ashleigh banfield starts now. >> search teams moving in. a possible new ping from flight 370 to help pinpoint the wreckage miles below the surface of the ocean as odd new details emerge about the final flight path and just who was tracking it. also this hour, what drove a student to stab and slash his way through a crowded high school hallway with two large kitchen knives? survival stories, the horror and the hero, all of that ahead. presidential perspective. on one of america's finest moments, a summit celebrating the civil rights act already heard from carter and clinton and bush this hour, president obama steps in. you have a front row seat to see it live. hello, everyone. i'm ashleigh banfield. it is thursday april the 10th, welcome to legal view. from the depths of the indian ocean to the skies over western malaysia, we are tracking developments, revelation of the indian ocean. the alleged floating microphone search teams have been tossing out of airplanes by the dozens, one of them picked up a signal that could be from the flight cock

i'm ashleigh banfield. a story that pretty surely is headed to a theater near you. a california teenager sneaking into the wheel well of a jumbo jet and surviving to tell about it, even though it was a five-hour flight all the way to hawaii from california. the whole country is asking how such a thing is possible. so is gary tuchman. he went to the wheel well to take a look and find out. >> reporter: this is southern california aviation airport in victorville, california, in the desert where airlines bring their planes they're not using anymore. we're going to dem upon straight to, demonstrate to you how someone would get in the wheel well. this is the door that is closed, but there is a way to sneak in a hull to get in the wheel well and we'll show you. someone who wanted to get on the wheel well would get on one of the two tires. step on the bars right here. climb all the way to the top right here. and this right here is where an opening would be to climb into the wheel well. once someone would climb through that, they would end up here. i'm going to show you what

. >>> hello, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield. it's now officially been five weeks since malaysian airlines flight 370 took off on a journey like none in aviation history. like so many days before it, day 35 is a mix of conflicting signals. and i don't mean pings. first this from the australian prime minister on a visit to china. >> we have very much narrowed down the search area. and we are very confident that the signals that we are detecting are from the black box on mh-370. >> the areas searched today by air and sea total just 18,000 square miles. that sounds like a lot, but it's barely a fifth the size a week ago. and the listening area some distance away is much smaller still. that said, not a single verified scrap of the missing plane, nor any of its contents, has turned up yet. and that suspected ping that was detected yesterday by a sonobuoy seemed so exciting for so many. the retire e e ed air marshal coordinating the search. he says, quote, on the information i have available to me, there has been no major breakthrough

. >> "legal view with ashleigh banfield starts right now." >>> hello, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield, april 7th. welcome to "legal view." the box in the lower left-hand corner of your screen should be telling you that the mystery of flight 370 has now gone on for 31 days. and that's longer than the expected life-span of the batteries in the pingers on the so-called black boxes that were on that plane. and yet after all this time, the chief coordinator of the search

. >> "legal view with ashleigh banfield starts right now." >>> hello, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield. it is monday, april 7th. welcome to "legal view." the box in the lower left-hand corner of your screen should be telling you that the mystery of flight 370 has now gone on for 31 days. and that's longer than the expected life-span of the batteries in the pingers on the so-called black boxes that were on that plane. and yet after all this time, the chief coordinator of the search says, quote, we are encouraged that we are very close to where we need to be. and it just so happens that pings are the very reason why. since friday, australia's ocean shield vessel and a chinese ship have picked up pings, albeit, 370 miles apart. the chinese team heard fleeting pings on friday and saturday, but they were using some gear that is not particularly designed for deep ocean searches. the australians, however, are using gear from the u.s. navy, particularly designed for the kind of search that we're in at this point. twice yesterday and once more for two hours and then later for 13 minutes was wha

i'm ashleigh banfield. it is friday, april 25th. welcome to "legal view." it's one more week that's come and gone in the search for mh-370. now seven weeks have passed and australians are not giving up on that themed bluefin. after 13 trips to very near the bottom of the southern indian ocean, the sonar scanning drone on loan from the united states navy has covered almost the entirety of a circle drawn around those pings that were detected way, way back on april the 8th. those pings are still believed to have come from one or both of the black boxes. the black boxes from flight 370. they remain the only apparent trace of the missing jet to turn up in 49 days. if the bluefin turns up no signs of wreckage, and it has not so far, let's be clear, the search leaders say they will plot a brand-new field adjacent to the first one, and they will put that machine right back to work. for his part, the malaysian prime minister tells our richard quest that he will, quote, release his government's preliminary report on the mh-370 mystery. but, and it's a big butt, se, s

i'm ashleigh banfield. april the 1st, and welcome to "legal view." 25 days into the mind-blowing mystery of flight 370. the world's top experts are once again focused on the first 40 minutes of the flight. the only seemingly normal minutes, it seems. and what's believed to have been a 7.5 hour odyssey ending in the southern indian ocean. we now have a transcript of the cockpit communications with air traffic controllers in kuala lumpur and officials in malaysia say there is, quote, no indication of anything abnormal. they also say the jet's airpin turn after communications halted was deliberate, at least, and criminal at worst. ines

. >> "legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts right now. >> a large chunk of debris watches ashore in australia. is it the first piece of real evidence in the search for flight 370? or is it just another false alarm. all this as families demand that malaysia release the latest findings on this flight. as divers continue to pull bodies out of that sunken ferry and new details emerge about the can't than left the ship, we have now learned about a young crew member who saved the lives of many passengers with some last second maneuvers on board that ship. >>> and her survived the deadliest avalanche in the history of everest thanks to a quick thinking sherpa. an american climber relives the moment that boulders of ice came thundering down the mountainside on top of others all around him. >>> hello, i'm ashleigh banfield, it is wednesday, april 23rd. welcome to "legal view." police in western australia are holding a piece of metal that supposedly resembling a plane fragment. it washed ashore near the town of augusta. the head of the transport safety bureau says it is, quote, sufficientl

i'm ashleigh banfield. it is friday, april 25th. welcome to "legal view." more week that's come and gone in the search for mh-370. now seven weeks have passed and australians are not giving up on that themed bluefin. after 13 trips to very near the bottom of the southern indian ocean, the sonar scanning drone on loan from the united states navy has covered almost the entirety of a circle drawn around those pings that were detected way, way back on april the 8th. those

>>> hello, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield. it is thursday, april 29th. welcome to "legal view." 53 days into the mystery of flight 370, the search may once again be turning on its head. a private australian firm that specializes in sensing underground metals says it has detected telltale signs of an airplane and not just any airplane, a boeing 777. but it's not in the so-called southern arc where everyone's been looking for more on this a month. no, it's been southwest of that. it's southwest -- or rather, it's northwest of flight 370's last radar contact, way up in the bay of bengal, way up near bangladesh. cnn's will ripley has these tantalizing details from kuala lumpur, malaysia, and i'm also joined by cnn aviation analyst, former royal air force pilot, colonel michael kay. will, first to you, more about this discovery, it's somewhat perplexing to say the least, especially where it was. who made the discovery, how they made the discovery, how serious is this? >> certainly an having development, although considering all the false leads we've had in th

"legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts now. can we do the bump thing?- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> hello, everyone. i'm ashleigh banfield. it is friday, april the 4th and welcome to "legal view." at this very hour,el can four weeks ago, 239 people were about to take off from kuala lumpur, malaysia, on a state-of-the-art wide-bodied jet bound for beijing. but malaysia airlines flight 370 never arrived at its destination. and four agonizing weeks later, that is one of the very few things that we know for certain. today for the very first time, the search for flight 370 went under the surface of the southern indian ocean as the australian navy ship "ocean shield" arrived with its american tpl-25,

"legal view" with ashleigh "legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> 26 days into the search for flight 370. and the plane's pilot and co pilot are still under investigation. and now sources tell cnn that malaysia airlines is beefing up its rules for who can be in the cockpit and who can't be in there alone. >>> also ahead, an 8.2 magnitude earthquake rocks chile. almost as powerful as the scale gets. it looks like disaster was averted this time. but experts say this wasn't even the big one. >>> and the ceo of gm back on the hot seat today. senators grilling mary barra. they want to know why it took gm ten years to issue a recall for a defect that has killed at least 13 people. all of this as relatives wonder if they will ever see a dime. >>> hello, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield. it is wednesday, april the 2nd. and welcome to "legal view." 26 days ago, malaysian flight 370 disappeared. 26 days ago, hundreds of families were rocked to their core. for 26 days, a whole world has wondered, what happened to the 239 souls on board. her

"legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts now. can we do the bump thing? >> oh, i see how it is. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> hello, everyone. i'm ashleigh banfield. it is friday, april the 4th and welcome to "legal view." at this very hour,el can four weeks ago, 239 people were about to take off from kuala lumpur, malaysia, on a state-of-the-art wide-bodied jet bound for beijing. but malaysia airlines flight 370 never arrived at its destination. and four agonizing weeks later, that is one of the very few things that we know for certain. today for the very first time, the search for flight 370 went under the surface of the southern indian ocean as the australian navy ship "ocean shield" arrived with its american tpl-25, its towed pinger locater device. as we speak, that super-sensitive microphone is following a 150 mile straight line track at a depth of some 10,000 feet, strange straining to pick up this. [ clicking sound ] it is a faint set of pings hopefully coming from the flight's data and voice cockpit recorders. the british ship "echo" i

"legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts right now. >>> two big stories happening at this hour. a mass stabbing at a high school near pittsburgh. at least 20 people, almost all of them kids, hurt. some of them so badly they're airlifted to hospitals with life threatening injuries. one suspect, 16 years old, in custody. and a community is in shock. also, just when all hope of finding flight 370's fading pings seemed lost, the biggest breakthrough yet in the search. after days of silence, new pings, new hope. hello, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield. it is wednesday, april 9th. welcome to "legal view." i want to go live right away to the school superintendent who is speaking live. this is the doctor speaking about the incident this morning. >> our school experienced a terrible tragedy. the actions and response of our staff, students and local law enforcement officers saved many lives. our emergency responders provided critical support and medical assistance. we will continue to work in cooperation with the local law enforcement in the coming days and weeks ahead. our high school, as

i'm ashleigh banfield. for so many days on end no clues came out of the search for that missing airliner. now this weekend they may be faint, but they are absolutely clues. and searchers are chasing them down with the best gear they've got. right now a british navy ship is in the area where a chinese crew detected some electronic pulses on a frequency used by aviator -- or aviation locater beacons. despite the sound of that, our analysts say don't get too excited. these pings could still turn into nothing related to this airliner. add to the pings that some objects were also spotted floating in the water not too terribly far from where these pulses were heard, and it definitely gets people moving. certainly it gets equipment moving towards the site. again, nothing confirmed, of course. but, again, these are clues in a sea of where there are so few. the australian official heading the multinational search mission is calling these new leads, and i will quote him, the most promising. today if you're counting i

i'm ashleigh banfield. it is wednesday, april 30th. welcome to "legal view." it was supposed to be oklahoma's first double execution in 77 years. a final resolution to two horrible murders. and a hugely complicated legal fight. instead, the death row inmate on your right, charles warner, has a 14-day reprieve. in which he now can contemplate the ghastly and altogether bungle demise of the death row inmate on your left, clayton lockette, who went to the gurney right before he did. almost an hour after prison doctors began giving lockette the first of three drugs that were supposed to kill him humanely, lockette instead felt ultimately died of a heart attack. let's be real clear about this. his death was a hell of a lot less cruel than his victim's death, a 19-year-old young woman whom he shot with a shotgun and then buried alive. but this is all very graphic proof of the problems facing states that can no longer get their drugs of choice for executions. and i do mean graphic. you may be disturbed by some of the descriptions in this report from cnn's pamela brow

. >> "legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts right now. >>> 16 people dead in three states. hundreds of homes torn apart. many of them simply gone. and more tornado watches and warnings on the way for millions of people across the midwest and the south. also ahead, racist and raunchy recordings. tarnishing the nba. now everyone from magic johnson and michael jordan to president obama weighing in, as league larges a full investigation. >>> and things looking fairly grim at this hour for new york congressman michael grimm. he's just been taken into federal custody over alleged bad business dealings. remember, this is the same congressman who threatened to throw a reporter off the balcony during the state of the union earlier this year. >>> hello, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield. it's monday, april 28th. welcome to "legal view." they're dempl stating devastating and they're on the move. strong storms with destructive tornadoes ripping through the central plains and the midsouth and killing at least 16 people. >> my ears are popping. yep, we're in it right now. we're in the torn

i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to a special edition of a legal view. after 48 days, a horrifying prospect in the flight 370, the flight missing. what if we are simply right back at square one, not just this fragment that washed ashore yesterday and not being ruled out as a piece of the missing plane and not just the bluefin, whose sonar has now scanned the entirety of this area considered most likely to be holding those black boxes only to come up empty time after time. not just the visual searches that take place day after day with nothing found related to flight 370, it is all of those things together. it is all of those things combined with 48 days of dysfunction and secrecy as to investigators giving rise to our special coverage today on "legal view." it's time to look at basic questions and possible dubious assumptions while anguished and angry family members prepare to take their questions to the maker of the vanished jet. >> we're also extending our reach now. there's a subset of those questions including some knew ones much more technical we wi

. >> "legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts right now. am i allowed to touch it? >> no!death was supposed to be quick and painless. unlike the teenage girl he shot and buried alive. but the legal injection went terribly wrong. pitting the debate over cruel and unusual punishment against those who say this needs to be discussed further. it is all in the cross hairs this hour. also ahead, florida neighbors under water. a foot of rain in a matter of hours turning streets into rivers, sending homeowners to their rooftops. hundreds being rescued. we

. >>> hello, i'm don lemon in today for ashleigh banfield. it is friday, april 18. welcome to "legal view." some breaking news for you now. from the cold waters the south korean coast, there's nothing left to see sticking out of the water. in the past few hours, the very last part of that overturned ferry slipped under the surface, floating buoys now mark where the ship disappeared from sight. divers believe they know where the trapped passengers are located on the ferry and they are closer than they have ever been to them. now, the korean coast guard says most of the schoolchildren and adults were on a level of the ship that holds most of the passenger cabins. divers today got very close to that level and when i say very close, they said they were literally right outside that level. but the divers had to end their search for the end of the day before getting to the passenger cabins. here's what we know right now. more than 270 high school students and adults are still inside the ferry. more than two full days since something happened to cause that ship to sink. fam

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"legal view" with ashleigh "legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts right now. -- captions by vitac.vitac.com >>> 26 days into the search for flight 370. and the plane's pilot and co pilot are still under investigation. and now sources tell cnn that malaysia airlines is beefing up its rules for who can be in the cockpit and who can't be in there alone. >>> also ahead, an 8.2 magnitude earthquake rocks chile. almost as powerful as the scale gets. it looks like disaster was averted this time. but

i'm don lemon in today for ashleigh banfield. it is sured, april 17th. welcome to legal view. it is the middle of the night in south korea where time is flying by after a monumental disaster. this is the only thing sticking out of the water and officials are worried even that could soon disappear. under the water upside down is a massive ferryboat and 300 people, most school kids trapped inside. rescuers have no idea how many of them might be alive. families are devastated. >>> the more of one teenage girl still on the ship talked to cnn. she has still not heard from her daughter. >> my daughter said to me, mom, i don't want to go there because i went there again, this time again, so i tell her i think this trip will be a very great experience for you, for your school days, so i'm very regret. i'm very regret i did that. >> how sad is that? here's the very latest information we have on that ferry that started sinking 36 hours ago. the boat was carrying hook teig school children and teachers on the ship. 287 people mostly teenagers remain trapped. rescuers are trying to keep th

. >> "legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts right now. >> a large chunk of debris watches ashoredence in the search for flight 370? or is it just another false alarm. all this as families demand that malaysia release the latest findings on this flight. as divers continue to pull bodies out of that sunken ferry and new details emerge about the can't than left the ship, we have nowea

i'm pamela brown in for ashleigh banfield. it is monday, april 14th.er 370, news about the co-pilot's cell phone and the possibility that it was on midair. u.s. officials with firsthand knowledge of the investigation say the malaysian officials have shared data with u.s. investigators including a cell tower near panang, 250 miles away from where the transponder stopped working detected the co-pilot's cell phone searching for service. there is no evidence an actual phone call was made or attempted by the co-pilot. important to emphasize there. again, sources telling us that a cell tower near panang detected the co-pilot's cell phone which indicates that cell phone was on and reaffirms the radar data that that plane did turn around. we want to

"legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts right now. >>> two big stories happening at this hour.ittsburgh. at least 20 people, almost all of them kids, hurt. some of them so badly they're airlifted to hospitals with life threatening injuries. one suspect, 16 years old, in custody. and a community is in shock. also, just when all hope of finding flight 370's fading pings seemed lost, the biggest breakthrough yet in the search. after days of silence, new pings, new hope.

. >> "legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts right now. >>> 16 people dead in three states.s torn apart. many of them simply gone. and more tornado watches and warnings on the way for millions of people across the midwest and the south. also ahead, racist and raunchy recordings. tarnishing the nba. now everyone from magic johnson and michael jordan to president obama weighing in, as league larges a full investigation. >>> and things looking fairly grim at this hour for new york congressman michael grimm. he's just been taken into fera

>>> hello, everybody, i'm chris cuomo in for ashleigh banfield. it is tuesday, april 15th, tax day. welcome to "legal view." our top story this hour is the hunt for flight 370. let's start with the latest headlines. with search teams preparing to relaunch the bluefin submarine, crews are eager to send the underwater search vehicle back down for a second day, but bad weather is putting a damper on things at the moment. the first mission was cut short after the sub hit its maximum depth and aborted early with no significant data collected. plus, we're also waiting on results from samples of an oil slick in the search zone. they found a thin oil. they were able to collect two liters of it. it will take some time to get the tests done in western australia. the air and surface search for plane debris in the indian ocean could end this week as the focus is shifting to the ocean floor. will ripley is following developments for us in perth, australia. what are the chances the bluefin-21 is relaunching today? >> reporter: within the past few minutes, we got some information from the company

ashleigh banfield starts now. >> search teams moving in.ossible new ping from flight 370 to help pinpoint the wreckage miles below the surface of the ocean as odd new details emerge about the final flight path and just who was tracking it. also this hour, what drove a student to stab and slash his way through a crowded high school hallway with two large kitchen knives? survival stories, the horror and the hero, all of that ahead. presidential perspective. on

i'm ashleigh banfield. it's tuesday, april the 1st, and welcome to "legal view." 25 days into the mind-blowing mystery of flight 370. the world's top experts are once again focused on the first 40 minutes of the flight. the only seemingly normal minutes, it seems. and what's believed to have been a 7.5 hour odyssey ending in the southern indian ocean. we now have a transcript of the cockpit communications with air traffic controllers in kuala lumpur and officials in malaysia say there is, quote, no indication of anything abnormal. they also say the jet's airpin turn after communications halted was deliberate, at least, and criminal at worst. in western australia, the new point man for the multinational search says it could, quote, drag on for a long time. end quote. and even now he says we do not have any precision in where the aircraft entered the water. "wall street journal" is reporting that precious days were lost because two teams of analysts separately plotting the airliner's possible course just simp

. >> "legal view" with ashleigh >> "legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts now. -- captions by vitac-year-old survives in the wheel well. how did he get past security on to runway in the first place. >>> divers have just made it into the south korean ferry's cafeteria area. that's where they believe the bulk of the passengers were

i'm ashleigh banfield. and it is thursday april 3rd. let's begin here, no direct combat, no apparent injury, no behavioral problems and as recently as last month no indication of likely violence. these are just glimpses into the seasoned and yet clearly troubled soldier who killed three people yesterday at ft. hood, texas, before turning the gun on himself. these are brand new pictures just into cnn of army specialist ivan lopez. he's from the puerto rico national guard originally. there's where the pictures come from because he served with the national guard for nine years before joining the army. on capitol hill today just hours after the second deadly rampage in five years at the nation's largest military base, the secretary of the army and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff appeared before the senate armed services committee. all of this was meant to be a routine budget hearing, but it wasn't. instead the focus turned to iran lopez. >> he was seen just last month by psychiatrist. he was fully examined. as of this morning we h

. >> "legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts right now. > >>> it's moving to the right. >> be preparedere weather threatening a third of the country for a third straight day. 29 people are dead. across six different states. and the storm system isn't done yet. also this hour, has flight 370 been found? a private high-tech search firm says it's found evidence of an airliner in the bay of bengal. thousands of miles from the current search site. so why aren't the ships and the planes on the way? and also, we're about to find out what the nba plans to do

i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to a special edition of a legal view. 48 days, a horrifying prospect in the flight 370, the flight missing. what if we are simply right back at square one, not just this fragment that washed ashore yesterday and not being ruled out as a piece of the missing plane and not just the bluefin, whoseon

but i have to add, earlier, a ashleigh banfield pointed out, why didn't reeva steenkamp shout out.cking and maybe pistorius is confronting a burglar somewhere else in the house. it's a fascinating explanation for why she may not have cried out, after pistorius started shouting. >> it's a thought. we just don't know. we continue on watching for the testimony as it will go into tomorrow. danny and sunny, thank you both very much here. >>> we will take you now back to the special coverage of flight 370. as investigators are listening for those elusive, thus far, pings in the hunt that is definitely not the only thing making noise under the waves. rosa flores has listened for a pinging signal with underwater microphones, and we'll hear much, much more. and also with the batteries dying on these black boxes here. what authorities are counting on now to lead them to finding this missing plane. stay with me. i have low testosterone. there, i said it. how did i know? well, i didn't really. see, i figured low testosterone would decrease my sex drive... but when i started losing energy and b