it will produce destructive waves and strong winds across western australia. then the flip side of australia, we have nathan. nathan is a category two. it is expected to move forward the west. it will make a u-turn to the east. it will not make landfall. it is near the coast. it will provide ongoing heavy rainfall and stormy conditions for the next several days. this area was hit by tropical storm maria three weeks ago. people are recovering from the damage from the storm. across the east we have another system. this is very strong system. this is pam. pam is now a category four system. it is moving away from the solomon islands. it is expected to move close to the area in the next 24 hours and move to the southeast. that means it is expected to effect new zealand by early next week as the next tropical cyclone. a lot of things happening across the southern hemisphere. across the northern hemisphere. another tropical system. this is bobby. this is the third tropical storm. it is expected to intensify and affect guam by the weekend. across hawaii, we have blizza

christopher jones was making his 5th solo sky dive jump in western australia. everything was going to according to plan until he suffered a seizure midair. he was unconscious and spiraling out of control. his sky diving instructor came to the rescue. >> he flew to me like superman and grabbed me and pulled the chute and i'm here to tell the tale. he probably saved my life. >> reporter: it did save his life. after the parachute was released. he regained consciousness and glided to safety. >>> he attempted to throw a brick through a window only to have it bounce back and hit him in the face and knock him out. the suspect then tried to claim that the pub owner attacked him. after he came to the police station with the footage, officers had a good laugh and the suspect was locked up. swift justice there. >>> still ahead on wusa 9 news, polar plunge. vince vaughn and lady gaga take a dip in lake michigan. >>> enjoy today because more wintry weather approaches tuesday afternoon and that's not the end of it. two chance >>> it was an act of charity in chicago. a frigid

. >> andrew thomas joins us live from port hedland in western australia. so there's the prom saying how revolted he is about the fact that he's going to be killed. do australians share his sentiment? >> well the prime minister said australians feel sick to their guts about what is going to happen to two fellow citizens or seems likely. opinion fols show a major -- poles show a majority of australians are against the death penalty. tony abbott was tempering the criticism with stress on how strong the relationship needs to be. julie bishop says there'll be consequences if the executions go ahead. but has not gone so far as to say australia will withdraw its ambassador to israel when two of their citizens were executed. tony abbott said that over time the relationship with indonesia must endure and grow strong. he said that he was personally revoted and australians are sick to their guts about what was going on he said this won't jeopardise the rags sh between the two key allies. are all avenues explored - they are going to be killed. >> the phrase that the l

the big issue is i think there would be flooding in western australia, and as i mentioned, over 300 tosibly 400 millimeters could occur around the cooktown area if you're in northern portions of queensland. so a lot happening in the tropics. we are going to continue to talk about this throughout the next several days. then as we move into the americas, we have this area of low pressure spinning up into southern portions of texas, pumping in that moisture into the gulf of mexico, bringing some heavy rainfall. that's on top of what's been occurring across the mississippi river valley. there's flash flood watches and warnings in effect for this time. we'll continue to track towards the northeast, though. temperatures look like this. houston with a high of 21. atlanta at 19. new york you'll be seeing some warming trend here in the next couple days as well. a 9 there for your high. and los angeles, look at that 28. actually record-breaking temperatures over the coming weekend expected out there for you. and then let's wrap things up here into east asia. we have this area of low pressure ove

. >> he was completing his fifth solo jump over western australia. now, at first there was no sign of trouble. but some 4000 meters above sea level, he loses consciousness. the 22-year-old continues to plummet helplessly until his skydiving instructor manages to deploy his parachute. >> that is a good instructor. we will be right back. >> welcome back. namibia's outgoing president has received the pri for outsndinafrin learshi durg his tenure as president, has raised the living standards in namibia and reduced poverty. a speaker for the foundation it gives out the award also praised him for his commitment to the rule of law. >> we have with us the man himself, the person that funds the prize. he established the foundation to focus on leadership and governance in africa. tell us what made him worthy of this price. >> became into office and focused on the young generation the role of education and made education free for young kids. economically, he moved the country forward from the least into the middle income can countries. he is a consensus preside

flip side of australia a tropical cyclone category 1 system will likely intensify and then hit western australiay friday afternoon local time. so a lot of things are happening across the southern hemisphere. and then across europe we have a very low pressure -- a very slow-moving low pressure system across the eastern mediterranean countries. and this one will likely produce thunderstorms and a risk of hail across the south of the balkan peninsula, and this low over turkey will move across this area and help towards the middle east. a low pressure system is moving into the western parts of the scandinavian peninsula and a new storm is moving into the british isles. very blustery conditions especially over the north of the uk. temperatures at 11 degrees in london average temperatures for you in berlin with the high of 9 degrees. and still quite warm across the east. 13 for the high in kiev with partly sunny skies on wednesday. here's the extended forecast. >>> and that concludes this edition of "newsline." i'm keikichi hanada. on behalf of our team, thank you for staying with us. copter crash in

finally, a sad scene on the beaches of western australia where a school of pilot wheels have breached themselves -- pilot whales have reached themselves -- have breached themselves. sarah: 12 of the animals have died. volunteers have full six of them out of the sea using boats and a sling. ben: a beautiful part of the world. also a very harsh heart of the world. sarah: very sad story. ben: thanks for tuning in. we will be back at the top of the hour with more news for you. >> a very warm welcome to focus on europe, with some of the very best personal stories. i am damien mcginnis and we have a really great show lined up for you today. in the netherlands, a call for the troops in the case of mh seven -- in turkey, camels out for the count. first to the netherlands where a criminal investigation of an unprecedented scale is being carried out. the find out who shot down malaysian airlines mh 17 over

finally, a sad scene on the beaches of western australia where a school of pilot wheels have breached themselves -- pilot whales have reached themselves -- have breached themselves. sarah: 12 of the animals have died. volunteers have full six of them out of the sea using boats and a sling. ben: a beautiful part of the world. also a very harsh heart of the world. sarah: very sad story. ben: thanks for tuning in. we will be back at the top of the hour with more news for you. the republican party nomination. he calls on christian conservatives to vacuum -- to back him. yemen on the brink of all out civil war. saudi arabia says iran is responsible. scores protest in afghanistan after a mob beats

a tropical low here off of western australia. this is cyclone nathan now and let's talk about pam here. this is definitely going to be the most intense storm system of these four. right now, a category three cyclone moving down here toward the south, trending further toward the west though if you are in this area watch this very closely, it could be bringing some damaging winds. as we look ahead through the next several days at the very least, very heavy rainfall very dangerous storm system in the forecast for you. and then this one, nathan this is going to bring gusty weather toward the coastline of queensland around the cook town area, the thing is look at the track, it lingers and goes in a circle. what that means, we're going to be seeing a lot of rainfall out of this some areas well over 400 millimeters. wrapping things up still in this storm system we're going to talk about the gulf of mexico. in the pacific northwest, another low coming, in if you're in vancouver and seattle. showers there, on your wednesday. i'll leave yo

perfectly good airplane christopher jones begins a perfectly good freefall 12,000 feet above western australia. but seconds later he suffers a midair epileptic seizure. >> he started going into the de-arch position, almost like a fetal position, rolled over onto his back and started spinning. >> reporter: the unconscious 27-year old plummets to 4,000 feet only 22 seconds from hitting the ground. that's when his instructor swoops in. >> i was just glad to get to him stop him turning and make sure he had a parachute above his head. >> the next thing i know i wake up at 3,000 feet and thankfully underneath a fully inflated parachute. >> reporter: jones apparently had his doctor's clearance to jump but his skydiving days are now over. at least he's alive, he says, to thank the man that saved him. >> he's a hero, yup. he's a massive hero. >> reporter: clayton sandell, abc news denver. >>> and now to the end of an era in washington. barbara mikulski saying she will retire. 4'11", but on both sides of the isle aisle, they know she's tall in spirit. saying she just wants to focus on her constituents.

one is now located to the north of western australia. this one is a tropical low at this moment. but will likely intensify a tropical cyclone, category 2 system, and then make it to the coast by your friday. and then across the flip side of the continent we have another tropical low and this one will likely intensify, category 2 system but it will whoever the area above the waters. however it is expected to dump extremely heavy rainfall for the northeast coast of queensland into the next several days. probably as much as 400 millimeters of rain could fall. so flooding is going to be a very high concern. now, across the americas we still have a slow-moving low pressure system over the southern plains and into the lower mississippi river valley. this system has dumped as much as 100 millimeters of rain in parts of texas. this has weakened slightly but still powerful enough to cause some more flooding rainfall across the lower mississippi river valley up into the ohio river valley into the next couple of days. flooding is going to be a very high concern in this area as well. but tem

but we can go to a number of places today, places like the bahamas, western australia, where stromatolitic structures are forming that connect this very ancient rock with the present day, where we can actually observe the processes that lead to this kind of pattern. narrator: it's believed that many ancient stromatolites were created by cyanobacteria, photosynthetic microorganisms that produce oxygen, implying that the cellular machinery for photosynthesis arose early in the planet's history. knoll: this tells us that life was present early in our planet's history, but let me show you another rock -- also 3 1/2 billion years old -- from southern africa. and this rock looks very different. you can see here it's bright red, and it turns out the bright red is iron oxides. and in general, this kind of banded, iron-rich rock is called iron formation. narrator: these banded iron formations found all over the world are further clues to the early history of oxygen. dating as far back as 3.5 billion years they stopped forming approximately 1.8 billion years ago. continually entering the ocean throu

investigators though narrowed that down to 60,000 square kilometers just off the coast of perth in western australia an area the size of sri lanka. last september sonar devices started the search, looking where you see that arc under the sea in that area. that's the search that is expect to continue now over the next few months, perhaps until may. we have more from kuala lampur. >> on the first anniversary of the missing flight mh370, we are expect more vigil to say progress. weaver seen a number of them in the week leading up to sunday, and they have been well-attended. on sunday, the interim technical report was released by the ministry of transport and that was very much an information document to explain to the families, as well as interested parties in the gnat community where the investigation sits at this very moment in time, who's involved in the investigation and where the search is going what equipment is involved, the state of that mh370 plane and all the technical data around it. people will be analyze that go data for sometime to come. as far the government is concerned, they show remor

take look at this. 22-year-old christopher jones started convulsing about 9,000 feet above western australiahis instructor sheldon mcfarland is in the air with him. he doesn't panic. it took him a couple of tries but he eventually is able to grab a hold of chris and activate his parachute. >> i wasn't really concerned about him hitting the ground without a parachute. i wanted to get him underneath the parachute sooner than later. >> sheldon grabs me and thankfully pulls my chute and yeah i'm here to tell the tail. >> yes, he is. the video that amazing rescue has gone viral now. gotten more than 2 million hits in less than a day. >>> wow. >>> three stolen 110 million-year-old fossils have now been return to the brazilian government by the fbi. >>> shadoof the fossils in wilmington. ancient fish were unearthed in the northeastern region of brazil and at some point they were stolen. thieves tried to sell them on the black-market. one was even priced at 700 to us san dollars online. the fbi says arrests are possible but so far they don't have anyone in custody. the bureau also has not revealed h

it happened about an hour south of perth in western australia.uthiers shows us the instructor's very quick reaction. salad vlad, good morning. >> good morning. the skydiver in this video had been cleared by jump and hadn't suffered an even lepileptic episode for years. he said it was the scariest moments of his life. >> yeah i'm very lucky. >> reporter: at first the skydiving session caught on helmet cam appeared to be going according to plan. 22-year-old christopher jones was making his fifth solo jump more than two miles above the earth in western australia. but at about 9,000 feet jones who was diagnosed with epilepsy as a child said he passed out. >> my arms go back and i roll onto my back and, yeah basically for the next 30 seconds i'm in freefall and unconscious. >> he said he was suffering a seizure midair as he was trying to mack a left turn. his instructor sheldon mcfarland tries but fails to grab him as jones continues to plummet out of control and goes unconscious. >> he started dearching. he wasn't aware he was having an epileptic sei

unbelievable. 22-year-old christopher jones started seizing seconds after jumping out of a plane over western australia able to fly to him and pull the rip cord. he made an amazing landing after gaining consciousness 3,000 feet from the ground. he had been seizure free four years until now and does not plan on skydiving again. >> don't blame him for that. >> now it is time for your monday motivator if you are waking up with a cup of coffee here's another reason to celebrate. a brand new study says drinking four or more cups a day could reduce your chances of getting multiple sclerosis. people who don't drink coffee are 1 and a half times more likely to develop ms. the caffeine helps protect the central nervous system. >> 26 minutes after the hour the isis fight takes a new turn. >> the gloves have come off. >> jordan's king not holding back for the first time since the pilot was burned alive. before larry instantly transferred money from his bank of america savings account to his merrill edge retirement account. before he opened his first hot chocolate stand calling winter an "underserved season". and

after malaysia flight mh 370 vanished new scrutiny -- new tablet that was found on a beach in western australiawas found by a couple walking on the beach last july. they turned it over to the test. the australian agency not releasing text relates. but they say it's unlikely to prove it came from flight mh 370. >> some police officers say there is is a war on law enforcement. the biggest issue, minority policing and the violence that comes with it. >> jesse waters went to a police meeting in new jersey to find out what officers really think. >> what motivated you to join law enforcement? >> to help people. i wanted to be involved with the community. >> i do white caller stuff right now. >> you were in the handcuffs for the whole "50 shades of grey" thing caught hold. >> right. >> has there been antipolice mentality bubbling up recently on the streets. i think with everything undermedia it's exasperated. >> when you see the hands up don't shoot, how does that make you feel? >> it makes me sad. >> i guess the protests or whatever, is it accurate? no, it's 100% not accurate. >> rabble rousing do yo

this is all wind that has been affecting a good part of western australia.usts to around 180 kilometers per hour. it will move through quickly. by the time it comes to sunday clearer skies gradually coming in adrian. >> many thanks indeed. >>> the u.s. secret service is investigating two agents after a crash at the white house. alan fisher reports from washington. >> reporter: nothing unusual here. all guards in place. the secret service doing its job, but just last week another embarrassment for the service which attracts scandal like the white house attracts sight seers. two agents left a party and drove their government car into a temporary security barrier, which had been set up because of an investigation into a suspicious package. it is underthe officers on duty wanted to arrest to two agents. but a supervisor intervened and insisted they just be sent home. because of the seniority of the age epths, it has been decided that the inspector general of the department of homeland security will carry out the investigation. almost an outside eye looking at th

that search area is a thousand nautical miles off the coast of western australia that is scoured as we speak by four search vessels out there since august going through each of the ocean floor, an area of 23,000 square miles. 40% of that has been covered and hoping to get it through the end of may. if the debris is not there, what is going to happen after may? no one will say whether or not the search will continue p.m. we have heard mumblings from australia this cannot go on forever. this is a search that australia and malaysia are putting in the money, $120 million, the most expensive search in the history of the world, but, you know, the families are really saying this cannot go on forever, but for now, they are hoping the search will continue. >> anna, thank you so much for that, in kuala lumpur. >> they say the officials are determined to find out what happened to the missing boeing 727. >> in the months ahead, the investigation team will need to analyze, to draw conclusions, and safety recommendations based on the factual information that had been gathered. in addition to the ana

they are searching still some 100 nautical miles off the coast of western australia.he area they are scrowering is 2,300 square miles. they've covered 40% of it hoping to complete the search by may. the family is very concerned that if nothing is found, if there is no plane debris found in this search zone it will be called off. none of the countries have said this however, as i say, a grave fear of the families. we put that to the transport minister here in malaysia and this is what he had to say. take a listen. >> we will rely on the experts. we have experts guiding us. as a government we would like to have the expert due before we decipher that. >> reporter: is malaysia committed to searching for mh 370. >> if the expert views it is not this area the experts will tell us where is it. >> you believe the plane will be found by may? >> yes this is what the expert told us. there's a reason why we have to focus. >> reporter: because minister as you can imagine, it is the greatest fear of these families that once this area is completed and the debris is not there, that t

currently being scoured. 23,000 square miles in the southern indian ocean, 1,000 nautical miles off western australiathey are more than 40% through that area using four ships, sonar equipment. the terrain, as we know extremely challenging. we're talking about underwater mountains, volcanos trenches 4,000 meters deep. the concern, as you have referenced is that the families are fearful that if nothing is found in this priority search zone the search will be called off. yes, we heard from the malaysiaen prime minister this morning saying that the search will continue but when we press the transport minister a few days ago on that particular issue, he say, look we have to get to the end of this search reevaluate with the experts to find out if we can go go forward, because really essentially, if it's not there, they don't know where it is. they will have to go back to the drawing board, reevaluate this analysis and look for a new search zone. already $120 million has been put into this by australia and malaysia. that is how much money has gone into the kitty for this search. china, listening to what dav

. >>> at this hour tracking a number of dangerous cyclones heading towards western australia and other derek vandam is here to give us the details. two heading for australia and two in the area. >> this is the second time that australia has been simultaneously impacted by double cyclones. it's amazeing to see the amount of tropical activity taking place, as well as the country of australia here. so let's look at what we have taking place. i want to take note this the strongest storm. tropical cyclone pam. you can see four tropical cyclones as we speak. owen nathan pam rotateing in counterclockwise direction. this is nathan. 95-kilometer-per-hour sustained winds. it's more the rainfall potential as the storm churns around the northern parts of queensland. interesting to note the great barrier reef is just offshore. heavy rainfall can have a very negative impact on the great barrier reef. and we tropical cyclone owen. not a major populated area here but lots of rain anticipated as it heads towards perth later this weekend. this is the big one, tropical cyclone pam, and port villa has the

year old christopher jones was making his fifth solo jump more than 2 miles above the earth in western australia was diagnosed with epilepsy as a child says he passed out. >> my arms go back and i role on to my back and basically for the next 30 seconds i'm in free fall and unconscious. >> he said he was suffering a seizure midair trying to make a left turn. the his instructor shell den mcfarland tried but failed to grab him as jones continues to plumet out of control and unconscious. >> he started dearching and his knees coming down, and fetal position, he was not aware he was having a seizure. >> reporter: mcfarland who has had 10,000 jumps tries again and this time reaches him pulling his rip card and releasing his parachute with little time to spare. >> he grabbed me and thankfully pulls my shoot. he has a tail to tell. >> jones regain consciousness at the 3000 feet before gliding to safety unharmed. he had this message for the man who saved him. >> very thankful, very thankful, what he did, actually, saved my life. >> thankful indeed. my goodness. sky diving academy say parachutes come with

about 1,000 nautical miles off the coast of western australia.than 40% of the area has been covered. they believe they'll get through all of it by may. of course for the families of those onboard, they are very fearful that if nothing is found, no debris is found in this particular area the search will be called off. now, today we spoke to the chief of malaysia airlines and he believes the search must continue. he also said that he defends the captain, the pilot of mh-370 saying he does not believe he was responsible for that plane disappearing. take a listen to what he told us earlier. >> it is speculation. we do not suspect any one of our crew. the captain is a very capable man. he's a 777 flight examiner. he's not an instructor. he's examiner of the fleets. we have no reason to suspect. >> reporter: carol, the airline's chief believing that it was an accident as to what caused mh-370 to go so far offcourseoff off course and that valuable lessons have been learned from this tragedy and security protocols have been increased as have the flight t

that of course is a thousand nautical miles off the coast of western australia, in an area that initially was the size of half the united states that's been narrowed down to 23,000 square miles. they have covered more than 40% of it. they are hoping to complete this priority area by may. and they believe that if the plane is there, they will find it. remember they've been coming up against enormous challenges under the water and beneath. bee neath, there are mountains underwater volcanoes, frenchs. where the sonar is it's 4,000 meters below the surface. above the water, search crews have hit cyclones and waves which have just been absolutely enormous. so at times, this has delayed the search but despite that isa, they are saying that it will be wrapped up by may. the question is if nothing is found, if there is no debut in that area what will happen to the search? now, i put that to the malaysian transport minister a few days ago and he refused to be drawn in to giving some sort of commitment to the families that the search would continue. he said it's up to an expert panel of -- made up

10,000 gallons of gasoline catches fire while making a delivery to a gas station in maddington, western australiaurb of perth. firefighters do their best to control the fire, but both the truck and the service station are fully engulfed in flames. >> the flames got really big. the flames were about 50 feet in the air. >> simon simpson works in the area and records the incredible sight with his camera. >> firefighters were just trying to basically stop it from spreading. >> soon, a crowd gathers and several other people also start to record the growing fire. the flames get higher. the smoke, thicker. >> the police and everyone started to get a little worried about the amount of people that were standing, just watching and filming. >> the chaotic scene spirals out of control. >> it's going. it's going! >> then the flames reach a massive amount of fuel and the gas station erupts. >> i've never seen anything that big. it was a bit of a shock and sort of stunned me for a second to see such a big fireball go straight up. >> before the blast, simpson is about 40 feet from the huge cloud of fire. it seem

he started seizing seconds after he jumped out of his plane in western australia.to fly over to him and pull his parachute. he was able to make a shave landing after he regained consciousness 3,000 feet from the ground. he says he hasn't had any seizures in four years. >>> a war veteran has had enough of bullying at his school. he is comparing bullies to terrorist. saying their cowards worse than insurgents. the veteran made the comments after finding out that high school students are using the internet to bully other students. some say they support his efforts to combat bullying. he's considering suspending anyone who makes hate filled threats. those are your headlines. >> thank you. >>> thanks so much. let me tell you what's coming up next. hundreds of thousands of online accounts get hacked every day. now it just happened to me. how did i get my -- how do i get my information back and how did they get my e-mail to begin with? the cyber guy is here to help. >> is president obama trying to ban guns by going after the bullets. the backtop door tactics by the admini

first, western australia. what you see the young man who jumped out his name is christopher jones.e has a seizure. he goes on conscious. he did is come full day. spinning out of control. the instructor struggles over to him. grabs a hold of him. tries to pull the cord to get the shoot open. i think he just got him. here he comes. he will get him. the instructor has to guide himself. he will grab him. there he goes. he pulls the cord. out comes the shoe. the guy plans safely. mr. jones. he almost got himself killed. he is prone to seizures. has not had one for four years. the doctors said he was okay to make the jump. back in a minute. ♪ so what about that stock? sure thing, right? actually, knowing the kind of risk that you're comfortable with i'd steer clear. really? really. straight talk. now based on your strategy i do have some other thoughts... multiplied by 13,000 financial advisors it's a big deal. and it's how edward jones makes sense of investing. over the next 40 years the united states population is going to grow by over 90 million people and almost all the growth is goi

year-old christopher jones training to become a sky dive instructor jumping from 12,000 feet over western australiaet watch as jones suddenly falls unconscious. he says experiencing a seizure in midair. for 30 seconds jones who suffers from epilepsy but believed his condition was under control plummeting towards earth at than than 120 miles an hour. falling further away from his instructor. but at 4,000 feet an amazing midair rescue. able to reach jones and pull his rip cord releasing his parachute. >> i was glad to get him to stop turning and making sure he had his parachute over his head. >> i wake up at 3,000 feet thankfully under a fully inflated parachute. >> able to guide him to a safe landing. the video going viral this morning with more than 3 million views. but for jones, the clip, a severe souvenir a clip of the potential diving disaster. >> he's a massive hero. >> just doing our job. >> for "good morning america," reena ninan, abc news new york. >> i would say hero. >> i would say. absolutely. coming up she was the inspiration for the devil wears prada and now revealing the secrets to he

as we make our way to the western side of australia, here we have heavy rain pushing into the north western corner. this is actually tropical cyclone alwin, it will sink southwards and may have an impact on mining >>> back to australia. four years ago their economy was the envy of the world. now there are clouds horizon. unemployment is above the levels seen in the united states and europe. the australian dollar has fallen 30% from its peak. behind the change in fortunes is a collapse in the prices of commodity like iron or. we have this report from port hedland. >> this man is spending a lot of time in his garden. he was a geologist in the mining industry. as commodity prices plummeted, jobs including his, have been cut. >> people define themselves in terms of work. hi who are you, what do you do? >> i'm looking at opportunities. >> reporter: so are thousands of others. three years ago this house and land in the mining town of port headland sold for 1.3 million. >> i wouldn't have called them crazy days. they are above the average. >> today the houses on the market for less than half what

over western australia and the things some of all the way they're supposed to be not because the fall because their use the he jumps off and there is going free falling about what happens in a freefall right here. he has a seizure skydiver their 23 year-old christopher johnson. once he realizes he they're having is he's having a seizure is ongoing convulsions. at 6 a couple of times of band on the second attempt. like fences up to him close enough for is it will pull his parachute. >> reporter: at about 4,000 ft. it grabs him and able to basically pulled parachute and johnson was successful launching care issue with a record he became conscious at about 3,000 ft. and was able safely land. >> reporter: 70 02 facebook page and my facebook page checkout share with your friends back with more other traffic after the break >> reporter: half garry back from a trading surely it was with this kron for exclusive scoop the have some sense. on back had to do all work for the share butting in on. anything happen now. >> reporter: did anybody do or say something funny. and i got headlines with the

>> reporter: yeah, there's a search taking place on western australia.focussing on this priority search areas. it's about 20,000 squire kill meters. it's a huge expanse of water but at the same time the initial search was half the size of the united states. they have completed 40 percent of it, and they're hoping to complete the entire area by may. they're saying that if the plane is there and if the debris is there, they will find it. they have the floor vessels and use thing the the floor and looking on every in. . the terrain is horrendous. we're talking under water mountain and trenches and 4,000 meters, deep, so they're struggling to map it properly because of the terrain, and then above the water they're dealing with weather conditions and they have encountered three and waves up to 50 feet. it really is quiet extraordinary. as they say if the plane is in that search zone, it will be found. the families are extremely concerned if nothing is found that the search will be called off. >> yeah, you can understand that. anna, thank you so much for the u

in fact one moved to western australia, one to the north, this is nathan. we have what most likely a typhoon heading toward the philippines. you can see the strongest and largest. hurricanes and cyclones are all the same. notice the colors of purple. what we find are the winds are the strongest. keep in mind in the southern hemisphere they circulate clock wise. much different. if you think of the damage of hurricane sandy. if you think of katrina or eye says even andrew in florida, this is more powerful. so port vila the capital 50,000 live there. 65,000 in the island but you get down in the southern islands as well. that's where another 33,000. so the hardest hit area where the eye went through affecting 100,000 people. there's a quarter million that live in this island chain. that's what we're watching. we had 26 foot storm surge and most of the locations very vulnerable on the coastline. as you saw talking with bill they don't have the structures that is needed. it's going to take weeks to find not only the death toll but to give aid to everyone who is g

australia. every old western european country where every state in the u.s. and across canada, going fast into south america. >> you have spent your life protecting animals but recently, you have been involved in trying to help save elephants. can you talk a little bit about that effort? >> the poaching of elephants and rhinos and other animals has increased so dramatically and it's become such a money earner. you get criminal cartels coming in and the money from slaughtering elephants and selling the ivory is actually supporting some of these terrorist groups. and, of course, it's the demand in asia. and so we are using our roots and chutes groups in china. i wouldn't say we are using them because they want to do it but, you know, the slogan is: if the buying stops, the killing stops. and a lot of the chinese honestly believe that elephants shed their tusks and they don't understand the horrible slaughter and suffering, suffering of individual animals whether it's elephant did, rhino, tigers, apes being shot for bush meat, you know, the slaughter is going on

western anbar. >> jane arraf in baghdad. >> australia, china and malaysia may need a new strategy for the missingaysia airlines flight. if the underwater search turns up nothing by the end of may, it will go back to the drawing board. the plane disappeared on march 8th on a route from couple pure to beijing. all on board are assumed dead. >>> tomorrow two journalists from the al jazeera media group go on trial for the second time. mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed return to court in cairo on charges spreading false news. charges al jazeera strongly denies. they were charged with a third journalist peter greste but he was deported under a presidential decree. we have this report on what mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed can expect. >> reporter: it will be the third time for al jazeera's mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed to appear in court for their retrial. on january 1st, the court threw out the men's convictions and ordered a retrial. the judge freed the men on bail on day one of the retrial, which started february 13th. mohamed fadel fahmy was ordered to pay a security bond of just

money on the first concrete floor on his island and then a tourism consultant from australia said you know what westerners hate concrete put sand on that. that's the level of naivety the folks live with. i can't imagine how they're getting by. >> and because it's so remote it's going to take some time to get in the major resources to help them rebuild and really from island to island because it's a chain, assess the damage. is there communication really between these islands easy for people to go from one to the next? >> well that actually was one of the most astonishing things for me. one of the motivations for me to go to the vanuatu is it seeing this amazing photograph of a guy perched on top of the volcanic mountain with his bow and arrow and his loin cloth and when i got there the cell phone signal was stronger than it is here in manhattan. they have had cell service for five seven years or so and it was always strong wherever we went. who knows if those towers survived survived but yes. talking to each other and understanding what's going on is one thing. getting to the places as you stlau, grass ai

this follows embassy warnings that militants might target western oil workers in the country. >>> aid workers in australiafull extent of the damage from tropical cyclone pam is still not clear. six people are confirmed dead on the island chain and that number many say is expected to rise. >>> iraq's military continues to fight for the city of tikrit but it is the city of ramadi that has been under a major isis offensive the past few days including a double suicide attack that killed two members of iraqi special forces. cnn's jomana karadsheh has more. >> reporter: according to senior officials in anbar province at least two suicide bombers attacked a building used by iraqi security forces in the city of ramadi. according to the deputy head of the provincial council in anbar described this building as strategic. the building was attacked by bombers driving bulldozers. the first bomber struck the barriers opening up the way allowing the second suicide bomber to strike the building and flatten the whole building. now this is the latest in a series of attacks that we've seen taking place in ramadi over the pa

westerner. that'll be settled on sunday. i goat go to australiae this world cup. >> let's make it clear before you go the paul b. results on your screen obviously india, south africa threw, kwhaps here at the end for third and fourth spot? >> a winner takes all contest. could come down to net run rates to decide things. facing the united arab of emirates who can't qualify for westerners. and they could get themselves into a quarterfinal place. but it is all going to come down to the head to head between pakistan and islands. >> i think, do we have it? i'm sure. >> well new zealand, australia will face scotland on saturday. if australia's we can see there, get a victory over scotland as we would expect. australia will finish second,ly is lanka will play south africa. >> waiting to get out of this rain-soaked manchester and get into australia. thanks very much. >>> well, the team defied an australian court ruling to deny this man a practice ride in melbourne ahead of the season-opening grand prix. he won the initial take in a subsequent appeal after

australia. this of course is what law enforcement all over the western world is most worried about right now, right? >> that's absolutely right. in the blog he describes how he wanted to launch gun attacks, grenade attacks against shopping malls, against consulates in australia, if he couldn't go and travel to syria and iraq. of course he was able to get the contacts he needed to travel. but since the beginning of bombing by the u.s. coalition against isis isis have called on muslims overseas to launch these lone wolf attacks. this australian teen actually traveled before that, jake. >> his case is really interesting for a lot of reasons, but also because he doesn't appear to have been recruited in any way. he was self-radicalized. is that unusual? >> a lot of it does appear to be self-radicalization but he was also on social media interacting with other isis followers and they were encouraging him to go and travel to syria. it was actually online that he was able to find a contact who was able to bring him across the border from turkey to syria so he could join isis. >> let's move to that new vide

westernized, beef consumption is exploding. this is true even outside the major cities. this plant processes beef imported from australia. the facility will be skparnded this year to meet demand. this trader handles about $2.5 million worth of imported beef. >> japanese people are concerned that china is buying up all the beef. >> if so why don't they buy from me. they should come here. we've got plenty of beef. >> he's come up with a plan to compete with china's beef buyers. he's thinking of switching to cuts that normally go into ground beef. >> we can't allow people to lose access to whatever they want to eat. i think our mission is to protect japanese pple from falling into that kind of situation. >> china's growing hunger for beef could mean lean times ahead for japanese buyers. >>> that's all for now in business news i'll leave you with a check on markets. >>> every morning, investors turn our attention to asia. the tokyo market leads the way. markets around the world follow. >> from the decisions that could change the course of an economy. >> typical economies at the forefront of change. >> up to the minute market

in particular about 3,000 or so who have western passports going from european countries, australia, western governments, whether it's the united states or european countries, do to stem this? we've seen it. there have been high profile incidents where you have teenagers going over to fight but there are many more than that of course. what can we do as a government here at home to stop that? >> there are a number of things that have been taking place. especially in europe since the attack on the offices of "charlie hebdo." they have increased their efforts to reduce radicalization. they've increased their efforts to improve intelligence to enhance information sharing, to criminalize joining these terrorist groups abroad and to impose administrative controls such as picking up passports to prevent people from traveling abroad. >> michael crowley has a question for you. michael? >> hi brian. thanks. president obama led this big counter radicalization summit several weeks ago and it's hard to find a lot of tangible action items that came out of that but do you think that these sort of b