>> all that coming up in a 9:00 a.m. hour. so stay with fox. >> right. all the breaking news, whatever this debris turns out to be, we'll be there. we'll be back tomorrow morning. >> in the meantime, america's news room starts now. bill: we are going to 10 on breaking news for the flight for flight 370. officials say it could be the best lead so far, but is it the plane? satellite spotting two objects. one of them 80 feet in length the other 50 feet long. ships are in the indian ocean well off the coast of perth, australia.

i'm bill hemmer, martha has some time with the family. heather: potentially a very exciting day. the plane disappearing with 239 people on board and officials are being cautious with the latest discovery. >> we have been in this business of doing search and rescue and using satellite images before and they don't always turn out to be related to the search even if they look good. we'll hold our news until a sighted close-up. heather: catherine herridge has been up all night. you really feel for the families in kuala lumpur. >> reporter: the existing data was given a second intense review by the ntsb and faa in an effort to narrow down the

trajectory of the flight. this included the satellite dataling that took us into that southern corridor as well as the existing civilian and military radar. what was tacker toed in as well was the change in altitude, the fuel on board, the weather and how far a triple 777 could glide without power on. yesterday this map was released with a narrow search area. specifically it was not just this targeted search area but a drift area. we heard these objects they have found is consistent with that redefined search area from the americans. bill: that's where we are in this search. what are the expectations? they are keeping them low. and they are still searching in other areas. how would you characterize that,

catherine? >> reporter: let's begin with where the search is. the australians are firmly in the lead with an assist from the united states and new zealand. we have one of the most sophisticated search and surveillance aircraft. it's done one route of the area and they were out for 10 hours. 80% of that is getting to the site where these objects were given on satellite. i want to emphasize this is an aircraft that could go he can really low within 100 meters with cameras and radar. just because they had one pass does not mean they will be successuccessful. as the australians indicated in a news conference overnight the expectations have to be moderate. weather is a complicating factor in the search. we are talking about an area that is literally and

figuratively at the end of the world. >> the objects are relatively indistinct on the imagery. i don't profess to be an expert on the images but those who will experts say they are credible sightings. they are reasonable size and probably awash with water moving up and down out of the surface. >> reporter: one of the key elements is a piece of the objects was a reasonable size, about 80 feet long. that's important because what we know from former ntsb investigators. if that triple 777 jet went down, the type of debris that would outlast, if you will, the impact, would be sections of the wing and also the tail including the vertical fin and the horizontal stabilizer. these objects seem consistent

with degree from a triple 777 and they are consistent with this redefined search area. people need to understand this is where we have seen the u.s. intelligence community as well as the australians and the british come together to use the sources and methods you would not typically see under most circumstances. bill: thank you, we'll be back with you throughout the day. heather: all those countries working so well together as well. catherine talked about the p-8 poseidon. it's built from a boeing 737 air frame and has a maximum speed of 665 miles an hour. bill: two images have been made public. this is the same object on ought ground. it's just different images screen left and screen right.

it's about 80 feet in total. they are the same image. if you advance it one time there will be is a second image that's been put out. this is smaller, up to 18 feet they are floating in the water in this location that is at the bottom of the world. this is the southern part of the indian ocean off the coast of perth. there are 1,500 flying miles here. it takes the plane 4 hours to get to the search area and four hours back. here is kuala lumpur in malaysia. a lot of people have been remarking this is almost due south on the map. slightly east depending on the currents. and these currents can be really rough in that part of the world. one more thing to go over. remember the original route was lum pr u --route was kuala lumpo

beijing. there were two working theories and both theories are still alive. investigators in kuala lumpur and perth, australia, this is theory number one with the route up to kazakhstan and route new two takes it to the coast of australia. route number one is still being investigated. the problem is all these countries, they believe some radar system or some air base would have picked up some signal on behalf of that triple 777, and there is no evidence last that has been given or made public that the plane went in this direction which takes you to theory number 2 way deep down here in the indian ocean where the focus is today. these are rough currents. it's deep deep water down there. there is one estimate that suggests the water could be as

deep as 16,000 feet. to access that you would need a rebought or submarine to go that deep and examine. heather: let's talk more about the family members of those victims. the family members of those missing jet laner. many of them shouting in anger as they have attend a meeting with malaysia airlines representatives. many saying they feel cheated by the malaysian government because it's been so slow to release information about the status of that flight. the families also holding a candlelight vigil for their missing loved ones. a malaysian official calling the object off the coast of australia a quote credible lead.

jeannett gartland is in lumpur. what is the malaysian government saying? >> the transport minister said while the sighting was credible there will be was still not any confirmation the debris is from the missing plane. he says there is still much work to do. the degree early on in the search didn't turn out to be from the missing plane. the transport minister said this lead is different because there was confirmation from other satellite data. they said a piece of debris of this size would not be floating. the malaysian authorities photos are being taken today. it's watch and wait for the family and friends here bracing themselves for news from australia. the transport minister said the search was continuing in the

northern corridor which stretches up to central asia. china is still searching on its territory. there are 25 aircraft in the southern corridor. malaysia is talking about the possibility of the surveillance and are searching to find the black box. search advance technology is available to very few countries and malaysia doesn't have it so they would need help. the transport minister said the conditions are similar to those in the electric an air france plane went down in 2009. it took two years to find that plane's black box. the families, the ceo of malaysia airlines says the suspected debris, if it is mh370 the families will be flown to australia. the families will not find much

comfort in the information this evening. them have been demanding clearer information. but if this is the wreckage it could be devastating. heather: the airline taking that message too late for the families. we have seen so much grief from them. bill: it's hard to see these people waiting and pleadin answers. much more to come on flight 370. what we know and what we don't know. also ukraine giving up and pulling its troops from crimea. the dangerous moves putin could be emboldened to make next. heather: one of america's biggest cities, more than 100 illegal immigrants, including children were found stashed in a house. bill: what to make of the biggest break yet perhaps on the flight for flight 370. the world awaiting confirmation

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heather: australian officials say two large objects in the indian ocean picked up in the indian ocean could be from flight 370. four military search planes are head to that area which is 1,500 miles off the southwestern tip of australia. maritime officials say there is poor visibility and also rain and that may slow the evident to find the objects in the water.

a plane in that area found nothing, but again poor visibility. >> we do not need to trigger an actual war with russia. the ukrainians don't want that. nobody would want that. bill: obama saying he's ruling out military action against russia. your reaction on the president's comment lead you where. >> i don't know where it's leading him. nobody has ever suggested sending u.s. troops to defend ukraine. that's a total strawman setup so he can present himself as a man of peace. he says might doesn't make right. might may not make right in a classroom of ethics. but in the real world might got

putin crimea. obviously putin feels he's in the position of strength and the west has not been able to mount a significant reaction of any kind, let alone military. bill: you say ukraine is getting worse by the day and we are helping to make it worse. how is that -- in what sense? >> i think the danger is growing by the day. while we cannot predict exactly when putin will make his next move. it could be next week, next month or next year. but our weakness, our unwillingness to do anything of meaning, severe, hard-hitting economic sanctions only encourages putin. you had a rhetorical response from the west saying this cannot stand. but we are doing absolutely nothing. and the president's response is

saying by doing nothing i'm doing everything. at some point we have to stand up to putin. hit them where it hurts. the russian economy is from jail. it's like credit card bills. you either pay your bill now or you will pay a lot more in the long run. bill: you believe there is a real danger now of nato cracking on this? are you suggesting it could break up over this? >> i'm not suggesting nato would come apart tomorrow. but if the eastern states, estonia, poland, romania. if they sense the western world won't stand by them and the u.s. is equivocating, you are not

seeing unity in europe. nato is great when uncle sugar was paying the bills and together hasty lifting. but now that there is a threat to europe again i'm not seeing a lot. bill: the question is where putin stops. where do you think he stops? >> with his claim he's entitled to defend russian-speaking populations anywhere in the world, probably brooklyn. bill: seriously, is he looking for kiev? does he want to make a corridor through the western part of russia into moldova? what do you think? >> step one southeastern ukraine. step two, western ukraine. step three all of ukraine. that's the question mark, does he take central asia back or turn at baltic.

his goal is clear. he wants to reconstruct the russian empire of the czars. he feels -- and he feels he is in the right, that he is historically and morally entitled to take these land back. bill: that was clear in the address he made to lawmakers two days ago. ralph peters on ukraine and more. thank you, sir. heather: back to our breaking news and what could be a significant find in the search for flight 370. what did satellites pick up off the coast of australia. we'll foe more after this. bill: a lot of questions on the cargo on board that plane. more on that fateful day 12 days ago. >> weather conditions are moderate in the indian ocean where the search is taking place, however, poor visibility

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heather: could it be a break in th --in the search for flight 3? one question a lot of folks have been asking. could the cargo hold any clues to what happened. cargo doesn't get the screening passengers and their luggage get. william, could there have been something dangerous in the cargo that caused something to happen on board that plane? >> reporter: sabotage and terrorism has not been resumed out. one theory has the plane

depressurizing and flying low and running out of gas. passenger checked luggage or cargo. most passenger jets are filled with car go. screening cargo is not always examined or x-rayed individually and bomb detection equipment could be inadequate. >> everyone uses a type of x-ray to screen the cargo. the standard vary by country. but most countries around at world if they subscribe to the international civil aviation standard will be screening the

cargo that way. >> reporter: the international air cargo association wants a global screening. malaysian officials claim there was nothinged on board that could have accident alley explode. the on cargo on board was 4 tons of mangos. they say it was screened but won't say how. we all know what's on paper and what's in practice are not always the same. an explosion does remain under investigation. heather: thank you so much. a debate we had after 9/11, the security of things in the car go. trying to screen those things. bill: 1996 valujet, remember that in florida? all this is just theory and speculation. we are getting word the first

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♪ heather: new information to bring you on the missing malaysian flight. we are looking at a picture from oslo, norway. norway haded the first ship on the scene in the indian ocean off the southwestern tip of australia. their ship has been participating in the search efforts after they were able to identify two pieces of debris. we'll continue to listen in on this and bring you information as news warrants. bill: what we assembled is what we believe to be the case and the time frame of 7 hours 30

minutes 12 days tea go. 12:41 a.m. takes off from kuala lumpur headed for a 6-hour journey to beijing, china. acars reports in at 1:07 a.m. the plane veers to the west. 12 minutes later copilot, "all right, good night." 2:00 a.m. the transponder stops working. 12 minutes later at 1:37 the acars system does not work. at 2:15 is the last time on radar the malaysian military picked up that plane. at 8:11 a.m. the plane was last

seen on satellite. that covers the plane bound for beijing making a turn to the west and now possibly deep in the indian ocean. salvatore is an aviation expert and law professor. you have seen the satellite images so far today, what do you think based on what authorities have put out. >> i think we need to be cautious about those satellite images. as one official says, there are more things it could be other than the airplane and the percentages are very high that it's something else. but that's hopeful at least that's the airplane. bill: the poseidon is a modified u.s. aircraft. it went out to look and found nothing. could that be cloud cover? >> the weather is very bad and

visibility is very low. they have electronic devices onboard the poseidon that will detect things in the water. but we understand the airplane had to return because of the weather. so obviously the weather is not that good for them. i don't believe it will be airborne for another 0 hours or so. bill: why would it be if true that this plane changed its course 12 minute before it said good night. >> there is the million dollar question. even if this is the degree from the airplane, what's it doing there? we still have that situation where it's been flying for 7 hours. that almost totally eliminates a mechanical or explosive type of event because why would it fly for 7 hours after that. would you expect to find this plane at the end of it flight plan or where it made that turn or somewhere in between but not this far south. reporter: apparently the

satellite images were made public sunday. >> reporter: their he can explanation is it's a tedium performance to get the information and look at them slowly and find these kind of things. that's not an excuse i think a lot of people are going to buy. you have to get this information much more fresh. the surface, waves in that area. you are going to move degree in a northeast direction. so even if you pick up that degree and say that's from the plane, we have to figure out where that airplane was 12 days ago. bill: the debris field could be 700 mile to the the east. you have got a depth of up to 3 miles. a black box can apparently survive depths of 4 miles. you put a submarine down? you put a robot down? is that how you access a degree

field? >> if they use u.s. access there are robotic surveyors that could go down. it's like a robot submarine that will operate for long period time and start meeting together and try to look for the black boxes in this case. we know the pingers are designed to last 30 days. if we can get a small radius that will give us some idea of where the airplane is. we know the pingers tend to last longer than 30 days, but the minimum is 30 days. bill: you are talking day if not weeks before you can send a mission to the bottom of the ocean. >> this is not going to be a quick and easy find. this is something they'll have to work on very tediously the next day can, weeks, hopefully not months. bill: if you dough back to the graphic that shows the kuala lumpur location, that's flying time of 7 hours. the original flight plan was 6

hours up to beijing. and the triple 777 will carry extra fuel to take another 45 minutes or an hour in case of weather holding them up. if the last satellite was picked up some 7 hours into the flight that would have been at the very end of fuel capacity for this plane, would it not? >> that's correct. that's something to be considered. by law you have to have extra fuel on for weather and mechanical diversions. why was this plane heading in that direction at the end of its fuel exhaust shun. fuel -- fume exhaustion. bill: the plane loses oxygen an everyone on board dies and this

plane glide into the indian ocean. it happened before. >> so far in this entire incident there is a whole lot that's not making sense. until we get to the bottom of what caused this airplane not on to go down fit went down, but also to veer off course and say good-bye in the middle of what apparently was a diversion of its course. before when find all that out this won't make sense. bill: what about the lithium batteries on board? >> there is a theory there were lithium batteries in the cargo hold that was not pressurized that could have caused a fire. if they caused a fire large enough to take out the acars and the transponder and take out the auto pilot. we are all agreeing the auto pilot may have been flying this

plane that auto pilot would be flying as well. it's big enough for all that why do we hear 12 minutes later a copilot say all right, good night. we have seen it on small scales, there was a laptop scare at some point where some laptop batteries were catching fire. but you have got to think that that's probably a smaller consideration at this point. bill: thank you for coming back today. heather? heather: a fox news alert. we have brand-new jobs numbers just south. the number of americans seeking unemployment benefits rising slightly last week to 320,000. but are those figures -- actually they are staying close to prerecession level and now let's take a look at the markets. the dow is 16,000 in early

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heather: the discovery of the debris off the coast of australia may be the biggest break in the search for flight 370. march 9, two days after the plane vanished add radar there was a suspected aircraft tail found floating gulf of tiled. but that turned out to be logged tied together. march 10 an object floating off

vietnam's coast believed to be a life rest turned out to be unrelated debris. march 13, vietnam sailors found debris in an area where chinese at lights reportedly picked up three floating objects. not to throw a lot of water on this new development, but we have to keep in mind this may not be the airplane debris we are so desperately looking for. what are your thoughts on it. >> i think your word desperately is apropos. after two weeks everybody wants to find this airplane in the worst way. unfortunately the weather did not allow the australian search aircraft to hone in on the parts floating in the water so it will have to wait until at least tomorrow when it becomes light

again. but we don't know that these are a couple of car go carriers that fell off a ship somewhere to be honest. heat will be it does -- heather: it does look optimistic because some of the debris are about 80 feet and some are saying it could be a wing. >> there is always hope. the fact that we have anything to hold on to is a good sign. heather: this isn't the right direction we are looking because the countries to the north along that northern part of the curve indicated nothing on its satellite. so the key part seems to be the south. >> if you keep in mind the last known position of the airplane was in the gulf of thailand when it turned around, and if you were to make a straight line from where we last knew it was

for certain, yet assume it didn't change course at all, it would put it somewhere down this area that we are looking at right now. heather: but as you point out there could be a lot of other junk floating in the ocean. there are a lot of ships out there and airplanes. but still there is some work being done at night. what work at least on the part of the planes or the ships in the water might they be doing at this hour? >> the visual search is very, very difficult at night. >> there is bad weather or at least -- report that's making it even worse. i don't claim to be the radar expert but there are pieces of gear on board some of the air pleants that will allow them to look through the cloud. and find whatever might be floating. but of courts other problem is that the photos the australians

were look at were a couple days old at this point. so that's material disappeared because it drift off somewhere and the job is to try to track the currents. and try to make a best guess of where the debris went. heather: i guess you need the meteorologists and experts to take a look at the current. >> it's not near as easy as some people might think. heather: the temperature of the water and all the thing that factor into this hunt. it's really a no man's land. have you ever flown that portion of the world? >> no, but when you get out over the ocean it all kinds of looks the the same. it's just water in all directions. heather: the area of is remarkable in terms of its scope. but on the other hand remarkable that we have been able to hone in on this exact area. robert mark thank you so much

for calling. airline pilot, not giving up hope yet, but cautiously optimistic? >> yeah. i don't think i would ever give up hope. we have to keep searching. we just don't know for certain where we are looking. talk about these norwegians. bill: let's come back to these family members going through this in realtime. this is the norwegian press conference. their ship has been the first to arrive at this position some 1,500 flying miles off the southwest coast of perth, australia. it's way out there in the indian ocean. australia is 1 hours ahead of east coast time. so it's almost 10:00 at night. it's dark. they can get a better look at things around. the australians are saying their

serve ended for the night and will resume at daybreak tomorrow. we'll try to piece it together and when we get more you will hear it here. >> police rescuing more than 100 men, women and children from a house that's crammed not with furniture and not with much more than people. lots and lots of people. we'll tell you about that. >> the largest number of individual in a stash house we encountered and probably in the past five or six years. >> there is one bathroom in the house. 100-[applause] people t -- 100 plus people to . . it's a natural source of fiber and 5 essential vitamins. it's the smart choice for me. try sunsweet's amazing juices and new amazing prune light.

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saying the search for two possible large objects that could be from flight 370. the search ending for the day. the objects picked up by satellite. that was sunday. they were just made public our time in the u.s. four military search planes were looking 1,500 miles off the coast of australia. poor visibility has slowed the efforts to find the objects. a norwegian ship has reached the area. visibility is said to be low and that is deep deep ocean. heather: 100 men, women and children who are suspected of entering our country illegally were found living or staying in horrific conditions at a house in texas. it's one of the largest human trafficking discoveries in the last five years. casey stegall is live from our

dallas bureau on what led police to this particular house. report reporhouse. >> reporter: reports say a tip led them to this house. this happened in south harris county, south houston. aerial video showing dozens of people standing outside that home after yesterday's raid. all in all. 110 suspected illegal immigrants packed into the 1,300 or so square foot home with one toilet. no sunlight. some sitting on each other's plaps. some say their shoes had pen taken away so they could not run. most were thought to be from central american ranging in age from 5 to 37. they had been in the home for two weeks. >> as soon as they open the daughter's like a sea of

humanity. there are 100-plus people in a one-story house that came rushing toward them. >> reporter: five smugglers trayed running from police but were caught. heather: what is going to happen to these people. >> a large number were take to the hospital to be checked out. and the vast majority of them were taken to detention facility. there they will be interviewed, fingerprinted, medically evaluated and likely deport. the stash houses sometimes used by smugglers to sneak people and drugs into our country illegally. it's not clear exactly what was going on at this particular one down there in houston. heather: they trash them in that spot before they move on and the guys get their payments.

bill: two objects have been spotted in the indian ocean. we have satellite images and we'll get back to that at the top of the hour. heather: president obama making his first public comments on the missing plane that vanished with three americans. what is the president saying about the mystery and how the malaysian government is handling things? @e@8ñúñ÷@@@ can carn

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australia. i am bill hemmer. >> and i will heather in for martha maccallum. investigators are calling the images the biggest lead opwhat happened to flight mh370 and the 239 people on the plane. two pieces of plane debris were detected. the bigger piece is 80 feet long >> and the second piece is 17 feet long. dozen of planes and ships are searches. the prime minister warning there may be no connection. >> two possible objects related to the search have been identified. i can inform the house that the australian airforce has been diverted to attempt to locate the objects.

that task will be difficult and it may turn out they are not related to the such for flight mh370. >> and now the search is over for the day at least as we get close to day 13 in the search for the missing flight. jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. and we have assets over there. the p-8 posodian and the work it did. what is their feeling on the lead? >> the united states officials think the debris is very credible and that is why the p-8 was moved to perth to help with the search. this is the first international mission for this state of the art aircraft that is designed to search for submarines.

it finished a 10-hour flight and the plane spent four hours searching the area and it is now resting on land. it is joined by craft from australia and one from america. >> how did they manage the narrow in on this spiv area? >> is >> the was collected from digital global on march 16th. it took them a while to see what they had. they shared the images with the united states and australia at the same time. >> the moment this image was discovered to inticate debris we passed the information on. it is credible enough to diverge

the search to this area on the bases says this is it. >> the smart answer is it is in the indian ocean and we need people investigating the waters and that is not happening. >> jennifer griffin, thanks so much. heather, here are the satellite images. it is the same image of the same object about 24 meters in length and 80 footnote -- floating -- and that is what they believe they found in the southern

indian ocean. it is dark as night in australia now. but after a four hour trip to the sight and four hours they are resting. here is kuala lumpur right here, almost due north, slightly east of where the debris is. this air-craft is great. modified 737, 23.5 wing span and can fly for 8-10 hours searching the ocean. it will be a valuable asset tomorrow once the sun is up. a lot of cloud cover and a typically stormy area at the bottom end of the world and the

weather couldn't cooperating entirely. john goglia is here. what do you think of the evidence? >> i hope it is a piece of the plane because it can narrow the search and bring closure. but it is a rather large piece so i am withholding judgment. >> are you encouraged or reserving judgment? >> i am going to investigate it. we get excited inside, but we try to contain it because you cannot stop looking at the clues and leads. >> you say the priority is to

find the sound signature and record. how do you do that at 1600 feet? >> the submarine technology that was used to chase down the soviet unions is good for listening under water. they will listen for the pinger. only when they get a feel for where if is, though. this debris has been drifting for days so i can assure you there are smart people working inside rooms in multiple locations around the world figure out the wind, the drift, the currants in the sea and trying to predict where this object was ten days ago. >> so you are saying if the debris field is three miles beneath the surface of the

water, have they gone that deep before and been successful? >> they found the titanic and they found the air france. we can get to the depths of the ocean anywhere in the world. >> we want to viewers to know the theory for days was to kazakhstan and then route two was to australia. they are saying route one, to kazakhstan, hasn't been taken off the table. they are still investigating whether the possibility of the plane went that way. some air base or air port would have seen something if it went this way, you are saying? >> i don't agree with somebody

seeing it. there is a big ocean and a lot of people. you don't know if it cause coordina coordinated. i don't put a lot of stock in eye witness data either. i want tangible evidence. the people working on the track to the north haven't stopped. this is just additional resources on the south but the investigation will continue in all of the facets all of the time. australia is now front is for in the hunt for missing malaysia flight mh370. the search has ended for the day there. the planes were sent southwest

of perth australia and they are looking for two floating objects that could be part of the plane at least according to the satellite imagery that may indicate we need to look into this. roger maynord is on the phone from australia. what raw are you hearing from the officials? >> caution is the word i would use. they are not committing this is from flight mh370. they say the evidence is credible and these are credible sightings from the images from the area but it doesn't mean it is definitely from the plane. although, the evidence suggests there is a good possibility it might be. there were two objects found. one of 80 feet long and the

other of about 15 feet long. it has been suggested that the larger item, the larger piece of debris, could be a panel from one of the wings or the tail plane or something like that. but again, no one is saying for definite. and there is no conformation. >> let me stop you. the grownups are in charge is the sense you get in america. is there any chance if this debris does belong to that of the missing plane that australia or other countries could take over the investigation? >> reporter: i think it will be a joint exercise. at the moment, a massive task force is ass assembling in thist

of the world to help in the search. they are leaving no stone unturned into find the debris. but this is one of the most isolated places on worth and like trying to find a needle in a hay stack. day 12 of the search for flight mh370 wrapping up for the evening. the white house says it is committed to help{what are they doing to help find the plane? we will have more on that. >> and a snapshot at the unemployment in the county and a new study on the impact of raising minimum wage. >> russia makes major moves in crimea and the priorities for the white house and how it has

handled the ukraine situation so far >> the president is filling out his ncaa bracket and hosting a film caremony for chavess. chavess az an

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okay. fox news alert. now, the several planes and sips that went out to look for flight mh370 after a satellite detected what could be plane debris drifting 1500 miles from the australia shore. the weather limited possibility and visibility for the planes on the scene and there is a norwegian ship there as well. marai is live to tell us about the currants and this part of the world. >> reporter: the southern indian ocean is a row mote area of the world. there is not much buoy coverage

so it limits what we can gartth. there is an area of low pressure he headed eastward and it is forecast today head sunday and then quite weather before the next system moving in monday at 3 p.m. eastern time. so several storm systems are going to continue to hit the area why watching with rough seas and a lot of cloud cover and poor visibility, stormy conditions and high ocean waves. 10-20 foot waves across the region. the ocean floor is very deep. up to 12,000 feet deep and other trenches surrounding the region could be as deep as 24,000 feet deep and the ocean currant flows

from west to east so it will it would push the debris in that direction >> and they are saying it could have travelled hundreds of miles. >> shifting gears to talk about the ukraine. the president is making a statement at 11 eastern time. we don't know what the president is going to say but it could be in response to criticism that he is not doing enough. bret baier is here from special report with his take on what we might expect from the president. good morning. >> good morning. >> i think i said briefing, but we are expecting statement. >> and likely in reaction to the russian permanent's move to annex crimea and that is the next step of taking crimea into

the russian federation. critics are stepping up the talk of the administration and the actions take on so far with the sanctions. 11 individuals and passports and freezing their accounts saying that doesn't go enough. the vice president is trying to shore up nato allies. the head of nato said the action by russia is the most aggressive threat to europe since the end of the cold war. so some are saying more should be done >> and the head of the israeli forces said they cannot count on america anymore. >> i think that is the message. that is the message they sent

biden to lithuania with. it is automatic that the united states is signed on to this nato treaty and if any come under attack, all of the nato countries step up to defend the country. but more importantly i think he is going to issue another round of sanctions or what else maybe happening to send a message to putin. sdwl >> what might they look like? >> more people with frozen accounts, more action on the financial front, they see the money side of things as the most powerful tool and believes they will crumble if they are put

together with the eu. what it looks like, i don't know, but i think the president is going to step up in 45 minutes. >> thank you, bret baier. >> this plane story is getting a lot of coverage and rightfully so. australia is taking the lead but should the united states be doing more? >> this is a very seriously lead in the way that nothing else so far has been. it is very close to the predicted southern flight corridor and that i suppose corridor and that i suppose reinforces our suspiciousabout . i don't even know how to answer that. suspigsiensionroach.

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searchers trying to locate the missing malaysian jet focused on two pictures of one item is 80 feet in length and one is 18 feet. some are calling the images the best lead yet. but are they? john handsman professor of a airnotics at mit. shed some light on this. is this the best clue yet? >> it is the first object we have seen in a few days that looks like it could be part of the airlane. it would have to be part of the

tail or the wing. for it to float 5-6 days, it would have to be light as well. so we have to be a litt little e there. it is also there size of a shipping container. so it could be a shipping conta container. >> can you hear he? >> yeah, i can. >> shipping containers are 80 feet in length? >> they are different standard sizes. so the largest ones are 80 feet. they are not as common, but they do exist. >> on this 777, how much of it could float? would it be a wing? could it be a tail?

or the fusile fuse lodge? >> that is heavy so it is unlikely it would float. the tail is lighter so there is an option. and the center fuel take, if empty and sealed, it would float. the wing tends to fill with water and sink. >> if the last ping was picked up six hour that would be about out of gas when you consider kuala lumpur is six hours from

where it was going. it -- is it possible -- everyone on the plane was dead and it ran out of fuel? >> if this is wreckage from the plane, it would be consistent with the plane going down from fuel. it would not make sense to be going in that direction on purpose. if the crew was flying, they would know they were out of fuel. so it leads back to being unconscious. >> you mentioned about what floats and what doesn't. what does float on a plane this size? >> seat cushions, pieces of the interior life rafts -- if they inflated -- would float.

a lot of light material that is used for insulation on the airplane. the heavy metal parts sink after time. >> do you think this is something here or another false lead? >> we have so little data we have to track down everything. this is credible enough that we have to track it down, buts i would say it is 50/50 shot it is part of the airplane. >> thank you, john, for your input here. i would take 50% any day. the president making the first comments on the flight: >> this is a tough situation. it is a big piece of the planet we are searching and these things take time. we hope and pray we can get to the bottom of what happened. >> with the search efforts so far being chaotic and taking so

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a fox news alert to bring you as we await a statement from the president on the crisis in the ukraine on 11 a.m. eastern. the president is going to

address the nation as putin has taken the next step to officially make crimea a part of russia. the president said he is not going to use military force, so what next? ed henry is here. what are we expecting? >> teeing up the second round of sanctions against russia in response to the situation in crimea. as you know, the first round of sanctions announced a few days have been panned by the republicans saying it is weak and they will not do much to harm the russian economy and pushback on vladimer putin. so the president is under grit pressure to show the ad mintration is going to be doing more. if you look at what happened over the last 24-48 hours after the first round of sanctions was announced, the fact of the matter is russia has been expanding.

they took over two naval bases around crimea and there were reports the naval commander may have been taken captive. so the is situation is getting round and we expect the president may announce a second round of sanctionss. >> the fbi is involved and listen to this for the first time

time: >> i think they were planning that by the end of the week the president was going to a announce another round of

sanctions. they heard the talk and they were trying to hold back some and not put them all them at the beginning. >> thank you so much for that. >> the president is saying the united states is offering all possible resources in the search effort and adam kinser is here and says we should be doing more. what do you mean? do we have authority on this? i think the malaysian's are in charge. >> we have uncoordinated efforts here and the airline isn't coordinating with the passenger's family. and with this possibility of a

terrorist attack we need to get out there and hope it isn't a terror issue, but with the potential of that, it is important for us to be pushing hard. >> who is to say we have not been pushing? you get the sense we have not? >> i think we. but where the malaysian's claim they have jurisdiction, we need to talk to them and say look, you are having a hard time getting it together. we are seeing with the flight simulator we have the fbi working to recover the deleted files. but with the reality of this being a potential terrorist attack there could be another plot coming. this is a lesson about what happens if you cut your defense. we have the ability to have search and resue ships but where we are growing with the navy is

going to be more difficult. >> i know you are a pilot, but what about listening devices? what is our capability of picking up a ping at 16,000 feet below the ocean? >> we have good capability, but that is a lot of water. the air bus in south america took a couple years to find the black box. miracles happen and this is one where hopefully we get answers. not just for what happened but to give peace to the family members >> as a pilot you come back to the following data point: this plane started turning west 30 minutes or less than that into flight which was 12 minutes before the co-pilot said good

nig night. what explains that? >> probably malice by the pilot. we have seen them snap before. i think that is more likely than not. there is theory that everybody became incapacitated or they had a fire. but there is a lot of point which the pilots could have made contact with air traffic control. and the time was in between switching air zones and controllers. so the controller letting the plane go is say he is turning left maybe the next controller told him to turn left and the next controller says maybe the previous controller told him to turn. >> that is very interesting. that is the window of opportunity you are staying? >> i think so. without a full positive handoff,

the next controller might say for whatever reason he is going west. someone knew what they were doing and the timing is pucu od. >> we could be of great value of this and we will see when the sun comes up tomorrow. 12 hours ahead in australia. we will have more on the mystery of flight mh370 but first morn the crisis in ukraine and if the president should be doing more than picking basketball brackets. >> the way the president is handling this is so unserious on so many different levels.

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and why waiting to hear from president obama. he is expected to address the nation in a few minutes on the latest on the crisis in ukraine. the president ruled out any military involvement in crimea even after tension is escalating. the president is taking heat for filling out his ncaa bracket while all of this is going on. here is steven hays >> this is a crisis like we have not seen in decade and the president is filling out his ncaa bracket. >> we have analysts here with us discuss this. david, starting with you. fair?

>> the leader a world image sends is important and we have a president filling out his ncaa bracket while crimea and the ukraine are in trouble. >> but presidents do this stuff all of time. every year they do. >> and frankly there is a time to chose. this isn't a partisan issue. the image you send as a world leader matters. >> i think this is completely normal for the president to go about what is already scheduled, which is the ncaa brackets. it doesn't show he is not taking the situation seriously. on the contrary he is taking it seriously. the vice president is meeting and has been meeting with nato, poland, estonia, and assuring

them we are with them. >> david, let me ask you about that because we are expecting to hear about from the president and he maybe announcing a new round of sanctions against russia for their actions. is that what the allies need to hear? wi >> it is possible it could have some effect on economy. but the president isn't taking the pen off the ncaa board and put it on shipping energy over to europe because russia is using energy as a weapon. and the weather matters >> david, let's stay on topic.

jessica, who is the audience today when the president speaks? the people of russia, the people of ukraine or the united states people? >> i think it is all of the above. in the international community saying we recognize as a country what is happening, this is an ongoing situation with putin and we understand history and we don't want to go back to the cold war or the situation in hung hungary after world war ii that led to the cold war and we will use all of the tools we put in place after the cold war to combat this. >> the president said yesterday we are not going to be getting into a miltitary event in the

crane. why put that out there? i can see keeping that as a tool, but why make it public? >> because this is going back, if you want to talk about history, to the progressive appea appeasement in world war ii. we appease. we don't act. we literally tell vladimer putin go ahead and do what you want because we have no tool against you. his perspective is what he is willing to bear as a leader and country as he is becoming a new actor in the peninsula over there. >> we will talk more about that. the comments from the president are about 10 minutes from now.

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>> coming up on "happening now," breaking news on russia's move in ukraine and the president speaking. and the wake-up call nato is giving the eu and the united states.

and new information on the missing malaysian airliner. we have fox team coverage coming up. the number of americans applying for unemployment is up from last week. and a study showing a hike in the minimum wage could cause people their job. the president wants to raise it to $10.10 and 40% of businesses say they would have to layoff workers if that happens. mike emanual is tracking live. what does the study say? >> 35,000 business owners. they say it it was raised all of

them would make changes. rand paul says when you raise the minimum wage, there are negatives. >> the people hurt the most by raising the mim minimum wage is black teenagers. i don't think it is a good idea. >> raising the minimum wage could cost up to a million jobs >> what is the white house saying about this? >> the president made this appeal with fox 4 in dallas. >> what happens is that people who are working full-time but still living in poverty get a boost and can pay their bills. 28 million people would benefit

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>> so we stole you away from those "fox & friends" folks. >> this morning, yeah. always great to be with you. what a crazy news day, huh? bill: again, all of our thoughts back to the family members in malaysia, beijing and the folks here in the u.s., too, who have loved ones onboard that plane. we'll see where it leads. >> it feels like it's at least leading in a positive direction in that you have some countries taking the lead and you have a sense that they kind of know what they're doing. bill: the one guest out of boston who said you need to find

an answer, and i think that's what everybody is waiting for. great to have you back. >> thank you. great to be with you. bill: see you again at 1:00, and you'll see heather bright and early tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. jenna: a fox news alert, we're awaiting the president as he is expected to give a statement on ukraine just moments from now before he heads to florida where he'll speak today a little bit about the economy. one of the big questions facing the white house, and there's the podium where we expect the president, one of the big questions facing the white house is what else will they do as far as sanctions to impact russia's decision making moving forward in eastern europe. as you know, the annexation of crimea has happened, it's in the process of officially joining russia, and there's a big question about whether or not president vladimir putin has his eyes on other parts of ukraine or other parts of yeern europe. -- eastern europe. what does that mean? we are a pen of nato as well --

a member of nato as well, and if russia decides to make moves into eastern europe, how would that implicate the united states? so the big question is what other actions might be taking. that's what we're waiting for the president. we've been told by the president's spokesman in press briefings throughout the week that we should expect more actions if russia does not change its behavior. so russia has not changed its behavior, what actions will be following. that's the big question today. and when the president steps to the podium, we will take you there at the white house. and right now top headlines and brand new stories you'll see first. jon: what could be a major clue in solving the mystery of flight 370 with possible pieces of debris now spotted. what it means for the investigation and where it goes from here. and just days before the enrollment deadline for obamacare, the president pushing hard to get americans signed up, especially the young. what he's doing, but is it work