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 working? also russia's annexation of

crimea. could it be just the beginning? is vladimir putin planning to take more territory of the ukraine? we'll go in depth, and it's all "happening now." ♪ ♪ jon: it is a new lead, and it could be the biggest break yet in the surgery for that missing jetliner. hello to you, i'm jon scott. jenna: hi, everybody, hope you're having a good day so far. i'm jenna lee and a major discovery in the indian ocean with what appear to be large pieces of debris. one of the objects believed to be nearly 80 feet in size. night has fallen in the indian ocean, and four military planes just ending the search for the day there after trying to scour the area about 1500 miles off perth, australia, for the possible wreckage. but they turned up nothing in cloudy, rainy weather that made visibility very poor. we'll be talking about the conditions coming up. flight 370 disappeared nearly

two weeks ago, and while investors aren't ruling anything out, they say the evidence suggests the plane was deliberately rerouted, and its communications systems were disabled. the facts are light right now. what they don't know is who did it or why or what happened next. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington with more on what we do know today. catherine? >> reporter: well, thank you, jenna and good morning. a source close to the investigation telling fox news that american investigators remain cautious this morning that the debris sighted in the southern indian ocean belongs to flight 370. fox news also confirming an american imagery firm, digital global, corporating out of colorado providing images to the australians with further analysis by the australia geospatial organization to. this is a government intelligence agency. this morning the search is being led by the australians with support from new zealand and the u.s. with the world's most sophisticated search and surveillance aircraft, you see it there, the u.s. navy's p-8

poe sigh done. this aircraft can descend to just about 300 feet, skimming the water with radar and camera ares amplifying the search. earlier today australian authorities setting modest expectations. >> checks are relatively indistinct on the imagery. i don't propose to be an expert on the imagery, but those who are indicate they're credible sightings. the indication to me is of objects that are are a reasonable size and probably awash with water. bobbing up and down out of the surface. >> reporter: earlier today a norwegian merchant vessel was first on scene. it was rerouted, but it also came up empty handed. jenna: catherine, if the debris is confirmed, who will lead the investigation? >> reporter: fox news is told if the debris is confirmed was

it's in international waters, it will fall to the malaysian authorities because it is the boeing aircraft made here in the u.s., we will have a strong interest in the investigation and is join as a recognized party through icao annex 13. this is part of the international civil aviation authority established through the united nations. fox news is told that there is no scenario given the facts as we know them today that would allow the u.s. to take over this case. jenna? jenna: a story we're going to continue to watch closely as we have been, catherine. thank you very much. >> reporter: you're welcome. jon: a fox news alert and, of course, as the world remains preoccupy toed with the search -- preoccupied with the search for that malaysian airline flight 370, there has airline flight 370, there has

he'll be stepping up to the lectern at any moment to make some comments about what he intends to do regarding the annexation of crimea. there's the president. he's about to head to orlando today from the white house. he'll head for joint base andrews. let's hear. >> over the last several days, we've continued to be deeply concerned by events in the ukraine. we've seen illegal referendum in crimea, an illegitimate move by the russians to annex crimea and dangerous risks of escalation. including threats to ukrainian personnel in crimea and threats to southern and eastern ukraine as well. these are all choices that the russian government has made, choices that have been rejected by the international community as well as government of ukraine. and because of these choices,

the united states is today moving -- as we said we would -- to impose additional costs on russia. based on the executive order that i signed in response to russia's initial intervention in ukraine, we're imposing sanctions on more senior officials of the russian government. in addition, we are today sanctioning a number of other individuals with substantial resources and influence who provide material support to the russian leadership as well as a bank that provides material support to these individuals. we're taking these steps as part of our response to what russia has already done in crimea. at the same time, the world is watching with grave concern as russia has positioned its military in a way that could lead to further incursions into southern and eastern ukraine. for this reason we've been working closely with our european partners to develop more severe actions that could be taken if russia continues to

escalate the situation. as part of that process, i signed a new executive order today that give withs us the authority to impose sanctions not just on individuals, but on key sectors of the russian economy. this is not our preferred outcome. these sanctions would not only have a significant impact on the russian economy, but could also be with disruptive to the global economy. however, russia must know that further escalation will only isolate it further from the international community. the basic principles that govern relations in europe and around the world must be upheld in the 21st century. that includes respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, the notion that nations do not simply redraw borders or make decisions at the expense of their neighbors simply because they are larger or more powerful. one of our other top priorities continues to be providing assistance to the government of

ukraine so it can stabilize its economy and meet the basic needs of the ukrainian people. as i travel to europe next week to meet with the g7 and other european and asian allies, i once again urge congress to pass legislation that is necessary to provide this assistance and do it right away. expressions of support are not enough. we need action. i also hope that the imf moves swiftly to provide a significant package of support for ukrainians as they pursue reforms. in europe i'll also be reinforcing a message that vice president biden carried to poland and the baltic states this week. america's support for our nato allies is unwavering. we're bound together by our profound article v commitment to defend one another and by a set of shared values that so many generations sacrificed for. we've already increased our support for our eastern european allies, and we will will continue to strengthen nato's

collective defense, and we will step up our cooperation with europe on economic and energy issues as well. now, let me close by making a final point. diplomacy between the united states and russia continues. we've emphasized that russia still has a different path available, one that deescalates the situation and one that involves russia pursuing a diplomatic solution with the government in kiev with the support of the international community. the russian people need to know and mr. putin needs to understand that the ukrainians shouldn't have to choose between west and russia. we want the ukrainian people to determine their own destiny and to have good relations with the united states, with russia, with europe, with anyone that they choose. that can only happen if russia also recognize the rights of all the ukrainian people to

determine their future as free individuals and as a sovereign nation. rights that people and nations around the world understand and support. thank you very much, everybody. [inaudible conversations] jenna: just pausing there. every once in a while he gets a question shouted, and the president takes the liberty to answer that question. as jon mentioned, he's off to florida today to talk a little bit about the economy. we were light on specifics, but we do have some news from the president who says he signed a new executive order that would include sanctions not just for individuals as we saw earlier this week, but also certain sectors, key sectors of the russian economy. let's talk about this with andrew cup championship at the center for strategic and international studies, a guest we've been looking forward to, and we're going to have a longer conversation a little later on in the program, but what's your reaction to what the president had to say? what do you think the impact is, light on specifics as we are? >> my reaction is too little,

too late. it's, essentially, condones what mr. putin has already done. there's nothing that the president said, in my view, that will deter mr. putin from taking further steps that could be extremely dangerous, and my read on the speech that mr. putin gave on tuesday is that from his standpoint the door is wide open to do pretty much whatever he sees fit. so mr. putin, again, is controlling the battlefield, so to speak, and we're reacting, and the reactions are too little, and they're too weak. jenna: how do we regain control? not, -- >> well, there's not a mention of what we do to provide military support to ukraine. now, i'm not talking about providing boots on the ground. i'm not talking about providing an article v commitment to ukraine by nato. that's out of the question. but there are a number of measures that we can do to

provide the ukrainian government better support to, through intelligence measures, through measures to give them a better sense of what actually is happening in their air space and on their territory. you know, it's amazing to me that there has not been more talked about the seizure of a gas plant outside of crimea that was done by russian helicopters delivering special forces there. that seems to have gone sort of unnoticed. and mr. putin's takeaway has got to be, look, this is a very, very permissive environment. there are other things that i can get away with. the ukraine yangs -- ukrainians, i think we have to step up and be prepared to support them more overtly with military support that would put them in a better position to defend their own territory. jenna: one of the things that you also say, andrew, is we're in a profoundly different place with russia than where we were 25 years ago, and that's going to be the topic of our conversation coming up on

"happening now." we had that breaking news, we wanted your reaction, we'll have a broader conversation on russia in just a few moments. andrew, thank you. >> my pleasure. jon: with the obamacare deadline for enrollment fast approaching, the president is traveling across the country today pushing for more americans to sign up. his big last minute sales pitch even including an appearance on the "ellen" show. we'll go in depth. also, the passenger airliners often carry cargo onboard. the screening positive process is not the same as it is for your luggage. a look at how well the cargo was checked before flight 370 disappeared. we're live with an update on that. co: i've always found you don't know you need a hotel room

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jon: a fox news alert, we've been telling you this morning about possible debris from malaysian airlines flight 370 that has been spotted bobbing in the ocean about 1600 miles off the coast of perth. finish that's on the west side of australia. for more on what they're calling the best lead yet in the search for that missing jetliner, let's bring in bruce buckroger, he's the president of aeroconsulting experts. there's not a lot you can get from the satellite imagery, and a lot of people are cautioning this could be something not pieces of the plane. i mean, it could be shipping containers. there are, you know, thousands of those bobbing all over the world's oceans. have you seen anything in that satellite imagery that tells you this is 370? >> you know, jon, it's very hard to say what this debris is. it's significant in that it's in the area that the airliner could have flown into. however, debris from aircraft can range from size, can be very

large, can be very small, you know? if this airplane did flame out and descended into the ocean, the fuel tanks would have been empty, and these are sealed tanks, so they have, they would be buoyant. big pieces could be floating. we know that swiss air, when it went into the atlantic ocean due to a fire in the cockpit that was back in 1998, that airplane hit at 345 mule an hour -- miles an hour causing about 360gs which, of course, the debris field was millions of pieces. we also had air france off the coast of brazil that impacted the ocean pretty much straight down. and even at that speed and that impact angle, there was still some fairly large pieces. so it's hard to say at this point. it's very early. however, it is very encouraging. jon: yeah. you talked about a flameout. evt

absolutely -- be they weren't absolutely out of yule, they would have been allow on fuel to get that far, and as you point out, the wing tanks are incredibly robust and probably would provide a lot of buoyancy the large sections of wing. >> that's right. now, we don't know what this altitude was flying at. it could have been high altitude in the 30, 40,000 area where airliners typically fly at or could have been low altitude. the flying speeds, though, once you do run out of fuel, that airplane will be trimmed for that speed. so let's say it was flying at 300 miles an hour. the airplane will be trimmed for that speed. if it loses thrust, the aircraft will descend at that speed and maintain all the way until impact if it were to hit something. jon: i spent probably half an hour on the phone this morning with a 777 pilot who flies a trans-pacific and atlanta trick route for a major airline, he was as mystified as i am as what could have happened to this

plane. the only thing he said that makes sense is perhaps one pilot locking the other out of the cockpit and then turning the plane around on some weird kind of suicide mission because nothing else seems to make sense. total electrical failure, you know, some kind of explosive decompression of plane, none of it fits all of the indications, all of the evidence here. >> well, we're not going to get to the bottom of this until we find the black boxes, this we find this aircraft. now, that is a possible scenario. however, we're talking about acars circuit breakers popping, we're talking about radios not transmitting, we're talking about pilots being inwhats fitted -- incapacitated. this also all leads to a fire onboard the airplane. when you have a fire we all know it's very bad. those wire bundles, when they start burning, produce cyanide gases. even if you haddocks general masks on, that would permeate through your eyes or skin which

could incapacitate the cockpit crew as well. so there are other explanations as to why these events took place. so the theory that that other pilot talked about is possible, but we're not going to know until we find this airplane. jon: let's hope we find it soon. buck rogers, thank you for coming on. >> have a nice day. jenna: nato is calling the russian takeover of crimea a wake-up call. now concerns that vladimir putin may not be done with his land grab. also, campaign season about to heat up, and a new report well tell you -- we'll tell you which one, next.

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jenna: well, moments ago president obama announcing new sanctions against rush that over its annexation of crimea. we expect details to be quickly following his statement. it comes after the nato

secretary general said russian aggression in ukraine is a wake-up call. just two weeks ago president vladimir putin told reporters that russia had no interest in taking other crimea. now, of course, you know what's happened, and there are new concerns putin could try to take over other russian-speaking areas like eastern ukraine or maybe go into other countries like estonia. yesterday russian leaders expressed some concern about the way ethnic russians living there are being treated. there's also concerns over moldova. on "happening now" yesterday senator john mccain had this to say. >> moldova is a country to watch next. jenna: and why is that, senator? >> because moldova is not a member of nato, and there are russian troops already occupying part of moldova, and there's already this kind of demands for russian help, the kind of provocations that we saw this eastern ukraine.

jenna: our next guest says the u.s. is not looking at a new cold war but at a relationship with russia profoundly different from what we've seen other the last 25 years. andrew kuchins is back with us, director of the russia and eurasia program at the center for strategic and international studies. it seems understanding where we're at are russia -- with russia helps us understand the stakes here. where do you see us at this time? >> we're in a really bad place right now, jenna, a really, really bad place that is scaring the daylights out of me, to be perfectly frank. jenna: and why is that, andrew? you've studied this for a long time, so you've seen it all. [laughter] why now? why now of all times? >> am i that old? jenna: no, you're not. i don't mean to date you, i mean to compliment your expertise, you know? you've gone through so many different evolutions, and even if you look back to the bush administration and the interaction with georgia, i mean, we've come head to head with russia over so many big issues. why now do you really see that fear coming to you? >> because mr. putin, i think, is really looking at

fundamentally undoing some of the core agreements at the end of the cld war. cold war. and, you know, the sense of catharsis and that we are back and that we are a major power is running through his veins like, i don't know, think of, like, heavy steroids or something right now. and there's nothing that we have done that has deterred him or given him a sense that the transatlantic community, quote-unquote, is going to, is going to do so. and so my, you know, for a secretary rasmussen today to say this is a wake-up call, hello, i mean, three weeks ago was a wake-up call. three weeks ago when the president came out at 3 p.m. eastern standard time after the airport had been taken by military forces, after the parliament in crimea had already

been overturned and a new speaker announced and when he came out to say there was no acknowledgment that that had happened. on monday we come out and say, you know, we make a big deal about these seven cronies. well, first of all, they're not even cronies of putin. our reactions are late, they are weak, and, you know, we need to do something to seize the initiative for mr. putin to surprise him. in fact, the only thing that he's been surprised at, i think, is that our response has been even weaker than what he expected. you know, you're right, you know, i look at this, i look at the carter administration's response to the invasion of afghanistan in 1979, and honestly i think that the obama administration is making jimmy carter look like genghis khan or attila the hundred in sort of the formidable, you know, we are serious. now, i haven't seen the list of these people, but -- jenna: and we don't know also what sectors the president is talking about as well that he could sanction. a question on vladimir putin

because there seems to be some debate about him, obviously. [laughter] in the public which is that he's going to do what he's going to do regardless of who's in power in the united states. he's just that sort of guy, he's going to behave independently of anybody because that's just who he is. or the other side is he's acting this way because of the way that the united states is behaving. what do you think it is? >> well, i think it's more of the latter. he's acting this way, you know, because of how the united states is behaving. now, clearly he saw an opportunity six years ago in georgia where, unfortunately, the first step was taken and gave him the provocation exactly that he wanted. i mean, what he's done now is a qualitative step different. there was no provocation for going into ukraine. he simply saw the opportunity, brazenly took it, and, you know, the explanations, the postfacto justifications, you know, have almost no bearing with, you know, reality on the ground.

so, i mean, his playbook and our playbook are simply, you know, miles apart. and if we don't do something that surprises him, you know, he's going to keep on going. jenna: what would that be, andrew? i only have about 30 seconds, what would that be at this point? >> he's going to play further in eastern, in south and eastern and southern ukraine. there's not going to be a massive military strike across the border, but there are going to be probes here and there that are going to give him more information about just how permissive the environment is. and i think for us to contest that, you know, we probably have to go to something like the coalition of the willing of those states that are willing with us and nato because we're never going to find the kind of consensus within nato which has to be unanimous to take the steps, i fear, that are needed to deter from putin. this is a guy that absolutely needs to be deferred. i don't think that mr. obama gets him, and i don't think that he's adequately focusing on the

problem. jenna: wow. andrew, it's nice to have your perspective. we've got to run to more breaking news, but you certainly give us an idea of the magnitude of what's at stake. thank you. >> thank you. jon: we have seen images that could be with debris possibly from flight 370 floating on the surface, but if there is more plane beneath it, it is in very, very deep water, miles under the indian ocean. so how would searchers get down there and bring it up? we'll talk with a deep water searcher who recovered the air france flight 447 wreckage from the floor of the atlantic 10,000 feet down, next.

jenna: a search team is trying to find flight 370. they're looking 1,500 miles off the coast of australia. these images though two possible pieces of debris in the area. one 15 feet long and one 70 feet long. huge if you're standing next to them but it's small if you're looking for them from the air. currents could have pushed debris town 250 miles from where the plane could have entered the water. our next guest says even if the plane is at the bottom of the hoeings, somebody will find it. we have david who is a deep water search team. dave, you answer our key question that some of us have.

is there ever a part of the ocean that's just too deep to search? >> not anymore, jenna. we have a couple of ways of getting to even deepest part. we have the submarine that james cameron built and made that dive to the bottom of the trench and then a robot that is capable of doing the same. jenna: a lot of questions about the conditions in the ocean, david. what about the condition -- if this is where we end up searching, what kind of a challenge does that present? >> if i can read the graphics right from the australians, it looks like it's right on top of this underwater mountain ridge which cuts across the indian ocean from west to east and it's pretty much one big long volcano but it's something we scientists are very familiar with so we know it. it's a volcano. we know what kind of terrain will be there so i'm not that put off by the kinds of terrain beneath the search area. jenna: it's daunting to us, of

course, when we see the big open ocean and wonder how does anyone find anything. if we do find out, and it's a big if, if we too find out this debris is part of the plane, what's the first what's the fir would do if you were called in to try to actually find the plane under the water? >> sure. meticulous -- well, every other bit of investigating has to go on, still looking where the last known position might have been but meticulous work in recovering all of those pieces, large and small, recording what they look like and where they came from because ultimately, you want to plug all this information into a computer model and find out where they came from 13 days ago. >> you give us some incredible insight. thank you for joining us. >> you're very welcome. jon: right now we are just 11 days away from the enrollment deadline for obamacare as the president makes a big push to get more uninsured americans signed up for coverage. today he's appearing on "ellen" where he said obamacare will give moms peace of mind and

young people financial security with some premiums he says that cost less than their cell phone bill. joining us now to talk about all of this, rich lowry, editor of the fox news actor and also amy's daughter, associate editor of the hill. we have russia invading, you know, annexing crimea, threatening perhaps to do more. you've got this missing malaysia plane and you've got the president going on ellen to taut health care. >> the president has been transformed into basically an insurance salesman. it's what, frankly, he cares about much more, i think, than any events going on in the rest of the world and the play is obviously. they're trying to get the top line number as high as they can before enrollment closes this year at the end of the month so they can say, look. we have five, six million people

dependent on these exchanges for their health care. how can you possibly talk about repealing this law? jon: how is it going? if you call the california site to try to enroll, you call that number, it can take 30 minutes to get someone on the other end of the phone. >> right. if you really look at who they're targeting, that's the problem. there was a quote from the paper today saying people are so busy with their daily lives that really, once you can focus -- once you have a deadline and it's very last minute and you can focus their attention, that's a good time to sign up. if you look at all of the updates that the young and healthy have been taking in from october 1 until now that the rollout was a disaster, the website wouldn't function, then a few months later people who have been helped by other people, navigators over the phone found out their appeal sheets had gone to some place in

kentucky and was printed out and stuck in a file and they hadn't developed a system to move them through the system. we found out people that are enrollees are not necessarily insured policy holders that the insurance providers haven't been paid for all the people who think they're enrolled. now you get to the last minute and you see the administration jumping up and down trying through march madness, have seen enrollment pitches and all sorts of different local television and latino radio appeals, everything they can do. the ellen show, to try to get people to sign up at the last minute and then you might even get on the phone and find that you have a 30 minutes wait. this is all something that was preventible. the administration knew this was going to be a complicated and controversial law. they knew it for years and they literally are now in a last minute scramble to try to get enough people to save the system from becoming unaffordable. jon: 95 bucks or 1% of your income. you make $50,000, you're looking

at a $500 fine and people aren't going to find that out if they don't sign up until they get their tax refunds, right? >> yeah. and there's apparently been a very deliberate policy on the part of administration not to talk about fines. he could be going on these shows and say, you know what? you'd better sign up. if enthuse don't, they're going to pay a price. they don't to want do that. the individual mandate is very unpopular and i think the technical problems have been a big deal but the biggest one is the one you got to at the end. it's affordability. the biggest reasons the uninsured are uninsured is because it's too expensive to get insurance. obamacare will make that worse rather than better. there's a report on the mill in some areas next year, you could see insurance premiums on the exchanges doubling or tripling. there are reports that you see, premiums off the exchanges, increasing because of the regulations in the law. that's the biggest problem and that's why apparently, you've

not made much of a dent in the uninsured here because a lot of people who signed up surveys say already had insurance that they just got knocked off of because of this law jon: they don't want it. thank you both. jenna: battle for control of congress is why a new report changed key races to tossup. also southeast asia is seeing more increases in airline travel. we'll get into that next. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] you're watching one of the biggest financial services cpanies in the country at work. hey. thanks for coming over. hey. [ male annouer ] how did it come to be? yours? ah. not anymore. it's a very short story. come on in. [ male announcer ] by meeting you more than halfway. it's how edward jones makesense of investing.

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jon: new developments in the ongoing argument over the invasion and annexation of crimea by russia. russia is announcing sanctions against u.s. officials in retaliation for sanctions on u.s. russia. lawmakers on the russian sanctions list include white house adviser, u.s. senator john

mccain, majority leader harry reid and house speaker john boehner. john mccain was on the program the other day, said that he would consider it a badge of honor to be sanctioned by the russians. in the meantime, the treasury department has also announced the sanctions on a wider array of russian officials. 16 high russian officials in that country saying currency in russia is at an all-time low. these sanctions are expected to bite and there are other avenues available to the treasury department. it's tit for tat in the sanctions war over the invasion and annexation of crimea by vladmir putin. jenna: the disappearance of flight 370 is raising questions about security. more and who amore people are travelling there and an

increased concern in security especially since certain areas of southeast asia have been terror beds. chad, there's so much speculation about the plane. i'll leave that alone and focus on what we do know which is that some people were allowed to board this plane in malaysia with fake passports and authorities have come across less than organized in trying to figure out what happened. what sort of security vulnerabilities do you think this story has exposed >> well, many, unfortunately. i lived in asia for six years. some of the world's most noted and active terrorist groups are based there. you think of al qaeda had two of the 9/11 hijackers from malaysia as well as the original plot uncovered by the 9/11 commission

showed that the plot was supposed to be both simultaneous in the united states and in asia and osama bin laden ruled it. so this is not new and what it is exposing, no matter where this flight ends up, it's piloted a number of vulnerabilities. one thinks of things like transponders, pilot check, looking at the lost and stolen data base that you mentioned where only 20 of the 190 members of the interpol today actively checking it and if a passport is stolen, the 9/11 commission reports show that travel documents are the same as weapons to terrorists. we can secure the documents a lot better than they are today. jenna: we don't know, even though we're talking about terrorism in this part of the world, we don't fn that's a factor for the plane. since we're talking about increased travel, it made us wonder when this is not our jurisdiction, what can we do as far as making sure that our citizens and our country stay safe? >> united states remains the world's largest economy.

as such we have obviously the ability to restrict travel to our country if others are not securing their travel. the security is only as strong as your weakest link. so there are ways we can exercise influence here, raising standards. there are international organizations like the international civil aviation organization out of the u.n. and many of the countries in asia will and are doing a great job. japan, singapore, the problem is you still have three c's that are stopping many could notaries. communication, cost and corruption. if you think about communications, many of them need to have more i.t. put in place. two, that comes at a cost but some of that also is a cost to an illegitimate economy. there's profound corruption in a number of countries and that underground economy is threatened. jenna: as we learned about the malaysian government, we learned of there opposition as well. great insight for us. thank you very much. >> thank you.

jon: disturbing find to tell you about in this country 100 people in one home. people say it could be a human smuggling operation. we'll tell you where that happened next.

jon: politics now. 2014 could be shaping up as a very good year for the g.o.p. a new report casting more doubt on the democrats' chances of holding their majority in the senate. the latest ratings come from the highly regarded cook political report. it changed three competitive senate races from leaning democratic to tossups. republicans control the house as you know. democrats will need a whole lot of wins to make any changes there. and no one is seriously expecting that will happen but in the senate right now, the g.o.p. would need just six seats

to take control. joining us to talk about the prospect, a fox news political analyst. so cook political report had arkansas as a tossup. now they added louisiana, north carolina and nebraska. it could go republican. >> i think it will go republican. this could be the year of the republican from the standpoint if we have a concise message, strategy, fundraising and grassroots and also, in politics, women are confident when a candidate has to defend their voting record, they're already losing. you want to always be the one who is doing the message. but now, with the failed policies from the left, you have a lot of people that are dissatisfied with the senate. jon: even if you made a straight sweep of those four states, republicans would need six. >> you ever colorado and now we have scott brown that just announced his committee in new hampshire. i think that we have a very good chance of taking over the senate

and retaining the house. but begin -- again, it deals with messaging. in florida you had the favor alex sink. she lost. she outspent her republican opponent by $1 million and she lost because of the dissatisfaction. very strong candidate but it just doesn't take money. it takes messaging and when you're on the defensive, that's a problem. jon: it takes more than money but democrats are doing well in the money department right now. the democratic senatorial campaign committee raised $6.8 million in february, a record month for them >> and that's great to get out the vote campaigns. that's great to do advocacy campaigns but they have to run on policy. when you have members of congress, politicians running away from their party leader, president obama, you can raise money from me but don't come to my state. i'm not going to stand with you.

that's a problem. jon: that happened in north carolina, one of the states we're talking about. kay when the president visited the state, kay was nowhere to be found. >> they have to defend voting or obamacare. they have to defend it. jenna: it's being called the best lead yet in the search for a missing jetliner satellite images of what could be debris from the missing plane floating in the indian ocean. more on the search for the plane that mysteriously vanished nearly two weeks ago and the president just announcing more sanctions against russia. will they have any impact on vladmir putin? a big question for the next hour of "happening now" coming up.

jon: big developments on our top stories and breaking news this hour. president obama announces new sanctions against russia over ukraine and warns of more to come. russia nounses sanction of its own. will the u.s. move be enough to contain vladmir putin? we'll go to kiev and the white house. a shocking house of horrors

exposed. more than 100 illegal immigrants found living in one home. double down on this fall's election to take back the senate or hold some trump cards for 2016? we'll have top political watcher and it's all "happening now." new satellite images over the coast of australia that could be debris from flight 370. authorities call it the best lead so far in finding that boeing 777 that vanished nearly two weeks ago. hello to you. i'm jon scott. jenna: best lead. we're hanging on those words. jon: doesn't seem like much but it's something. jenna: welcome to the second hour of "happening now." here is what we do know at this moment. one of the objects is about 80 feet long, the other about 15 feet. four military planes now ending

their search until dawn breaks in this part of the world. afternoon scouring the remote section of the indian ocean. so far, they've found nothing but rough weather was definitely a factor and we're going to talk about that. also a norwegian cargo ship has reached the area 1,500 miles off the coast of australia. our national security correspondent is live at the pentagon with more on our top story today. how did the australians obtain these satellite images? >> well, the australians obtained these satellite images from the american commercial satellite company digital globe. the images were collected on march 16. it took them a little while to realize what they had. u.s. officials tell fox the satellite company shared them with the u.s. australia and new zealand at the same time. it's not clear who first saw the potential debris. experts tell us it's likely super computers were employed. quote, we can confirm that

digital globe has provided imagery to search officials in australia and we have been informed by an australian government official it was our imagery, prime minister abbott referred to in his recent comments. we reached out to digital globe in colorado and we're told they're continuing to corporate with the relevant authorities. jenna: earlier this week we talked about the u.s. navy pulling back some of its assets if there wasn't anything found. what do we know about what the u.s. military is planning? >> at this time, the u.s. military has one surveillance aircraft up in the bay of bengal. u.s. navy moved it off perch, australia. p 8 finished a 10 hour flight not long ago, didn't see anything. >> smart money says it's probably in the indian ocean.

of course, that's just an educated guess. if that's the case, we need fleets of patrol planes patrol that go vast stretch of water and only the pentagon can make that happen. >> digit aal globe has also bee using crowd sourcing to find the malaysian 777. 200 million map uses since the plane disappeared. jenna: speaks to how much we want to find an answer to this mystery. thank you. jon: for a look at this, let's bring in retired navy captain nash. i know during your career in the navy, you spent hundreds of hours flying over open ocean. what do you think about the prospect that those might be pieces of the plane there? >> well, it very well could be. certainly it's down in one of the areas that's already been

determined to be an area of interest so it's not that they just stumbled on this randomly. people have been looking for it but the only thing that we have right now is the hope that we can put this thing to bed finally, remember, though, the chinese satellite imagery that was looked at earlier, it turned out that that really wasn't anything so things are are crossed. it will be a sad day for these -- the passengers' families and the crews' families but at least if this is it, we may get some closure in this which i think would be beneficial. jon: yeah. well, if they do find that it is debris from the airplane, it could have potentially drifted hundreds of miles from where the actual fuselage and the black boxes are located so just finding this debris, if, again, it's from flight 370, that doesn't end the search. they still have a lot of work to do. >> yeah. not at all because if you'll

recall, the air france 447 that went down in the atlantic, because of the system that was transmitting and not shut off, investigators knew within four minutes of where that airplane broke up, yet it took five days to find the first debris and from the wind and drift, current drift, that narrowed the search area down to 5,000 square miles. it still took two years to find the flight data recorders. so this debris, if this is, in fact, debris from 370, it's been out there for almost two weeks in a very nasty weather part of the world. so the search area will be much larger than 5,000 square miles and -- but the good thing that we have going for us right now is that the pingers, the battery on the flight data recorder acoustic pinger has about another two weeks left on it. but it's very, very deep water

and that presents its own problems. jon: the air france flight down in 10,000 feet of water. some of the water in this part of the world is 16,000 feet. it's potentially deeper than air france was and as you say, it took two years to locate that crash site even with the pinger because by the time authorities got around to honing in on the data point where they found this thing, the pinger was dead. >> yeah. it took a lot of undersea searching with remote vehicles. this time we have usedal our assets and it would be nice to concentrate things and try to get this before that battery runs out on the acoustic pinger. jon: how strange. originally the search was in the south china sea up to the north

and east. now are looking off the coast of australia. district other part of this, everybody has been trying to make sense of something that is a real mystery and as a friend of mine pointed out who is a captain for fed ex, he said if the guys really did steal that airplane, if this was a pilot suicide and one tricked the other out of the cockpit and locked them out, if they were smart enough to do all of that, they were smart enough to pull the circuit breakers on the voice recorder and flight data recorder. jon: so those potentially would not provide any information. >> potentially that's correct. so this could be -- if this was somebody's twisted idea of taking themselves out and they were willing to do it and take themselves out with 295 other innocents, if that really is the

motive and tried to be the amelia earhart disappearance mystery of the 21st century, if that sick plot really came into play, then we can assume that that person did everything they could to make this an all-time mystery. jon: i think the total number on board, 239, just a minor correction there. but it is a strange story. by definition, these major airliners are so safe that every event almost is going to have a different cause because if they do find one consistent problem that runs through the fleet, they generally fix it. >> absolutely. and the 777, i've spoken with several gents who fly that thing for a living and they swear about it. you have double and triple redundant systems. these aircraft are especially safe. throw in the human element and all of a sudden, you have a variable there that is somewhat unpredictable.

not so much in the united states but you start looking around the world and the copilot, for example, had 2800 hours. total time. he's playing international under 777. 2800 hour pilot. well, you know, you fly. 2800 hour pilot in the united states would probably be in the right seat of a regional jet. not in the right side of a 777. jon: good point. let's hope the debris is something that leads them to find the plane. jenna: again, we'll continue to watch that big story. the lower house of the russian parliament overwhelmingly approving a treaty to annex crimea from ukraine making it official. this is the final approval that that is the case. this as russia stands steadfast despite western condemnation of moscow's actions as a violation of ukraine sovereignty and a

breach of international law. just moments ago our president spoke out about the situation. >> based on the executive order that i signed in response to russia's intervention in the ukraine, we're imposing sanctions on more senior officials of the russian government. in addition, we are today sanctioning a number of other individuals with substantial resources and influence who provide material support to the russian leadership. jenna: streaming line from kiev with the front row seat to all of this. greg? >> yes. some tough talk coming from president obama just a few moments ago regarding russia's actions against ukraine and we can tell you some tough conditions remain on the ground here in crimea. our contact there tells us that a ukrainian navy ship as well as a communications center, there was attacked. two bases had been overrun yesterday. there's something like 11,000 ukrainian troops remaining in

facilities in crimea. they are surroundedry russian troops with the annexation deal pretty much done, the government here now making plans how to evacuate them and their families, how to get troops out of there, how to get weapons out of there, the gear, a lot of questions, a lot of lives remaining in the balance right now regarding crimea. over in moscow, an official said that he was concerned. the annexation bill has to go into the house tomorrow and that's pretty much a rubber stamp approval. the latest approval rating for vladmir putin, 75%, the highest it's ever been in russia for five years. so vladmir putin continues to make threats against ukraine, particularly in the eesh part of the country. they're bringing in military up

there as well along the border with russia and western countries looking to see how they can handle the situation. again, we just heard from president obama in brussels, european union leaders have meeting trying to come up with another round of sanctions as well and they're also saying they're going to try to bring ukraine closer to the european union and help its economy. we spoke just a while ago with under-secretary of state wendy sherman. she's here in kiev now. is the u.s. doing enough? is the west doing enough to add pressure to moscow? she said yes. she said we want russia to deescalate. we want it to pull forces back. we'll see if we get that. back to you. jon: a tiny protein is raising hope in the fight against alzheimer's. new recerta certaicertai certac what it could mean for future patients. also driving a wedge between

republicans. should the g.o.p. focus on midterms or look ahead, go longer term at the 2016 race for the white house? >> we have to use the elections as an opportunity to bring our country back. but to do that, we have to stand for solid principles.

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predict 10 or 20 years old who will go on to develop alzheimer's. >> the only way to diagnose is when they seem to disappear. that may be too late. we and many people in the field believe that the way to go with this is to detect early on the process. catch alzheimer's before the brin is totally destroyed. >> people at risk could be treated preventatively. one drawback of this research, the proteins were found through a spinal tap that isn't practical through routine screening but the alzheimer's association which helped fund the research helped to advance that in the next few years. >> clearly sometime tests or some tool like this may actually progress to the point where we don't have to use the cerebral final fluid. we can move towards the blood and that's an area that's kind of being developed but it's in

the early stages. >> might even have a urine test for this. why is this important? take a look at the statistics, 5.2 million people are inflicked with alzheimer. as many as half die every year. that would make it the third leading cause of death. alzheimer's costs $214 billion every year. jenna: thank you. jon: politics now, 2014 versus 2016 election strategy. should republicans look ahead to 2016 and address more contentious issues like immigration and jobs program to try to increase their chances of winning the white house by appealing to a more diverse electorate? or taking up controversial issues hurt the party in this year's midterm election? let's bring in david, senior politics writer at u.s. news and

world report. it wouldn't seem like it's such a quandry but apparently it is. a lot of people want to focus on the here and now, talk about obamacare, bash the democrats and the president in particular but some candidates are saying you have to do more than that. you have to be more than a party of no. you have to talk about bigger issues. so who wins the argument? >> well, it's hard for me to see that the 2016's will win the argument. facts are that the speaker of the house, john boehner, and the minority leader and the senate drive the g.o.p. legislative agenda and they don't have much of an sneincentive. poll after poll coming out, week after week that they're in great position to not only retain the house, probably pick up seeds, but possibly recapture the senate and look.

mitch mc connell is in niz own primary fight until may, has a tough re-election. he wants to be senate majority leader. that comes before the 2016er's priority and you won't have agreement on the 2016 message on immigration or taxes until you get 2016 nominee. it might be the smarter, long term thing. i just don't think it's practical in the middle of a midterm. >> it's also true that voters' memories can be short. look at how angry voters were with the government shutdown back in october. now that's all water under the bridge. people have moved on to new and different issues so maybe if you get a republican house elected in 2014, then you can start focussing on different issued for 2016. >> right. the news cycles moves swiftly and, you know, in three months it could be a different issue. i do think the immigration one

is a special one because it deals with demographics, deals with appealing to a seconds of voters that are growing in this country and that republicans have been losing. that's a special issue of concern. look. i was on the trail this weekend in new hampshire. these guys that are thinking about running in 2016, like rick santorum again, governor from louisiana, their message is for positive ideas but look. they're not going to be on the ballot in 2014 and that's the bo only line. it's the people running ads against obamacare, that's really the driver, repealing obamacare, getting rid of obamacare. that's driving it. jon: u.s. news and world report, thank you. jenna: possible human smuggling operation. more than 100 suspected illegal immigrants found living in horrific conditions. where this is happening, we'll tell you next.

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jon: oscar pistorius is telling the house where he shot and killed his girlfriend. his lawyer said he's putting the home up for sale to raise money for his legal bills. he is on trial accused of murdering his girlfriend. that trial on track to extend bee yond the expected three-wee period. jenna: a possible human smuggling operation. houston police discovering more than 100 suspected illegal immigrants living in horrific conditions. here is more. >> officers describe a sea of people when they busted into

that house yesterday. federal officials, local officials say that they were absolutely deplorable conditions. people said to be filthy, hungry, thirsty, all in all 110 people crammed into a 1,300 square foot home ranging in age from five years old to 47. investigators say the windows were boarded up from the inside, doors locked from the outside. the feds say a large majority were from central america, like until this country illegally, being kept against their will in this stash house by smugglers who wanted large payments in exchange for their relief, even their shoes taken away so they could not run. >> the men for the most part were told to stay in their undergar mens without any shoes on. females were allowed to have clothing. >> a very big bust as you hear there from ice.

some suspected illegal immigrants were taken to the hospital and treated. most of them put on buses and then taken to a federal detention center in houston where they will be interviewed, fingerprinted, medically evaluated and then likely deported. five suspected smugglers were arrested at the scene. a tip from the public is what alerted investigators to this case in the first place. pretty shocking. jenna: what a story. thank you. jon: some dramatic testimony in the trial of osama bin laden's son-in-law, the conversation he had with the al qaeda leader right after the 9/11 terror attack coming up. and president obama announces additional sanctions against russia in response to moscow's move to annex crimea. will it be enough to sway president vladmir putin? >> it's not a reignition of the cold war. that's an ideological struggle. that's over. what we're dealing with a k.b.g.

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jenna: russian government is taking the final steps to officially annex crimea and make it part of the russian federation. this as president obamaanctions targeting senior officials of the russian government. our chief white house correspondent is live with the latest on this. >> interesting. if you'll remember a few weeks

ago, president was saying everybody calm down here. this is not some cold war chess match. think again. this is very much president obama against president vladmir putin, a tit for tat over sanction. president coming out before heading to orlando for a domestic trip about the economy and out on the south lawn announcing a new round of sanctions he thinks is going to more directly target vladmir putin, some of his economic advisers, personal banker, vladmir putin's personal banker and also sanctions targeting the energy sector, mining sector, financial services, trying to really hurt the russian economy. here is the president. >> diplomacy between the united states and russia continues. we've emphasized that russia still has a different path available, one the d.s. believes that the russian people need to know and vladmir putin needs to understand that the ukrainians

shouldn't have to choose between the west and russia. >> vladmir putin received a list of his own list. john boehner said he's proud to be on the list of those willing to stand against vladmir putin's aggression, white house aides, also on the sanctions list. democratic senator harry reid, interesting couple of days ago, the democratic senator had said that his lithuanian born mom would be proud for him to be on the sanctions list. we checked the list and don't see dick durbin's name just yet. it's interesting that you now have republicans like boehner, john mccain on the list. vladmir putin targeting them might drive them closer to the administration and make it a little bit more of the two parties against vladmir putin. jenna: we should point out the first list. make dick durbin can make the

second one. we don't anticipate this being any time soon. >> you're not on there jenna: i was planning to summer in st. pete peso i'm glad i cano that. right now the fate of osama bin laden's sobl hangs in the balance. he made a surprise appearance, testifying about a conversation he had with osama bin laden after the 9/11 attacks at his trial in new york city. jonathan is live with more on this. >> the al qaeda member may soon learn his fate. closing arguments in this case are likely to begin monday, could be tomorrow, and then his fate will be placed in the hands of the jury. that jury was, according to our courtroom producer, suddenly energized yesterday by the surprise appearance on the stand

of the defendant himself, something no one expected and a clear gamble by his defense team. he admitted meeting osama bin laden on the night of the 9/11 attacks, having been summoned and then driven two to three hours to a cave in afghanistan. he told the court, osama bin laden said to him, quote, did you learn about what happened? we are the ones who did it. now, in the aftermath of 9/11, he appeared in video messages warning americans of a storm of airplanes. he claimed on the witness stand his videos were based by shiek osama bin laden and he said he had no knowledge of the planning of 9/11 and no other attacks and only met with osama bin laden to show him respect. prosecutor mocked that claim saying, quote, despite knowing that he was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of americans, you met with him to be polite?

prosecutors have accused the man of conspireing to kill americans and of aiding al qaeda and the government has invested a god deal of capital in seeking this conviction in civilian rather than military court so it's one to watch very closely. jenna: and we will. thank you. another big story for us. we'll turn to the economy now. existing home sales the largest portion of the home selling market. numbers for february showing sales declined for the sixth time in seven months. freezing temperatures and snowstormd really played down on the market. australian rescue officials ending an air search for the day for out in the indian ocean after news satellite images provide what they call the best lead yet and the mystery of what happened to flight 370. the latest on this developing story next. >> we would like to find

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images look like according to the satellite. this is the image that is of the most interest because it's the largest, frankly. it's about 24 meters across, that's roughly 80 feet. is it something from flight 370? they're not sure. part of the reason they're interested in this one is because there's another object nearby. we'll go to that shot now. it's less clear, at least to my eyes. here it is. approximately five meters across, 15 feet or so, potentially one of the plane's vertical stabilizers or maybe the tail piece. it's not absolutely known. but it is approximately five meters across and it's near the larger piece. let's talk to ken, an aviation analyst and president of i understand grated -- integrated aviation solutions, llc. you ever been in many, many searchs of the ocean. have you taken a close look at these pictures and do they look

like anything to you that could be flight 370? >> i have, jon, and from the angle i'm looking at it, sometimes it looks like a container, sometime like ulgsd -- you said earlier, it could be a stabilizer on its side. various angles it could look like a piece of aircraft. jon: authorities took a look of this part of the ocean because they've done a refined analysis, i guess you would say, of the potential track. now they know a bit more about the potential flight track of this plane and based on the fuel load and the flight track that it was last seen maintaining, this is the general area of ocean where they think that plane went down. do i have that right? >> that's correct. and that large red circle, not the one on your graphic there

but the large circle for the area which it could be, that's more of a line of position that is the larger area that goes up over land and then comes down over the water. that's more of the line of position. jon: that's the range of the aircraft. i was talking with a 777 pilot today who flies for one of the major airlines, points out that this aircraft, even with no fuel, if it was a 35,000 feet, this aircraft could glide for approximately 100 miles. i mean, there's a huge area of the earth's surface covered. >> absolutely. i've been out on searchs before, you really have to establish how long the airplane was in the air, where it started descending, the drift down rate and then how many days have passed, what the ocean currents were and how that pushed the wreckage and then you start from

that area and go back. jon: what about the black boxes if they are underwater? batteries are designed to last at least 30 days. can they go longer? >> they're designed for 30 days depending on battery life can be reduced due to colder waters but it's designed for that so maybe some of the water is warmer, you could get additional days but it's advertised and built to the 30-day specification. jon: what about the ability to send ships out with some kind of sonar or some kind of underwater microphone looking for the black box. is there any reason to do that before you find surface debris? >> no. unlike the emergency locator transmitter which will get picked up by satellite and that's if you were to crash into a mountain, satellites would pick that up. the underwater impact could be a

tashed to the cockpit recorder. they want to locate that underwater and so you need to get a debris field first, go to the debris field and then start scanning the water within the vicinity that debris field because it does not emit that far radius around it like emergency locator transmitter. jon: take us through what the u.s. air force and other assets are doing here. we point out, this is 1,500 miles off the coast of perch here. that's a three hour flight just to get out there. then you've got just this large section of ocean searched on the second day. that's many, many hours of flying in and of itself. what are they doing exactly to try to identify these pieces of wreckage if that's what they are? >> well, one of the things they're going to do is they're going to pool resources together so the australian t 3's are

flying out there and new zealand t 3 and then the u.s. navy has a modified boeing 737, like a southwest jet. that has sensors on it. so they're -- each of them are going to be assigned a specific search area and they're going to search in their own respective areas and then they're covering a lot of ground as rapidly as possible. if it is the lost aircraft, you still want to have a holdout or hope for survivors. maybe it was a controlled ditching. jon: let's go back to the photo of this debris that has attracted the attention of authorities. it appears to be something that is submerged or sub -- semi sub ameri merged. is the sensory of the aircraft going to be able to pick that up? >> the airplane is going to fly

fairly low and if there's some inclimate weather, if they can get under a cloud deck, under 500 feet, they can operate at 500 feet all day long looking for this wreckage. jon: but that would be a visual search. i was thinking that there would be -- i was thinking there would be some ship borne radar or something looking at the surface of the water. if this is semi submerged, it might not pick up to anything other than human eye. >> that's correct but it looks like some is on the surface and i believe that the aircraft has the ability to fly over and scan that. they're going to look at the t 3, and see what the capability of each aircraft can do and then assign them to the place that it would fully exploit the capabilities of that aircraft. jon: that little piece of debris of so much interest is only about 15 feet across and it's a

very big ocean to find something like that. an aviation analyst and man who has experience searching for things like this in the ocean, thank you. >> thank you, jon. jenna: one theory of what happened to the jetliner centers on decompression. that may have rendered the crew and passengers essentially helpless. so exactly what happens to the human body when a plane loses pressure? we'll talk about that next. re ap and i've got this runny nose. i better take something. truth is, sudafed pe pressure and pain won't treat all of your symptoms. really? alka seltzer plus severe sinus

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jenna: some brand new satellite images spotted off the coast of australia, possibly showing parts of the missing ma lash i can't be -- malaysian jetliner location of this possible debris is giving new credibility and questions today about the theory of decompression. if a plane loses pressure quickly, pilots only have a few moments to bring the plane below 13,000 feet before the passengers are impacted. so what exactly happens to our body under these conditions? we don't know if this happened but we're talking about it. we wanted to find out. we have a practicing cardiologist and a professor of medicine at the university of north carolina. doctor, in the simplest of terms, if that did happen, if we were in a plane and the plane -- the cabin loses pressure, what would happen instantly? >> well, what you find, it's very similar to the binz which

happens in divers. it can cause joint pain which is more common and in more serious conditions, depressurizing a cabin at 14,000 feet, it will enter the central nervous system and into the brain and you can have heart attack, stroke and death. jenna: one theory is rapid loss of pressure in the cabin, then there's the other theory there could be a low loss of pressure examine maybe even the pilots didn't realize it and it becomes too late for them to act. can you walk us through both scenarios, if it was rapid loss of pressure, what happened happen to the human body? if it's a slow loss of pressure, what would happen? >> if there was a very rapid loss of pressure due to a catastrophic event on the aircraft, what we would notice right away, all these bubbles could be released intu the bloodstream. there would be difficulty breathing, people come unconscious.

pilots have access to 100% oxygen. if they get the masks on and go below 13,000 feet, there's a chance folks will be okay. if there's a very, very slow loss of cabin pressure, it's not as abrupt, you may notice people complaining of joint pain, shoulder pain which is common with divers and then over time, they may experience neurologic systems as the bubbles enter the brain and spinal cords and things of that sort. both could be life threatening without proper treatment. jenna: if people were sleeping on the plane, would a slow loss of pressure, the effects of that, would that even wake you up or would you stay sleeping? >> you know, i think that's an interesting question. i would suspect that unless you're having severe pain or shortness of breath, you may continue to sleep. as you slowly depressurize. certainly a catastrophic event, everyone is going to be awake and notice that the pressure has dropped. folks in the back of the plane

near the passengers aren't going to have access to 100% oxygen and those masks don't work very well at 40,000 feet, either. jenna: that's why you have to get below a certain altitude so the masks start to work. how much time do you have, if it's a rapid loss of pressure, before you yourself are rendered helpless? >> i think you're talking a matter of minutes and i know these, you know, naval aif rate -- aviator people and pilots are aware of these conditions. a study found that 87% of all, you know, incidences due to change in pressure occur above 26,000 feet. below 10,000 feet, anywhere from 7,500 to 13,000 feet, those are not as significant. so this is a big deal and i think they had very little time to react. jenna: and that's one of the questions being raised today. we've seen the reports of the plane going up and down and were they wondering about whether or

not their cabin was losing pressure and trying to drop because of that? just a theory but we wanted to explore it a little bit. thank you for yur time. >> thanks for having me. have a great day. jenna: you, too, sir. jon: those oxygen masks for the passengers in the back of the plane, they don't do much unless the pilot gets the plane down low very soon. jenna: and you put your mask on first because you can so quickly lose your ability for coordination. jon: you have seconds, maybe a minute or two to act. if you don't get it done quickly, you're conked out. president obama announcing new sanctions on russia just hours after the lower house of article amount ratified a treaty to annex crimea. we'll bring you how moscow is retaliating coming up.

it is the middle of night in the waters off of australia.

so don't look for more information until day light. but you should watch fox nows for braking details. >> we'll not have another information for 6 or 8 hours at least. >> and thank you. fox nows alert. moscow is firing back minutes after president obama announced new sanctions against russia for the take over of crimea. russia has now sanctions against u.s. officials and visa bans and asset freezes. russia has an american list. and meanwhile, russian troops are in crimea. and moscow is hinting at further retaliation in the nuclear talks with iran. there is a lot more in this triangle as we continue the high- stakes show down o