thailand to the south china sea. in fact, this video just came in of a navy chopper taking off to aid in the search. we spoke with a commander involved in the effort. >> you have to take into account wind and current and sea state and as each hour passes, that area grows bigger. so right now it is a very large search area. i estimate could easily be hundreds of square miles. >> it's been more than two days since the flight disappeared with 239 people onboard as it traveled from kuala lumpur to beijing. the aircraft was traveling about 500 miles per hour when radar indicates it may have tried to turn around, adding to the mystery, two passengers onboard the plane authorities say were traveling with stolen passports. officials are not ruling out the possibility the plane may have been hijacked. meanwhile, family members of the passengers onboard, including

four americans, continue to await word. tom costello joins me now. you've been reporting on this since the start. very heavy when you say unprecedented aviation mystery. and that is why so many countries are now involved in this effort to find this plane. >> that's right. as you mentioned, we've now got dozens of ships from multiple navies here, airplanes and helicopter assets looking for this plane, but there is now a growing concern and a feeling that this plane may not be in the water, that maybe this plane is back over land. perhaps it's back over malaysian territory, so you heard just a few hours ago malaysian authorities announce they are going to expand their search area, not only on the ocean, but also now over land, on malaysian territory. why are they doing that? because the malaysian military radar turned back. we don't know what was the arc, in other words, how sharp was that turn and we don't know why.

there was no mayday call, but if the plane did, in fact, make an arc and turn back, it's possible it could have gone down in malaysian territory. something else to consider, the emergency locate tor transmaters, we haven't heard from them yet. if this plane were to have hit ground, those transmitters should have gone off, unless they were destroyed, connected to the black boxes. if the plane were under water, you would have underwater pingers going off generally only audible to radar, submarines and the like or ships trolling for any sort of an underwater ping, but so far we don't have that either. you can understand the mystery here. it is very, very rare and maybe unprecedented to go this far, certainly in modern aviation, to go this long without having any sense of where this plane might be, even in the case of the air france plane that went down over the atlantic ocean. they had debris spotted within

about 24 to 36 hours, so we're now approaching 72 hours on this plane and simply nothing. >> tom, to add to that, the plane was just taking off so that meant there was plenty of fuel. in the event there was a crash on land, you would think that some of that fuel would burn significant portion. i know there's a lot of land to cover here, as there is with water, or to your point with air france, there were pieces of debris that surfaced within a couple of days, but this plane disappeared and there's a concern that at least one article i read that it disintigrated. >> well, if it had, you hate to talk about what are the possibilities here, because we just don't know. >> right. >> but let's assume the plane hit water. that's like hitting concrete. the plane would have shattered and there are many, many floatable pieces over the airplane so presumably by now in this heavy trafficked area of ocean, somebody would have come across something. this is not a remote area of ocean. this is heavily trafficked.

on the other hand, if it had gone into the jungle in malaysia, you could see how a plane or any big piece of equipment could go into the malaysian jungle and if it's in a remote area at 3:00 in the morning, perhaps nobody saw anything or heard anything, you could be in a situation where it could be some time to find that wreckage. >> tom, thank you very much. we're going to talk much more about the technology that many people are wondering does or does not exist in a situation like this, but let's also talk about the security issues and nbc news and msnbc analyst jim kavanaugh is a former special agent with us. jim, again, this is a mystery on many levels, but you have these two individuals who had stolen passports aboard this plane. what are your concerns there? >> well, you have a lot of concerns with people getting on an aircraft and hiding their identity. certainly, drug smugglers, immigration violations, or a whole host of things, but it

could also be terrorists. the answer, though, is the people want to hide their identity to gain access to air travel, so that's of great concern. investigators are going to have to go behind that and dig deep into the background of these travelers, from the video at the airport, to their documents they might have touched, fingerprints, et cetera, who are they. >> absolutely. we also want to know how they were able to get these stolen passports that were in the database that could have easily been checked with something that was available for security to check. >> yeah, right, tamron. that's just pure stupidity and sloppiness and outrageous and encourages more stolen passport theft and that creates a cycle of danger if you don't know who's on the aircraft, so that's got to be tightened up. nobody should be getting on an aircraft with a stolen passport

that's been in the database for two years. >> lastly, concerns of terror. you have people that say if it were that type of situation, wouldn't an organization by now claim responsibility? >> that's not a sure thing. terrorists don't always claim responsibility. it took al qaeda a long time to claim responsibility for 9/11. sometimes they do. it may be an accident and they don't want to have egg on their face and claim they did it and it turns out to be an accident, or it could be part of a larger plot if it was terrorism. >> we don't know that right now. >> we don't know. >> we have to look at all options while this remains a mystery. thank you very much. greatly appreciate you joining me. also with me, greg feith. thank you for your time. >> you're welcome, tamron. >> i want to read a portion quickly, "wall street journal" discussed some of the technology perhaps missing from this plane, which includes data that would come in live, rather than retrieving the black box after a

catastrophic event and trying to piece it together there, having technology that is in real time available, and it says it's been discussed for many years but never implemented because of the cost. the concept of automatically transmitting data would be using satellite links to use critical safety information from an airliner to the ground during extreme emergencies or just before a plane goes down. why is the cost an issue here when we know that these incidents can happen and this information is critical? >> tamron, when you look at the amount of data that would have to be downloaded, it would take a lot of bandwidth, then you have to capture that data, store it in a repository, and you remember these airplanes are transmitting information all the time. currently, there is maintenance downloads. there is data bursts. we saw that with air france 447 where they did have performance information from the airplane that came down in a number of

different data bursts, but now you're talking hundreds of thousands of airplanes down bursting all of this information. you got to capture it, it takes a lot of bandwidth and there's just not enough satellite, you know, space up there and bandwidth to capture the amount of data we're looking at. >> this has been discussed for many years, so it's an option, and certainly so, there is a give and take here, but now you've got nine countries who are participating in the search for this 777 massive plane, 239 people, two infants, two children, i should say, on there. and the possibility of something like this happening again is realistic, and i guess the bottom line is, greg, i heard over and over from people who said how is this possible with the technology available that this plane, or at least an area of 20 miles, can't be narrowed down? >> and that is the issue. and when you look at the data from the airplane, there may be other means.

using gps tracking like we do with trucks and taxi cabs, because right now we use conventional radar to track the progress of an aircraft and given the fact the radar in that area is spotty and unreliable, that is an option that is affordable, then capturing that data is another means, but that may not actually give us the actual location of the airplane, but gps tracking could. >> what is your expertise telling you at this point, the way of tracking down this airliner at this point? >> i think right now they are starting to expand the search area. i think i talked about it a couple of days ago and that is because the airplane is at a high altitude, we don't know if it broke up in flight. it's obvious it didn't go down in the water from the search area that they've been in, and not according to the telltale signs we've seen in other aircraft accidents, so they are really going to have to expand search efforts over land. the key here is how much radar

data they got from the military, because it apparently is better than the civilian radar data they had initially. >> greg feith, thank you so much for your time, we greatly appreciate it and will bring the audience developments within the hour if we get new information. meanwhile, take a look at this, live pictures from tallahassee, florida, where a huge rally is under way to reform stand your ground laws across the country. we'll talk with the mother of jordan davis, who is taking part in today's protests, and there's new development regarding michael dunn, the man who stood trial for her son's murder. also right now, new clashes and protests over the future of ukraine. this as the country's acting prime minister preparing to travel to the white house. we'll get insight on what could happen in that meeting from a former ambassador to russia. and within the hour, nsa leaker edward snowden will appear at south by southwest in texas live by video link from

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welcome back. tensions are increasing in ukraine ahead of a referendum set for next sunday on whether the crimea region should separate and join russia. in crimea, violence erupted when

russian supporters attacked pro ukraine demonstrators, also clashes at a massive rally in the capital kiev in support of the new government. meantime, more russian troops poured into crimea over the weekend and russian forces took over a ukrainian border post and surrounded another ukrainian military base, all unfolding as ukraine's interim prime minister is traveling to washington, d.c. and meeting with president obama at the white house on wednesday. joining me now, james collins, he served under president bill clinton. ambassador, thank you so much for your time. >> it's my pleasure. >> first, let's talk about this movement over the weekend, an uptick in violence and more russian troops pouring into crimea over the weekend. obviously, vladimir putin sending an even stronger message over the weekend with talks on the horizon at the white house. >> well, yes, i think that's true and i think they are two

things that it shows. one, how volatile this situation is and how dangerous, and i think both sides need to understand the dangers of these kinds of clashes or demonstrations. i just cannot understand the russian moves to intensify the pressure in crimea, which seems to be pushing volatility. the other is that it's important that ukraine have every support politically to have this government's actions understood and also supported by the international community. >> to that point, we know there were phone calls yesterday that russian president vladimir putin told angela merkel and british prime minister david cameron that next sunday's vote in crimea is legal and constitutional. the hope is chancellor merkel will be able to mediate in this, but i want to play briefly what deputy national security adviser

said regarding the referendum. we don't have it, but he says that if there is a referendum and it votes to move crimea out of ukraine and into russia, we won't recognize it and most of the world won't either. your reaction to that? >> i think it's very straightforward reaction. it's a strong defense of territorial integrity and particularly to ukraine's territorial integrity and it's a strong statement to russia that however this supposed vote goes, it is not going to be accepted by the europeans, it's not going to be accepted by us, and we suspect not going to be accepted by a lot of people in the international community. >> not accepting what action does that then mean will inevitably have to happen? there's one thing to verbally say it's not accept the, but you have vladimir putin saying it's legal and constitutional. you know the demographics and the breakdown of the region as far as russians and those who

are ukrainian. but in the end if this referendum moves forward, except for next sunday and the vote goes the way putin would like, what other than words are the option? >> well, i think the options in the long run are basically that the crimean territory would not be seen as a part of the russian federation. there are a variety of implications of that, including just what happens to people from that region who are carrying russian passports and so forth. you know, there isn't a lot that's going to change by that referendum. i mean, russia is in occupation of the territory now, so right now it is difficult for ukraine's government to exercise legitimate authority over the territory, but that doesn't mean that the world community, the european union, the united states, are going to legit mate russia's occupation or the idea

this vote was legitimate without the ukrainian government. >> thank you so much for your time, we greatly appreciate it. again, the meeting today at the white house with the interim prime minister of ukraine and we'll have the latest developments in that. up next, oscar pistorius becomes violently ill in his murder trial after testimony this morning. we're live in south africa. and here's a look at what's happening today, monday, march 10th. colorado is expected to release how much tax money the state earned from recreational marijuana sales. it is the first state report since pot became legal in january. president obama will host the 2012 and '13 ncaa division ones men's and women's teams for sports other than football and basketball. and a group of senators plan an all night talkathon to press their colleagues to take action. [ mom ] hi, girls! mommy!

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deceased. it goes against the good morals of society for us to make information of this nature available in a manner with honorable or unsuspecting people out there, so to speak, may be exposed to information in a manner which could do harm. >> nbc's mike taibbi joins us from pretoria. without going into detail on the graphic testimony, what was the point of it? what was the prosecution attempting to present there? >> reporter: hi, tamron. actually, we can't go into the absolute details of the graphic testimony. it was actually pretty clinically delivered by professor sayyman, who you just had on there talking about the three bullet wounds suffered by reeva steenkamp last valentine's day morning when she was shot by oscar pistorius, but it was at the point when he was describing the first bullet wound he was going to cover in the testimony, that pistorius as you saw, bent

his head over and this was different and a step further than what we'd seen last week, courtroom spectators getting used to the idea he'd sometimes sob. now he did audibly, very audibly, begin retching and a bucket was brought out to him and set by his feet so he could bend over and if he got sick, as he apparently did over several hours of testimony by the professor, he could heave into the bucket and he did so. it got so frequent in the afternoon session, that it almost became routine and some of the retches were loud, but nobody looked at him at that point. he just reacted to the way he reacted to the injuries suffered by reeva steenkamp. earlier in the day the prosecution finished up its questioning of the last of the group of witnesses who lived in the gated community where the shooting took place. that witness, like so many others before him, talked about words that pistorius said, actions that he took, seemed to contradict or continue serene his written statement last year

of what happened in the terrible moments on valentine's day morning. in this case, it was the words that pistorius allegedly spoke according to this witness, a security guard. >> in fact, mr. pistorius fired first and you returned that very shortly. >> mr. pistorius told me that everything is fine. but i realized that mr. pistorius is crying. and before i could speak to reeva, that's when the line went dead. >> reporter: all right. so, according to the security guard through a translator, pistorius said everything's fine. again, that's not something pistorius said in his statement. by the way, professor sayyman will be back on the stand tomorrow to complete his testimony. tamron? >> mike taibbi live for us. thank you very much. greatly appreciate it. also want to show you live pictures, a big rally taking place in tallahassee, florida, a

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to get the job done. we have more now on the emerging showdown between rand paul and ted cruz, two republican senators, of course, with presidential aspirations. kentucky senator rand paul got a big boost over the weekend after handedly winning the cpac straw poll 31%, picking up nearly three times as many votes as senator ted cruz. on sunday, cruz tried to distance himself from paul on foreign policy, betraying him as an isolationist, but rand paul defended himself against that criticism. >> i don't agree with him on foreign policy. i think u.s. leadership is critical in the world, and i agree with him that we should be very reluctant to deploy military force abroad, but i think there is a vital role, just as ronald reagan did.

>> i think those who would try to argue that somehow i'm different than the mainstream republican opinion are people who want to take advantage for their own personal political gain. >> joining me now live nbc news senior political editor, mark murray. mark, is it too early to call it a feud between rand paul and ted cruz. >> >> i think this is too early to call it ted cruz v. rand paul feud, but there is a debate in the republican party on how to go on national security and foreign policy. what rand paul had was what his father had in 2008 and 2012, where more of an isolationist, although they would often disagree with that terminology, less of a footprint in world affairs, certainly hesitancy to use military force in opposition to big national security strong state, but the republican play book of the last 60 years has often been that we're going to be stronger on national security

and defense matters than democrats, we're going to call our opponents weak, and rand paul's having this debate within the republican party and i think this is going to be one of the more fascinating debates we'll see in 2015 and 2016, because in a lot of ways the party hasn't had this debate following the bush years, and you'll really true will have it in the presidential primaries. >> play more of what rand paul said on fox news sunday in an attempt to distinguish himself from the crowd. let's play it. >> i guess i would just say that everybody has their own style. my style is, that i stand for things i think people don't question whether i stand for principle, but i don't spend a lot of time trying to drag people down. >> who's he talking to? >> i think he's talking to almost everyone, but when i did listen to rand paul's speech friday, tamron, he devoted so much of it to liberty. he was talking about freedom, and a lot of it was a dig indictment on the nsa surveillance programs and

programs in which some parts of the republican establishment are in favor of. >> a lot of courting young people, as well. listen, it's easy to talk about who won, but we should also talk about people who certainly fell off the map at least in this straw poll, marco rubio, some are asking is it over for chris christie, he wasn't invited last year, this was supposed to be his big chance to make an impression here and he didn't do well in that straw poll. >> i wouldn't read too much into the straw poll. it's important to know who the straw poll is of and so many of the attendees are young libertarian leaning folks, a plurality backed the legalization of marijuana. these aren't your normal type of republicans who might show up at a social conservative event or republican national committee chairs meeting. this is your younger, more libertarian leaning folks. these are rand paul's crowd, why he won the straw poll. >> it's not the most conservative of the party. is that an inaccurate way to describe those people? >> it's a different part of the

party. you can go to so many different cattle calls. what the republican party has going for them is they are conservative, just matters how you define it. this is much more of the libertarian wing of the party than you see at other events. >> all right, mark murray, thank you very much. greatly appreciate it. >> thanks, tamron. right now in florida, live pictures of a rally under way to reform stand your ground laws nationwide. this has been going on for an hour. a lot of people there. we're going to talk with a family friend of jordan davis's mother. she's one of the speakers there, as well. and joran van der sloot will be facing a u.s. court in connection with the disappearance of natalee holloway, but wait until you hear when he will face justice. it's one of the stories we're watching around the "news nation." so you're telling me your mom has a mom cave? hi boys! i've made you campbell's chunky new england clam chowder. wow! this is incredible! i know. and now it has more clams!

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where the families of trayvon martin, jordan davis, and marissa alexander are joining civil rights organizations for a rally against stand your ground laws. the rally in march at the state capitol in tallahassee will launch what is being called a, "self defense campaign," aimed at reforming stand your ground nationwide. also speaking at the rally, lucy mcbath, the mother of jordan davis, who was shot and killed while sitting in an suv after an argument of loud music. the man who shot him claimed it was self defense. he was convicted on multiple counts of attempted murder, but the first-degree murder charge ended in a mistrial. cheryl anderson is a family friend of jordan davis's family and chapter leader for moms demand action for gun sense in america and joins us now. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> absolutely. i know that the reverend al sharpton is speaking right now,

president of the national action network, reverend al was going to join us, as well, but speeches are happening right now. just the size of this crowd behind you, the diversity, as well, as far as race, as far as gender, what do you believe this message -- what is the message being sent to lawmakers in especially florida right now with this rally? >> well, the message we're sending is that stand your ground has got to go, that it is a danger to our families and that it just needs to be gotten rid of. >> and cheryl, right now, as we've noted here, michael dunn's attorney just within the last few hours has filed a motion to withdraw as dunn's attorney. there have been reports that dunn will ask a judge to delay his sentencing on his conviction until he can be retried on charges that he murdered jordan davis here. i think for a lot of people it's still very difficult for that verdict to even sink in.

for the family, what do they believe is the right course of action for them? is it holding rallies like this? is it demanding legislation, or is it still to focus on michael dunn? >> oh, no, this rally is demanding legislation. this rally is not focused on michael dunn. it is focused on all of the incidents and involving stand your ground and the use of the stand your ground law as a part of the prosecution and jury deliberations in a number of cases where individuals have been killed. >> what specific legislation would you like to see? you know, i think she's having difficulty hearing us. let's call an audible here. reverend al is speaking here. let's listen in, if we can, to some of his remarks. let's listen in. >> that our children's lives cannot be dependent among a perceived threat that may not be

real. i brought both my daughters to march, because they could be in one of these stand your ground states and could be a victim, so we're not just marching for trayvon, we're not just marching for jordan, we're not just marching for michael child, we're marching for our children, ourselves, we're all a trayvon. we're all a jordan davis. we're all a brother. let's also be real clear that you don't use the law the same for everybody. and you don't have the perception of everybody as a threat, but now that this law's out of hand, whether it's an unarmed black young man or a white man in the movies, texas,

can you imagine a man going to kill a man for texting his babysitter in the movie house? a law enforcement man, and you wonder why we are marching. well, we have made a lot of progress. yes, we have. >> again, we're listening in to remarks from the president of the national action network, al sharpton. he's there with the families of trayvon martin, jordan davis, melissa alexander, as well. we apologize to our guest. she was unable to hear us, and again, we hope to have them on very soon to discuss the specific legislation that cheryl anderson and the many others there would like to see passed in the state of florida and extending to other states with similar laws. a stunning new interview with sandy hook school shooter adam lanza, speaking publicly for the first time since the shooting, peter lanza sat down

with "the new yorker" for a series of interviews, during which he said he wished his son had never been born. telling the magazine, "you can't get anymore evil. how much do i beat up on myself about the fact that he's my son? a lot." lanza was divorced from adam's mother and revealed he had not seen his son for more than two years at the time of the shooting. he also says he believes his son's autism may have been masking schizophrenia. authorities in the u.s. will have to wait 26 years to prosecute joran van der sloot. peru has agreed to extradite him, but not only 2038, when he finishes a sentence there. he's currently serving jail time there for the murder of a 21-year-old young lady, a student. he faces charges here of extortion and defrauding the mother of natalee holloway, who vanished in aruba in 2005. new details about a horrifying midair collision near tampa, florida. the parachuter is speaking out

and both sides are blaming each other over what happened. nbc's gabe gutierrez has the story. >> reporter: this morning against all odds, the two men at the center of these incredible images are alive and now blaming each other. a sky diver about to land when just feet from the ground, a small plane tears right through his parachute. at the south lakeland airport near tampa. >> i definitely thought i wasn't going to make it. >> the veteran sky diver, 49-year-old john frost, who goes by steve, is limping and nursing several bruises. he thinks the pilot is at fault. >> our pilot had seen him and contacted him directly to ensure that he knew that we were going to be parachuting in the area. >> reporter: the experienced pilot, 87-year-old sharon trembley is out of the hospital and telling his side. his wife tells nbc news, he was very alert, as he is when he flies. he was paying attention to what was going on and knew jumpers were there, but the jumpers were

in the wrong place. frost strongly disagrees. >> when you fly into an area with parachutists all over, you have that high potential of killing somebody. >> federal authorities are now investigating the collision, captured by photographer tim telford. >> i just stared through the lens, is this really happening? i just couldn't believe it. >> reporter: ironically, the incident happened on national parachuting safety day. >> i will keep sky diving. it's one of the safest sports you can do. >> reporter: gabe gutierrez, nbc news, atlanta. up next, the lesson for putin. >> vladimir, think loosely. we're going to speak to you in a language you can understand. >> this video is one of the things we just thought you should know today, and in just minutes, nsa leaker edward snowden will speak at the south by southwest festival live from russia, but should he have been invited? some are asking, of course, it's

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there's a lot going on today and here's some things we thought you should know. am a statement today, aretha franklin dismisses the president's spelling of respect at the white house. the legendary singing said i'm sure the president had much on his agenda and just a little tired. spelling and giving it is a huge difference. the president and i are mutual when it comes to respect. >> toronto mayor rob ford is making news again. this time tweeting on saturday, daylight saving time starts this

evening, turn your clocks back. after the tweet got out, twitter was abuzz and it was later reflected to turn your clock forward. fring spring forward, fall back. liam neeson helps president obama send a message to vladimir putin. >> vladimir, we're going to speak to you in a language you can understand. ♪ >> that's right. >> that's right. and those are the things we

thought you should know today. developing now in the next few minutes, edward snowden is scheduled to appear live at the giant tech industry festival in austin festival at the south by southwest interactive festival video conference by moscow. he is expected to talk about technology, the community and how it can protect itself from mass surveillance. julian assange who published the revelations about the spying programs appeared at the festival by skype on saturday. new revelations are coming assange said. >> there's important upcoming material. i don't like to give time frames because it tends to give the opponents of that material too much notice how to prepare their spin lines. >> nbc's sara doll off joins us.

do we know if the questions were selected randomly? what do we know? >> reporter: well, it will start with one individual person questioning before it will opened up to the audience and that's what people are very excited about here today. the ability to question edward snowden in person. there are a lot of people who think he's a hero. other people think he is a traitor for leaking details of the government's spy programs last year. all of that is creating a lot of buzz and a lot of interest in his first live appearance, which happens today here at south by southwest interactive. it begins in just a few minutes. and he's going to touch on privacy in the technology industry. how the industry can protect itself and consumers from mass invasions of privacy. now, as you said, select audience members are going to be able to ask these questions and be moderated by the aclu.

they will also be asking questions there as well. it's meant to be interactive, a conversation bringing snowden in as far as they can due to exile in russia. this follows the teleconference you just heard from julian assange on saturday. there were technical problems during the conference and the audience participation was very limited. 2,000 people showed up to hear that. they are hoping the bugs are all worked out today and won't be any problems. snowden's lawyer discussing if his client's location is secure. obviously he's in russia, doesn't want people to know exactly where however. the lawyer says, this is something he's got to leave up to his client and trust him that he knows technology well enough that he can protect himself. this took quite a bit of time, months for organizers at south by southwest to get secured and get setup. they say all of that work was worth it. it is very important to them to

continue this healthy debate on technology on online privacy. >> snowden's appearance is the focus of today's gut check. you have one republican congressman of kansas, he wrote an open letter to the conference organizers on friday, calling snowden a traitor and demanding that they rescind their invitation for him to participate. so we're asking you, do you think south by southwest should have invited snowden to speak there? you can go to newsnation.msnbc.com to cast the vote. friday's gut check we posted that two consumer groups are asking girl scouts to end their partnership with barbie claiming the doll sexualizes young girls. a lot of you went online to talk about this. 44% say the girl scouts should break up with barbie. 56% of you say they should not. peggy says on facebook, i love playing barbies, as old as 12.

it's fun. a dree an, yes, she's done enough to the image of young girl. the fashion industry tv has more influence on the younger generation than any plastic doll. that does it for this edition of "news nation." i'm tamron hall. i will see you back here tomorrow morning, 11:00 a.m. eastern time. up next, "andrea mitchell reports" and jon huntsman on the latest in crimea and tensions continue to rise in the ukrainian peninsula. need help kr digestive balance in sync? try align. it's the number one ge recommended probiotic that helps maintain digestive balance. ♪ stay in the groove with align. so i deserve a small business credit card with amazing rewards. with the spark cash card from capital one, i get 2% cash back on every purchase, every day. i break my back around here.

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baffled. >> we just don't have any precedent for a 777 plane, any major airliner going missing for now three days without any sign of it whatsoever. today new questions about those two passengers traveling with stolen passports as family members of the 239 passengers and crew on board, including american phillip wood, are left to mourn with very few answers. >> not knowing what's going on is, you know, not just for us but you see everybody else and kind of in that panic and frustration. >> relentless, russia's president putin tightens his grip over crimea over the referendum to break away from ukraine. talks over the weekend with germany's angela merkel go nowhere with putin as tensions escalate on the ground and violent clashes.