, sonar hoping to hear pings from the flight recorder. now investigators believe the plane took a sharp westward turn when it was at vietnam and now they're looking over the indian

ocean and central asia. we do know the flight took off around 1:00 in the morning local time and satellites still have it in the air, though no direction, about seven hours later. malaysian newspaper quotes unnamed sources saying at one point, the plane flu at 5,000 feed to evade radar, suggesting a tldeliberate act. jenna: a big story coming out of california today. strongly felt earthquake roaming across los angeles this morning as tv news anchors react to it live on the air. >> okay. oh, my goodness. all right. that's an earthquake. >> yeah. >> and that's a big one. jenna: that's the news, right? affiliate in l.a. feeling the news. it measured 4.4 and that can wake you up, give you a big jolt. l.a. fire department receiving no immediate reports of damage. that's a good thing.

certainly some frayed nerves at this point. gregg: i grew up out there. shake, rattle and roll. new developments in the terror trial of osama bin laden's son-in-law. there's his picture. sending his testimony from inside his cell in guantanamo bay, cuba, saying that al qaeda spokesman had not a military man but no role in planning any terror attacks. but was their spokesman because he was an elegant speaker. his defense team will go to work today. notify referendum in crimea taking the crisis in the ukraine to a brand new level, becoming one of the most serious u.s. confrontations with russia since the end of the cold war. what are the next steps tore our president in the showdown with the russian president?

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gregg: president obama announcing new sanctions on russia in response to yesterday's referendum in crimea, the sanctions some of the strongest since the cold war ended. president was saying there may be more to come depending on russia's response. >> going forward, we can calibrate our response based on whether russia chooses to escalate or to deescalate the situation. now, i believe there's still a path to resolve this situation diplomatical until a way that addresses the interest of russia and ukraine. that includes russia pulling its

forces in crimea back to their bases, supporting the deployment of additional international mob tors in ukraine and engaging in dialogue with the ukrainian government. gregg: president obama and president vladmir putin spoke on the phone last night but failed to yoefrcom their differences. the two leaders are on a collision course with new fears that russia may annex more than crimea and intervene further in ukraine. so how does the administration need to proceed with vladmir putin in bret baier joins us, anchor of "special report." good to see you as always. seven top advisers to vladmir putin will have their assets frozen but they had two weeks to move them. and seven people is a far cry from the 140 that gary on our air recommended. he said that would get vladmir putin's attention. so what do you make of today's move and, you know, by the way, are republicans offering much

better? >> many republicans have said that these targeted sanctions, freezing these accounts, at host starting out this way is a positive move, a positive step to try to put the screws to vladmir putin. it's blefed that his inner circle feeling the pinch this way, freezing assets and not only the passport violations that you would be able to stop issuing passports but also freezing of accounts would really start to have an effect. you're right. there are many more people outside the list of 11 that the administration has targeted so far but you heard the president saying he could -- they could step up the pressure if russia didn't respond to this initial round. gregg: sometimes there are problems in a world that just cannot be solved. u.s. can't be, you know, the policemen of the world and sanctions may not work here and nothing may alter the course of

vladmir putin. are there really, in truth, very few workable options? >> with the e.u. and working closely with the chancellor of germany, i think that there is hope that they can put the pressure on russia economically because the russian economy is not that great. the ruble took a big drop in recent weeks and they believe with these economic sanctions that they can have some influence over vladmir putin. the question is, if he's already factored all of this in and really wants to hold on to and annex crimea and maybe even go further into eastern ukraine, you're right. there's not a lot that can be done. but you could send a signal of strength to especially those nato countries along the border of ukraine and the baltics that are really feeling a little anxious in the wake of this russian move. gregg: bret baier, anchor of

special report, we'll be watching tonight at 6:00. thanks very much. jenna: now fox news report, fox news alert and we just confirmed a third person has died from that horrible accident at the south by southwest festival in austin, texas last week. the suspected drunk driver plowed into the crowd. he had nearly two dozen people injured in the hospital. we understand there are additionally another handful of people still in the hospital trying to recover. but this is the third person to die. alleged drupg drushg -- drunk driver is in jail. now obama administration planning to turn over america's remaining control over the internet. also some americans learning they won the lottery, then finding out it was all a scam. a live report on what con artists are doing now that you don't want to miss.

jenna: fox weather alert now. lee more days until spring but winter is getting in the last licks before the weather begins to warm up. mid atlantic and some areas in the northeast seeing some st. patrick's day snow today as federal buildings shut down in d.c. where people were forced to dig out their cars and sidewalks yet again. janice dean, i expected you in yellow. this is not a good sign. dark color, i don't know. >> it's a sweater material. did you get the memo? we're calling this snow patrick's day. jenna: i like that. i think that works. >> i think so, too. look at these snow totals. we broke weather with the snow patrick's day snowfall. dulles airport, the second snowiest march normal for you and the third snowiest march

snowfall for you at reagan national airport so folks had to shut that city down. let's take a lake-effect -- look at the radar right now. the possibility of more snow showers around d.c. freezing rain around greensboro. cloudy around asheville. a lot of moisture streaming in from the southeast. we could see a burst of snow across the mid atlantic and you see all that rainfall courtesy of the cold front associated with the system where they could get several inches of rainfall. so our next chance at snow, here it is across the northern rockies, moving in towards the northern plains, central plains this week and the midwest, perhaps several inches of snow and then we could see more snow across northern portions of new york and new england as we head into thursday. we'll watch that system. come on, spring. first day of spring officially arrives on thursday. do you know what? some good news to wrap up our forecast. on thursday, in the 50's for new york. 60 for d.c. so the snow will all

be gone and boston, 55 for you on the first day of spring. gregg and i were joking yesterday that they could dye some snow green just to have some fun. jenna: the low in new york is still in the 30's. i just can't help it. i brought the wrong jacket. you're really in trouble. >> we're not out of the woods yet. somebody was saying maybe a white easter. jenna: no. easter is late this year. we have to make sure that doesn't happen. we'll see what we can do. thank you. >> happy st. patrick's day. gregg: united states is set to give up remaining control of the internet, a controversial plan announced by the obama administration to turn over management of the systems which assign website addresses and direct some internet traffic. this would now be run by some sort of an international group. joining us is writer for the american conservative may go

zone, fox neu ews contributor ag with alan colmes, host of the alan colmes show and author and also a fox news contributor. good to see you both. alan, look. this is something that american programmers invented, america has nurtured it and advanced it and protected it and taken it to the rest of the world. why should we concede control over it? >> that's a great question. i think it should be left to the inventor, al gore. i'm concerned about where this is going to go, who is going to control it, who is going to have a say in it. i think it's a great concern. why mess with something we started, we invented and came with a dark net, originally invented by other defense department? why give it up? gregg: it was paid for by taxpayers. you're right. the defense department developed

it in the 1960's. does it seem fool hardy, jim, to allow one president, one administration to sort of give away that which for decades, you know, americans helped pay for? >> right. i a grow. i agree with alan, much to my surprise. >> sorry about, that jim. >> this started in the 1970's when the various presidents worked to give away the panama canal treaty. panama canal by treaty and ronald reagan said that's ridiculous. we owned it, the panama canal and now we're going to give it to somebody else? that's crazy. reagan nearly won the 1976 presidential nomination on that issue and then came back in won in 1980, the presidency, and i truly think this issue is so huge potentially in terms of why would the obama administration want to give away the internet to china and iran and russia and every other no good country out

there? it just baffles me they would be doing this. gregg: one of the arguments is that the existing people who oversee it have favored some of the big companies like facebook, going he will and microsoft to which i would say, well, so what? what's wrong with that? >> if you think there's something wrong with that because these big corporate entities don't always have the best interests of the average person in mind, then give it to another entity or have it be another american-u.s. based independent entity that controls it. why put it as a result of that into international control? i don't understand the reasoning of that. gregg: america is the beacon of free speech, free markets, many other powerful and ascending nations are not. china, for example, very repressive. they've been censoring google and face bobbing. -- facebook. china could gain some influence and control over it and that would be a bad thing, wouldn't

it? >> all the obama administration has said is that the u.s. department of commerce is going to sever its connection to ican, this corporation. they don't even have a plan as to actually who would take it over in 2016. it's just going to be some vague international authority like the human rights commission or idiotic u.. this things they created. look. this is so huge and the internet is so important, not only to our economy but also to the world that i salute u.s. senators like marco rubio and tim scott who have said this is the problem but i'm just saying it's a much bigger issue than i think the political media communities now so trans fixed with ukraine and stuff they've lost fact. gregg: apple products are all over the world. apple is not going to give up control of apple. at the same time, i'm struck by and sort of puzzled by verizon. they say it is a positive and timely step in the evolution of the internet government to hand

it over. can you figure that out? >> only if we know we're handing it over to. just to sever ties with ican make noes s -- makes no sense to me. gregg: jim and alan agreeing on the same subjects. purple, alan? really? >> the new black, baby. gregg: thanks. good to see you. jenna: the search continues for the missing malaysia airplane. how search teams are using new technology to find the missing jumbo jet. also dramatic testimony today in the blade runner murder trial as oscar pistorius' gun goi guy talks about the athlete's love of weapons. if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, like me,

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jenna: investigators are focused on not only the where but who may have sabotaged malaysian airlines flight. we don't fn that's the case. right now there's a focus on the two pilots and a flight engineer after the plane deliberately

took evasive maneuvers and turned off the tracking systems. deliberately is a term used by the malaysian government. u.s. helping search teams from 25 other countries using new technologies, including satellite and sonar and other information to narrow down the search area. we have another front page story this morning. andy, as we start off the new week, what is your biggest question today? >> i have many, many, many of your viewers' questions. 10 days, we're not very much closer to finding even some important answers at this point and more than that, i don't think we have a clear path to get additional answers. the biggest problem, of course, is that there's no wreckage and without that, it will be very hard to get to the bottom of what happened. search area is gigantic and we can talk about that a little bit on water and also on land. the heavier pieces of the

wreckage, even if we're lucky enough to locate the general area, will sink to the bottom. lighter pieces will be moved around by the current. the longer we can't find it, the harder it will be to actually figure out where all of these pieces ended up and unfortunately, we're starting to see today, just today the malaysian airlines and the government contradicting each other, some kwens -- sequence of events. we're looking at a difficult, uphill investigation. i would say many months, maybe years and a big question mark where we end up at the end. jenna: we talked to the u.s. navy today about their search and we've talked a lot about searching over water. what have you heard about searching over land? >> well, it's a little dicey, i would say, of course, because no country wants others to search its land mass so i think we have to rely, investigators have to rely on each individual country

to look at what's going on, on land. i would say that most experts believe that satellites, surveillance satellites, ours, the chinese and many other countries, would do a pretty good job of locating an aircraft if it is in one piece and landed somewhere. i think that that's a little bit easier to do than find wreckage underwater. but we don't exactly know precisely where the search is on land and i think that for the friction in cannountries so far indicate that even on land it will be difficult to get good cooperation. jenna: talk to us about the dlab ration and also i have a question for you as something in your article. one of the things that you touch on today is the black box and everyone is curious about finding the black box. in your airline, you explain why there's a limit how much the black box can actually tell us. can you share that with our viewers? >> sure. the cooperation first. i think it's been a really very

poor example of cooperation on this investigation so far. the military and the civilians officials in malaysia have been ambivalent it appears. want u.s. government apparently is very unhappy and has been for days about the level of information sharing. the chinese are pointing fingers at the malaysians. vietnamese have halted their search for some reason. i think cooperation is not getting much better. the second point is i think an important one that's been missed. even if everything goes well and we find the wreckage and the black box, the cockpit voice recorder is a loop and it records over itself. all we will find is the last two hours. we don't know anything in terms of what the recorder shows about the instant when the plane veered off course and disappeared from radar or from any hours of the flight after that. so it's a real question. if there's a lot of conversation in the cockpit the last two hours, it might help us

understand what happened but it's also very plausible that all we'll hear will be some switches being switched and the hum of the engine and really not much more. that will be a real problem. jenna: in your 30 years of reporting, have you ever confronted a story like this? >> no. i would say people use the word unprecedented and sometimes they use it too easily and quickly. this truly is unprecedented. nobody that i talked to, whether in the law enforcement community or aviation community has ever seen anything like this in terms of the scope of the search, in terms of the mystery surrounding what happened. it's really a whole new area and i have to say investigators are using some new tools in trying to adjust to this new situation and trying to do the best they can. my takeaway at this point is that we're not very close to getting the answers and unfortunately, i think it's possible that we may never get the full answer. jenna: you gave us a lot to think about and you're doing the best reporting out there so we appreciate the time. you're busy working on the

story. thank you so much. gregg: think you won the lottery and you're headed for easy street? better watch out. federal trade commission warning that con artists are out there trying to pull off all kinds of lottery scams, taking tens of thousands of americans for a ride. peter barnes for the fox business network live in d.c. >> in jab, a retired man in northern virginia received this letter titled prize winning notification. the letter said he'd won $125,000 in the international shoppers lotto powerball. the letter included a check for $3,875 but the letter said not to deposit the check until he called a number in canada to follow up. >> the reason why they ask you to call is to make people more likely to wire money back to them. >> but it's a scam. >> it's a scam. >> in this case, the senders

made a big mistake. the retiree's wife works at the federal trade commission which polices lottery scams so he knew not to call or to deposit the check which was a fake and this scam is the big one. ftc received nearly 90,000 consumer complaints last year about scams involving prizes, sweepstakes and lottery, about double the number in 2009. the scams have cost victims tens of millions of dollars. just last month justice department charged 10 people in south carolina with bilking more than 200 people out of more than a million dollars in a lottery scam. i decided to call the number on the letter just to see what would happen. someone picked up the end of the line and said he was the claim agent, jeff. i told him about the letter and said that the ftc said it was a scam. he said, it's not true. put me on hold and then

disconnected me. the ftc wouldn't comment on any investigation into this particular scam but the ftc is warning consumers once again that whenever any letter, email or caller asks you to wire money somewhere, that's a red flag for a scam. don't do it. back to you. gregg: i'm taking your advice. good advice. thank you very much. jenna: and that jeff out there sounds pretty close to gregg. gun dealer taking the stand in the blade runner's murder trial telling the court that oscar pistorius just loved guns. the judge, an interesting take by the legal panel how it could help his defense. plus helping teens succeed in the classroom. could it be as easy as allowing them to sleep in more? we'll talk about that with a doctor who is also a parent and can tell us how much sleep we should give them. co: i've always found you don't know you need a hotel room

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gregg: blade runner murder trial entering the third week. a gun dealer taking the witness stand, testifying that oscar pistorius wanted to buy seven more guns in 2012 adding to the pistol he already owned for self defense. the dealer also saying the athlete was an avid collector of weapons. >> was any discussion about the interest in -- >> he had a great love and enthusiasm for them already. gregg: form are -- former prosecutor and former defense attorney saying that he crouched in an offensive position when he heard a burglar in his apartment. ashley, i'll bet you would use that to help the defense to say, wait a minute. this is a guy who irrationally was obsessed with guns and

precipitously and wrecklessly fired his weapon. he didn't intend to kill his girlfriend. >> right. i would use the prior incident where he thought his house was being broken into and he was scared. he had fear. i had explain to the judge my client still had fear and that's why he liked to collect weapons. the fact he collected weapons or was fascinated with guns is not that compel to go me. that just tells me he is a person who likes gun. that doesn't mean he's wreckless with them. gregg: pistorius appears to be engaging in the imperfect self defense, an honest but mistaken belief your life is in danger, reminisce ents -- reminiscent of lyle and eric menendez. they thought dad was going to kill him so we killed him first. >> that didn't work for them and

i think the prosecution has a better chance of what -- they have a better chance of proving in this case is not so much the murder charge but the lesser charge of the culpable homicide. here is why. we're day 11 now of trial. what the prosecution needs to prove is that he intended to kill her and had malice in his heart when he pulled the trigger. day 11, we haven't proven any of those elements yet but we might have a good chance proving his reaction by not knowing who was behind that bathroom door was unreasonable when he pulled the trigger and that will get them a culpable homicide conviction. gregg: the defense has scoffed at the prosecution's evidence saying it's purely circumstantial but you know as a veteran defense attorney, circumstantial evidence, especially based on physical and scientific evidence can be far more powerful than eyewitness and ear witness testimony which

is fallible, right? >> definitely and circumstantial evidence is oftentimes all you have in cases like this because you have a victim who is deceased and you've got the actual defendant saying his side of the story and those are the only two eyewitnesss to the crime. so all they've got is circumstantial evidence. there were no other eyewitnesss. if they still have to fill it up with enough evidence. gregg: the other part of the defense case is these are the keystone cops. they were mumbling and stumbling, you know, at one point in time, it came out that the ballisticing s expert picked up the gun without gloves. are they trying to argue that look. our client, oscar pistorius, was framed by incompetent cops? >> also the other direction is why should we believe the testimony of the cops and the investigators because we've got one cop who took the bathroom door off, put it in a body bag

and shipped it to his office for some unknown reason. number two, some of oscar's valuable jewelry was missing and got one of the investigators who asked his cops, who took the watch? it was an expensive watch. if you're own boss believes you're capable of stealing valuable jewelry, come on. why does the judge blef anything that comes out of their mouth? gregg: it worked for o.j. simpson. he claims that sloppy cops framed him. it worked for him. maybe it will work for pistorius. >> hopefully for pistorius. if the police did not do a thorough job and all they have is circumstantial evidence, it's going to be really hard for them to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the actual intentional murder. i agree that the culpable murder is a much bigger stretch. gregg: ashley and jonna, good to

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jenna: a study we told you about last week showing students should be allowed to hit the snooze button a few more times every day. researchers at university minnesota looked at three high schools in three states and said that students had better attendance, better moods, better test scores after they pushed back school start times. here is a doctor that is also a

father. c.d.c. was part of this study. they sponsored the study to see the impact. what do you think about the results? what does it tell us? >> it's exciting news. it's no secret during puberty and adolescence that children's brains are developing and sleep is an important factor in the proper development of their brains. jenna: and seems that the sleep hormone is released much later for teens which causes them to stay up later? >> it causes them to get droudzy at a much later hour, usually the melatonin is released later in the day, around 11:00. that's why when you're telling your kids to go to bed at 9:00, 9:30, we're not tired, there's not tired. there's a reason for that. when we get them up early to go to school, most schools start before 8:00, we're interrupting the proper sleep cycle for them. i'm assuming from this study

that letting them start school later is better for them. jenna: but how much later? how much more sleep? we all need more sleep, right? so how much more sleep are we going to give the kids? >> you need more sleep but on a daily basis. the current trend, my girls will sleep in on the weekends to sort of catch up. that doesn't help as much as getting proper eight to nine hours, 20 minutes. i think that's the max or the key number they want them to have. anything over eight hours a night is great. how do you do that? jenna: if they're starting school later, do you think they'll stay up later and the cycle just repeats itself? >> that's a possibility. things that emit blue lights like computers, cell phones, that they play with and use for school and their studies keep them up even later as well. so that's rough the down sides. the other problem is how do you get them to school if they're starting later? jenna: and you have all those

issues. extracurricular activities, the games had to be moved back and study times are later so as the health professional and a father, what do you think would be ideal? >> i think they definitely need to get eight hours of sleep a night and i think maybe we really need to look at seriously some of the activities that when we overschedule them, many times by the time these children get to college, they're just burned out. and, you know, because they've been involved in so many things, you know, hockey, swimming, i know with my girls they're up early in the morning and things like hockey and sports like football, baseball, those are all late sports. it's tough. what you really need to do is try to get a balance if you can and try to limit the computer use, cell phone use in the evening, proper nutrition is important. asian countries stop in the afternoon to take a siesta. most people try to get the extra sleep in. jenna: even if the school start times are early, you can take a look at the schedule, try to

lighten it up. >> if we can a little bit. jenna: great to see you as always. >> happy st. paddy's day. jenna: you as well. gregg: i do have trouble in the morning. maybe i'm a teen. world is going green to show irish pride as st. patrick's day festivities are underway. we'll show you a main event in ireland and a celebration here at home moments away. okay, listen up! i'm re-workin' the menu.

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