have talked about. if you look at the republican party, there's examples of them pulling this off. you had mcdon knell actually got more evangelical voters as a guy from the middle. >> thank you. we'll be back next week. if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." our main effort is to find the aircraft. it will help us to establish what exactly has happened. >> the mystery around the mising malaysia airlines flight. good afternoon. you're watching msnbc. more than 36 hours after it vanished, the search for the plane may be turning up some new clues but there are lots of questions about who was on board. this is the responsibility of the russian government. >> the prime minister of ukraine

will be at the white house in a few days. what will his meeting with president obama mean for u.s. relations with russia? sarah palin wrapped up a cpac meeting with a unique rendition of dr. seuss but not the winner of the straw poll. and later -- >> there's no need for us to go anywhere and fight the democracy. we're working for our liberation and it is going dobb in this country. >> a look back at a leading member of the black panther party. we begin with breaking news. right now, there are several key developments that have surfaced in the search for that missing airlines plane. first, vietnamese military officials say they spot debris may be one of the plane's doors near the same area where a 12-mile oil slick was spotted on saturday. however, at last check, malaysia airlines side they're not aware of the debris. this is just hours after the air force chief said radar showed

that they may have turned back before they crashed. today 40 ships and 22 aircraft scouring the sea for any sign of that plane. teams from the u.s., malaysia, vietnam, thailand, singapore, indonesia, china, australia and the philippines are all involved that search. national transportation safety board has sent a team from the u.s. to malaysia to offer assistance. adding to the mystery, two europeans on the list of passengers are safe and sound. both reported their passports had been stolen more than a year ago in thailand. authorities are now looking into who used the stolen passports to board the plane and what they may have been up to. one of the men whose passport was stolen spoke earlier today. >> it may be some people count my passport and i seen my passport may be -- can use again. because when it come back to italy, i talk with police.

italian police for a lock -- last passport. then it's vatican use. >> now investigators are in malaysia trying to match up who used those passports with the closed circuit video of the airport and now nbc news confirms that the two tickets associated with the stolen passports would have taken them from amsterdam and then separate destinations from there. one senior law enforcement official says the tickets were purchased with cash. for more on, this i want to bring in captain john cox, former pilot and nbc news terrorism analyst evan coleman. captain cox, i want to start with you. how can a plane simply disappear from thin air? >> well, it's a very, very rare event. what this is is electrical power is lost for some reason. one possibility is it broke apart in flight or some kind of problem and that the pilots were unable or there were preoccupied

with maintaining control of the airplane. it is very rare to have a situation like this occur. >> if it broke apart in flight, wouldn't there be debris, snow. >> one of the things that would be very obvious is a large debris field and it also says that the fact that they have had this much difficulty low katding the debris field that the airplane may have turned or be off track for some reason so there's lot for the investigators to look at here. >> well, as you just mentioned, officials are now saying it's possible the plane did try turning back. what's that tell you as far as a search goes? >> i think it says several things. we know very carefully what the intended track of the airplane was and the searchers, they know that, too. they have flown that track numerous times and without finding much in the way of debris and expanded the search report and may have started to find debris.

this says that the airplane was off track. it says several things. one, that the airplane was intact for some period of time. to let it get off track. and that something catastrophic was going on within that airplane. so, once we have more debris and particularly once we find the main part of the wreckage, the investigators will be able to start to put the pieces together to understand what happened. >> the captain of the plane had a lot of experience. he had 18,000 hours of flying time. and is it true from what i understand that experienced pilots, you are trained to fly the plane instead of trying to make contact with the ground? >> absolutely. if there is a situation on board that is significant, your first priority is flying the airplane. there's not really a lot that air traffic control can do for you. their purpose is to separate airplanes from other airplanes. so the first foremost rule is maintain control of the airplane. fly it, deal with your problem,

come up with a plane, execute the proper checklist and procedures. then when you have time, then you can talk to air traffic control. >> people are now drawing similarities to what happened with air france flight 447 in 2009 taking near 2 years to retrieve the main wreckage and block boxes from the flight. how long of a recovery could we be looking senate. >> i think there's significant differences here. the geography of the south atlantic was much, much more challenging than what we have here. the water was much deeper and there was very mountainous terrain at the bottom of the ocean. i think you were going to have a much more level bottom to deal with and not nearly the depth. once they find the general area, i'm very confident that we'll find this airplane in pretty short order. >> evan, let's turn to this. this is what the associated press reports today. in addition to the plane's sudden disappearance which

experts say is consistent with a possible onboard explosion, the stolen passports raise concerned of terrorism as a possible cause. what would indicate possible foul play here? >> i don't think there's very much to indicate foul play at all. the fact that there were fake passports used, far, more likely that was something related to illegal immigration or narcotics. you have a malaysian aircraft filled with chinese passengers. very few groups with a motive to try to carry out an attack on a target like that. the very few groups that do, they really don't have the technical sophistication to do something like this or to carry out to destroy a commercial aircraft in flight. it's extremely unlikely this is terrorism related. there could be more information that develops in the future that changes that but from what we know right now there is little to show -- there's no chatter

amongst terrorist groups, no terrorist group has taken responsibility. nobody said anything about this. it's been three days now so yeah. >> well apparently they bought their tickets together and with cash. >> that's correct. >> what do you suspect they were doing? >> well, look, again, there's a variety of different activity that is circle around passport or document fraud and illegal immigration is a big part of that. there are a lot of people to get into europe and this is one way in, through getting a false passport and transferring through east asia. right? and it's just a far more plausible scenario than the idea that these individuals were targeting -- a malaysian airlines flight filled with primarily chinese or theitouris >> take a listen to peter king. he was on "meet the press" today. let's listen to that. >> i can assure you our terrorism people,

counterterrorism people, scrubbing, going through the databases to get the identify call of two traveling with the stolen passports. my understanding is we have a facial identity and not the full identity yet. >> so what counterterrorism tools are being used or in some cases apparently are not? >> well look. they're looking right now at the cctv footage to identify the people traveling under a the fake passports f. you're talking about someone who's a syrian refugee, who's a refugee from palestinian refugee camp, that's not necessarily someone in a bank of photographs. trying to make the identifications can be very, very challenging. unfortunately i think by the time we identify the individuals, we might already have a clear idea of what happened to this aircraft, what brought it down. >> we live if a very uncertain and sometimes very, very scary times. we all know that. shouldn't these counterterrorism techniques used all the time?

>> what's been brought out by the incident already is that a lot of countries, including malaysia here, do not appear to be living up to the security standards that we would expect. i mean, basic checks on passports to see whether or not a passport is stolen or not, they were in an interpoll database. if they had done the search, they would have seen they're stolen. it is difficult to understand why that's not being rigorously done not just here in the u.s. or europe. but malaysia, a lot of illegal activity taking part in that part of the world. let's hope that this is the impetus for them now to start taking it seriously and if for no other reason to make sure the next time something like this happens, they have a clearer view of who's on the aircraft. >> thank you both. >> thank you. thanks to both of you.

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>> that's republican congressman mike rogers, chair of the house intelligence committee on russian president president's role in the ukraine crisis as we learn today the acting prime minister of ukraine heading to washington to meet with president obama at the white house, a white house statement said, in part, the president and prime minister will discuss how to find a peaceful resolution to russia's ongoing military intervention in crimea to respect ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity. ian, while the sprm heading here, when's happening on the ground there? >> reporter: hello to you, melissa. well, right now, it's pretty lively in the square behind me as you can probably hear. the end of a day of rallies here and across the country. the reason for that is because they were commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of the national hero here,

towering literary figure and usually a great opportunity for patriotic fervor. there was anger at rush why's effective annexation of crimea. rallies in the east by pro-ukrainian forces, pro-ukrainian protesters and pro-russians, but also in crimea itself, interestingly in simferopol, the black sea fleet, two rallies. one pro ukrainian, one pro russian. and there were scuffles there, briefly violence, when the russians attacked some of those ukrainian protesters. now, earlier today, before the band here struck up, the prime minister himself had addressed the crowds and said that ukraine will not seed what he said one centimeter to russia. he'll no doubt take that message

to washington later in the week but the reality, of course, is that russia is consolidating its grim on crimea. more troops coming in. we have seen convoys of trucks, unmarked trucks, but with number plates that suggest they're from the moscow region. we've also seen what we assume to be russian troops taking over border posts from the ukrainians and continuing to surround military bases. they also continue to block the entry of those european and other international monitors from coming into crimea and seem that is russia's moving pretty actively to annex crimea as quickly as possible, that referendum, of course, coming up in a few days asking the people down there whether or not they do want to join russia and crisis talks this week with the prime minister in washington, melissa. >> nbc's ian williams in kiev, thank you.

for more on the crisis, let's bring in new york democrat congressman eliot engle, the ranking member on the foreign affairs committee, also a me believe of the congressional ukrainian caucus. we have learned today's the prime minister is coming here to speak with president obama. what do you think precisely is on the agenda? >> i think it's a very good thing. i think what the united states has to do is show ukraine we stand with them, support them, we're not going to allow putin to treat them this way. i think it's really very important to build up ukraine with closer ties with the united states and ties, ukraine, european union and a good thing. there are now going to be elections in ukraine in a couple of months and i think it's important for the ukrainians to see that the new government there is working very closely with the west and with the united states. >> symbolically, what do you think it means to have a sbrer imprime minister come to the

united states to meet personally with president obama? do you think that's somehow a slap in the face to vladimir putin or will that be how he sees it? >> i hope he sees it that way. it should be and it is. the truth is, he's brutal thug. he's for all intents and purposes going to annex crimea an envery little anybody can do about it. what we can do is make sure that ukraine wants to look westward, wants to be part of europe, wants to work with the united states and we can do that with many different ways. one of them is as you pointed out the acting prime minister coming to meet with president obama. but congress now passing legislation. we passed it on the house floor the other day of billion dollars of loan guarantees for ukraine. we need to do it in conjunction with the european allies and we embrace the ukraines as they look west and putin will pay a price. >> meanwhile, the situation on

the peninsula seems to be getting more critical violent and two unarmed observers and journalists and reports of people being beaten. >> this is in line with putin. it's obvious to me that he is going to annex crimea. it's obvious to me that the kinds of repressions he is known for are going to be there and we cannot stop it other than get into a ground war with him and no one is anticipating that or contemplating that or wants that but there are other things. we can look at sanctions down the line. we can hurt russia in the pocketbook. lots of things we can do and need to explore all of those. >> what is the next step for that? that's what president obama is threatening, economic sanctions and basically embarrass vladimir putin across the world. do you think that will work and what would be the actual next step? >> i don't think he cares about embarrassing. i think he is a embarran embarr himself and he does care about

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man. i do not like, oh yes we can. >> reporter: the speech serving as the grand finale to the annual gathering of the conservative leaders and supporters plotting a takeover of the congress this year and presidency in the 2016. it's revealed potential battle lines for the republican party. >> we have to stop -- >> reporter: some like new jersey governor christie urging conservatives to broaden the message to draw more voters. >> let's resolve not only to stand for principles but come out of this conference resolved to win elections again. >> reporter: hard line conservatives like tea party favorite senator ted cruz say that strategy led republicans to lose the last two presidential elections. >> of course, all of us remember president dole. >> reporter: urging conservatives to fight harder on issues they deem important. >> when you don't stand for principle, democrats celebrate. >> reporter: nominee paul ryan

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now to the latest on the missing malaysia airlines plane. since it vanished, there's been no electrical chatter that a terrorist group was behind the disappearance. two tickets associated with the stolen passports used to board

that plane would have taken the ticketholders beijing to am der dam and then to separate destinations. and one senior law enforcement official tells nbc news the tickets were bought in cash. also, vietnamese nil tear officials say they have spotted debris that may be a plane's door. they say it's too dark to fish them out for proper identification but malaysia airlines said they're not aware of the debris. loved ones of those missing are waiting for word on the loved ones. now their story. >> reporter: around 100 relatives have signed a petition demanding that malaysia airlines give them more frequent updates, families here are frustrated. they say that every minute, every second that goes by they lose hope. every person you see in this room fears someone they care

about is gone. this is malaysia airlines makeshift crisis center in china. at a beijing hotel where families and friends of flight mh 370 were told to find the latest news of missing mothers, grandparents and children. the last time i heard from my son he called before the flight to say he'd be home around 9:00 a.m. he came here from the nearby village to get word of his son, traveling with his wife crying the whole way. over in texas, the brother of another passenger said, american phillip wood was working as an executive in malaysia. he had just visited the family last week. >> just shock. you know? this kind of thing doesn't happen. he was my hero. my friend. and we were very close so it's tough. it's tough times.

>> reporter: for relatives here, the tough times are sometimes too much to bear. my grandparents were on the plane and they're nearly 80 years old, she says. we don't have much hope. a grief shared here in china and halfway around the world. >> though our hearts are hurting we no so many families around the world are affected just as much as us by the terrible tragedy. >> reporter: malaysia airlines plans to bring in more volunteers to assist on the ground and the airline preparing to fly relatives out as soon as possible and eventually take them to the location of the aircraft once it's found. back to you. >> just for an idea of how big the area is that the crews are searching, officials increased the search to 50 nautical miles. our producers calculate third degree area if it was on land, roughly the size of massachusetts. here's a quick look at some

other top news stories making news today. a frightening scene in california, a stage collapsed last night. 25 kids were sent to area hospitals. fortunately, with only minor injuries. no one was trapped in that collapse. and check out these images shot yesterday. a plane and a skydiver collided in midair. miraculously, they both survived. the two became entangled when the wing of a small plane hit the skydiver's parachute and both crashing to the ground. both the 87-year-old pilot and the skydiver hospitalized with minor injuries. tomorrow morning opponents of stand your ground participate in a march in tallahassee, florida, led by reverend sharpton and the national action network and the parents of slain teenagers trayvon martin and jordan davis to call attention to the stand your ground law.

there are troubling new details about a growing racial disparity in breast cancer related deaths of women. the study found a widening racial gap in at least 39 of the american cities, the results of the study suggest that african-american women are not getting the same access to screening, testing and treatment as are white women. let's bring in dr. dara richardson-heron. she is a herself a breast cancer survivor. so i want to start out by saying the study showed african-american women are on average 40% less likely to die from the disease, more likely than white women. why did that disparity? >> well, you know, unfortunately many african-american women do not have access to screening. and not only that, when they do get appropriate screening, they're often not given the same level and quality of care and

that's very, very disturbing. >> of course it is. but why on both of those things? >> you know, it is an interesting question and the ywca, we have focused on racial health equity and done everything we can to educate everyone that we can about those factors but the reality is it's still exists and very, very unfortunate. you're absolutely correct. women, african-american women far less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer and much more likely, 40% more likely to die of it. >> is prevention for white women better somehow and how can that be anyway? >> i'm not sure that's the answer but i think we know that african-americans are 55% less likely to have health insurance. that's why at the ywca focusing on the affordable care act f. you don't have access to screening you can't be diagnosed early and then unfortunately the likelihood of you dying of breast cancer is much more common. >> does that mean there aren't enough clinics available to

people without health insurance? and is there also a distrust among african-american women in the medical community? >> well, i think there is and for good reason. and i think it's not so simple as to think, you know, it is just one thing. i think this is a system of health inequity that has been plaguing the african-american community for a long time while this study is wonderful and that it looks at 20 years of data the reality is we have known for many year that is there have been severe disparities of health care in african-americans and not just because of lifestyle. >> must be especially disturbing to you. you are a breast cancer survivor, you are an african-american doctor and part of the medical community. >> extremely disturbing and really disturbing because i am a living testament to the fact that early detection and high quality health care saves lives and i really think and certainly at the ywca we don't think a woman should live or die from breast cancer because of her status or access to health

education. that's why we have programs at the ywca called encore plus programs to focus on educating women and telling them about breast cancer health and preventive care. >> well, about 4% of doctors in the united states are black but only 4%. i want to read you numbers. of recent graduating classes, women make up 63% of doctors. african-american men heading to medical school is dropping. why are they underrespected in your profession? >> that's another multi-factorial question. medical school is very, very expensive. then, often, you have education disparities that prevent and don't allow african-americans to get into the profession. but i don't think that's the issue. i think the issue is all doctors need to have appropriate level of training and make sure that african-americans get the same quality health care that their caucasian counterparts get. >> in the meantime, if you are an african-american woman and you know that you haven't had a

mammogram in three years, you have to seek out an opportunity for yourself if you don't have insurance provided and a doctor that you trust? >> well, you do. that's again why we have strongly supported the affordable care act. more women will have access in the interim, also, women can go on the cdc website for low-cost mammograms. you must be screened. the screening recommendations themselves are confusing but i tell you from my personal experience it is very important for women, particularly women 40 and over, to have a mammogram. it is not a perfect tool but a best tool we have. >> doctor from ywca usa, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> congratulations on being a survivor. >> thank you. a pleasure to be here and thank you for putting the story on the air. >> you bet. coming up x next big thing on the battlefield could be sponges if you can believe that. that's the big idea. later, his name evokes memories of a turbulent time in

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we're keeping a close eye on the search for the missing malaysia airlines ship. 40 ships and 22 aircraft scouring the sea for any sign of the plane. teams from the u.s., malaysia, vietnam, thailand, singapore, indonesia, china, australia and the philippines are all involved in the search. the very latest on the search and the investigation ahead at the top of the hour. now to a tool that can save lives of soldiers and life threatening bullet wounds in seconds. that's today's big idea. the syringe is an apply or the with small, rapidly expanding sponges inserted in the wound. the sponges expand, creating a barrier to blood flow. andrew is president and ceo of

revmax x. how did you it occur to you to use sponges? >> actually, we started the project working for special operations command receiving a grant to do some research to develop some sort of a wound dressing to treat deep narrow entrance wounds like gunshot wounds, and we actually started working on a concept that involved using foams. it was dubbed the fix-a-flat project like the tire repair system where you shoot foam in the tire and that foam expands and seals the tire, et cetera. we were working with foams and really weren't very successful with that. and one of the scientists and one of the co-founders of rev medics was inspired by kitchen sponges in a williams sonoma store and they come and they're dried and compressed. when you buy them at the store and take them home, splash water

on them and they expand and open up and use them as a kitchen sponge to clean your dishes. taking that concept, we actually -- the next step was to figure out, well, how do you get the sponge in the body? that's where you take it, chop it up into smaller sponges, compress them and they take on a more fluid-like quality. put them in a syringe-like applique or the to get them in the wound sight, a deep narrow wound sight where the site of the bleeding is. >> what are the differences between your device and things already being used in the battlefield and beyond? >> well, the u.s. military was funding research in this area because it reted a capability cape. deep non -- called deep noncon presentationible wounds, gunshot wounds in areas near the torso and can't use a tuourniquet and

gauze-like dressing are hard to stuff in the wounds. the standard of care treatment for this type of bleeding is to pack the wound as tightly as you can and apply as much compression as you can to get the bleeding to stop. deep enough, that's trafficking to do. and so, our goal was to develop essentially an adaptive wound dressing to go in the body and expand and apply the compression where it's difficult to do. >> about ten seconds, when do you think it is available in soldiers' kits? >> well, we are actually -- we have an fda application under review currently. that's been an ongoing process we're working through with the fda and unfortunately i can't really predict the date but i can say that we have been working on it for a while with them and i'm very hopeful it will happen soon. >> a great idea. andrew, thank you. >> thank you. and do you have a big idea you want us to know about? tell us about it on twitter,

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i'm karen finney. as the investigation into the missing malaysian airline deepens, women are loosing their right to choose. what you can do to stop it from happening, that's all ahead. the mystery of what caused malaysia air 370 to vanish is deepening. >> radar indicates the plane may have attempted to turn back. >> new questions on some of the passengers on the plane. >> trying to identify the two individuals who were traveling on stolen passports. >> this is a real red flag. >> the surveillance video from the airport is going to be key. >> russia's move in crimea sets off alarm bells. >> this is a choice for the russians to make. they have to decide whether they want to resolve this diplomatically or face growing costs. >> we have created an image around the world, not just for the russians, but a weakness. >> vladimir putin doesn't know the collin powell rule. if you break it, you own it. >> putin needs be warned, and i'm perfectly willing to tell him if he does opy