a 9-year-old girl becoming the first female golf champion at augusta national. her next goal is play a round with former secretary of state condoleeza rice who i believe is a member now. thanks for being a part of the real story. the race is on in the ocean open to locate the signals which investigators say are consistent with pingers from the jet's black boxes. the trouble is the device's batteries could die at any moment and might be sitting under nearly three miles of water. how will search teams find and recover them? powerful storms blasting through the south bringing heavy flood and risk of tornadoes. we'll show you where the system is headed next. now shepard smith reporting. >> first this afternoon search teams say they found signals that are consistent with an

aircraft's black boxes. if they are indeed coming from the missing malaysia airline's jet it is a discovery that comes just in the nick of time. today marks one month, 31 days since the malaysia airline plane vanished. australian search crews say an under water microphone picked up the sounds in the southern indian ocean. we have the location of the latest signals up on the wall. you can see the location sort of the same general area we have been talking about. to the north and west of perth off the west coast of australia right around where the analysts say the jet likely crashed. searchers said they heard man made pulses about one second apart very much like what you expect to hear from a black box. we have a sample of what it sounds like here. the search ship was able to

follow the sounds for more than two hours this time and then they faded. they later found a second signal but that one lasted just a few minutes. that is significant because the jet had two black boxes. each black box gives off its own signal. search teams say they are trying to find the sounds again so they can narrow down the location. after a full month of false leads officials say it is too soon to know when the signals have anything to do with the missing jet. >> we would like to be able to tell the families that we found the location. until we can confirm we should not be too optimistic because we don't want to put the families through emotional turmoil of possible but maybe false detections. >> they will launch an unmanned submarine to look for wreckage on the ocean floor, a lot to do. katherine is live in washington.

what are you hearing about the search as it stands now? >> it is a fluid situation. if there is a positive australians saying the search will go to the next level. >> if they gain another acoustic event on that towed pinger locater that will be the trigger to launch the autonomous under water vehicle with more accurate sonar and camera for mapping and looking at the ocean floor. >> crews engaged in a detailed grid search. in this case locating what may be the black boxes. the navy providing the new video of the search and two key reasons for optimism today that this is not a sound found in nature and that it is in the right place. if the batteries go dead the navy will engage in a sonar search which is slower. >> if it turns out these signals are coming from black boxes, what would they be able to tell us in the end?

>> well the ntsb labs here in washington, d.c. are prepared to landal the black boxes if they are recovered. these labs are so high tech they handle some of the toughest cases as we saw in a recent tour. about a third of the world's black boxes recovered come here. investigators say they have a series of inputs containing the status of the aircraft including air pressure, speed, altitude and the mechanical status which can show a catastrophic failure. less tell in this case is the cockpit voice recorder which would not show the vital first hour when the co-pilot signed off. >> thanks very much. really could be a while before we know whether the signals are related to the missing jet at all. that is because investigators have to see the black boxes for themselves and then they can be

several miles under the earth's surface. captain tim taylor, president of subsea research and recently located u.s. navy subthat sank in world war ii. >> the sounds travel faster under water and there is more. >> yes. sound goes four times faster under water and there are properties that can trap sound. >> we know sound bounces off things. we all have experienced that. that can happen three miles down. >> the traveling sound is even more important because the chinese vessel that picked up sonar and the australian vessel could be picking up the same sound. they had to pick it up multiple times. >> sort of in the same way that a satellite might plot your course. >> your gps that you use needs multiple satellites to draw multiple points ask then exactly find where you are. >> depending on what you are

watching i'm well aware that depending on what you are watching from time to time it seems like it is about to happen right now. that's fibbing. >> slow down. the pings are important. narrowing down the search on the bottom with autonomous vehicles and sonar can take years and literally will take years. if they find the black box, the search could take so long that it could take two years before they bring the black boxes up. look for the sound, as many pings as you can get. >> once you get the sound then you have a general area. >> you still have a search area. you have narrowed it down where you can use the next tool covering 30 square miles a day maybe. >> is it your sense that if they have found the pings and they know the area that we are going

to get to the bottom of this at some point now? >> i think because of the pings we will be doing a bottom search. the pings have narrowed it down tremendously. if they are real and solid. it's to narrow the search pattern down so we can use tools to bring data home within a reasonable amount of time. >> we talk about a three-mile depth. it is not consistent. >> this is terrain. when steve was lost they couldn't find him in dry land in the mountains. if the plane wreckage is in terrain that is mountainous or high profile it could be just as hard to find with sonar. >> i'm guessing the cost of this is going to get crazy. >> it is going to go through the roof. it is manageable. you know what it is. after they get to the next stage the planes aren't needed and it

is pretty much one big ship with tools that start looking. it is very methodical and very detailed work that takes a long time. >> a great mystery down there. i hope they find it. thank you, sir. >> one of the reasons it has been so hard to find the missing jet is because it wasn't using a high-tech tracking system. why is it that technology is required? that is next. the day we rescued riley,

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four weeks after the missing jet dropped off the radar airlines are facing more pressure now to track their jets with better technology. the pilots union here in the united states is calling for an existing tracking system to be mandatory. every plane and every airline needs to have it. investigators say malaysia airlines did not have a subscription for that service. it makes no sense that you wouldn't have it. >> especially after 9/11. in the 9/11 report it states clearly that the trans ponders were shut off and it made it harder for the air traffic controllers to watch the planes. >> was it just money? >> that is an issue. it is a fairly nominal amount of

money when you look at what it would take in order for that communications system to be installed. our systems you upgrade to. a dollar a ping is basically what it costs to send information to a satellite that says my location and my altitude. it's not a lot of information but would have helped find this plane presumably much more quickly. >> so on average $100 a flight? >> perhaps. it's a fairly nominal amount of money. we are talking about 20,000 aircraft that are in the skies world wide that would need some type of upgrade to them. >> how tamper proof is all that is involved here based on your reporting? >> that is a problem. "wall street journal" reports it is still highly tamper proof. aviation leaders are saying that is what you need to target is that pilots now can disable the

tra tra tra transponder system by going to the cockpit. it is harder to disable the voice recorder. it is likely that if this is the black box they found there will be information. you would have to have a lot of expertise to do that. the new aircrafts being put out by boeing they have equipment in the planes that you need to have computer skills to turn those off. >> you are saying in the same way i would turn off plugs in the back of the house with one circuit breaker they do that with this detection system? >> that's correct. there is a reason for that. it is so if there is some type of emergency or electrical fire they can turn off systems. what some leaders are saying is we need a tamper-proof system that is always on, always tracking our aircraft. >> it was interesting to me to

learn that the jet can fly around radar. apparently that is not a big deal at all from reading in the "wall street journal." >> apparently not. we are all learning new things about how things work. that comes back to satellite tracking. one system is the old technology of radar. and then it is satellite which -- you need a few codes to turn it off. most pilots tell you they know how to turn off the system. the way to do this is according to some of the experts is you have to come up with a system that is untamperable with and that means no secret code that someone can enter it and always tracks. >> you mention 9/11. there were four jets that day. three of the jets somebody turned off the systems. >> correct. >> nobody said never let this happen again. we would have known where the jets were going.

maybe we couldn't have stopped them but we would have known. >> the faa and ntsb are not saying anything about what should happen because the investigation is still going on and they don't want to be on the record criticizing the investigation that is currently going on. it is a with under. this was in the 9/11 report that this was a problem that day. >> jason bellini from the "wall street journal." much more on the search of the missing plane. also today the blade runner, oscar pistorius took the stand in his murder trial today. what he was able to say today would never have flown in america. he cried and told the family it still gives him nightmares. >> i wake up just in a complete state of terror to the point that i would rather not leap.

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19 minutes past the hour. the olympic sprinter oscar pistorius took the stand today for the first time in his own

murder trial and spoke directly to relatives of the girlfriend he shot and killed. the athlete testified off camera but was clearly choked up as he apologized to the family of reeva. >> i wake up every morning and you are the first people i think of, first people i pray for. i was simply trying to protect reeva. >> trying to protect reeva. instead investigators say pistorius shot and killed reeva in his home on valentine's day of last year. prosecutors say it happened after a big argument. the olympian claims it was a mistake and he thought she was an intruder. on stand oscar pistorius said he is on antidepression medicine.

>> i am scared to sleep all for several reasons. i wake up and i can smell the blood. >> if the court convicts oscar pistorius of murder he could face 25 years to life in prison. let's get to drew finley now out of atlanta who happens to be entown with us today. i'm listening to all of this after i shot her and killed her and haven't been able to sleep. good luck getting a jury to hear that in this country. >> in the united states we have the right to a trial by new jersey. wh -- the right to a trial by jury. >> so they just let it all hang

out. the judge has a responsibility to determining whether or not he is guilty to saying we really don't care about your dreams. we don't care that you are sorry to the family. we care about the evidence that is there that you took the life of your girlfriend. that is really the strongest point for the defense in this case, the motive. really, what is the reason. of course, the government has been struggling with the issue of motive throughout the trial. >> the defense will say i'm a guy without legs, there is an intruder in my house. >> the defense is implying a cultural defense, trying to let the judge know we are not going to say it but you know it as we know it when you close your eyes in the city and go to sleep at night you are scared something will happen in your household. oscar was because he has more than most other citizens have. he had every reason about being vandalized or robbed that night. >> i have never known or heard

of anyone who gets up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and lock the door. that is one of many things that is laying out there. >> and that's just the absolute curious thing. it doesn't make a lot of sense. it doesn't make a lot of sense to immediately call the police. if you are in a dangerous city the first thing you want to do is call law enforcement because you do feel threatened. there is inconsistency there that is going to impact the judge when he makes his decision. >> so this is just answering questions and making statements to a friendly audience in your own attorney. at some point he has to face cross examination by the other side. that can go on a while. >> opening statements in south africa are different here. the opening statement was just reading to the judge what oscar wanted him to hear. he said this is what oscar says. however, he will be brutally cross examined but this judge

has to satisfy himself. i know he did it. here are the exact scientific reasons he did it. it will be a little bit of a struggle. >> because the science necessarily isn't there. the prosecution floated some science and it turned up to be wrong science. >> and also the prosecution floated the whole issue of angles. when all said and done most experts can't tell angles. good experts will concede that hopefully to the defense this judge knows that is really not a conclusive area of forensic science. >> good to see you. two parents are defending their decision to sail around the world with their young children ages 1 and 3 even after their boat stalled and their younger daughter got seriously ill. they say the 1-year-old girl came down with a fever and rash covering most of her body and medicine was not helping at all.

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it's the bottom of the hour now. an australian ship is working to confirm two underwater signals it detected that are consistent with those from the airplane's black boxes. that is according to officials leading the search for the missing malaysia airline jet. they say over the weekend the ship used a u.s. pinger locater to identify two long lasting sounds in the indian ocean. meantime a malaysian official says a very interesting new thing that the jet, he believes, at least, deliberately flew around indonesian air space, in other words went this way, made the jog back that we have been seeing the whole time but then flew around here unlike what they told us before. that is according to the sidney

morning herald newspaper. how reliable is this report? >> according to the herald a malaysian official said that indonesia said that their radar did not pick up the plane on its radar. from that they are deducing that the plane was either intentionally flown to avoid indonesian air space or that it was a coincidence. it disappeared while heading northeast from malaysia. and then malaysian and thai radar picked up a plane west of the peninsula. satellite data was used to calculate the southern flight path. i spoke with a former chairman who said this report could be true. >> it seems to me that that is a plausible explanation particularly if someone was

intending to for whatever reason ditch the plane in the indian ocean. >> now, the bottom line here is according to this report investigators essentially creating data in the absence of data. all this means is that indonesian radar didn't pick up an airplane. >> how can this play into the investigation? >> malaysia is still saying this is a criminal investigation. last week they said they cleared all 227 passengers. since then the investigation has centered on the cabin crew including the plane's captain and first officer. malaysian officials say investigators including some from the fbi forensically examined the captain's home simulator but at this point they say that hasn't turned up clues. >> seems like very little has. let's get more on this. dan hampton is the offer of a book coming out soon called

"lords of the sky". >> thanks for having me back cht. >> the idea that a pilot might fly around a country like that. not like the pilot is like i can avoid the radar by doing this. the pilot should know that. >> we go back to what you and i talked about probably a month ago. avoiding a radar isn't that hard to do. if you think of a radar like a flashlight. as the beam of light leaves the flashlight close to where you are holding it it is bright and shiny and concentrated. as it goes over a distance it will spread out and diffuse and its ability to pick up things and illuminate things will decrease. if this is planned like we pretty much said all along it is not very far fetched to say the pilot flew over the radar sight giving everyone the last heading of west which is what i would have done and then flown for maybe an hour off the coast before turning left and heading

south over the indian ocean. if he did that the chance of civilian traffic control radar picking him up is small. as long as he aimed towards the m island nothing will pick it up. >> military radar is actually tracking? >> military radar there are a bunch of different kinds. in a nut shell they are essentially designed to track airplanes moving fast, maneuvering, have decoys, jam. they are called target tracking radars, the good ones. they are not going to lose an airliner that is mandering around at medium altitude. so, again, losing an air traffic control radar is relatively simple comparing to losing a military radar. where this guy apparently is flying and where the pings have been detected is what you and i talked about about a month ago

near the trench area, very deep part of the ocean. if he wasn't detected going in there and disabled the locater beacons and put the plane in tact in deep enough water so the pingers could not be heard then the chance of finding it was slim. >> it was interesting. i don't want to get too deep on radar but australia has radar that operates differently. it bounces and can see farther. >> it has the system. it is nothing new. it is over the horizon radar. it bounces the radar signal off the sphere and then back down to the ground and allows you to see a lot further out than conventional radar. conventional radar is essentially line of sight limited by the curve of the earth and altitude of the target. over the horizon still only goes out to maybe 2,000 miles.

and the area we are looking at out there is right at the fringe of that. if he is side ways to the radar heading to the indian ocean the chance he was seen that way is nonexistent. >> when you look at the route you are talking about leaving kuala lumpur in malaysia heading this way and then going back as they have been saying for weeks now. instead of just continuing back flying around this and then back down and that would epd you up way down by australia. the thing is, though, why would he do this? if there are clues as to why, we don't know about them. >> yeah, you're right. why is another discussion we can all have when and if we get an answer on where the plane is. this is exactly how somebody like me would have done this if we were trying to lose this airplane. >> good to see crow agaiyou aga a news conference is set to

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the white house is warning russia, do not move in the eastern ukraine. and the white house is threatening penalties if it does. this is after ukrainian government buildings taken over in a number of different cities. pro-russian activists seized the security service headquarters there last night. let's take a look at pictures that have come in.

the demonstrators have declared the city's independence from ukraine and announced the creation of a people's republic. right here, that is what this banner says meaning they are making themselves autonomous. protesters set up barricades of wires and barbed wire. in many wears similar to what happened in kiev. these people came with their own riot gear to fight against the police. these are the protesters, not the cops. this is another shot from inside a government building. the white house says there is strong evidence that somebody is paying the protesters and that they are not local residents. the deadline is minutes away for ukraine to pay the gas bill. the country reportedly owes a russian power company more than 2 billion american dollars.

so a mess in ukraine still. we expect to get an update on officials at fort hood from last week's deadly shooting. the news conference set to get underway 18 minutes from now, 3:00 p.m. local time in texas. over the weekend military personnel and families gathered to mourn the victims. the white house has announced president obama will attend an official memorial service at fort hood day after tomorrow. yesterday flowers decorated a fence honoring those who died or were hurt and a flag flew at half staff. army specialist lopez had gotten into some kind of argument moments before he opened fire. they say he killed three people and wounded others before turning the gun on himself.

bog both families and neighbors of the gunman say they are still stunned. rick, what do we expect out of the news conference? >> we have just been told they won't be taking questions today. lieutenant general commanding officer will not be attending today's news briefing. instead it will be chris gray and someone else from fort hood. we know they will have a large map they will show us. the same building where the media was staged for nidal hasan's trial. the news conference will happen sometime in the next 20 minutes or so. no questions. apparently there will be an update on the investigation and showing a map of the scene. we know there are a tremendous number of investigators assigned to the case. they have been on post processing theng crime scene. it covers two city blocks. the texas rangers and fbi response team are among those

here helping to collect the evidence. we are not sure if all evidence has ben gathered. >> have you heard more on theories or information that suggest what might have set this guy off? >> it sounds like the kinds of things that happen every day. specialist lopez went into human resources department seeking a leave of absence request. he was denied a form according to a witness in the room. told to come back the next day. and that set him off. he stormed off, retrieved his handgun, came back in and then opened fire first on a supervisor and then randomly firing shots at others. of course, he left three dead and 16 others hurt before he ended his own life. we do expect an update at the news conference on the six people who as of the weekend were still hospitalized from their injuries. that includes major patrick miller who is being lauded for his actions that day. he was shot in the abdomen and

held his wound closed with one hand while he called 911 with the other. >> thanks. more headlines from here. 33 people now confirmed dead after last month's landslide in washington state. officials there say ten others are still listed as missing and emergency crews are continuing to search through the debris. the feds say a train crashed into chicago's o'hare airport partly because an emergency braking system was too close to the end of the track. more than 30 people were hurt there. the transit authority fired the train's operated after she admitted that she dozed off right before the crash. and spiderman is on the ballot in india where they are kicking off the world's biggest election. he is a real candidate who campaigned by climbing buildings in a costume. more than 300 million people are eligible to vote across the country.

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take a look at these pictures out of central alabama here. they clearly got some flooding in this mobile home park here. floodwaters completely covered the streets in this neighborhood. the firefighters say they had to rescue about a dozen people trapped in their homes after the storm passed through. and this video coming up from covington county, mississippi, this is a town of hot coffee, mississippi, about an hour south and east of jackson where emergency management officials say a possible tornado touched down earlier today. nobody was too seriously hurt, but look at the damage. and over here on the wall, you can see where the system is heading. it's heading to the north and east and following a line. you can see the yellows in here. this is the front end and the worst of it pushing up the east coast into the midatlantic and the northeast tonight and into tomorrow. meteorologist janice dean in the extreme weather center, i hate telling people where there's a tornado warning and not where it is. seconds matter. >> it's in north carolina, we'll get to that real quick. we'll show you where the warning is because it just happened

moments ago. so watch as the conditions are favorable for tornadoes. this one until 9:00 p.m. local time. this one just issued for the panhandle of florida until 11:00 p.m. several thunderstorm warnings here for the panhandle, up towards southeastern georgia. and there is our tornado warning. really just issued moments ago for bellhaven, north carolina, some of these cells are seeing rotation here. and you can see that cell right there where we are seeing some rotation on radar. so we will continue to monitor that, obviously, but this is a situation that we have seen really within the last 12 to 24 hours across the southeast. you can see where the cold front is. back of the cold front, 50s and 60s. in front of it, 80s. so a lot of moist, unstable air here. the storms are across the southea southeast. we are seeing the potential for severe weather. up to the ohio river valley, a secondary area where we could see hail, damaging winds and

tornadoes. and the flooding, i mean, the pictures are incredible. in just a matter of hours, they have received 6 to 7 inches in mississippi and alabama. this is an area not drought-stricken. they don't need the moisture. and it just continues to keep raining in these areas, training is what we talk about, raining over top the same regions. flash flood watches and warnings are posted for all these areas. in the marine, shepard, we have flash flood warnings. taking a look at where the storm is going to go, eastward and northward, this is springtime thunderstorms, so looking at 50s and 60s as this storm continues to move north and eastward. the severe threat will diminish throughout the evening. we could see some isolated storms across the midatlantic and the northeast for tomorrow morning's rush hour. and snow well into canada, thankfully we won't see snow out of this one, but the rainfall is incredible in just a matter of

hours. this is forecast precipitation across portions of northern florida. and in towards georgia and the carolinas. that is going to be the legacy of this storm, the incredible rainfall in a short period of time. we'll keep you up-to-date on the warnings as they come in. >> three to four inches near jacksonville, that's crazy. we'll get to air travel now. the best airline in the united states, what do you think? out of time. virgin america. that's the best one according to a new report on airline quality. came out today. academic researchers used federal data to compile the list. and they based it on categories including bag handling issues and on-time performance on and off. airtran airways took the biggest plunge falling from third place to tenth place back in 2013. our producer, chris, has a list of some of the best and worst. it would be very easy to now do some guessing because, one, he spends too much time in the air. i would tell you the horrible ones but id get sued.

>> virgin america is the number one. this is the second year it ranked number one. researchers at wichita university compiled the data looking at bag handling issues, on-time performance, bumping and flight complaints. so as far as bag handling issues, virgin america had the fewest issues. america eagle and american airlines had the most issues to rank worst. hawaiian airlines -- >> that doesn't help me. >> american eagle, as far as bumping issues, if a passenger was bumped involuntarily or denied boarding, that was jetblue and the worst was skywest. >> thank you, sir. >> barbara walters and her final vow, coming next. things. things. really? what's wrong with trying new things? look! mommy's new vacuum! (cat screech) you feel that in your muscles? i do... drink water.

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barbara walters announced today that she'll make her last appearance on "the view" on may 16th. abc news is set to name its new york headquarters after her that same day.

and then later that night in the middle of the may ratings period, the network reports it will air a two-hour primetime special on barbara walters which spans more than five decades of television. abc reports barbara walters is not leaving "the view" entirely. she will stay behind the scenes as executive producer of the talk show she invented. according to the network, she'll be a lifelong member of the abc news team making contributions as the news carpets. barbara walters, an icon. on this day in 1964, ibm revolutionized the tech world with the system 360 mainframe forever changing the way we use computers. under the new mainframe, customers would not have to throw out all their equipment whenever a newer, faster processer came along. folks could buy small and easily upgradable equipment to a bigger system. today industries still use mainframes for everything from credit card transactions to booking flights, but ibm first launched a machine for the

masses 50 years ago today. when the news breaks out, we'll break in all afternoon and evening from the fox news desk. don't let it hurt your vibe, all right? neil has good news coming now. all right. we are getting an update on the ft. hood shooting, and apparently they are ruling out that this was not only a terrorist plot, but ivan lopez who did the shooting, that he was medically compromised. and this really was the result of and argument. we're getting more on this and we'll keep you posted on this. first to the battle over the health care law itself, only this time it's a battle between democrats. and that's what they are focusing on. nan robert gibbs says the penalty on job