the increasingly petroleum fouled course. that does it for us tonight. rachel will be back on monday. if you want to find me, you can find me on twitter at ari melber. up next, weekends with alex witt. rattling nerves. a series of after shocks on the west coast after the second quake in the l.a. area in as many weeks. we have a live report next. a new search area. have the latest efforts turned up anything in the plane mystery? is a potential breakthrough on the horizon? the strong words from bridgette ann kelly after the christie administration report. what would you do? the tale of a teenager who suddenly discovered tens of thousands of dollars in his bank account. what did he do?

good morning. welcome to weekends with alex witt. here is what's happening now. we have brand-new clues in the hunt for missing malaysian airline flight 370. an aircraft just spotted three suspicious objects in the new search zone over southern indian ocean. they are described as red and orange. unclear if they belong to the missing jet liner. they have shifted 700 miles northeast after new analysis of radar data showed the plane was traveling much faster and burned more fuel than originally thought. new zealand and the australian air force found debris. an australian pilot says the object seen by chinese officials have been marked with buoys to ships can find them. the transport minister met with relatives of the missing plane. kier simmons is going to join us

from kuala lumpur. what came out of the meting today? >> reporter: scrutiny in particular from the families. he has held news conferences. he has not gone to see the relatives. they have complained here and in beijing they have not been getting the information they wanted. they haven't gotten it because the authorities haven't had the information or able to tell them answers to the questions they have been asking. clearly a move by the authorities to try to correct that and try to talk directly to the families. the transportation minister going to see them, gather at the hotel. this is what he had to say after he emerged from tla meeting. >> at the end of the day, the only one to know where are their

loved ones. when i communicate to them this one question i don't have the answers to at the moment and the fact it came to them sincerely, i think they appreciated it. i think that just needs the strength to continue for another day. >> reporter: the relatives pretty much pleading with the transportation minister to treat this still as a search and rescue operation. he said he responded to that by saying, look, we absolutely will. if there is a glimmer of hope that anyone survived, we would not let that go. at the same time, alex, we now hear these chinese aircraft spotted three items in the ocean. ships are on their way there. as you have heard many times, but ships are on their way to try to look at that. of course, they need to get eyes on it, get it on board, try to

identify it. it will be a long process to try to go from where we are now, we are seeing things that look suspicious to a point where they might be able to say that really is evidence of flight 370. >> yeah. what an emotional roller coaster for the grieving families. you get a sense, keir, that they have gone from anger to frustration to sadness to just a sense of okay, what more can you tell us? i mean it's just unbelievable to try to put yourself in their position. >> reporter: yeah, it really is. i don't think you can say necessarily the relatives are going to be less angry. the chinese relatives in beijing have been furious. they are planning to travel to kuala lumpur. they want to be more engaged than they have been. i don't think they are going to be any less angry. some of that is the emotions

anyone feels. you can imagine, when you go through this, some of that is the reality, the authorities have not handled this in the best possible way. you can say this is unprecedented sequence of events, but it's clearly learning on the job. the reality remains there's text messages they sent, the way they haven't communicated at times. not everything has been done in a way if you step back and look, you would hope it's in relation to the relatives. >> keir simmons, thank you very much. searchers are battling heavy rain looking for mudslide victims in washington state. they found another body yesterday. that brings the number of presumed dead to 27. they are looking for 90 people and the search is taking its toll. >> these individuals coming up to waist deep in mud they have been going through. they have been digging through stuff. they see things people shouldn't have to see. >> jennifer is joining us from

arlington, washington with the latest. it is a grim task they have ahead. what's going on? >> reporter: it's a difficult, difficult day about to start here in washington state, alex. the executive director of snohomish county, when asked if the 90 people on the missing list were really feared dead in this mudslide. he said, for the first time, really, you want to hold out hope. at some point, you have to fear the worst. that is what they are doing this morning even though they will continue the search. it is going to be a brutal day. there's no other way to put it. it is pouring rain. locals in the pacific northwest tell us, even for them, this is a lot of rain. there's a flash flood alert. they are dealing with, almost impossible search conditions. that's why they are saying it's taking so long to recover bodies in the rubble of that mudslide that hit exactly a week ago

today. governor jay insley asked everybody to have a moment of silence at 10:37 this morning, one week later. alex? >> thank you very much. let's go to another breaking story. a series of aftershocks in southern california after an earth cake. it was 20 miles east of downtown los angeles. the 5.1 quauk caused a car to jooefr turn. disneyland felt it. let's go to rahama ellis. >> the experts are saying there are two dozen aftershocks felt. it was more than routine for a lot of people. we heard folks talk about how they were at the drive-through and a drive-through restaurant

and felt their car swaying back and fort. losing power because of the quake. that certainly rattled their nerves as well. people in their homes where they might have had items on shelves, windows broken, items fell from shelves. we have shots of what happened in a grocery store. there was wine all over the floor. there was video of a dodgers exhibition game, i think it is. we have sound of that. the camera is shaking back and forth. we can dgo to sound of the announcer saying what he thought was happening. >> that's going to go foul off to the right. a little tremor here in the ballpark. not sure if the folks felt it. we certainly felt it here.

a tremor and only that, thank goodness. two balls and two strikes. >> thank goodness is right, that it was only a tremor. again, a 5.1 magnitude. they are calling it a moderate quake. the thing that's gotten a lot of attention is this occurred about two weeks shy of the last quake, which registered a 4.4 magnitude. it has people saying in this area of the country, in los angeles, and california, where they have at one point been accustomed to frequent quakes. some experts are saying they haven't had them with that kind of frequency in ten or so years. people are complacent. folks are saying they are encouraging people to make sure they have their flashlights and know what to do in the event a quake occurs. >> i grew up in los angeles. earthquakes galore. i was there a couple weeks ago

for the 4.4. jolted me out of bed and it was unnerving. you don't get used to it. >> you don't. i just arrived last night. i was in the hotel, sitting on the berksd i have to tell you. i looked and wondered, was something under the bed. the bed started moving. i didn't want to think it was an earthquake. as it turns out, it was. >> my instikts know, it's an earthquake. let's go from there to the weather. rain is hitting the pacific northwest hampering search efforts for victims of washington's mudslide. here with the latest on what they are facing is dylan dreier. good morning. >> good morning, alex. we have rain on both coasts this weekend. the east coast is going to see several inches of rain and stronger storms and the northwest where we don't need the rain, that is where we are going to see another inch or so. you can see through seattle and washington state and parts of oregon and northern california, that's where the moisture is streaming in across the pacific.

a closer look shows we could understood up with another one to one and a half inches of rainfall in parts of western washington into eugene, oregon and especially down into the sierras in california as well. we are looking for heavier rain to move into the carolinas. the rain in virginia and north carolina and south carolina will take a break, then the next round of rain in the panhandle of florida. it makes its way into the northeast. we are going to be damp all day long up and down the east coast. severe thunderstorms in the southeast later on this afternoon. temperatures will be in the 50s. we cool off quite a bit through chicago at 41 degrees today and 44 in minneapolis. look at the flip side of that. by the time we get to sunday, 60 in chicago, 73 in kansas city. it clears out in the southeast. it stays damp in the northeast. we could see snow in the ski resorts in central new england. >> thank you. in the news now, the massive

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at this hour, president obama is heading back to the u.s. after departing saudi arabia on a foreign international tour. before leaving, he spoke with russian president vladimir putin about the situation in ukraine. kristen welker is at the white house. do you know what was said during

the phone call? >> reporter: hey, alex. we are getting some details. they describe the 60-minute phone call as frank and direct. putin reached out to president obama who had that discussion from his hotel. that was his final stop on the diplomatic trip. a white house official says it two leaders discussed the proposal for a diplomatic situation. the official i spoke with wouldn't give specifics, but pointed to a past discussion about a ramp, pulling back russian forces to the bases in crimea and creating a direct dialogue between russia and ukraine. in a statement released by the white house, it says president obama urged russia to support the process and avoid further provocations i colluding the build up of forces on the border of ukraine. the kremlin said putin raised the issue of extremists in

ukraine. president obama worked to build up support among his european partners in an attempt to force putin to retreat, something that hasn't happened yet. tensions have been mounting since russia annexes crimea in the wake of the political instability in ukraine. crimea, for background was once a part of russia. a number of residents supporting the annexation. the u.s. calls it illegal. putin's next move is to go into other parts of ukraine, something russian officials deny, but western concerns deepened when he increased forces along the border. white house officials tell me is for secretary of state john kerry to meet with his russian counter parts. no date on that. we suspect it will happen next week. also next week, the house will vote on a bill to increase sanctions on russia, something

that was supposed to happen this week. it got delayed, but we expect it to go through next week. >> i was reading kerry and lavrov may meet next week? >> so far, they are not giving uls a specific date. could be tuesday or wednesday, it looks like. >> many thanks for that. >> reporter: thank you. we have more politics. a group of republicans, white house hopefuls are gathering in las vegas for the republican jewish coalition. sheldon add ellison is hosting that at his venetian resort and hotel. chris christie, scott walker and ohio governor, john kasich. jeb bush is going to be there. new numbers show how popular the first lady's trip to china was. the u.s. embassy says pictures and stories about the visit to

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walker. hunter has been covering the story. good morning to you. it was hired fwi governor's office and did not include key figures like bridgette kelly, david wildstein, all of those declined to participate, which begs the question, how valid is the report in. >> the lawyers who conducted it said they were able to get a very complete picture without speaking to those people. it's pretty curious given the fact we know they used personal e-mail and personal cell phones. with an extensive document revul, there's a lot they might have missed if they weren't providing personal communications. >> they announced that david samson was retiring. what do you know about this? >> the governor claimed this was in the works for more than a

year. samson is now the third figure to resign in the wake of the bridgegate allegations. two other officials stepped down. at least one of those, they said, he had been planning to do it for some time beforehand. that's quite curious. >> interestingly, the report includes details, possible relationship, a personal one between kelly and step yen. it's suggested the end of the relationship may have had a baring on her state of mind. her lawyer puts out a statement in response saying the reports venomous, and sexist remarks have no place in what is a professional and independent report. is that a fair criticism? >> a lot of people latched on to that saying it was a way to get tabloid attention. the lawyers who compiled the report say it was important in explaining how kelly and stepien

who might have communicated about this were out of touch. they pegged it to the break up. >> interesting. here is governor christie speaking about this in an interview with fox news. >> do you think bridgette ann kelly will back up your story under oath? >> i have no idea. all i can tell you is it's the truth. if she's telling the truth, she will. we never had conversations about this, ever. >> there's not going to be e-mails, phone records, tape recordings that come out that establish you knew about this? >> no. >> do you see this as being, hunter, somewhat of a high wire act to criticize her so publicly knowing she is going to testify some day? >> this is not showing any new information. i noticed one thing that does seem to be consequential. the lawyers seemed to be claims that there is no documentary or

written evidence showing the governor communicating about the closures, either on his personal phone, e-mail or official accounts. i spoke to randy mastro, the lawyer who compiled it. he said there's no written smoking gun there. that's a pretty big deal. even if bridgette kelly or david wildstein, to t two people thrown under the bus. it's going to be a he said/she said. they have a lot of reason to blame the governor. >> business insiders, hunter walker. thank you. >> thank you. we are going to talk to a woman whose partner was on flight 370. the fight for what officials have told her. hey there, i just got my bill, and i see that it includes

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saying the attackers are shooting rockets and firing machine guns from a nearby building. this is the latest in a spade of deadly attacks in the lead up to next weekends presidential election. joining me from kabul, richard engel. what's happening right now? what do you know? >> reporter: we have spoken to members of the afghan electoral commission. they are holed up in save rooms and in underground bunkers as the attack is under way. four taliban militants or at least four taliban militants are firing at the compound with machine guns, rocket propelled grenades from a building 700 miles away under construction. according to the building owners, the four men claiming responsibility entered the building wearing burqas, the all covering dresses that afghan women wear that act as

disguises. they moved up to the upper floors, fired down on the workers of the electric commission. this entire area is now put under siege by the s.w.a.t. teams and afghan security forces. the s.w.a.t. teams entered and managed to kill one of the suspects taliban militants. an afghan commando was injured. they had to retreat. moments ago, we were told they have reentered this building where the gun battle is continuing. as you said, this is just the latest up tick in violence in kabul in the last ten days or so in the run up to the afghan presidential elections, which are supposed to take place on april 5th. the taliban does not want the elections to go forward. >> richard, as i look at research we are getting from a producer, you are reporting what's been happening, yet, we

have very conflicting information from the taliban. they are actually tweeting about this saying they have killed 20 soldiers, ten injured, at least ten buildings of the election commission are on fire. there's no truth to what they are tweeting? >> reporter: no, that seems like an exaggeration. we were just on the scene. we did hear explosions. we did see fire. we could hear gunfire. we have been speaking with members of the afghan election commissions in the bunkers. they tell us all the staff have been accounted for, they don't have deaths or injuries. this is an ongoing attack. there are many buildings within the compound and this situation remains quite fluid. until it's over, until all the buildings are cleared, i don't think we'll have a complete picture of what is happening. but, no, we can't confirm any of those claims by the taliban.

>> richard engel in kabul. thank you. an australian ship left perth joining the three week long hunt for malaysian airline flight 370. multiple items have been found but the task is recovering debris. >> we should not underestimate the difficulty of this work. it is an extraordinarily remote location. these are inhospitable seas. it's an inaccessible place. we are trying to find small bits of wreckage in a vast ocean. >> this is one of them. we are going to show you a look of an image that aired on chinese television. they spotted this and other objects over the southern indian ocean. meanwhile, the chinese news station says they spotted three more, what they are calling suspicious objects in the same region today. kerry sanders is in the

washington bureau. kerry, good morning. could all the sightings be of the same object? is there indication it would be part of the plane? >> i think it's unlikely it's the same object. one is orange, one is white. most importantly, they have different colors. so it doesn't appear it could be the same. as we enter the fourth week, there may be a break in this because of the fact the chinese aircraft that was flying at 10,000 feet, flying over the new search zone did spot that debris. when they spotted the debris, they were able to organize some naval vessels to head to the area. two chinese vessels are headed to the area. fortunately, one of the two, which is in the new search zone has the capability of launching a helicopter, which means the helicopter can do what nobody has been able to do thus far. once an airplane spots debris,

the helicopter can fly over the debris, look down and when it looks down, it can hover and go lower. maybe for the first time, get a sense of whether they are seeing debris or the garbage that gets caught up in here. the ocean currents go like this. there's a lot of garbage that gets caught and spins around. >> buoys have been dropped to mark places where the debris was found, but, those buoys, they are going to move around with the currents. >> yes, but this is high-tech. they have the ability to lock in gps signals when they drop them down. of course they move. the good news is, in this new search area versus where they were down here, there's usually better weather in this area. while it's raining and cloudy today, the seas are reportedly much calmer. that is useful, too. it suggests less drift, alex. >> kerry sanders, thank you from

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the communications with the families have been handled. i can't speak to the investigation because there's so much we don't actually know. we only know what they tell us. it could be that they are doing things we don't know about. >> the facebook page, finding phillip wood, this has had, as you know, over 1 million visitors now. can you tell us about it and how social media helped you in all of this? >> yes, we started the finding phillip wood facebook page as a personal outlook for me in the beginning. a way for me to communicate. my e-mail box was totally overwhelming. it's turned into a different mission. yes, i'm grieving and a lot of other families are grieving.

there are very serious questions we need to ask about the way air traffic is handled and the way different countries communicate with each other. we are trying to use this as a social media platform to advance to another level. >> i understand the texting of information to you, you are not pleased with that. that mode of communication, right? >> well, text message as a way to inform me of facts is totally fine. it's nice and efficient. the content of that text message on monday was absolutely awful. first of all, it didn't give fact, it gave opinion and used the most shocking possible language it could with a very stressful set up. that was painful for me and it was painful for a lot of families, too. it was a bad move. >> this is the information saying the plane ended or the

flight ended in the southern indian ocean. that's the text you are referring to? >> yes. that text and of course the next day was reversed. >> right. so many of us admired you and the positive spirit with which you have approached all of this saying that you believe phillip is still alive. i just heard you talk about grieving process. how do you feel today? >> well, today has been particularly tough because i flew last night from beijing to kl. it was a super bumpy flight. i had images of phillip strapped in his seat at the bottom of the ocean, right? walking into the apartment and having his clothe laid out, he obviously left for the airport in a rush. that was traumatic. the grieving is already real.

i still believe that there is a chance that phillip and other passengers are alive because there's no proof they aren't. i'm still grieving for the loss of him in my life at the moment and the trauma we have been put there. >> this has not been easy for you on any level. i understand your father passed away recently. you had to have surgery on your wrist. you are trying to move an apartment, one handed. that's what phillip was going. he was coming back to beijing to help you move. >> yeah. it seems such an inconsequential thing at this moment, but, they say murphy's, things happen in threes, right? if those are my three crises points, i'm hoping there won't be a fourth crisis of phillip never returning. i'm hopeful they will find them and figure out where they have been this whole time. >> sarah, we would love to hear

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>> now to the big money headlines, slow growth, financial reality and debacle. regina lewis is here. let's begin with slow growth. >> gdp was revised slightly upward. two-thirds of it is consumer spending. when you drill down on what they spent on, it was the must haves, things like health care and utilities. beyond that, you can't spend money you don't have. despite record corporate profits in 2013, companies are hold thag cash or spending it on

equipment, hard goods like technology, not on people in the form of job creation or increased wages so you are not getting that spending effect that contributes to gdp at a healthier rate. >> it leads into the financial reality question we have here. what is that about? >> money magazine took a look at this as they have for several years. they say their personal finances stable sized. that's compared to 50% of people. imperically, 30% of people say they are doing better. 24% say they are doing worse. they are not confident about it. they have settled into a new norm. nine out of ten say they expect their finances to be roughly the same moving forward. this was interesting. six out of ten are worried about the future when it comes to retirement or having a safety net should there be an emergency. >> what is behind the depoz it debacle. some story. >> somebody goes into a bank.

a guy deposits $31,000. there's another customer with the same name. the teller puts it into the account. the 18-year-old finds it, goes score, goes on a spending spree. instead of bank error in your favor, consumers.com investigated it saying hey, can we get that back? reportedly, the teenager has not shown up yet. >> is the bank going to press charges? >> they don't know. i tend to think it was an error. it is worth explaining to your children monopoly is a game. >> took out a bunch of cash. spent five grand. $20,000 then went back for 5,000. >> isn't he trying to say he got an inheritance and the money is

his? >> yes, he was claiming at the bank. >> they said we are looking for you. he said i'll be sure to swing by as fast as i can. that hasn't happened yet. >> can't way to see how this works out. thanks. >> now to politics. chris christie is heading to las vegas. he's looking to put bridgegate behind him. it's a day after the report from a law firm his administration hired and paid for by tax dollars. >> it's nice you eventually got to the question. it follows the mandate i set out when we commissioned the review. one thing was clear from the beginning. i told them to find the truth, no matter where it led and turn over every rock they were able to get to to get to the bottom of what happened and to let me know what the truth was. >> now, governor christie

announced the immediate resignation of david samson. he ran the agency that had oversight over the george washington bridge. joining me now, wanda summers and ed o'keefe. good morning you two. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> morning. >> the tone of the press conference is different than the one held in january. let's take a look. >> it's nice you eventually got to the question. it's so infirmed, i'm not answering it. it's amusing when you write stories about things you are entitled to. you are entitled to the answers when i get them. >> what did you make of this press conference? do you think the governor is going to be able to put bridgegate behind him or not so much? >> no. he's trying. he has this press conference that harkins back to the style we have been familiar with and really helped put him on the map in the first place. i think there's concern a report

commission by the governor and conducted by his lawyers is not necessarily the be all, end all. there's still a federal investigation. state lawmakers are looking into it. there's the possibility washington may get into it. not necessarily needed if a federal investigation is under way. clearly, he's trying to remind the republican world, if you will, and voters generally that he's still here, he could be a factor in 2016 and he's trying to rehabilitate his image. >> this report, again, commissioned by the christie administration puts the blame of bridgette kelly and david wildstein. they both declined to participate in the reports. kelly is saying the only credible investigation is being conducted by the u.s. attorney's office. put this in perspective. all this publicity in the discussion. >> i have to agree with ed.

it is rather interesting that this report was commissioned by the governor, done by a law firm with ties to him. here is what it means for christie in general. he's been fighting allegations he fostered a culture that allowed this to happen for quite some time. it happened at an important moment as things are jetting up for 2016. chris christie and others in las vegas this weekend. what he's trying to do right now, to deal with the tarnished image to remind people, as ed noted, he canceled in 2016 and to sweep away the notions. there will be many more questions over the next couple weeks. >> you bring up what's happening in las vegas. ed, to you, the sheldon primary. do you think this is sort of the first gop primary for 2016 with regard to who comes out on top and gets his money? >> yeah, it's being billed as that for sure.

this is a guy that spent a lot of money in the 2012 cycle. some say needlessly or not as smart as he could have. >> that is a lot of money. most of it went to newt gingrich before he transferred over to mitt romney. >> exactly. the thinking is now, he wants to and is willing to spend much more this cycle. he made clear to my colleagues and others he's looking for someone who can win, not just pop up and disappear during the primary process. that's why you are seeing the guys go to las vegas this week. they are trying to make the case, i'm the guy. throw money behind me, we can make music together and win the nomination. >> we wants someone who can win. he maintains passion for an aggressive foreign policy, particularly in regards to israel, wants a candidate to share him. who might he back? >> we don't know yet.

one thing i would like to know is the potential 2016 field has a lot of governors in it. they don't have a lot of hands on experience with foreign policy. they are not dealing with the decisions on a day-to-day basis. lawmakers on capitol hill are having. that will make this race interesting given the interest sheldon adelson is having. you have topnotch folks in vegas. it's closed off to the press. it will be interesting to see what details leak out. >> ed, a big name not in las vegas is rand paul. he had a long standing family commitment. can they afford not to attend? >> oh, sure. you know, it's still only 2014. we have elections in november. these guys feel the need to be there and working on it. for years bush or doyle, they aren't that. they have to do more legwork to get ahead in 2016.

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