information has come to light in relation to the search for malaysia airlines flight mh 370 in the southern indian ocean. >> but now rough conditions, including high seas and low visibility is complicating the search as families cling to the hope that they will finally find out the fate of their loved ones. >> i heard about -- it must have been about 3:00 this afternoon a friend called me with the information. and i don't think i stopped shaking since. >> we're hopeful, still hopeful that phillip could be found. and all of the passengers on the plane. what we ask for is the prayers of everyone. >> we will bring you all of the latest developments as we also follow the breaking news on crisis in ukraine. in just the last hour, president obama issued a new warning to russia along with another round of sanctions as putin and his russian forces continue their

takeover of crimea. here's the president. >> the world is watching with grave concern as russia has positioned its military in a way that could lead to further inkurgss and to southern and eastern ukraine. >> nbc's sara james joins me from melbourne, australia and here in washington, tom costello. i tom, i want to start with you. this search focused on the coast off australia, 1500 miles from perth. what's the latest? >> here are the images we have of the debris out here. this was spotted by australian satellite about four days ago and takes a while to process these images as you may know. and now that they have done that, they think they've got two pieces, one piece that is about 78 feet or so. the other one they think is about 16 feet. now, this would be theer etically consistent with an airplane piece. the wing span of a 777 is 200

feet and you have a 60-foot tail. the australian prime minister is taking his credibility to parliament to talk about these images so that seems to lend a credence to this whole notion that this may be in fact something substantial. let's look how far the plane would have come. all the way down here from malaysia. we're talking about this flight having extended or exhausted i should say all of its fuel to get all the way do you knwn to south indian ocean. we talked to experts to say if it was traveling at 30,000 feet, 500-mile-per-hour and never deviated, this would be the general area. that is why the ntsb identified this grid as something that the australians should focus on. so they did exactly that and now today in this area they put in a p-3 and p-8 aircraft, highly sophisticated planes owned by

americans and australians looking for signs of wreckage. they didn't see anything in here. they are going to come back tomorrow morning in australia. meantime, there's a norwegian cargo ship traveling through the area. the all philippino crew has been looking for any type of wreckage. they don't see anything either. but this is a massive area. i think we're going to ask sarah james later to talk about how far it is from perth and how long it takes to get there. this is not a quick, easy trip into the ocean. maybe she can better explain the currents and what we know about the sea state out there. if it has been 12 days since this plane crashed and if in fact it did crash in this area, then potentially this debris may have already been shifting and moving and be roughed up for 12 days and potentially floating and drifting hundreds of miles. kristen, back to you. >> tom, i'm going to ask you to

stand by and pick up with sarah james on that point you raise. we should say there is a three second delay. to the point tom just made, the conditions are incredibly rough out there and this is a far distance from the shore of perth. what is this search going to look like when it resumes again tomorrow, 3:00 p.m. our time by the way? >> it will resume in about six hours and what it's going to look like is, it's difficult. everybody in the australian military has said this is tough. this is a tough one. but we're up to the task. basically what's going to happen is the distance is about 1500 miles southwest of perth. these particular aircraft have about ten hours of fuel. now just to get to the location where they need to have a look is four hours. so a quick bit of math tells you that only gives them two hours to search. they've got them going in two-hour waves and you've got

the two p-3 orions and one from new zealand and p-8 poseidon and then that will help them keep track of the drift and try to know exactly where the spot is they are trying to find in this vast indian ocean. you were talking about the conditions. boy, are they tough. we're talking about a cold front, rain, cold, wind. it is a very difficult time of year in a very difficult part of the world. and it is important not only to have the aircraft in the sky but also to have the ships there as well. again, that norwegian -- that norwegian ship is a merchant ship and interestingly it was on its way from madagascar to melbourne, where i am, when the australians said you've just been diverted you're on your way to go to look for this debris as well. clearly everybody is involved in

the search doing whatever it is they can. >> and sarah, the prime minister came out with some strong language. he said that this is credible. does it mean that it is going to turn out to actually be the aircraft, but you would have to assume he would not come out and use that type of language unless there was some measured confidence about what the satellite images had shown, is that fair? >> i think he clearly thinks this is the most significant lead there has been in some time since this aircraft disappeared on march 8th. he immediately contacted the malaysian prime minister, yes, he's definitely taking it seriously. and the defense minister here said that he believes we will know something in the next two to three days. so they are definitely putting some weight on this. and indicating that they do believe that it is credible. nevertheless, they are not saying 100% because there isn't

anything like that in this particular kind of situation. they also recognize that there are families who have been through an incredible ordeal. their hopes have been dashed and raised and dashed again. i think everybody is mindful that for those poor people who are worried about family members, this is an even more difficult situation as they wait and wonder exactly what has happened and hope that the searchers can give them some answers. >> tom, i want to go back to you. sara brings up the timeline, two to three days, this is a race against time, isn't it? the black box is going to run out of batteries in a matter of days. >> that's exactly right. we're now 12 to 13 days into this and the batteries on a pinger that are attached to the black boxes, underwater pingers only last for 30 days. we're talking another 17 or 18 days until the batteries die. importantly, the water in that

area, you may have multiple thermal layers and it is difficult of course for the pinger or somebody to hear the pinger if you're trying to hear it through all of those thermal layers. sarah, can i ask a question, we've been hearing on this side of the ocean we're talking of depths of 10 to 16,000 feet and under water it is we're told very, very mountainous and there's a big trench in that area. that just complicates efforts even more, no? >> very much so, tom. i think that is a grave worry for everyone is how on earth -- we're not talking about a situation in which we are near shore in shallow water. quite the contrary, some of the deepest waters in the world are in this particular stretch of the indian ocean. again, we're not quite sure where we're talking about. but nevertheless, that stretch of ocean is very deep indeed. and again, they need to be

fairly close to the black box for them to even to pick up these sounds. so i think one thing that's important to remember is whether or not -- let's assume for the moment that this might be the case that this is debris from the plane. the debris alone can be extremely helpful in terms of understanding what happened and what caused this calamity. and that is true regardless of whether or not the black box is found. important to find it, yes, but not the only clue that investigators will have. >> tom costello who has been following this from the very beginning and sarah james, thank you so much for that reporting. and joining me now is msnbc aviation expert greg fife and michael goldfarb. greg, i want to start with you. you heard tom talk about the

search, how difficult it is going to be. when you look at the location of where that debris might be, what does it tell you about what may have happened to that plane? >> kristen, it gives us some optimistic, you know, optimism, if you will, but there's got to be caution there. we've gone through this exercise before when the chinese found what they thought was debris and had a picture from satellite. we won't know what this wreckage tells us, if it is an airplane part. we won't know until we're able to examine it. it could give us clues as to the type of impact, whether it was a high speed impact or just the aircraft breaking up as it was trying to be put down possibly intentionally in the water. but again, it's very difficult to make any anything out of any of these pieces until they are in fact identified as aircraft parts. >> michael, what do you make of the location where this search is now taking place? >> i think once again, as greg

and others have reported, i think you really have to be cautionary about our ability to find any debris field, let alone the black boxes. but let's take it back for a minute. how can we be in this situation with modern cell phones and everything else? the malaysian airline decided not to buy the data package. we talked about acars. malaysia opportunities had an opportunity to buy a data backage which would have been $10 a flight, like a pandora upgrade. they chose not to do it because of cost and potential drag on the aircraft. that's inexcusable. had we had that at the air france crash, that plane was streaming information continuously and we knew pretty much certain the debris field and the fact it was probably mechanical. we're spending hundreds and millions of dollars of resources and yet we only have satellite

pings and potential sighting in the worst possible ocean in the world. >> let me weigh you in. should we know more at this point? could we know more? >> i think we could. michael brought up a good point. with air france we were getting data that was being downloaded almost continuously. so even though we never got all of the flight and of course it crashed and took us two years to get the black boxes to fill in the rest of the storyline. we were able to at least examine that information that was being downloaded to understand that they were having issues with the tubes and on board computers and giving the pilots possibly false information. if there was some sort of mechanical problem or event taking place that could be related to the airplane, that may have showed up in the data or at least it would have confirmed that nope, the airplane was perfectly fine and it was normally -- operating normally when somebody decided to turn the transponders off and acars system off. >> greg, they have said,

investigators have said it's going to take a few days at least before they can really confirm what those satellite images show. but what do you see in the satellite images? what can we glean about the size? the largest is about 79 feet. what do you see in the images? >> as tom said earlier in his piece, you know, anything that's 78 or 79, 80 feet, there's only two possibilities really, one is part of the wing section, you have a wing span of over 200 feet. that means each wing is better than 100 feet. then of course the fuselage is around 200 feet long and again, it could be a portion of the fuselage structure, whether it's the crown, or side panel with the window belt or belly section, we're not really sure. the satellite fidelity is not that good as far as what we're seeing in the public, s australians may have better pictures, that's probably what gave the prime minister some

confidence that this is credible evidence. but again, we haven't seen it and until we get an airplane that can fly low enough to give us a good visual sighting with good optics and pictures of that or we have a sea vessel, either this cargoship or one of the military ships going in there, we really won't know and unfortunately in the place it's a. we don't have assets that close to that piece of debris. >> michael, talk about the race against time. we spoke about this with tom costello. very difficult conditions and yet they need to try to get to the aircraft before the black boxes lose their battery power. what do you anticipate from this search over the next several days? because if in fact this is debris, it may have floated several hundred feet away, if not a thousand. >> the images are from four days ago, given the currents and waves and everything else, we have no idea where that is. we lost the first race against time, which is always the first

several days after the accident occurs where we have data and because we didn't have that, we really have just been jumping from one potential bit of speculation to another. we lost that window, even if the so-called black boxes aren't found, air france took two years, the wing can float and greg can correct me if i'm wrong, ats least for longer than other parts of the aircraft can. any piece they can look at and begin to put something together to help solve the puzzle. >> greg, you want to react to that? >> sure, michael brings up a good point, if the air has gone into the water. if somebody tried to ditch this airplane at night, it would have to be a controlled crash without depth perception and being able to see visually how closure getting to the sea surface, you won't be able to make a smooth landing like the miracle on the hudson. if you remember air france 447, they found a large section of the tail with the logo on it and a lot of floating debris.

we don't have that right now here. >> greg feith and michael goldfarb. michael will stick around. the news that possible debris may have been located has the families of the 239 people on board flight 370 on edge and distraught. today we heard from the mother and long-time partner of passenger phillip wood reacting to this new information, take a listen. >> i heard about -- it must have been about 3:00 this afternoon a friend called me with the information. and i don't think i stopped shaking since. now this just throws it all all up in the air again. >> one of the last e-mails he said, i don't know what the future holds but i'm not afraid. i feel like -- hopefully that he gave some comfort to other people that were on that plane. he would be that kind of person. he would do that.

>> and nbc's keir simmons joins us from kuala lumpur. you are there with the families and some are them are saying this could be closure but others or hoping it isn't the debris. talk about what you're hearing from the families. >> reporter: hey, kristen. this is a double-edged sword, a difficult and tense enough as it is anyway period of time where they are feeling they want news but they don't want bad news. and different families reflecting differently on that, is a some saying we're we're crossing our fingers this isn't a sign of flight 370 and others are hoping it is because we would like something to tell us what happened to relatives. kristen, there's been a meeting in the last two hours and speaking to the relatives since they came out of that meeting. less emotional than the scenes

yesterday where relatives were in tears here. now they had this meeting and told us as a result of this meeting that they are not planning to go to australia, reflecting really what greg and michael were saying in terms of caution. they were told at this meeting they don't yet know what this is. they may know they were told in the next day or two more information and they will be informed of that. there are though, kristen complaints from the families we've been speaking to here about what happened at the meeting. they feel as if they are just being told the same thing as they've been told previous meetings, no new information. talk about radar and that kind of thing but not really the kind of updates they are hoping for, perhaps because quite simply the authorities don't have that kind of information. and at the same time, kristen, this will i guess leave you speechless, one thing we're hearing from the meeting is that they were asked to fill in forms to tell the authorities if they

wanted to be told urgently of any news? i have to say, it leaves you wondering why that kind of thing wasn't done some time ago and why if they are -- whether they are being given contact details on the forms, why they aren't being told in person. there are still unhappiness amongst the relatives who don't think they are being communicated with effectively enough. i think this meeting tonight, the two-hour meeting, we think there are 100 people there and some may have been security and things for the families. this meeting was an attempt to try to address concerns by the families and lasted two hours because there was so many questions that the relatives had and yet at the same time, they came out frustrated by the information they were being given. >> that news is just stunning. i understand that there are ambulances there at the ready in case the news is that this is

debris and therefore the worst possible news these families could hear. could you talk a little bit about the preparations are under way to support them in that case? >> reporter: yeah, that's right. i talked there about how frustrated the families are. there are, though, it has to be said, efforts being made to try to be there for these relatives. we have seen counselors, a number of counselors and we've been told there are lots here on stand by. as you say, also today we saw ambulances outside of the various hotels here in kuala lumpur where the relatives have been staying on stand by in case the worst news comes through and some of those poor folks aren't able to cope with what they are hearing. we spoked to one father, for example, whose son is on the plane and been saying for days, i'm resigned to this. i just want to know -- i'm resigned this could be the worst possible news, it's in god's

hands. but there are others i'm told who are still hoping and you can understand and perhaps rightly just hoping that tlsz there's a small chance that their relatives on flight 370 are still away somewhere. it's incredibly painful time and every time there is new news and every time that the news changes, you know, the tension builds and then it lessens again. you hear there's the debris off the coast of perth and families hear that. then as time develops we hear, well, it may be the debris but a lot of work needs to be done to establish if it is or not. it's a roller coaster for families and just really, really difficult for them to cope with. that's why there is that support here. you just get the sense that slowly the malaysians and other governments involved have been trying to get ahead of this and tr try to put the focus on the families as much as possible and help them as much as possible in

this difficult time. but it's clear that many of them feel as if they haven't been served really well. it's not clear, for example, that they were all told this news today before -- some say they were but others appear to not have been told the news before publicly. >> keir, you have been on the story from the very beginning as well. thank you for your report. stay with us here on "andrea mitchell reports" as we continue to follow the very latest developments in the search for missing malaysia airlines flight 370. joining me next former airline pilot paul mccarthy. feed it, and care for it, don't we grow something more? we grow big celebrations, and personal victories. we grow new beginnings, and better endings. grand gestures, and perfect quiet. we grow escape, bragging rights, happier happy hours. so let's gro something greater with miracle-gro.

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we are back with more now on missing flight 370.

satellite images taken off the coast of perth australia indicate newly detected large objects in the water. military search planes have been dispatched. joining me now, paul mccarthy who also served as the airline pilots association safety representative. thank you for joining me, i appreciate it. >> hi, kristen. >> i want to get your take on one theory that we are hearing, which is that given the location of where this debris may be, of course, they haven't found anything yet, it indicates that the pilots were likely unconscious at the point that this plane went into the water. if that is in fact what happened. is that something that you think is valid at this point? >> well, to do that you have to wind backwards to say what sequence of events has been established up to this point. from the time they lost communications through the turns they think they validated through the radars and if this

in fact is the final location of the aircraft, i'm not so interested in what as why something like that would happen. if you have a conscious action when communication is lost in the transponder is turned off, how do you then get to an unconscious situation five or six hours later. i'm having some difficulty coming up with a scenario that would piece all of these facts together into a coherent whole. do i think that they are unconscious? if i said yes, then why did the airplane turn initially off of its preprogrammed course? if it did turn off because of human intervention, then why did they subsequently go unconscious? there's a lot of questions in there that are not so much physical as psychological. >> comment, if you would on what we know so far on the one hand,

you have the prime minister of australia saying that this is credible. on the other hand, some people are cautioning this could be debris from containerships. how optimistic are you that this could be the debris from the airline? >> i wouldn't dare -- that is so far beyond my ken, i would be remiss in trying to give you an estimate. let's hope that we have some definitive action for the families, but as far as whether this is credible or not, i leave that to the people on scene. >> and just very briefly, how difficult will the next 24 hours be? you heard conditions there are treacherous. >> the conditions are going to be horrific. they are going to have to get some surface vessels on scene to finally make a determination and given that it's the southern ocean, it's known worst place on the planet for driving ships

around, i think that the two-day may be very, very optimistic. >> paul mccarthy for your insights, thank you so much. >> thank you, kristen. coming up next, historical perspective, what past crash investigations may tell us in what's next in the urgent search for malaysian flight 370. stay with us. real be right back. if i can impart one lesson to a new business owner, it would be one thing i've learned is my philosophy is real simple american express open forum is an on-line community, that helps our members connect and share ideas

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perth, australia. joining me now, bob hager who covered aviation for decades and flight instructor. thanks for joining me. tom, i want to start with you, keir simmons is reporting that families were asked to fill out forms to get update on information. can you react to that? have you heard of something like this before? is there an indication this may be being mishandled? >> you can draw a lot of conclusions, we have now moved, we are moving into a new dimension of human tragedy here. and so far we've been taken up with the mystery, why did this plane end up off track and where did it go and what was its fate. now we're beginning to realize if it came to a bad end in the south indian ocean, then that's a horrible tragedy for those

people. and also, if it was taken there by the flight crew and wasn't an intervention and hijacking, it adds another dimension of mystery and human tragedy. it just doesn't add up right now. we're waiting like everybody else for more information. >> bob, i want to turn to you. we are reminded, of course, for the search for the air france flight 447 when after two years they found the black box on the ocean floor. even if, and i stress the word if, even if this does turn out to be debris from the malaysia airlines flight, it still could be a long time before we figure out what happened here. is that a fair point? >> absolutely, yeah. what you're going to find on pt surface, pieces of the skin -- might be a piece of the wing or something, that's not going to tell you very much about what happened to this plane. so the real value in finding

wreckage, if it is wreckage from this plane is to lead you to the approximate area where you might begin to calculate back the way the currents have been over the last 13 days and find where the bulk of the wreckage is in order to find the flight data recorder or cockpit voice recorder. that's what you need to give some idea of the very puzzling circumstances and what must have gone on on board this plane. >> tom, going back to you, this search area is approximately the distance from new york to denver. we are hearing they could know more about what the satellite images show over the next two to three days, but even -- is this an optimistic assessment? could it take much longer to even identify whether or not this is debris from the plane? >> of course it could take a lot longer. this is just -- one satellite image evof something in the wat in a storm tossed part of the

earth with very little -- there's nothing out there really. it's going to take time. and it's hard -- it's so tantalizing to wish for more information, more facts that we can reason backwards to come to some kind of understanding of why this happened. we don't know why it happened. it's far from being solved and will take time. the ships in concert with all of the fire power that's going out there to look for this, it's a very focused investigation now, time is always against investigation. it's been 13 days, it's a long time for this to continue without any tangible result. >> we will leave it on that. great point. tom casey and bob hager, thank you so much. appreciate it. coming up, putin's punishment. today the president issued a new warning for russia that comes with another round of sanctions. we'll have the latest from richard engel on the ground in eastern ukraine. that and more on the search for

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president obama spoke from the white house today announcing additional sanctions against russia that he says will have a significant impact on the russian economy. he warned russia that escalation would only isolate it more from the international community but also left a door open to diplomacy. >> the basic principles that govern relations between nations and europe and around the world must be upheld in the 21st century. the notion that nations do not redraw borders or make decisions at the expense of their neighbors because they are larger or more powerful. diplomacy between the united states and russia continues. we've emphasized that russia

still has a different path available. one that deescalates the situation and involves russia pursuing a diplomatic solution with the government in kiev. i'm joined by nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel in eastern ukraine and white house correspondent who just got back traveling with the vice president. are you hearing any reaction to the latest round of sanctions? >> reporter: well, russia has responded with its own round of sanctions. this has become quite personal with individuals being named by washington that they are sanctioning, people who are close to vladimir putin and the kremlin coming around and naming american officials close to the white house or close to centers of power in washington and saying that they are persona nongrata as far as russia is

concerned. here in eastern ukraine, there is a lot of tension. we just returned from the russi russian borders and saw ukrainian soldiers digging in. they were using sand bags and somewhat happen hazardly built trench. i don't think it would have done much to stop the advance of russian forces but might provide psychological support. this country is far weaker than russia. if there were ever any military intervention here in eastern ukraine, there wouldn't be any match at all, which is one of the reasons why the government in kiev has been asking washington for defensive military supplies, a request that washington says it may be considering. >> richard, i want to follow up on that point. you describe ukrainians fortifying their border. do you get the sense that russia has begin or is planning to

begin to imminently ramp up their military presence along the ukrainian border in eastern ukraine? >> we didn't see any indication of that and we were just on the border looking from ukraine into russia. i can tell you we didn't see any russian troop buildups or tanks. but u.s. officials say and they have a higher -- different perspective with satellite technology that there has been a troop buildup that is concerning to the pentagon. but we didn't sense that things were on a hairpin trigger. clearly if you're from the ukraine and just watched the region of crimea, the peninsula be overtaken by force and annexed and you know in southern russia and eastern russia there are a lot of russian nationals or people who speak russian and that the kremlin has been speaking about offering protection to those populations, certainly you would be concerned

here. >> absolutely. i want to switch to mark landler. you have just traveling with the vice president, the goal is to prevent russia at this point from going into other parts of ukraine. russia mocked the first round of sanctions from the white house, based on your travels and based on what you are hearing, is there any indication that these new sanctions that presumably will have a bigger bite are going to do anything to deter putin? >> well, kristen, i think the sanctions that were actually imposed today merely expand the circle of individuals and bring them closer to vladimir putin. it was interesting that included in the sanctions is a bank use the by a lot of wealthy business people and senior leaders in the government. we're told by vladimir putin himself as well. it all becomes more personal. i do think the president today by announcing potential new sanctions against russian industrial sectors, including

the energy sector, has the potential of expanding this a realm where it would have real economic bite. he didn't impose the sanctions today but opened the door to them. he did so very much because of these reports of russian military movements that the u.s. is taking fairly seriously and which the u.s. worry suggest that they might be thinking of inkurgss into the southern or eastern ukraine. they want to head that off. a lot of the emphasis today was as much as preventing further action as it was on punishing russia for things it's already done in crimea. >> i want to look at something you tweeted after your travels with the vice president. we have a graphic. you tweeted symbolism alert, vp biden confers with the polish president in front of a banner.

was this merely symbolic or did the vice president go a long way in terms of shoring up and reassuring the united states allies in the region? >> well, i think both actually. i think the visit was in fact a message. it was largely symbolic. vice president biden spoke at every stop about article five of the nato treaty, which of course is the provision for mutual self-defense and considered vital should any of these countries find themselves in russia's sights. that said, he did mention a few things but they were all fairly modest, giving the pols more fighter jets and baltic states six more planes to use in a policing operation they have and talking some some rotational deployment of ground and naval forces for joint training exercises. none of this adds up to any real

step change in american military involvement, but it was important to have the vice president come and show american sol solidarity in symbolic ways and explicit ways like standing in front of the banner. it meant a lot to the baltic and pols, this was a visit they really wanted. i do think it mattered a great deal on the level of symbolism. thanks for joining me this afternoon. >> coming up, more on the search for the missing malaysia flight 370 as we follow the potential new lead off the coast of australia. we'll have the latest after a quick break. tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain

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the clock search for information obtained from the pilot and co-pilot's computer hard drives. national security analyst and former fbi super advisory agent don boreli joins me now. >> thank you. >> i want your reaction to the latest developments, the fact that the search is now focused on the potential debris, 1500 miles off the coast of perth. >> we have several questions, it's where, why and how. hopefully the where question will be answered through the satellite imagery and as the searchers are able to hone in and get close and if in fact it is the wreckage of the plane, then that aspect of the investigation will have the answer. but that won't necessarily give us right away the why and how. that's where the investigation will focus not only on the

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are not going to see anywhere else. we have celebrity astronaut chris hadfield on the evolving role of satellites and one of the highest ranking diplomats in the world on the international relations impact of this search. plus, we have more for you on this week's call to action on homelessness. with a special guest and special appeal on a surprising vulnerable category of homeless americans. first up though, today's headlines. >> everybody is talking about these two satellite images that were captured on sunday. >> new incredible information has come to light. >> you see the whitish objects just under the surface of the indian ocean. >> 9-foot seas, 25 knot winds. >> clouds and rain limiting the visibility. >> today's searching effort has just ended for the missing malaysia airlines, it's now dark in this part of the world. >> the planes are the best hope the satellite image is leading