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aka, pot sill vein ya caught my attention. >> thanks marijuana sales will bring you in $600 million. >> $600 million. folks, the market has spoken and the market is toking. >> it was exactly one week ago, exactly this hour that the mystery surrounding malaysian air flight 370 began. a little bit on the time line, 1:07 p.m. during this hour one week ago is when the transponders went off and we lost contact. the world has been in a state of confusion on where the plane is. we've been hanging on to every last detail. a couple of basics on the data sources we're trying to sort out the pieces of where this plane may have disappeared to. first of all, we have the actual

traditional communications mechanisms within the plane, the ways the pilots talk to the world. last words from the pilot, all right, good night. second, there's what's called the a kars system, the satellite link through which we get data on where the plane is and certain facts about the state of the plane, that shut down at that 1:07 mark. but it kept pinging according to the latest reports, without specific data for up to four to five hours. that fact has opened up a whole slew of possibilities about where this plane may have gone. we're going to turn to come costello of nbc news who has the latest on this. he's going to explain exactly what that five-hour window could have meant. we saw on radar, for instance, from the government of malaysia, they were tracking from the outside, that a craft, which could have been this flight, hit a sharp turn from its intended course towards the west. tom, do we have you there on the line? >> i'm here, ronan. >> thank you so much for joining

us here. you have been in trenches and covering this issue. tell us what the various data sources from within the plane mean. which are the most reliable? and when you look at that path that the plane appears to have taken, what do you make of that fact? do you see deliberate sabotage. >> the only real datapoint we have from the plane at 1:21 in the morning is a blinking signal, which essentially was like a ping, telling a satellite i'm here, i'm here, i'm here. it was only one ping an hour. it did not transmit information about location, speed, none of that. it was literally as if you had xm sirius radio in the car and never added the subscription. it is there and satellite is saying are you interested? and you don't respond. now, the malaysian authorities and now u.s. authorities have looked at this data on the map which suggests according to radar that the plane did take

that turn as you suggested, that sharp left bank. and headed out over the straight of malacca and up towards the sea and perhaps the indian ocean and bay of bengal, outside of india. the reason they are looking at that and that now has expanded the search zone because obviously somebody had to do that deliberately. because the military radar picked that up and that was the last known point, that expands the search zone rather dramatically. originally they were looking on the east coast of malaysia now this shifted to the west coast. they don't have a good feeling for where this plane might be. they are hoping they can try to tri ang late the pings off the satellite and doing very advanced arithmetic, because again this is not tracking your gps location, but rather one ping an hour can they get a sense on the arc of the

satellite. i would not take off the possibility, the list of possibilities that this still involves some sort of catastrophic event, that they tried to turn back and they were incapacitated. it has to be among the theories. >> what do you make of this reporting on the engine and internal components of the engine manufactured by rolls royce sending back some data to boeing and rolls royce. it's unclear who's receiving the data if any. the malaysian government did not actual -- the malaysian airline did not actually subscribe to the service that would have entitled them to that data? >> all of our reporting suggests that's not true, that the engines did not transmit anything back. we're talking strictly about the akars data, a system designed to feel telemet tri on the status of the aircraft and includes a variety of things, including engine performance and flight deck performance, et cetera.

there are several different levels that you can subscribe to as an airline of how much data you want fed back to you. a big airline like air france or united airline may pay at lot but a smaller airline would be getting less of that data, but we don't have any information suggesting that they were getting a stream of efrngine da. >> we did in fact reach out to both rolls royce and boeing and they informed us that this airline did opt out of this particular data sharing system. thank you so much for that update, nbc news' tom costello. >> we're going to turn to a couple of experts who have been reporting on this issue and have a lot of experience with both flights disappearing and the

process of difficult anguished searches for them. we have nbc news anchor lester holt. thank you for joining us. i'm a big fan and greg fife, ntsb investigator and michael lighter. i'll start with you, mike, this story has been a reminder of how precarious international travel security can be. what are the specific vulnerabilities that are revealed here? >> one thing i would stress, ronan, we don't know if any of those vulenerabilities led to the result that we have but clearly highlighted weaknesses in how lost and stolen passports are reported and the extent to which that information is really used in a dynamic way to keep people who we don't want on airplanes out. this is really strong in the u.s. post 9/11. and it gets progressively weaker as you move away from the united states and areas like malaysia,

this is still a real weakness. what we're also seeing is an inability to know where aircraft are and potentially being susceptible to actors on the plane keeping folks on the ground from knowing where those aircraft are in certain areas of the world. that's clearly a very significant security concern. >> do you see any policies on this front changing in the aftermath of this? >> regrettably, these sorts of issues that are really global can take significant time. i think on the screening of passengers globally, i would like to tell you this is going to be a quick fix, but if we're 13 years post 9/11 and one of the greatest aviation tragedies we've seen in the lifetime and haven't gotten the fix, i don't think there's going to be a huge push. but there may be some and the u.s. should lead that. on the tracking of aircraft, this is something that could be done. i'm a little more optimistic on that front. >> all right, thank you so much. i'm going to turn to my friends in the studio. greg, you've got experience with in type of search. we're dealing with apparently

now at last count, you saw how big the circle looks, a 35,000 square foot area that has could be combed through. is it possible that we never find this plane? >> you can never say never. but right now, with what we don't have, any kind of wreckage that would be on the surface, what you would expect, especially if the airplane that large went into the water, it would have been a catastrophic break-up, you would expect to see a lot of floats. we don't see it. the longer with we go, if the aircraft is in the water, it may spread out and we may never find the origin or bulk wreckage because it could spread out hundreds of miles. >> i'll get back to the specifics of the search with you. lester holt, you logged a lot of time in flight simulators. when you see that trajectory that radar picked up of a westward turn that was very sharp, some say very deliberate,

does it read like a deliberate turn? >> it looks like a deliberate turn, the question is whether the pilot did it or someone else? i fly flight simulators on my mack and change the heading in a matter of seconds. you dial it in the heading and sul you'll see the magnetic arc -- >> that is so nerdy and impressive. >> i can go major aviation geek on you. i'll spare you that. the point is in flight it doesn't take a lot to change direction of the aircraft. >> and it's a sharp turn like that. it could have been some sudden change in circumstances that triggered that? >> it could have been an intruder in the cockpit. i want to quickly turn to the trans ponder, the one thing we haven't talked about it. would have to be physically turned off. i'm having an emergency, squawk code and radar air traffic control will see it may be a

sick passenger, low oil on an engine, there's also a code for hijack that you could put in, that plane will bloom up on the radar and indicate that plane is being hijacked and another code for i've lost radio communications. i'm on radar but i can't talk to you. those are options a pilot would have in an emergency if they had time. >> and the all right good night from pilots suggests that not only did we not see codes from them but everything was all clear right up to that last shutoff of the transponder. >> it's routine as you travel at a given distance, you'll hand over to air traffic controller and talk to cleveland center and contact cleveland, and you'll say, good day, good night. just an acknowledgement. that's all that appeared to be. in light of that being the final conversation, we'll look at it more closely to see who was saying it. >> after this turn happened,

they were heading towards the andaman islands, is there any possibility they could have landed? >> greg and i were speaking with and michael as well. i think as a journalist, i say getting too far into this whole speculation thing. but we've got nothing after a week here. we crossed into far fetched land. everything is on the table, including that possibility. it's a big jet. what would you figure, greg, 7,000, 8,000 feet of runway? >> easily. >> assuming he's burned off his fuel -- >> that's not present on the andaman islands? >> no. one of the things that has searchers moving in the area, one of the four pings happens to be in a generalized area right over that island. so that's really what caused them to start to concentrate their search in that particular area. whether it pans out or it's another ping just like the last radar hit where the only reason there was no more radar hits on the military because that's

where the radar scan then failed as far as limitation was concerned. the airplane flew out of its radar range. >> military radar sounds fancy and sounds comprehensive but it's actually not. you got no data back. could be any craft moving through that space. >> correct. all it does is get a skin paint, a primary target. it says something is out there. we don't know what it is and it's not identified like the civilian radar interrogating the transponder. this is the track it's moving on and we'll have to do something to identify it. >> greg, when you see the sequence of shutdowns in this plane of reporting instruments, does that read as an inside job to you? would that have had to be a pilot or someone with that knowledge? >> based on my years of experience and working on silk air over in indonesia, when you start to see these things where you have multiple redundant systems and they start to fail, sequentially, you have to wonder, what's the commonalty? if it was a total electrical failure, then you'd expect to

see a different kind of action or reaction. now you have the transponders going down and akars system going down and this turn for no reason. if the pilot because they had an explosive depression, they have already programmed the track to go through kuala lumpur to beijing so the airplane would have continued to fly towards beijing. it would not have been programmed to make a left turn and come back. >> if you had an electrical failure, there's a backup, where you could still get generator power to run critical instruments. >> absolutely but you have to come down to a lower altitude. it powers air conditioning electrical, everything on the ground is functional in the air, but you have to be at the lower altitude. >> that further muddyes the water of exactly how far this could have gotten and how expanding this radius is. we've seen a broader and broader area being searched. a lot of questions and way less answers than we'd like. thank you as i said to lester

holt and greg and michael lighter in washington, d.c. appreciate you're weighing in. all right, stick around, later this hour, we're going to look at the science behind that search we just discussed with renoned author. look at this video right here in the united states. >> evacuating the plane, oh, my god. the plane is on fire. oh, my god. my plane just crashed. >> you're looking at dramatic moments in philadelphia where passengers had to evacuate a florida bound plane last night after the front tire blew and the plane bounced and skidded down the runway leaving terrified passengers running to escape the smoking plane. this cell phone video captured the dash down the emergency slides and out the window exits. it was carrying 149 people and

five crew members. a few hours later most of the passengers were put on another plane, all was well they headed to ft. lauderdale, but you would be forgiven for not wanting to get on a plane after today's show. now that we paid significant homage to stories about planes, we want to ask you what stories you think we should be covering more than this? you can chime in on this weeks underreported story? what's flying under the radar and what do you want to hear more about? tweet under the hash tag rfd under and e-mail them to our rfd team. we're going to pick our favorite one to cover and give you the credit right here on "rfd" next week. up next on "ronan farrow daily"", crimea in the cross hairs, u.s. and russia remain locked an at impasse as the crimea region nears a vcritical

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. we are back with breaking news. the national archives released another 4,000 pages of light reading from the clinton white house. it includes previously released records with al gore's campaign and ensuing recount in florida and first wave of papers provided insight into president clinton's failed health care overhaul plan and how advisers how to shape hillary clinton's public image as first lady,

including trying to book her on full house. a lot of people scrambled to make a lot of these documents but honestly clinton critics have not yet found the smoking gun they are searching for. we'll let you know if that changes. there's a lot developing in the international front today. russian troops are amassing on the border with ukraine, part of military training exercises and also sending a very clear, very aggressive signal. president obama said this morning he still hopes for a quote diplomatic solution and john kerry is in london pursuing exactly, that meeting with russian foreign minister lavrov. in two days crimea's people will vote on whether the region should join russia or remain a part of ukraine. pro-ukrainian protesters have taken to the streets today which has a heavy presence of russian troops. we go to ian williams in crimea's capital with the

latest. thanks for joining us. >> reporter: that meeting today in london between lavrov of secretary of state john kerr y went on for six hours. there was no break through and it looks as if russia is moving rapidly towards the annexation of crimea, something they'll formalize soon of sunday's referendum of the we could see sanctions from europe and the u.s. as early as next week. now, as you mentioned, there has been a buildup of russian troops on the ukrainian border. president putin said that they had no intention of invading ukraine but don't forget also he did say he had no intention of annexing crimea a week or two back. that is creating a lot of concern in europe and washington and of course here in ukraine.

so very tense weekend as we get close to that referendum, ronan. >> thank you so much. nbc news correspondent ian williams, we'll come back and this story is developing fast. coming up later in this hour, a guest i'm very excited about, also on the international front, former british prime minister gordon brown. what he's saying needs to be done about syria's children. you won't want to miss it. critics call it the most dangerous gun law in the country. one that could actually protect felons who kill using illegal guns. we're going to tell you where it's happening and what you can do about it. [ male announcer ] at northrop grumman,

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welcome back, we'll have more on the plane mystery straight up ahead but first i want to turn to a domestic story that is really really important.

last night president obama ordered immigration policy review for his entire administration, the move comes at a fever pitch and criticism of his deportation policies and the largest civil rights group called him the deporter in chief, a charge she repeated on this very show. you see her there. it also comes at a time when congress is gearing up for a showdown on immigration in general. house minority leader nancy pelosi is trying to force a house vote on the issue. maybe they'll let me out of my cage at 30 rock to go to the border again. another big issue unfolding south that could prove a bellweather for changing laws across the country. a georgia senate committee passed what the rifle association called the comprehensive pro-gun relegislation in history. one provision in the bill that's

not receiving a lot of attention but could have profound impact is an expansion of the state's stand your ground law. according to one interest campaigning against this legislation, mayors against illegal guns coalition, after georgia passed the current stand your ground law, the number of justify ibl homicides increased by 83%. the presence of more guns could ultimately drive violent crime down. the new expansion would make defense of yourself or others an absolute defense to any criminal gun charge, even if that gun was obtained illegally. the bill could pass next week when the 24 session will end. we're joined by collin goddard. colin himself was shot four times and critically wounded during the virginia tech massacre and uses that xperngs as an advocate to try to prevent gun violence. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me.

>> your organization accuses legislators of sneaking in this provision. that allows fell ones to get protection under stand your ground law. how did they manage to do that? >> a lot of talk has been had about the gun bill in georgia where people can carry guns seemingly everywhere in the state. there's one little line that's struck two letters an a number that has great impact. stand your ground currently exists, 22 states had it before trayvon martin's death. this would expand stand your ground to allow fell ons to use stand your ground defense and immunity and get away with murder after they shoot and kill somebody. it has been such a small change and no one who wrote the bill is talking about it. it's a national issue that must have attention before everything wraps next thursday. >> what does it say to you about georgia and this country that this kind of legislation would

pass? this is not i had toshy id yots cratic. >> it happens because it's done with striking two letters an a number. something that is not easy to get attention. it needs people to understand, read the coat to get involved and this is not something we want or that's been justified or explained. it's something we need to have a national conversation about. >> how should people do that? people impassed by this issue and they hear your story and the trauma you went through, what do they say? >> people need to know that now it's in front of the state senate and governor. those are the people that need to talk to and know, you're a georgian, you're aagainst felons using stand your ground to get away with murder. you need to tell leadership in both senate and governor to let

them know you're opposed to this dangerous gun bill. >> a lot of people are very moved by your story. this is an important issue, we'll keep track. >> thanks, ronan. >> we have a lot more coming up today. this is video of the actual malaysian plane that disappeared. it was landing in los angeles last october. up next, the science behind the search for that plane. malaysia flight 370. we have famed author and scientist joining us to unpack it all and our call to action this week on syria's children. my special guest is former prime minister gordon brown issuing his own call to action. don't go away. my hygienist told me that less tartar means less scraping. so i'm going pro. [ male announcer ] new crest tartar protection rinse. the only rinse that helps prevent tartar build-up and cavities. a little swishing. less scraping. yes! [ male announcer ] new crest pro-health tartar protection rinse. it helps you escape the scrape.

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search. this story is all about data. data, data, data, how much was recorded and how to get to it. when a plane goes down everybody talks about the black box, the bulk of the data out of the plane is on that black box. that is where the secrets to the plane's fate are held. the big problem with flight 370, you need to get your hands on it. that's the case with all planes right now. there's no way to send black box data in real time. that's simply because they just hold too much of it and we don't yet have the technology to assess it. to dig into that, i want to bring in professor of physics at the city of university of new york and author of the new book, the future of the mind. a noted futurist and has a lot to say about how technology should change to confront these kinds of challenges. dr. kaku, thanks so much for joining us. >> glads to be on the show. >> what design changes do you see in the coming decades and looking at crashes like this and the constant challenges in

finding data on the flights, do you think part of that will be overall black boxes? >> this exposed huge gaps in our design of the airplane. first of all, the pilot should not be able to accidentally or deliberately disengage the radio transponder. perhaps one person, deliberately or accidentally disengaged all communications systems with ground control. they have to be anned in way of doing it other than the pings we're picking up and the transponder and data reporter, we have to make sure because of data compression, new technology makes it possible to track these airplanes without having to go into the grave yard of the ocean trying to get this black box. that's ridiculous. we have to make sure we have adequate data compression and satellite communication. we have up to the minute information as to what's happening with the airplane rather than waiting for it to go in. >> first let's talk about these transponder systems, why aren't

planes designed with more fail safes and why aren't they designed to prevent unilateral action to turn these off? >> well, first of all, no one in their right mind would believe a pilot would deliberately disengage these systems -- >> now they believe it. >> or that i hijacker knows how to do it. now we have to redesign it so there's an independent way of assessing the position of the airplane. and then using better data compression technology, we have to make sure that the data, the key data of the data recorder is transmitted to the ground independent of the pilot. that is the weak link in the whole thing. >> what about black box data specifically? that is much more rich and detailed. to people who grew up in the modern computing era, that seems insane, even if its gigabytes, why not beam it down to the

ground? >> we're in the cyber age but we're still primitive in getting that type of information. the storage is data is huge. >> terabytes? >> terabytes. there are no microwave transmitters in the middle of the ocean. that's why flying saucers can quote disappear because there are no radar towers in the middle of the ocean. >> do you see advances in satellite technology working to prevent this type of disappearance? >> about compression technology and design of the airplane with more transmitters and better satellite communications, all of them can make for better flights so that we can rest confident that no one man can disable the entire airplane. >> thank you so much dr. kaku. be sure to pick up "the future of the mind." just ahead, a guess i cannot wait to interview, it's former

british prime minister gordon brown right here live in our studio for an "rfd" exclusive. he's chiming in on the plight of syria's children. jackie writes, thank you to your efforts to bring this to light. i'm praying for peace and for the children of syria. we'll be right back. so ally bank has a raise your rate cd that won't trap me in a rate. that's correct. cause i'm really nervous about getting trapped. why's that? uh, mark? go get help! i have my reasons. look, you don't have to feel trapped with our raise your rate cd. if our rate on this cd goes up, yours can too. oh that sounds nice. don't feel trapped with the ally raise your rate cd. ally bank. your money needs an ally. is really what makes it slike two deals in one.he $1,000 fuel reward card salesperson #2: actually, getting a great car with 42 highway miles per gallon makes it like two deals in one. salesperson #1: point is there's never been a better time to buy a jetta tdi clean diesel.

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who has an impassioned request from all of us, gordon brown and he of course is the former prime minister of the united kingdom. while others struggle to get food and medicine to victims of the conflict, he has a very specific conflict, don't forget about education. he argues violence in syria could create a lost generation, his quote, one that could ultimately could destabilize the region and maybe the world. to keep that from happening, he is championing an interesting proposal. seeking schools across lebanon to double up hours to accommodate that country's 435,000 school-aged syrian refugees. they need $195 million to pull this off and that will take commitments from countries around the world. it's an interesting challenge. joining me here to discuss it, gordon brown. thank you for taking the time. >> it's great you're focusing on something that the world is in danger of for getting. >> let's talk about that. the world is danger of for getting syria at large but

education in syria is forgotten in crisis situations and many find it counter intuitive when people are starving to death and being killed by violence. why education? >> of course you need food and shelter and vaccinations and health care. but most refugees and displaced people are displaced for more than ten years. there's a danger that any child displaced who becomes a refugee who is exiled will never be back at school. indeed some children will never have any schooling. the one thing we know from our experience of emergencies, is that what gives a child hope, it's hope that comes from education, the thought that you could prepare for the future, that you're planning for a job for livelihood later and some day you'll return to normal. education is critical. 150 years ago we set up the red cross and they provide medical help in emergencies. we still to get the same kind of service for children who are out of school so that in an

emergency, in conflict, when there is chaos, it is still possible for teachers and for children to continue their education and of course now that these children are in lebanon, a pilot experiment is trying to run a double shift system in the schools so every one of the refugees 435,000 in lebanon can get back to school quickly. >> that would apply to the population in lebanon which is large but only a fraction of the 2 million syrian refugees. >> and then jordan, which has got huge numbers of camps and i've talked to the turkish government about it as well. a number are in syria themselves and displaced from their homes and other parts of syria. if we can do this in lebanon, then we can do it in the rest of the region. if we can do it in this crisis, which is one of the worst, we can also do it in africa, south sudan and burma and pakistan, if

we can prove this happens here, then forever more we could have just like we have -- helping provide health in emergencies we could have education without borders providing schooling for children in emergencies. i think we can do this now but we need people to donate and we need governments to provide money and we need to support a very brave lebanese government, amidst all of the turmoil and tension making the resources available in its schools so this can happen. >> when you talk about expanding this precedent, it is so important in settings like this, the loss of hope can be as critical as the loss of food or loss of other means of survival. >> the kids that really have moved to me, why have you abandoned us? these are children displaced from their homes usually by bombs. i meltt a family where one of e

children was disabled lacking shelter. not only needed shelter, they wanted to get back to school. they are pleading with us to give them the chance so their childhood is not lost and the hope of getting an education disappears forever. >> you mentioned the strain on lebanon, you've said they simply cannot accept any more right now. what should the world do to support lebanon? >> they have a country with 5 million people. in a few day's time, the millionth refugee will join that country. 20 to 25% of the children in lebanon now are syrian refugees. they are overwhelming the whole system in lebanon, but the lebanese government -- one big settlement, all across about 1500 settlements and the schools can open for two shifts a day and time share if you like. you could have the syrian children being taught at one part of the day and the lebanese

children because they are being taught in different languages, it's a real problem, taught in a different part of the day. the cost of doing this, because we're using existing schools, it is only $400 per child per year. anybody who wants to gift this, they could educate a child in lebanon, a syrian refugee and do something to make a huge difference for $400. we have a website education for better that's been run by western union and anybody can donate to that. we can get kids to school. >> around the world we see this as a huge problem. one destabilized place where education is also at stake is ukraine. >> 57 million children around the world today. >> not just syria -- >> not just syria but half of the children are in conflict situations and zones and half of them are children in child labor or child trafficking or child marriage. and of course half of them include many, many girls who have been discriminated against and discrimination against girls is one of the main reasons why children are not at school

today. it's an absolute scandal. in 2014 when it's not costly and some countries only $100 a year that we got millions of children who for whatever reason are being denied this very basic right to have an education. >> one place where that's happening is of course ukraine which is now entrenched in the new destabilization. what do you think western leaders should be doing about ukraine right now? >> obviously this is a negotiation that is john kerry i think is leading the way in a very dignified and brave way. you see, what happened in syria was that, you know, three years ago almost every kid was at school and three years later most kids are not at school. if the ukraine or other situations around the world degenerate very quickly the kids become the innocent victims of a crisis. we need a general policy around the world that the united nations and about to meet the secretary general today that wherever there is a conflict, wherever there are difficulties

in the breakdown in the regime as it is in ukraine at the moment of course, you can continue to guarantee not just health care and shelter and food but continue to guarantee education. >> what should people do about vladimir putin? putin? >> the debate on to something that really -- it really now is matter of negotiation. what's happened is unacceptable. the western response has been concerted. it has to hold together, obviously, in the sanctions that are being put on. that pressure, i hope, will bring results. i am making it my business, as the u.n. special envoy, for education not to get involved in detailed noeshgations of this country. i -- negotiation was mr. putin on a number of occasions. but i'm not going to do that. what i'm going to do is concentrate on making world aware that something quite basic where it costs very little money to be done tomorrow as in lebanon. and these kids could actually be

at school. whether it is lebanon or whether it is ukraine or whether it is in south sudan which flared up a few weeks ago, i visited that area a few months ago, or pakistan which i'm about to visit, we could get these children to school quickly. it is shame and scandal in 2014 we are allowing so many children to be denied education. >> it is an angle that most people are not look at right now. woe reply so. >> thank you for doing it. good to see you. thank you to everyone. thank you to not only prime minister brown but also all of the individuals at home who participated in this week's call to action. many of you have faded out your facebook and twitter "avatar"s and sent us moving testimonials about your links to this crisis. you have done and it saw what it leads you to. there is a petition on change.org asking world leadersers to help stop the

violence in syria. that's an excellent next step for this. we should make the appeal, keep going after this week and after this anniversary. so far over 50,000 of have you signed on that that. from will you can take this in a specific direction, education, the highlight of the day. we will be right back. ♪ geico motorcycle. see how much you could save. can you start tomorrow? yes sir. alright. let's share the news tomorrow. today we failrly busy. tomorrow we're booked solid.

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>> we have all that and more. we begin this friday with a question that's consumed the world for almost a week. where is flight 370? it is almost seven days since the plane went missing. aircraft from the u.s. and elsewhere now searching the southern portion of the bay of bengal near india. thousands of miles from where the plane originally was thought to be. this comes after officials in the u.s. and malaysia reportedly determined that the jet was ping satellite for up to four hours after it last contacted civilian control. nbc's tom costello has been following the story for us. what's the latest we know or don't know about this plane? >> i think that it is what we don't know. what we know was that it was getting off this ping signal. it was not transmitting data like its location, speed and anything like that. really just saying hear i am and