boeing has delivered more than 1,000 aircraft since 1995. e national transportation safety board, the ntsb, has logged fewer than 60 incidents involving this model since 1997. according to the ntsb most of them were minor incidents. it is one of the popular models for boeing because it can fly extremely long distances. some flights as long as 16 hours. >>> authorities are investigating what may have forced a san francisco bound plane to make an emergency landing in hawaii this weekend. japan airlines flight number 2 made it to honolulu international airport yesterday afternoon just after 1:00 hawaiian time. this is a photo of the plane on the tarmac from our sister station in honolulu. according to the pilot, there was a hydraulic issue with the boeing 787, the dreamliner. the plane had 171 people onboard including staff. but they all made it off the aircraft safely. >>> in oakland, a man is dead after a fire swept through his apartment. oakland firefighters say the residential fire started on santa clara avenue just north of lake merit aroun

boeing has delivered more than 1,000 aircraft since 1995. the national transportation safety board has logged fewer than 60 incidents involving this model since 1997. according to the ntsb, most of them were minor. it's one of the popular models for boeing because it can fly extremely long distances, some as long as 16 hours. >>> authorities are investigating what may have forced a san francisco-bound plane to make an emergency landing in hawaii today. japan airlines flight number 2 made it to honolulu international airport this afternoon just after 1:00 hawaiian time. this is a photo we have for you of the plane on the tarmac from our sister station in honolulu. now according to the pilot there was a hydraulic issue with the boeing 787. the plane had 171 people on board, including staff. they made it off the aircraft safely. >>> just a perfect day outside here in the bay area. almost felt like summer in some places. but that's going to change tomorrow in a big way. take a look live look outside right now. you've got san francisco on your lef

we take a closer look. >> this is the malaysia airlines boeing 777-200 which has disappeared.t can communicate with the ground in a number of ways. traditional radio. the last voice communication was a routine call to hand the plane on to vietnamese traffic chrome. on board transponders tracked the position. details of mechanical performance are transmitted. >> they want to cut down the time on the ground to a minimum. they want to know does anything need to be changed, modified, so they sent data not just on engines, but other things as well. the "wall street journal" is reporting that it may have flown for hours after its last-known positions. it's true that this raises questions about what going on in the cockpit, and why the pilots made no radio transmissions or discretion calls. >> this seems to have evaporated, which is ridiculous. in any other circumstances the pilots have time to take actions. >> rescue teams searched huge areas around the plane's last position. flight mh370 command to fly. malaysian authorities say they have no evidence to support it. >> air strikes c

with a price tag starting at $261 million, the boeing 777 has 3 million parts provided by 500 dissuppliers, all around the world. that is the global economy at work, and while the boeing 777 has one of the safest records in the industry, boeing stock still took a hit this week. most analysts say long term, whatever happened to this flight won't hurt boeing's business. why not? because countries and companies want these planes. for emerging companies like malaysia a fleet of shiny aircraft and a sparkling airport is a foothold in the economy. just this week, india's fourth biggest firm confirmed an order worth more than $4 billion. in beijing, dubai, bang koshgs international visitors find state-of-the-art airports. but when a flight disappears into thin air how these nations wee spo respond means everything. the a consulting expert and retired captain for united airlines, talk to me about if this happened elsewhere, let's say the united states, do you think the process would be significantly different? >> it would be. absolutely. anytime you have a multi-national effort on doing something,

boeing has certainly joined with the national transportation safety board, we have a technical advisoryeam in the asia, and we have doing everything to maintain a sufficient, and efficient global transportation system. >> he declined to answer any questions into the investigation, but there were some promising leads late yesterday, chinese satellite photos that appeared to show possibly some debris in the water, but the area was checked out and unfortunately no plane has been discovered. and the uss kidd is moving from the gulf of thailand to the straight, as the search area continues on both sides of the peninsula. >> there are new leads that the plane may have been flying as many as four hours after it disappeared from radar. >> the wall street journal first reported this. data coming back from the engines appeared to keep coming back for a number of hours after the plane dropped off of the radar. here is what officials had to say about that. >> whenever there are new details, they must be corroborated. as far as we are concerned, those reports are inaccurate. >> but two aviation sour

so the search area has been widened as we speak >> the boeing 777 has a great safety record with one fatal crash in its history. it's been flying for 19 years and as recently as a few days ago experts praised it. with little information, no one is ready to guess why the flight disappeared. >> scott, we had another press briefing since you filed that report. what did we learn? >> we know there's cctv footage of those two men on the aircraft in question, the two that had falsified passports, stolen passports. an official said they had footage of them checking in, all the way to the time they got on the aircraft. we heard more about what could have happened to the aircraft 40 minutes into its flight. the air force chief said there's radar indication that it deviated from the path. it turned around and maybe could have headed back to land. what is not understood about that is if the pilot had the wherewithal to make the tall, the deviated direction, deviation, why were they not able to send a discretion, may day or reach out to a nearby control tower. that is the big question right now.

an idea has circulated on remote control in stressful situations. in 2004, boeingpatent for uninterrupt able auto pilot. >> the ground control could take away the pilots' control. this would be handled by the ground. everything now the pilots try to do would be inconsequential. >> reporter: with the idea, pilots could flip a switch and sensors could go off in the cockpit or sensors on the cockpit doors if force were used. ground operators could take control of the plane using radio or satellite and steer to the airport. flying like a drone. if flight 370 was hijacked or a member of the crew did something to alter the path, could this have saved that plane? if they determined that it was a problem and they tried to get in touch with the pilot and co- pilot and they could not, if that system were in place, it seems as though the ground controller could have landed the aircraft. >> reporter: right now, auto pilot systems are manually switched on and off at the discretion of the pilots in the air. auto pilot cannot land or takeoff. this potential solution could present

this type of jet, the boeing 777 has a nearly spotless safety record since it began flying in 1995. though last summer, it was an asiana airlines boeing 777 that crashed while landing in san francisco, killing three passengers. for"nightline," gloria rivera, abc news, beijing. >> our thanks to gloria rivera. because flight 37was a boeing aircraft, it is likely that american aviation authorities and the manufacturer will be involved in some way in the investigation. going forward. abc news will of course stay on this developing story and keep you updated with all the latest. now we're moving closer to home, the american west, where things are still more wild than you might realize. fugitive cowboys are stealing cattle because, well, they're valuable. and we're there for a bust straight out of a hollywood western, as two suspected crime rings collide. here's abc's nick watt. >> with big eddie, gritty patrick and the boys, they are the cowboy cops. tonight in the case of mccoy's missing cattle, they are on the hunt for snag and wallace, two cowboys they say have crossed to the dark side

. >> there are multiple countries that just joined the effort, okay, boeing has been invited and we areorking with them and that all i can tell you. >> reporter: passengers of the crew wait for information, aviation experts remain baffled and the fate of 370 has become the greatest mystery in the history of modern air travels. rob reynolds, al jazeera, los angeles. >> reporter: the bomb blast in pakistan killed 7 and injured more than 30. it happened near a police station in a market. police say it was a suicide attack and a security vehicle was in the middle. explosions have been heard at the gewa barracks where they are holding hundreds of rebels and killed thousands in the region since it began its fight five years ago and they want a separate islamic state and they intensified it against the fighters last year. u.s. secretary of state john kerry is in london where he is due to meet russian foreign minister sergei fedorov and trying to solve this crimea and whether to join russia. meanwhile tension is growing in ukraine ahead of the vote and one person killed between proand antirush

boeing has already approved agencies like tiny it is me doing that we're really making sure that all said karzai who is up to presents. i'm new to my tears from being silly. the knicks could say the rounds nuclear talks and ukraine could be shattered the meeting soon as the people at the mine since having them around the same table. there is a good probability that the meeting is high time on a line by a crane like crimea. a meeting on ukraine only the g seven countries is already being planned for the summit sidelines. though the official agenda will remain focused on the potential for nuclear terrorism. it's our progress will be made at this meeting ah that's already been acknowledged that a key element will remain unfulfilled. that is the system for tracking accounting managing and securing full with this all nuclear material worldwide due to disagreements that plan is not guilty to the blueprint things. jackpot and cctv the hay. for more on this upcoming you can to secure the summit was joined now by our correspondent jack martin in the hague. hijack how serious is this threat of

boeing has the data and those reports are inaccurate. >> the authorities said they sent up surveillance aircraft to send for possible wreckage first identified on a chinese website. but they found nothing and that the chinese embassy characterizes the web posting as a mistake. what is intriguing about the images is that the reported dimensions of the three objects are consistent with the wing and horizontal stabilizer in the verteccal fin in the 777's tail. it is unlikely you will find large wreckage beyond a week. >> the airplane is down and the longer it is down less likely we'll find anything floating. five days is a good day, but now in the sixth day and depending on the currents and all of that, we don't know anything that would float. >> if we had a situation where the flight descent greated from a highality to youed only thing intact would be the wennings and tail section. as the investigators point out, after a week, they are unlikely to continue floating and the identifying the crash site diminishes still. >> cathrein harris from washington. we'll talk to a pilot and an aviatio

we have not heard that that has happened at this point. boeingt saying they are keeping and eye on things and not saying much more than that. >> 227 passengers we believe on board, 12 crew members. >> yeah. >> this is a long -- this makes some long flights, right? >> absolutely. this is the kind of plane depending on how it's configured and which of those models, can fly 5500 to 9,000 miles. they have tremendous range. that's why they are such a popular plane around the world, reasonably efficient on fuel, and that kind of thing. the boeing company is waiting and watching just as we are. >> allen schauffler in seattle tonight. thank you so much. continue to stick with al jazeera america for more information on this breaking news story. >> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm richelle carey. the top story, a missing jet liner. malaysia airliners, a boeing 777. the airliner was scheduled to flieivarrive in beijing more thx hours ago. the airline was over the south china sea when last contact was made. this is a photo of the exact plane. four adults a

boeing has joined the u.s. national transportation safety team as a technical adviser. team is organizationed in the region to offer assistance, and that means that they will be there to answer any questions about this aircraft, the 777200. or about the plane, flight 370. anything about its range, anything about its capabilities as it was configured and loaded down with those passengers and with that fuel load. anything about its communications capabilities and the redundancies built in. anything about the black boxes. thinking that the investigators need it know about that model plane and that specific plane as the investigation continues >> so the 777 has a pretty impressive safety record, right? >> uh-huh. very impressive. this is a very popular airplane. it has flown 18 million miles since it was introduced commercially in 1995. there are 1100 of them flying out there. and about 300 of them more on order. and in all of that time, all of those flights and air miles, just one accident involving fatalities, and that was the asiana crash last year. so it's a reliable, l

we have not heard that it has happened. boeing saying they'll keep an eye on things, not much more than that. >> malaysia's acting transportation minister spoke about effort to locating the missing plane. >> to work with all the countries involved, and their missions. so basically the fact that we are meeting after two, coordinating all the missions, coordinating all the agencies, getting all the information as far as we can convey to the public, that's the best we can do at the moment. >> al jazeera's contributor todd curtis is with us from austin texas. thank you for being with us this morning. first of all, you know a lot about these types of planes, which have merely a spotless record. when you heard it was missing. what did you think, given how sophisticated the plane is? >> my first thought was a positive thought that it was missing, but possibly landing in an airfield that didn't have a control tower or other communications. obviously from what has been trickling out from vietnam and elsewhere, it looks like that was not th

searched the content of this flight simulator, which this pilot of the plane, who has 18,000 hours of work in a boeing 777, who's been doing this for decades, has a flight simulator at his home. they searched the flight simulator, found nothing that seemed out of the ordinary. nothing that would lead him to believe -- there he is on the left-hand side of the screen -- a on a suicide mission, b, a terrorist plot, nothing that would be inconsistent with him being an airline pilot. then they realized that he had, that somebody had erased some volume of information from the hard drive. and we know that techys had gone in and were trying to find out what was on it. now, a malaysian newspaper reported on wednesday, united states time, that they had found the runways of five different -- from five different locations in the indian ocean, runways that were large enough to at least land this jet. not necessarily to take off because you need a lot more space to take off. so low on fuel, five different runways, where it could have landed. now we haven't been able to confirm than they're still analyzing that. but

boeing has delivered 1,030 of them thus far. last year an ash anna 777 crashed in san francisco due to pilot error. egypt flight suffered a cockpit fire in 2011. prompting a redesign through the fleet. both kuala lumpur and china have been plagued by terrorist activity. a knife attack just last week by islamic separatists killed 30 people in china. kuala lumpur is where al qaeda first planned the 9/11 rat tacks. >> we'll stay on top of all this, doug, thank you. >>> in washington top conservative leaders got together for the annual cpac conference to lay out their vision for the gop and for the second straight year senator rand paul won the presidential straw poll. the senator from kentucky took 31% of the vote, far ahead of ted cruz who got 11%. retired neurosurgeon ben carson and new jersey governor chris christie finished third and fourth. joining us now senator rand paul. congratulations and welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> thanks for having me. >> what do you think your victory in the straw poll says about your viabili

boeing has joined with the ntsb and we have a team on the ground and it is a high priority for us. >>t is like searching for a needle in the hay stack without knowing the location of the hay stack. >> the captain is joining us from arizona and he's a former american airlines pilot, and captain, welcome back. >> thank you, john. >> let me ask you about the monitoring, the electronic monitoring with the engines and how do they work? >> well, actually they are just designed to provide maintenance information about how the engine is performing, whether it is within the limits and any problems that could be there to dete detect early and when the plane lands they'll have the parts and the technicians with the tools and whatever else to eliminate the time on the ground because of maintenance. that is what they are for. but i have to say to you, when still broadcasting, they are broadcasting in a very interesting way. they gather information and kind of condense it into i call it packets and the packets can be secured and stay in electronic compartment until time to send them down to the lin

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the search area has been widened as we speak. >> the boeing 777 has a great safety record with one fatal crash. it's been flying for 19 years, and ex-parties praised its -- experts praised its safety features. the manufacturer is monitoring the situation. with little information, no one is willing to guess why flight 370 disappeared. >> most of the passengerers on board flight mh370 were chinese. relatives are awaiting news. >> the ongoing wait for news. some of the relatives gathered at hotels. a special team has been flown in offering care and support, made up of staff and volunteers. >> translation: we are malaysian chinese and can help communicate with the families. >> malaysia airlines has been cite sized for a slow response as the emergency unfolded. >> we immediately contacted all the aircraft flying in that aircraft for them to take a look out. it was done within minutes. at the same time when something like this happens you don't immediately jump to the conclusion that something bad happiness, you investigate all issues, and contact air traffic control - malaysia, vietnam, china

boeing has delivered 1,030 of them thus far. last year an asiiana plane crashed short of the runway in san francisco and there was a cockpit fire in 2011 and british airways lost an airplane at heathrow. icing in the fuel line prompted that accident prompting a redesign of the fleet. both kuala lumpur and china have been plagued by terrorist activity. a knife attack just last week by islamic separatists killed 33 people in china and kuala lumpur is where al qaeda first planned the 9/11 attacks. chris? >> we'll stay on top of all of this. doug. thank you. >>> here in washington top conservative leaders got together for the annual cpac conference to lay out their vision for the gop, and for the second straight year senator rand paul won the presidential straw poll. the senator from kentucky took 31% of the vote, far ahead of texas senator ted cruz who got 11%. retired neurosurgeon ben carson and new jersey governor chris christie finished third and fourth, and joining us now the winner of the straw poll, rand paul. senator, congra

claims against boeing can be brought in the united states in my home state of illinois, just because boeing hasts headquarters there. so it could face massive claims. >> the liability of the airline itself versus the plane manufacturer? >> yes. the liability of the airline itself is almost automatic. it definitely is automatic for the first $176,000. after that, it's virtually automatic, because the airline, not the passengers, have the burden to prove that they took all necessary measures to avoid the loss or a third party is solely responsible for the loss. absent proving that, malaysia air is going to have to pay compensation. malaysia air is facing massive claims nearing their insurance policy limits of $1 billion. >> let's talk about if the malaysians conclude that this was a pilot suicide then, what does that do to any possible legal action? who is held responsible in that scenario? >> well, conceivably malaysia air could still be responsible because if their employee took that act they're responsible. it could involve negligent hiring, negligent entrustment of this plane and these person

i cannot emphasize enough to you, don, that both boeing has an interest in this, the entire 777 fleet of over 1,000 aircraft have an interest in this. go back to air france 447. they want back out to search for that plane four times. admittedly they were on their last attempt when they found the aircraft. but that was the a-330. >> but weren't there clues about what happened to that plane. there is absolutely nothing now. at least there was data sent out before it crashed. there is nothing about this plane. >> that is irrelevant, don, with respect. the fact is, yes, under 330 they knew what had happened. but what they didn't know was why. in this situation we don't even know what's happened yet. but that doesn't mean it is less conceivable. they knew where the plane was with 447. it took them two years to find it. now a smaller body of water that is shallower. we are only three days into the search. it took them five days before they saw the first debris on 447. >> yeah, it took five days to find it. but still there was information as the plane crashed as they knew about it. >> but th

everything that boeing has, and then we will be more trusting toward the process. >> steven marks, thankvery much indeed. my experts react to breaking news for the search for 370 suspended for today. rebutting theorys, could be the best hope of finding the plane. frequent heartburn? the choice is yours. chalky. not chalky. temporary. 24 hour. lots of tablets. one pill. you decide. prevacid. ♪ 24 hour [ speaking foreign language ] >>> a desperate grieving family member in beijing today. the search has been called off today because of rough seas high winds and heavy rain. i want to bring you my panel. the former ntsb chairman and an author. let me go to you, jim, you're a former chairman of the ntsb, should we accept what the malaysian prime minister has announced today? that this plane has likely crashed into the south indian ocean and that all the people on board are presumed dead? >> well, i think this investigation demonstrates how fortunate we are in the united states and canada to have independent accident investigation boards and family assistance programs that provide for factual i

since introducing the 777, boeing has delivered more than 1,000 worldwide and the record has been goodtime. at this hour, there is no indication of what went onka malaysian airlines mh-370. it is missing, having lost con b tact with air traffic control about eight hours ago during its flight from kuala lumpur to beijing with 239 people onboard. more information on this breaking news as it becomes available here on msnbc. nice morning, scott? aye, or...a mornin' of tiny voices crying out, "feed us -- we've awakened from our long winter's nap and we're peckish to the point of starvin'"!! i don't understand... your grass, man! it's a living, breathing thing. it's hungry, and you've got to feed it with scotts turf builder. that a boy, mikey! two feedings now...in the springtime strengthens and helps protect your lawn from future problems. [ scott ] get scotts turf builder lawn food. it's guaranteed. feed your lawn. feed it! it's guaranteed. honestly? i wanted a smartphone that shoots great video. so i got the new nokia lumia icon. it's got 1080p video, three times zoom, and a twenty-megapi

>> this is the best guess based on what boeing has said.involved to estimate how far it could go and how fast it would be going, and looking at the radar data, the straights of malacca, and after that we're totally blind. we can just hope it continued going at that pace. >> that's what they're banking on. they have no other data to work on. they now how fast it was going because they have a radar and a radar image. so as long as no pilot or anyone else ever changeed the intoed until i went into the drink, they're probably in the right area, probably. >> probably. so when we look for the pings of the black boxes, wow, this is -- they better be really close because they can only search 150-miles a day with the plane that has the ping detector -- the ship with the ping detector from the australian navy. that's not a lot of ground to consecutive especially since they have not found anything from the air, where they can cover vast distances. >> the highest probability now, as long as you're telling the complete truth, the highest probable they n

my experience has been first they blame the weather and then the pilots. silkair in the late '90s boeingas sure it was a pilot suicide. it turned out to be a problem with the rudder and that caused the crash. >> coming up your questions are coming in. we are answering them. keep them coming to us. hashiwatashi #370 qs. qs. we use more natural gas.lou, this ensures we can produce clean electricity whenever our customers need it. ♪ [ female announcer ] most of the time it's easy to know which option is better. other times, not so much. so it's good to know that mazola corn oil has 4 times more cholesterol blocking plant sterols than olive oil. and a recent study found that it can help lower cholesterol 2 times more. take care of those you love and cook deliciously. mazola makes it better. suddenly you're a mouthbreather. well, put on a breathe right strip and instantly open your nose up to 38% more than cold medicines alone. so you can breathe and sleep. shut your mouth and sleep right. breathe right. >>> breaking news tonight. there are a lot of theories ranging from sensible to maybe a l

turned out it was a software error that boeing has corrected. but i'm lick john.to say-- certainly they probably could have and should have said something over the radio about may day or we've got a problem. but when you get busy, as an former pilot myself, i have an airline transport rating, sometimes it gets heck tk in that cockpit, judy. and i can see these guys maybe not doing the proper protocol as john described. >> woodruff: well, and we realize we're asking both of you to speculate. but we're asking you because you have spent your entire careers working in this area. john going lea, whatever happened, wouldn't there be debris? and we know that they have now enlarged the area where they're searching. do you expect that they will eventually find something in the water. >> well, i certainly agree with the debris theory. no matter what happened at altitude, i would expect to find a lot of personal belongings, food packaging, water bottles floating, and not just one or two, a considerable number. so without the debris field, that calls into question all of thes

names of the missing have not been officially released. >>> the boeing 777 has a near spotless flying record. kpix 5's don knapp has more on the plane and why safety experts say it is so strange for one to disappear. >> reporter: the boeing 777 is one of the industry's safest airplanes. in 18 years, the 777 never had a serious incident until last summer when an asiana airliner undershot the runway at san francisco international airport crashing and leaving three dead. malaysia airlines flight 370 was flying in the safest part of the flight when it disappeared. it was cruising at altitude in good weather. >> even if the pilots aren't talking, the systems in the airplane are sending signals out to the ground through the satellites back to the company so they know how it's operating. so something had to catastrophic cloudy happen to stop all of the electricity in the area at one time. they would have no warning if it was a explosive device. it tend to look more and more that way. >> reporter: two passengers on the flight were traveling on passports stolen in austria and italy two years a

boeing has outperformed the s&p 500, and the reason is, a lot of people say, sure, there might be a bit of a bullback in orders, but look at that backlog. that order backlog is huge. >> it sure is. and that chart tells a million stories. thank you very much, phil lebeau. but still ahead, we're bringing sexy back. no, brian and me, we're talking about the old, boring tech names that have been making some really big moves this week. >>> and we're going to tell you about silicon valley's latest mystery and why yummy is our word of the day. and trust us, folks, it has nothing to do with food. we're back after this. and see them through, we say: let's get to work. because the future belongs to those who challenge the present. >>> we're laooking at a live picture of the white house, where in less than two hours, the president will meet with several technology ceos. the meeting will focus on technology, specifically privacy and the nsa. the white house has not released the guest list, but will only say facebook, yahoo! and google have all been invited. >>> well, is boring old tech sexy again?

and, of course, boeing has a tremendous interest in finding this plane, because -- >> there's 1,100 of them. this is the safest aircraft. it's had two major incidents. the asiana one, where the jets involved weren't as a result of the actual crash and the british airways one. this is -- they will find it. >> this is everyone's problem. >> yeah. i think the biggest issue at the moment, before we worry about passports and all these other things, why they are having so much difficulty narrowing the search field down. they shouldn't be having such difficulty. >> that's right. they should not. >> can i just -- you know, there is such a thing as an epirb for those who do risky things in long distance ocean travel, and if they get into trouble they pop the epirb and everyone can find you like that. why is there not some variance like that so we can find not only the flight data recorder but perhaps what might lie nearby. >> it is. >> that's right. >> it is. the plane is -- the plane is emitting much more information than that constantly. constantly through the acar system. >> if it's doing th

the boeing 777 has a great safety record with only one fatal crash in its history. it's been flying for 20 years. >> the aircraft is 12 years old, and if it was going to be a structural break up we would have expected to see problems with the older fleet than we already have done. >> reporter: boeing is monitoring the situation but with little information on what happened, no one is willing to guess what went wrong. >> in malaysia hopes are dwindling as the search for the plane goes on. we have more on the investigation. >> reporter: malaysian authorities say they have enlarged the search area but they're focusing on an area where they last had contact with the missing aircraft. it is an international effort. vietnam, singapore china is involved. u.s. has offered to september sd aircraft to assist in the search. now the prime minister spoke to the chinese prime minister earlier on saturday to express his condolences. more than two-thirds of the passengers are chinese nationals. the airports are a hive of activity with distraught relatives, some in tears seen being e

boeing has a huge contract in russia right now. there are big business interests. the consensus right now according to my source in that community is that these broad sanctions obama is talking about won't happen. the europeans are not on board with them and these would only be triggered if russia actually dawes hard push into ukraine and that hasn't happened so we'll wait and see. >> we'll see. josh rogan, a man who's very popular among state department reporters. thanks for being on the show. after the break, governor scott walker signs new legislation that would limit early voting and end weekend voting in wisconsin but should the state try to make it easier for citizens to exercise their right to vote? i'll look at that next only on "now." . i'm nathan and i quit smoking with chantix. when my son was born, i remember, you know, picking him up and holding him against me. it wasn't just about me anymore. i had to quit. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. it reduces the urge to smoke. chantix didn't h

you know, boeing has a stellar safety reputation. separately, though, we've learned that hairline cracks were found in the wings of 40 dreamliner jets being built for boeing. boeing says the wing cracks are being addressed and that none of the dreamliners currently being flown are affected. we'll watch that today. we'll also watch the parent of the malaysian airlines plane, that stock getting hurt a little bit today, too. so we'll watch that as well. >> very good. >>> all right, coming up next, a scary close call at a florida airport. look at this skydiver and a plane meet just a few feet off the ground. the whole thing caught on camera. we will have more with these -- oh, my goodness! we'll show you the full story and these frightening pictures, coming up. >>> first, held captive for three months, a group of nuns now free. we are live with their dramatic release, next. the secret is out. hydration is in. [ female announcer ] only aveeno daily moisturizing lotion has an active naturals oat formula that creates a moisture reserve so sk

other bit for you, an airplane that experiences a major fire according to some data released by boeing, has about 17 minutes before generally they're lost. this airplane flew for something over six hours. so it would make it a statistical outlier, and from what we have seen in the past, put those two together, and the fire possibility, that fire scenario, it begins to be not quite so likely. everything is still on the table, though. >> let's talk about this race against time. because i keep hearing from experts, bob, that we need those black boxes. if we're ever going to find out what really happened, we need them. and give us a little more sense of what we're dealing with right here. >> well, that pinger has got nominally a 30-day cycle, and then it loses power, but they have been known to go another five, ten days or something, and then if you have to search for it without the pinger, you can. >> and black boxes have been found long after -- >> two years later on the air france crash. they can be found. but you know, even if we find the wreckage, then you have to plot very carefully the w

firms like exxonmobile, general motors, boeing that has a business plan reliant on doing business insidef russia. >> lauren goodrich, agreed conversation, senior eurasia analyst at stratfor. >> crunch time for obamacare enrolment. sign up in the next two weeks or face a fine. we'll look at why a lot of americans have not enrolled and say they don't plan to. later, riding out a tough job market at home. young americans living with mum and dad instead of moving out. continues. keep it here. >> these protestors have decided that today they will be arrested >> these people have chased a president from power, they've torn down a state... >> what's clear is that people don't just need protection, they need assistance. c.b.s.'s leave and stop selling cigarette. they have been written to, pointing to contradictions to having tobacco product in stores with stuff prescribed by doctors. c.b.c. announced a tobacco disallow, the others are so far not interested. >> two weeks from today open enrolment for obamacare ends. a third of the uninsured man to stay that way. that's 53 million people. david fi

helped of miles since those photos were taken and so far, not a single piece of wreckage from the boeing 777 has been recovered. >> alfonsi: all right, thank you, holly williams tonight in perth, australia. president obama said he was incredibly moved by his first meeting with pope francis. they met today at the vatican. scott pelley is there. scott. >> pelley: sharyn, the president acknowledged that he differs with the pope on some things, but he said, by and large, he heartily agrees with pope francis' message of uplifting the poor and disadvantaged. the president the and the pontiff met privately after a ceremonial start to the morning. pope francis welcomed the president to the apostolic palace, then escorted him to the papal library for a private meeting that lasted 52 minutes, which mr. obama described later in a news conference with italy's prime minister. >> i was grateful to have the opportunity to speak with him about the responsibilities that we all share to care for the least of these, the poor, the excluded. >> pelley: the president told the pope that he hoped to help the disadvanta

by the way, boeing has a couple of tech members who are over there in malaysia assisting the rest ofhorities with the search for the missing malaysia air 370. at this point, still more questions than answers in terms of what happened. >> phil, thank you very much. appreciate it. >>> let's bring in jim tillman, a former pilot as well as an aviation expert. jim, welcome to the program. you know, if we look at the technology, the black box, et cetera, it's pretty much been the same for 40 plus years. why do we know more in some cases say about a tesla than we do about realtime aircraft information? >> well, first of all, the black box you're talking about has improved a lot over the last 40 years. it's a completely different device now and it's gone right along with all the other technological advances we made over that period of time. but so far as this particular accident is concerned, we haven't quite gotten there yet. we haven't found the boxes. we don't have any idea where it is at this moment. the frustration that we are experiencing is based upon the fact that we just have so lit

the boeing 777 has 229 passengers with two infants and 12 crew members o. officials say passengers are of 13 nationalities. a search and rescue mission is underway right now. this is a statement from malaysia airlines, mh 370 has lost contact with air traffic contr control. they are working with the authorities who have activated their search and rescue team to locate the aircraft. the airline is also in the process of calling relatives and passengers of the crew members, as well. this is flight number 370, of course, we'll continue to monitor this breaking story and bring you any updates as they come in. >>> a rare plea from one of the bay area's most notable cities. some from mountain city want the took boom to stop. interesting to hear this explanation. >> reporter: yeah, it's interesting, raj. the mountain view city counsel is planning to b

the boeing 777 has one of the best safety records in aviation. stay with us here on nbc bay area for our continuing coverage of the storage or go to our website, nbcbayarea.com for the latest updates and sign up for breaking news alerts. >>> also new at 11:00, more problems for boeing's dream liner jets. boeing is inspecting the wings of 43 planes after discovering hairline cracks. the wings are made by a japanese company that told boeing its manufacturing process could cause cracking. last year, boeing had issues with the lithium ion batteries and forced to ground its dream liner fleet. san jose airport was one of several around the country impacted. >>> a dramatic turn of events in a 25-year-old cold case. cathy zimmer was found dead in the back of a car parked at the san jose airport. this was in the late '80s. two people have now been arrested, two men very close to her. george kiriyama joins us with the inside story. george? >> reporter: very close to her is right. after 25 years of waiting, cathy zimmer's family found out tonight investigat

the search for the boeing 777 has been widened. >> there is a possibility that it may have turned back, and turned back means. coming back, you know already. that is a possibility. at this stage and juncture, ladies and gentlemen, we are trying to cooperate. with other international people and we get a better picture. so the search area has been widened as we speak into... and we have request indonesia friends to assist us on this matter. >> libya threatened to bomb a north korean tanker if it doesn't leave a rebel controlled oil terminal. the splat was made -- threat was made after militias started to load yoi -- loaded oil on to the vessel. >> a ship has arrived in elat, seized by israeli commanders off the coast of sudan. the army says the cargo included armed weapons. international committee of the red cross said an employ has been killed in the central african republic. he has in a catholic mission when he was attacked by armed men. >> in ukraine pro-russia forces are refusing to allow european observers to enter the southern region of crimea. warning shots were fired. it's the th

. >> one of the companies that has to be concerned as boeing. >> boeing has a big concern because theyities in the ukraine and in moscow. of investmentsh there. major manufacturing -- they have a design plan as well in moscow. they forecast that russia and overne will by 1200 planes the next 20 years. sanctions could really hurt them. they are a big buyer of titanium. about one third of the titanium that goes into all their jets comes from russia. they do have long-term contracts that affect price. the spot price has been going up quite a bit in recent days. that could cause problems for them and for others down the road. >> and auto companies? >> you have four, chrysler and general motors. russia has been a big growth market for them. it is flowing now and this just adds to the problem. >> how much of a long shadow is this going on in the ukraine? deteriorates, it will have ramifications in terms of economic activity. i sincerely hope it gets resolved quickly. >> even if the stock prices for these companies are hanging in there, they all have the same sentiment. let's get this over pe

the boeing 787 has more problems. was a japan's airlines-- japan aircraft that had to land in hollow lulu -- in honolulu. about 40 dreamliner's will be checked for crocs in newly built wings. it follows a manufacturing change at mitsubishi heavy industries. the search back to continuing for that malaysian airways jet. joining us is greg barton. he has held on. he has waited for us to sort out some technical issues. -- research focuses primarily on terrorism. thank you for sticking around. you are making this linkage with this code share agreement with china southern. do you think that we should be focusing on that, or is it one of many things that perhaps we have to rule in or rule out? ofwell, i think the nature the aircraft disappearance points to something catastrophic , which could be terrorism. the question is, who would want to attack malaysia? about the groups we know have reasons not to attack malaysia. however, it was an attack on a chinese target because most passengers were chinese nationals flying into bei

boeing has recalculated the data for the 777 200. the fuel burn up here. it really is a case of once you know how much fuel is on board and you know the speed up here and you know where it has to go roughly in the arc here, they start to move. it's disappointing but at least it's a great progression in terms of the investigation. >> you know, richard, you've covered aviation for a long time. how do we trust that they're right this time and they weren't right a few weeks ago. >> you don't. simple. you don't. let's be blunt about this. we are guilty. the prime minister, the transport minister last night in the conference, the atsb australia, they keep saying to us, this is the best information we have at the moment. this is the best lead we've got. this is what we're working upon. they cannot be faulted if we then choose to run after the horses saying, this is it. but they have been very clear, the information, the [ applause ] cisicitsicity -- plausity of dey are working with the best that they have. >> the next two key moments in the

still the boeing 777 has one of the best safety records in aviation. stay with nbc bay area for continuing coverage of this story. you may also go to nbcbayarea.com for the latest updates and to sign up for breaking news alerts. >>> now to your microclimate forecast. today, a sunny and warm one here in the bay area but that is going to change tomorrow evening or so. take a live look outside right now. skies overcast. look out there towards san francisco. meteorologist anthony slaughter joining us now to tell us when that rain is accoming. >> in fact, we're already starting to see showers on the radar off the coast of the north bay and this is where we're going to start to see rain first by the afternoon hours at least the heavy stuff approaching the north bay by tomorrow and eventually will spread south into the east. but you'll notice the system widespread cloud cover and we're going to be looking at really overcast skies through the day tomorrow and with the shower activity already starting to show up off the radar off the coast this is a good indica