paddy's edition of "ronan farrow daily." we'll do a little flight simulating of our own with a flight geek plus, veteran u.s. diplomat looks at the diplomacy hot spots this investigation could trigger. first off it's our headlines. >> more than ten days since flight 370 disappeared, the last satellite signal received from the plane somewhere along these two arcs. >> i would bet money against them ever finding the plane at this point. >> an enormous victory for vladimir putin. >> his objective is to recreate the soviet union. >> we'll stand firm in our unwavering support for ukraine. >> more problems -- >> earthquake, we're having an earthquake. >> scientists labeled it a 4.7 magnitude quake at first but it's been downgraded to a 4.4. rand paul won his second consecutive straw poll.

chris christie came in second with 13%. >> you weren't partying last night? >> give me a break, guys. [ bleep ]. >> were you drinking last night? you never drink, right? >> all right, today is day ten of the search for malaysian air flight 370. with a new announcement from the country's prime minister that the disappearance looks like, quote, deliberate action by someone on the plane, this has now become a criminal investigation. over the weekend, malaysian authorities searched the homes of the pilot and co-pilot of that flight and they removed an elaborate flight simulator the pilot had installed in his home they are zeroing in on anyone on the plane with aviation experience, someone who had the knowledge to for instance, quickly turn off the

transponders and move that jet in a new direction that we're all now familiar with to avoid detecti detection. someone who had the knowhow to make sure they disappeared before being detected. this was an elaborate operation. anxious family members and overseas staff from the airline and government officials in malaysia all await answers. take a listen. >> my gut feeling is they are still alive. i've had that feeling the whole way through. i don't believe that the plane has been crashed. i haven't ever believed the plane has been crashed. >> let's unpack exactly where we are now. to start out we'll get the latest from kerry sanders tracking this story. thank you so much for joining us. >> let's look at what going on right now. i'll put up a map right here. as we look at the map, the australian military is moving aircraft and naval vessels over towards their western coast.

that puts it off the coast and down into the indian ocean where there are concentrating their efforts to see if they can find any evidence of the plane. meantime, at the same effort, to the north, we have a more complicated political situation because of air space rights over land, but there we have about 15 countries kazakhstan, afghanistan, bhutan, all of the countries in there, where it's possible that the plane may have gone down. so there's an effort there to try to do search. ronan, i've been into some of those countries, afghanistan, bhutan, in and around there. it's hard for me to believe that there would be an obvious place for a plane to land that would go unnoticed, but by the same token there are incredibly remote areas there. so while they are working on the assumption that the plane has been taken deliberately and either crashed or landed

somewhere, it just seems at this point a little hard to believe that it somehow slipped into one of those countries without being noticed. >> kerry, officials are describing this as a criminal investigation. what do you think triggered that change? >> a lot has to do with the communication systems on the airplane. okay, i'm going to take you through this. there are two communication systems, one is a little button that puts out what's called a transponder and it flashes that. when you see pictures of a radar sweep going inside an air traffic controller and there's a little dot. that i dent tells them what the plane is. otherwise it's just a dot. the other is a more complicated system called acars, it's not designed for air traffic control at all. it is sending out a signal automatically, passively, back to a computer so that it says, here's what our fuel burn is and here's how the engines are running. let me take you through the timetable. at 1:07, acars that sends out

the burst of data and tells about the engines and stuff. that goes out at 1:07. at 1:19, we know from malaysian authorities it was the co-pilot who said, all right, good night. saying good-bye to the air traffic controllers in malaysia and getting ready to transfer over to the air traffic controllers in vietnam. then at 1:21, that little i dent transponder, somebody turned it off. then at 1:37, they are supposed to be another burst of data from acars. that burst go but there's no data. authorities put this together and looks like human intervention, not an aircraft falling apart in the air. >> thank you very much, kerry sanders. we want to dig down more into this question of whether this was deliberate and if so, who was responsible. to join me to do exactly that is nbc news veteran anchor, lester

holt, also a self-confessed plane geek and someone who extensively covered our airline disasters over the years. they've taken it flight simulator out of the home of the pilot and poring over it for details. what do you think they might be able to learn? >> he was a flight simulator enthusiast, when i found a little odd. i'm a flight simulator enthusiast but that's because i'm a frustrated pilot. he's a professional pilot with 20,000 hours, thought it was strange he would enjoy doing this. he spent a lot of money and created a lot of monitors. >> took it a step farther -- >> i brought my setup here we can walk across the studio. this is basically what i'm running is on a mac, a program called x plane and this happens to be 777, malaysian 777. >> video games, favorite part of the show. >> it used to be like video games but they have become increasingly complicated. >> you can see with a level of

detail -- >> i'll get us in the air rather than taking the time to take off. we're -- let's just -- >> how unusual would it be for actual pilots to fool around in a piece of software like this. >> i think it's a little odd if you're flying the real think. i can bank and do that stuff. here's the real key. you're not going to learn how to fly flying one of these but you can learn the systems. the autopilot. if you're flying as this plane was likely on autopilot, if you want to steer the airplane, you don't have to get in, you simply start moving this heading knob and in ffs on autopilot, it would bank in whatever direction and it wouldn't be sharp. it would feel like a normal bank. we talk about the -- get over here, we talk about the transponder. that's going to be all the way down here. turning off is no big deal. >> the first system to turn off

is the acars system. >> that's not something they would typically turn off. my understand that involves pulling circuit breakers which are on the roof of the airplane. you would have to know what you're looking for. that's not something a pilot would typically deal with. >> this model of plane is relatively new. >> 777 came out in 95. a flew on the inaugural commercial flight on united airlines, they were the first customer. they updated, there's a 300 model and 300 e.r. the planes are heavily electric right now. the circuit breakers are key but the transponder is interesting. you asked about what they would find on his -- let me get us back down here, what they would find on his computer? >> this is the flight management computer on a real airplane. what it looks like and this is the way you program your waypoints, how you're going to fly and the autopilot is going to fly. if an investigator took my computer, what lester has been doing on the flight simulator.

>> this is everybody's worst night mare. >> searching your internet history for flights. >> in this case we're going to look at roots. gone route requests, he's been flying between san francisco and san diego. >> and runway 25. >> wen to the ventura departure. i've been doing that. if -- >> how detailed would the record be on a flight simulator like this, destinations but would you see speed and altitude? >> you might. you would see flight plan. for example, if he assuming the pilot was involved, if he programmed this turn at that key point during the handoff between malaysia and vietnam, perhaps he practiced it. i would think they are also looking at other computers, was he looking at anything about radar coverage in these countries as you head west towards the indian ocean. it may be a combination of what's going on in the simulator as well as what he was searching in his personal computer history. >> right. what do you make of the communications out of this

cockpit? you know a lot about signaling and correct standards used. apparently it was all right, good night. there have been some reports that would have been roger and out. >> if you listen to air traffic control radio, you fly from new york to chicago, you'll be talking to new york controllers at some point they'll hand you off to cleveland center. the way it will go, the new york controller will say, malaysia 123 contact cleveland at 126.5 and usually something like good day or have a great day or thanks, be well. >> when you get into the zone talking about this stuff, lester. >> that was not unusual. what's unusual is that this is said, the point between malaysia and vietnam, which is not a no man's land but a handoff point and these things are disabled around the same time. >> explain the significance of that. they carefully chose a spot between air spaces, right to bring this all down. >> there's a handoff point where you're going out of malaysian coverage or going into vietnam's coverage. and typically the controllers

know to expect the plane. but it's not like they've been watching the the whole way in vietnam. they are expecting to sign within the next couple of minutes and don't become concerned until i don't see that airplane anymore, it hasn't checked in with me. it was around that point the acars gets pulled and the transponder and turn. it sounds like something quite well planned out. the idea that someone walks in the cockpit and does all of this methodically takes a leap of imagination, which is why experts are keeping a focus on the crew. they would know the proper circuit breakers to do this and make the handoff. the question is one, two, how the other person was disabled? were they in the restroom at this point? remember the cockpit door is locked. i think on u.s. carriers, generally when there's one pilot leaves the flight deck, they bring a flight attendant in to have another person in there in case one of them -- the other pilot becomes incapacitated and

need to get the door open -- >> we don't know who the message came from? could it have been an impersonator? >> it sounds like the captain but it was a routine -- it was a routine message. that's where it gets very confusing. they have used simulators and they are using the real thing to fly this route now and try to figure out where it might have gone and how far it could travel. >> i love this. daunted by it. but i'll play -- >> i'll let you play. >> happy to do it. >> that was nbc news' lester holt, giving us the skinny on how to fly a plane. coming up, we look at the international pressure mounting on malaysia to find that missing jet. >> the number of countries involved in the search and rescue operation has increased to 26. >> we are going to tape a look at the 26 nations who have joined the global search and the tensions that that search may trigger.

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it would be impossible for malaysia to cover that massive search area that you see there on its own. if stretches from india all the way to australia. malaysia has reached out to 25 other countries for help but there are a lot of questions about how much information is being shared between malaysia and other countries. joining me here to unpack this in the studio is don barelli and from tampa, ambassador chris hill, former veteran ambassador to poland, for instance and former assistant secretary of state for east asian and pacific affairs. i'll get to you in a moment ambassador. malaysian authorities revealed there's a host of american agencies in their country and we heard rumblings about tensions between the two. how imperative is this is that there be smooth cooperation? >> cooperation is key, it spans so much countries and has so

many possibilities of what happened and what was the motive behind it. it's been called a deliberate act and criminal investigation. so in my experience the key to solving these criminal investigations are information sharing and good cooperation among the countries involved. >> how adept at that do you think malaysia specifically is? they've come under a lot of fire and a lot of people say they were asleep at the wheel. what do you think? >> the fbi enjoys a good reputation with the royal malaysian police. my understanding is that the fbi has had investigators on the ground early on, interpol has been there. how much of that information is being shared? i don't know. but in general there has been good cooperation in the past. i've been to kuala lumpur and met with the malaysian police and they've been helpful to the fbi. >> an insider saying this is actually a good working relationship. ambassador hill, i want to turn to the diplomatic side of this. a lot of u.s. agencies pouring

into malaysia. what is your take on the relationship with malaysia and international front with the agencies in play. what are the hot spots you think can arise? >> i think certainly any country, malaysia, included, would feel a little overwhelmed by truly what is one of the most mysterious aircraft incidents in decades. we have to understand, this is not easy for malaiysianmalaysia. the united states has a good relationship with malaysia. a lot of countries have a good relationship with malaysia. it's one of the members of the association of southeast asian nations and the economy is pretty successful, open economy. it's hard issues with china in the past to be sure. malaysia has a substantial chinese minority and there's always issues within malaysia about the relations among these ethnic groups but i would say in a situation like this, they try to have a good relationship.

nonetheless, i think they are feeling a little overwhelmed. they are certainly being overwhelmed by offers of help. they probably need more help. and i think the pressure is probably getting to them as it would in many countries. >> what more do you think the united states should be doing and are there any tension points they should be watching out for in this relationship? >> this includes our embassy in kuala lumpur, we have specialized agencies who have contacts within the malaysian government. i think it's very important now to dip into the reservoir of good will that we have gained over the years through these contacts and try to be helpful. the issue that we have to be sometimes careful about is we're very big and we come in and we start being very kind of demanding and understandably in these circumstances. so i think we need to kind of draw on those good relations over the years and try to bring more actors into this because it's clearly an issue that goes beyond malaysia's government's ability to analyze much less

resolve. so i think we're going to need more specialized agencies in there. it behooves to work carefully with the malaysians and i'm sure our ambassador has his hands full right now. >> i'll put the last question to don in the studio. do you think the united states on the law enforcement side can play a long term capacity building role and do you think there will be more attempts to do that? >> i think there will be. right now the dust needs to settle and we need to figure out exactly what happened and dissect the event. long term, they'll be studying this event and looking the what could have been done differently for example, training crisis management, capacity building, sure. you always try to take a situation like this and learn from your mistakes, god forbid if it happens again, you'll do it better the second time. >> thank you so much. former special agent don boreli,

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hello, welcome back to rf daily. today as the standoff over ukraine intensifies, president obama announced a new round of sanctions against high ranking russian officials. the president's executive order will be applied by the treasury department. >> we are imposing sanctions on specific individuals responsible for undermining sovereignty, and

making it clear there are consequences for their actions. >> oh, he mad, not quite mad as john mccain as arizona who just told andrea mitchell the hour before mine that the u.s. military needs to get involved. >> they need capabilities with which to fight -- in other words, you could give them anti-air equipment and anti-tank and help up their training. one of the things i would do, send our military to kiev and find out how we can best assist them. >> president's announcement comes as russian president vladimir putin tightens his grip on the region in controversial referendum, 90% of crimeans voted. russian troops took control of af gas facility outside of crimea. it has many people wondering if crimea is a first step in putin's process here over the

weekend the delegation of eight u.s. senators traveled to kiev. yesterday mccain characterized russia as a "gas station mass quer raiding as a country." nicolle wallace, former communications director for president george w. bush and senior adviser to the mccain/palin campaign. and mark halperin, analyst and author of "double down" and "game change". >> i'll start with you, nicole. let's go to mccain and the statements. how realistic do you think the plan of more military support to this opposition will be? >> he placed that in a broader context in an op-ed as he framed this as a choice for a great nation, ours, in dealing with a

gas station run by essentially thugs. i think the larger context of offering military reinforcement and support is to put ukraine on the offense. right now they are quite obviously on the defensive against russia and against putin specifically, who is obviously seeking to capture the glory and restructure the old soviet union. mccain's point in the sound bite is part of a broader strategy for bolstering ukraine and other countries in the region. >> do you see this as anni existent shal dilemma, mccain is not in a fringe position, saying that if president obama is showing a lack of leadership and for democrats this flies in the face of a longer term effort to have a smaller footprint and not do this military -- >> i can't believe i'm citing "new york times" twice in one interview, avery interesting story on the front page today,

this is the fallout from the lighter footprint that obama won on twice. there are people attracted to the idea of a lighter footprint but this is what it looks like. if you look forward, the next presidential contest will perhaps include a more robust debate about world view and about the -- some of the cost to american -- to america's ability to lead if we have such a small footprint. republicans will call it leading from behind. but we'll stick to small footprint for the sake of our appearance together. >> that was very diplomatic. >> i brought my best diplomatic skills today. >> let's talk about the validity of the smaller footprint bans, travel bans, sanctions? >> i think anything that president obama can announce that has the support of germany and britain and france is

important. if the co-is a lialition starts, i think the president is in a much weaker position. i don't think anybody thinks the steps will have a short term impact. the united states has to hope for a break through. i think secretary kerry is continuing to work that channel to hope for a breakthrough. containing what putin might do. the minute his troops or his efforts go beyond crimea, it's a much different and dicier proposition at which point the president has to consider a series of options. he'll be criticized from the right for that. it's the best thing right now to try to see where putin goes. the president has to assume -- has to assume because he has no other choice, that time is on his side and putin will be worn down. if we see turmoil in the russian markets, that may overtime have an impact and give putin a face saving way out. there aren't a lot of options. he's pursuing the best one, keepth coalition together. >> there are mebsz of the coalition that are for tougher

sanctions than those imposed. for republicans this is an extremely unappealing position for the united states of america. >> how would you strengthen these sanctions? >> look at the list -- vladimir putin wasn't on the list, neither were his most senior deputies or who run the natural resource companies, the only way to do anything. sanctions is an idea that's attractive because of its effect in iran. the only way to have sanctions hurt a country like russia is to sanction the people who are actually going to feel something. >> there are two realities that the president is dealing with. one is that we need russia. the united states needs russia on a range of things. that puts a limit on sanctions. the other is their military superiority in the region. senator mccain could be for military army, advisers, et cetera if putin decides he wants to use his military in other areas of ukraine, it's going to be a real difficult situation that cannot -- there's no option on the table --

>> really costly for us to do this. >> there's no option to go to war on a ground war against the russians in ukraine. it's not an option. >> it's interesting in light of that there's been a lot of saber rattling over europe, they are the ones that stand to lose the most here. i want to turn from presidential leadership to leadership on the hill. congress went to recess without passing anything on this. what kind of signal do you think that sends? >> i think that we have senator mccain and few others who are going to be critics. i'm a broken record but the most important thing for the president domestically is to brief congress constantly and not allow them to go out and guess what the administration is doing and not question the rationale for what's being done. senate is in recess this week. that makes the playing field easier. but even for the recess they should be reaching out. >> love having you two here. thank you. >> thank you. >> we got a fist bump. i'm so glad we got that on camera. >> bipartisanship, folks. up next, we are asking you for

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welcome back, everybody. this year marks the 50th anniversary of president johnson's war on poverty. this is a really important issue right now. homelessness in america is an epidemic taen in big cities especially it is on the rise. according to the department of housing and urban development, there are over 600,000, that is five zeros, homeless people, on any given night right now across america. a number of factors contribute to that, the rise of income inequality, lack of affordable

housing and langishing unemployment numbers we see everywhere and in new york city we have the highest homeless population with over 64,000 homeless. to put this into context. the number of homeless new yorkers would not only fill every seat in yankees stadium but thousands more would be left outside to stand. according to a new report, over the past year the number of homeless people sleeping every night in new york city shelters was at 53,000 people, 53,000. the highest level ever recorded. the average shelter stay for a homeless family with children is 14.5 months, the longest ever reported. jerry jones is the executive director for the national coalition for the homeless, author of that report. jerry, thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me on. >> jerry, tell me -- give me an overview. how severe is this homelessness rise and what is the trajectory for the numbers?

>> for family homelessness as you describe in new york, it's off the charts, not just in new york and larger cities. in washington, d.c. family homelessness doubled over the last five years, homelessness in general is rising in places like los angeles. so we have a legitimate crisis on our hands. and it's getting worse for folks especially people who are in places where rents are rising. and there's just no affordable housing subsidy available to them. >> how are young people particularly vulnerable to this? this is a big part of the problem, underage people and homelessness rates. >> it is the most heartbreaking part and a lot of americans don't realize there are tens and thousands of homeless young people unaccompanied kids who are on the streets of this country. and there are very few shelter beds available for them. that part of the federal response is especially underfunded. there's only 4,000 emergency

shelter beds for homeless youth, which means in most cities, the number of available beds is here in washington, d.c. is five. and yet there are thousands of kids on the streets. >> i think it's really important to remember for everyone at home, this is a problem not just for advocacy groups like yours, jerry but for all of us. in every community this is a destabilizing influence and something you see evidence of everywhere and something that people i talk to want to wrap their hands around and do something about. tell us what people can do. and i want to flag that issue of what a big life saver it is having emergency shelter beds? can you talk about how people can take action on that? >> well, so, based on statistics from the federal agency you mentioned, hud, one third of all homeless people in this country are unsheltered. a lot of folks are living out of doors without housing. i think the other thing to bear in mind, homeless folks are not

a defined group. they are low income people who are falling into and out of homelessness. and this as you said is a problem that affects a large number of people. what your viewers can do, in your local city, call down to city hall and ask, how many emergency shelter beds do we have for young people who are homeless and on the streets? your viewers will be shocked to hear the number. it's grossly inadequate. and then they should ask why. they should push their elected officials and find out what they can do in their own communities to increase the resources for shelter beds. >> thank you so much, jerry jones of the national coalition of the homeless. we appreciate that overview from you. >> thank you. >> now we want to go onto the call to action that jerry just highlighted. this is a big issue. it is increasingly politically hot and politicians talk about poverty and homelessness and get burned by it. people love them, hate them, searching for leadership. we want to turn to you to help report out this story and give more of a sense of what the problem is on a local level.

so go ahead and call your local city hall right now and ask how many emergency shelter beds are available where you live. let us know what you find. you can tweet your responses at ronan farrow daily or let us know on facebook. we're going to be tracking different angles on this and highlighting different cities and their dilemmas through the week. thank you for that. up next on "ronan farrow daily." we're going to turn to a lighter topic. three major beer sponsors of the st. patrick's day parade pulled out in protest. why are beer makers taking sides in culture wars? do not go away. predicting the future is a pretty difficult thing to do. but, manufacturing in the united states means advanced technology. we learned that technology allows us to be craft oriented.

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happy st. paddy's day. i'm wearing green. organizers are banning marchers from carrying signs that have anything gay on them. boo-hiss. politicians have been opting out and the beer lob write responsible, guinness, sam adams, heare withdrawing sponsorship. hello. is there such a thing as a non-gay parade? >> month. parades by their definition, you get a lot of people together, instruments, funny outfits. >> what's the deal here? >> i don't know. i honestly don't understand the objection. i never have understood the objection that the irish organizers have against the gays. the gay. >> the gays. actually, i was -- the search for your name. schwartz.

not really irish. typing in your heritage. got his heritage is lesbian which is a new one. that's actually the case. this is a personal issue for you. >> well, yes. gay issues are personal to me because i was brought up in a lesbian household. i have always been keenly aware of issues in the gay community. this, as i'm sure you know, the irish parade thing going back for years and years and years. it seems like finally kind of cultural tide turned. now have you the beer companies and the mayors who are withdrawing their responsible shoreship of the event. i think it is good. i am glad people are taking to be what i consider to be the right side of the issue. >> it is -- parade side of the issue is light hearted. civil rights issues are real. it is also a first amendment issue. >> i think that -- the first

amendment issue cuts both ways. clearly, whatever gay organizations will are, had want to be able to express themselves and be able to march in a parade and express by the heritage and also am sympathetic to any organization that feels like it is an -- we have the right to ex-you had clued who we want. i take issue with the fact they are using public facilities and using the resources of police and fire and sanitation and everything else and, therefore, seems to be the city should have a say, whatever city it is, and -- >> politicians are backing out with an exception actually. rob ford was out in force. >> you can't. >> fine irishman. actually you think we have some sound of mr. rob ford looking -- >> a class act. >> let's listen to rob ford on this subject. being accused of grunge, he had a response to that. >> you never drink, right? yeah, that's a question. >> straight as an arrow.

your irish accent is a lot better than mine. >> you said have you an irish passport. >> i do. how un-american. the fight for civil vits very american. thank you for joining us thanks so much. >> appreciate it. best to your family. that wraps things up for today's edition of "ronan farrow daily." now it is time for "the reid report." >> i thought about you because just in case you didn't wear green today, i got your button right here so month one can pinch you. >> i will be wearing that right after your show. >> sounds like a plan. thanks, man. all right. coming up next on "the reid report," some huge companies boycotting the biggest st. patrick's day parade over banff openly gay marchers. we are marching into the controversy. still more questions than answers about the missing malaysian airline plane. we are trying to get to the

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>> we will bring you that bizarre story as well as president obama's comments today on the crisis in ukraine. we begin with malaysian flight 370. missing for more an week now. questions growing. not only about its whereabouts about how the malaysian government has handled the investigation. here is what we know now. based on satellite data from the last-known contact with the plane, malaysian authorities believe once the plane veered off course in the early hours of may 8, it eventually went into one of two directions. either north in the direction of anywhere between central asia and northern thailand, or south in the direction of anywhere between indonesia and the indian ocean. the american destroyer usss kid helping patrol the ocean in search of the plane in all 26 countries are helping. however, with radar coverage much heavier in the northern search area and with no countries reporting data that could be missing flight