>> 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 370 many experts believe the plane went in the direction of the indian ocean. final words from flight 370, all right, good night, officials believe they were spoken by the co-pilot. however, there is some confusion when they were spoken. reports initially suggested they were made after communication system that records and transmit it is plane's performance was turned off. however, as with many things involving the story, that is no longer clear. malaysian authorities conducted a certain much of the home of the plane's pilot confiscating the flight simulator to see if there is anything to be learned from the contents. every member of the crew and every passenger that boarded that flight all under investigation. officials struggle for leads. on saturday malaysia's prime minister held a press conference to discuss the possibility after hijacking. >> authorities refocused their investigation into the crew and passengers onboard.

despite media reports that the plane was hijacked. i wish to be very clear we are still investigating all possibilities as to what caused flight 370 to deviate from its original flight plan. >> robert haguer is an nbc news contributor and former aviation correspondent. ev si a security expert and former special agent of the secret service and both join me here at the table. bob, i want to start with you. this is just yet another frustrating development in this case. we find out it is last words probably from the co-pilot, all right, good night, nothing seems to be wrong and then we heard that this actually occurred after the sort of avionics equipment had been turned off that helps you located plane. now we are not sure if it is before or before. how is it possible we can't tell? >> the transponder has two communication systems.

it is an inert system that sends out a signal but only sends it outivery so often. the transponder, you can tell immediately when that one is off. that gets turned off after they heard the voice transmission from the pilot. the first one, the last reception they have is before he iters these last words to the good night to the controller and as he's changing control areas. we don't know how long that play gone on running because it is not scheduled to send out its next one until after he said those words. you can't say for sure that it was turned off, you know after that first system had been disabled. >> evaluate for us this investigation so far. first of all, how do you investigate 230 people, including the pilot, co-pilot, the entire crew, everyone on the plane? how would you rate the investigation as it has gone so far? >> okay. as of so far, that first week was not very good.

evaluating 239 people should have been done, or started day one. do you all these things in zwrae tangent. you poll the two leads with the would individuals with the pass ports. check. that's the other area. at the same time, you want to look at the two individuals, the pilot and the co-pilot, and evaluate all the rest of the passengers. that should have been done from the beginning. as far as evaluating the people, this is a tremendous says thing because you are talking about different people from different countries. for example i think in china we had about 139 passengers on the plane. that is going to the chinese government, going to the difficult governments, and asking them could you let us look into your databases? could you let us interview and interrogate the families or people to do whatever we immediate to do. this is expensive. in addition to that, they are checking databases, criminal checks. just because somebody clears a

criminal history check or just because somebody is not on a terrorist watch list does not mean that they are in the clear. just because we do that and i hear people talking, well, they cleared that, that's irrelevant. what if they had nothing on their record before that? >> what are you looking for? if you are going and evaluating pilots -- going into the home and looking at a flight simulator, what are you looking for? >> with regard to the flight simulator, again, that should have been done day one. you want to confiscate ander is tch area and take the flight simulator and take any electronic equipment and anything that has a hard drive that could be a print are, photocopier, computer device, simulator, take those and have to be very careful in the way you take those and can't just turn them on and off, grab the wires and go. there is a forensic process you have to follow. you copy mirror image of the hard drive and that's what investigators and analysts look at and you look at data information. did the pail on the crack the certain, you know, routes that would lead us to believe that something is going on? that's the forensic side of the

house. as far as the analysis. looking at the pilot and co-pilot as individuals, you want to do a mental assessment. any mental history, any mental illness, are they seeing any therapists, medications. is emotional situation. any life change organize stressors going on in their lives? divorce? being passed up on a promotion or raise. want to check those angles as well. >> all of that that you heard evy talk about are being done by the malaysian government. what in your evaluation is -- rate their scale of a, cooperation with other countries -- this is a multicountry now search. but the malaysian government is the driver. how confident should we be on the information we are getting from the malaysian government and that they are fully cooperating -- >> we sure didn't get much at the beginning and i think they feel under pressure now because the chinese went after them and -- formal pressure from the press and everybody else, they

have been better with information now than previously. you know, on the following up on the examination of the people, the egypt air pilot who took the plane -- in late ni1990s, early 1990s, you could tell hay took it in. then they go back into his personal life. just nothing there to indicate that this guy had problems and so forth. it is a really tough job is what i'm saying. >> with the speculation now which the government is trying to knock down about potential hijacking i think what's maddening to some people if there is a hijacking there is supposed to be a demand. there has been no communication there would suggest any person thinking they are benefitting from something like this. isn't that the problem with that theory? >> that is correct. usually when we have a type of hijacking or situation or terrorism somebody comes out and lay claim and raise their hand,

hey, it is us and this is what we want. we don't have that here. you can take it from different angles that's not involvement. you don't have any outside parties in that regard. however, you could take the angle that this is no their entire plan, that maybe perhaps there is more to come and so they are being strategic and thoughtful in what they are doing and not saying anything. i want to point out one thing with what bob said which very good. how do we know -- sometimes you do a background check on people and will is nothing there. one of the key things to finding out if somebody is a threat the communication ask behavior. subtleties and little things family members would do. shift in their behavior, you know, what it would be better if i wasn't around. something as small a as that. those are the key indicators, behaviors, what they communicate. when we have a suicide, terrorist link, you see something in there. it is usually the people in the immediate surroundings. that's why it is so important with the malaysians should have done is interviewed those family members of the passengers right

from the beginning. >> all right. evy and bob, thank you for being here. >> thank you. now for an update on the american response to the crisis in ukraine. president obama outlined four new measures the administration is taking in response to the crimea's referendum to join russia. 97% of the citizens voted to leave ukraine and join russia -- the russian federation. an election rife with charges of fraud and amid the continued presence of russian troops. the measures the president announced today include sanctions against seven people close to russian president putin. as well as the targeting of the russian economy. >> we will continue to make clear to russia that for -- further provocations will receive nothing but further isolate russia and diminish its place in the world. the international community will continue to stand together and to oppose any violations of the ukrainian sovereignty and continued russian military intervention in ukraine will only deepen russia's diplomatic

isolation and exact a greater toll on the russian economy. >> president obama also said he will fly to your open next week and meet with leaders there. the vice president bidensen expected to head there this week. from a divided ukraine to the controversy hanging over the world's biggest st. patrick's day parade. the mayors of new york and boston are out. so are a bunch of beer makers. it is all over a ban on openly gay marchers. will the boycott lead to change? later, last call for health care. time is almost up for americans to beat the coverage deadline. we will take you to texas where people need it most are being helped the least by the republicans in charge.

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represented in green. everybody is irish on st. patrick's day, right? street paddy's day organizers in new york and boston have apparently not gotten that memo. right now, new york city's annual parade is marching through the city as thousands of participants didn't on snund boston. notably absent, new york mayor bill de blasio and martin walsh. both mayors and new york city council sitting out in solidarity with lgbt groups who are not allowed to march if they openly identify themselves. the allied war veterans council and in new york, the ancient order of hibernians. a group founded incidentally as the daily beast's michael matthew points out to fight discrimination under the motto friendship, unity and christian charity. christian charity indeed. now who might catholics look to for guidance in this matter? oh, yes, the pope. what's he said about gays

recently? who am i to judge? these groups won the right to exclude any group they want in a 1995 supreme court decision. as with the deblas wroe and walsh boycotts and major sponsors like guinness, heineken and sam adams pulling their sponsorships, have we reached a turning point? here to exam thain question is sarah kate ellis. so, sarah kate, what do you make of the religious argument that was part of that 1995 supreme court decision which essentially says that these are private organizations and they can exclude gay and lesbian marchers on the basis of the same thing as saying the naacp doesn't have to admit white supremacists, with a do you think of that argument? >> i think -- hi. happy st. patrick's day. >> same to you. >> i wanted to start with saying that i believe that this is more of a human rights issue than it is a religious issue or political issue. it is about letting families and youth march in the st. patrick's day parade.

and be openly out and gay. you know, it is just -- in my opinion, it is don't ask, don't tell down 5th avenue. it is a dangerous message to send to the lgbt community, especially our youth. >> i understand what you are saying. what do you make of the fact that this does actually have the -- of a supreme courtition? this is, as you said -- this is legally sanctioned by the court. how does that affect your ability to advocate on the matter of trying to get lgbt families included? >> well, i think what our approach has been to work with the big companies, whose morals and core values are about inclusive -- including people, all kinds of people, lgbt people also, and i think that they feel that this is a bad reflection on them and their brand and don't want to be a part of that. that's a different approach as opposed to the supreme court. >> it is interesting, you find it ironic that actually in

dublin in dublin, he says, i dare say a more irish city even than boston, gays marched for years and he said it isn't just a foreign phenomenon. chicago, st. patrick's day parade managed to include gays without catastrophe. how ironic is it for you dublin, yes. chicago, yes. two cities in extremely blue states, boston and new york, are no's? >> that's what find dishearten being this. new york and boston are leaders in our country, the world. and that they are not stepping forward and doing the right thing is criminal. >> i want to get your comment, too. will is an interesting development the boston side. there is a breakfast that took place there in conjunction with the st. patrick's day parade and host bid haitian american woman state senator which essentially was a celebration both of her rise in the boston politician and also located in southie

which has a very dubious history in terms of race relations in the 1907s corridor of bussing between irish americans and african-americans, what do you make of that happening? >> i think that what we are trying to do is personalize the issue and have people understand that it really is about the youth and it is about including people and not being discriminating against. not discriminating against a group of people. i think that when you look at our history in america as -- in terms of discrimination, we are -- the tide is changing and it is time to change with it. i think that new york and boston need to do that. >> you already had, as we mentioned, several of the manufacturers pull out of sponsorship of the boston and new york parades. will glaad be going after the sponsors to get them to pull out next year? >> i think that what we want to do is make sure that the companies who are participating feel that they are lined with

that core value of locking people out. good irish american lgbt people. if they are not then they should to understand the right side of it. >> lastly, on the fact that this has become sort of a political matter, does glaad remind politicians, let's just say, who participate in the events, do you keep score on that? >> we are watching the parade very closely to see who the sponsors are and to see who is participating. because i think that it should reflect the values of new york and reflect the values of our country which is about including lgbt people and families. >> all right. sarah kate ellis, thank you very much. >> thank you. developing news out of washington now, washington state, where a california man has been arrested for attempting to provide material support to terror organization. federal authorities arrested the 20-year-old community college student at the u.s.-canadian border this morning. prosecutors say that he was on his way to syria to join an al qaeda-linked militant group.

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spring is just days away. but you wouldn't know it in the nation's capital today. a winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow forcing the practical government and local schools to shut down for the day. the same storm system is bringing a mix of freezing rain and snow to parts of pennsylvania. the gill friend of an american aboard missing malaysian flight 370 spoke to nbc news. not just about the confusion about what happened to her boy friend, philip wood, but also about support she received during the crisis. >> i'm overwhelmed with the outpouring of positive support and offers for help, active help. not just saying how can i help? but doing it. people taking it upon hem self-s to go out and find information. that has renewed my faith in humanity a bit. >> more than a week into the search the malaysian officials

are still unsure which direction the flight eventually went. north, in the direction of central asia, thailand. south, in the direction of indonesia and indian ocean. to texas and the big push to enroll people in insurance plans under the affordable care act. with two weeks to go million the march 31 deadline. a week after "in between two ferns," the white house is going back to the well to sell the health care plan. they are going march madness on us with adds between celebrity athletes like magic johnson, lebron james, alonzo mourning. >> now you can get affordable health care coverage with your new health insurance marketplace. >> healthcare.gov. >> it might sound like magic but take my word for it, it is real. >> deadline is rolling. march 31. >> you never know when you mate take a hit. >> there's also the 16 sweetest

troens get cover bracket. up on whitehouse.gov, the at the same time it is a president's march madness bracket. home to the largest uninsured population in the country, texas. one in four texans don't have health insurance. so far 300,000 signed up on the healthcare.gov website. still trying on get signed up, there are major roadblocks thanks in part to the state's republican lawmakers. they refuse to set up a state exchange. texans had to go to health.gov on their own to sign up. texas lawmakers led by governor rick perry refused to accept a medicaid expansion which means that more than a million texas adults will not waffle for the subsidies put in place by the law. there is the issue involving federal navigators. the folks hired by the federal government to help people make their way through the system.

claiming federal guidelines weren't good enough, texas lawmakers added additional security requirements and training making it harder for the navigators to get to work. that's why groups like enroll america, planned parenthood and texas organizing projects, are fanning out across the state with a campaign stop blitz. they are targeting black and latino neighborhoods with health care signup fares and community centers, libraries. my colleague perry bacon, political editor is in texas reporting on that final push for health care enrollment and joins me now from houston. perry, tell us what you are seeing on the ground there. >> good to see you. what you are see sing a real -- a blitz. ymcas, churches, community centers, pretty much everywhere people go, these liberal groups, planned parenthood, enroll america, have set up stations where people can come and when you go there, there is -- people there with computers there that speak spanish or english that will sit down with you and wick you through the entire process. some of the events are very

small. between went to a church where there are 20 people and would people who helped enroll there. then yesterday i went where there were about 300 people there waiting to get help with insurance. the big target is people who haven't watched the website stuff. are not watching "funny or die" but still need health insurance. >> to talk about the specific instances have you seen of people trying to sign up. is everyone who is going and sitting down with one of those advocacy groups or navigators actually getting health care. >> no. everyone isn't. i actually met someone yesterday who -- came with his wife. they walk medical and spent two hours filling out forms and getting information and at the end, the enrollment person told them they didn't qualify. the reason being that they make so little income that they would have to be on medicaid because the subsidies don't start until you make a certain amount of money. they qualified for medicaid because texas -- medicaid program, they left after two

hours with no insurance at all. they were offered a plan that would cost $400 a month because this man -- you don't have any subsidies if you are under a certain income. he was very flustered and disappointed. you have about a million people overall in texas who would get medicaid except for what governor perry decided to do. >> in your evaluation, going around the state, do people understand that is why they are not qualified? you have texas right now who has for fitted, given up, $9.6 billion in federal matching funds, up to 2022, they will not get coverage. when you are talking to people like that couple do they understand that it is because their state refuses to expand medicaid or do they blame obamacare for not getting coverage? >> you know, they became obama. one thing that's important to moat is that the navigators and people that are helping enroll people, they really often try to avoid talking about politics

very much. they don't mention obama. they don't mention obamacare. the result is they kind of talk in generic terms about state law says this. and so, therefore, you are left with what's -- confusion. the man i was talking to after he was denied insurance i laid out for him why he -- he asked me at first what's going on and he said, i wish obama would have done more. i discussed it with him. learned from me in some ways about the medicaid gap. one thing to note is some of the liberal groups like texas organizing project is actually collecting stories of people who have fallen in this gap. texas left me out. they are trying to build momentum. in of the other groups like enroll in america is a very good group. they are intentionally nonpartisan and nonpolitical. so they are set up not to tell you that kind of thing. some tension there. some of the groups are very much pushing that while some want to stay away from too much with obama or with politics in general. >> let's talk about -- let's go back about the politics for a second. you also have democrats,

obviously, focusing on a blitz on states like texas. do you get the sense that democrats at the state level are messaging on that specific issue, governor rick pair write and the republicans that run that state refusing to expand medicaid? >> yeah. one thing that i learned here, i didn't know before i came, the enroll america people actually are literally in the city of houston's offices working. they have given the space. big story here i don't think i knew was like the governor may be opposed to this but the mayor of houston and mayor of san antonio, the mayor of dallas, very involved and very pro-aca. they are writing op-ed and designating people in their offices to go out. what rick perry has done here has not had a big impact because the mayor of houston is pro-aca. >> you talk about this sort of real push within the black and latino community. what about in general? i mean are we see thing laser

focus on trying to get minorities signed up? what about beyond the minority groups, what's the push look like on the ground in general to get even resistance in texas? you report in kentucky, even people that detect obamacare are signing up. do you see the same phenomenon in texas? >> you don't see that as much. right now -- organizers told me that they are at a point where we have two weeks left. they want to focus on people they feel like can enroll. they don't want to spend too much time in the suburbs talking to republicans who they feel like they are going the harder sxlift know more about this. they want on go into urban areas where there are liberal leaning people who just want -- who will sign up and maybe need insurance. but just haven't gotten attention or don't know how to use the computer. the young adults part of this, which i know big, joy, sort of 18 to 35-year-old part of the -- the young man who needs to get insurance, the view is that they are going to be targeted through lebron james. their view is that the ground

game is more about low income people and the kind of media blitz -- high-end media blitz is for the other group. i can tell from you data already shows you that that's the part that isn't working as well. in texas like in most of the states, only about a quarter of the people between 18 and 35 are the newly insured which is lower than -- the administration wanted. >> excellent insight. thank you. appreciate it. in new york, police are investigating the apparent suicide of l'wren scott. the celebrated design sxir girlfriend of mick jagger launched her fashion line in 2006. first lady michelle obama and angeleina jolie have all been photographed in her gowns. our clients need a lot of attention. there's unlimited talk and text. we're working deals all day. you get 10 gigabytes of data to share.

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being an abolitionist means you are active and doing things. it is like adopting a way of li life, sacrificing those things in life that may not be important, whatever may hinder your work of being an abolition. >> the act of putting an end to something by law. for example, slavery. that's the group what abolish human abortion are hellbent on doing. at the same time, a growing number of states are slowly stripping away women's reproductive rights piece by piece by strict new laws governing women, doctors and their clinics. we are not just talking about texas. just this past week, missouri state house advance ad measure to impose a lee-day waiting period on women seeking an abortion. if passed the law would make abortions for complicated and costly to women traveling to missouri's one and only elective decline nick st. louis. on friday, michigan's so-called rape insurance law went into effect. requiring women in that state to buy an additional insurance

rider if they want to be reimbursed for an abortion even in the case of rape. south carolina is on its way to joining texas in requiring abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. which will make it tough herb for them to practice. in oklahoma a slew of new restriction easily passed the state senate last week. including requirement for hospital admitting privileges within 30 miles of the clinic. here is the thing. so-called abortion abolitions don't want these piece meal laws. they want to make all pregnancy termination illegal. even to save a woman's life. msnbc.com national correspondent traveled to norman, oklahoma the birth place of the abortion abolitionist movement where the group is taking their message to front lines. but tools places far from the frontlines like this. >> abraham lincoln ended up trading the army and the abolitionists for changing the mindset culture and bringing

about emancipation. there is a quote -- tireless minority to effect change. >> who what do you think about abortion? >> that's why we are out here to help you know the facts. we are trying on get you to think about abortion. sex, death, life. >> they use images of slaves that were whipped. portraying the humanity of these people what people were doing to them is wrong. that's why we use graphic image. >> you have the right to own people as property. when people say why are you owning those people, you can say my plantation, my prerogative. >> did you know that at one time it was legal to own black people in the country? >> these babies have no one to speak up for them.

>> we are talking about -- >> what do you think about abortion? >> that's not murder. >> taking away. it is their bodies. >> you have the protests. >> you have these children around this [ bleep ]. >> his face is like that because there is a cloud of people around yelling. >> i love you guys. i wish i could give you a hug. i can give you a hug? >> they are not scared of you. >> they are home schooled. >> they like to use that to justify murdering other kids.

>> wear coming back after school? >> here on set with me is the msnbc.com national correspondent who brought us this story exclusi exclusively. toby harmon and his wife sicily, you just saw that clip there where they were in front of the school with their very young children who are home schooled. i mean, in talking to them, how much contact did you think their kids have with other children in their lives? >> the oldest child plays in a home school basketball league. again, abortion is their daily life. mine, they spend would days outside the clinic. starting to spend outside. when we ask about why are all these states passing these laws, this cascade of laws we are seeing, it is because there are people like the harmon who are spending their entirely liveliho livelihood, days, protests abortion. most people say they are pro-choice it the people that want to ban all abortion are very passionate and very, very committed. >> elephant in the room.

sicily is obviously black. obviously african-american. did you get a chance to talk with her and sort of gauge what her feelings are about using this abolition analogy when so clear slavery and abolition is something that deeply scarred even to this day most african-americans to talk about it and to equate it to something like this? >> right. the question i always have about this equivalentens of slavery is who is the slave owner? it so vilifies the choices of black women. i think, you know, that is the visceral feeling i have and when i talk to reproductive justice advocates that's what they say as well. i asked sicily about it and she basically didn't have that much to say about it. you know, her husband said, i could have once owned her but i think -- you know, this is a choice. you will get to see more from her if you go to msnbc.com and watch the whole documentary.

this is a choice she made to keep her family together. they didn't start out like this. one day she was faced with a choice do you make banning abortion and calling myself an abolitionist my life or split my family up? >> even toby was not this guy. right? what was the process of him becoming this person? >> he was a drug dealer. he called himself a partier. they were both partiers. he went to jail. this is a deeply religious movement. they are absolutists on abortion and they see everything as sort of redemption through christ. so he found christ in jail and decided that the number one evil in the world is abortion and that they all needed to devote themselves to it and started this organization. >> grew a long beard and off to the races on basing his entire life on to this abolitionist move. >> a lot of them have beards. a john brown look happening there. a lot of the guys we hung out with did have beards. >> i highly recommend people go and check out this documentary.

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continued all along the 40-block parade route up 5th avenue complete with beer and beer cans thrown at the mayor led mayor david dinkins to tell "the new york times" that it was like marching in birmingham, alabama, during the civil rights movement. we have come a long way in new york city since then. the racial and social climate have dramatically i am proved. the parade is still a highly politically significant event. st. patrick's day is one of the rare holidays there is a seamless mix of religious, secular and cultural celebration. it honors a scottish saint that was kidnapped by irish slave traitors as a teenager and escaped to a priest and missionary spreading the gospel to druids and pagans in the fourth century using the shamrock. despite the religious origin, the parade was long been a secular and political spectacle. dating back to the 1762 when regimen was irish troops marked the 17th of march by marching

through new york city with spikes ask drones. or the 1870s when irish americans organized celebrations in union square with busts of 19th century irish political leader daniel o'connell on their parade wagon. it is also distinctly american. the concept of a st. patrick's day parade did not even make to it ireland until the 1930s. ever since the debacle to march or not to march has been politically charged. dinkins himself boycotted the parade the rest of his term. his successor, rudy giuliani, never missed it. michael bloomberg skipped it as a candidate but marched as mayor. hillary clinton took heat from gay rights groups for marching when she was a snoshg senate candidate in 2000 and the following year as senator she skipped it citing a scheduling conflict. the current new york mayor is boycotting this year as walsh, the first irish american mayor of boston in 20 years. the boston parade also used to be a must-include on politicians

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