worshipped while planning to kill thousands of innocent americans. as someone who lost co-workers and close friends at the hands of terrorists who worshipped at that mosque, i kindly ask the lawmakers to turn in your resignations on monday. hello, everybody. it's a little over two weeks and the fate of malaysia airlines flight 370 remains a mystery. this investigation continues to raise big concerns about whether any trace of that aircraft will be found. >> however, in the last 24 hours there have been some significant developments. first, the release of the transcript of the final 54 minutes of communication from the flight deck. investigators now know what was said from takeoff to the point of disappearance when the co-pilot said good night. those communications reportedly show no indication of anything amiss or a hint of the events to follow. and the pilot of that jet reportedly makes a mysterious

phone call just before takeoff. investigators are looking into who received that call and whether anything in that conversation could offer any leads. finally, a newly released chinese satellite image showing what could be debris of that jetliner. it shows an object 75 miles south of where an australian satellite viewed two objects two days earlier. >> over the next two hours we're going to bring you the very latest on the baffling search for flight 370, also with other stories making headlines, including the tense standoff in the ukraine as russia's president vladimir putin officially annexes crimea. already reports of shots fired in crimea in an area blocked off by russian forces. >> america's news headquarters starts now.

>> we begin this news with the newly released images from that chinese satellite. china says it's sending its ships to search that part of the indian ocean for debris. you may recall earlier this week when an australian satellite spotted possible objects in that ocean but nothing turned up there. we're joined from bangkok with the very latest on the investigation. david? >> yes, it's now over two weeks since that malaysian airlines jet went missing, but there is hope of a breakthrough of an announcement by china that that satellite spotted a large object in the southern indian ocean. they have released images of that object. it's about 70 feet long and 40 feet wide. the photo was taken on tuesday but released today. the authorities say china is sending ships to the area.

>> the chinese ambassador received a satellite image of floating objects in the southern corridor, and they will be sending ships to verify. >> reporter: the object sighted is around 75 miles from where two large objects were sighted by a satellite last sunday. that's nearly 2,000 miles southwest of perth, australia. meanwhile, they have widened the search area in the southern indian ocean today, but none of the search planes that went out reported seeing the objects. the u.s. navy's poseidon advanced search plane didn't fly today because it needed maintenance. it will return to the search today. an australian naval vessel has now reached the search area. it's accompanied by two merchant vessels who are helping in the search and australia's prime minister has pledged that if there's debris out there, they will find it. the weather was reported to be relatively good today over the search zone, but this is one of

the wildest and remotest areas in the world and the forecast doesn't look good. there's a cyclone to the north. the malaysian authorities say they are continuing the search even in the northern arc despite reports of an object down south because they have to not rule out that the plane did head north. back to you. >> and the mystery and investigationdeepens. >> let's bring in michael key, a retired officer and pilot in the royal u.k. air force. thanks for coming on. let's go to the latest news about the new piece of debris about 75 miles to the west. this image released by the chinese government. what do you make of it? >> we're over two weeks in this investigation now with no con

conclusive leads whatsoever. this information coming from the chinese satellite i would regard as welcoming and something that needs to be investigated. i would caution raising expectations. we saw four days ago the australian prime minister talking in parliament about the images that the u.s. satellite picked up four days ago might be linked to flight 370. the poseidon aircraft has been out and looked at the southern area and it came up with nothing conclusive. in fact, it wasdisappointing. what we need to learn is that it's incredibly difficult to try and identify something that might be wreckage when there are so many other things it could be from icebergs to containers from ships to pods of dolphins or even light refracting off the ocean. >> my first impression was that

it was a white cap dissolving. getting back to that part of the ocean, correct me if i'm wrong if i'm wrong about this but i would imagine all these troubles are exacerbated in the southern ocean, the roaring 40s where the winds are constantly blowing, gail force winds. we have bad storms, bad visibility. it would be difficult to spot anything in those conditions. >> absolutely spot on, doug. not only is it 125,000 square miles, it's also around 1500 miles off the southwestern tip of australia. that produces all sorts of problems. i've been involved in search operations of this kind in my previous career and there are all sorts of hazards and problems that come with this. the first is that the p-3 orion has a 13 endurance capacity. that may sound a lot but it's

got to travel five hours out and five hours back. the poseidon can travel a little faster but it's still limited in terms of endurance capability because of the positioning of the search area. the second thing is the weather. i've flown in all sorts of weather and it really is -- when the cloud base starts to come down and the rain starts to occur, the range really comes in. the orion travels around 4 miles a minute. i think it would be around 180 knots. even at that when you are looking at a visibility of two to five kilometers it becomes an almost impossible task which is why the mark one eye balance we call it, people looking out of the airplane is as important as relying on the technology. from termal imaging to the radar, they have got a lot in

this scenario. >> these magnetic detectors in this p-8 that we're talking about, are they effective in heavy seas? can you see through the waves? i know you can see when a piece of debris is in the crest of a wave but in the trough of a wave, considering the wave heights in that part of the world, i would imagine it's information that you don't see. >> i think the capability that you are talking about, doug, which is called the mad boom, it's the magnetic anomaly detector is a boom that hangs off the back of the p 3. what it does is hunts submarines. that's its day to day capability. it hunts for big pieces of metal under the ocean because metal under the ocean in large clumps will affect the force field of the earth.

now, what we need to obviously be cognizant of is it's not a submarine, it's smaller parts of wreckage that we're looking for. also, are the bits of wreckage actually made of metal, or is it going to be carbon fiber. there are all sorts of factors that need to come into play which may mean that this piece of technology might not be as effective as it usually is. >> michael kay, we appreciate your expertise. thank you. >> thanks for having me, doug. good to see you. the fbi is lending its technical expertise to the malaysian government by providing electronic data that can help analyze the flight simulator that the pilot built in his home. they hope that information can be restored to shed clues about flight 370. joining us, former fbi director dan danny kolson.

in addition to helping with the simulator we understand that fbi agents are in kuala lumpur. many are frustrated with the pace of this investigation. precious time has been wasted by delaying the release of important findings. do you feel the malaysian government has botched the overall investigation? >> well, i don't think they botched but you have to understand, we in the united states are somewhat spoiled by the quality of investigations we see conducted here. after the oklahoma bombing, the fbi had a handcuff on tim mcveigh in two days. the boston marathon bombing, we had pictures of the subjects the next day. we have to understand that this is not the united states. their familiarity and their experience in doing a case like this is about zero. what i would like to have seen done is that -- either the vice-president or the president calling the minister there and saying, look, i'm going to give

you the full resources of the fbi to help you do this. we'll do it in the background. you guys do all the things that are visible. we'll do all the things necessary and let the fbi run this thing. they are the best at this from the very early stages of our career we're taught crises management and we do it all the time. we're always doing these things. i have worked with the malaysian police, the malaysian government just last october. they're a proud professional people and they hate terrorists as much as we do but this is a little above their ability to do it. i think we can do more to solve this thing. i will tell you this, i think that it's very problematic whether or not we'll ever find that aircraft, but there are all kinds of tracks on the ground from telephone calls the pilot made to his associates, what's in that computer. i think we'll get more from that

than looking for this airplane. we should still look for it clearly. >> as far as the simulator goes throw, is there promise from your perspective that the deleted data can be retrieved? >> absolutely. remember oliver north deleted everything in the security council. we got it all back. they're very good at that. these people are outstanding. it takes a while, but they'll get it back. we can see maybe if he was planning way point changes in a flight plan or something. i don't know what's in there, but it's going to give us -- it potentially could give you the answer to the case. >> what's interesting, the malaysian authorities are saying they believe that the plane was deliberately turned back. terrorism of course can't be ruledith the release of the final 5 4 minutes of the flight deck, the malaysian government is saying they found nothing suspicious in those conversations. what do you make of that? >> i would like to listen to it

myself, frankly. maybe our people could do a better job at that either by enhancing it. but if they have all this flight data recording, why don't we have more information? that to me doesn't make much sense. >> from what we've learned over the past two weeks, what strikes you as the most significant evidence so far as to what may have happened to the jetliner? >> i think the sequence of events is the most telling. when they turned off the devices that told where they were, there's no reason to do that. there's another point i think that needs to be made, why is it that those devices can be turned off by a flick of the switch? why is that even a capability? it doesn't need to be. there's no reason for a modern-day airliner to fly invisible. i think that's really significant. if they wanted to key it to when you have weight on the wheels you can turn it off because that's probably necessary for ground control, but there's no reason that that capability is

there. it sounds like that stuff needs to be addressed. >> as always we thank you for your insight. appreciate it. >> thank you. the theories about what happened have changed and evolved over the past two weeks of this massive search. we would like to hear your thoughts about what's been revealed so far. has your opinion changed about the fate of flight 370? what do you think happened? tweet your responses to us here. we will read some of your thoughts a little later in our show. reports of shots fired at a ukrainian air force base blocked off by russian troops. let's go to the breaking developments from kiev. >> reporter: doug, we have been tracking this over the last couple of minutes really, the standoff or the windown in crimea continuing as you noted, the most important military base still held by ukrainian forces

in crimea appears to be falling to russian troops. again, this developing in the last few minutes. troops and the commander there of the ukrainian military have been the most defiant of anybody during this whole crises. they have been holding out. we have been watching as russian armor personnel vehicles smashed through the gate of the base. we then heard reports of shots fired and we have confirmed at least one ukrainian soldier injured. we've seen an ambulance go inside the base and our feed has been cut off. reports are that it appears that the base has falloen. we have confirmation of one other base falling today, a pro-russian crowd entered that base since president putin announced the annexation, we have been watching the surrender

of soldiers in crimea. that move not recognized by ukraine or by the u.s. or the west. officials tell us here that they are, however, planning the evacuation of the troops and families, a de facto surrender of the region. >> meanwhile, we watched a pro-russia rally, as many as 5,000 in that. this as officials confirmed they're watching closely a russia troop buildup on the other side of the border, said to be some 20,000 troops in full combat gear there. russia has been saying these are exercises. they have no plans to invade. the world coming from the white house and the pentagon in the last two days, they're skeptical of those claims. this as we've been watching diplomacy in kiev as well. u.n. secretary banky moon has been here, the canadian prime minister has been here and 100 military observers arriving as

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rain, fog and ocean current are hampering the search for flight 370. janice dean is at the fox weather center with today's forecast for that part of the world. we now here there's a cyclone bearing down on the search area. >> a cyclone in that part of the world is what we typically call a storm system, a low pressure area that's moving into the region. so cyclone doesn't mean a hurricane. they're talking about a storm system north of the area. they've been dealing with a fairly good conditions really over the last six to 12 hours,

but conditions are going to deteriorate over the next 12 to 24 as another storm moves in. this is the window of opportunity that search crews need to get in there and to investigate. of course, they've been dealing with very harsh conditions. we don't have any land to break up these storms as it moves over the friction of the land. so the ocean can be very unforgiving with winds in excess of 40, 50 miles per hour and plenty of storm systems as they go into the fall and winter season here in this part of the world. as you can see, this is one of our model forecasts showing this next system moving in over the next couple of hours. so, doug, they really need to get crews in now when they have that window of opportunity and of course we'll continue to monitor the weather conditions for the search which continues. back to you. >> janice, thank you very much. no more unforgiving place in the world than that. thanks. >> true.

well, as we've been reporting tensions econtinue in crimea and ukraine as crimea is now under russian control a vladimir putin completed a decree. and there are fears that he may continue to move ahead and seize complete control of that nation. joining us, fox analyst colonel peters. pet putin is turning a blind eye and you're saying u.s. has allowed putin to do this. >> he has maintained the initiative throughout this entire misadventure and we keep reacting to him instead of enforcing our own policies.

for instance, the sanctions were not only pitiful but they encouraged putin. if that's all we have the guts to do to russia after they seized crimea why not move forward? i believe that although we certainly do not know when, we know with certainty that putin will move forward on eastern ukraine, perhaps the area around odessa and then what? he has been explicit about what he wants. he wants to restore the borders. he knows he can't get the soviet empire back with hungary and bulgaria. he's a great russia nationalist but with this incredible settle ty. >> you call it psychological judo. >> he has 20 to 30,000 shock troops on ukraine's south eastern borders. we basically thank him for not

doing anything with them. and he always will throw out a gamut that he may do something and instead of strongly countering it, we're just relieved. we wipe our foreheads that he didn't do it. putin has the gift and it is a powerful gift of assessing his opponents brilliantly. it does go back to his days as a kgb case officer when he was trained to judge agents, could you work these people. i see both russians and the washington establishment so anxious and have been for so long to dismiss putin. they say in the kgb he was a little clerk. this guy, since he became to power 15 years ago, took a supine russia, flattened its back, restored it to great power status, has backed the west down in every single confrontation and at this point he has no reverse gear. i don't like vladimir putin, but

i have to admit he's a dynamic powerful leader with a clear vision of what he wants and the west is leaderless. >> you say that he obviously has the patience to wait this thing out, keep the troops at the border to throw people off guard, to say, you know what, at least he's not moving in. he's waiting for some kind of provocation to give him the green light to go ahead? >> absolutely. he doesn't really want violence in crimea now. he's got crimea. that's over. but they'll keep slow rolling the bases one after another gobbling them up one at a time. he wouldn't back down from confrontation but he wants a provocation from the local ukrainians from the nationalists so it gives him an excuse as it gave him an excuse to barge in and protect ethnic russians who are suffering against the fascists and he sets it up beautifully. he will tell the big lie over

and over again because it resonates with his people, with the syrians and other russian sympathizers. you don't have to leave it, you have to accept it. >> where do things go with the united states if it's only willing to implement these kinds of sanctions which he doesn't seem to care about? >> the weakness of the sanctions definitely encourages putin to do more. but he wants, at a minimum, eastern and southeastern ukraine. he would like to punish ukraine economically in the meantime and he's keeping his options open. >> but the other european allies are going to stand by and let it happen as well? angela merkel has been saying she wants to be more forceful and implement sanctions but it doesn't seem to have any weight. >> it's not just about the gas supplies. german industry is -- they are incredibly heavily invested in

russia and they don't want to take a hit. even with u.s. corporations that have a much smaller stake, they're lobbying the obamacare administration don't do anything. it's like credit card debt. you can either pay it down right now and suck it up, or you can delay payment and pay a higher interest. the longer we wait to confront putin, the higher the bill is going to be. he wants ukraine. he wants central asia. he wants the baltics. he wants russia back. >> very ambitious and determined leader there. thank you very much for joining us. >> scary. >> scary indeed. thank you for joining us as always. >> thanks. >> doug? coming up, in the midst of a baffling mystery, the families who have been dealing with this sad, gut wrenching ordeal, how have they been treated by the

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we begin our fox news flash with the latest on malaysian airline 370. the newest clue is showing a very large object similar in size to one spotted earlier by an australian satellite. meanwhile, the cost of u.s. assistance in the search is up to $2.5 million now that the u.s. defense department as budget. shots fired at a ukrainian

air force base in crimea blocked off by russian forces. one person has been injured as tensions mount, so does speculation about what putin's end game is. syndicated columnist says putin has one goal. >> this is a man motivated by vengeance would be to break up n.a.t.o. >> earlier this week putin said he did not have anything against cooperation with n.a.t.o. investigators are trying to figure out what caused a seattle news chopper to crash. video from surveillance cameras shows that the helicopter began rotating at takeoff, pitched forward and crashed. and same sex couples in michigan are lining up to get marriage licenses. yesterday a federal judge struck down that state's nearly 10-year-old ban on gay marriage as unconstitutional.

those are your top stories in today's fox news flash. by now many of you have seen the hart breaking images of families grieving for their loved ones over the fate of malaysian flight 370. some initial insurance payments have reportedly been made to some of the families but how can this investigation affect the families and compensation that they may be entitled to. joining us former trial attorney with both the federal aviation administration and the department of justice, mark dunnbrof. this is a delicate territory to start talking about. many families are hoping against hope that they're going to find their loved ones alive, particularly if this was a hijacking situation and they could be held hostage someplace. at the moment though, the airlines has to address this issue in terms of what to do for these families in light of this

tragedy. >> i think that's absolutely correct. i think parallel to the accident investigation which the airline is a participant. they're not running the investigation, they're just a participant, they have to address these issues. all airlines have family assistance programs in place. what makes it difficult here is that what the families want first and foremost is information. the airline, i don't believe, based upon what we see, has anymore information than anybody else. certainly one can raise questions regarding the reporting and how timely it is in terms of release but invest investigations and procedures, the investigation is actually is private. so to the extent when we say private it means information doesn't get released. to the extent that information is being released, i think it's something clearly that the families want. in terms of the family assistance, i think the airline

is providing grief councillors, families and support personnel. they have made or certainly offered payments that are not in terms of settlement of any claims or the resolution of claims but are really meant to help the families get through these difficult times, if they have payments, bills and so forth. this is something that malaysia airlines is knowledgeable and sophisticated about and i think most airlines are. >> many people have seen those images from the news conferences where the families are really very, very upset. they're trying, they're throwing things at the malaysian officials. the fact that this is a tragedy that we still don't have all the answers to, how has this airline from your perspective, handled the situation? >> i think it's difficult to say. clearly the images we're seeing are heartbreaking. one can't even begin to imagine what these families are going through. i've been at the scene on behalf

of my airline clients of many accidents where the families are gathered and waiting for information. >> it's got to be unbelievably tough. >> it's very difficult even when the information is known. the families are briefed on a regular basis, they're brought up to date. their needs are provided for. as malaysia airlines has done, they bring the families together in those instances at the scene of the accident or in close proximity to it. here we don't have the scene of the accident. >> what if the plane is never found in terms of claims or going after the airline? >> that's a very good question. the malaysia airlines or the government is a signatory to an international agreement. an airline ticket is a contract and they have the obligation to deliver a passenger from point a to point b. if they don't deliver them, there's a breach of the contract. essentially there's no need on the part of the passenger or the family to prove any misconduct by an airline when you are operating under this

international agreement. there are rights to recovery, irrespective of whether they find the aircraft or not. those rights are defined by this international agreement. so the families will ultimately be receiving compensation and i think it's a question of -- you're absolutely correct. at what point in time do we turn to that issue? obviously lawyers are going to get involved, the issue is going to start to get pushed to the forefront the more time that goes by, but there's obviously also a great deal of sensitivity at this point in time. i think also there are cultural issues. dealing with the various cultures and the timing issues and the grieving process and so forth. >> certainly obviously you've been through it and know first hand what it's like to go through this situation and our hearts go out to those families. thank you for sharing your insights. >> thank you very much. the search for flight 370 has been described as pretty much looking for a needle in 1,000 haystacks.

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china has an army of sensors filtering information. this is the first time a u.s. first lady has traveled to china without a president. only the third time mrs. obama made an overseas trip since they moved to the white house. she and her daughters will head to the great wall tomorrow. it took almost two years to find the debris from air france flight 477 after it crashed into the atlantic ocean in 2009. it took cameras, computers and advanced technology to search the depths of the ocean. we're in new york with an up close and personal look at the equipment that could be potentially used to find the malaysian jetliner. >> if flight 370 crashed into the ocean it's most likely phoenix international would be

mobilized to search deep beneath the surface and would begin with the hopes of finding this sound. pings from the two black boxes, the data and voice recorders. the pings are picked up by the towed pinger locator system which is basically a small microphone towed under water that can pick up signals from as far as two miles away. scientists only have 30 to 50 days from when the plane hits the water and the beacons die making the search harder. >> it's important to find them before they go dead. you can detect the location of the black box a lot farther away if the pinger is working than if it's not working. it gives you a lot better idea of where the debris field is. >> ping or no ping, scientists would launch an under water vehicle or auv that can dive three miles under water and is preprogrammed to map the sea

floor using satellite gps and scan sonar. it scans the floor for possible plane wreckage. scientists download the data and can quip the auv acameras if they think plane wreckage is found. recovery would begin with a remeetly operated vehicle equipped with thrusters, lights and robotic arms. it can lift debris to the surface and for heavier items like the engine it attaches high strength recovery lines to be lifted from the boat. bottom line, before this technology can be used, however, you have to know where to start looking. without a workable search area, the chances of finding the wreckage are slim. doug? >> brian, thanks very much. fascinating. we hope they have a chance to put that e equipment to good use. no matter how advanced technology, those searching for clues must deal with a slew of

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ocean junk or part of a missing plane. the fuzzy and distant satellite images make it hard to tell the difference. it could be containers or other equipment that's fallen off from nearby ships in shipping routes. dominic di natale is in our office. >> the issue here is that the area of search that is currently the focus lies within what is known as the indian ocean garbage patch, which is part of a rotational oceanic current movement that lies between western australia and western africa. rather, sorry, eastern africa and it's a massive area within

that. it's about one point it's about 2,300 kilometers across the search area where what we see is a massive noncontinuous debris field of man made junk. this swirls around that rotational current better known as agia, endless spread of debris of every sort of human garnl you can think of. with so much of that floating around it's actually very difficult for people to get their hopes up too high. >> it could be anything. we dump millions of pounds of garbage in our oceans every day. it could be debris. it could be a piece of plane. it could be an overturned boat. it could be just about anything. >> reporter: it's coming off cruiseships and it's coming off oil rigs apparently this kind of debris, but what a sight this is, they know it being part of the indian ocean fwarge patch is they can to some extent perhaps predict the current because this is a well-established oceanic current movement which means they may be able to trace where

this debris could be going and perhaps its point of origin, doug. back to you. >> very disturbing we discard that much in our oceans. really troubling. dominic, thanks very much. >> shifting gears, it's your money but the people who are spending your tax dollars don't even know what they're spending it on. after the break, senator todd coburn on a bipartisan plan to stop government waste. >> the other thing we know is there's one department in the u.s. government that knows all their programs and that's the department of education. [ male announcer ] frequent heartburn? the choice is yours. chalky... not chalky. temporary... 24 hour. lots of tablets... one pill. you decide. prevent acid with prevacid 24hr.

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earlier i spoke with tom coburn, who has introduced a similar bill in the senate. >> it's a takeoff of what we did with the transparency, original transparency bill with president obama that we did in the senate. and what we found is you can have -- fa that the quality of the transparency isn't as good. the other thing we know is that there's only one department in the u.s. government that knows all their programs, and that's the department of education. the rest of them don't know. the only way you can imagine that is make them publish all their programs, make them see and list what it costs, how people are served, and the whole goal for that is that's common sense. american people get that. they want it. >> why do you think it takes so long to get folks on boofrd with this when it comes to the transparency issue. >> well, when you're not transparency, there's all sorts of things that can go on. >> i understand. when you talk about accountability and the public wants that and you hear about it

when you go home and folks are complaining that money's being wasted, it takes a lot of effort, like what you're doing, to make this happen. and it seems like it takes a long time to get anything through. >> it's simple, but, you know, the agencies don't want that bill. >> i know. >> and the omb is speaking for the agencies, you know, really doesn't want it either. but if you think about, if you really wanted to control our expenditures and you really wanted to do good and you really wanted to eliminate $200 billion worth of duplication, this is the answer for it. the question is really this -- why in the world did we e bill a government that didn't know the programs? when we see a new problem, rather than look to see what we're doing about it and how wellite's work, we just build another oil-for-food program that's what happens here. let's find out what we're doing, what work and what doesn't work, let's find out how much it costs, whether there's a real cost benefit to it and let's

streamline that before we create another pru nu program. i'm critical of the budpresiden budget. we e spend $5 billion a year on jobs and not one has a metric on it. he has another v.a. program. we need to fix the ones we've got now and actually keep the promises to veterans rather than say we're going to do another one and it not manifest it in terms of helping a veteran. i see that played over and over and over out here. we have 47 job training programs, spend dlrg 18 billion a year. not one of them has a metric. so you think if the taxpayer right to know act actually got passed and implemented and then congress looked at that and the american people got to see all the way, actually glot got to see all the way, they know innately, and then they acted on it you'd save them $200 billion a year. and that's either $200 billion that can go to help somebody that really needs it in a more

effective or efficient way or $200 billion that we won't be borrowing from our kids. >> now, coburn's bill would force agencies to post the information online for you to see and it would require the agencies to recommend ways to cut waste. and this is a "fox news alert." i i'm. >> we are following the unbreaking situation in crimea and the mystery of malaysian airlines flight 370. 14 day, a global search and a seemingly endless supply of theories and it's almost like we're back to square one. but this afternoon there is yet another possible break as china releases a satellite image of a floating object in the southern corridor. >> and in the ukraine, the crisis in crimea goes from bad to worse. the situation turns violent as russia begins taking control of ukraine's military posts in the black sea peninsula. russian forces stormed an air

force base firing shots and smashing through concrete walls of armored personnel carriers. >> we'll have more on the situation in crimea in just a moment. but we begin with chief washington correspondent james rosen who has the latest on new developments in the search for flight 370. james? >> doug and uma, good afternoon. a big announcement from chinese authorities this morning, the second time in a week that a satellite has generated a potentially promising image of debris. once again, ships and planes from various countries are scouring a remote 14,000-square-mile area of the southern indian ocean. earlier this week an australian satellite has detected two pieces of debris in this area which is marked by strong currents and rough sees. state-run chinese media said these images were captured

tuesday with the unidentified object, that white thing you see in the middle of your screen, measuring 72 feet by 43 feet. one of the objects detected by the australian satellite that measured about 80 feet by 15 feet. now the thundershowers in malaysia are saying their biggest concerns is if they're not able to identify this debris we'll have to go back to the two corridors of searching a huge and massive area and they understand that that is unprecedented. malaysian airlines flight 370 as we all know went messing on march the 8th with 239 people on board. 153 of them chinese nationals. a purported transcript of the final 54 minutes of cockpit communications with ground control published by lon didn't daily telegraph newspaper yesterday revealed nothing terribly amiss. but the transcript has prompted additional scrutiny on the plane's two co-pilots as it reveals that the cutoff in communications and that abrupt left turn the plane made over the gulf of thailand occurred as

the aircraft was transiting from malaysian air space to vietnamese air space, one of this the things that has suggested perhaps human intent in whatever happened with this airplane. given typical currents in that part of the indian ocean that's being searched the debris spotted by the chinese satellite could already have floated some 300 miles away or even beneath the surface. >> thanks very much for that. investigators have not ruled out the possibility that terrorism may be responsible for the disappearance of flight 370. from the outset, fox news analyst thomas mcinerney he says he believes this jet with its 239 passengers on board had been hijacked. he is joiningi inus now on the phone wiz this thoughts. you have been a respected military general who has been with this network for years and you have solid souerss. to what degree of certainty do you continue to feel that this jet and its passengers have been hijacked as part of a terrorist

plot? >> well, first, uma, thanks for having me. i think the important thing why i continue to believe that it's a northern route and a terrorist is involved, because the tapes that were just released that james talked about did not indicate that there was a different person transmitting. in other words, it was the co-pilot who was making these transmissions from start, taxi, takeoff, climb, transfer, from departure control to en route control. and so that means in that 28 minutes they had on the takeoff, a takeoff before the acars was turned off, that same person was in control in the cockpit and it didn't sound like there was any disturbances going on. the difference between the acars and the transponder was five minutes and the turn was made.

so it was made at a very crucial time in the flight plan. so i think people should understand that. now, what i have not been able to understand is what is getting the focus in the south indian ocean? what data we have that says it down there? well, we have immarsat that says they've got in the north and south indian ocean. we have these satellite fra photographs in an area that really is a garnl dump. and unfortunately i think we're putting a lot of resouerss down there and we're not going to get anything. i don't have an answer for it because i think we're looking for a need until a haystack and it's the wrong haystack. >> but you say that there are sources you know about that have been sharing the view to this

point. >> there was a report last month substantiated yesterday that their sources got information from boeing sources, covert, not from the boeing company, because they're involved in the investigation, that the airplane was in pakistan. that was confirm ed on the web page on monday. and i got another source that reconfirmed it for me yesterday. so -- and i think that when tak discount the north group because they say all these radar -- why didn't the radars that they turned south go into singapore and indonesia pick up? it could very well be that the radars either missed it in india or, as is becoming a very credible perhaps solution, singapore 68, that flight 370 shadowed it, in other words, rolled in close it to and flew in its shadow so the pinging

radar could not see it, and it went all the way up through india, pakistan, all the way over. now, i do believe that people in the pakistani government, the isi, those people that knew where osama bin laden was and didn't tell us, i believe those same elements could be involved with getting that airplane into a pakistan air force base. >> senator thomas mcinerney, thank you so much for joining us with your insights. i know you'll be following it closely and we'll be checking back with you. >> thank you, uma. >> well, joining us now is former cia analyst and southeast asia expert phillip mudd. phill phillip, you basically indicated in the p.a. that this search not going very far. you concur with the general to some extent. what most surprises you about this investigation today? >> boy, in the 21st century what surprises me is the lack of information we're acquiring. i used to sit in the morning, every morning with the fbi director after 7:00 a.m., every

morning for 4 1/2 years when i was there. we'd talk about threats. someone would crop up on the radar, not a pilot but a terrorist, same situation, though, a human being we were trying to track. you could follow their electronic transmissions, e-m l e-mail, text, phone, what kind of financial transactions they had and very quickly within 24 to 48 hours get a picture of a human being that led you to understand them. i think we're focusing on these photographs of the indian ocean because the other avenues of investigation are turning up dry. it's really frustrating. >> what do you think of general mcnerney's theer ryery? >> i have two peck perspectives on, this one as a private citizen, the other as a former general. as a private citizen, i don't buy it. we're two weeks in, 230 people out there who need to food and water and in this digital age there's not a peep, a claim from a terrorist group, not a terrorist connection from the cabin crew, the passengers on the plane? i find it hard to believe. that said, let me make one more comment about where i used to be

in government. if you don't know what happened and you take a possibility off the table, you're making a mistake. so regardless of whether i think there's 99.9% chance of terrorism, if i'm the government leading that task force i'm saying keep going, check every lead. >> that brings us to this newest satellite image from the chinese government. what do you make of that? >> i think we're following fragments, fragmentary information because we don't have facts. in terms of fact, you would want mechanically what happened on the plane, what happened electronically, what happened with the crew, whether there was a fire, you want the black box. we don't have any of that. so five days after an image is taken in a vast, expansive ocean, we're saying there's two white spots, maybe there's a 1% chance there's a piece of a plane. i think that's a high estimate. maybe there's a one tenth of 1% chance we find them. we are following fragments because we don't have facts. >> the other day i exchanged e-mails with a man widely regarded as the world's foremost

photo interpreter, 92 years old, still has a cia clearance. i said what do you make of the images released by the australian government? he said what's important is there are lots of images from this same area nld it will be important for photo interpreters to superimpose images of a 777 on these parts, cut and paste, basically, superimpose them and determine whether or not this is a plane. i assume that applies to this recent chinese image. is that what photo interpreters are doing right now in our government or other governments? >> they're trying to look at an expansion of ocean that is hard for us to contemplate. the first thing is how do you scan millions of miles of ocean in a timely period? what we've got now is not only scanning that piece of territory, what we've got is saying if you don't find that in your photo interpretation within 24 hours with swirling currents, with the fact it might have sunk, the likelihood a ship, helicopter, plane is going to find that three days, four days, five days later to my mind is minimal but we're chasing it

because we have no other leads to res chaste. >> very depressing. >> it is. >> but realistic, too. >> it is. >> thank you. >> my pleasure. time for another big story raising big concern in another part of the world. there are now reportings of shots fired at a ukrainian air force base after pro-russian forces storm that base. let's go right now to senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot who is following all the breaking news developments from kiev. greg? >> reporter: uma, we are getting late word of another violent takeover by russian forces in crimea. the ukrainian defense ministry continue if i wering to us just a minute ago that perhaps their most important base in ukraine, crimea, has fallen out of their control and into the control of russian special forces. the commander of that base has been perhaps the most defiant throughout this crisis. it was confirmed to us that four russian armored vehicles broke

through the front gate of the base and shots and stun grenades were fired, confirmed to us two injured officers. the media there roughed up as well. and that brave commander, he is now in the custody of russian forces. earlier in crimea at another base that was stormed, too, this time by pro-russian militia. vladimir putin has announced the annexation of crimea, not recognized by ukraine, the west, or the u.s. most of the bases have fallen now in control of the rugs. officials here tell us they're trying to work out an evacuation plan for soldiers and families. meanwhile, in eastern ukraine, in the city of go nedaof, offic watching a russian troop buildup on the other side of the border, something like 20,000 russian troops in full battle gear over there. russia, moscow have said these are just exercises, no plan to invade, but the word if white

house and pentagon sources in the last two days, this might not be credible. finally in kiev, diplomacy continues. u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon was here meeting with ukraine's interim prime minister and prime minister here too begins the girs g-7 leader of the new transitional government and military arriving in the next couple hours, their task to keep an eye on things. there's a lot to watch. back to you, uma. >> absolutely, greg. thank you very much. >> for more on this, let's bring in andrew cutchens, a senior fellow and director for the center for strategic and i remember studies at the russia and your asia program there. thanks for coming in. >> my pleasure. >> where does putin stop? >> that's a good question. i think he's thinking about that right now himself. the sanctions that were called on thursday have given him pause, i think, not necessarily the impact of what's been done, but the fact that the next step would really do some serious

damage to the russian economy. and secondly, also, the announcement was very interesting that the treasury department noted that vladimir putin has some assets in this company indicating that vladimir, we actually have a money trail basically illicit money trail. and if you go further, that's going to get revealed ls probably. >> to what effect? what is the ultimate outcome of that? the can you stem the flow of that money to them? >> i certainly hope our intelligence services and treasury department actually know where vladimir's money is, and that's certainly that something you would never want revealed if, indeed, it is true. so i'm not sure whether that or simply the fact the ratings agencies have downgraded the russian economy, the russian stock market voted yesterday, negatively on this. for the first time in the last three weeks, thank god for once, mr. putin, instead of looking at what president obama did and

laughed as actually stopped and thought about things. >> he's given pause. i'm reminded of what winston churchill told parliament in 1938 in the face of nazi aggression after they paused after the invasion of the rhineland and austria, he said, it's like a boca constrictor. it feasts on a goat or a sheep or what have you and then must rest for a period of months. but it will be back. it gets hungry again. >> well, the russians have the same thing with eat, the appetite grows with eating. same idea. i don't think -- basically where we stand right now is that the russians effectively have crimea, but they've lost ukraine. and i don't think that was the end goal that mr. putin desired. so i expect that he's going to continue, but precisely how is the question. unlikely it will be major military invasion across the border of czechoslovakia 1968 style. probably a bit more subtle, special forces, probing,

prodding here and there, seeinging where their weakness is and trying to destable the government in kiev, probably try to prevent the elections from happening may 25th because that would result in a legitimate government being elected that mr. putin could no longer claim was illegitimate. >> very quickly, you saw greg palkot's report where ukrainian soldiers, military bases are throwing down their arms and giving up to russian troops. do you expect that to happen? will there be further outbreak of violence perhaps? >> in crimea, i probably expect that to continue happening, although i i'm surprised there hasn't been violence in the last three weeks. in the rest of ukraine, however, if there are military attacks, ukraine forces are not going to lie down. >> appreciate your expertise. thank you, sir. >> my pleasure. straight ahead on america's news headquarters, as the world focuses on the mystery of flight 370's disappearance, the passengers families are tracked in a heartbreaking limbo. you'll hear from the rel tichs of one of the americans on board that jetliner.

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welcome back, everybody. something to consider -- the search for malaysian airlines flight 307 has cost the united states millions and could cost much more. the pentagon says it has already spent $2.5 million in its search for the mussing jet. that includes high-tech surveillance planes as well as ship operating costs. $4 million has been budget sod far for the search. >> it's captured the world's attention but in the frenzy over the hunt it is easy to lose sight of those most affected. we have a look at how the family

and friends of those on board are coping. >> reporter: as the search for missing malaysia airlines flight 370 enters its second week, the family members of all 239 on board the boeing 777 are no closer to any answers. >> just telling us how beautiful mamadou koulibakou kuala lumpur was, so excited to move there from beijing. >> phillip wood transferred to asia a few years back. he was about to move in with his girlfriend and was flying back to china to tie up a few loose ends. his family lives near dallas and has been glued to television reports about every twist and turn of this mystery. >> to be honest with you, it's almost surreal. we're still in shock, and we have our moments. christ is what holds us together, and that's how we're dealing with it. >> reporter: phillip's father has told journalists he feels his son is alive and says

they're not giving up. states away, similar hope in pennsylvania. an engineer who worked at this eastman chemical office near pittsburgh was also on that plane. he was a malaysian national who just bought a home nearby. one of her colleagues released this statement to fox news. it reads in part, "all of us at eastman are deeply shocked and saddened by this, and our thoughts and prayers go out to all the families of those on the flight and especially to the family of our friend and co-worker co-worker." the u.s. state department says two other americans are listed on the flight's manifest. 2-year-old li meng and 3-year-old nicole meng, siblings said to be traveling with their parents. that's the latest from dallas. cas casey steagel, fox news. finding a plane's black boxes is often vital to figuring

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we begin with the latest on malaysian airlines flight 370. the newest clue is pointing searchers to a remote southern stretch of the indian ocean. a just-released satellite image from china shows a very large object similar in size to the one spotted by earlier by an australian satellite. the cost of assistance to the u.s. is up to $2.5 million, part of the $4 million budgeted for

operations. shots have been fired at a ukrainian air force base in crimea blocked off by russian forces. one person has been injured. as tensions mount so, does speculation as to what putin's end game is. columnist and fox news contributor george will says putin has one main goal. >> maximum vengeance, and this is a man motivated by vengeance, would be to break up nato. >> earlier this week, putin said he does not have anything against cooperation with nato. investigators are trying to figure out what caused a seattle news chopper to crash earlier this week. the ntsb says video from surveillance camera shows that the helicopter began rotating at takeoff, it then pitched forward, crashed into the ground, bursting into flames. both the pilot and photographer on board were killed. and some same-sex couples in michigan are lining up to get marriage licenses. yesterday a federal judge struck down that state's nearly ten-year ban on gay marriage as

unconstitutional. and those are some of your top stories of today's fox news flash. well, as we've been reporting the recent sighting of that large object in a remote section of the indian ocean taken by chinese satellite has many hoping we may be a bit dloers finding out the fate of flight 370. more than two weeks into this investigation, we still know so little about what happened. david piper is joining us from bangkok, thailand weather the latest on the investigation. david, what can you tell us? >> reporter: hi, uma. yes, two weeks since that plane went missing and today china announced one of its satellites had spotted that large object in the southern indian ocean. they have now released images of that object. it's about 70 foot long and 40 wide. photo was taken, though, on tuesday, but it's only been released today. the malaysian authorities that are leading the investigation say china is sending ships to the area now.

>> the chinese received the image of this floating in the southern corridor and will be sending ships to verify. >> reporter: the object was photographed around 35 miles from where two ones were seen by lite last sunday, nearly 2,000 miles southwest of perth, australia. object is likely to have moved a considerable distance since the chinese satellite spotted it and they have widened the search yair in the southern indian ocean, but none of the first planes that went out today reported seeing the objects. the u.s. navy's p-8 poseidon advance search plane will rejoin the snerge a few hours' time. planes from australia and china are also headed to the search zone, about a four-hour flight from perth. an australia naval vessel has reached the search area. it will be joined by ships from china and uk in the coming days. the weather, though, is a major concern.

the forecast doesn't look good for the coming week. a cyclone is currently to the north of the search area and is moving towards it. also the malaysian thundershowers are still conducting a search in the northern arc, which includes places like here in thailand all the way to kazakhstan. back to you, uma. >> all right, david. thanks for the update. the search for flight 370 has really put a spotlight on the limitations of the current technology used by airlines. data from the plane has given investigators something to go on, but it has fallen fall short of answering the most important question of where is that plane. so there stl technology that can change all that? our next guest says yes. he is chairman and ceo of star navigation systems. he says his company's in-flight safety monitoring system can track problems on airplanes in real time. and he joins us now with more on that. can you tell us more about the system and how it works? >> yes, definitely. and thank you for inviting us.

basically our system is a realtime monitoring system which is compared to the black box or anything else is proactive rather than reactive. our system tweets every five minutes and they can be programmed to come in at every one second, 15 second, every minute. basically what we do is look at the system on board the aircraft through various data but pull information from. and this information is processed and then sent to the ground. within seconds they're able to know if there is any system degradation where the aircraft is within -- they can track it on their screens. we also have a second to none graphic user interface, which if there is an event or problem in the aircraft, mechanical, electrical, whatever, and if one of the data boxes picks it up, our system will be able to show it on the ground as if whatever

the pilot is seeing in the cockpit. >> how does this differ from the so-called acars system we heard about, which sends data about the engine functioning to satellites and which help to direct us to some potential theories about where this plane might be? >> yes. you're right about the theories because i've probably heard maybe 10,000 theories. just kidding. but basically, our system does differ from them because we reeli on the radio satellite network which literally covers 70 to 70 north pole to south pole and very soon it will be cov covering all of the earth, and basically what we are able to do is the plane is tracked on a screen anytime in the operation center. it continuously is tracked and not just one plane, if your airline has 50 planes 1shgs 00 planes 2shgs 00 planes, they can all be tracked. any pop-up messages will come if there's an issue. >> let me interrupt you for a

second. i'm curious if there's any resistance from the airlines to this system. >> airlines don't have -- they always look at capital expenditure or operating expenditure. systems are available, and we have one customer from the middle east and we've been marketing since october of last year our latest version of the system. so there is resistance, but when we are able to show them our return on investment and the savings they make on various things like fuel, engine condition monitoring, flight operations, quality assurance, which we are able to point out any degradation in systems. >> chairman and ceo of star navigation systems, i suspect there will be a lot more interest in your device. >> in fact, what we are doing now is we are moving to a

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just over a week until the end of obamacare open enrollment and the obama administration is behind in reaching its own goals, particularly of having enough young people to sign up to balance out the risk pool. >> well, joining us now to talk more about this and some other topics making news, alan colmes, author and host of "the alan colmes show" and lars larson, host of "the lars larson show." hi, gentlemen. >> good morning. >> a little more than a week to go obviously with the enrollment for obamacare and still the estimates are that the administration is behind in getting that goal of 7 million.

what do you think, alan? >> well, we knew they'd be behind, but there's a surge that's going on over the last few weeks as we get closer incrementally, more people are signing up. about 5 million. i knew -- i mean, we knew they weren't going to get the number they originally projected, but also we're finding out more and more people like obamacare contrary to whey've heard by the right, a bloomberg poll shows 64% either want to keep it as is or make only small changes. as time goes on, they'll get more sign-ups and more people will accept it and like it. >> la what do you make of the fact we've been seeing many new rollouts in terms of public service announcements, campaigns with celebrities and like that try and get more young people to get on board and sign up? do you think any of that has any impact at this point? >> oh, of course -- well, i don't think it's going to have that much impact because here's the basic truth to that. the bt said this was going to be such a good deal, everybody was going to want it. it was going to cut average

premiums by $2,500 a year. instead it's gone the other direction. anything you have to sell that hard can't be that popular. think about that basic truth and the fact that even when the president goes out to some of his firmest democrat allies, celebrities and says will you please sell this to the american people, many of them have turned him down flat. they don't want to touch this thing with a ten-foot pole. it's understandable why. the costs are going up. that's been confirmed by the ceo, premiums going up. doctors are saying it will be unaffordable for them and many are leaving the business as a result of obamacare. this is all what i think the president will push for, a sing hfl payer government-funded system, which is what he said he wanted going back as far as 20 years ago. >> alan, you've accused the gop of not proposing an alternative themselves. many conservatives on capitol hill would say that that's not true and they point to

encouraging small businesses to pool their health plans together, growing high-risk pools, medical malpractice, allowing people to buy insurance across state lines, fueling the medical tax device, on and on, repealing the medical device tax to help poor people. but having said that and admitted that, is there a risk in the gop, for the gop proposing any alternative? because there's that old axiom if your opponent is defeating itself, stay out of the picture. >> well, i don't believe the democrats are defeating themselves so i don't buy the premise. i know they want to run against obamacare. what are they running for? you're pointing out some things they claim they're trying to push but what they've really done is 50 times they voted, 50 times to overturn all or some of the affordable care act, and some of those issues you bring up would not protect people with pre-existing conditions. you can't sell across state lines without changing laws in 50 different states. medical safety casualties don't help the poor.

they only help those who have an income. so the things they're proposing don't do the things the affordable care act does. >> lars, let me pose that same question to you. is there a risk in the gop proposing alternatives in the sense a lot of conservative, libertarians don't want the government involved in our health care in any way, shape, or form? >> i don't want the government involved. every time government gets involved they screw it up and obamacare is a prime example. alan seems to think it would take 50 state law changes around america. doesn't the federal government control interstate commerce? couldn't the federal government say if i can buy car insurance or home inshurn or fire insurance across state lines why can't i buy health insurance across state lines? that would be one simple solution, but it's not the whole solution. but having the government dictate a 60-year-old woman has to have a health insurance plan that includes maternity as one of the ten different mandates broadly stated instead of giving people choice. democrats always tell you choice is only about killing unborn

babies, but choice ought to be about health insurance as well. if someone wants to choose to have a catastrophic plan only and just cover their plan for emergencies, if someone wants to have a plan that covers birth control and every other thing under the sun, even things that don't apply to that premium payer, they should have the choice to do it. the department is forcing people to buy a one size fits all and it is flat unaffordable. >> alnd, i'll give you the last word. >> i agree with you on one size fits all. those that have no need or desire for let's say reproductive you shall shoes shouldn't have to pay, and i agree with you on that. however, there is more choice in those blue states where there are exchanges, where they've actually given more opportunity for people to have choice, because of all the different exchanges and options, and the red states, where they haven't accepted medicate money, haven't really gotten behind the exchanges and there were fewer choices, hurting their own citizens, the states that are participating like california are doing very well with the affordable care act. getting more choices. >> we have to go.

alan, lars, thank you very much. good spirited discussion. kept it under control. we appreciate that. good to see you both. details are sketchy, contradictory and even sometimes dead wrong. so why are people glued to their tvs over the disappearance of flight 307? dr. guard guajeff gardere gives when we come back. there's a new form of innovation taking shape.

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why is this story dominating corporations at home and in the office? joining us now, dr. jeff gardere, joining us on the phone. welcome, doctor. thanks for being here today. >> i think people have some real empathy with this particular story. there are so much fuzzy information coming in, inconsistent information, that people really want to know what the truth is and what happened

to these people on the plane, what happened with the plane. in some ways, this is more of reality tv than we ever get to see because of the continual drama that goes on with this malaysian flight, the flight that has gone to nowhere as many people consider it. >> you know, as you point out, it is indeed a drama. at the same time, don't you think it's also because most of us have flown on a plane and at some point or other many of us have contemplated the what ifs? what if this had happened to them. so this is something they can relate to. hello, doctor, are you there? i'm sorry, we apologize, dr. gardere's audio transmission obviously was interrupted. we will hope to rectify that.

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welcome back. dr. gardere is back on the line. aren't people that is thated by this because most of us have money and at one time or another, a lot of people have contemplated the what ifs, whether or not there is a mismap or whether there could be other problems on board an airliner. >> i think it's a major reason because we do get on the plane

and you're exactly right, we say, well, what if the plane crashes, what if there is some sort of mishap. and this is what has actually happened to these people. they were just like you and i. they got on a plane, they have real lives, or had real lives, and they just did not expect this to happen. they just wanted to get to their destination and the worst possible thing that could have happened did happen. and we are fast thated by that. >> well, certainly this is something that i know you're following very closely. anything that strikes you particularly about the way the story is being covered? >> well,ic the story is being covered very well. but i think now we're starting to seat anger and rage that these families have of the missing passengerses for the simple fact they're not being treated well and they're in no man's land. the roller coaster of emotions.

they don't feel they're getting the information they need in order to begin whatever process xwreefing process, depressed process, that one goes through with trying to reconcile what is going on. they just can't reconcile it. it's a tough place to be. >> very sad situation indeed. dr. gardere, thank you so much for joining us. appreciate your insights. >> my pleasure. thank you. p. we've been asking you what you think happened to the missing malaysia airliner plane. several of you have weighed in. samantha writes i think it landed somewhere in a deserted 34r5is. >> alexis adds i think the plane is either in pakistan or the indian ocean. it wouldn't surprise me if the pilot is saving the plane for later. >> and tim says the computer was hacked into, all communications and alert devices shut down. we appreciate your responses. >> thanks to those who weighed in. >> keep it here for the journal editorial report. >> thanks so much for joining us. make it a great day, everybody.

two major stories breaking at this hour. the crisis in ukraine and the hunt for flight 370. a satellite image taken by the chinese last tuesday shows an object floating in a remote stretch of the indian ocean. planes and ships have been crisscrossing that area for days. australian officials are saying the location is within the area they have searched today, but unfortunately, they have not found anything. whatever was there could have been carried away by ocean currents. russian forces stormed a ukrainian air force base in