where the plane might be. >> more than 3 million people are actively getting involved in the search. >> these are actual tags, places where people have found stuff that they believe to be some sort of wreckage. >> the u.s. and its allies are stepping up pressure on russia. >> putin bolddy defies warnings and sanctions. >> if the united states doesn't do more than it does already, the perception of power could take a real hit. >> a new vehicle safety leader to help tackle the crisis. >> we have apologized but that is one step in the journey to resolve this. >> 9-year-old grayson bruce was told to leave his my little pony lunch sack at home. her son complained of being pushed around and teased. the school needs to crack down on the other kids. >> the u.s. is very upset over all of this. to retaliate, the u.s. is threatening to freeze russia's assets, which sounds like a good move until you realize vodka

doesn't freeze. it actually tastes better. welcome, it is a big news day. we have major developments in the unfolding situation in ukraine. the u.s. and russia both threatening dueling sanctions and we want to take you back to the lingering mystery surrounding flight 370. 11 days after its disappearance, prospects are not looking good. at the time the u.s. navy announced it is scaling back its role in the search. navy planes will stay in the sky but the "uss kidd" is being pulled back to regular duties. families in the u.s. are holding out hope. >> i know he's strong, strong guy and smart guy. and he can survive things. he can survive -- he can survive things. he can survive this. he is surviving this.

>> u.s. is not alone in puming back resources. india and thailand have done that partly because of the cost of the search. look at the last similar search, $40.5 million, that is the cost of just six days of hunting for the downed air france flight that famously was lost in 2009. and in that case they actually had a targeted search area and pretty short time frame before they found wreckage. no such luck in either case here. let's get the latest on where the search stands and the investigation stands from nbc news correspondent kerry sanders. thank you so much for joining us. >> as you talk about the pullback of the "uss kidd," the u.s. is moving its aircraft, a p8, down towards australia, if we go to the map here. i'll show you as we look at the map, this area here to the west of australia is now a central

target area for the search. joining in the search there with the united states will be the australia and as well as the new zealand air force also with simil similar p3 aircraft. the area is 600,000 square kilometers, because it's 3200 kilometers west of australia, it takes a long time for a plane to get there and then begin the search and come back. these aircraft have about ten, maybe 15 hours of air time. the p3 has propellers so it's slower to get there and get back. the amount of time they'll be over the target area may be one to two hours. so when you add it up, that 600,000 square mile area, will take weeks to search. >> it's a daunting prospect. the newest rerevelation, the sharp turn the plane took was execute the by a computer on board and buy autopilot, not by

someone at manual controls. is that xrg an impact? >> it leads back to the fact there was human intervention here and it also points once again to the pilot and co-pilot or the pilot and the co-pilot. the reason it does is because turning it with the flight management system is not simply pushing a button that you and i can walk in. you have to type in certain pieces of information that really must be trained and this is a complicated thing. there is another way to turn a plane where you can reach up and turn what looks like a compass. but quite frankly you would have to have some background to know exactly what you are doing. for investigators who strongly believe this is a result of human intervention, this is one more piece of the puzzle. >> thank you so much. nbc news correspondent kerry sanders, appreciate it. countries may be pulling back but there's been one other interesting development. i want to explain. 3 million people have joined a

crowd sourced effort to hunt to flight 370. it was kicked off by a company called digital globe. a satellite company based out of colorado. last week they had the idea of uploading satellite images of the search grid into their site. they invited people to help keep an eye on those grids, the influx of interest is so big it overloaded the company's computers. we'll look at this power of the crowd. i'm going to go over and we're going to try right now to boot up this site and give us an expect explanation, ben ackerman. ben, tell us where this idea came from and what the precedents are for this? they have this banner, help out with the effort. what you do is you then have a menu -- we'll see if it loads again. you can tag wreckage and rafts and other bits of debris and let's get going.

if this doesn't work, we boot it up earlier -- >> got an image. >> tell us how the system worked. >> i was only able to get on once. this company has about five satellites around and they took two of them and let's take the satellites we're a private company, do what we want, put them over this area and have all of these people who want to spend time look at each grid and if they see anything that looks suspicious, put almost like a post it note. here it is. it's not a question of i saw something now everyone has to scramble. they show the same image to a lot of people. if enough people go that looks suspicious, then an expert comes in and looks at it. >> you mentioned the popularity, crowd rank. >> it takes the number of times an image is seen and number of people who tag something on it and decides whether it's worth following up on. >> you're supposed to be able to navigate right and left through the grid. it shows the current location of

what you are. do we have the video of the full system up and running? it actually becomes quite dynamic and worth checking back on this. but tell us first, i'm interested in the pitfalls of this. we saw a lot of crowd sourcing during reddit during the boston marathon bombing, a lot of false positives, how do you control for something like that? >> there's a good side and bad side to it. i think this is doing it right where you have almost a chunk of ocean and you can look at it and see if you see something or not. other people get to vote on it. what we had after the boston marathon bombing, we had people looking at the images and dating and coming up with own suspects and getting out of control. if you do it more like this where it's organized from on high, then i think you get the benefits of having these different people involved. >> dan, one of my favorite things, there is a button for if you find the plane.

maybe we'll find that. i don't see it in this particular tile. that would have been breaking news that would have been nice. what's interesting about this, it is the biggest crowd sourcing effort by some estimates saying ever. how unusual is that and is it unusual to see it come from a private company? >> it's still a fairly new idea to use computer resources and combine with human resources. people have done protein folding using your game console to help out. to use a private company to aug ment, that's kind of new. we'll see more of that because these private companies have satellite that's can move quickly without any red tape. >> thank you so much dan ackerman, cnet senior editor. feel free to tweet at us if you have input or find anything, please if you find the plane, let somebody know. we're going to switch gears from aviation to another unfortunately quite sad situation in seattle where a

news helicopter shared by nbc and local affiliate crashed near the space needle. the seattle fire department reports there are two people dead at the crash site and three vehicles were damaged. one man escaped his burning vehicle and is in critical condition. seattle authorities gave a briefing a short while ago and said a man and woman in the other vehicles walked away from the scene and not seriously injured. local officials do not know what led to the helicopter crash but the ntsb will look into this situation. we'll keep you posted as more comes in. first, coming up on ronan farrow daily, how do you solve a problem like vladimir putin? he is making the case why crimea never should have left russia in the first place and signs crimea away to russia with a sweep of his pen. wesley clark will join us next. plus, which state has the second highest increase in homelessness in the country? our call to action with a very

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minister tweeted, maybe my favorite thing ever. this picture of a bear with a bottle of vodka and ak-47. that is so russian. the caption read, we're waiting for sanctions, president obama announced a new assets freezes and travel bans for several russians and four ukrainian. rogozin took to twitter to say worldwide recognition, thanks washington committee. wall street journal called the sanctions unserious and "washington post" said they were only a slap on the wrist. here to unpack what this says about washington's stren ngth or weakness on the world stage is general wesley clark. thank you so much for joining us sir. >> good to be with you. >> do you think these sanctions will have any impact? >> i think they do show some

unity of purpose between the united states and europe. and that's the first step in moving toward successful resolution to this. >> what do you say to critics who call this a weak response? >> it's a first response and the way it works for the west, we're not the aggressor in this case, didn't happen a plan. it just happened and we're all democracies and we all listen to every government listens to public opinion and takes time to get the facts out and time to absorb them and form late action. but once democracies come together and determine action, then they have a really tough grip. and that's what's going to happen here. >> should the administration have gone for a more -- pardon me, extensive sanctions regime, something that targets the country as a whole and not just these individuals. >> it may come to that but it has to be approached step by step. some of the european allies have

greater economic involvement with russia and sanctions cut both ways. so sanctions are one weapon, we've got to also use positive economic weapons and that is to say we've got to help ukraine out of its economic difficulties and help it with its energy situation and we've got to provide the kind of assistance it may require for its police and internal security forces to retain its grip, its control on the country. this is a multilevel operation, very sophisticated operation put together by moscow. they have special forces at the bottom and maybe some soldiers and special uniforms that move in crowds, create provocations and seem to justify then later intervention. they are seizing government buildings and doing other things, those aren't accidents. those are planned provocations. so ukraine has got to hold on to its territory that's left as the

precondition for moving toward a settlement that's acceptable at the diplomatic level. >> and of course we saw russian troops taking control of a gas facility that was outside of crimea so there are a lot of fears as you say of them moving beyond this one region. one more question while we have you here, how do you see russia's moves today affecting its broader relationships with nato companies which seem to be increasing ly frougt. >> all of the nato countries in eastern europe joined nato specifically because they knew russia might pull something like this. 20 years ago one of the four principle concerns was a resurgent russia that came back to try to reclaim the mantle of the soviet union. a lot of people thought it could never happen. some of us were more concerned. i saw putin's hand in kosovo when i was nato demacommander.

we know what his dreams are and they know that as well. they joined nato because they want the protection not only the europeans but also of the united states in facing a very, very formidable opponent. they faced him in the past and want our help in preventing war and retaining their own freedom as they move forward in the future. >> thank you so much, general clark. by the way, we know what his dreams are is my favorite quote of the day. you'll have to come back on to unpack those. that was general wesley clark. and now to look for specifically at this question of sanctions we'll turn to someone in the trenches reporting on this issue, james traub, formerly of the "new york times" and writes a regular column on foreign policy.com. i want to talk about vice president biden's trip to some of these eastern european countries. do you think it will be effective? >> as general clark said eastern

european countries have been saying forever, russia is more dangerous than you think. many of them were quite upset when obama decided to move a missile defense program we had from eastern europe elsewhere because he said he didn't want russia to feel it was the target of that and told putin it wasn't. the eastern europeans said, no, it should be. there's a lot of reassurance that needs to be done. that's really biden's focus there. >> and on the specific subject of sanctions, what's the precedent for trying with targeted individual sanctions on inner circle members of this regime rather than a broader sanction regime that would prevent business relationships between the countries? >> let me back up one step. we have to ask what are the sanctions for. if the purpose of the sanctions is to get putin to undo what he did, it doesn't matter. nothing will make that. putin was never going to unwind his decision to annex crimea. that's a moot point. the real point of sanctions is how can you deter him from something yet more grave and yet

more dangerous, which is to say attempting to either destabilize or invade ukraine across the eastern border. so as to your question, the super brief history of sanctions is that sanctions were always passed on countries throughout the 1980s and 9 o's when they were used frequently and seen as relatively effective, like liberia, evil actors -- >> sometimes that works, right, because people were starving in iran but -- >> stage two is you then say, okay, that's a bad idea. let's have targeted as you say sanctions whose goal is to hit the bad guys themselves. we're doing that now in syria and north career i cankorea, wa there either. i would say the best precedent would be what we're doing in iran. because they are an important

country that cares about its economy and standing in the world. the u.s. and west have succeeded in bringing iran to the negotiating table on nuclear issues by broad scale economic sanctions which threaten to kriple the iranian economy. the big question for the west, do they have the will, the ability to impose sanctions like that against russia? >> and we actually just received word right now that angela merkel and president obama have spoken on the phone and released a statement and saying their in agreement with the illegality of that, this may be a sanctions regime that escalates over time. we may come back to you as these evolve? nice to be here. >> this leads us to the topic of the battle of the day. we want to know from you, do you think that sanctions against russia are going to work? you can weigh in by choosing one of the two hash tags, rfd will work or rfd won't work. we'll update and share your responses throughout the show. remember, they are sanctions but they are on individuals, not the

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the proper lethal injection drugs and it's taking nothing short of quote a herculean effort. europe is the explanation. they boycotted the sale of ingredients needed for leej alg injections. not only is capital punishment outlawed across europe but the european policy is also to work actively for the abolition of the death penalty worldwide. so without those ingredients, american states are concocting their own solutions with inferior drugs and results. we're not talking about bajtub but it's pretty close, going to compounding pharmacies and ordering up experimental formulas. that had some harrowing outcomes. listen to one of the family

members. >> i want to know what mixture of drugs are you going to use now? is this going to cause horrible pain? i know he's scared. he says that he's not scared of the dying as much as the drugs being administered. >> another state that's taken to relying on make shift drugs is ohio where there is one execution this past january that was so heinous that they actually have postponed the upcoming next execution by eight months while they figure out this situation. this is at the crossroads and to get a very personal take on the problem, we're going to turn from columbus ohio to father lawrence hummer. he witnessed that last execution in ohio. that was of a convicted murderer and it was using drugs that he described as experimental. father hammer, thank you so much for joining us. >> good afternoon. >> first of all, i want an overview. tell us about your relationship with that convicted murderer,

dennis mcguire, what were his crimes? >> i am a chaplain for the catholic inmates on death row. and i celebrate mass each week with them. and upon discovering that dennis was catholic, it was my responsibility and duty to meet him and to offer him whatever spiritual guidance i could prior to his execution. >> and you were there for that execution to deliver last rights. take us inside that room. what were those 26 minutes like? >> i've described it as ghastly in the past and that's the simplest and yet most profound wordy can use to describe it. in the first four minutes, those assigned to the task of sedating him put i.v.s in first one arm then the other. i couldn't tell honestly whether

they had missed the vein in the one arm or not, but you could certainly see blood trickling from the arm. and in a progressive series of events from the first insertion of a needle to that began at 10:27 in the morning to 10:33, i was counseling his son and daughter and daughter-in-law. and you could hear gagging in the background and i thought it was one of the other witnesses until i discovered that it was dennis actually gagging awedably and loudly, choking, which lasted for 11 full minutes until 10:44 in the morning. it was the natural thing of a human being to try to help someone in that condition. and the state was doing this to execute him. >> regardless of what one thinks

of capital punishment, we can all agree that executing it in that way is not quite right. what do you say though to people that look at your calls for the abolition of the death penalty nationwide and say these crimes are as heinous as they come. >> mind you, it's not only my position, it definitely is the position of the catholic church given certain exceptions by individuals who claim to be catholic, the reality of the gospel of christ jesus is that the old law allowed for an eye for eye and tooth for tooth. jesus said do not do this, rather love your enemies and pray for your percent cuters. those who seek redress for the wrongs that are done and heinous crimes are the most ghastly of crimes as well. it's not going to bring back the loved one.

the only one one ever finds peace in this life is through forgiveness of the wrongdoer. as heinous even as evil as some of these actions have been, including the ones you described, in oklahoma. >> thank you so much for, father, i think everyone around the country is moved by this story and really appreciate you're taking us inthat moment. in informs you regardless of which side of the debate you're on. >> you're very welcome. >> ahead on "ronan farrow daily" we head to the state that accounts for 22% of the nation's homeless. it may surprise you which one it is. we have our call to action with a big name, a governor, lieutenant governor -- i apologi apologize, famous for make waves as a mayor and trying to do so in the latest position. stay with us. [ bubbles ]

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you in a city, any city, this week you have walked by someone without a home. they are everywhere here in new york. i walk by silent forms on the sidewalk risking death in the blistering cold. there are over 600,000 people on any given night in america in that situation. all week we're going to look at homelessness around the country. one of the big problem spots is california. last year it accounted for more than 22% of the nation's homeless. 67% of them don't have access to any shelter, even for a single night. to look at the challenges and solutions coming out of california on this issue is someone who has been in the trenches on it first as mayor of san francisco and current lly a lieutenant governor. lieutenant governor newsom, thank you for joining us. >> we don't talk about this topic enough. so thank you. >> it's really important.

let's get into it. let me a sense of where the problem stands, including california experienced declines in homelessness and california was the largest, 23,000 fewer homeless people in 2013 than in 2007. do you think the problem is getting better? >> i don't. i think these are undercounts. i participated in them as mayor of san francisco and i'll be honest with you, these are quite dubious, they are a moment in time and snapshot. sometimes you have lots of volunteers that go out and do the work, other years you don't have as many volunteers. sometimes it's freezing cold, sometimes it's not so cold. you get a different baseline of numbers each year. hud tries to do their best under these difficult circumstances. if we assume the numbers are accurate, the numbers we provided them from the state of california, we have roughly 137,000 people living on the streets and side walks in the in

california. 22% of the nation's homeless. there are five states with over half of the homeless population. new york as you referenced, texas, massachusetts and florida. it's a national disgrace and its an obligation of all of us to reconcile this and get serious about it because there's no more -- i think sort of manifested form of our failure as a society than stepping over as you note someone on the streets and sidewalks because we can't address their acute struggles. >> so there's a ferocious debate raging all across the country at the municipal level who people say we should get people out of shelters and more long term housing options and others who say we need emergency care to these people, 67% in california don't have access to shelters and that can cost lives. where do you fall on that debate? >> shelters solve sleep but housing solves homelessness. you want to get serious about the problem. you can warehouse people in shelters and provide a temporary solution and say my streets and

sidewalks are so much cleaner. you haven't solved the problem. there's one answer to homelessness. but if there is an approximate alted housing it's sub sid sized or supported housing and providing underlie services or services to deal with underlying problems they are suffering homelessness in the first place. the worst excuse for politician is to say i'm going to massively expand my shelter system. the best excuse for a politician that's enlightened. i'm going to radically invest in a direct access to housing model with supportive services. that's a way to permanently solve the problem. >> one final question before we go. you have been criticized for ball lot measures during the time you were mayor that you were harsh on the homeless, what do you say to critics who say -- head of one prominent group in san francisco said you hate homeless people. some of those policies are harsh and do they work?

>> we have 12,000 plus people off the streets. we invested more in outreach and invested more in drug treatment orn demand than any city in the country. i'm proud of that effort. at the same time it's trying to find that balance. it was important for me to find that balance in a compassionate and thoughtful way. i always say to folks who assumed what we were doing was going to be wrong, prove us wrong. don't assume us wrong. i think we've proven in san francisco with values and sense of compassion and purpose that we can have rules and regulations where there's a two-way street, a sense of sensibility but real opportunity to access a system that has comprehensive culturely competent solutions that focuses on expanding housing opportunities not just short term solutions like providing more cots and mats in shelters. >> thank you so much, lieutenant governor newsom. our call to action to everyone at home this week is on this subject. we're asking you to call your local city hall and ask exactly how many emergency shelter beds

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revenues from their legalized weed sales in 2015. and jerry brown said he doesn't think it's worth it. >> all of a sudden if there's advertising and legitimacy, how many people can get stoned and still have a great state or nation. the world is pretty dangerous and competitive, we need to stay alert, if not 24 hours a day, more than some of the pot heads might be able to put together. >> we here at rfd are alert 24 hours a day. his lieutenant governor gavin newsom has spoken out in disagreement. he's back to weigh in on this debate to tell us what it can reach us about the rest of the country. lieutenant governor, welcome back. >> thanks, ronan. >> how much revenue do you think california is leaving on table by not legalizing recreational marijuana. >> depending where you tax it and based on various estimates, we've had some independent reports show upwards of 800 million to 1.2, one report

showed it as much as $1.5 billion a year in annual revenue. john hickenlooper estimates in the small state of colorado, $600 million in revenue and taxes would be generated in that state. that gives a sense. >> governor brown is a member of your party and basically your boss. what inspired you to speak out against him on this issue? >> a couple of years ago i've been frustrated. i remember 1977 when governor brown was first in office, we went from indeterminate sentencing to determinate sentencing, 20,000 people in our prisons and in 2007 we had 173,000 people in our prisons. you start looking at the war on drugs and corps larries as it relates to mandatory minimums and our aggressive efforts, particularly as it relates to people of color and poor communities to incarcerate our way to solving this problem, it's failed. a trillion dollars wasted. i'm just frustrated. with respect to governor brown

who i admire greatly and looking forward to serving with him another four years, i think he's wrong on this. i think it's wrong to use language like pot heads or stoners or hippies, this is a serious issue and requires a serious debate. impacting too many people and too many lives and costing taxpayers a fortune. we have to be honest about it and we have to be very reflective. none of us want to see more drug use or advertising targeted to our kids. i'm a parent of three young kids. i don't want to see them using and abusing the drugs but let's just disabuse ourselves of this mirage that somehow we could have a drug free society if we continue on this mass incarceration binge that we've been on the last 40 years, it just hasn't worked. it's time to move in a new direction. >> the issue of strain on the legal system is something the administration has been focusing on nationally too. thank you for shedding light on this issue. >> thank you, ronan. >> we're going to update you on

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welcome back, everybody, to rfd. it is time now for an '80s flashback. at least i think it's from the '80s. it could be the to 2010 reboot. this is rainbow dash from the cartoon my little pony. she maintains the weather in ponyville. this is 9-year-old grayson bruce who's a fan of the cartoon and has a lunchbox with rainbow dash on it and it is very pretty. because of that, he is picked on by classmates at school who say my little pony is for girls. >> they're taking it a little too far with, you know, punching me and pushing me down.

calling me horrible names. >> thank you, grayson. they're taking it way too far. anyway, grayson's school told him to stop bringing the my little pony bag to school calling it a trigger for bullying which strikes me as blaming the victim. they should be telling him to hold the rainbow dash lunchbox high, damn-it. support for grayson's facebook page has received 25,000 likes and grayson's love of the 1980s cartoon is not an anomaly, we'll have him know. there's a growing movement of male my little pony fans called bronies and in collaboration with our partners at the data mining startup, we infiltrated deep into the brony corridors of power. take a look. ♪ >> this is the weirdest [ bleep ] thing i've ever been to. >> this is brony-con. and, yes, you're looking at

grown men dressed up like magical horses. but this is one of the few places on earth where that is socially acceptable. >> you don't have to come here and be judged, like, we're here, we're dressed up, we look like idiots but nobody cares. everybody sees it very well. it's just a good time. >> it's an annual gathering for diehard fans of my little pony. ♪ my little pony ♪ my little pony >> a cartoon series originally created in the 1980s for girls between the ages of 2 and 7 years old. >> i'm 25. >> 22. >> 23. >> as an outsider, it all seems a little unsettling. >> people get put off by the idea of, like, older men watching a show intended for little girls. they somehow think that's creepy. >> and there's no doubt the

brony image is in desperate need of a makeover. >> there can only be one! >> a lot of people think of us as, you know, perverts, people like that, you know? >> all of us are 30-year-old guys living in our parents' basement. >> no job, they just sit and watch the show. >> when it began three years ago, bronies were mostly teenage boys making fun of the horses on an internet message board, 4chan. then something unexpected happened. irony became sincerity. now the bronies are real fans. the question is, why? >> i work as a firefighter, so that's definitely, you know, taking some happiness and putting it into my life from what is usually a very stressful job. >> i've heard of some cases where people have been near suicidal then they watch the show and suddenly felt better about life. >> most are attracted to my little pony's simple message. >> the main six ponies all have completely different lifestyles, but they're best friends.

>> like many of us, the people here are just looking for a place to fit in. being a brony means feeling safe. >> the show is really about, you know, friendship and happiness and, like, all of these life lessons. >> you know, how many shows are positive nowadays? not many. families can sit down and enjoy it together. >> brony-con was really weird, but not quite as weird as i thought it was going to be. >> take a moment when i hand you your card to look at it. >> maybe the rest of the world is just too cynical. maybe a kid's show can actually help people. maybe it's time for me to get out of here. >> you go up to people, tap them on the shoulder and say, you want to be my friend? >> all right. >> if they say no, screw them. >> yeah. >> now, there's a brony i can relate to. thanks to our friend, sam matthews for that report. if you're interested in

brony-con, the next convention is this august in baltimore. plenty of time to get costumes ready. i call dibs on rainbow dash. and we leave you with much more serious developing news. secretary of state john kerry just responded to the standoff between russia and the united states over ukraine. he was speaking at a town hall with university students at the state department. i've been in that room. secretary kerry said he was really struck and somewhat surprised and disappointed by vladimir putin's interpretation of the facts when it comes to the annexation of cry mimea and quote, just don't jive with reality. all right. we'll be keeping you updated on that story for the rest of the week. first we bring you our final update on today's battle of the day. remember, we asked, to you think the sanctions against russia are going to work? the winner with 81%, a lot of pessimists out there, is rfd won't work. kevin chose rfd will work and tweeted, but will the sanctions go far enough? while sean picked rfd won't work and he sure e shared this.

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annexation from ukraine. we begin with missing flight 370, the myriad theories of what happened and why so much of the story is about the politics of malaysia, itself. while the latest update from malaysian officials found the transport and foreign ministries defending the country's actions once again, "the new york times" today had a fascinating report. it said basically that the changes to the plane's intended flight plan were directed from a computer likely from the cockpit. in other words, whoever changed flight 370's course likely had substantial knowledge of onboard airplane systems. also, the thai military said today for ten days it sat on radar data that shows a plane, perhaps, flight 370, shortly after the plane broke communication. the reason for sitting on the data? they say because malaysia never asked for it. the drip, drip of news along with the confusing sometimes contradictory statements given by malaysia as well as others has helped