kinds of decisions. >> you and the president will have a child, any more children? >> well, no but i wouldn't mind one of those grandchildren that i heard so much about. >> light hearted words from former secretary of state hillary clinton. today we have sad news in the search for flight 370. malaysian authorities have announced their finding conclusively that the jet and all passengers on board are gone. according to malaysia's prime minister, new analysis using satellite data shows the flight was last positioned in the middle of the indian ocean. you see it there, far from any possible landing sites. >> it is therefore with deep sadness and regret that i must

inform you that according to this new data, flight mh 370 ended in the southern indian ocean. >> families were informed just moments before the press conference by a text message. part of the text, we deeply regret we have to assume yopd any reasonable doubt that mh 370 has been lost and that none on board have survived. it is quite a text to receive. one of the loved ones who got that text on her phone is an american sara bajc. we were interviewing sarah this morning at the very moment when she received the devastating news. this footage that we've chosen not to air out of respect for her privacy and dignity and the

same privacy and dignity of all of these grieving families. she did send us an e-mail, quote, the announcement is on data only and no confirmed wreckage and no real closure. we're going to return to what's ahead for the families but first i want to go to keir simmons in kuala lumpur and joins us with the latest on this announce. . thank you so much. what's the atmosphere like right now there on the ground? >> reporter: pretty somber. this is the hotel where some families have been staying. there have been other families but we are here when a small group of relatives gathered in the area behind me there to listen to the prime minister's news conference to hear him make the announcement remember, what they were listening to was him making an announcement that their 29-year-old son was on and the boys father sat stoney faced

silence. his wife, the boy's stepmother just gently stroking his arm in tears. and then at the end, because he isn't able to speak english, one of the relatives had to lean in and explain to him what had just been announced and he just got up and walked away as you can imagine. and took some time with his family to compose his thoughts and think about what he just heard and came back and said he actually wants to know more, wants to know more of the detail before he makes any kind of statement. asked about the question how the relatives were told and he says that they were -- that they weren't given a text message or e-mail and weren't told in advance. they watched on television and that's where they first heard about it. so a pretty astonishing way to hear the news, ronan. >> keir, how do you think it is that malaysian authorities came to this conclusion right now?

>> reporter: >> i don't know if you asked me another question but i can't hear you very well, i didn't hear that question so well. let me just explain that the families here have been waiting all of this time for news. they have been waiting for two weeks for news and now really they are going to end up waiting again until tomorrow to get more detail and then of course despite this research, some of the folks i've been talking to have be saying, well, actually we still want to know whether or not the debris that is being seen in the ocean is connected to flight 370. we need more closure than this and need to know what that is. >> thank you so much. keir simmons, a shaky connection there with him all the way in the field. we appreciate that update on what it's like in the thick of the announcement. >> let's drill down on that question i just asked, how is it that malaysian authorities have come to a definitive verdict and

why now? joining us for the latest is nbc's former veteran aviation correspondent bob hager. thank you so much for joining us. >> sure. >> you're one of the smartest voices -- >> thank you. >> been through this a lot of times. >> a lot of times. >> the fact that the united states is dispatching and i want the terminology right, a ping locater, this black box. >> like a microphone under water. >> what does that tell you about the search? apparently the latest is this is being lootded on a plane bound for perth and you see a picture of the device right there. what does it say to you about what they found or haven't found that they are deploying this device? >> the mere fact they are shipping it out there, they want to get it near the action. because take -- sending anything halfway around the globe takes a while. but the point is that never mind these calculations, which

confirmed that the plane was on this southerly route, what they really need for the investigation is wreckage. and then that surface wreckage is going to be light stuff, skin and things like that from the airplane, airplane skin. they've got to find where the main body of wreckage first hit the water. to do that, if they can find this surface material and calculate back where the main body of the wreckage is, then they listen with these devices such as the one you showed and think of it as an underwater microphone from pinging. and the cockpit voice recorder at the bottom of the sea bed. they have got to know more about where is the wreckage and where the main body hit to get an area where the boats can tow this. it only goes 5 to 10 miles at the outside. you have to get that close to it with a boat. >> why do you think it is they've come to this conclusion now? what is your instinct on what type of data they are looking at?

>> they have two things. the data from which today's announcement is made is pure satellite data. it's an interrogation system on the plane where routinely sends out a signal and never mind a lot of stuff on the plane had either shut down or been disabled. the plane automatically sends out this signal once an hour, just searching for satellites and the satellite can tell if it gets hit by the signal. so a single satellite owned by this british company got that inquiry from the plane. so they plot that back down and something in the news calculations, they were able to eliminate that arc that we saw in the north going through the himalay himalayas, eliminate that and say yes, it was on that southerly route. i think we're getting enough signs of wreckage now that they do seem to be in the right area. >> it's important you mention the satellite data. they did mention they were using a new analytical technique. it will be interesting to see

how it plays out. >> thanks, bob hager. seen a lot of this and we may come back to him as this all develops. first, i want to return to this topic of the families and what they are going through and what could be next for them. joining us to tackle this, lisa bloom, legal analyst and someone who is experienced in helping families through traumatic and legally complex situations like this one. lisa, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you, ronan. >> tell us the chinese families were informed of the tragic news by text message, saying malaysian airlines deeply regrets we have to assume beyond any reasonable doubt that the flight was lost and none on board survived. couldn't they found a better way to deliver the news. >> certainly a phone call would have been better. we're talking about hundreds of people in a rapidly developing situation. i wonder why this announcement had to be made today and what i

learned representing so many families of generally crime victims is what they want is information. they don't want a con clusry statement. they want to know every deal that's available. and as these family members pointed out, we don't have a plane. we don't even have pieces of a plane. we have satellite information and we know based on the fuel of the plane it probably couldn't have gone much further than that. the conclusion has got to be the correct one that the plane has gone down and everyone has perished. but the families are going to want more information as the days and weeks develop. >> you say of course that the heart of this their desire for information. there have been a lot of complaints about how information has been doled out. do you see foresee legal actions to the search and parties responsible for dispersing information? >> absolutely, not to mention the airlines and everybody else involved. i am optimistic that eventually the plane or pieces of the plane are going to be discovered. and the families have not been

handled well as far as i can tell based on press accounts, that leads to angry people. most of the people i represent say look, in this tragedy i just wanted an apology. i wanted to be treated right. that's what leads people to going to lawyers when any can't get the information in a proper manner. >> as i understand it under international law, malaysian air is already required to make advance payments to the family for travel and related expenses and if there were legal settlements in this that would be governed by international treaty. how big a part of the jurisdiction is international law? >> i think a lot. we have a plane that was starting in one place in malaysia and going to china. we have people from all different countries in the world. international law governing planes and planes going down. if they will would handle this right now, they could avoid a lot of litigation in the future. i'm not seeing that. >> thank you so much, lisa

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welcome back, everybody. at this very hour, president obama is in europe meeting with other leaders at the g7 at the hague. russia's take over of crimea is topping the agenda for that conversation. did you notice that number? it's g-7. not g8. russia is on the outs. the president and european allies are meeting on the sidelines of something that was previously scheduled at the hague, but the renewed focus on russia has given the conversation a clear focus, send a message to vladimir putin that his power play has made him an outsider. earlier today he declared the g7 united in their resolve to punish putin for his actions. >> europe and america are united

in our support of the ukrainian government and the ukrainian people. we're united in imposing a cost on russia for its actions so far. >> this is likely to be an awkward conversation laugh lavrov is still present at the summit but not any meeting. he has to convince allies that united states has the teeth to keep putin in check. what was putin's response to this meeting of the g7? he tightened his hold on crimea. just before dawn, russian troops rolled into new territory and seized their third crimean naval base. chuck todd, nbc news chief white house correspondent and host of the daily rundown earlier in the day here traveling with president obama, chuck always a pleasure to have you on the

program. what is the single most important thing you think the president needs to accomplish at today's meeting. >> it's going to be about unifying europe to do more than just agree to a rerhetorical denuns yags of putin. getting the europeans united on tougher sanctions against russia, that's the difficulty. that's the tricky diplomacy here. the european economy as a whole, particularly some countries more than others, they are finally tied into russia. they have more fragile recovery from the great recession than the united states has. think about our economy and how our own citizens believe it's an uneven recovery at best, majority think we're in recession. the feelings are even worse here in europe. sanctioning russia, there is fears among some that it could just make an already mediocre economy in europe even more so. he's got to figure out how to keep the fragile coalition together.

at the same time there are some europeans nervous, is the united states willing to use nato in the way it was intended to be? there is a two-way diplomacy going on here. but the single big. accomplishments, getting the europeans more comfortable with tougher and tougher sanctions, not just at russian individuals but perhaps certain sectors of the russian economy. when the president signed that executive order that gave him the power to target certain sectors of the economy, they didn't do it yet. it's like a gill lo teen hoping that the europeans would climb on board. that's what his hope and his challenge is today. >> he's using both sticks and carrots here. thank you, chuck todd in the netherlands with president ob a obama. >> you got it. >> you can kauch the daily rundown at 9:00 a.m. on msnbc. with president obama facing one

of the biggest foreign policy challenges, keeping a tight european pecoalition of allies going to be more important than other. joining us now, chris hill. thank you very much ambassador for joining us. >> pleasure. >> tell me, the president is saying he's got this united front with his g7 allies, how do ut assess the strength of those relationships right now? >> certainly this is very complex. and i think his main task is to maintain some kind of united front. but most importantly to make sure it does not appear there's a division even if there are internal disagreements. certainly he wants to see sanctions tightened but he also wants to be careful not to feed this narrative we're into a new cold war. that's not something the europeans are going to go along with. he needs to talk about the long-term challenge without it

turning into a cold war. secondly and this is very important. there are a lot of new nato members poland, hungary and baltic states, he needs to be reassuring to them that nato really means something, that if they are attacked, it would be an attack on all of us. he needs to be reassured and being tough in his approach without causing problems on the western side where some of those european union members really don't want to see this kind of talk of cold war two coming about. it's a tough mission for the president. but i think so far he's handling it really well. >> tlsz the desire of cold war part 2 but specific desire not to lose the very important business interests with russia. do you think that's the biggest obstacle president obama faces in advocating for more robust

sanctions from the european allies? >> i would agree with that. to understand some of these big business interests, on the one hand yes, there are european countries who stand to lose as chuck todd said, do have fragile economies, but there's also a body of opinion that says in the long run. the way the russia problem if you will is going to be solved by bringing russia into the family of western nations and if you kind of throw them in the deep freeze so to speak, that's not going to happen. so there are a lot of people who not just for short term commercial gain but rather for long-term strategic gain want to see the door left open to bringing russia back. that's obviously a tough mission with vladimir putin and no indication that vladimir putin cares about russia becoming a western nation. so i think the president needs to convey that without kind of spooking the europeans into

believing that somehow u.s. simply doesn't care and we're ready to let russia go back in the deep freeze for the rest of his tri. >> throughout the first obama administration and certainly while i was an official, the big point over and over was the pivot to the east asia pacific region. does this throw a wrench in that? >> i think so. we've had wrenches thrown ever since it was announced. first of all the idea we get from the mid east and get into east asia came in conflict with the arab spring with the perception we were leaving the region. that was a bad signal and secretary john kerry has been trying undo that. there was another unintended sequence, which was the notion that somehow the europeans felt like chopped liver as we're going off to east asia and

focusing there. so clear we're back to dealing with europe and back to dealing with traditional trans atlantic issues in a way that probably was in no way could have been anticipated just a couple of years ago. this however, does not mean that we shouldn't be focusing on china. certainly we don't want to see a new russian chinese and russia and china coordinating their policies. we need to be engaged there as well. i think this is the fate that the united states has. we need to be engaged in a number of places at the same time. >> all right, back to europe as center piece of american foreign policy interests. the more things change, the more they stay the same. thank you, ambassador. >> sure. >> all right, just ahead on "ronan farrow daily," the search for survivors in a wave of mud. nearly 20 feet deep. >> the conditions are very, very

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each day we're going to bring you a different facet as this call plays out. today we start by looking at whether obama care is the answer through the lens of its closest precedent. that's the massachusetts health care law known as romney care. here to discuss what lessons can be learned from that precedent and where we go moving forward based on that, our former democratic massachusetts congressman barney frank and roy, a former health care adviser to the romney presidential campaign. congressman, i want to start with you. you served in massachusetts during governor romney's statewide health care mandate. what do you think we should learn from that experience? >> well, i apologize, i'm not very good person to ask that. it is true i was serving in the congress during that time. i was not in legislature and wasn't directly involved. the one thing i can tell you is that i would hear from constituents about this or that

problem during the time since it was signed and whatever 2000 -- 2006, i haven't heard any complaints about it at the state it worked well. in terms of lessons, i must tell you i do not sufficiently familiar with it to do that. and voted on and was supportive in general of the affordable health care act although parts i would like to have seen done differently. i was spending most of my time on the financial reform bill so it's probably one of the ones i'm not as good on details as i should be. >> that is a general massachusetts perspective. i'll come back to you on the national question of health care. first, let me ask you, there are a number of specific differences between romney care which played out before hand in massachusetts and obamacare, they allow you to calculate whether a employee is

full-time or part-time in different ways and you can talk about that. also, it allows businesses to deduct the romney care penalties from their taxes which is distinct from how obama care handles this and romney care penalties are much more modest. a number of business owners that i talked to have therefore praised romney care and dinged obamacare. do you think the massachusetts rollout handled better? >> stepping asides from the technical details the biggest difference it was a state based reform and obamacare was a federal based reform. it only added exchanges to the existing architecture to the existing health care system where obamacare had to do significant changes to the health care system which are more disruptive and have people unhappy. the other thing to mention, of course, how the exchanges were implemented. they worked relatively smoothly, the enrollment started slow and

worked up. there weren't complaints about the technical challenge. in terms of sign-ups for obamacare, massachusetts is dead last in the country, they are having a lot of difficulty having the obama care interact with romney care. >> if mitt romney had become president, how do you think it would be playing out differently? >> it would be different because he would be trying to make executive orders and regulations and what he would try to get through congress. in terms of basic stuff that needs to be executed to get the law up and running so people weren't so dislocated, i would like to think he would do a better job. very experienced at just that sort of thing. >> going back to you congressman frank, you were in office both democratic pushes on health care, including that from senator kennedy and also as i said, mitt romney's rollout of that massachusetts health care plan, without getting into technical details, what would you like to see happen next in the national conversation about

health care? >> well, that's a very important point. i count it as a great advantage we did this on the national level and not the state level. the single best part of that health care bill was the expansion of medicaid. you talked earlier about the difference in lifespans. well the different in the lifespan in america is a very different one within america according to people's income and social economic standing, wealthy americans do very well, part of the reason for our lower level is the excess of inequality we have and the problems that causes for people at all levels. so that's something that couldn't have been done at the state level. expansion of medicaid and i've been appalled at some states where they've rejected federal assistance to help people just above the poverty level get into medicaid. that's one of the ones that i would -- i would approve on. we try to make that mandatory,

the u.s. supreme court upheld the overall bill but threw out the mandatory part. yes, i care about massachusetts but i care about poor people in many of those states who are terribly deprived and aren't getting any assistance. so i would like to mandate and we're talking about 90% -- >> if i can jump in there, one thing i would say, it's far from clear that medicaid actually solves the problem of life expectancy being lowered for poor people. all of the literature, one published in the new england journal of medicine, showed med okay had no impact on health outcomes, there's a problem with discrepancies but it's not clear it is addressing the problem? >> i disagree with that. >> there is literature that suggests that it -- >> there's literature on a variety of things. the fact is there are -- and i

know this from people i've talked to, there are clearly people who don't get as much medical care as they should. the fact there's no immediate impact within a few years on life expectancy doesn't resolve that issue. there is a quality of life question. and the notion that people who are just above the poverty line that they are better off running a charity medicine and the kindness of strangers, rather than having medicaid, i disagree with. i know there are people -- they were people conservatives who don't like medicaid who would like to cut it way back. i think it is clear that lower income people are better off without it. i know that was true in the district i represented. it does the no have an immediate increase in long he havety within a five or seven year period does not make medicaid not a good thing. we do -- >> there are alternative solutions i would say. >> we can continue this

conversation about the specifics of medicaid at other time. i think you both raise important points. i think congressman frank's point about quality of life is important. how this does disproportionately affect the have-nots. and we want to hear from every one of you with what your challenges are. remember, please for the call to action, send ugs a photo on a sign or piece of paper telling us how much your medical costs are per month. you can take a look at mine. i'm not going through any big medical trauma this month. those costs are modest. around the ofrs we've seen a range of expenses, some devastating, some modest. we home you help us report out the scope the problems across the country. thank you for joining us for this. we hope all of you will continue to respond at home. also, up next, an alarming new report finds a pattern of in

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responsibility. what's your policy? welcome back. a shocking, and i mean this, shocking new report on education is out at signs that black students are suspended and expelled three times more often than white students. maybe even more shocking, that trend starts as early as preschool. black students in that grade face tougher discipline than other students. take a look at these numbers. while black children in preschool comprise 18% of the population, they make up 42% of preschoolers who are suspended at least once. having grown up with black siblings and having heard my sister get called the n word at school when she was a little kid, this is heart wrenching on a personal level. but it also has repercussions

for the fabric of all of our lives. joining me now are msnbc political analyst and former rnc chair michael steele, always a pleasure to have you on. >> nice to see you. >> and lisa bloom, "today" show analyst and author of "suspicion nation", the trayvon martin injustice and why we continue to repeat it. lisa, i cannot even wrap my mind around the scope of the stats and how early this discrimination appears to start. what do you attribute that to? >> this is a department of education study of all 97,000 public schools in america. so it's a very broad study and not by some radical outside group. listen, i have a chapter about this in my book as well. to me this is the primary reason why there's still so much racial equality in america. at the beginning, in schools there's so much racial inequality. most americans go to segregated

schools and kids in majority black schools get less funding than kids who go to majority white schools. kids in black schools less likely to have teachers who are competent or proefficient. the schools are crumbling and toxic, toilets don't work. the list goes on and on. we cannot claim to be a legaltear yan country as long as we allow this to continue. >> what are kids that young getting suspended for? >> that's a very important point. we know from a lot of psych log c cal studies that african-american boys are perceived to be more hostile and threatening than white boys who engage in the same behaviors. i think the huge rise in suspensions and expulsions of african-american boys is in large part a result of that. i talk in the book, for example about trayvon martin, who we know suspended three times, as you say spended for tardyness and one incident of graffiti on a locker and marijuana residue in a bag gi.

i drilled down on his schools own rules which don't provide for suspensions in two of the three situations that are current for him. i theink he's an example. >> he has come to represent so much also representative of this startling trend. i want to turn to you for policy angle. secretary duncan and eric holder have been doing a lot to emphasize the so-called school to prison pipe line. one of the proposals for ameal yor ating that is decrcreating t of guidelines so kids aren't just expelled ash trarly, do you see that happening? >> i hope so. it's a lot more than just a federal, you know, policy to try to deal with this issue at a national level. this boils down to what lisa was saying, it's at the local level. you need governors and state legislators and school boards to

focus in. because at the end of the day, the federal government can say what you can and can't do but it's what happens in the classroom, what the teachers -- how the teachers perceive that child, what they do about that child's behavior, that really drives it and puts the kid in a pipeline if you will, that will lead to problems down the road. i think at the one level we can talk about the federal policy but it really is a very much a local issue. >> all right, thank you so much. michael steele and lisa bloom. i definitely want to come back to this story. it means so much to me and a lot of our viewers and has a profound effect on equality all around us. we'll come back today with a look at one more issue that we feel is underreported and that we looked at all last week and you were all em passioned about, the homelessness crisis. we have a moving story coming up next. ♪

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welcome back, everybody. remember, las vegas week we asked you which stories you thought were underreported. and one of your top answers was the heartbreaking increase in homelessness across america right here in new york city, the number of homeless has hit a record high and all last week, we covered different facets of this story through our call to action. we wanted to bring you one final story. one of the most moving that we've found. >> how hard is it to stay positive given the circumstances and where you're living now? >> it's really hard. >> if you pass her on a street, you'd likely have no idea she woke up that morning in a homeless shelter. the 32-year-old mother and her children have lived in a shelter since april. >> everyone in the shelter talked about how hard it is to come forward with these stories. there's a lot of stigma. have you faced that? >> yes. it's been situations where i

didn't want anyone to know where i got off the train because everyone knows that area. everyone knows that building. >> she says she fled an abusive relationship in florida leaving behind a business and a home. for the comfort of her hometown, new york. but when she arrived, she couldn't find work. >> i've been working ever since i was 18 years old. >> and no work meant no money for a home. now, she and her children are just some of the 53,000 who seek refuge in new york city's shelters every single night. 53,000. that's enough to fill every seat in yankee stadium and then some. and the ferocious debate over what to do about homelessness in america, some blame a lack of work ethic. a surprising fact suggests otherwise. the number of homeless men and women with jobs is growing. >> are a lot of the people you're staying with at the

shelter working while they're in the shelter? >> most people are working, yes. most people had jobs, and they just had unfortunate circumstances where they had to live in a shelter. but most everyone there is working, yeah. and it's normal people you would never realize that were in a shelter. >> in fact, there are now more working among the homeless in new york than ever before. according to the city's own data up 57% in just the last three years. >> meet these incredible women that are sometimes holding down two minimum wage jobs. >> mary leads new york's coalition for the homeless. she sees untapped potential. >> homeless people have overcome amazing hurdles in their lives. and so you see that resourcefulness, that resiliency, and that's the kind of thing that you can't buy in somebody who has been given a free pass their whole life. >> nobody is handing her free passes. but she remains hopeful. she's finding job training

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get you an update on voting rights. but we start with the latest on missing malaysian flight 370. today, there's a particularly difficult development for the families of the passengers and crew. as malaysia's prime minister and airline officially declare that all onboard have been lost. even as crews in australia wait for daylight to renew the search for possible debris. the prime minister of malaysia informed the world that based on new analysis of data, the plane did fly south in the direction of the search area. and that it did, indeed, go down in that area. >> this is a remote location. far from any possible landing sites. it is therefore with deep sadness and regret that i must inform you that according to