we have learned that data from the simulator was actually deleted, at least some of that data, earlylast month. and work is now under way to try to retrieve it. the company that made the sim later is actually based in alexandra, virginia, right outside washington, d.c. and brian todd is here. you actually went out to the company and just got back here to the studio. what did you see out there, what did they tell you? >> they didn't tell us anything. they didn't want to speak to us. we were told the head of the company was not available, wolf. an update to what you just said. we have been told by law enforcement officials that u.s. law enforcement officials are examining the hard drives of the pilot and the first officer of the missing plane. the hard drive includes software information from the home flight simulator owned by the captain, zaharie ahmed shah, the captain of the missing flight. investigators, as you mentioned, did discover some data was deleted from the simulator, not saying what was deleted or who deleted it. and it's not necessarily any evidence of ill intent here. we

malaysian officials who say that the flight simulator taken from the pilot's home had some data that was deletedrieve that data. this comes a u.s. official tells cnn that the on board computer was reprogrammed precisely 12 minutes before the pilot said "all right. good night." also, the focus of the search appears to be in an area off of southern australia. u.s. officials saying the jet is most likely somewhere along the southern arc of the flight path. a lot of new information this morning. let's bring in cnn aviation analysis and former director of the faa office of accident investigation steven wallace. steven, i think the most glaring news out that press conference, word that the pilot's flight simulator had deleted data and they're working to restore it. does it raise any red flags to you? >> well, not particularly, just for a couple reasons. one is many airline pilots are obsessed with flying. they just love flying. this captain was putting his simulator on facebook. so that's just sort of, i would call, it normy nerdy pilot behavior. that doesn't raise a flag to me. he had a pretty elabor

the big question of the idea of deleting data what data do you store on this? t? what are the typical parameters here? >> what we are doing right now is flying the aircraft and it's recording what it is that you're doing right now so that later, you can go back and retrieve this flight and see how it flew, what flew, and look at it without your hands on the wheel and see what it is that you did before. that does get stored. >> like any other data on hard drive. jay, in terms of using a simulator, how often do people delete, why do they delete? is there a needle leet? >> there is no need to defeel leath it. the files are saved when you intentionally save them. so, if they had files that they want toddle leet, they would have saved those files first. if they were just in a casual flight, just for entertainment or for practice, that flight would never be saved and there would be no need to delete it because it would not exist. >> so what your sea sayi're sayg simulator no sifg flights do different route and practice how you want to practice, whatever you want, woul

the system or there was data deleted from the system.e don't know it was the pilot. like your old male-mails and ot computer files. our pamela brown is in washing wi washington with details. pam, why don't we start with you and give us an idea of what investigators are looking for in this data on the hard drive. >> bottom line, the fbi is throwing a lot at finding out what's on there. finding out what's on the duplicate hard drive from the flight sim mu lay tore. a top priority for a team of the fbi's top forensics experts. they are working to retrieve those files from the simulator as well as the laptop that police took from their homes. they want too see if there are any clues at all as to what might have happened to flight 370. they are going to look to see' data was deleted in a very simple, standard way or whether someone went to great lengths intentionally destroy those files to hide them permanently. it is important to note they might not find anything significant here but, of course, because it is the best evidence we have, this

data from the simulator deleted. who deleted it? exactly was the data that was deleted and why delete it at all? >> our martin savidge is inside a boeing sim mu lay torulator. he has been there all week. he has pilot, mitchell, casado there with him. being wiped from the simulator, does that raise any red flags to you. >> i'll have mitchell answer that. let me just describe for the layman's understanding. a flight simulator is a big sophisticated computer. instead of a key pad and a mouse, you are using instruments to input. deleting of information from a computer? >> it is very much like what martin said, just a matter of deleting files. it has no significant -- if they use the computer for other things, if they had home use computers, files, stuff like that, would you be deleting stuff. >> what about a simulated route that does take a lot of capacity. >> you have to delete and add more. i don't see any real significance for the deleting of files. >> or if you thought in some way you are hiding it? >> there is that possibility but

of course we learned from malaysian officials yesterday that data was deleted from the captain's hard drive on february 3rd. but the fact we have a data deletion and the fact there is still retrievable data on that hard drive are promising signs according to experts i've been speaking with. but i can tell you, wolf, that the fbi is throwing all the manpower they have at this trying to retrieve that data as one of my sources told me today there's a possibility that there's someone -- there's something on that hard drive that could clue us in as to what happened. and time is really running out here. so really they are putting -- they're throwing everything at it trying to figure it out. and we should know soon at least, wolf, if -- how much of that data that was deleted can be recovered. >> but they're not giving you an estimate how long they think this might take even if they bring in outside computer experts to go through those hard drives? >> at this point i'm told by sources that outside experts haven't been brought in yet, but we are again at the beginning stages. they are still tr

delete? trying to recover the data that the captain erased, but is the real question how the files were deleted? >>> welcome back to continuing coverage of our world lead. has been 13 days since flight 370 vanished. investigators appear no closer to solving how the plane disappeared, but could the key to this entire mystery be somewhere in the digital recesses of a hard drive? malaysian officials revealed this morning that the pilot of flight 370 deleted data from the flight simulator in his home. is this a case of digital housekeeping or something more complicated? perhaps even something nor sinister? for more, i want to bring in cnn justice correspondent, pamela brown. >> i just spoke with the law enforcement source who says the simulator's hard drive is being handled with a great deal of urgency. it is a top priority as investigators try to rebuild the piece of data that were deplete alitoed more than a month ago according to malaysian officials. sources say fbi agents are already combing through the hard drive from the flight simulator from the home of captain shah. confirmed files had been

. >> some data has been deleted from the simulator and forensic work to retrieve it is ongoing. >> investigators aren't saying what data was deleted or who deleted it. the deletion is not necessarily evidence of ill intent. as one user said, all of us use and delete files continuously. triple 7 pilot less aben said captain shaw may have felt there's not enough area on the hard drive. he may have deleted a training exercise. >> or he may have been embarrassed with his performance on a flight simulator and didn't want a memory of that particular occurrence. >> others say the deletion of data is unusual, even suspicious. the simulator manufacturer says space shouldn't be an issue. the files are tiny. >> and if they were just in a casual flight, just for entertainment or for practice, that flight would never be saved and there's be no need to delete it because it would not exist. >> the company that makes the software the captain use is head quartered in this building in alexandria, virginia. we tried to speak to the head of the company. we were told he wasn't available. but he posted a message on t

analysts are, he said, trying to recover data which was apparently deleted from the pilot's personalsimulator. meanwhile there was speculation in recent days that the plane landed somewhere close to the many islands of the nation's state of maldives in the indian ocean. but the transportation minister said, quote, these reports are untrue. they've investigated them with the officials from the maldives. the bbc's charles haviland is in sri lanka. i asked him what was said to have taken place around the maldives. >> reporter: reports have come out that islanders in the south central part of the arc pell go, several of them, maybe about ten of them reported spotting a very, very large airplane over flying very low on the morning of the 8th of march. the timing may not add up. they're saying it was about 6:15 local time which i think would have been 9:15 in malaysia. the plane would have to have been going very slowly indeed to have been over maldives at that point. the maldives authorities, national defense forces in particular are saying this is not spotted on radar and they do not rea

they've even recovered some of the deleted data that we have talked about here on "the situation room" and they've found the deleted data was actually overwritten data and doesn't indicate that the pilot was trying to cover his tracks, per se, nothing to indicate that he was trying to hide anything. so they are left puzzled. still here 24 days later, they don't know anything more about what these two pilots were up to before flight 370 took off. wolf? >> miles, we learned that the malaysian authorities have new information on the final words coming from the cockpit back to ground control. originally we heard the co-pilot supposedly said, all right, good night. now they've put out a press release, the ministry of transport malaysia saying that the final words to air traffic controller was "good night malaysian flight 370." what, if anything, does that say to you other than the fact that the malaysian authorities can't seem to get their act straight four weeks into this. they now finally have the final words correct as opposed to earlier when we thought it was "all right, good night"? >

we've all deleted data from our hard drives. leave the topic there. what do you think they're searching for in particular? how do they distinguish whether this is a benign removal of data from the flight simulators and what are they looking for exactly on the hard drives? >> well, i think they're looking for anything that might be nefarious. for one thing, if you look at was there some type of information where the pilot practiced this maneuver, this particular left turn that's become so critical in this investigation that was made right when the plane fell off the radar. so if that type of a flight pattern was on there, possibly that could lead to nefarious activity. it may be not. but they're looking for essentially anything that might indicate that this was -- that there was criminal intent there. not just the flight patterns, but they'll be looking for e-mails. they'll be looking for telephone records. they're going to be looking for anything. we live our lives online right now. and so the fact that, you know, some bit of -- some electronic bread c

the whole flight simulator of the captain of flight in history saturday he suggested that the deleted data may provide new clues to the investigation but kelly did not say what he expects gold results to be. only if and when evidence of the missing plane his own investigators will be focusing on finding one thing the plane's black box recorders. whatever they are all wherever they are they should be sending out signals known as paintings to help the search crews find them for those things can only last for a limited time and will end in just a couple weeks. the black box batteries run out. so the waste is definitely on the us is now said specialized equipment to help find a black box. cctv correspondent jim stillman has been out to find out what the black boxes and about their secrets. the key to finding out what happened to legionnaires three seventy me like people in the indian ocean. how important is that investigators to find black box. it's absolutely critical to locate these boxes. roger owners of kylie aviation expert with the smithsonian institution's air and space museum. a black

one is hoping fbi forensic technology may be able to retrieve some deleted data. investigators don't know who deleted files on february 3 or why or if it could provide any clues. meanwhile, officials from thailand, japan, india, indonesia and south korea are now saying malaysian officials aren't doing enough to organize this search. a common concern is that some ships and aircraft are stuck waiting for instructions instead of searching. authorities are also weighing in on the details of the flight path. 12:41 a.m., it should have been still on course and bound for beijing. 40 minutes later, the plane transponder loses contact. nbc news can report the preprogrammed turn taken to the west was likely a smooth 20 degrees turn, not a sharp u-turn as some thought. federal sources also tell us they don't believe the plane claimed to 40,000 feet and then fell back down. officials say satellite data indicating that altitude change was unreliable. today, the search area also became somewhat more focused. officials had said the plane's last location was the south chinamalays

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president obama pledged full support, including the f.b.i., now asked to retrieve deleted data from the flight simulator taken from the home of the flight's captain. >> we are in ongoing conversations with helping and will provide whatever expertise we have that might be able to be used. >> those data files were apparently deleted from this flight simulator more than a monthly ago and may have nothing to do with this. the f.b.i. investigators in malaysia very interested to know what was on those files. even as we continue as a number of nations continue to search both these corridors and this look in the southern part of the indian ocean near australia to see what the satellite may have picked up, even as that goes on, the investigation also continues into the pilots, and anyone else on that plane, so moving forward on a number of different areas. >> lisa stark in washington, d.c. this morning, thank you very much. >> australian officials saying they are keeping their malaysian counter parts up to date on the latest definiteliments. nicole johnston is in kuala lampur. how is the search

he also has some breaking news for us having come through the deleted data. homemade flight simulator at his home. it was confiscated. they found it had missing data. what can you tell us, evan? >> well, we can tell you that the malaysian authorities have turned over some of this information to the fbi and other investigators from other countries that are on the ground. we know that the fbi is going to take its own look at the hard drive from the pilot that was taken from his home. they are trying to figure out whether or not there is any indication of any pre-planning for this route, for this diversion from the route that we now know flight 370 took. so they are trying to figure out if there is anything that was perhaps premedicated on this. obviously, the focus is still on what happened in the cockpit. they don't know what, if anything, this indicates. we know that they have done other searches and they have found nothing that indicates any planning for a crime. they are still very puzzled. they are now going to take another look at what they can find. >> d

tonight, it's all about the data. deleted files on a pilot's flight simulator. files on computer hard drives, and previously withheld radar information. all that as the u.s. takes a larger role in the 12-day-old investigation. the hunt for flight 370. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has our lead story tonight. >> in a local tv interview, the president re-enforced the administration's supporting role in the search for flight 370. >> we have put every resource we have available at the disposal of the search process. there's been close cooperation with the malaysian government. and so not just ntsb but fbi, you know, anybody who typically deals with anything related to our aviation system is available. >> earlier today, as the regular media briefing in kuala lumpur began, angry and distraught family members burst into the auditorium as 12 agonizing days of wait came to a head. one chinese woman apparently the helative of a passenger, was forcibly dragged from the screen, where critics say the regular briefings routinely provide conflicting accou

. >>> the fbi's now trying to retrieve deleted data from the home flight simulator belonging to the pilot of malaysia airlines flight 370. the aid comes as anguished family staged a protest today, accusing the malaysian government of withholding the truth about the plane. that woman cry, i want to see my son has police dragged her from a briefing room and malaysia. she and other chinese national say the malaysian government is ignoring their questions. teams from 26 countries are trying to find the boeing 777 the wet missing on march 8 with 239 people as was flying from kuala lumpur to beijing. >>> ukraine conceded crimea to russia and said it will pull all of its military forces from the peninsula. that came hours after pro- russian militiamen backed by russian forces stormed ahead headquarters. ukrainian personnel packed their bags and left. ukraine made a move of its own announcing it will hold joint military exercises with u.s. and britain. >>> federal reserve chair janet yellin noted that the u.s. economy is not close to full employment as she held her first news conference. >> unemp

well, in terms of the investigation, they are looking at that flight simulation, what was on the deleted data. no indication that there was anything significant. but they're looking at that. the other thing is whether or not this diverted flight plan was preprogrammed into the computer before communication was cut off. this is something that they're looking at but they've not had any concrete details at this point. in terms of the search they now seem to be focusing on a very specific area off the west coast of australia. and looking at 600 square kilometers. that seems to indicate that they believe that perhaps the flight came over there and crashed into the indian ocean. the problem is it's been 12 days. in that time currents have probably taken the debris anywhere across the indian ocean. looking for it at this point is going to be very difficult, wolf. >> atika shubert in equal kual r lumpur. david is joining us from beijing. that's where flight 370 was originally headed. never made it, obviously. what's the latest there in china? >> well, the latest is the military here in china saying t

. >> some data has been deleted from the simulator and forensic work to trooretrieve the data i ongoing. passengers, pilot and crew remain innocent until proven otherwise. for the sake of their families i ask that we refrain from my speculation that might make an already difficult time even harder. >> breaking right now, malaysian investigators are heading to china to bring furious family members of flight 370. while here in the states, fbi teams are start a forensic an am sis at the captain's at home flight simulator. take a look at this scene this morning in malaysia. >> this mother's raw anger and emotion just one of many that's now boiling over. imagine, 12 days not mowing what happened to your loved one. the fbi public is trying to provide some answers. agents are working to retrieve deleted files from the captain's flight simulator that were wiped out in february. we don't know if they were deleted to hide evidence or if it was routine maintenance. the fbi is also digging through copies of the co-pilot's hard drive. nbc news now knows that the plane's reroute was likely programmed

blown up, let's say it was blown up. >> are you confident that the fbi will be able to recover the deleted data from the flight simulator? i would think it is very difficult to delete anything these days. >> i have a lot more confidence they will do that than if we would find this plane. it is getting tougher and tougher. if it did go down in the indian ocean or any ocean it would be hard to find. i would think the fbi could do a complete reconstruction of what was in the simulators, what was in the computers, at least you would get a complete picture of what they were thinking. the frustration is clearly they took this plane, clearly they had a nefarious purpose. but we still are not any closer in figuring that out. >> what do you think about the plan that the flight was altered. the fact the transponder and other communications, navigation also was turned off. but yet, the navigation that was built into the plane -- >> when i first heard that, i thought maybe one pilot was involved not the other, so he wanted to make the switch without the other pilot knowing that. you can't be sure either. c

>> some data has been deleted from the simulator and work to retrieve this is ongoing. >> investigatorsn't saying what data was deleted or if the captain or someone else deleted it. as one simulator user said, all of us load and delete files in the sim continuously. 777 pilot les abe said he may have felt there wasn't enough space and may have deleted a basic training exercise -- >> or may have been embarrassed. >> but some say it is suspicious. the files are tiny and -- >> if they were just in a casual flight just for entertainment or for practice, that's why it would never be saved and there would be no need to delete it. >> a company called pmdg, manufacturer of the software captain shah used in his simulator said he had no relation to them. in an e-mail, they defended shah, saying those who connect his love of flight simulation to the plane's disappearance are engaging in wild conjecture that's insulting to pilots. >> if it was deleted, how do they reconstruct it? >> it's taking a known, good image of that data. because they're familiar with the program, they have an edge. so, they

now we have learned that data was deleted from the simulator. now we know that the fbi is using forensics to retrieve whatever was erased. another piece of this puzzle, cnn learned that the plane's computer was likely reprogrammed to change course to take the left turn at least 12 minutes before the last verbal communication with the cockpit when the copilot radio air traffic controller said all right, good night. a senior official said the search has now zoned in on this corridor that you are looking at. >> the search conditions are goo good. as they were flying through. there were no results. today the search area has been refined. look at this one woman. tensions at a distraught mother screaming for information. she had to be dragged away. >> folks, we are in day 13. many of the families are still living out of this hotel where the briefings are held, waiting for news that the plane has been found. let's talk about the facts. what we know. out of our washington, d.c. bureau. etch, me more about how the fbi now is getting involved. >> the inve

but now a law enforcement official tells cnn that investigators believe the deleted data was simply overwritten not deleted in an effort to hide anything. i'm victor blackwell. thanks for being with us this morning. "fareed zakaria gps" starts right now. >>> this is "gps," the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria, coming to you live from new york. we'll start today's show with the east-west crisis. tens of thousands of russian troops are massing on the ukrainian border. but then president putin reached out to president obama on friday. is there a diplomatic solution here? then, china's reaction to the

>> i'm not, because who paid for and besides, the show is over. >>> malaysian authorities say deleted dataissing flight 370. this is "special report." >>> good evening. i'm bret baier. tonight, it's all about the data. deleted files on a pilot's flight simulator. files on computer hard drives, and previously withheld radar information. all that as the u.s. takes a larger role in the 12-day-old investigation. the hunt for flight 370. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has our

authorities now trying to recover data deleted from the pilot's personal flight simulator, data that could tell us the flight path the pilot was practicing days before he took control of flight 370. >> expertise has been taken to examine the pilot's flight simulator. some data has been deleted from the sip lator and forensic work to retrieve this data is ongoing. >> reporter: even the fbi is involved. >> ongoing conversations about how we can help, and we will make available whatever resources that we have, whatever expertise we have that we might be able to -- might be able to be used. >> meanwhile, malaysian officials also confirmed they have new satellite information from another country but they won't elaborate. of course, none of these developments are comforting families of the missing passengers and crew. today relatives tried to find out more in a media briefing but were dragged away visibly in pain. >> from all nations, it's for them to come safely back, as soon as possible. >> reporter: at the kuala lumpur airport a powerful display of support for the passengers of flight 3

missing malaysian jets are trying to retrieve deleted data on a flight simulator along into the pilote malaysian police chief says files containing records of simulations carried out on the program were deleted on february 3. the search for the plane in the south indian ocean is focusing on an area about the size of italy based on analysis of the planes fuel reserves. the u.s. has reached a $1.2 billion settlement with tell yota.death -- with to under the agreement, they admit it misled consumers by making deceptive statement about to safety issues. toyota will play the financial -- pay the financial penalty. that is a look at the top stories. it is 26 minutes past the hour. bloomberg is on the markets. once again, alix steel joining us from the datacenter. >> it is all about the fed. traders trying to understand the fed. s&p, atake a look at the lot of volatility ever since the announcement came out. you saw the initial dip downward, but we have recovered. almost neutral now. take a look at the treasury market, that is where we are seeing a lot of the movement. you see a spike up her

but now a law enforcement official tells cnn that investigators believe the deleted data was simply overwritten and was not deleted in an effort to hide anything. i'm victor blackwell. thanks for being with us this morning. "fareed zakaria gps" starts right now. >>> this is "gps," the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria, coming to you live from new york. we'll start today's show with the east-west crisis. tens of thousands of russian troops are massing on the ukrainian border. but then president putin reached out to president obama on friday. is there a diplomatic solution here? then, china's reaction to the missing malaysian airlines flight has been belligerent. why? we'll take you inside what the chinese are thinking with evan osnos, the former china correspondent for "the new yorker." and angela merkel runs germany. janet yellen runs the fed. hillary clinton could run the united states after the 2016 elections. how would the world be different if women ran it? i have a great panel, including tina brown and arianna huffingt

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some of which he removed. >> some data has been deleted from the simulator and forensic work to retrieve this data is ongoing. i would like to take this opportunity to state that the passengers, the pilot and the crew remain innocent until proven otherwise. >> reporter: it's not what they came to hear. and this was not what they wanted. but this is an unprecedented event. >> woodruff: first lady michelle obama is headed to china, for a six-day visit. white house officials say it is not intended to address any policy issues. instead, mrs. obama is scheduled to spend a day with the chinese president's wife, focusing on education. later, she and her mother and two daughters will visit cultural and historical sites. >> woodruff: the governor's race in illinois began in earnest today, one of the year's toughest campaigns, in a state with one of the hardest-hit economies. venture capitalist bruce rauner won tuesday's republican primary, spending $6 million of his own money. this morning, democratic incumbent pat quinn and rauner were already swapping charges over the minimum wage and economic

for example, the whole question which i'm sure we'll get into, the whole issue of the captain deleting data from his home simulator. the issue of the press conference this morning saying that there was -- that it was a documented flight path and it didn't have any additional weigh points. these were all this morning. tonight, just to put it in perspective, it's 10:00 a.m. in kuala lumpur, so we're starting to get the first information of thursday now really coming out. >> thank you for helping me out with that breaking news. i want to check in now with cnn's martin savidge. at this moment, he's in a 777 flight simulator. tonight, i would like you to look into this brand new information about a specific search area in the southern indian ocean and report back to us later in the show. but since you're in the simulator right now, talk to me about the significance of files being deleted from the pilot's home simulator, what do you know about that? >> reporter: well, even before i touch on that, just as we talk about this latest information of a new search being opened up in the area of the indi

simulator confiscated during the search of the pilot's house. >> some data has been deleted from the simulator and forensic work to retrieve this data is ongoing. >> reporter: but sources say that an initial review of the pilot and copilot's seized personal computers and emails revealed no evidence of any hijacking plans or plots. you can feel those tensions rising. of course earlier in the week, family members of passengers threatened a hunger strike in bay bridge and earlier of course there were those scenes of chaos here all underlying the family's search and need for answers. seth doane, cbs news, kuala lumpur, malaysia. >>> australian officials said today they cut their search area in the southern indian ocean by half using new analysis of the plane's likely fuel consumption. >>> some new details this noon. surprise testimony from osama bin laden's son-in-law today after he unexpectedly took the stand at his own terrorism trial. the courtroom sketches show the defendant at his trial for conspiring to kill americans. he recounted the night of the september 11th attacks saying osa

something he says is normal, like deleting data from a game drive or computer.says he never discussed with captain zaharie what he used the simulator for. but he wasn't concerned. >> i think that it was actually someone we know that is devastate for us. we've got to be sad about it. and on top of that, we couldn't believe the things that were said about it, that it wasn't close to true. i couldn't believe that a man that had passion for a simulation like that wanted to to build something like that, would do something stupid or, you know, like sinister. >> reporter: captain zaharie seemed to have nothing to hide but his enthusiasm for flying. as one of his friends told me, if we were on a plane in trouble, he would want a pilot as passionate as captain zaharie in the cockpit. saima mohsin, cnn, kuala lumpur, malaysia. >> even though there has been so far no evidence, the pilots had anything to do with flight 370's disappears, malaysia airlines announced today a new policy to try to ensure all of its new pilots are mentally stable. from now on, pilots joining the

is right now sifting through files from the captain's home computer and attempting to retrieve deleted dataflight simulator in his home obtained by the malaysian government. and likely investigating another theory -- cold the flight deck have been hacked? sean henry is the former executive assistant director for the fbi and currently the chief security office for crowd strike. sean, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> so what of that? is it possible that the rerouting of the plane and the turning off of the transponders was because the flight deck was hacked? is that possible? >> well, when you talk about "hacked" i think you're referring to some type of remote access into the cockpit. i don't know that that would have been possible in that particular part of the world with the connectivity there that there would have been the ability to do that. although hackers often times access computer networks using some type of a peripheral like a usb device that they might be able to put into a computer system. there are devices and there has been some discussions in the past about th

authorities say some of the data on february 3rd was deleted. tine data or something else. some of the information was deleted off the flight simulator in the home of airport shah. >> some data has been deleted from the simulator and forensic work to retrieve this data is ongoing. >> reporter: meanwhile, no clear answers on who programmed into malaysia's 370 flight simulator the u-turn that took them off course. >> if i want to leave this route, it's as simple as pressing a button and now turning. you'll see the airplane is leaving its route. >> reporter: we asked pilot steve wallacestein to shows house to reprogram the plane. >> all i have to do is set a different altitude here and the plane will go to a different altitude. >> reporter: this morning some inside. the plane's u-turn appeared to have been a smooth, 20-degree turn. they do not believe that the plane then climbed to 45,000 feet. and it still possible that passengers slept through all of this, never knowing something was wrong. meanwhile as the search focusses on the indian ocean, an

try to get some of the deleted data. do we have anything new on that? technicians are still working and tried to extricate data included the pilot's digital media including the simulator. analysis of according to one u.s. official who did not want to be identified. the official said no smoking gun . nothing sinister was found. they spread the fbi to be done in a week at the very latest. -- they expected the fbi to be done in a week at the very latest. >> the majority of the passengers were chinese and an emotional reaction. we have seen how they been demonstrating against the malaysian handling of all of this. has there been more of this? >> more of that. they are venting their anger and are demanding their truth. they are demanding an apology from the handling of the search. they are unhappy with the promise of the statement that the plane crash and the southern indian ocean. the families were flown to hours ofnd within their arrival, they held banners that said we want evidence, truth, dignity and give us our relatives back. you can see pretty strong w

data. so deleted simulator data from the pilot's log, at what point that happened and who can do that, of course lots of speculation around this, but we will keep you updated. alibaba is reportedly leaning towards listing on the new york stock exchange instead of the nasdaq, according to the "wall street journal" source ones. cnbc has confirmed the e-commerce giant is holding its kickoff meeting next tuesday with five main banks leading the deal. analysts expect the deal due in the third quarter will raise $15 billion or more. that's an incredible numbers on this. speculation of the financial times that this deal could reach around $20 billion worth. as we look at an estimate of the fees there, around 2% of the growth proceeds, we're talking a sum of $400 million. and the facebook, 1.1% just to give you some perspective on that. so a nice windfall for some of those banks. $400 million is being speculated in the financial times this morning. now let's have a look at u.s. futures ahead of the markets this morning. while we've got the dow, it's higher by around 8 points right now. we've got the nas

data. >> what happened they were not only the students in the different pathway that were not identified but by course they weren't deleted in the data system that's what we had to do. >> thank you very much you're welcome. >> good evening, commissioners i'm shawna professor at standing for the record working closely with the colleagues on this study for the last 3 years and very closely with several of my graduate students who will tell you about the results of the study i'm going to do an introductory overview. we wanted to do this study in partnership with the unified school district to help the school district elevate the effectness of its learning pathway and second to inform the research field about the effectness of the different kinds of pathway instructions there's a lot of diversities whether the programs are best for the english learners so we were excited about the opportunity to help the district and help the field. we couldn't have done this without the roll great working relationship with rita and christen and other folks on our team. so let me give you a quick overview we looked at the students that entere

or we could have been deleting a simulation he didn't like. >> some data has been deleted from the similatoruld like to say the pilot and people remain innocence until proven. >> reporter: they believe they will be able to get the files. >> what does this prove? >> reporter: it shows prior intent. was it a mechanical problem or they be attempt to take the airport? 30 minutes on the way to beijing it took a turn by punching a code in the auto pilot. 12 minutes before that, the copilot told the tower all right, good night. if there was a mechanical issue on board why didn't he tell air traffic control and request a new landing spot? >> we know within the first 26 minutes, they had reprogrammed the plan and were turning west far before they signed off with air traffic control. >> reporter: so bill, the last thing that is odd about that, and you can probably figure this out, they would have seen flight mh370 why are you going off course, this is where you are supposed to be going this is where you are going. that we don't know. >> heather? >>> the families of flight mh370 passengers are waiting

data from the flight simulator had been deleted.nways around the indian ocean that were programmed into his simulator. experienced pilots tell us that this may be completely normal. but the question here is whether or not any deleted files show evidence of practiced approaches into odd destinations. what's also new this morning to tell you about, sources say that the pilots abruptly changed course and veered west 12 minutes before the copilot calmly signed off with all right, good night. we'll keep you posted on those developments as they come in. >>> oprah winfrey is jumping into the 2014 election season. she's planning to hold a fund-raiser in virginia for democratic congressional candidate laverne chapman. she says oprah is a good friend and is looking forward to her run to fill the seat that's left by retiring representative jim moran. oprah endorsed president obama when he ran in 2008. >>> and the new jersey teen-ager we all remember her, she captured a lot of headlines for suing her own parents. she is now dropping the lawsuit

it was revealed that a flight simulator used by one pilot had some deleted data.and iran prime minister warm that russia will try to further provoke tensions in southern and eastern ukraine. leaders gather in brussels to discuss ways to respond to russia's move to annex crimea. arseny yatsenyuk said it is clear russia will try to further escalate the situation in other russian speaking areas in his country. >> crimea is a ukrainian territory. recognize this so-called referendum and annexation. about ukraine. does europe need russian energy? for more on one of the key issues in the relationship the twin russia and europe, we are by ad from brussels european-style ladies -- european studies expert. if we could cast our minds back to 2009, how vulnerable is europe now compared to 2009 when we saw the last fairly large-scale crisis over gas? >> good morning. veryituation today is different than it was in 2009. in 2009, the dispute between russia and ukraine resulted in severe cuts of russian gas flowing into other european countries. was the mainraine transit route fo

deleted a month before the flight. >> what we have from the simulator is that the data has been cleared in february. >> reporter: of course, the deleted files may be nothing more than computer housekeeping. but fbi technicians will now try to reconstruct the bits of data. >> if it has been deleted you can put together the programs from software. what you will try to do is reconstruct the thoughts and communications and activities of the pilot what flights was he loading into the flight simulator. >> reporter: meanwhile, experts from u.s., australia and indonesia have noroed the search zone to the southern indian ocean based on the plane's fuel reserves. some of the most sophisticated anti-sub aircraft are now scanning a grid three hours southwest of australia. while the zone has been cut in half it is still a massive 102,000 square miles, roughly the size of colorado. >> the aircraft saw marine life as they were flying through, so we know they could make sightings. >> reporter: the task is finding the batteries and black box. with 19 days of battery life remaining under the under water pingers, nearly two weeks into this

data was deleted from that hard drive. but a law enforcement official now tells cnn investigators do believe the deleted data was simply overwritten. that it wasn't deleted in an effort to hide anything. >> of course, search crews have only about a week left to find the plane's black boxes at least using that ping because the batteries soon are going to die. >> cnn aviation analyst inspector general with the u.s. transportation department and author of "why planes crash" david with us, as well. i know you've seen the pictures. does it look like sea garbage or something from the flight? any indication, mary, let's go to you first that you look at it and say, it could be something significant? >> nothing jumps out at me as being clearly from a plane. you know, maybe the instructions in the seat pocket are laminated, so, nothing doesn't jump out at me yet. doesn't look like airplane parts to me yet. >> so, david, the pingers on the black box could expire in seven days, some say maybe it will last for another ten days, maybe 1

experts say the fact that the files were deleted more than a month before the flight disappeared could be telling. >> i would be a little bit surprised if data that was deleted that far back in time turns out to be the smoking gun because the flight was not for several weeks after that. so you would think that if it was a sophisticated plot, that they would want to be practicing and rehearsing and researching up to almost the last minute. >> reporter: and they will use data from the browser history of both pilot's laptops to build profiles of them. >> was satellite, google earth mapping software? >> reporter: this morning, malaysian officials have still confirmed that they are investigating a report about a possible call from the cockpit right before takeoff. at this point, u.s. officials have not revealed what they have gleaned from that hard drive. it could be key or an insignificant part of the process. we just don't know. >> thank you, pamela brown. what are investigators looking for and what sort of questions should they be asking about the two pilots? i want to bring in a man who has worked for both the cia and fbi. what exactly should

. >> some data has been deleted from the simulator and forensic work to retrieve this data is ongoing>> reporter: criticism is growing within malaysia over the country's handling of the search. >> they should have realized that this involved expertise which was beyond our capacities. >> reporter: there were chaotic moments surrounding this morning's daily briefing when some frustrated family members tried to stage a protest to demand answers about what happened to their missing relatives. susan mcginnis, cbs news. >> and this morning malaysian officials said an investigation into reports that people in the maldives saw the plane on march 8 revealed those sightings are not true. >>> a gilroy man is among 2 dozen military veterans new recipients of the medal of honor. president obama says the honors why long overdue. only 3 recipients are still alive and able to attend yesterday's ceremony at the white house. the veterans had already been recognized for outstanding heroics during battle but the pentagon determined most were denied the nation's highest military honor because they were la

. >> as far as the simulator goes throw, is there promise from your perspective that the deleted data can be retrieved? >> absolutely. remember oliver north deleted everything in the security council. we got it all back. they're very good at that. these people are outstanding. it takes a while, but they'll get it back. we can see maybe if he was planning way point changes in a flight plan or something. i don't know what's in there, but it's going to give us -- it potentially could give you the answer to the case. >> what's interesting, the malaysian authorities are saying they believe that the plane was deliberately turned back. terrorism of course can't be ruledith the release of the final 5 4 minutes of the flight deck, the malaysian government is saying they found nothing suspicious in those conversations. what do you make of that? >> i would like to listen to it myself, frankly. maybe our people could do a better job at that either by enhancing it. but if they have all this flight data recording, why don't we have more information? that to me doesn't make much sense. >> from what

during the search of the pilot's house. >> some data has been deleted from the simulator and forensic teams retrieve this data is ongoing. >> reporter: sources tell cbs news that in an initial review of pilot's and co-pilot's seized personal computers and e-mails revealed no evidence of any hijacking plans or plot. the pace of the investigation is prompting criticism even from within. rasha is a member of parliament here. >> the plane appeared as a blip on our military radar a few hours after it disappeared. and there's no real explanation as to what our response was or lack of response was and why. we aren't getting answers. >> reporter: as part of one of malaysia's main opposition parties, he's criticized the government for not accepting help from the u.s. and others sooner. >> i think if that had happened, perhaps we might not have had -- might not have had the fiasco of wasting a week in the south china sea looking in a place where we shouldn't have been looking in the first place. >> reporter: you can certainly feel those tensions rising in beijing. of course, earlier in the week

they've been asked to analyze data deleted from a flight simulator found in the pilot's home. they say several items have been wiped from the device in february. investigators will see if recovered information can provide new clues or show if the jet's diverted flight path way from beijing may have been rehearsed. authorities say the depth of the water where the possible debris is located will make it hard to recover the black box and data recorders. in the meantime, president obama says finding this jet, anne-marie, is a top priority. >> tara mergener in washington. thanks a lot, tara. >>> flight 370 originated in kuala lumpur headed to beijing with 239 people on board, and now anxious and frustrated relatives are hoping for some answers. seth doane is in malaysia. seth, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, anne-marie. yes, this has been just an agonizing wait for family members as you might imagine over the last 12, 13 days just following this news. i just got off the phone with a friend of the pilot, a guy named peter chong who told me this has been like a roller