board. >> malaysia airlines says it lost contact with one of its boeing 777s similar to this one about tengo, and we have just learned that four americans, including an infant were on board. >> that plane left kuala lumpur, malaysia early saturday morning local time on its way to beijing. >> all communication was lost about two hours into the flight, and now a frantic search is under way. nbc's tom costello has the latest from our washington bureau. >> reporter: good evening. this was malaysia airlines flight 370, a 777 with 239 passengers and crew monies board, including we're now told four americans, one of them an infant. this plane was flying from kuala lumpur to beijing on an early saturday morning flight local time. two hours into the flight, malaysia airlines says it lost contact with the plane. the plane should have been in vietnamese airspace at that point in the flight. china says the flight never entered its space. chinese tv says there are no reports of a crash in chinese waters. but search and rescue teams are launching at this hour. malaysia airlines tells nbc news that its t

>>> more than a week after malaysia jet airliner went missing now looking into the pilot, in the cockpit in hopes ever finding out just what happened to 239 people on board. malaysia airlines took off from kuala lumpur with little clues to work on, investigations are turning to the people on board. reporter: the pilot and co- pilots of flight 370 are now the in the hot seat, malaysia police searching the homes of 53 year old and his co-pilot. will is a flight simulator in shaw's home which is bread speculation but with decades on the job and more than 18,000 hours of flying experience, friends say that similar late i don't remember was about his love for flying. >> if you allow to i would definitely choose him. i have full confidence and trust in him because of his joy and passion in flying, you know, if something had happened to this flight i would think -- in fact i would believe that he would have made sure of the safety and welfare of everyone else before i think of himself. reporter: this change in the investigation was prompted by electronic data that shows the plane flying a straight path once communication was cut off the jet made a hard left tur

these are the two men who boarded malaysia airlines using stolen passports, 19-year-old and 29-year-old. the secretary-general of interpol says the stolen documents were from austria and italy but used valid iranian passports to fly to malaysia. >>> neither passport was reported it seems to men or listed in the databases of interpol. comparing the names and numbers against interpol database would not have a suspect the. >> it is suspected that the 19-year-old was trying to seek asylum in germany. >> the more information we get we are inclined to conclude it is not terrorism. >> there is still no trace of the plane with dozens of planes and ships scouring the waters between malaysia and vietnam but as we have learned, the plane could have been hundreds of mile off course. for the loved ones the uncertainty is what is unbearable. >> the worst possible news. at least there is what we call appropriate reaction whether it is grove or anger. >> the c.e.o. of the airlines said he is not discouraged. >> it must be there somewhere. we have to find it. >> another deficit in the mystery, the compa

worldwide there is an outpouring of concern for the families of those on board malaysia airlines flight 370. now -- questions are surfacing about the legal aspect of this tragedy. under an international treaty, the airline is required to send families financial restitution for between 150 to 175 thousand dollars. but relatives of the victims could sue for further damages. cnn reports it will be difficult for malaysia airlines to prove it took all necessary steps to prevent the incident. it also reports the victims families are already planning to file lawsuits against boeing-- the jet's maker-- and malaysia airlines. so far the search for the jetliner has come up empty. the ceo of general motors will be grilled by lawmakers on capitol hill april 1st. mary barra, will field questions from a congressional commitee investigating "why" it took years for the automaker to report an "ignition switch" defect. 1.6 mllion cars were recalled last month. the defect is linked to 12 deaths. barra vows to release an "unvarnished" report. also next month-- the senate will investigate possible tax evasi

. >>> families of those on board malaysia airlines flight 370 are trying to come to terms with an announcement about the fate of their loved ones. authorities say the plane likely went down in remote areas west of australia. more than 150 of the 239 people on the flight were chinese. the relatives have reacted to the news with disbelief, anger and protests. nhk world reports. >> reporter: relatives of chinese passengers who were on board the missing plante weren't able to contain their emotions. some yelled. some needed medical assistance after learning the fate of malaysia airlines flight 370. others lashed out with criticism. the prime minister of malaysia confirmed their worst fears with this announcement. >> it is therefore with deep sadness and regret that i must inform you that according to this new data, flight mh370 ended in the southern indian ocean. >> reporter: prime minister najib said new analysis of satellite data showed the plane's last location was in the middle of the indian ocean west of perth, australia. >> this is a remote location. far from any possible landing sites. >> r

a law firm based in chicago will represent at least half of the passengers on board malaysia airlines flight 370. the lawsuit alleges the jet crashed due to mechanical failure. the flight, headed to beijing, fell from radar more than 2 weeks ago. searchers are focusing on the southern section of the indian ocean. there were 239 passengers and crew. the chicago tribune reports ribbeck law firm has filed a petition for discovery against boeing, which made the aircraft. malaysian airlines is also named in the suit. outrage is building in turkey. its government has made a second attempt to block a popular social media site. the government moved to block access to youtube after private information from a government meeting was made public on the site. usa today reports the recording details government officials discussing staging an attack against turkish citizens in syria ...that could be used to justify a counterattack. turkish officals say the site was "blocked as a precaution". the youtube ban comes a day after a court overturned a government ruling in turkey, banning twitter, there. c

. >> reporter: visuals have identified the men who boarded malaysia airlines flight 370 with stolen passports and say it's unlikely they tried to take down the plane. >> the more information we get, the more we're inclined to conclude that it was not a terrorist incident. >> reporter: police say those two men are iranians who purchased their tickets with the help of an iranian businessman through travel agencies in thailand. one man was likely seeing asylum in germany and another was said to be heading to denmark. no trace of the disappeared plain. they are now searching a place opposite the initial flight path. the military says it has evidence showing the plane changed course and made it to the malacca straits hundreds of miles away from where it was last seen. >> i always like to think that we need to start by finding the haystack and then we kach look for the bits of the needle in the haystack. and in this case, the haystack is huge because we just don't have the clues. >> reporter: the u.s. has two navy ships, a plane and helicopter helping with the search effort. crews are using sophist

board. malaysia airlines lost contact a few hours after that aircraft left on his way to beijing. we also know there are americans on that passenger list. the latest now from david who is in bangkok thailand with the latest. >> yeah, aircraft are important seeing two oil slicks during their search in the south china sea for the lost malaysia airline jet. they're believed to be from fuel tanks from a downed plane. no word that they have found the plane. now aircrafts and ships from four countries have been searching the south china sea for the plane all day. the boeing 777 went missing in the early hour of this morning local time on a flight from the malaysia capitol to beijing in china. it had 227 passengers on board and 12 crew. there were 14 different nationalities on the plane. including three americans. including a baby. 150 of the passengers on board were chinese nationals. contact was lost with the plane about two hours into it's flight. the route is over the south china sea near the coast of vietnam during that time. vietnam has said the plane didn't enter it's air space. t

. >>> good evening, finally answers for families of passenger as board malaysia airlines flight 370. this video shows the moment many of them learned news they've dreaded. that the plane missing 16 days crashed and no one survived. now that after discovery of debris indicating the plane crashed in the southern indian ocean in this area. that is 1600 miles off the coast of perth, australia. you'll recall the plane took off from kuala lumpur march 8th. this is where the transponder made the last contact. those dotted lines indicate possible flight paths for flight 370 according to awes sdwranl government. now. red arc shows the plane where it may have been last time transmitting a signal, seven and a half hours after take off. more now on the mystery of flight p 70. >> authorities say the flight ended in the waters of the south indian ocean with no survivors all 239 people, lost. >> it's been 17 days. they just give us this result. how can people bear this? >> the possible fate of the flight came from a statement by the malaysian prime minister. >> it's therefore with deep sadness and

. >>> good evening, finally answers for families of passenger as board malaysia airlines flight 370.o shows the moment many of them learned news they've dreaded. that the plane missing 16 days crashed and no one survived. now that after discovery of debris indicating the plane crashed in the southern indian ocean in this area. that is 1600 miles off the coast of perth, australia. you'll recall the plane took off from kuala lumpur march 8th. this is where the transponder made the last contact. those dotted lines indicate possible flight paths for flight 370 according to awes sdwranl government. now. red arc shows the plane where it may have been last time transmitting a signal, seven and a half hours after take off. more now on the mystery of flight p 70. >> authorities say the flight ended in the waters of the south indian ocean with no survivors all 239 people, lost. >> it's been 17 days. they just give us this result. how can people bear this? >> the possible fate of the flight came from a statement by the malaysian prime minister. >> it's therefore with deep sadness and regret tha

they've been captives of the authorities. >> for weeks malaysia airline representatives in kuala lumpur have been protective of families of those on boardeverything including the media. families initially appreciated it, but some family members from china say malaysia airlines staff have gone too far making them feel more like captives than guests in their hotels. >> translator: i wanted to come meet the minister and other family members, but i was not allowed to leave. they wouldn't arrange transportation. they wouldn't even let me take the taxi. i lost my freedom. >> tempers flared when the families in this hotel were told they could not attend a briefing for malaysian families. chinese and malaysian families housed in separate hotels and have separate briefings for families. >> with no briefing in mandarin, chinese families asked to attend the malaysian briefing. the answer was no. chinese families bulked and tried to hail a cap and were stopped from doing that too. an hour after arguing, malaysian airlines finally offered to take them to the briefing. >> when they arrived at hotel, chinese families were not allowed into the briefing

thanks, pauline. >>> and there is word this morning of a problem on board another malaysia airlines jet, this time a flight from kuala lumpur to south korea. the airbus a-330 had to be diverted to hong kong because of a failed generator. the plane landed normally and passengers were transferred to other airlines to make the rest of their trip. >>> breaking news this morning from washington state, where authorities are trying to find survivors from this deadly landslide. the very latest on that next. what if a photo were more than a memory? what if it were more than something to share? what if a photo could build that shelf you've always wanted? or fix a leaky faucet? or even give you your saturday back? the new snapfix app revolutionizes local service. just snap a photo and angie's list coordinates a top-rated provider to do the work on your schedule. the app makes it easy. the power of angie's list makes it work. download snapfix for free. until you're sure you do. bartender: thanks, captain obvious. co: which is what makes using the hotels.com mobile app so useful. i can book a nearby

board. malaysia airlines report baggage was removed before take off. this has fueled speculation of terrorism that at this point than more questions answers. >> is there a possibility we might never find out what happened? >> certainly a possibility. since 1970 authorities have managed to find planes boston .ire -- water smiles the experts say the technology is absolutely there. the waters around where they believe this plane went down are pretty shallow, about 50 meters deep. plane case of one other like this, air france flight 447, that was 3900 meters. a big difference. i did take two years of searching but the wreckage was found. not knowuestion we do in this case, what happened to the black box? that should continue sending out information 30 days after a crash, even under invest -- even if it is underwater. >> thank you. ukraine has begun military drills testing the combat readiness of its troop. crimea saw its first violent demonstrations over the weekend. with secretaryls -- carry.f what is the latest in crimea? >> we heard about the first viol

. >>> three americans were on board malaysia airlines 372, three children, 4-year-old nicole and y-on zang. a former colleague told al jazeera news that wood was in kuala lumpur, his family says they visited him in texas just last week. and people all over the world are showing support for family of the passengers and crew. maria innes ferre is following social media. innes. >> every minute is an hour, please keep them in our thoughts as you continue to search for mh 370 through the night. and somebody who has been tweeting is mai--a elizabeth, the daughter of one of the missing crew members, and take a look at this. she sent this out this weekend, it says daddy you're all over the news and papers. come home fast. and earlier today she also sent this out. it says until today we are still waiting for you dad. now people have been sending out images with the hashtag #pray for mh 370. and there are students at birmingham in the u.k. giving support to the family members of that flight. and you also have this done by a sand artist in india and five of the passengers of that flight are indi

ext 60 increasing fears over a missing malaysia airlines plane with over 200 people on board. there are reports it's crashed into the sea. >> russia defiant. moscow uses its own warning with threats of sanctions from the west. >> japan's prime minister dines out on seafood to prove the crisis is over. >> the no campaign in columbia is gaining momentum. >> first, a search and rescue operation is under way for a missing malaysia airlines plane which is thought to crash into the sea. the aircraft lost radio contact two hours after taking off. relatives had been waiting anxiously at beijing airport where flight ma-370 was due to land. it was carrying 270 passengers, plus 12 members of the crew. the boeing left kuala lumpur at 12:21am normal time and scheduled to arrive 6:30am, 12 hours ago. vietnamese state media reports the plane could have gone down in the south china sea. and that is quoting a naval official. rob mcbride is at beijing international airport. has any contact been established with the plane? >> authorities had been trying to follow up with vietnamese authorities,

people gathered for a candlelight vigil, singing and praying for the 239 people on board that missing plane. >> malaysia airlines saying the search for the missing jumbo jet expanded to include the west side of the country from the beginning. one of the biggest questions is the disappearance. is it an act of terrorism? here is abc's pierre thomas. >> reporter: the fbi is urgently trying to find out why those imposters used stolen passports to get on malaysian airline flight 370. sources tell abc news the fbi is planning to compare fingerprints and photographs of those at the airport to those of known terrorists. fingerprints on stolen passports reveal tantalizing clues but the passports do not necessarily indicate terrorism but are often

board. >> malaysia airlines says it lost contact with that plane, supposed to land mer than two and a halfours ago. flying to beijing with 239 passengers and crew on board. it was four hours away from landing when the pilot lost contact with air traffic control at 2:40 a.m malaysia time. it's a boeing 777 jumbo jet carrying 227 passengers and two infants there are 12 crew members we'll continue to bring you the latest information here at 5:00, and on twitter on abc7 news bay area. >> and dan we have more breaking news this, is out of oakland a school on lock down after a student was assaulted. this is taking place at world academy on 28th avenue. a private school the incident reportedly took place about 4:15 this afternoon. police ordered the lock down while investigating this incident. we're looking into this situation we'll have more detail for you on abc7 news.com and twitter. >> a new policy across the state. the uc system is change the way it's handling sexual assaults, ten days after students to berkeley bungleed and botched their cases. abc7 news joins us from beshg whether i more o

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developing right now at 6:00 the search for a malaysia airlines flight 370 has expanded to the opposite side of malaysia. that plane had 239 people on board and it's been missing since saturday. mark kelly joins us live downtown every downstairs in the newsroom to explain why the -- joins us live downstairs in the newsroom to explain why the search is taking a new direction. >> reporter: flight 370 was going from kuala lumpur to beijing. investigators are looking over both the south china sea as well as the west coast of malaysia but the more time passes, the more loved ones grow desperate for answers. >>> reporter: the longer a missing passenger jet stays missing, the more difficult the search becomes. >> with every day that passes by crucial time is passing, that search area, that haystack is getting bigger. >> reporter: more than three days after malaysia airlines flight 370 took off from kuala lumpur, crews from ten countries on 40 ships and more than 3 dozen aircraft had found nothing. chinese officials arrived in kuala lumpur on monday to press the malaysian government to intensify the search and speed up the investigation. the majo

the indian ocean are seen as signs of hope and of horror for the family members of those on board malaysia airlinest 370. while some are looking for confirmation, others are still clinging to the possibility that those on board are still alive. >> translator: i can't sleep each night because all i think about is my son. up until now, what else can we do? this is about his flight. there is nothing you can do to help. we can only wait for further updates. >> reporter: do you still believe your son is alive? >> translator: i firmly believe that my son, together with everyone on board, will all survive. >> let's go live now to cnn's sara sidner where the flight originated from. what has been the consensus from the family members? >> reporter: you know, it really depends on which family member you're talking to, from one to the next the emotions are very different. some of them very strong in their reaction saying they just don't believe, as you heard just there, that this is the actual plane. they haven't gotten confirmation. it's very upsetting to them. however, they believe that their loved ones are

fate and a mystery that may never be solved. 239 souls, including 12 crew and two infants boarded malaysia airlinflight 370. >> it's our duty to follow every lead and we all run the risk of not paying attention to the tragedy behind it, the loss of humanity. phillip wood, an ibm executive, father of two. 33-year-old mohammed ibbrahim was traveling and seen here in this photo that he posted to social media. these two seen here on facebook were traveling together, returning to a trip from malaysia with his mother and younger sister. paul left his wedding ring and watch with his wife before boarding the plane to give to their sons in case anything should happen. she held on to the ring wednesday as she spoke to cnn. >> i've got it here and i'm praying that i can give that back to him. so i can hold on to because there's no finality to it and we're not getting any information. it's just praising. >> these men left their two young children with other members of their family as they embarked on a vacation together. >> they left the two boys with her mom back in beijing. he was very much in love with he

board survived. >> malaysia airlines makes the announcement no one wanted to hear. >> missing in the mud slide, 170 people unaccounted for as the death toll in washington state nearly doubles. >> the gas in the gulf. why an oil spill off the coast of texas is having an impact. >> our faith was important in starting the company. >> the contraception debate. hobby lobby heads to court in a major challenge to obamacare. >> this is a mystery and until we recover and positively identify a piece of debris, everything is virtually speculation. >> hi, welcome to al jazeera america coming to you live from new york city. we heard from malaysia airlines and australian officials. it caps a day of twists and turns and some unfortunate news for the families of passengers and crew aboard flight mh370. erica pitzi is joining us. this is not the news family members want to hear. >> no, and you can imagine family members feeling frustrated and confused over conflicting information. >> it began on monday with the malaysian prime minister with evidence showing that the plane went down in the indian ocean. and that eve

. >> two passengers on board the malaysia airlines flight used european passports stolen in the thai resort city of pouket. because the ticket number are consecutive, it appears they were born together. they were stolen from an australia reefaustrianand itali. >> when i make a new passport, when they come back to italy, i talk to them about my lost passports so nobody can use. >> this is the resort city and just like pouket it is known as a hub for international networks. more than 60,000 thai and foreign passports were reported missing between january 2012 and june 2013. it is not uncommon for passports to be lost stolen or even sold. there is big money in this business. and thailand is one of the centers for this activity. in the capitol, bangkok, counterfeiting of all kinds of identification cards is also wides spread. >> translator: in thailand, there are many organizations who enter illegally. they engage in the drug trade, human trafficking and other credit endeavors. >> a criminal ring for stolen and forged passports. there is still no evidence that anyone brought down the mal

. >>> investigators are look for more information about two people who boarded the malaysia airline flight with stolen passports. officials say an iranian man purchased two tickets in cash for the passengers. it is believe the two men used stolen passports to board to flight. while the as port mystery raises concerns about the possibility of terrorism, officials say it's too early to jump to conclusions. in the meantime, crews are expanding search area for the aircraft that vanished three days ago. more than 70 ships and planes are scourerring the area. that now encompasses a larger portion of thailand between malaysia and vietnam. >> we will be intensifying our efforts to locate missing aircraft. >> the lack of information is compounding fears and frustrations as lead after lead turns you have short. some floating debean oil found in the water ended up not being from that airliner. >>> just as frustrating for investigators is tin ability to find the plaque box which, of course, would provide collusion as to what happened four-story the plane leading up to its disappearance. this is fuelin

. >>> my next guest understands those families'ing and quick, matthew mcconkey's friends boarded malaysia airlineson saturday morning. matthew, thank you for being with us. i really can't fully imagine what you're going through losing your friends. you've known them for over six years. what can you tell us about them? >> thank you, erin. it's the reason i'm here. because i sort of feel it's a bit of a tribute to my friends. never gone through anything like this before and i hope to never go through anything like this again and i hope nobody i know goes through anything like this. fantastic couple. muktesh himself, a nut. always friendly. always had a big smile. always up for doing something. so we had a lot of fun times together. worked very hard in everything he did. traveled a lot for work but very much a devoted family man. love shamo. when you'd have a group of guys out and guys joking around or whatever, there was no joking about shamo. he was very much in love with her. as parents, nothing was more important to them than those kids. everything they did was surrounding those kids. you'd go to

that we still have so many more questions than answers concerning what exactly happened on board malaysia airlinesur martin savidge spent much of the day in a flight simulator. >> that's right. he spent much of the last 21 days inside this flight simulator. he's looking at one potential possible crash scenario. martin. >> reporter: christine and poppy, one of the things we're going to show you is just how remarkably stable the 777 is, even though it is a jumbo jet. and in this scenario we've set up is that one engine will turn off. essentially, the fuel begins to run up, we lose the left engine. the simulator shows that now. there's the engine shutdown. tell us what's going on on the screen there, mitchell. >> this is the left engine gauges, right engine gauges. and we're basically seeing this engine shut down. so, it's decreasing. this is the temperature inside the engine, it's decreasing because it's not working anymore. the speed of the engine is slowing down. and we can see engine "l" shutdown. that's engine left shutdown. >> so, what we wanted to point out about this fact is that this plane's

most of the people on board flight came from china but as the ceo of malaysia airlines told reporters earlier there were passengers from a dozen other countries, too. >> there were 14 nationalities among the passengers. china, 152. plus one infant. from malaysia, 38. indonesia, 12. australia, 7. france, 3. the united states of america, usa, three plus one infant. new zealand, too. ukraine, too. canada to. russia, 1. italy, 1 pair taiwan, 1. the netherlands, 1. and austria, won. >> the nationalities of the people on that missing airplane. the flight was due to land in beijing nearly 8 hours ago. david mackenzie joins us live from the chinese capital. i am told that you are in an area where they have now moved the families that were expecting their loved ones on that plane. >> reporter: that's right. want to bring you some news, natalie. some 12 hours or so since that lost contact with air traffic control, it appears now that the news is not good. according to the people's daily, the main mouthpiece, as it were, of the china's communist party and according to leading daily papers in vie

. >>> mean while, families of the passengers on board missing malaysia airlines flight 370 taking totreets today in beijing, their outrage coming a day after malaysia officials concluded that the boeing triple seven crashed in to the ocean. >> reporter: taking their anger to the streets these relatives of passengers of mh370 seo visuals deliberately concealed information, wasted resources and delayed any possible rescue operations. >> translator: can the government understand, can they understand how we feel? if they could understand our feelings then it wouldn't have come to this. does the malaysian government understand us? they dare criticize us, but look at what they have done. >> translator: if the 154 of our relatives have lost their lives, then malaysia airlines the government of malaysia and the military are really the executers. >> reporter: two weeks they waited for news and they feel that the ma layer laye malaysian them very little respect. they were everyone more upset about the manner they were told to consider their loved ones gone. some received text messages in engli

malaysian police have told the bbc they have identified one of two men who boarded the missing malaysia airlinesth stolen passports. police say they cannot reveal his identity. they have confirmed the man is not malaysian. this is a picture of the plane on an earlier flight. well, this time 239 people are aboard the aircraft as it traveled from beijing to kuala lumpa. in the latest developments, an earlier possible sighting of a life raft off the vietnamese coast proved to be unfounded. >>> the malaysian government is sharing intelligence with both the americans and chinese over the two stolen passports used to board the flight. well, the latest news conference, they explained just how they are sharing that intelligence. >> i have been linking up with the intelligence agencies, met with u.s. intelligence yesterday. both biometric, background information and visuals. this information is being digested by the relevant agencies. i do not want information to be revealed today to effect the ongoing investigation. >> the acting transport minister. jennifer, just tell us what's going on there at the mo

off to three weeks of posting questions families of those on board missing malaysia airlines flights and each three seventeen. still searching for on says. many relatives they will authorities have provided insufficient information. on sunday doesn't spring from beijing to quantum pope to address investigations into us. with whom or where he had given sunday morning original reason awesome and we want to know about it. so we're going to additional minute. yes and she didn't so he hires there's anything we can do to depend on how to get there until the religious right then. and you don't want some of the families were meeting in beijing the malaysian government in the crosshairs. you have come to the conclusion that although far religious right this is a very irresponsible teacher to have the action it just proves how the responsible they are the two hundred and thirty nine people won't look on the plane disappeared from radar screens on monty sounds like a lead investigators to beat the heck off the end of cool side of the south china sea now to take off. its last decision is called

. >> reporter: malaysia prime minister telling the world all lives were lost on board the missing malaysia airlinerflight 370. in washington state a mudslide kills eight and several people are still

board. ceo of malaysia airline spoke to the the media. the airline is notifying family members. the plane is a boeing 777-200. the triple seven had not had a fatal crash in its 20 year history until the asiana crash in san francisco last year. ma malaysia says the passengers are from 14 different countries. >>> a cold case cracked. 25 years to the day, police know who killed cathy zimmer. betty yu says they didn't need to look far. >> reporter: that's right liz. the family of cathy zimmer has wondered for 25 years who her killers were. tonight, they are here at the santa clara county jail. her husband and his brother are under arrest. dna evidence found in this car on cathy zimmer's clothing on march 10, 1989 helped investigators break this case. the 38-year-old mother of two was found strangled to death in the backseat of the chrysler parked at the san jose airport. >> we feel between the physical evidence we have as well as other evidence or financial motive, we have the two men responsible for this awful crime. >> two brothers are behind bars. david zimmer and robert zimmer h

. >> 239 people on board missing malaysia flight airline 370. >> we'd like to share their names and their faces. >> korea normaady. these are just a fraction of the names of the 239 passengers and crew on board from 14 nations. hundreds of family and friends it's been an agonizing wait. she's the executive secretary of the international collective and supporters of fish workers. he was on her way to a conference. her husband wrote a note to friends and family thanks them for their support. it says i remain focused on what we have at hand by way of information and stay with the knowledge she's strong and courageous. her goodness must count for something somewhere. phil wood, a 51-year-old ibm executive was one of three americans on board. >> my bag packed and ready to go. it has been since saturday morning. >> ready to go where. >> where ever he is. >> reporter: his partner is on a desperate search to find the man she calls her soul mate. myra elizabeth nari has taken to twitter to post a series of heart wrenching messages. daddy liveerpool is winning the game. come home so you can watch t

board survived. >> malaysia airlines makes the announcement no one wanted to hear. >> missing in the mud slide, 170 people unaccounted for as the death

. >> reporter: malaysia prime minister telling the world all lives were lost on board the missing malaysia airlinerflight 370. in washington state a mudslide kills eight and several people are still missing. president obama talking to the u.s. allies about the crisis in ukraine. they are meeting at the nuclear security summit in the netherlands. ♪ we continue to follow breaking news at this hour, just before 10:00 a.m. eastern time malaysia prime minister addressing reporters, telling them sad news that the missing malaysia flight 370 went down in the south indian ocean and randall parentin pinkston has been following this for days and what do we know? >> 16 days from kuala lumpur to beijing and the british version of ntsb brought the prime minister to microphones to tell families of passengers aboard the flight the news they dreaded. >> it is there for with deep sadness and regret that i must inform you that according to this new data life image 370 ended in the southern indian ocean. >> reporter: the new data that the prime minister refers to comes from the united kingdom's accident investigation

airliner is still missing more than 24 hours after losing all contact with the ground. a search is under way for the boeing 777 with 239 passengers and crew on board, operated by malaysia rlines. it took off yesterday from kuala lumpur going to beijing but didn't make it. no wreckage has turned up, but one clue is giving researchers a

the malaysian government is now offering $5,000 to the families of passengers on board that plane. malaysia airlines said they too are saddened by the crash and defending the decision to alert families by text message. they wanted to make sure that the victims families heard the news before the world did. >>> china is demanding that malaysia turn over the satellite data that shows the images of the plane's last location. australian and chinese satellites spotted the debris last week. officials say the search for the wreckage is like searching for the hay stack itself. >>> a major newspaper in kuala lumpur with a striking headline, "good night mh 370." >>> 170 people are unaccounted for after a massive mudslide in northern washington. 14 are confirmed dead. 30 homes are buried. the search for the survivors continues in that community. hovercraft have been brought in. hope for finding survivors was raised when a chocolate lab was found alive. >> it's a challenging environment to work in and move around in. and it's tedious and slow going. >> reporter: weeks of near record rainfall triggered that mudsl

authorities are now turning their attention to the pilots in the cockpit and passengers on board the missing malaysia airlines flight 370 as i was telling you with congressman peter king. there is into evidence that shows ce shows criminal activity may have played a role. hi, dominic. >> yes, the background of the captain being very sharply the focus here today. shah was an obsessive supporter of the recently jailed opposition leader in malaysia. he was actually jailed just hours before flight 370 took off. so the question here is do we have some sort of ideological proceed te protest in play. >> malaiysia government releasig the information they he have, then we can build the case if it's jihadist linked or just another situation, a suicide or personal derangement. >> one they think that the authorities took away from shah's house was the flight simulate tore which you can see another screen. who used that is one of the questions that needs to be asked. authorities reassembled it and of course they will be dusting it for fingerprints to see if anybody else used that simulator and if they have links to anybod

malaysia checking the background of each and every person on board malaysia airlines flight 370. investigators looking closely at the pilot and copilot who would have known how to disable the plane's communication systems. the jumbo jet vanish adweek ago with 239 people on board. 26 countries now involved in a massive search split into northern and southern zones. the united states assisting in both regions. this as emotions are boiling ith airline officials. families of more than 150 chinese nationals on board calling for a hunger strike to protest the lack of information. david piper is screaming -- streaming live from bangkok with the latest. david? >> reporter: gregg, yes, the malaysian authorities say the search op operation spreads two million nautical miles and involves 2nations. no fresh clues today where the plane went. that has become very frustrating of course to the families who are facing unimaginable anguish that they wait for news about this plane. some families in china threaten to launch a hunger strike on claims that the malaysia authority are not releasing enou

370 will have to wait a little longer to find out what happened to their loved ones on board the malaysia airliner. grounded for another 24 hours due to bad weather. the u.s. navy is sending a deep sea black box locater to australia. when the search resumes, it will take 24 hours for the ships back into the area. they are frustrated with the search and what they say is a lack of information. >> we just want the truth, if you make a conclusion with no exact evidence, just from analysis from the satellite data, why you make the conclusi conclusion? and why you make the conclusion that no one is alive? >> six chinese ships are expected to join the search. they will arrive tomorrow morning. >>> caught on camera, suspected package thief was arrested. detectives were able to track down this man allegedly stealing a package outside of this home in santa clara. officers posted this security shred owe last week. shannon senegal is accused of stealing a package outside a home. >> good news for the city of new work. crime is down. police reported serious crimes like homicide and rape dropped by 21%. all cate

nbc news has learned that someone on board the malaysia airlines flight manually programmed a you turn was made at least 12 minutes before the co-pilot signed off with air traffic control. meanwhile, thailand's military says an unknown plane did appear on its radar after 370 disappeared 11 days ago. thai officials didn't pay much attention buecause they only pa attention to planes in this country. >>> the brother accepted the award on behalf of the white house today. he is one of 24 soldiers or h h minorities passed over because of discrimination. this is the single largest group to be awarded the medal of honor since world war two. three are alive today. killed during the korean war in 1950. this award recognizes his courage as he drove back hostile troops for an hour as grenades exploded around him. >>> san jose olympian polina edmonds is being honored tonight. she'll have accommodation. she's a sophomore, so she'll take a break from her homework tonight to get the honor. she placed 9th overall. she's expected to be a serious contender for the next winter games in 2018. >> we're prou

for the first time we see the two men who used stolen passports to board malaysia airlines flight 370. here's one imposter caught on surveillance tape at the airport apparently posing as and austrian. they identified him at a late night press conference. his name, pouria nour mohammed mehrdad. 19 and iranian. his mother told police she knew he was traveling on a stolen passport and we was trying to migrate to germany. >> we believe he is not likely to be a member of any terrorist group. >> reporter: the other impos or the was identified as interpol as a 29-year-old iranian. >> syed mohammad reza. >> reporter: while other investigators focus on catastrophic mechanical failure or some sort of accident, malaysian police are looking at the following possibilities, including hijacking, sabotage, or psychological problems with the passengers or crew. the surveillance video may help police understand the intentions of the two impostors. >> are they operating together? do they talk? are they acting strange while they're in line or moving along? >> reporter: the malaysian government has given

. >> malaysia's prime minister is asking the relatives of the 239 people on board to be patient. family members of a few of the passengers are asking the malaysia airline to search for the gps location of their loved ones' cell phones after saying likely

data are used to conclude that a malaysia airlines jetliner crashed into the southern indian ocean. this is bad weather hampers this year the families of those on board missing malaysia airlines flights in each three seventeen. launched on the streets clean. davey of being told by text message authorities believe the jets line up like a crushed leaving miss the point is that the mumbling. that's the wrong side. this advent the motives of the vitamin a that have to do to make the trip so that leads to the computer to muster up the map. we want the squad with the major islands top executives said they too were accepting the heart and so on reality. the across to the mall to see. for sure sounds like peyton has helped pinpoint like the crash sites in the middle of the rights of them indian ocean. one of the most inaccessible places online. taiwan with desmond and one. so the day. for england duty must be. don't want to. the airline ceo defended the company's handling of grieving relatives and promised to continue to help family members financially meanwhile the malaysian government said it was doing was encouraged to give them closure. going home. we ar

>> reporter: paul weeks left his wife and two sons home in australia to start a new job, boarded malaysia airlinesd others are left wondering if their loved ones tried to use their cell phones to send a message before the plane went missing. with so many questions still unanswered, texts and e-mails could provide crucial details about what happened to flight 370, and all of that information could possibly still be retrieved. >> absolutely. i'm sure there's text messages, drafts of e-mails, i'm sure there's video testimonials that people made. >> reporter: chad goff is a partner at ford discovery, a computer forensics company in chicago. he says after several weeks or months in the ocean, unsent texts, e-mails and videos can still be retrieved from electronic devices. >> it is a matter of finding the devices to determine what kind of damage was associated with them, and handling them properly. >> reporter: handling them properly is the key, like retrieving a flight data recorder, a cell phone or computer would have to be kept in water until ready to be analyzed. even if a device has been smashed, a

board. cl of malaysia airlines held a news conference tuesday in kuala lumpur to say this can cause heads to the family members of the passengers and to outline steps the airline is taking for the family the airline has offered family members five thousand us dollars for each passenger aboard flight thirty seven zero additional payments as the search continues. this follows a malaysian prime minister's announcement the day before that the ill fated flight team down some air and even notes that the indian ocean with no chance as anyone survives despair and rage exploded among relatives of the chinese passengers onboard that plane and be changed after receiving the news many had feared but didn't want to believe. i want that of a journal with the information they can sense it is not true maintaining student getting to the needy at the family that is not leisure airline and the malaysian government and military of being coached the real executioner to kill the messenger passengers the second she would be dearly missed. i didn't delete the rescue actions least in large quantity of human resource

, authorities are saying they were, so the question now becomes how did someone get on board this malaysia airlines plane with these documents that should not have been valid. this is a question that investigators really want to get to the bottom of and so, how will they get to the bottom of this at this point? because as i speak to you, this plane is still categorized as missing, so you know, i spoke with one expert. he says one of the major points of access or points of information for investigators is going to be going back to that airport. they're going to want to see surveillance video from these airports. who went through that security line. who got on this plane. who was using that passport to get on to this flight if it was not indeed a valid passport. that will be a part of the investigation. we do know that from our correspondence here in the d.c. bureau, our national security correspondent, did reach out to the state department and the u.s. officials, they are aware of this and they say that they are looking into this issue. but this, this investigation is going to be huge. it's not only

. >>> two days and still no sign of malaysia airlines jet that vanished with 29 on board. it lost ground contact between malaysia and vietnam. we are in washington, dc, with the latest on this story. >>> good morning, temperatures have searched 50 nautical miles from where it was last spotted and nothing definitive. experts have arrived in asia to assess. teams are scouring the border define malaysia and vietnam looking for the wreckage of airlines flight but so far ships have not found anything. this morning we learned scientists determined an oil slick sample from the south china sea was fruit from malaysia airlines. >> we have not found anything that appeared to be objects from the airlines let alone the aircraft. >> malaysia airlines told the families of 29 people on board to prepare for the worst. american passenger's mother is shocked. >> you want to know how it feels to lose a son at the age of 50 it is devastating. i know in my heart that he is with god. >> authorities say military radar suggests the many flying from kuala lumpur may have been turning around but thi