i'm brooke baldwin.re live in boston. you're looking at many, many boston strong, standing at the boston finish line of the marathon. we're about 20 minutes away from the moment that first bomb blasted on boylston. they will be pausing, we will all be pausing for a moment of silence. some church bells in the area will be chiming. a flag will be raised. so we will stay with this, and we will bring that ceremony to you live, as soon as that happens. but let's talk about this plane. what a lot of folks don't know is this. flight 370 would not be actually the first airliner to vanish into the deep indian ocean. in fact, a little history lesson. taking you back to 1987, south african airways flight 295, it was a boeing 747, headed from taiwan to johannesberg, a fire broke out near the end of the route and the plane went down just about 130 miles northeast of mauritus. some 16,000 feet in the ocean there. very much in the ballpark of where flight 370 could be lying. and yes, they found that plane. at least par

brook baldwin outside ft.tar in washington and major general spied spider marks in new york. >> i'm outside the main entrance at ft. hood. we have not had access on base. we are now learning a little more about this shooter here from not even 24 hours. 34-year-old ivan lopez. what we just learned and i know barbara star went over this. what jumped out new to me according to the secretary of the army, when he was deployed in iraq for those four months back in 2011 he was a truck driver. no knowledge of tbi, traumatic brain injury. not involved in combat. he was transferred here to ft. hood in february with his wife and young daughter. we know the question is why would he do this? he was undergoing checks for ptsd. we need to be clear reporting this. it was not said he was in fact suffering from ptsd. we do now after barbara made the point that jumped out to me he was on drugs including ambien. i'd like to throw out a question to marks. an army major was in the parking lot. there was a shooting at ft knox not lo

i'm brooke baldwin. this is cnn's special live coverage of two major stories unfolding right now. first, as wolf has been reporting here, time is running out on the search for flight 370. sources in the malaysian government are now calling that dramatic left turn -- their words, a criminal act. we will tell you why. also, any moment now, on capitol hill, these are live pictures inside this house subcommittee room. families who believe their loved ones were killed because general motors took years to announce a recall, are about to hear from the company's ceo. and that is where we begin this hour here in washington, in this room here on the hill. the head of gm is about to give a public apology for a recall that one massachusetts lawmaker calls, and i'm quoting here, a decade late and dozens of lives and injuries short. 13 deaths, 12 in the u.s., one in canada linked to this problem that affects some 2.6 million gm cars. certain year chevy cobalts, pontiac g5s, saturn ions are at risk of shutdown because

i'm brooke baldwin. top of the hour, the death toll keeps ticking grimly upward divers bring bodies to the surface. a total of nine crew members are facing charges, including the ferry's captain. when asked about the ferry's lifeboats, crew members said it was hard to get them as the ship rolled over, and began to sink. that's what the crew says. today divers finally reached the ferry's cafeteria. because the ferry sank in the morning, many of those passengers onboard are believed to have been in that part of the ship. that's where they wanted to get to see if there were any survivors. authorities are still calling this a search-and-rescue operation. although i have to point out, no survivors have been pulled from the frigid waters alive since right after the ferry went down last wednesday, and conditions for divers are worsening by the hour. >> translator: the conditions are so bad, my heart aches. we're going in thinking there may be survivors, when we have to come back with nothing, we can't even face

i'm brook baldwin.t happened at a high school outside of pittsburgh that left 20 people injured and a student, a 16-year-old in custody. the weapons? two knives. this started shortly after 7:00 this morning. this was murraysville, pennsylvania, the suspect a sophomore all of 16 years of age. he went from classroom to classroom through the hallways stabbing anybody in his way. some of the very young victims were air lifted to the hospital, their injuries described as life threatening. two had to undergo surgery. i talked to a student at this high school. he described what happened. >> first, i saw like one or two students coming out and they appeared to be covered in blood. i saw more teachers pulling more students out. i think we had a lacrosse game scheduled for today. they were dressed up in their dress clothes and he had white pants on and his pants were just covered in blood and it was truly terrifying. i noticed that the teachers right away they came up with what i thought was a heroic idea. a grea

newsroom with brooke baldwin starts right now. >> great to be with you. i'm brooke baldwin. we began with an execution that went horribly wrong about what has long been considered the most humane way of course we will bring that to you live the second we see her step behind that podium. the state tried to execute this man for the 1999 murder of a young woman who had just graduated high school. he tried to carjack her truck. when she refused to hand over the keys he tied her up with duct tape and shot her. she was forced to watch, then, as lockette and his accomplices dug a hole in the ground where she was ultimately buried alive. his execution began. he was given the three drug cocktail, but witnesses say the whole thing went so wrong that prison officials actually had to close the blinds at one point and halt it. >> those were the words he got out. man, i'm not -- and something's wrong. >> at 6:39, he's still lifting his shoulders and head off of the gurney grimacing. and he appeared to be in distress. >> so from start to finish, 6:23, 6:39 is when they closed the curtains.

i'm brooke baldwin. naval ship is deploying.get word of another possible, let me caution, possible ping coming from somewhere on the ocean floor. this time the possible flight 370 black box signal wasn't heard by the tow pinger locater, instead it was heard by one of the sono buoys. they are basically floating microphones. they get triggered once this thing hits water. if you are keeping tabs with us, which i know you are, this is the fifth credible signal since saturday. here we are, bigger picture, one month plus into this search, an explosive revelation. sources telling us that after the plane took that mysterious left turn, it vanished from radar, flying about 120 nautical miles, roughly 12 minutes in the air on the grid. the only way it could have avoided detection like this is if it made a rapid decent in altitude to somewhere in the neighborhood of four, maybe 5,000 feet. as for the final transmission from the cockpit, the voice heard saying good night malaysian 370? we have only now been told it was the captain. and not

i'm brooke baldwin. we begin this hour with this number for you, four weeks after malaysia airlines flight 370 vanished. the search turns below the ocean surface. they are trying to find the black boxes before the pingers go silent. assuming, of course, that their batteries haven't already run out of juice. crews today dropped off that pinger locater in the water. we have talked about this th thorough thoroughly, right. it's a listening device straining to pick up the faint, you hear it, the clicks, probably now fading pings from the plane's flight data recorder and from the cockpit voice recorder. those two boxes they're looking for. scouring this 150-mile track of the indian ocean. if they do get a ping, there is also an underwater robot. this is a blue fin. the american auv, as an autonomous underwater vehicle, on scene, standing by. how this works, it uses sonar to check the sea bed for wreckage. but experts say all of this is really a shot in the dark without having that tangible evidence, the debri

i'm brooke baldwin. we can say that the pentagon is turning up heat on russia in the battle over ukraine's independence and today a u.s. citizen is now reportedly being held by pro russian accept rsep. vice news says a journalist was kidnapped by prorussian separatists. you have these groups who may become targets because they are occupying government buildings in key cities. a harsh warning was issued. >> if we were attacked we would certainly respond. if our legitimate interest, the interest of russians had been atacted directly like they were in southeast asia, for example, i don't see any other way but to respond in full accordance with international law. russian citizens being attacked is an attack against the russian federation. >> bring in senior international correspondent who is live for us. i would like to begin with this american journalist. tell me what are the efforts being made to free him. what was he doing? do we know what the time of capture was? >> there have been calls by the u.s. for

i'm brooke baldwin. top of the hour, the death toll keeps ticking grimly upward divers bring bodies to the surface. a total of nine crew members are facing charges, including the ferry's captain. when asked about the ferry's lifeboats, crew members said it was hard to get them as the ship rolled over, and began to sink. that's what the crew says. today divers finally reached the ferry's cafeteria. because the ferry sank in the morning, many of those passengers onboard are believed to have been in that part of the ship. that's where they wanted to get to seef

i'm brooke baldwin. of -- you be the judge if cliven bundy helped his case. bundy had become a darling of some conservatives over his stand off with the federal government he owes in grazing fees. he has the u.s. government has no right to ask for this money. bill confronted him about that point and others. >> you're grazing your cows on public land for free. so, how are you not sort of a welfare queen in a cowboy hat? >> well, you know, i might be a welfare queen but i am producing something for america and using a resource that nobody else would use or could use and i'm putting red meat on your table. >> but it is bundy's comments about african-americans specifically that have turned off many of his supporters on capital hill. what has made cliven bundy a political pariah? >> i want to tell you one more thing i know about the negros. they abort their young children, they put their young men in jail because they never learned how to pick cotton. >> this is the rancher who just a few weeks ago was brande

i'm brook baldwin.itary combat vehicles, russian flags make their allegiance alarmingly clear. no one is saying whose army this is. even more unnerving, these fighters and their supporters rubbed up today to reassert authority and their supporters. so at this hour it is a potential tinderbox, very, very confusing. but we do know this. it will not allow harm to come to pro russian ukrainians while ukraine, nato and now the ukraine say no resists but the russians are stirring things up a bit. the u.s. led alliance today has announced it is stepping up patrols immediately along its eastern border. keep in mind the russian have troops on the other side of the ukraine. so, is nato finally drawing some kind of line here? >> nato is desperate how to deter putin from making any other land grabs you may have word several words bandied around. i spoke to the russian eu ambassador today and i pressed him on are we going to see any more land incursions by the russian military? and he said absolutely not. what they

i'm brooke baldwin. hours ago a u.s. reporter was set free. vice news reporting that reporter sigh man is in good health. the journalist himself tweeted i'm out and safe. thank you all for your support. had no idea i had so many good friends. this comes hours after president obama announced that the u.s. is on the verge of slapping more sanctions on russia in the biggest show down since the cold war. >> we have been preparing for the prospect that we're going to have to engage in further sanctions. those are t'd up. it requires coordination with other countries. so the fact that i haven't announced them yet doesn't mean that they haven't been prepared and t'd up. >> ukrainian forces reportedly killed five russian militants. pro russian groups are occupying government buildings. russian's president, putin warning of consequences if ukraine's new government uses its army against its own people. because jim, when we hear president obama using the phrase ting up sanctions, does that mean days, not weeks? and

i'm brooke baldwin. we're live with the breaking news. i'm sure this is a packed room, nba headquarters here in new york city. we are moments away from, as thurl bailey just put it, something incredibly historic. this story is now bigger than basketball. we are waiting for nba commissioner adam silver to step behind that podium, and discuss the league's investigation into the racist comments allegedly made by the l.a. clippers owner, donald sterling. so any minute now, we will see him take to the mic and break some news here, that so many people are waiting to see and hear. we have the whole thing covered for you right here at the top of the hour with cnn sports anchor, rachel nichols. she is inside that room. we will check in with her momentarily. of course, once the news conference begins, i will stop talking, we will take that live, in full. a little bit of back story. donald sterling has kept a fairly low profile since this audiotape emerged. but see this video? he, along with his wife -- i should sa

brooke baldwin is in boston. brooke, overall are people excited or nervous or both? i think probably a little bit of both, fred. nice to see you. but i think the excitement is really palpable here. less than 24 hours to go, of course, until the big race tomorrow morning which begins and makes its way to boylston street. it is absolutely gorgeous here. we're live in boston common on this easter sunday. just talking to some runners this morning, they were saying this really reminds us just even the weather of marathon monday on patriots day one year ago. and you know it's really, you know, marathon time when you walk all around the city as we have for the last day or two and you see people in their turquoise and yellow jackets, their marathon jackets. it's this badge of honor. especially those from last year. 36,000 people will be running this marathon. that's the second biggest in the race's history. this is the 118th running of it. and there will be thousands of people who will be, of course, running. those of whom were injured last year and many of whom who couldn't

newsroom with brooke baldwin starts right after a quick break. >> hi there, i'm brooke baldwin.ere we are now day 35 and the story is changing. we now have explosive new planes from a senior malaysian government official. so here is what the sources were telling cnn. that after the plane took that mysterious hair pin turn to the left, watch the red line, and here comes the left turn, it then disappeared from radar, flying about 120 nautical miles off the grid and according to data the only way it could have avoided detection like this is if it made a rapid decent in altitude. but as to whether this was a deliberate act to avoid radar detect

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i'm brooke baldwin. that does it for me. quick break.ter this. the day we rescued riley was a truly amazing day. he was a matted mess in a small cage. so that was our first task, was getting him to wellness. without angie's list, i don't know if we could have found all the services we needed for our riley. from contractors and doctors to dog sitters and landscapers, you can find it all on angie's list. we found riley at the shelter, and found everything he needed at angie's list. join today at angieslist.com >>> we are coming to you live from boston where today this city finishes the race. i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." the world lead. who are those masked men? for weeks the u.s. has accused the u.s. of putting forces in there without admitting it and now the ukraine says that they have the photos to prove it. >>> the navy's robosub has covered half of the area but so far no wreckage. shouldn't they have found something by this point? is it time for a new approach? >>> and we are back in boston as the city laces up its running shoe

let's hand over our coverage right now to my colleague, and good friend, brooke baldwin. brooke?announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> thank you so much. great to be with all of you. i'm brooke baldwin. we're live with the breaking news. i'm sure this is a packed room, nba headquarters here in new york city. we are moments away from, as thurl bailey just put it, something incredibly historic. this story is now bigger than basketball. we are waiting for nba commissioner adam silver to step behind that podium, and discuss the league's investigation into the racist comments allegedly made by the l.a. clippers owner, donald sterling. so any minute now, we will see him take to the mic and break some news here,

ow >>> bottom of the hour, i'm brooke baldwin.the indian ocean. now the race is on, so to speak, to find them before the trail goes cold. finding these black boxes from hopefully the wreckage. right now, the u.s. navy's tow pinger locator is scouring this now narrowed section of the indian ocean searching for the black boxes. so far, the ocean, since this weekend, has been silent. >> you can be assured that we are trying everything at this difficult complex task in these -- at least these next several days, whilst we believe the two pingers are still active. >> the search is going on in a totally unforgiving place, one of the most remote areas on the planet. it's giving search teams almost no margin for error. alex is the research of conservation at the aquarium. welcome back. >> thank you. >> let's begin with the depth of this part of the world. for reference for people, when you think about the "titanic," for example, they were talking about a depth of 12,000 feet, and it took them 73 years to find the "titanic." they're dealing

newsroom with brooke baldwin starts right after a quick break. what does an apron have to do with car insurance? an apron is hard work. an apron is pride in what you do. an apron is not quitting until you've made something a little better. what does an apron have to do with car insurance? for us, everything. how much money do you think you'll need when you retire? then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. i was trying to, like, pull it a little further. [ woman ] got me to 70 years old. i'm going to have to rethink this thing. it's hard to imagine how much we'll need for a retirement that could last 30 years or more. so maybe we need to approach things differently, if we want to be ready for a longer retirement. ♪ >>> i'm brooke baldwin, live in a very rainy, windy, boston, massachusetts, for this afternoon for special coverage of an emotional and inspiring moment. i have to stand in front of you and tell you it is such a an honor and privilege to be back in this city today, live this however. the nation wil

newsroom with brooke baldwin starts right now. >> great to be with you. i'm brooke baldwin.began with an execution that went horribly wrong about what has long been considered the most humane way of course we will bring that to you live the second we see her step behind that podium. the state tried to execute this man for the 1999 murder of a young wom

i'm brooke baldwin.his hour with this number for you, four weeks after malaysia airlines flight 370 vanished. the search turns below the ocean surface. they are trying to find the black boxes before the pingers go silent. assuming, of course, that their batteries haven't already run out of juice. crews today dropped off that pinger locater in the water. we have talked about this

for now, let's turn it over to brooke baldwin and don lemon. >>> good afternoon. one of the main entrances. two major stories this afternoon. the first here in ft. hood where an entire military post is grieving. trying to understand why one of their own, an army specialist attacked his own piers. >> time is running out on the hunt for flight 370. it moves and the black box battery life runs out. the prime minister said this is the most difficult search in human history. we will get to all of that in a moment. >> not from the battlefield, but their own base. in fewer than five years, a soldier opened fire. he is specialist lopez, an iraq war vet who shot and killed three military members and wounded 16 others just about almost 24 hours ago here. among them major patrick miller. this is from his facebook priority. his mother identified him as one of the wounded and asked for prayers for her son's recovery. miller's attacker unlike what happened in 2009 will not see trial because specialist lopez, father of a 3-year-old little girl turned the gun on himself after he

"newsroom" with brooke baldwin starts right now. >>> thank you, wolf blitzer. with you here on this tuesday. i'm brooke baldwin. this is cnn's special live coverage of two major stories unfolding right now. first, as wolf has been reporting here, time is running out on the search for flight 370. sources in the malaysian government are now calling that dramatic left turn -- their words, a criminal act. we will tell you why. also, any moment now, on capitol hill, these are live pictures inside this house subcommittee room. families who believe their loved ones were killed because general motors took years to announce a recall, are about to hear from the company's ceo. and that is where we begin this hour here in washington, in this room here

newsroom with brooke baldwin starts right now. >> thank you so much. >> they are expected to announce today they are sending a rescue and salvage ship to help in what is now an effort to salvage the wreckage of the south korean ferry so the search for survivors is really turning increasingly grim at this hour. now new pictures coming to us today inside the once singeing ship. first of all, here we are beginning day 3. and you see by the looks of these pictures, that boat is now completely underwater and the death toll has risen to 29. scuba divers have made multiple attempts but debris hampered search efforts to get up to where the passenger cabins are located. we are getting a look inside is singeing ship. you can see now as the water is reshing into the ferry. they were gripping the guardrails. >> we are now hearing part of that conversation between the ferry's crew and ocean ministry officials. take a listen. >> this is the captain caught on camera being rescued, leaving his ship and hundreds of his passengers behind. an arrest warrant has now been issued for him and two other crew

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brooke baldwin joins me now live from boston and you were there for days and weeks after the event andck and talked to survivors. now a year later, tell us what the energy is like and the kind of commitment for boston to remain strong and come back. how does it feel to be there today? >> it feels wonderful. i am honored to be back in boston. i have lost count of how many trips i have been up there and i love coming every time. can you see the beautiful blue sky over me? i'm at beautiful boston common and people are out and about. i took a little i don't go this morning. it is the closest i'll get to a marathon. tomorrow's the big play. race at 10:00 empty morning in hopk hopkinton and ends where the finish line is. i was at the finish line earlier today and boylston street. this is when you know and you feel the excitement and energy in the air, people are walking around, the 36,000 by the way runners who will be running tomorrow morning. they're out and about here in boston, proudly wearing their boston marathon jackets. 36,000, 9,000 more than last year. that includes many of them wh

i'm brooke baldwin. let's get to it from the u.s.ecretary of state john kerry with a stunning allegation. he has condemned religious intolerance and saying leaflets are being dropped in that's t small ukrainian towns telling people there to identify themselves as jewish. >> just in the last couple of days, notices were sent to jews in one city indicating that they had to identify themselves as jews. obviously the accompanying

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i'm brooke baldwin in atlanta. if you missed anything go to the brooke blog. now, jake tapper starts right now with "the lead." >> i'm no jacques cousteau but wouldn't two robo subs be better than one? that mission? i'm jake tapper, this "the lead." the world lead, the tool moving forward to search for the missing plane, that bluefin-21, and it's back in the deep this hour. every other time it's gone down this week, it's come back, way too early. is this the best method? new questions why the co-pilot's cell phone was on after the plane made its wild left turn. was it on the whole time? did it show up anywhere else? was he trying to call someone? also, in world news, heard about those widespread attacks on ethnic russians in ukraine? they're a complete invention, according to the united nations. new report says while russia may claim its war machine isn't in motion the propaganda war machine definitely is. good afternoon, i'm jake tapper. welcome to "the lead." the world lead. a very rough, scaled down way of looking at the task before the bluefin-21. imagine,

. >> brooke baldwin picks up our special coverage of the boston marathon right now. >> hi there.ive here in what has really turned out to be a beautiful day in boston for special coverage of the 118th boston marathon. it's a day of victory here today for the city. the people coming together. i talked to so many runners. just really embodying boston strong one year after the explosions at the

i'm brooke baldwin here at the cnn headquarters in atlanta. have a wonderful weekend. see you next week. cnn stays right here. jake tapper and "the lead." >>> ukraine's prime minister said today that russia wants to start world war iii. i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." the world lead. split focus. president obama managing or trying to the u.s. response to the crisis in ukraine while also on a trip to asia. he says targeted sanctions against the russians are, quote, ready to go. even he doesn't seem sure about the steps to take. >>> also, do you remember went we were this close to finding flight 370? those hopes have faded with the black box pings. there's still nothing after all of this searching. so what now? and the politics lead. oh, don't make me do this. that's how house speaker john boehner -- this time, speaker boehner is doing the mocking, comparing his own party to cry babies, saying they are too afraid to tackle a vital issue. good afternoon, everyone. i'm jake tapper. welcome to "the lead." a bus full of 13 people have been taken hostage by pro-russian m

newsroom with brooke baldwin starts right now. >> here we begin the hour with a potentially huge developmentbject of interest, has washed up on the coast of australia about 180 miles south of perth. it is a large piece of metal. one side is covered with fiberglass and rivets, similar to what could be found on the exterior of the airplane. it is being called serious but after six and a half weeks of false leads and conflicting information, authorities are being very cautious about this. in the meantime, cyclone

i'm brooke baldwin. thanks so much for being with me. i'll be back here at the same time, same place tomorrow. "the lead" with jake tapper starts now. >>> you will not walk this road alone, vice president biden tries to assure the ukrainians. do they buy it? does putin? i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." he was speaking to the ukrainians but the vice president comes bearing a $50 million gift for ukraine but republicans want to know, why are weapons not part of the offer? >>> also in world news, a desperate and initial call for help but not apparently from the crew of the south korean sinking ferry. cnn now confirming that a boy was thinking quicker than those at the helm as the disaster was happening. >>> and our money lead today. if there is one shred of evidence that those on board flight 370 are dead, it has not been found. but malaysian officials are talking about issuing death certificates anyway. will relatives accept that? good afternoon, everyone. i'm jake tapper with "the read." what happened to you, russia? it's like the u.s

newsroom with brooke baldwin starts right now. >> the first time they sent down the blue fin, they hit to an

brooke baldwin continues our coverage here on cnn. >> wolfe, thank you so much as always.you as always on this thursday. you are about to hear, top of the hour, malaysia's prime minister answering cnn's questions on these secretive and bhungaled handling of flight 370. but first an alarming realization. searchers may be about to be out of options. that fragment that washed ashore, could it be, might it

newsroom with brooke baldwin starts right now. >> thank you so much. >> they are expected to announcep to help in what is now an effort to salvage the wreckage of the south korean ferry so the search for survivors is really turning increasingly grim at this hour. now new pictures coming to us today inside the once singeing ship. first of all, here we are beginning day 3. and you see by the looks of es

john berman and brooke baldwin are live along the starting lineup. good morning. >> good morning. we're in hopkinton. 36,000 participants of the boston marathon. right behind us is the wheelchair division which starts in about ten minutes. >> less than ten minutes. this is my first trip to hopkinton. to think of 36,000 people, you don't see a lot behind us because they'll go in waves. 36,000 people in this beautiful quaint new england town. we have to talk about security. i've been watching the state police helicopter. even to get here, to get oven a bus, to get to the starting line, wanted. zero bag policy along the race route. even if you're coming to spectate, a million people, they're saying leave your hand bags at home. watching liquids, nothing more than one liter. nothing covering your face, no bulky clothing. >> 3500 security personnel will be lining this 26.2 mile route. 100 additional cameras than they've ever had before. you heard the race officials saying over the last few days, they say this race course today is the safest place on earth. it certainly today i think is

i'm brooke baldwin. let's get to it from the u.s. secretary of state john kerry with a stunning allegation. he has condemned religious intolerance and saying leaflets are being dropped in that's t small ukrainian towns telling people there to identify themselves as jewish. >> just in the last couple of days, notices were sent to jews in one city indicating that they had to identify themselves as jews. obviously the accompanying threat implied is threatened or suffer the consequences. one way or the other. in the year 2014, after all of the miles traveled and all of the journey of history, this is not just intolerable, it is grotesque. >> we will take you live to the ukrainian boarder to get a little more context from our correspondent there who has been on the ground. a lot of questions there on that breaking story. also this. now to the hunt. flight 370. here is what we know right now. crews are anxiously waiting to find out exactly what this bluefin-21 saw. thousands of feet below the indian ocean. crews are going through the infor

i'm brooke baldwin. jim sciutto is in for jake tapper for "the lead." >> the families on board flight 370 will soon get a closed-door update. maybe malaysian officials can avoid reducing them to tears this time. this is "the lead." the world lead. relatives furious at the way that malaysia has handled this mystery will meet in private with tech experts have the malaysians revised and then revealed the full flight transcript. and also, if searchers never find the plane, we will never know what brought it down. what if the next plane you board has the same safety issue? and the politics lead. after the glitchy rollout, a surprising finish. with a surge of sign-ups, obamacare has met its original target. the president is expected to claim victory live this hour. welcome to "the lead". i'm jim sciutto filling in for jake tapper again. they have been accused of wasting precious time in the search for their loved ones. they have even called the malaysian government murderers. and now with 239 people on board m

i'm brooke baldwin, see you tomorrow. "the league" with jake tapper starts now. >>> nearly three quarters of the united states is in the path of deadly tornados. it is coming and has the power to destroy a town in minutes. we'll take you to the eye of the approaching storm. the sports lead, suspended for life. the nba calls the ultimate technical foul on the owner of the los angeles clippers, caught on tape sounding more like a plantation owner than a team owner. our guest, isaiah thomas, joins us with his reaction. and the world lead. a company says it may have done what nobody else was able to do, find flight 370. just one problem, of course, it's thousands of miles from the current search area. >> good afternoon, everyone, welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we'll begin with the national lead, from the gulf to the great looks, 75 million americans are currently in the path of a tornado spawning severe weather system. i don't mean like a, oh, no, did i leave my car windows down kind of storm. it's more like i hope m

and we'll have you hearing in this morning to all the high points and up in boston we have bro brooke baldwin is going to join me. take you through what's happening. what's the situation like up in boston? >> chris, you remember, it almost feels like a lot of people -- we've been talking to it feels like yesterday, what happened here a year ago. others say it could have been ten years ago. it's hard to wrap their minds around the fact that not even 50 feet from where i'm standing here on boylsto street as we look at the finish line that something so heinous happened a year ago. just being here the last couple of days, people remind me, and it's truly a privilege to be back live in boston, this is a tough town. i was thinking, how do i describe today, this feeling, and certainly inside of this tribute ceremony, yes there will be somber moment, as we remember of course those four deaths one year ago, but at the same time, it's support. when i got into town, there were people rallying around and crossing the finish line after a cross country race. it's positive. there was a wonderful article in

i'm brooke baldwin. boston, thanks for having me. i'll be back, i can't wait, for marathon monday. in the meantime, let's go to "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> if you drive a car, he'll tax the street. if you try to sit, he'll tax your seat because he's the tax man. and i'm jake tapper. and this is "the lead." the world lead. try, try again. the best shot at finding flight 3 370 and the 239 passengers on board is back in the ocean. the first time did not go so well. we'll ask the experts, if this is going to take so long, why can't they stick more than one down there? >>> and ukrainian forces are on the march, many suspected of being on russia's payroll. is this the brink of civil war? >>> and today, as you know, the tax man cometh. as you finish up your returns, the taxes that they want to collect on items you might have trouble believing. good afternoon, everyone, i'm jake tapper. in the world lead, it's only about 16 feet long and must map a section of the ocean about 230 square miles. imagine the city of chicago underwater. that's the area that the bluefin-21

i'm brooke baldwin. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >> all i've got to say, those proverbial may flowers, bet beer be extra beautiful after this. i'm jake tapper tapp this is "te lead." the roads, washed out. terrified people, fleeing to their attics hoping for rescue. this torrential rain is not yet done with the east coast. >>> also in national news, well, it had the desired effect, he's dead after all, but the lethal injection for this convicted murder did not go even close to plan. where did oklahoma get the drug combo it used for the first time on him? why are states allowed to be so secretive about this? >>> the sports lead, now it's clear, the nba will not stand for racial insensitivity once it's made public. will clippers' owner donald sterling sell the team, now that he's banned for life? will his fellow owners force him? who would buy it? >> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead," i'm jake tapper. the national lead, it started coming down and it still has not stopped. dea

. >> i'm brooke baldwin. have a wonderful weekend. my colleague jake tapper begins with "the lead" in washington. >>> you can sum up the question tormenting so many americans in the aftermath of the ft. hood shooting with one word. why? perhaps we'll get an answer during a live briefing any moment now. i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." >>> did a run-in with another soldier set him off? we're learning so much more about the true sense of this horror. the dead and the wounded. the world lead. we're now a full four weeks into the disappearance of flight 370 and only now for the first time the search is diving underwater. with some help from the u.s. but time is running out. what you get is a surprisingly top cal political thriller. >>> good afternoon, i'm jake tapper. any moment now we're expecting a briefing on the latest from ft. hood, texas, where investigators are looking for any clue about the state of mind of the man who shot and killed three fellow soldiers there and wounded 16 others. today we're hearing from the family of the

newsroom with brooke baldwin starts right now. >> let's begin, shall we?of the hour. count with me now, 50. it has now been 50 days since flight 370 vanished with the 239 people on board and nearly eight weeks now, no trace of this plane. but searchers are not giving up hope on this blue fin 21. after 13 trips to the near bottom of the southern indian ocean, the sonar scanning drone on loan from the u.s. navy has, thus far, covered almost all of that

i'm brooke baldwin. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >> what could have driven a student to allegedly stab 20 people at his high school? officials could have more answers for us in the news conference coming right up. i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." blood all over the floor. >> the national lead, police say they stalked the halls, classrooms, two knives in his hands. 20 people, almost all students, were clutching stab wounds. many of them serious. >>> a 16-year-old under arrest while his alleged victims fight for their lives. the world lead, when the most promising lead has been lost, the trail is hot again. fresh signals in the ocean which could be from the pingers on flight 370's black boxes. sounding more sure than ever, saying this plane will be found. is it time to dive down for a look? not so fast, the searchers have an unmanned sub at the ready to go down there. why are they in no hurry to launch it? welcome back to "the lead." i'm jack tapper. national lead, it aperiod a student

filling in for brooke baldwin.ays searching on the indian ocean on the wreckage of flight 370, the search has been moved. like last time, this is not because of data analysis, this is because they say this area has been scoured to the point that no new objects are being cited. no sign of the plane there, searchers are turning the focus to an adjoining area to the east. is this premature? as to the investigation, we have confirmation that all

for now, let's turn it over to brooke baldwin and don lemon. >>> good afternoon. stories this afternoon. the first here in ft. hood where an entire military post is grieving. trying to understand why one of their own, an army specialist attacked his own piers. >> time is running out on the hunt for flight 370. it moves and the black box battery life runs out. the prime minister said this is the most difficult search in human history. we will get to all of that in a moment.