one of them is a northern search area in the bay of bengal off india now being searched by the indian navy and the u.s. navy and a more southerly search pattern to the southeast, if you will, looking at whether the plane flew that way. that also being searched by the u.s. navy. a lot of nations doing everything they can to look for this. what they are looking for has not changed in one week. any sign of where the plane is. any sign of a debris field on the ocean. >> barbara, we're going to be talking in a few moments to the "u.s.s. kidd" talking about what it is they're looking for in that southerly area that barbara just described. michael, i'm very curious because you know barbara obviously pointing out. the radar stations, at least as we understand them, that found these dramatic changes in altitude were fairly far away from this object. why didn't malaysian officials respond in real time to something like this? i mean, it's in your air space and you see an unidentified flying object changing altitude that dramatically, you think you would have done something about it, right? >> ye

airplanes are searching that northern box, if you will, in the bay of bengal. military is taking a substantial role in looking for the plane as well as the uds and down further south as you see in that map, the u.s.s. kidd is also looking and scouring the sea surface and the air for any sign of debris field. wolf? >> barbara, why two directions, one north and one south? why did they come -- this intelligence analysis come with two different end points, if you will? >> we don't have perfect knowledge of that. we don't have -- let us be very clear -- all of the information that the government of the united states and government of malaysia has. but our understanding, from people we've spoken to, is this is based when they put all that data together. what we now know, for example, is that the satellite picked up some of those pings. they were able to analyze location information. the radar gave them location information. the pings went on for about five hours, which tells them how long the plane might have been flying in some sort of relatively stable flight situa

is now focusing, out to the bay of bengal and out more in the indian ocean.bout this, people on the sea for many years looked tat stars to figure out where they are. this is reversing the process in a sense and using a star in this case a stationary satellite, a geostationary satellite, meaning it's always above the exact same spot on earth. this satellite, through the acars system, reaches down to earth and sends a signal. we light this up for a moment, and it does an electronic hand shake with the airplane on the ground. it sends a signal, the airplane answers with a signal, then everything is green and the satellite can communicate with the plane. an hour later, it does the same thing. this happened five times in the course of the time after the plane disappeared from all communications. five times the satellite said, is there a plane down there like this plane? five times the plane answered and then it did not answer. this satellite is not designed to tell you where these planes are specifically, but if you reverse that process that i was describing of so

this is the bay of bengal. that's also feeding out of the sea and into the bay of bengal. in this area here. as a result, they have the navy from india moving in that direction as well as the "uss kit" searching this area here. the indian ocean is massive. it is about 28 million square miles across. so to circle just a little part of it, you are beg to search that area, that in and of itself is a massive task. if the plane headed this way, into the indian ocean, this is even a bigger challenge. it may be like looking for a needle and not just a haystack but, you know, a million swimming pools. a huge challenge. when and if they actually ever find the wreckage, they have got to get the black boxes. why is that critical? they want the look at the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder. the flight data recorder will contain 24 hours of plane data. cockpit voice recorder will only have the last would hours of what happened in the cockpit. as you can imagine, that may not include whatever happened in the cockpit to force them to do a u-turn. >> unbelievable. the my

people have private data where they've been looking into the bengal ocean. such a worldwide effort. it has cracked the computers several times where people click on what they think it may be an image of something that is suspect. how crowd sourcing is, you look at an image. if you see something, you click on it. if more people see it, thousands of clicks, then it rise to the top and somebody said, we'd better examine that. so you have people who are examining it but it doesn't go from the an it will. they have to look it a, consider it, weigh it against other things and it goes through a process. we know that by at i, the image was taken on the 16th. >> all right. kerry sanders. again who has been getting us the best real-time information in touch with the uss kidd. we'll take a break and be back with more as we follow our breaking news. possible debris of malaysia air flight 370. we'll keep you posted in real-time. we are in touch with that p-8 plane. >>> we've been looking at these two objects in the ocean. they don't know, it is very important to say, the

the military and india now expanding its search in the andaman sea toward the bay of bengal. navy ships and two coast guard vessels have been deployed. a reuters report suggests the plane was deliberately flown hundreds of mile office course toward the andaman islands in the indian ocean part of india. that's added to suspicions about foul play. a senior u.s. official says there's a, quote, significant likelihood the plane is at the bottom of the indian ocean but no one seems to know for sure about any of this. so there are plenty of clues out there, but no concrete answers. our richard quest is joining us from new york, also joining us a veteran pilot who durcurrently flies a 777 jet. also joining us is john goglia, an aviation safety expert. what's your opinion of all these pings that have now been documented showing that this plane was continuing for four, maybe five hours after this transponder sending communication to air traffic controllers? >> well, continuous pinging suggests that the plane is still in flight and still operating somewhat normally. so that would sort o

if you look at the map earlier, they were well up here in the bay of bengal. the p-3 and the p-8 working in that area, they targeted more than 400 suspicious items floating in the water, things that they thought might be debris, and all of that turned out to be garbage. so it points out two things. one, their ability to find things floating on the sursfas, and two, an ability to define what they're seeing on the surface, and either count it as debris or more importantly just count it off as garbage. so as they are looking now to the south, they have a high degree of confidence that they'll find something that's there, and they'll go to the next level of determining what it might be. >> kerry sanders, thank you. >>> i want to bring if retired aviation analyst hager and tom bunn, good to have both of you here. picking up on what kerry said, robert, if they are able to spot something, because we know the likelihood is they will send the p-3s and p-8s out in our night time, how long will they take to figure out -- >> you might not be able to tell from the air righ

. >> this is up in the bay of bengal. >> bay of bengal. don't know the exact area.of the same aircraft are searching in those two regions. >> all right. analysts say the majority of the southern corridor there is littered with so-called dead zones, areas that have very limited contact when it comes to radar and satellite. peter ducey has more on this. i didn't realize anything like this went on, certainly not that there were vast swaths of ocean that nobody could tell what the plane was doing. >> yeah, shep, it's big. if you look at a map, draw a line 200 miles off shore and that's about how far traditional radar coverage extends in the search area we have seen countries don't want to reveal where their key assets are. so what you get is a big dead zone. >> in this part of the world, in especially in the indian ocean, radar coverage is very, very spotty. there's not a lot out there to be looked at on a regular basis, so there's just not a lot of radar installations there. >> another problem is simple. the earth curves and radar uses a straight line of sight. the fur

north into the bay of bengal off of india. that is the place that the indian military and u.s.itary assets are looking. again, based on the data and the calculations. the southern search box, it might have turned south and flown for some distance in a southeasterly direction. that is the calculation. we've heard about those andaman islands. now, this isn't perfect knowledge again. these are calculations based on the analysis but done by very expert u.s. government analysts working with the malaysians based on the satellite data, based on the radar data and based on all of the pieces of information that they have from the so-called pings of the aircraft which we know went to the satellite installation and they picked even more information. >> barbara, i'm you're remote magic wall operator here. these are the pings that you're talking about. they divvied it up, u.s. down here and indian up here? >> let's start with the south. that's where we talked about the "uss kidd" has entered the northern end of the strait of malacca and it's moved around and you can see what debris field it

and elsewhere now searching the southern portion of the bay of bengal near india. the plane originally was thought to be. this comes after officials in the u.s. and malaysia reportedly determined that the jet was ping satellite for up to four hours after it last contacted civilian control. nbc's tom costello has been following the story for us. what's the latest we know or don't know about this plane? >> i think that it is what we don't know. what we know was that it was getting off this ping signal. it was not transmitting data like its location, speed and anything like that. really just saying hear i am and

so yesterday we had a p-8 fly all the way to the bay of bengal, do a four-hour search and come back.you said, we have not found anything. although, we could definitely see things on our radar. we see small debris, wooden crates, trash, but nothing from an aircraft. >> can you talk to me a little bit more about the methodology? is it a grid system or are you taking particular areas, we are going to go out this far in this direction this day or this direction this time? talk to me a little bit more about the methodology? >> it does start out as a sort of general grid system. we are actually now up to 25 countries who are contributing. it started out nine and ten and then moved up. even though you have a grid system. there is quite a bit of flexibility. so, for example, the p-8 yesterday, they had another couple hours of search time. they had to make a decision. they searched an area that has not et yet been coveryet been c where they saw a little bit of return on their radar. they weren't sure where it was. they made a decision to search the area with the radar return. it turned out no

so yesterday we had to fly all the way to the bay of bengal. do a four-hour search and then come back. like you said, we have not found anything. we can definitely see things on our radar. we've seen small debris, wooden crates, trash. but nothing from an aircraft wreck. >> can you talk to me more about the methodology there? is it a grid system? or are you taking particular areas and you'll find out? we'll go out this far, this direction, this day, or this direction this time? talk to me more about the methodology. >> it does start out as more of a general grid system. we're actually, there were 25 countries crick. it started nine, ten and then moved out. even with a grid system, there is quite a bit of flexibility. so for example the p-8 yesterday, they had another couple hours of search time and they had to make a decision. do they search an area that has not yet been covered or do they go search an area where they saw a little bit of return coming on their radar but they were not sure what it was. they made the decision to go ahead and sear

and chinese and civilian vessels are looking into the indian ocean, the bay of bengal. and the waters off malaysia. >>> unbelievable, tom costello who remains on this story, thank you. >>> and before you see this next report which admittedly is tough to watch, ask how you would stay sane and survive if you had a loved one on that flight. there is no one to blame for the loss of the jet, not that we know of anyway, but that didn't stop a family member from lashing out in frustration, nbc's keir simmons was there and has our report from kuala lumpur, malaysia. >> reporter: her son was on flight 370, desperate for help she came here to talk to reporters, ahead of an official news conference. she came with other family members, frustrated with the government, stricken by grief. then, malaysian security arrived. there were shouts of protests. she is dragged away, a mother overwhelmed by grief. she collapses. and officials carry her off. screaming. she and another relative are taken to this room, kept from journalists for more than an hour. then security guards escort the wom

i remember calling up mike brown of the bengals to represent a player, and he said, "we don't deal with agents" click. that was that. mostly players had their parents tore did it themselves. the roll of an agent is to serve as a buffer. years ago i asked steve bartkowski in the first negotiation whether he wanted to hear every fact that went on between me and the general managers. and he said, "sure, it's my life, i want to hear it. i said steve, they'll say no so complimentary things about you. "no, i'll be fine." we get into the negotiation and the gm says, "not so fast, his back is a little bad. this wasn't a strong craft in quarterbacks, but he was the best there was." i conveyed that to steve to which he said, "get me traded." part of my job is to get into the heart and mind of a young athlete, to ask him to rate his values, whether it's short term, families or the ability to start. men do not share, so it's a question of peeling back the layers of the onion so i can understand hopes and dreams, fears and anxieties, focus them towards a second career, focus on the injury issue, hav

and also it could be anything from the smooth sediments on the bottom of the bay of bengal to steep rugal volcanic slopes. it just depends. that's an awful long way. it can take it almost all the way across the indian ocean beyond india into the arabian sea. so it depends on just where we're talking about. >> how fast are those currents move in the indian ocean? >> yeah, there's that too, you know. we should be collecting that data right away. because if we do find bits of wreckage on the indian ocean, we'll have to backtrack it almost a week, more than a week to find out where that x marks the spot on the surface is to begin to draw our search area. it all depends on the winds, depends on the tides, that's data we should be collecting right now. >> just some perspective, david. took about five days to find some initial debris from that air france jetliner off the coast of brazil, but it took two years to actually find the flight data recorder, the so-called black box, right? >> that's right. you know, but it wasn't a continuous search for two years. it was several phases. probably a tota

they are looking it the bay of bengal and the coast searching for the missing plane. we are monitoring the news conference and we will send it back to you and let you know if we will get any new word. >> a 27-year-old usc graduate may be among the 239 people missing. they confirmed that the description published in the chinese newspaper is a match. the birthday found in the flight man manifest is a match. he was working for shell oil in beijing. we are waiting any moment for a news conference with this official announcement for the malaysian officials that the plane was hijacked. that's what we expect him to say. we will bring that to you as soon as it happens, but our reporting continues on twitter on abc7 news bay area. >> investigators are in castro valley where a woman was found dead in her house. her daughter discovered the body around 4:00 this afternoon at the home on stanton avenue. abc7 news reporter alan wang has been speaking with neighbors tonight. alan? >> reporter: alameda county's crime scene center is parked out front and crime scene detectives is movi

you have the sea of bengal here and the bay of bengal here and the indian ocean. between those two areas, which are vast areas there has been some searching going on. but for instance the u.s. military, the navy has p-3 and p-8 aircraft anti-submarine aircraft that are assisting. well now as they expand into for instance the indian ocean flying out of kuala lumpur it takes three hours for the aircraft to get there, which means it takes three hours for it to get back so the amount of fuel that it has onboard will allow it to actually search for about three hours. maybe a little bit more. but they don't want to push anything because they certainly don't want to create any sort of onboard emergencies. so as the area over water appears to be a smaller area, because they've taken out all of these along the coast, it actually increases the am of time that they'll be searching. then we add in with what you noted there at the beginning, which is up here up in central area 11 countries that are now part of the search area. that is a little more difficult because you can't

. >> reporter: the new massive search zone now stretches from the strait of malacca to the bay of bengal where the u.s. navy is searching. the uss kidd is now in the area as well. an anti-submarine plane loaded with underwater search technology should start working tomorrow. we talk to commander william marks. >> there is no way you can search the entire indian ocean. a ship is an amazing platform, but it can't be done with ships alone. and even our p3 and p 8 with a range of a thousand or so miles, they'll have to return. >> reporter: if they ever find the wreckage, the black boxes will be critical to uncovering what happened. the fdr should hold 24 hours of plane data. >> the flight data recorder will tell us hundreds if not thousands of parameters that are recorded on the airplane, what the airplane physically did. >> reporter: but the cockpit voice recorder only holds the last two hours, which means we may never know what happened in the cockpit that caused flight 370 to turn around. investigators are also looking at what was in the cargo hold in the plane. was there some explosive o

china sea, beginning to move west towards the straits, and then of course moving into the bay of bengal and then over the indian ocean. these facts have been dribbling out. they have been not been extremely credible, and that is a problem. >> you have a search area the size of australia. how do you prioritize. >> you come up with a coordinated effort of who has the best assets. you do a grid. you do a meticulous methodical examination. we are not inventing the wheel here. searches have been going on for hundreds of years. we can find this aircraft. we just need to do it quickly. >> but do you think it will be find with the nature of everything you have just said? >> if this aircraft crashed in the ocean, we will see debris. the question is how long will it be before we see it? and will he be able to calculate where the currents, the wind, the weather has drifted this. >> thank you for joining us. >> delighted to be with you. >> still a mystery. you're watching "bbc world news america." still to come on tonight's program, after being the envy of europe, now turkey is hitting tough econom

is focusing on up in the bay of bengal and down here. how do they get here? do with a satellite. there's a satellite out there that's used for commercial purposes that hour by hour ping ors does an electric handshake with every airplane it can see. that says you are there, you are there, you are there.nts are in case it needs to reach them later. one hour later it will do the same electronic handshake again. if you have a plane flying along here it has some very vague idea of the arc on the earth that this plane is traveling. this is not really a locator. it's not really a gps but essentially you're looking at the angle between the satellite and the plane and the earth and you're doing the math, the geometry of it, and it gives you some idea where the plane might be. there were five pings accord to go this official, five pings from this plane to the satellite and that's one of the reasons that they have an idea that the plane was still going and by extrapolating those pings they have those handshakes, they have an idea that it would be somewhere out here. the

you'd have to fly up the bay of bengal, likely very low to avoid radar. were you're going 5,000 feet off the deck you are burning fuel like crazy, not like at high altitudes. they're really burning fuel. almost twice the amount of fuel. all of a sudden, you get to the himalayas. you have to get those out of the way, but when you get over the himalayas there are runways, in fact, there are many. at this point, the plane would have flown 3,000 miles. it had about 3,000 miles of fuel give or take. if you're going to look at this and low altitude it may not have had enough fuel to get to those runways but there are plenty of them throughout. john, rosa. >> chad, thank you for that. one of the things we're thinking about when we think about these possibilities, we have to remember, the families of the people on board the plane, this is more than theories to them. the chinese are demanding answers, some now threatening a hunger strike until the malaysian government and the airline give them more information what they call the truth. pauline chiou is in beijing

destroyer continues searching a massive body of water along with anti-submarine aircraft from the bay of bengal to malaysia. >> just to give you some context as to the size of that area, if you superimposed a picture of the united states in this area between india and malaysia, it would almost be like looking for one person somewhere between new york and california. >> reporter: but ten days since flight 370 disappeared, veteran investigators now say it's possible the plane and its passengers may never be found. >> it may be that somewhere down the road, a month from now, three months from now, a year from now, there may be debris that washes up on the beach some place that will be identifying the airplane. but we will never be able to track it back to find the actual debris site if it's in deep ocean. >> reporter: yeah, making it even more challenging, the indian ocean is the third's deepest and ocean currents can shift every day. also, the underwater pingers on the black boxes only have 30 days of battery life, which means a third of the battery life has been used up. lester? >> all right, to

they are looking it the bay of bengal and the coast searching for the missing plane.monitoring the news conference and we will send it back to you and let you know if we will get any new word. >> a 27-year-old usc graduate may be among the 239 people missing. they confirmed that the description published in the chinese newspaper is a match. the birthday found in the flight man manifest is a match. he was working for shell oil in beijing. we are waiting any moment for a news conference with this official announcement for the malaysian officials that the plane was hijacked. that's what we expect him to say. we will bring that to you as soon as it happens, but our reporting continues on twitter on abc7 news bay area. >> investigators are in castro valley where a woman was found dead in her house. her daughter discovered the body around 4:00 this afternoon at the home on stanton avenue. abc7 news reporter alan wang has been speaking with neighbors tonight. alan? >> reporter: alameda county's crime scene center is parked out front and crime scene detectives is moving in an

. >> when you look at the indian ocean specifically, and bay of bengal -- i guess bay of bengal is stillre may help or hinder you in that specific part of the world? >> what you've seen in the last few days with the emphasis and search area shifting out to the west is that you're now entering into very, very deep water. down to four, five, six, even 7,000 meters. but from our point of view, not a complex search area in the sense that the sea world is not a complex mosaic. it's generally very flat. for our purposes, using sonar to find wreckage is quite good. >> when you go to the supermarket or barber shop, this is all that everybody is talking about. nothing has come to the surface, not a seat, not a suitcase. since we haven't seen any debris, do you think that would leave investigators to search that northern area over land, or is it still possible that everything inside that plane is somewhere at the bottom of the ocean? >> it's entirely possible that the aircraft has come down in the ocean. and we have not located any wreckage here because we've been looking in the wrong place. if it

they are looking it the bay of bengal and the coast searching for the missing plane.monitoring the news conference and we will send it back to you and let you know if we will get any new word. >> a 27-year-old usc graduate may be among the 239 people missing. they confirmed that the description published in the chinese newspaper is a match. the birthday found in the flight man manifest is a match. he was working for shell oil in beijing. we are waiting any moment for a news conference with this official announcement for the malaysian officials that the plane was hijacked. that's what we expect him to say. we will bring that to you as soon as it happens, but our reporting continues on twitter on abc7 news bay area. >> investigators are in castro valley where a woman was found dead in her house. her daughter discovered the body around 4:00 this afternoon at the home on stanton avenue. abc7 news reporter alan wang has been speaking with neighbors tonight. alan? >> reporter: alameda county's crime scene center is parked out front and crime scene detectives is moving in an

so salty it's turned white because of all the shrimp farming saltwater intrusion from the bay of bengal is a major problem in the area. >> translator: shrimp farming benefits those on a lot of land. small farmers like me haven't gained from it at all. >> he says many of his neighbors have been displayed because they can no longer support themselves off the land. those backing the shrimp industry say it employs over a million people, maybe not in the farms but in factories and plants like this one. they say crops should be grown elsewhere. >> if we do not produce rice, there's no problem with that, because all of bangladesh can produce rice. all of bangladesh cannot grow the shrimp. this is the only area. >> reporter: like the garment sector, the shrimp industry is how the country is changing, if farmers to factory workers. perhaps an inevitable transition as they play catch-up on the road to industrialization. >>> thunderstorms are combing across the southeast this morning and also through this afternoon we expect to see them continue to push towards tallahassee, northern portions of fl

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between the p3s and the p8 which were previously deployed up in the bay of bengal, they have come up with more than 400 hits floating in the water, things that looked like it possibly could be debris. it was just garbage floating out there. they spotted those items out there and were able to not only find them but discount them as any sort of wreckage from a plane that might have crashed. it gives you an idea of how effective this gear is. so it's really, quite frankly, discouraging to hear that the p8 had a target location where satellite pictures that the australians released to day suggesting there was debris or at least suspect debris, and then at the end of the day they didn't see anything. >> kerry, the confirmation of the at least indistinct images coming in on the 16th. we're getting this fact almost four days after the revelation of the image being taken. so the sea changes and the travel of this type of material, if it is any type of plane debris and the fact that it could also have been submergeds, do we know more about the depths of the water there? >> tremendous depths,

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search specialist mccallum says if the flight is found off the bay of bengal, searchers will have to deep to find it. >> it's between 4 and 7,000 meters, which is around 12 to 24, 25,000 feet. significant depths. >> reporter: now, at that point submersibles would have to be used, either man or remotely operated ones would have to go down to take photographs. that's a man submersible. that tl is a special arm in the upper right and when we scan the video you'll see it again there, that silver arm. that is used sometimes to recover the cockpit data and voice recorders. the signal is losing battery power each day, wolf. it's crucial every day that goes by. >> it certainly is, brian. >>> the u.s. navy is scanning the massive area. joining us on the phone is commander marks. he's aboard the "uss blue ridge." what is the latest as far as u.s. assets searching for this plane in the indian ocean are concerned? what do you have going? >> last night our p-8 pseudon moved to perth, australia and repositioned it south to perth, australia. that will effectively double or search potential. right n

i will give you an example yesterday we had it up toward the bay of bengal searching for the great deals. another area they had radar returns. they weren't sure where it was. they had small blips on the radar. they make decisions they went toward the area they were seeing a little radar return. there was no debris there but we have the capability to maneuver. >> have you ever been involved in anything like this before? >> it is really an unprecedented event. over the course of the year we will have 80 exercises 200 or so ports and we practice for this kind of thing. it is something no one has ever seen before. we participated in operations with the philippines and the typhoon. we are out here 24-hours a day preparing and training for this. >> commander william martin on the uss commander thank you so much this evening thank you for what you do and give our regards to everyone on that ship with you. with me now is military analyst tomorrow mcinerney. we have commander william marx on the uss kid in the indian ocean right now. what is your take on what we can possibly learn at this point.

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is an aircraft to check the bay of bengal. joining me is colonel stephen ganyard, a contributor to abc news. and is a pilot. i am pleased to have him on this program. welcome. let me get with this question. where are we when we have this conversation at about 7:00 p.m. new york time? >> i am glad you put in the hour in there because it is amazing. the story is changing by the hour. i'll change my personal opinion about the possibilities. this new york times story that came out was interesting because it said there were radical altitude changes as it proceeded through the strait of malacca. it would lead to one additional scenario. there are others the same it is just skin paint, a reflection of the radar energy with no transponder data associated that it is not reliable. and it was probably straight and level and these are anomalies. if the aircraft was straight and level and no out to two changes, i would favor a different scenario. what we do know is given the evidence that involved today is the airplane was under the contro

i will give you an example yesterday we had it up toward the bay of bengal searching for the great deals. another area they had radar returns. they weren't sure where it was. they had small blips on the radar. they make decisions they went toward the area they were seeing a little radar return. there was no debris there but we have the capability to maneuver. >> have you ever been involved in anything like this before? >> it is really an unprecedented event. over the course of the year we will have 80 exercises 200 or so ports and we practice for this kind of thing. it is something no one has ever seen before. we participated in operations with the philippines and the typhoon. we are out here 24-hours a day preparing and training for this. >> commander william martin on the uss commander thank you so much this evening thank you for what you do and give our regards to everyone on that ship with you. with me now is military analyst tomorrow mcinerney. we have commander william marx on the uss kid in the indian ocean right now. what is your take on what we can possibly learn at this point.

this plane is making a u-turn, headed back over malaysia, then then started focusing on the bay of bengalnto the indian ocean. and, of course, you're talking about a massive area. >> more teams join the search. the u.s. provides a surveillance plane and two destroysers equipped with night vision capableties. china, home to 154 of the missing passengers, sends the largest rescue fleet in its naval history. >> we will not stop searching for the plane. >> nbc's simmons rides along with the malaysia air force. >> we are flying low over the ocean off the coast of malaysia. well below 1,000 feet. it is calm down there and you can see everything and nothing tlchlt is no sign of flight 370. >> soon, the massive hunt gets another lead. chinese satellites detect three floating objects. >> if true, this could be a very big break. and if the images do depict the wreckage, it would immediately refocus in investigation on what caused the crash. mechanical, human error or something else. >> but, this, too, leads to a dead end. no debris is found. then, on day 8, a startling revelation. >> good evening,

china sea, flying west over the malaysian peninsula and then either went northeast toward the bay of bengal or southwest over the indian ocean. >> we've been working nonstop to assist in the investigation. we've put national security second to the search. >> experts continue to criticize this investigation, questioning why this particular part of the investigation comes a week after the plane's disappearance. malaysian officials insist they've been forthright from the beginning and that there's no cover up. >> okay. thank you very much for the latest on the search for the missing airliner. to learn more details on the full investigation, you can visit kron4.com. >>> we have some breaking news. two people have been killed in a deadly crash on highway 12 in santa rosa. the crash happened just before 5:30 this evening. chp reporting that multiple cars were involved. it happened in the eastbound lanes and right now, it's not clear if other people were hurt in that crash. but all of the eastbound lanes on highway 12 are now closed. no time given for when they will reopen. >>> new information ton

because they really felt they had exhausted a lot of their search areas further north in the bay of bengal. they really felt this was the area that they had the best chance at this point of finding something. but again they didn't know and they were facing a scenario if they didn't find debris of just constantly expanding that area of search. >> and that is really interesting, and crucial because it was the uss kidd and i think it might have been on 360 where we were learning about the fact that resources from the kidd were being transferred to western australia because it was easier to search the indian ocean from land on the western coast. now malaysia asked australia, australia accepted the duty to marshal and coordinate all the search operation. but throughout the week, u.s. officials have told barbara starr, we've heard from jim sciutto, we heard again and again that they believe the plane came down in the indian ocean. the northern track was there, and they still add supporters to its theories. but as the week went on it became clear it really was the south indian ocean. but the diff

from reuters says the plane may have been flown towards andamam islands, which sit in the bay of bengal. >> the regulators recorded 303 deaths when air bags didn't deploy n. the crash data was analyzed by the nhsb. gm says it has reports of is 12 deaths in 34 crashes. the company didn't recall the cars unless last month despite learning of these problems with ignition switches back in 2001. in a statement, general motors says the new report is based on raw data and is pure speculation to draw any conclusions without rigorous analysis and particularly gm shares, we're looking at some declines, pretty easily given the broader markets. >> the target says its computer security team was alerted to suspicious activity when hackers broke into the retailer systems during the holiday shopping season. they decided not to follow up on the warning. the attacks began during the black friday weekend. target executives have said it wasn't until they were contacted by the justice department on december the 12th. the company may have been hit by a security breach. target didn't notify customers about th

granted, you are dealing with the bay of bengal, the indian ocean and other areas that are, you know, vast, vast amounts of water. but, you know, these things are navigated. there are ships, fishermen, planes flying over the area. to me, if the plane crashed into the water, you would see something. things on a plane float. you know air france 447 crashed into the water several hundred miles out, and it didn't take long to see things floating >> kind of got to know where to look. >> that's right. >> so any of these theories are possible. and based on the information that you have seen, this is the most unusual one that you have ever investigated, i guess, in your time. do you think this plane will ever be found? >> i think there's - unfortunately, i think there's a possibility that this plane will never be found >> really? >> if it made land somewhere, ultimately i think we will find it. if it crashed into the water and somehow there's nothing floating or the wreckage became saturated -- >> is that possible, that nothing would be floating. >> it's improbably, based on information i kno

take a map of the united states and superimpose that in the end ocean stretching from the bay of bengal down to australia, this is like trying to find a person somewhere to new york and california. you just don't know where. >> it -- >> it is a huge expansive area. >> that is a vivid illustration, thank you. luca, thank you for being with us. from on oceanographers's perspective, that would almost sound like mission impossible. >> well, what we can help with is a possible site where we need to look around. and then we can try to help and determine how things might have moved. mainly the debris. and you know, i think the best assets are deployed out there. if there is something out there they will find it. certainly, the more time goes by the more difficult it becomes because the debris will tend to disperse. so you start from a region where there is a high concentration. and then you move to a region where the concentration is lower and lower. and so even with the best technology it may become a little harder to detect. but you know -- >> let me ask you this. worse case scenario, we don

we started out covered andaman sea earlier in the week, pretty much covered the bay of bengal earlier in the week. >> the prime minister said images seen on the highlights may have been cargo containers that fell off a ship. >> a lot of manpower and money as well. how much has the pentagon spent on the rescue efforts. >> search cost military $2.5 million so far. u.s. told us they have only set aside $4 million for the mission. u.s. navy orion aircraft will focus entirely south and southwest of malaysia. when p-8 poseidon again on sunday will fly cocoa islands. p-8 not searching for pinging devices but instead uses sensitive electrical optical cameras that can see debris the size of a basketball. >> we've got the pest people in the world, best aircraft and technology in the world. i can tell you this, if we fly over something, a piece of debris, if we fly over it, we're going to see it. >> in a phone call between u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel and his malaysian counterpart this morning, the malaysians have now asked the pentagon for high-tech underwater microphones. the problem wit

more than 250,000 square kilometers near the 100,000 square miles from the andamen sea to the bay of bengal is the navy dockyard from which the indian operation was launched. over there you can see the coast guard vessels. these vessels have been combing the length of the andaman islands all the way south towards malaga straits since thursday. after reporting no sightings, india's military search was temporarily suspended on sunday. but for passenger ships, the search request still stands. >> you've been looking into this unbelievable search area. that is one ship and one section near the and a man islands. it's unfathomable. >> that was the easy part. the gulf of thailand was supposedly easy. the strait of may lag ga was easy. now you're expanding it, even based on that one satellite perspective, you're talking about the himalayas, a region very mountainous. just based on that one area you're talking about an area that's equivalent to two-thirds of the united states, the continental u.s. size, that's where we're trying to find one airplane. that's why this is an absolutely remarkable searc

radar profile, then you will, indeed, fly low and map the terrain below 5,000 feet or over the bay of bengal, where there is no radar coverage, an area i know quite well. but you know, we are here moving towards suggesting it's deliberate hijacking, an attempt to avoid detection and land somewhere for nefarious purposes. there is no evidence this is the case. i am still fairly confident that this is actually something more normal, more like some sort of technical failure, a scenario i'm quite happy to talk you through. >> alastair rosenschein, we'll talk about that next hour, you're coming back and we'll talk about what possibly could have gone wrong in your eyes with this plane. there is so much more to discuss, the mystery of flight 370. we will discuss all the possible scenarios right after this. >>> breaking news this morning, the search intensifies for flight 370. thousands of miles being scoured to find this passenger jet that's just seemed to disappear from the sky. now new questions about the pilots on board. could they have purposely shut down the plane's communications before steer