this week of too many questions and way too few answers in the search for flight 370. we'll take your choice for the under one underreported story this week the and twitter is having its eighth birthday, and we are going to be playing watchdog on new crackdowns on social media around the world and also reviewing embarrassing tweets. yes, folks, see how twitter ruined me forever for real human communication. >> the breaking news we have this morning, still no sign of flight 370. >> it's night fall off the coast of australia. >> another day turning up nothing. >> 239 families are waiting for sh something. >> russia is answering with some of its own sanctions. >> the fear is one side or the other will miscalculate, setting off a confrontation that quickly spins out of control. >> one man asked the governor

why the firing seemed to be more about her lie than the bridge closures themselves. >> don't take from the fact i said i fired her because she lied, if she told me the truth she would have got fired too. >> week long tour of china. >> the relationship between the united states and china is also between people. >> you can kind of tell obama ace lonely by the tweets, michelle obama having eight pancakes, better stop me. kind of wish you would. real talk, lonely talk. then an hour later he wrote laying on the floor in the oval office. oval is a funny word. hash tag legalize it which is just -- >> all right, folks in a few moments we're going to bring you the latest on ukraine and michelle obama's meeting with

first lady of china. >> 14 days after flight 370 disappeared and two days after the first tangible bit of hope it might be found, today the search teams are turning up empty yet again. there's still zero sign of those two pieces of debris spotted by satellites off the coast of australia. crews from australia as well as the united states and new zealand are going to be back out searching again in a matter of hours. part of the problem here is where this search is happening. it is literally one of the most remote corners of this earth. >> it's about the most inaccessible spot that you could imagine on the face of the earth. if there is anything down there, we will find it. we owe it to the families of those people to do no less. >> just how remote is it? the distance from perth to the search zone we're talking about is 1500 miles. to provide a little perspective, that's roughly the distance from

new york to oklahoma. then there's the matter of timing. it takes four whole hours to fly out to the search zone and you got to add in another four to fly back to perth. when you factor in the fuel, that only lends two hours of concentrated search time each time they go out. since we're talking numbers, here's another for you as well. 2.5 million dollars. that is how much this search has cost the united states and again, this is just the united states. there are tens of countries involved in this at this point. i want to kick off this hour with an overview of everything has happened and what the next steps are. for that we turn to tom costello, monitoring the efforts from washington. tell us what the latest is and what are the next steps? >> it's 1:00 a.m. in perth and off the coast of perth, that means the flights are no longer taking off. five planes were in the region today, friday, in australia. we had p3s from new zealand and

australia and very advanced p8 has the most advanced technology in the world. more aircraft are moving in as well. two chinese expected and two japanese and small international flotilla on the water also advancing to the area that will include australia ships and the u.s. ships as well. we expect china also moving into that direction. so the big question remains, whatever happened to those two pieces of debris spotted in the satellite photographs as you mentioned, 1500 miles southwest of perth it has been five days since the photographs were taken. and then it took some time to process them to sift through all of the data to try to get a good handle on what it is they saw out there and determine that it may in fact be something of interest. and so now the question is have they floated some good distance from that original location and if so how far.

we're told they would travel eastward. it could be dozens. could be hundreds of miles since the original crash if that's where the plane went down. ronan? >> this does not sound hopeful right now. nbc news correspondent tom costello, really appreciate that update. >> not only is this search location remote as we've just discussed, weatherwise, it could be straight up hostile to the search effort. the weather channel's sam champion womcha champion will join us right now. sam, tell us about the conditions that the search has to contend with? >> hey, ronan, how are you? you pegged it beautifully. nice to see you. you pegged it beautifully, it's in the middle of nowhere and way to nowhere and there's nowhere all the way around it really. when you look at that spot in the ocean, we don't have radar coverage because it's not really near anything. we don't have buoy data from there. there's very little ship traffic so there's not regular weather reporting coming out of there.

here's what we do know because we have good satellite coverage from that area. when the search start there was a rough storm, so you're getting tough waves, 30 to 40 foot waves. today when daylight gets there it will be a much better day. there's an area of high pressure and you're looking at the general rolling 3 to 4 foot surf there. let me tell you something about high pressure, you're thinking clear skies when you hear that because that's what we've trained you to think of. think of this zone as having a marine layer. for that think about the california coast for viewers who live there, also the long island coast and places like connecticut, massachusetts shoreline. you know there's this persistent cloud deck, even on a clear day that takes some time to burn off. so for anyone trying to do a visual hunt through there, there's a low cloud deck that's always there and takes time to burn off. exactly as you said, you have two hours to do your business and you have to turn around and fly back and probably don't have good visuals even if an area on

this day when you've got a large area of high pressure. i'm going to take everything east coast time. by saturday night into sunday east coast time you've got another storm system that moves in. then you have a clear day following that. then the following day of that you have another storm system. what that means, you're chopping up the seas of 30 to 40 feet in that area. anything that was floating like a composite material that has some air trapped in it or something is going to be tossed around. when the waters are that rough, you can't see the ripple, if you're looking for plane debris, it's going to be tough to see. if you're looking for a sheen of anything that would be an oil spill, you're not going to see it. on the riding side of the tough waves you'll have a glimmering light and a dark side on that. it's virtually impossible to do a visual that's why they are using special planes. let me tell you about depth here. any time you leave the australia coast you're dropping off about 10,000 feet. so how much longer is that thing going to ping? i think it says about a month. most experts say about a month.

you're halfway through that right now. you don't have good weather going at all for next week. you have one day good, one day bad. it's not looking easy, that's what i can tell you weatherwise. >> that seems to be the case and as you just said, two active storm systems in the coming days will make it a lot harder than what we're looking at now. always appreciate your very clear updates on this. >> nice to see you, sir. >> of course, the people most wrenched by this uncertainty we're all going through as we watch this search are the loved ones left behind and still awaiting word. we saw in this past week their anguish waiting trying to get into news conferences in malaysia. what is next for them? will they follow the lead of the families of that downed air france flight and turn to the courts? on that subject i'm joined by daniel rose, not only a pilot but also an aviation attorney who is represented family members of plane crash victims in similar cases to this. tell me, daniel, what do you

think, in the coming days these family members there's already been some indication that some are rumbling about possibly bringing suit. what is their time frame in which they can actually do that? is it premature for that? and what are the precedents where they have succeeded? >> of course it's up to each individual family member. the most important thing on every family member's mind has to be getting through this dealing with this, which i can't imagine. it's beyond the typical aviation disaster, which is as terrible as you can see here on these videos. but in terms of when. if and when they are ready to try to get answers, a lot of families turn to the legal process to get answers they are not getting from investigation because the legal process closely parallels and tracks and in fact when we do our investigations into accidents like this, we do it on our own with our own experts and look at it fresh and anew. a lot of times families want to

come to us for an investigation from a perspective that is different than what some of the interested parties looking at it now, such as the government in malaysia and airline manufacturer and airline itself. in terms of a time limit, the outside time limit is two years generally speaking is when they would have to bring a claim against the airline. that's governed by an international treaty and hard and fast. and in this particular case is a concern because you know, if you don't have evidence one way or the other if a plane crashed, it takes extraordinary steps in a court of law to establish that your loved one actually died. >> there are other limitations than just time based on the international treaties surrounding this. the actual compensation that they could seek is limited by international treaty, correct? >> that's right. the montreal convention governs any time you have an international flight like this from one place to another. the treaty contemplates that the airline -- if something goes

wrong and passenger gets on a plane to go from point a to point b and don't get there for whatever reason, the airline owes a duty for failing to do that. the airline owes the highest duty of care as a common carrier is what we call it in the law. for practical purposes, you have to get people from a to b. if you don't, then you become responsible to a certain point automatically. so in the case of international treaty, the families would be entitled to what's called 100,000 sdrs, really boring legal stuff but amounts to 150 or $160,000 automatically. after that the airline has to prove it was not negligent, which is also a hard burden in a case like this. >> of course for families, no price will ever be high enough but it will be interesting over the coming weeks and months to track exactly how all of the players from the airline to manufacturers of different plane components may deal with the liability. >> thank you so much.

>> please stay with u. you won't want to miss what's coming up next. president obama is preparing to head to europe amidst mounting blistering criticism of his handling of ukraine. we check in with his former senior adviser, david axelrod. and michelle obama is making a lot of waves internationally, call it a showdown of first ladies, two international fashionis tas face to face for first time. on the eighth anniversary of twitter, nicholas christoph aefrn and i will share our first and embarrassing tweets. about . [ whispers ] that boys start to smell. mom! what? you're becoming a man. this bag filled with his baseball clothes... let's just say it's got a powerful scent. but with tide sport, i just throw the bag right in the wash, clothes and all and it comes out fresh as a daisy. makes this puberty thing easier on all of us. right?

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now for a moment to the ukraine crisis where the united states and russia are swapping sanctions in what appears to be a game of geopolitical chicken. today vladimir putin signed a bill finalizing the annexation of the crimea region and president obama is heading to europe for a week of meetings with allies jittery about the crisis. let's get the latest from chief foreign correspondent richard engel. tell us what you think about putin's latest actions today. >> reporter: this country is increasingly divided. what you saw today vladimir putin signing the official annexation agreement, making the two million people who live on the crimean peninsula now officially part of russia. at the same time, you have the government in kiev, the pro-american, pro-western government signing its own agreement, an association

agreement with the european union committing this country to closer ties, with europe. in the middle are all of the people who are wondering what will happen. will russia invade and take more of this country? will it take parts of the east and the south where there are many russian speakers? will sanctions be put on russia and deter the russians from taking any kind of military action? a lot of this goes down to putin's motivations, how far will he go. so far there have been just these quite specific sanctions on members of the russian leadership. we have not seen real sanctions against the oil and gas sector or the mining sector that would have potentially crippling effect on the russian economy. >> thank you so much for that overview, richard engel. always helpful to get your take from the ground. it's interesting to note, of course, all of the questions that raises about what comes next from the united states government. to answer those questions, we

have my friend david axelrod, former senior aide to president obama and friend of this show. tell us first, major objective of this trip, of course is to encourage sanctions not just from the united states but more aggressively from the eu. do you think that will work? >> well, that wasn't the intention of the trip when it was planned. it's become a major issue on this trip because of what's happened in the ukraine. it should be noted that the europeans took more aggressive steps yesterday and i'm sure the president's message is going to be that they can only be effective if they all hang together. and i think that the strategy now has to be to leverage the threat of the kinds of sanctions that richard engel was talking about to try to contain putin to where he is now. it's very hard to see russia pulling back at this point from crimea, but the concern is do they go beyond crimea and that's a concern not just for eastern

and southern ukraine but for other nations in the region. so yes, i think the goal of these discussions are going to be for the president to encourage strong sanctions, even though the europeans have great exposure in the relationship with russia as russia does with the europeans. so that will be his message and we'll see how he -- how they respond. >> let's talk about next steps in terms of what president obama himself does on the u.s. policy side. he actually talked yesterday about the initial round of sanctions of course that you mentioned, targeting individuals but also the likely potential for countrywide sanctions that would hit harder more sectors of the russian economy. how likely do you think that it will be that he'll move on to that next level of sanctioning? >> those are very, very big weapons and as you know, ronan, the russian economy is already feeling the impact of what's happened so far. their credit ratings have been

lowered. their stock market is plummeting, and the ruble has taken a hit. putin has to be sensitive to the issue and i'm sure those upon who he depends are feeling these pains. he has to calculate his next month. right now the issue is does he stop here soor does he go beyon where he is? and how do you climb down from the ledge you're on? these sanctions are a way of containing those ambition. >> when you see -- >> or i should say the threat of these sanctions. >> an important clarification, hasn't gone that far yet. we do see american businesses continuing to behave as business as usual with exxon cutting a large deal recently. do you think that's correct and more sanctions are maybe necessary to get the business community on board with the president's agenda? >> well, as i said, the russian economy is already feeling a pinch from what has happened.

and these were relatively minor sanctions. what -- the -- i don't want to call it a game because it's very serious and grave, but the situation now is how does putin calculate what comes next? is he looking down the road? is he calculating what the risk is of going further. when laugh lavrov talked about more sanctions from their side, he seemed to calm the waters it may be that the sanctions are beginning to have a impact on his thinking strategically. >> thank you. as president obama prepares to head overseas, his wife and daughters are already on the international stage in an unprecedented way. we're going to take a look at first lady michelle obama and her daughters taking china by storm. we'll talk about it with

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welcome back, today big news out of china, first lady michelle obama is traveling with her mom and her daughters. she spent the morning with china's first lady. notably absent in the whole week's visit is politics. and with china cracking down on the freedom of the press, blocking social media networks and imprisoning dissidents, some are saying that's just not acceptable, quote, no such thing as apolitical high profile china visit. human rights watch chief kenneth roth tweeted.

we'll turn in a moment to nicholas kristof on that subject. today the two women focused on the shared passion for education initiatives a school in beijing for first stop. for the latest on the trip we'll go to nia malika. >> it's great to be here. >> how do you think the trip is playing so far and what do you and for the rest of it? >> it was announced and a lot of people questioned whether or not this would be about soft power or hard power. hard power being her talking about human rights, doesn't look like she's going to do that. the white house has been adamant and saying this is more about michelle obama expanding what she does here and that is reaching out to students, reaching out to young kids and really talking about youth empowerment. that's what i expect to see throughout this trip. she of course has met with the chinese first lady. she's women are in some ways

very similar coming from very humble simple beginnings and then reaching to the highest heights in terms of education and popularity and prominence. of course the chinese first lady was a folk singer at one point. she is also known for her fashion in the way that this first lady is and they also share that passion for education as you said. i think these trips again, i think people will criticize her in some ways for not speaking out in terms of human rights and the way saw hillary clinton do in 1995 when she gave that speech. but we'll have to see what happens. >> all right, the "washington post" nia malika henderson. we may come back to this issue. of course, the lack of drama in the first lady's overseas trip is also creating drama of its own. as we mentioned human rights groups are railing against what they see as the first lady turning a blind eye to china's

human rights record. for more of that, i'll bring in new york times columnist niklas kristof, he knows china well. thank you so much for being here. >> appreciate it. >> i'm waiting to have you on the show. you're an amazing voice on this. tell me about the china situation specifically. the latest human rights watch report, the government sensors the press and internet and print publications and academic research and justifies human rights abuses. do you think this trip is a missed opportunity if she doesn't raise those things or can she parlay the good will from it into more serious discussions down the line? >> i say it's mostly in the missed opportunity category. i don't think it's a huge blow. but she comes across as muzzling herself when she doesn't raise these issues. she shouldn't be overtly political but i think it's unfortunate she's not bringing press with her in not taking press questions. the chinese government has

already been cracking down on press marginalizing the press -- >> would have sent an important signal? >> it really would have and chinese are fascinated by foreign visitors and what they say and the former ambassador, he carried his own luggage, this incredible message throughout china. here we have the chance for first lady to show it's possible to have a tough antagonistic relationship with the press without throwing them in jail. >> what should she be talking about? should it be repression of the press or repression of the uighur minority? >> i think it would have been useful -- i agree she shouldn't be going out and telling everybody how to run china, but i think if there were more occasions where she interacted with chinese audiences at universities for example and took questions, then it would be possible in the course of that questioning to say, look, we don't want to tell you folks

what to do. but we also think that chinese have just as many human rights as americans do. and that something is wrong with a nobel peace prize winner is sitting in prison and his wife is under house arrest in china. and that's a way of sending a message in a somewhat respectful way that i think would resonate very broadly in china. >> do you think she'll be bringing the messages in her behind closed doors discussions? >> she may indeed, but i think that we greatly exaggerate the effect of those behind closed doors discussions. you know, xi have heard these before and what kind of helps is to embarrass them and hold their feet to the fire in public. >> it takes the public pressure. >> it doesn't mean you have to humiliate them, but if you muzzle yourself, that sends an unfortunate message. >> we talked a little bit before the comparison between hillary clinton going to china in '95

and raising tough issues and then laura bush doing the same, more than a decade later. what do you think it says about michelle obama that she does have a reluctance to do so? >> i was a little surprised actually. when at the beginning of the obama administration i think they were very careful to keep human rights low key to be able to build rapport and other issue, there was a perception that that failed and they just lost credibility with china. so it seems surprising to me that the first lady has this time decided to keep everything quiet when that strategy kind of failed already. >> all right. thank you. that is actually a really helpful overview on this. don't go away. nicholas kristof will stick around to talk about a big story in our next block. today twitter turn eight years old. they are not celebrating now that the turkish prime minister

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it was moved to disstall discussion about police brutality but is adding fuel to the fire of dissent and people generating an undiminished rate of tweets. as twitter grows, will crackdowns sub side and will we get better at tweeting? back with us to assess the human rights stakes and maybe give us an overview of how far we've come, is an avid tweeter himself, nicholas kristof. thank you for staying with us. >> good to be with you. >> let's talk about the turkey story. i mean, they have made a habit of cracking down over and over and over again. when will the regime realize it doesn't work. >> i don't think it will. the worst thing if you're a leader is not to be hated but to be mocked. he made himself a subject of mockery all over turkey and the world. >> it's not just turkey, of course, according to forbes, twitter is restricted in a large

number of countries, they listed libya, venezuela, pakistan and still banned in china as well. will we see renewed crackdowns? >> i think it's easier for countries like china, which is actually sent people to prison for a tweet. one couple, they were jailed on day they were going to be married for a tweet. but there people don't have the tradition of tweeting. they have their chinese version, so it's easier to get away with it. once in a modern country like turkey you have given people the right to tweet, then trying to crush it is just impossible and erdogan should know that. >> so this seems to be a particular problem while of course it needs to be said, censorship is not a problem distinctive to any one faith. muslim countries seemed to be overwhelmed by this sort of crackdown. 80% of the 31 muslim majority

countries they track use some net filtering. why do you think that is? >> i think the democracy has been slow to grow in a number of mid eastern regimes that have a lot of oil. i think that if you've got oil, and you didn't have kind of a middle class that tended to produce more democracy and openness, i think that's true and some of these countries, i don't know that that explains all but i don't think this is something rooted in a particular faith. the most repressive country in the world is north korea which is completely -- >> and china is not a muslim -- >> china isn't either. >> let's pull back to the birthday twitter is celebrating. they have generated a terrifying humiliating tool that spits out your very first tweet. let's take a look at the couple of highlights. day one, the diary of my next film started tweeting, did not

write, maybe write it tomorrow. already showing pro craft nation potential of twitter. oprah was super into it, all caps high tweeters, thank you for a warm welcome, feeling 21st century. paul ryan, what the heck is this anyway? and nick, let's turn to you. you're going to need to explain yourself. talking politics across the pond with link to a somewhat boring new york times story. what do you think? >> that was not my first tweet -- >> your first one was better. >> my first one was much better. it was a dinosaur evolves, trying -- >> that's way better. >> and you have evolved, you have 1.1 million followers? >> 1.4. >> oh, my -- >> gradually emerging. >> super jelly -- >> thank you. >> we're going to turn to a super serious issue plaguing

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welcome back to the show, everybody. every single day this week we have been looking at america's men and women living without homes. we actually turn to you to report on just how little support there is for these individuals in your communities around the country. i say how little rather than how much because when we ask you to call your local city halls and ask how many emergency shelter beds are available for life saving emergency situations when people need a roof over their heads, the vast majority of the responses, found none. zero available. blain wrote, no beds in my beloved sterling, massachusetts,

sigh. pam e-mailed, in ocean county new jersey, population, 580,000 where i live and volunteer as avo cat for poor and homeless, we have no emergency center or shelter for homeless. what we see move often in these conversation is from the leaders in the headlines, the individuals seeking shelter are lazy or they lack worth ethic. we wanted to end this week with perhaps the most surprising fact that we encountered, the number of homeless people with jobs, either steady jobs or part-time jobs, trying to make sure they stay in the economy has skyrocketed in cities around the country. right here in new york where we are shooting this show, one in every six homeless single adults is employed. and the number of working

homeless people increased by 57% from november 2010 to july 2013. so i went to the coalition for homeless headquarters in new york city to try to put a face to these figures. and one woman i encountered goes by the name rose of she's 54 and works at the major cosmetics company and never thought she would be living how she is now. >> this is the first time i've come into this. i did have an apartment. i raised my children in that apartment. and in 2009 i lost my job. and i thought okay, i'll have a job next month. that became surely next month. next month. next month. it didn't happen for me. i lost the apartment. >> what was going through your mind as the months went by and you realized a job wasn't going to come? >> i was in denial. i was in complete denial because

i am a worthwhile person, a hard working person. i don't come from having to go to get help. no, you stand on your own two feet and do what you have to do. >> what do you say to people who say this is about the homeless being lazy or it's a lack of work ethic? >> not, i have been on a food pantry line in harlem where someone who completely did not look like me was in line waiting for food. it takes a lot of strength for someone to come from the quote outside who does not look like everybody else in that circle to say, i need help from this place. i never thought that it would ever come to this. i don't come from this. i don't come from this, you know, homelessness. >> so when you think of america's homeless men and women, know it's not just the silent form you pass on the street. it is rose. it is people that look like you and me and that are working

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welcome back to the program, everybody. this week, remember, we asked you to tell us which underreported story you wanted

to hear more about and your answer was the increasingly bloody chaos engulfing venezuela. income nicholas maduro, the successor to the late hugo chavez has been cracking down on protestors there, in part using armed militias known as collectivos. there's mystery surrounding these guys. they have been accused of violence against peaceful protestors but we thought we would go inside their ranks and hear their side of the story. few journalists have ever gotten this kind of access. we are going to take you inside their perspective right now through our collaboration with the data mining startup vocative.

fighting in the streets and read about toilet paper and flour shortages, but the fact remains that many venezuelans actively support maduro's government. i'm in the heart of this district, a neighborhood in caracas that other journalists can't or won't visit. many people in the united states this is a hotbed for communist insurgents and active terrorists. this is home of the famous collectivos that have been used of using violence against the opposition to maduro's government. i wanted to explore their side of the story.

>> translator: many of us that belong to these collective groups have been wrongly named or represented as assassins, that we're violent, that we're like guerrillas, terrorists. there are a few collectives who, of course, like myself, need to be armed. we need to be prepared for an attack. but we retaliate only in the defense of our reform and what our communities and government are trying to establish for us. >> translator: they're projecting that venezuela is under civil war and that is completely false. >> translator: they're fascists. they are violent and they want to destabilize the country and

they want there to be deaths. they want war, a civil war. that's what they're backing and we know the united states is involved in all of this. >> translator: this country is completely destroyed. we've had 15 years of destruction. >> translator: they want the real problems of the country, especially the economic ones, left under the table. they want nobody to pay attention. they don't want the international media to ask why supermarkets are empty and as the "economist" reports, why in caracas the bread is the most expensive in the world. >> translator: chavez will become a aunt is to be looked up

to and remembered. he continues belowing blessings and continues to work miracles. . >> translator: the gringos that want to squash the venezuelan land know and should understand what they're up against. thank you to our partners at vocative for their work on that story. that wraps things up for today's edition of "ronan farrow daily." now it's time for the reid report with my colleague joy reid. as i live and breathe, mayly di, joy reid, what brings you to a dive like this?

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