and we hired a wolf also. we hired a real wolf. a husky or a dog like everyone kept saying on the internet. the wolf, in fact, the wolf's name is rugby. and there's rugby. and his trainer molly. molly, what percentage wolf is rugby? >> so rugby actually is a timberwolf mix. so we don't know for sure the percentage. we did rescue him. but we believe about 80% to 95% wolf. >> jimmy: look at guillermo, by the way. do you want to give him a big kiss? >> guillermo: no, no. >> jimmy: really? do you want to pet rugby a little bit? >> you can pet him. >> jimmy: thank you, molly. thank you, rugby. you did a great job. kate, i'd love to do this again. would you bring a live bear to the closing ceremonies? >> i'll see what's going on. anything for you, jimmy. >> jimmy: we would like to present you the gold medal for pranking. [ cheers and applause ] have fun at the rest of the olympics. there she is, kate hansen, the girl who tweeted wolf. thank you, kate. no danger in sochi at all. one more thing before we march forward. it's thursday night.

my colleague, wolf, takes over my colleague, wolf, takes over now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com . >>> hello, i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. new developments unfolding in the mysterious disappearance of flight 370. thailand's military now says it picked up an unknown radar signal the day the plane vanished. thai military radar was tracking the flight after it disappeared. radar showed an unknown aircraft flying in the opposite direction to the west. this is the second radar evidence that the plane turned west. new information suggests the plane's route was most likely altered by computer, by someone in the cockpit. airline officials say the course was originally set for beijing, but they couldn't rule out the possibility that the flight was reprogrammed. and the search area now covers, get this, 2.2 million square nautical miles. that's about the size of the continental united states. >>> we're covering this story as only cnn can. our correspondents and analysts are all standing by. let's begin with a closer look at the report that the plane's course was most likely

now, wolf, pull all this together. and what we come back to is a very fine line, a very defined area where between 1:07, 1:19, 1:21, 1:37, the incident was taking place, wolf. >> so this -- these are critical moments, as you correctly point out. two systems stopped working during that same rough period, the handover, between the malaysian and vietnamese air space, that handover was taking place. so would that be an optimal time for someone to do something wrong in this particular place? >> absolutely. and it seems to be -- i mean, the conspiracy theorists say that is exactly the point upon which you would do it. let's go back if we can to the previous page on this time line. keep -- here we are, exactly the page. so the previous one. the one that -- the exact page of the first shows exactly where. 1:37, next acars transmission. this is the key bit that we don't fully understand. why did this transmission not take place. was it because it had been disabled, was it because it was not working. wolf, that is the answer tha

>> yes, wolf.ows on from the statement made by the head of transportation in the investigating authority in malaysia, in kuala lumpur a few hours ago. they said they were going to be seeking further expertise from the faa, and the ntsb. and for those who with specialist knowledge of radar. the national transportation safety board, who are by far and away the most experienced in investigations, they say -- one of the few statements they have put out since it began, investigators with expertise in air traffic control and radar are providing technical assistance to the malaysia authorities who are working on locating the missing jetliner. in simple english, it means the american experts in looking at radar and those who have done this over many years in many circumstances, are now getting to grips with the investigation on where that plane might be. >> kit, five days into this hunt for this missing plane, simply seems to have vanished, they're now doubling, tripling the area that they're searching for

wolf? >> so nic, based on this source that you have there, my sense is that what he's suggesting is that it was a criminal act as opposed to a catastrophic mechanical failure on the plane. is that right? >> reporter: this source has a lot of knowledge, a lot of information about this specific aircraft, about operations with malaysian airlines and a lot of knowledge about the way that the -- this captain zaharie flew his aircraft. he's a man who has a lot of information. he has a lot of information about the region, the popping to gra fee, and these are the questions that he's coming to, putting together all of the information that he now has available to him and for him it very much does seem -- and it's an inescapable deduction of logic, he says. he cannot get away from the fact that whoever was flying the aircraft towards the dawn on saturday morning was somebody that knew how to fly the aircraft, knew how to fly it well, had excellent control of it and it leaves him with a very inescapab

>> wolf, i haven't. i really haven't seen any indication of linkage between the disappearance of this plane and the threats we were so concerned about around the olympics. and that's exactly what we're looking for, connections to those threats. but also did we hear any kind of chatter about airline plots that might be connected to this. were there things we saw earlier but didn't make the connection and now with this missing plane there may be a connection? are there groups taking responsibility? sometimes that can be misleading. so we're looking into all of this. we've seen also cases in the past where there were psychiatric problems among the pilot or crew. that could be cause and factor. it still could be a mechanical failure, but we're going to be obviously scouring all the intelligence leads while we search for the aircraft. >> what are you hearing about the pilot and the co pilot? >> not very much. they were both very experienced. i think the early analysis looked at whether this was a problem with

wolf? >> i know you've been doing some reporting with your sources. what are you learning about the latest u.s. thinking on where this crisis in ukraine is heading in the immediate future? >> well, vladimir putin will make that crucial decision that the world is waiting for. does he expand his military operations more in crimea? does he go into eastern ukraine in one of the things that the u.s. is watching so closely now, the 150,000 or so troops that were conducting the exercises on the border with ukraine. the exercises largely over the troops and their weapons have not returned fully to their barracks so that is one of the key indicators. when putin sends them back to their bases, that could be the best signal yet. they think putin will make the decision in the coming days. wolf? >> let's hope he makes the right decision. barbara, let's go to kiev where anderson cooper is on the scene for us. ukrainian officials say thousands of russian troops are already on the ground so how were his wo

wolf?> what does that mean? maintenance for the second day in a row. are they giving you any information with the p-8, the poseidon will not be involved in the hunt on this day? >> reporter: it's not very clear. they have to have a certain number of hours down and we're not sure why it has to be two days in a row. we need to check in on that and have more information for you. >> kyung lah, thank you. there is a massive hunt for the airliner to try to pinpoint a location. suzanne malveaux is picking up this part of the story. suzanne? >> as you know, wolf, time is running out quick to find the data recorders that are likely deep in the sea. they have a battery life of about 30 days. we're 14 days into this. the malaysian government is asking countries around the world to step in and step up and provide the best equipment to find this missing flight. a robust international search is scouring a treacherously dangerous area, 1500 miles off the coast of australia in the frantic hunt for missing

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." a search official calls it, and i'm quoting now, the best lead we have and it's adding fresh urgency to malaysia flight 370. here are the latest developments. it will soon be daylight in one of the most remote places on earth, the southern indian ocean, some 1500 miles west of us australia. that's where images show a large piece of debris. an aircraft will head over there once again to try to locate the objects. a norwegian cargo deck is already there and they are trying to spot the debris. an fbi forensic team is confident it will be able to release some of the files deleted from the pilot's flight simulator. they will also analyze the websites that the pilot and co-pilot may have visited. our reporters and analysts are standing by with the kind of coverage that only cnn could deliver. let's begin with our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. jim? >> wolf, within hours search planes will be back on site in the possible debris site as dayb

i'll turn you over now to wolf blitzer right over there in "the situation room." wolf?thanks very much. breaking news. the mystery of flight 370. new information on the plane's apparent westward turn towards the indian ocean. u.s. officials and industry sources saying that the signals show the plane may have been in tact for five hours after contact was lost. we're going to show you where the search is focused. >>> also, u.s. officials say volatile lithium batteries were carried in the plane's cargo hold. they've been blamed in previous crashes. and investigators are even considering the possibility the plane may have landed in a remote island chain. we'll have a reality check on that. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. we begin with dramatic new information leading to more conflicting possibilities about what might have happened to malaysian air flight 370. a full week since that jet with 239 people on board simply disappeared. here are the latest developments. u.s. officials say the plane apparently crashed in the indian ocean with classified analysis sho

wolf? >> that's good to hear.>> crews are desperate to find the plane's black box before the battery runs out. that's expected to happen when it hits 30 days. that means the battery's pinging could stop in less than a week. when that happens chances of finding the plane will drop dramatically. we're on board a boat following one of the ships with the black box locator. set the scene for us. where are you guys now? >> we're just off rottnest island. this is where we had to stop as we followed the ocean shield out into the indian ocean. we're on a chartered fishing boat. we just don't have the size or the fuel to be able to continue out to the search area, but the ocean shield is well equipped. not only well equipped with a 30-member crew who are going to be trained to handle the ins and outs of this search, but also some very high tech tools from the u.s. navy. tools that represent the hope for many of solving this mystery and the hope for these families of finally finding closure. mysteries in modern aviation. the

i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. there's new information coming in about the most promising lead so far in the hunt for flight 370. here's what we know right now, search crews from china, the united states, europe and australia are all on the look out for two objects spotted in the southern indian ocean off australia's west coast. the commercial satellite captured images of the objects four days ago. the largest is about 79 feet long, roughly the size of a 777 wing. australia and u.s. aircraft reached the area today but so far have found nothing. visibility was limited because of rain and clouds. but search planes are due to return in the area at sunrise, that's just about five hours from now. and a norwegian cargo ship is continuing to hunt for the debris around the clock. officials stress the objects may just be ocean garbage, like a container that may have fallen off of a ship. but they also say the sighting is the best lead they've gotten so far. >> our experience is that there is debris out there from ships for

my colleague, wolf blitzer, starts right now. >>> hello, i'm wolf blitzer, reporting from the cnn center in atlanta. new information about the final communication between the crew of the missing malaysia airlines plane and air traffic controllers. here's what we know right now. malaysia's transport ministry says the last voice transmission from the cockpit was, quote, "good night malaysian 370." previous officials told cnn and other news organizations the last known words were, quote, all right, good night. the latest objects retrieved from the indian ocean turned out to be fishing equipment and a dead jellyfish. 11 ships and 10 aircrafts scoured the area today, without finding anything connected to the plane. an australian ship set sail today to join the search. it will take three days to reach the area. malaysian authorities say they've asked investigators to release the full transcript of the final communication with the missing plane flight 370. for more on that and the latest on the search effort, let's go to perth, australia. paula newton is standing by. paula, what's the significa

wolf? >>> jake, thanks very much. happening now, the mystery of flight 370. the search for clues as dozens of ships and aircraft hunts for traces of the airliner that disappeared three days ago with 239 people on board. new details of the passengers who officials say were traveling on stolen passports. we're now learning about their ticket purchases and the images recorded by airport surveillance. >>> and if they are eventually found, the plane's data recorders should reveal what went wrong. but why don't airlineser use live-streaming of data giving real-time information about an airline? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." new clues in a series of frustrating dead ends as the search is stepped up for malaysia airlines jet that disappeared in mid-flight three days ago. the search zone for flight 370 has been expanded and now covers a larger portion of the gulf of thailand between malaysia and vietnam. there's new focus near thailand's border following indications that the plan

wolf? >> and he's insisting, phil, no russian troops have entered crimea. although there are thousands of russian troops all of the time in crimea at that port there where they're permanently based, right? >> reporter: yeah, that's right. that is the other claim. that really, flies against not only what we and now teams are seeing on the ground, but very much what the west, europe and the united states believe. and it seems to fit into what is a growing narrative from moscow, from president putin, where they are trying to paint all the events taking place on the ground in crimea as very much an organic, grass roots local rejection of what has been taking place in kiev and the new government there. they are trying to paint it as the local people essentially trying to determine their own future. and so as this region moves towards holding a referendum on breaking away from ukraine, vladimir putin is saying that ultimately, it is the wishes of the people that have to be respected. so in the ev

wolf? >> saima, you know that malaysian authorities, malaysia airlines, malaysian government, the prime minister, they've come under enormous fire of criticism for saying that the plane went down in the indian ocean, no hope left for the passengers. based solely on new and revised satellite data, mathematical calculations from inmarsat. and maybe other sources. but they have no hard evidence, no wreckage from the plane, certainly no bodies. how are they responding in kuala lumpur to the criticism being leveled at the malaysian government? >> reporter: yeah, wolf, a lot of criticism leveled at them. and a mixture of emotions reflected in today's press conferences. all the denial of anger, of sorrow and sadness. and calls at one point, wolf, for the ceo and chairman to resign, people questioning, will you now resign. and they said, well, that's a private matter. right now we're trying to deal with this crisis situation. it still is a crisis situation for this country and malaysia airlines. pa

. >> it's amazing, wolf. staggers assets are being used in the search for the plane. 43 ships along with 58 or more aircraft. one expert we talked to says it's likely a dozen satellites have been utilized. now as the focus has turned to the remote southern indian ocean, equipment with military intelligence technology is playing a key role. a massive sea search that requires an equally massive amount of resources on land, air and seas. it starts in space. satellite images transferred to the australian geo spatial intelligence organization. the pictures of possible plane debris captured march 16, but it took them four days to sort through the volume of the imagery. china also helps satellite images before releasing them to the public. >> part of it is not telling the other guy what you got. the reason for that is there's some capabilities that a lot of countries want to keep hidden. one of those capabilities is how fast can you take a satellite image and actually analyze it and use it in an operational sense? m

i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington.re following major new developments as the search for malaysia airlines flight 370 moves into day 22. the search area has shifted by hundreds of miles, and multiple planes have spotted objects in the new location. australian officials say five of ten search planes reported sightings in the water. this picture from cctv, chinese state television, shows what's described as a suspicious object spotted by a new zealand military plane. the new search area is 1,150 miles from perth, australia, 680 miles northeast of the previous site. analysts say this shift in location is based on new calculations. they say the data suggest the plane didn't fly as far south as they earlier had thought. joining us now from new york is keith massback, expert in satellite technology and airborne reconnaissance. keith, thanks very much for coming in. what's your reaction to these new photos showing various colored objects on top of the indian ocean and this new search ar area. >> thanks for having me, wolf. wha

>> wolf, our cnn camera today got a first-hand tour of the mudslide there.e, the devastation. officials describe it as beyond imagination. those search and rescue teams are still on the ground sifting through the mud and we continue to hear these incredible stories of survival and painful realities of loss. >> the road here spreads out into these areas. >> reporter: these are the latest pictures from the disaster zone. the mud in many places some three to four stories high that came crashing down from the hillside and within a matter of seconds, one square mile of what once was a community now coated and covered. gary mcpherson remembers it felt like being in a blender. >> instead of making a margarita, you just kept mixing it and mixing it and when it got going fast enough you took the top off. >> reporter: gary is among the many rescued saturday when the wall of mud hit his farm. he says he and his wife, linda, were sitting in their reclining chairs and before he knew it, he was in the fight for his and her life. his air force training kicked in. stay calm

i'm wolf blitzer in washington.t "outfront" starts right now. >>> next breaking news what the pilot said moments before malaysia airlines flight 370 disappeared. finally a transcript between the cockpit and ground control. plus just eight minutes before the plane took off the pilot used his cell phone. who did he call and what did he say? and now for an exclusive. we're on board the navy's powerful search tool. p8 poseidon. it will be involved in this search. let's go "outfront". >>> good evening i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight breaking news

wolf? >> what about the airline, the malaysian airlines? are they doing something special right now to deal with the anguish, to try to console these family members? >> reporter: absolutely. we were walking in the hotel room, i've been staying in the hotel where many of the family members are staying for the last few days, watching them as they go through this turmoil. and the whole time there have been counselors here, there have been members of malaysian airlines. here they are much more protective of the families. they're not letting anyone really get near them. they are trying to core don them off from pretty much the rest of the world, especially the media. but they do have counseling. and i put that question to one of the malaysian airlines representatives who was stopping us from being able to move freely in the hotel. and i said, "what is it you're doing for the family members, are you giving them counseling, are you helping them." and they said yes. we did see a lot of representati

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." let's get to the breaking news. china has said one of it satellites has found a crash area of what appear to be large floating objects. we have the kind of coverage only cnn can deliver. our correspondents are standing by along with top analysts and experts. let's go straight to jim sciutto with the latest. what were we learning? >> a remarkable development in six confusing days of misdirection. they look very small but they are very large. 43 feet by 49 feet one of them, 46 by 62 feet, another one 79 feet by 72 feet. a flatbed truck is 48 feet long, a mobile home 28 feet long so these are big pieces floating in the water. let me show you on the map where they were found. you'll remember the flight took off from kuala lumpur on its way to beijing. this was the point of last contact when its transponder was turned off. and you'll remember this was the area they were searching in in those early days but not finding anything. and then you'll remember they

wolf? >> jake, thanks very much. happening now, the mystery of flight 370 as they sit through conflicting information. investigators have new reason to believe the missing airliner could have flown for several hours after the last radar reading was received. new details about the signals from the airliner apparently received by satellites. we're looking at how planes transmit such data and how it can help the search. and the u.s. military is expanding its search towards the indian ocean anded aing a powerful new asset to that hunt, we'll get an update from a navy ship commander deployed in the region. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." we have new information in the search for malaysia airlines flight 370. u.s. officials say investigators have pings suggesting the missing airliner may have flown for several hours after the last radar reading was taken. the hunt for the missing airliner is expanding to the west. the u.s. navy may send a destroyer to the strait, leading to the

wolf? >> barbara starr, thank you. >>> malaysia's prime minister may have declared that flight 370 ended in the indian ocean but there's no explanation of why the plane went down there. investigators are chasing every possible lead. pamela brown is joining us with more on this part of the story. pam? >> malaysian authorities have said that there's been full cooperation from everyone that they've interviewed, more than 100 people, they say, as investigators continue to focus on those that the pilots knew them the best, their families. investigators are digging deeper into the background of the pilots zaharie ahmad shah and fariq ab hamid. >> the issues outside the notion of just where is that aircraft? >> reporter: malaysian authorities have interviewed more than 100 people, including the family members of the passengers and crew. a news agency quotes police as saying all of those questioned cooperated fully. adding that cases like this could take up to a year to fully investigate. sources t

i would say, wolf, since this is the battery at the end of it. this is the pinger.of course, on the side of the ping per, you have the battery that will provide the source to keep going for 30 days. now, wolf, i would say that until we have some form of confirmation one way or the other, at worst this is a worrying possibility that those pingers may already have stopped transmitting if those batteries were improperly stored. >> and they would only have 12 or 13 or 14 days left if they were properly stored. what you're saying here and we have one of these flight data recorders here with the battery here, the pinger here, if it's not emitting any noise, any sound, any indication at all right now, even if they find the debris, it may not make much difference. is that what you're saying? >> yes. they found the black boxes on 447 two years after the pingers stopped, so it's not an open and shut scenario, but certainly, look, if these batteries were improperly stored by malaysian airlines and if it's proven that that degrades the operational performance, then frankly, the

wolf? >> you know, that mysterious photo that you were just showing our viewers, the white house photographer pete suza recalls something that people at the time were saying that the tourists were probably not really tourists after all. >> kind of what sparked his interest in this photo and why we're looking at it so closely now. he says he noticed at the time that the so-called tourists were asking reagan questions about human rights in the united states. recalled asking a secret service agent why are these tourists asking these questions about human rights and the secret service agent said those are all kgb families. it raised suspicions, maybe these people are trying to get close to reagan, gather bits of intelligence, things like that. kind of strange. >> very strange. thanks very much. two american news anchors working for russia state-funded rt television. made some dramatic headlines of their own this week. going on air, blasting russia's role in this crisis. one even quitting her jo

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> and we begin with the breaking news this hour. search planes are set to take off after a series of critical new developments in the hunt for flight 370 there's a lot going on right now. experts are analyzing new possible debris found in the search zone in the southern indian ocean. these are the actual photographs. these are not satellite images. several ships are heading to the area to recover objects that were spotted. and i asked the new zealand air commander just moments ago about all of this. >> in about two hours' time, there will be four ships in the area. >> and there may be a new potential for a break in the investigation three weeks after the jet vanished. our correspondents and analysts, we have a lot of new information to share and put into context. they're here in "the situation room" and around the world covering all the breaking story. first, let's go to our chief national security correspondent jim sciut

wolf? >> the chinese government not necessarily accepting the malaysian statement that everyone is dead. they issued a statement, david, as you know, saying they want more information, they want all of the information and they are anxious to get it. clearly they are frustrated that they are not getting everything that they want. >> reporter: well, they are and they have pointed out several times over this two-week period, wolf, that they are not happy with the way that this has been handled by the malaysians. also, you have to consider that the chinese government is trying to point the finger to malaysia to deflect any criticism of themselves. so it's all kind of creating this very unfortunate level of anger, frustration, it's all boiling over and you've got to feel for those families, hundreds of them stuck in this hotel and this cold room as they get this information, this terrible information for them. they just haven't been able, really, to process it at this point. and some of them fee

>> yeah, wolf.hat the indian navy's also now joining that search operation, a massive search operation. more than a dozen countries involved, of course including the united states, australia, new zealand, all the neighboring countries of course around malaysia. but what is instead of narrowing down the search, they are expanding it each and every day as time goes on further and further. obviously there has been a long agonizing wait for the families and friends of those on board flight mh 370. they want to locate exactly where this plane is. as time goes on, they failed to. we started the search to the east of malaysia where we believe the plane was heading on the course as usual for beijing. then we learned that this radar might have picked up an air turn. did the flight head back over malaysia to the west? we flue out on a search and rescue mission c 130 plane with the minster for defense, the chief of defense also surveying the area over the straight west of malaysia. we were asking questions lik

>> hi, wolf. it provides great leads for the investigators to follow up on, particularly in thailand. the passports were originally stolen in 2012, the second one in 2013. in phuket, thailand, a resort town. and now you have the tickets actually being fraudulently obtained by using the stolen passports in thailand also. and passports were paid -- or the tickets were paid for in thai currency, the thai bottom. so it will be a great lead to locate this individual dealing with that travel agency and intensive investigation of that agency themselves. are they providing stolen passports on a regular basis to a variety of customers for many different reasons, which could be unrelated to terrorism but passport fraud, people using for drug trafficking or organized crime or any number of reasons that could be possibly why they were used. >> and the fact that this individual that nic describes, this iranian, that may or may not have anything to do with terrorism. it could be drug smuggling, it could be all

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." we begin with a race against time to find a trace of malaysia flight 370. here are the latest developments. as a new day begins in the south indian ocean, ships and planes are ready to head back into the search zone after violent seas and gale-force winds caused precious hours lost. due to arrive in australia shortly, a pinger will help searchers listen for signals. but the batteries powering those signals are running down and it will take days to get the device into the so-called search zone. our reporters and analysts are standing by around the world as well as here in washington with the kind of coverage that only cnn can deliver. let's begin with pamela brown. what's the latest? >> wolf, officials are scrambling to defend their controversial conclusion that the plane went down in the southern indian ocean. this is as new revelations are just beginning and pressure mounts from passenger family members. with anguished family members demanding hard evidence that flight 370 is lost, e

>> i think so, wolf. but in this case, you have the australians taking control of this search area near their country. and i don't think they're having any issues with that, because it's australians and americans that have worked together closely, extremely closely. i don't see any coordination issue at this time, other than being baffled by where the debris floated to in the interim five days since the satellite photographed it, or as peter mentioned, did it sink. >> the malaysians are asking the u.s. and others for what are called these remotely operated submersibles, which i guess would be underwater drones, if you will, to see if they can detect something. good idea to start bringing that into the area? >> i think you need to reposition them to australia or to another location and get ready to go. and my understanding is, the national security council has ordered that the repositioning and it started today. >> because those presumably would be helpful in finding anything that sunk, right? >> they can

. >> i'm wolf blitzer in washington. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. we're following breaking news out of the crisis in ukraine. armed gunmen have now forced a united nations envoy out of crimea. this is a photo of the envoy, robert serry, taking refuge at a cafe with a tv reporter after gunmen tried to get him into a car. serry later left for the airport, saying he was happy to leave crimea if it would help reduce tensions. also right now, we're waiting for the secretary of state of the united states, john kerry, and the russian foreign minis r minister, sergey lavrov, to conclude their talks in paris. we expect that they will be speaking to reporters. we'll have live coverage of that. in the meantime, to cnn's anna coren, joining us from crimea. anna, this u.n. envoy had to leave, leave a coffee shop. it was an ugly scene unfolding. tell us what you know. >> reporter: yeah, an ugly scene indeed, wolf. we understand that robert serry was surrounded by up to 15 armed gunmen. they

walk us through these charges. >> sure, wolf.y held a news conference minutes ago, where they announced the charges that she is going to be facing. this woman who drove the minivan into the ocean is facing three counts of first degree attempted murder. also, three counts of child abuse. now, some of the reporters in the room asked law enforcement up there how they came to this decision. and basically bottom line, they said they took a look at all of the evidence. the fact that there is so much video that police say showed the woman actually taking a turn into the ocean. they also say they talked with many witnesses, and some of the rescuers. some of the rescuers saying she prohibited them, or tried to, from getting into the minivan while she got herself out. at the same time, they say they have interviewed the children who were involved in this. and talked with them really many times about what they saw happened. they say that at one point or another, they were claiming their mother was trying to kill them. one of the children go

so we're living in the present, wolf.nt putin has made clear that he wants to be economically integrated into the international community. the russian economy is broadly dependent on trade not only with the united states, but of course with europe. it's also dependent on ukraine as a large export market for it. so this is not in russian's interests or the russian people. and again, we're pushing forward in the hopes that president putin will take the off-ramp. >> but putin is a smart by and he guy, he knows what happened in georgia. is it okay that russian troops are still occupying certain parts of georgia?georgia. is it okay that russian troops are still occupying certain parts of georgia? >> again we're focused on the crisis at happened. we've made clear of course our view in georgia and putin's violation of sovereignty there and it's not okay. but we're at a moment where there is still a chance for russia to not escalate. any day a match could be lit in crimea or for that matter in eastern ukraine that causes great ha

that's right, wolf.say that his speech today in brussels was written right up until the last minute so the president could make an urgent case that the world is being tested by russia's actions in ukraine. he made a spirited rebuttal to vladimir putin's justification for annexing crimea. he rejected the notion advanced by putin that military intervention is no different than the nato with kosovo. here's what the president had to say. >> it is true that the iraq war was a subject of vigorous debate, not just around the world, but in the united states as well. i participated in that debate. and i opposed our military intervention there. but even in iraq, america sought to work within the international system. we did not claim or annex iraq's territory. we did not grab its resources for our own gain. >> reporter: and what appeared to be a response to his critics, the president said he's not being naive when it comes to russia. the president, while he has ruled out military action to remove russian troops fr

>> hi, wolf. well, as you said, huge selloff on wall street.ew before the open there was going to be a wave of selling. but it's gotten stronger as the day goes on. it's not just here in the u.s. markets in asia and europe plunged 1 to 3% overnight and commodities surging. oil, wheat, corn and gold. those are things generally considered safe for investments. no doubt about it, ukraine had big problems before today. a weak economy in need of financial bailout. but what was a financial problem has turned into an economic problem. so trade could be impacted because ukraine is a major wheat and corn producer. also, a lot of oil from russia has to go through ukraine before it gets to europe and russia's economy could take a hit. so we're seeing that fear in the market, wolf. but some analysts don't expect a selloff to last. and say, actually, this might be a buying opportunity, wolf. >> let's see if it is. right now the dow jones down almost 200 points. mere abel, thanks very much. we'll keep you updated throughout the day. also coming up, president

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." the mystery of what happened to malaysia airlines flight 370 grows even more baffling 11 days after the airliner disappeared, the search now extending over a vast area of hundreds and thousands of square miles, covering a dozen countries and deep seemingly never ending ocean. the massive search involves ships, planes, and satellites. increasingly on the ground. we have the kind of coverage only cnn can deliver. our correspondence and analysts are standing by but let's begin with jim sciutto for the very latest. jim? >> wolf, i think you can call it a frustrating 24 hours. you have this revelation that authorities thought the data streaming system was turned off before that good night, the final good night from the cockpit and now they say there is doubt about that. you have investigators extending it to the search area. and the investigation is at a stalemate. 11 days after flight 370 vanished, the confusing and sometimes conflicting information from ma

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> the breaking news right now, the aerial search is about to resume as dramatic new satellite images give a boost to flight 370. aircraft now getting ready for a new day of searching after flights were called back due to severe turbulence and icing. six ships have continued to search despite the storms and poor visibility in the targeted areas. in the most recent sighting, japan now says one of its intelligence satellites has spotted ten objects floating in the radius near the search area. the largest piece is 13 feet by 26 feet. that follows an announcement of a big debris field reported by a thigh satellite. ranging up to 50 feet long. that debris was about 125 miles from where a french satellite spotted dozens of objects earlier in the eke. our analysts and our reporters are all standing by and they are here in washington as well as of special coverage that only cnn can deliver. we begin with pamela brown with the very latest. pam? >> wolf, officia

i'm jake tapper 3 i turn you over the wolf blitzer in "the situation room." wolf? >>> jake, thanks very much. a u.n. envoy threatened and blockaded by a group of armed militia men, forced to leave crimea. secretary of state kerry meets with counterpars from ukraine and russia and says all involved will try to resolve the crisis through dialogue. >>> and what is vladimir putin really thinking? i'll speak with someone who got to know him. president obama's former national security adviser tom donlon will join me live this hour. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." a united nations diplomat threatened by armed men and jeered by a pro-russia crowd as tengs rise in ukraine. here are the latest developments. a u.s. special envoy was threatened and blockaded by armed militiamen, forced to take refuge in a cafe and ultimately forced to give up his mission and leave crimea. secretary of state john kerry meets in paris with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov who says all parties agree to hold intense talks to try to overcome the crisis. defense secretary hage

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." we're following multiple new developments in the search for flight 370. among the latest, confirmation that the plane's route was reprogrammed by someone inside the cockpit the night it vanished. >>> also, officials have completed the search of the pilots and co-pilot's personal come computers and e-mails and thailand has revealed that it was tracking flight 370 as it changed course, flew into the night and simply disappeared. cnn is dedicating its global resources to this story and our correspondents and analysts are working all angles. let's begin with jim sciutto. what are you learning? >> the reprogramming of the flight as well as data from thailand are two pieces of evidence that corroborate the leading theory and that is that this turn to the west of malaysian air flight 370 off the course from beijing was both deliberate and under control, like the actions of a pilot or a co-pilot or someone with the knowledge of the pilot, how to fly that 777. b

so a lot of false alarms. >> that's for sure, wolf.ery, there are all these blind alleys, leads and tips that steer investigators in the wrong direction. in the case of the missing 777 could be the granddaddy of them all for false information. a satellite image appeared to show a plane above a jungle. it was spotted by a university student on a match search website that's being used by 3.6 million people, so-called crowd sourcing with map views trying to help find the missing plane. he said today this wasn't the plane authorities are looking for. epiphanies using images from space have turned out to be illusions more than once. remember the chinese satellite picture that looked like for a day the clue that would solve the case. three suspected floating absence floating in the china sea. turned up nothing. all but forgotten now. >> we found nothing. >> an i.t. analyst in the andaman islands thought he may have seen the plane flying low in satellite pictures, but not so much. the new zealand oil rig worker who claimed in a letter he saw

i'm wolf blitzer. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> we begin with new clues that are emerging right now in the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370. a senior u.s. official says a route change, that abrupt turn to the west, appears to have been entered into the airliner's flight system at least 12 minutes before the last voice contact was received from the cockpit. the fbi is now looking at hard drives from the computers of the pilot and the co-pilot, including the pilot's flight simulator hard drive. a malaysian official says simulator data was erased and investigators are trying to recover the files and u.s. and australian officials indicate the hunt the now focused on the far end of the southern search corridor, and that could put it more than 1500 miles off the coast of perth, australia. we're standing by with the kind of coverage only cnn can deliver. we begin with our chief national correspondent. >> cnn has learned that the malaysian government has

i'm wolf blitzer in washington. we'll see you back here tomorrow erin burnett outfront starts right now. >>> new details on missing malaysian airlines flight 370 could the pilots political ties be a factor in why the plane is gone. >>> one of the craziest theories yet on how the plane stayed hidden from radar and hear from a partner of an american on board the jet. why she believes her soul mate might still be alive. let's go outfront. >>> good evening. i'm erin burnett. new information on the pilot of missing flight 370 and major questions about his

>> wolf, troubling today.n the first death of a ukrainian soldier here in the crimea at a base not far from where i'm standing in the capital here. apparently masked men said to be russians stormed the base and an exchange of gunfire, one chief warrant officer on the base was shot. dead in the heart. the other wounded shot in the neck. that's got people deeply troubled because across the peninsula, there are lots of bases where ukrainian troops still loyal to kiev still holding out. i was at one today today pressured by russian troops who moved in around it, the men on the base talking to local protesters perhaps about the possibility of surrending over defecting over to crimean authorities. you heard in putin in a speech he gave in moscow just ahead of signing the papers that usher crimea into the russian federation a tone not about crimeaal at all more discussing the last 25 years, almost trying to re-establish russia's soviet glory in many ways in the ways he talked about how this country needed to have a b

wolf? >> was he asked, the secretary of defense, about that theory, that let's say the pilot may have done something, may have on his own decided to do for whatever crazy reason, this kind of maneuver and move that plane off course towards beijing, towards the indian ocean? >> no. to be very clear, the secretary was not asked that directly. but he's really underscoring what the official line in washington is. nothing ruled in, nothing ruled out. it's really behind the scenes that you're beginning to hear some of these other ideas being floated, and officials emphasize, they are just ideas. things that they're looking at, things they're chewing over. they need to hear what information the malaysians may have, what the malaysians are really investigating. >> barbara starr at the pentagon, thanks very much. >>> let's get some more now on the search for flight 370. and those 122 objects found in the southern indian ocean. at least on that satellite image. joining us now, mark weise, aviation an

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> we begin with a stunning new turn in the hunt for flight 370. here are the latest developments. forget the old search zone. there's a new search zone, 680 miles to the northeast. much closer to australia. authorities say new analysis of data shows the airliner could not have flown as far as previously thought. planes which were unable to confirm sat lime images in the old search zone have spotted multiple objects in the new area. we are awaiting results of the scrutiny of those photos. aircraft are getting ready to return to the ship zone. china says one of its ships has arrived in the new search area. our analysts and reporters are all standing by here in washington as well as around the world with the kind of special coverage that only cnn can deliver. let's begin with our aviation correspondent rene marsh with the very latest. rene? >> a sudden shift in focus. again, this search zone has moved and authorities say that's thanks to a credible lead.

i'm wolf blitzer in washington. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. the breaking news, china has released what it says are satellite images that may, repeat may, show debris from the malaysia airline flight 370. we're investigating. we've got experts who are taking a closer look at these images. joining us now, the former chairman of the national transportation safety board, jim h hall. also joining us steven wallace, a former faa director of accident investigation. jim hall, what do you make of these images? some are suggesting they may not necessarily be any debris from that airliner. others are saying it could be a very significant moment. what do you think? >> well, it appears to me, wolf, just from the images i've seen on television, that there's a strong possibility that it could be flight 360. and my thoughts, of course, first go to the families because they will not have peace of mind until this wreckage is found. >> flight 370, to be precise. >> 370 -- i apologize. >> t

wolf?s, thanks very much. >>> in the latest issue of "the nation" magazine, steven cohen is sharply critical of the american news media. the coverage of russia and ukraine including putin. he's joining me along with christi christiane amanpour and newt gingrich. let's talk about your powerful article. what's wrong with the way that mainstream american media has covered putin? >> well, let's put it like this. what people are witnessing right now, we're watching the descent of a new cold war divide in europe. this time, not in berlin but right on russia's borders in ukraine. that's going to affect adverse ree our kids and our grandkids for decades to come and the american explanation, the american media political explanation is that putin alone is entirely to blame. and simply that is not so. we played a large role in bringing this horrible situation about. >> well, what is that role? you're saying putin is partly to blame, right? >> well, you know, reagan said it took two to tango and that's

wolf?alveaux, thank you. >>> coming up at the top of the hour, we're going to have a situation room special report. we'll update you on all of the developments, including the surprising new details that we have learned. coming up here, up next, russian forces tightening a vital part of the ukraine days ahead of an event that could make the crisis even worse. [ male announcer ] this is the cat that drank the milk... [ meows ] ...and let in the dog that woke the man who drove to the control room [ woman ] driverless mode engaged. find parking space. [ woman ] parking space found. [ male announcer ] ...that secured the data that directed the turbines that powered the farm that made the milk that went to the store that reminded the man to buy the milk that was poured by the girl who loved the cat. [ meows ] the internet of everything is changing everything. cisco. tomorrow starts here. >>> we'll get back to breaking news coverage. mysterious disappearance of flight 370 in just a moment. first a