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a fox news alert. a big development in the search for malaysia airline flight 370. australian officials now reporting a civilian aircraft spotted a number of objects in a search area that's far out in the indian ocean, 15 money miles southwest of perth. he will hoe -- hello, everyone, i'm arthel neville. >> i'm gregg jarrett. search teams are preparing for a third week scouring a remote stretch of the southern indian ocean. and they're battling strong currents and rough seas. after a chinese satellite spotted a large piece of floating debris in the area, suspected to be perhaps part of
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ill-fated flight 370. grn reporter roger maynard is joinings from sydney, australia. what's the latest on this? >> reporter: potentially this is one of the biggest developments in the past four days. the chinese say they've picked up what could have been debris in the southern ocean, about three days ago. but they still aren't confirming that. they say it's just a grainy image at this time and they're not saying one way or the other, whether it's linked to a malaysian airlines flight 370. however, this latest discovery could fit in with the likely drift of the earlier image which we had reported three or four days ago. this latest piece of debris is about 75 miles from the earlier sighting. so that could fit in with the likely drift of any debris that might be in the area.
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so it's a significant sighting, but at the moment, totally unconfirmed whether it's related to the malaysian airlines flight. >> roger, we mentioned a moment ago we're approaching dawn or just past it. where does the search itself stand right now as we enter the third week? >> reporter: the search is really intensifying now. yesterday we had six aircraft out there, four military planes, two commercial airliners copying the search area with teams of spotters on board, looking out for debris on the surface of the ocean. today the search will intensify with more planes involved, two chinese aircraft joining the search today. and we have the arrival of an australian naval vessel, which has the capacity to pick things up out of the ocean a giant crane on board. it's really a case of locating the debris that was spotted by the chinese satellite and trying
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to get a fix on that. as the -- it's only about 6:00 o'clock in the morning in perth at the moment, so it's still dark. but in the next few hours, more planes will take off and the search will try to track down the debris spotted by the chinese satellite and hopefully by the end of the day, we might have some kind of sighting. >> grn reporter roger maynard, thanks so much. >> reporter: thank you. the question we want to take a look at now, what happens next if search crews do indeed find a piece of the plane? joe farrell is with us, president of resolve marine group. good to see you. thanks for being here. >> thank you for inviting me. >> much depends on the condition of the plane when it's found. but let's start out with this. give us some scenarios of what salvage crews would be looking for. >> the key is to find out where the point of impact is.
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something like this with an elt in it, it should have done off on a heavy impact. so once you know you're on the aircraft, then they do just what they did with the air france aircraft. they use autonomous vehicles under water and they can trianglate the area, map it and get exactly where it's at. i don't think in a case like this they're going to look to recover the aircraft. we pretty well know what happened. it got underway for different reasons. the real key will be the voice recorders and what happened on board. so that will be the key. it won't be a question of recovering the aircraft as much as it would the voice recorders and the data recorders and what happened. the key is to find it. going on winter now, we have a big job in new zealand and it's rough down there. we got one out of three days work. they're going into their winter down there as well. >> some of the weather reports are saying that even today, at 6:00 o'clock in the morning, 6:04, that there is a tropical storm headed that way.
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you talk about the black boxes, those actual bright orange boxes, the data recorders, is there a limited shelf life on those boxes that might be of concern at this point, joe? >> no. they're prettile watertight. but the pingers that are in them, the underwater pingers that the aircraft -- at the aircraft, they have a month, month and a half going. candidly, i think we're at a point in time, we need to start looking at 70% of the world is covered with water. i think we need to be looking at these happen more and more frequently, aircraft traveling these distances more over water than land. we need to be look at using in a situation like this, to change what we're doing. the elt's on these arc are great when they hit the ground or if they hit the water impact, you'll get their satellite ping. but i think we need to start an incentive that puts a floatable emergency locating transmitter
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on the tail of these aircraft. i think enough of these have gone down and we're wondering what the heck happened. this point forward, it's well overdue. >> joe, what do you make of this? let me go back to what we started at the top of our show. we announced that the australian officials reporting that a civilian aircraft spotted a number of objects in the search area. what do you make of that news? >> it's a huge area and there is a loft debris in it, a lot of stuff in the ocean. i think it's wonderful. now you'll have to backtrack and you'll know when she ran out of fuel. we never did get that emergency locater, the elt never went off on impact. that lends you, did it impact? it should have. if it did, it would have been picked up with an impact. if it made a landing like sully made, it probably wasn't enough g force to initial that. but if they find debris, they need to look at what the wind and currents have been for the last -- whenever that aircraft
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ran out of fuel, two weeks now. >> yeah. that miracle on the hudson was indeed that. were you surprised that they haven't found anything at this point, although again we started out the top of the show report ago civilian aircraft has reported saying it spotted a number of objects in the search area. but are you surprised that nothing of significance at this point has been found? >> no, not at all. it took a left t took a right. who knows in it could made two more changes. but not really. the ocean is huge. i've had situations not so good where we were being looked for an aircraft go right over us. you can fly right over people in the water. not that you would have that event that there would be i don't think survivors in a situation at this point, not given this amount of time. that ocean is so huge and you can fly over things and you'll miss them. you got humans mostly looking. >> you talk about how massive the search area is.
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you talk about the rough waters, the poor weather conditions. and you've been there. tell us what it's like for the search crews in the waters. >> well, i've been on both sides of it. i've looked far and fast. it's challenging and it's boring. you're looking and look miles and miles and miles. it's a needle in a hay stack. that's why i'll go back to i think the new aircraft, they really need to put something in the tail to give you an elt transmitter that's going to float when that guy hits the water. maybe it jetsons like when the aircraft sinks and comes to the surface. at least you got a starting point. buff it is a real challenge to find them. and there are so many people affected by this. this thing is going on around the world. but focus is on the tragedy of this and it should be, i suppose. but we can eliminate that if we try to get some tech -- technology is there. let's put better equipment on these aircraft. >> okay. that's a good piece of information coming from someone who has been on, as you said,
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both sides of search efforts there. so joe ferrell, i didn't have time to find out why you were on the other side of being looked for, but i have to go and we'll have to talk about that another time. good to see you. >> it worked out. >> good. >> thank you. >> the search effort is using some of the world's most sophisticated advanced aircraft. take a look at the planes being used. the first is the lockheed p 3 orion being called the work horse of the search effort because it can fly at low altitudes for very long period of times. the u.s. navy's p 8 poseidon, there it is. that plane designed for antisubmarine warfare. so it can scan deep into ocean waters. the global express is a long-range civilian jet, packed with state of the art emergency gear. and the 3 c 130, the her clue lease military transport plane being used to drop searchers
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track debris in the water. >> speaking of tracking, the f.b.i. helping with the missing plane. the f.b.i. trying to retrieve files deleted from flight simulator belonging to the pilot. what are they looking for? should the feds have gotten involved sooner? a closer look at that and all of that a little bit fleeter -- later in this house. our other top story, details in that deadly news helicopter crash in seattle earlier this week. federal investigators say video from surveillance cameras shows the chopper began rotating nearly 360 degrees at takeoff. it then pitched forward, crashing to the ground, bursting into flames near the city's iconic space needle, killing both the pilot and photographer on board, severely injure ago third victim on the ground. the weather now, the calendar says spring, but winter is just refusing to let go.
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oh, no, more cold and snow are on the way, getting set to hit the east coast. i don't want to hear this, janis dean. i like you, but i don't want to hear what you have to say. >> here we go again. talk being another winter storm. unbelievable. earlier on, eric mentioned will the fireworks for july 4th be canceled because of the winter storm? so yes. we can joke about it, but here we go again. we are dealing with more snow across the colorado rockies in towards the central plains. several inches here and then we're also dealing with the potential for some thunderstorms along the gulf coast. we also have some snow flurries up across northern new england and upstate new york. the main event is going to unfold tuesday, wednesday. we're going to watch a storm dive out of the midwest across the great lakes. also got energy across the southeast and both of these storms are going to kind of merge together and bring us,
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yes, another nor'easter. this one could be very powerful. so the exact location still yet to be determined. we don't exactly have snow totals for you. stay tuned. but one thing is for sure, we're going to see rain and snow along the coast. very windy tuesday and wednesday. and then potentially heavier impacts depending on where the track goes. but right now we think it's going to be a new england events. we could see several inches, perhaps a foot of snow. and winds up to past 50, 60 miles per hour. here is one of our forecast models. this is the euro. it might be a little aggressive. giving new york city several inches of snow. then up toward eastern massachusetts, connecticut, that's where we could see the higher snow total, but the gsf, which we have to take into account, gives new england the snow storm and not much more new york or philadelphia. so the bottom line is stay tuned. here we go again. buckle up. >> buckle up. we're buckling up. thank you very much.
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>> makes you want to go back to new orleans, doesn't it? >> yes, ma'am. or yes, sir. >> i already planted the spring bulbs. this is going to kill me. >> i was going to check my phone to see what the weather is like in new orleans. i keep it there. 72 degrees in new orleans. there you go. >> new reports of nsa surveillance apparently snooping on e-mail accounts overseas. we're going to have details on the agency's target. and obamacare, it turns four years old tomorrow. but is there any reason to break out the party hats?
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a quick check of the headlines. new report says the nsa hacked into the e-mail servers of a major chinese test company beginning in 2009 over concerns it was a threat to national security. this according to a german magazine citing documents leaked by edward snowden. pakistan, taliban spokesman says his group will soon hold first ever formal talks with government leaders to find a way to end the violence that has claimed thousands of lives in recent years. and in michigan, a late day federal appeals court ruling suspending same sex marriages until at least wednesday,
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putting on hold a decision by a lower court that struck down the state's ban. this is after at least four counties began issuing marriage licenses and performing dozens of ceremonies earlier today. obamacare turning four years old tomorrow. the white house might be holing off with the big birthday cake and champagne. polls showing the law remains deeply unpopular with americans. nancy pelosi is in a festive mood, saying obamacare is reason to celebrate. >> from the standpoint of medical electronic records and what that does to improve health of all americans, that the most privileged person in america with all the money and access to quality care that he may or she may have had beforers it's better now because we know more about this because of the bill. we just couldn't be prouder. >> couldn't be prouder.
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susanest ridge is a fox news contributor. good to see you. here is what we've got. broken promises, broken web site, lost doctors, millions of canceled policies and now widespread reports that the affordable care act is anything but affordable. millions are forced to pay higher premiums than their plans that were canceled. at least so far, susan, is obamacare not working? >> well, i don't know that you could say it's working versus not working. look, if you're like me and you get a child who -- i know you have college age. when they get out of college, if their first job doesn't come with health insurance, i'm very happy that obamacare allows me to carry my daughter on my insurance. there are some good things about obamacare that i think a lot of people are benefitting from. would i suggest we have a national celebration today? not really. i don't think the turnout would
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be quite as good as congresswoman nancy pelosi expects. there has been a loft obstacles and potholes in this road. but it's going to stay. so here we are. >> you mentioned your kids and a lot of americans' kids once they're off the parents' policies when the age limit hits, here is what we've got. young women age 27 will pay 57% more. young men, age 27, 97% increase. i mean, susan, they can't afford that. >> i know. but in fairness, that's because they had such crummy policies before and we have to face that question. i mean, i know a lot of young people who had no policies at all. the young people i into you had taken responsibility and got policies, most of them had frankly terrible policies in the sense that they covered almost
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nothing, which is good 95% of the time and unless you've one of those 5% who really needs good insurance. so there is lots of problems. but i have to tell you, when i saw the numbers this morning, it said, gee, 41% think it's working very well. i thought that's pretty high. i would have bet lower. so i think in the long run the question is going to be -- the poor members of congress, the democrats who are up, they've got to defend it right now and they don't have the luxury of waiting. for obama, he could be judged by history. >> mckenzie company, it's very well, highly regarded. they came out with a report that said a lot of people aren't buying it because they can't afford it. then the cbo predicts at thend of the first year of obamacare, there will be 45 million uninsured instead of the 30 million who were uninsured before obamacare. i mean, we're going in the wrong direction? >> you know, i mean, that's the
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first time i've really heard that number precisely. that's awful if that's the case. it's a reflection i think in part of a problem they didn't foresee, which is that a lot of young people carrying catastrophic policies, which are all they can afford, are now being told good news, you're going to have much better insurance. this will cover you if you get pregnant. but i'm not willing to get pregnant. this will cover you if you have a serious disease. i'm hoping not to have a serious disease. these young people, you're right. they can't afford those policies. so there is lots of adjustments to be made. but at the end of the day, are we going to fix it? i hope so because it's not going to be repealed and even the people who tonight like it, mostly want it fixed. >> here is the thing, i was looking at the urban institute, left leaning institute and they came out with one in ten of the people who have obtained obamacare were previously uninsured. so 10% of the people getting
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this stuff were previously uninsured. remember, the president wanted to get 100% of those. but that means that essentially 90% who did are being utterly upended by obamacare. does that seem right to you? >> i'm not sure they're being upended. i know some people who have gotten much better policies. there were some people out there who couldn't get a decent policy because they had a preexisting condition. so if they could get coverage, they got lousy coverage with huge deductibles and so when we look at that 90%, some of them are people who finally are getting the coverage that they need and want and deserve, but couldn't get cause of the insurance companies excluding them. i think it's a mix. but at the end of the day, if obamacare is judged solely as did it bridge the gap for all these uninsured people, the answer is not yet. >> all right. you heard nancy pelosi, we played some of it in the intro, but she went on to say that obamacare is a winner for
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democrats. the polling data shows just the opposite. we'll put it up on the screen. >> it does. >> 57% oppose obamacare. only 38% favor it. and take a look at this next bullet. it shows the same number, 57% think the president has failed on improving health care. so susan, when you couple that with the president's low approval ratings, pretty darn low, what's the impact on the mid terms coming up? >> not good. and you know, i would love to agree with nancy pelosi that it's a winner. maybe it's a winner in san francisco and other parts of california where i live. but i spend an awful lot of time talking to people in other place and this is going to be a tough one for democrats. the economy is doing better. that should be helping democrats. the republicans are having their own version of civil war. that should be helping democrats. but i think there is no question that you look at numbers like
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those and obamacare is not going to be winning democrat votes in tight races. it's a tough one. >> yeah. republicans need a net pick up of six. so it could be really close. thanks thanks, as always. good to see you. >> thank you. don't forget to catch susan estridge's column. it is in newspapers across the country every wednesday and friday. check it out. new tensions in the other big story we're following overseas. the crisis in ukraine. pro-russian forces storming a ukrainian air force base, firing shots and smashing through the walls with armed personnel carriers. greg palkot has more from kiev, the capital of ukraine. >> reporter: it has been a hectic and violent day in crimea. the russian takeover there apparently in its final phase. ukrainian defense ministry confirming to fox news most important base for ukrainian
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forces is seized by russian special forces. we're told four russian armored vehicles broke through the front gate of the base and shots and stun grenades were fired and it's confirmed two officers were injured. the ukrainian commander detained by the russians. earlier more activity. submarine seized by russian forces, another base seized by pro-russian forces. officials here tell us they're working on an evacuation plan for troops and families. meanwhile, in the eastern ukrainian city, we watched as pro-russian rally, 5,000 people were conducted as officials confirmed to us they're watching very closely a russian troop build-up on the other side of the border. 20,000 russian troops in full combat gear there. russia says it's just exercises. they have no plans to engage. washington claims those claims are not credible. finally, here in kiev, diplomacy
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continues. ban ki-moon meeting with ukraine's interim prime minister and can did's prime minister coming here as well and some 100 military observers from the international organization, the osce, are set to arrive here. they are assigned to keeping an eye on things that could be a very big task. >> greg palkot reporting from kiev. thanks. massive and deadly mud slide, powerful enough to carry a house across a street. now the search is on for anybody trapped inside. plus, the f.b.i. is looking at a critical piece of evidence that might help solve the mystery of what happened to flight 370. what information they might be able to find in my world, wall isn't a street... ...return on investment isn't the only return i'm looking forward to... for some, every dollar is earned with sweat, sacrifice, courage.
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hello, everyone. i'm arrest -- arrest they will neville. pro russian forces storm ago ukrainian air force base in crimea. firing shots and smashing through the front gate with armored vehicles. ukraine yeas defense ministry telling fox news two ukrainian officers suffered gunshot wounds. in afghanistan, security footage showing four taliban gunmen getting through two checkpoints at a luxury hotel in kabul thursday night before opening fire in the restaurant, killing nine people. the video shows the suspects being searched twice by security guards before going in. four foreigners and two children among those killed. and a deadly mud slide sweeping a house with people inside across a road in washington state. two people were killed and several others hurt. six houses were destroyed.
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mystery of flight 370, f.b.i. agents analyzing the pilot's flight simulator at their forensics lab in virginia. they're hoping to retrieve deleted files and find any clues that might explain what happened to the boeing 777. will they be able to do it and should the f.b.i. have gotten involved sooner? a former agent and former navy seal, former federal air marshal. so the folks in quantico have their hands not only on the flight simulator, but the pilot's computers. are they skilled at gleaning information they're from? >> the cart examiners we have are the best in the world. if there is something on that computer, even if it's been erased, they have techniques that they can go in and retrieve those things. i think what's on the home computers is going to be just as telling as what's on the actual simulator computers.
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>> and you were telling me during commercial break, got to examine the alternate way points. what do you mean? >> it would be really interesting to see if he had programmed any alternative way points, like if he was practicing for an emergency, that would really come up and be easily recognizable if that was the case. but i really would like to know if he had alternate way points that were, for instance, five to seven hours away which they said this plane had flown. that in itself will be absolutely telling if they can find something like that. >> it would appear that the investigators and malaysian authorities, in fact, i think there are 26 countries now involved, seem to be focusing on the southern arc down into the indian ocean. we know the search has been going on there today, tomorrow. is that a mistake? should they be looking more closely at the northern arc because it's possible that a plane like that could actually evade radar? >> i think often in investigations, they follow leads that are set by theory or they get a big hunch and
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untrained investigative teams will move towards that hunch and what i would like to see is that because the satellite shows there were two arcs, i would like to see them investigating from both points in. although it's limited what we could probably do in pakistan and iran, i think source development would be great. but a plane, if it flew that arc north would be going right along the himalayan mountains, which pretty much, i talked to some pilots, and they said the radar there is very, very and you could actually fly a plane up to that area without anybody knowing it. >> would it make sense to you to do a radar sample test of another plane roughly flying the same route? >> again, it's a good point because sometimes evidence isn't something that really is just displays itself. sometimes you need to experiment a little bit in order to find the evidence. i think if they had a plane where they could fly it in that same route, turn the transponders off and see what they had, it might be more telling of what this actually was, if it was, in fact, even
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the airplane that malaysians were seeing on their radar. >> the satellite information, that's very sensitive information as to where those satellites were pointed. so we probably don't really know the answer to that, right? >> right. you and i? no. but i'm sure there are people out there at that do and i think what's going on, there is a little bit of a cat and mouse game going on between russia and the united states with sending out their different search planes in the indian ocean. very interesting. >> is it your sense the american government likely knows a lot more than it's saying publicly? and it's understandable because of national security interests. >> i don't think so. i think that if they did know, there would still be a round about way to get to the investigation. i think what's probably more telling is that were satellite pointed in that area, were they not? i think china has the same issue as they're want to go kind of go around each other and not actually give away points that they're actually looking at. >> there are 16 days left before
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the transmitter that's buried in the plane, it may be under thousands of feet of water turns off. why not have floating transmitters? you told me you think that's a great idea. >> i think it's great idea. i think the problem you have with the airline industry is the same problem you have with like the hotel thing that you just saw over there with this terrorist attack with these guys going in or the new freedom tower. you build these systems based on a lot of suggestions that people make and then a 16-year-old gets through the security of the freedom tower and gets up to the top. it's the same thing with the airline industry. a lot of these processors are done by big brains and people who are engineers and sometimes it just needs to be throttled back a little bit and say, what's realistic? maybe something, if it hits water it floats. >> i mentioned earlier -- this has been said before -- the titanic went down in 1912. wasn't 'til 1985 they found it. 73 years. that's because the ocean is a
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big place. in this indian ocean, the search area is 2.97 million square miles. it really is needle in a hay stack. >> it's tremendous. and one of the first things i did when i was a seal was a search and rescue for an individual that drowned off the coast of panama. that was one individual. it was in a very small area in the water. we searched for a week and never found him. he ended up washing up on shore. this search area is so tremendous that they need to start repeating resources, like satellites if they can repeat that something is there, it's more likely that they send people out to search for it that it could potentially be found. >> jonathan, great to see you. thanks for the information. >> the image spotted in the indian ocean bay chinese satellite could be wreckage from the missing malaysia passenger jet or could it just be floating debris, ocean trash swept to the area by a storm or cargo ship.
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joining us to talk about that possibility is dominic deany taliban, live in los angeles. >> one of the issues is this area of the search is focused right now is in the middle of what is known as the great indian garbage dump. a massive area, about 5,000 miles across of what is a rotational oceanianic current that goes around all the way from western australia over to the southern tip of africa. it's absolutely colossal. the sufficient debris washed out to sea, dropped off oil rigs and cruises, that when it comes to trying to identify anything that might be part of the airplane that they believe could have broken up, their experts are throwing their hands in the air over this. >> could be from icebergs, to containers that have been pushed over the side of ships, to freighters, to parts of dolphins. it could even be light
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refracting off the ocean. >> yeah. absolutely. anything. one of the problems is we've been here before. this is the chinese satellite imagery and it's a piece of debris of some kind. but remember on march 9, the day after flight 370 went missing, the vietnamese came out with a photo of what they thought was debris from the plane. it was either a door or life raft. but that object, whatever it was, was swiftly considered unrelated. so we were going to have a sound bite. that's not the case. so basically are we grasping at straws or legitimate thoughts that this could actually be a piece of the plane, so we've got an inbound cyclone heading in the direction of the search area. that is going to certainly complicate matters. when planes crash on the surface of the ocean, the debris gets spread in every single direction going. so even if we try and follow
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that piece of debris, if we can follow the currents that we know, the cyclone that is going to company in could blow it miles further than it's already drifted already. back to you, arthel. >> dominic, thank you very much for that report. a heart breaking delay for one family desperately fighting to regain custody of their gravely ill teenage daughter as a judge postpones a key ruling in her case. her father will be joining us next. >> we just want my sister home. that's all my little sister wants. it's her life and her body and she should be able to do what she wants. she's away from her family, her friends, her school. her grandmother, it's insane.
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the desperation increasing for one connecticut family after a judge again delays a ruling on the case of 15-year-old justine. they took emergency custody of her on valentine's day last year after her parents disagreed with the doctor's diagnosis of the little girl's illness. meanwhile, her health is reportedly declining and her parents want her previous treatment restored. joining me now is her father, lou. thank you so much for coming in. i know i can imagine this has
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just been heart wrenching and exhausting for your family, this fight. >> the nightmare continues. thank you for having me. >> friday you were supposed to find out if a new legal team was going to be joining this case and whether or not you would get full or temporary custody of your child. >> that's correct. >> did that happen? >> that did not happen. so the announcement, we were in court on monday of last week and the judge said he would review whether to allow the new legal team to come in, which really to help with all the amendment issues, constitutional law issues, and number two, regarding our custody of our daughter, given the health situation that need to be done. he said by friday he would make an announcement. so friday we were up there for a weekly one hour supervised visit with armed guards outside the door and we didn't find out 'til afterwards that the judge again kicked the can down the road, said he would not make a decision friday. he would wait 'til tuesday,
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march 25. our daughter's health is declining. we got to see her firsthand again. she's going through -- wedge she's got some type of cardiomyope thee. her stomach again, which she's had a tube which helps -- she has neuropathy. >> what are they doing to treat your daughter? >> zero, because she's now in a temporary residential psych facility where you're only supposed to be there for two weeks. she's been there since early january. so she's been there over 2 1/2 months in a temporary facility. b, there are no medical people there. so dcf, department of children and families, has been in charge of her. even though the judge ruled that tufts can take over. >> the tufts is the hospital in your home -- >> no, no.
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that's right in boston. the place that -- >> you want her to be at tufts? >> absolutely. >> okay. i'm just shocked a little bit here because you're saying that she's in a psych ward basically and her medical condition is continuing to decline ask you're saying that there is nobody there really treating her on a medical basis and you're screaming and jumping and yelling and doing everything you can to say, fix my daughter, basically. does your daughter realize what's going on? >> 100%. it's been very difficult because all our visits, which are one hour a week. we have one 20 minute phone call are screened, limited to what we can say. over the last few weeks, just getting through kiss perking or talking to her to find out, to make sure she's aware of what's going on of the watching her health, she's dying. mentally and physically. she has gone through torture by a hospital for many, many months saying what she had was not
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medical. it was psychiatric. they ignored -- she's in pain 24 hours a day because they're not treating her stomach. how in this country can a hospital or any facility related to a hospital allow somebody to be in pain for no reason at all because they're trying to prove a point? >> i have to do this, you mentioned that your visitations are monitored by heavy security. is that normal? is that part of the deal? >> that changed about six weeks ago where they increased the number of dcf employees from anywhere from -- in our little ten by ten room, five, and then prior to friday there was always the last six weeks, a state trooper. this time there is two not uniformed, but policemen with holsters on. >> i'm sorry to rush you. this story needs a lot of time. but i appreciate your time here this evening with us. hopefully you'll get some answers come tuesday and we wish you well. >> people just need to call the governor, the head of dcf, state
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>> welcome back. search crews looking for flight 370 and bracing for a remote part of the indian ocean and hoping to find the missing plane and high- tech underwater tools could help in the recovery. brian has more. >> reporter: it is the flight is found, scientist will have to trace back and find out when the plane hit the water. the search would begin with the hopes of finding this sound. that's right. those pings from a custic beaconed attached to the data and voice recorders. they are picked up by a pinger
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locater system and can pick up signals from two miles away. scientist have 30 or 50 days before the beacon battery dies and ping or no ping, the a uv can dive three miles under water and preprogrammed to map the sea floor using side scan sonar. and images can be taken with cameras and if plane wreckage is found, recover begins with the 6,000. it is equipped with thrusters and cameras and lights and robotec arms. it has heavier items like the engines and high recovery lines lifted from the ship. it can only happen when investigators know when to start looking.
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>> fox urj enlt don't take your eyes off of the screen. two things are happening at the same time. the far left screen. pro russian troops have taken one of the last ukranian strong holds in crimea. you have to wonder after a election people siding with the russians. they have to wonder what is happening in their country. for now to the right in a big picture behind me. day break on the southern indian ocean as more ships s
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