massive sea and air search to solve the disappearance of malaysian airlines flight 370 enroute from kuala lumper to beijing, early saturday, local time. 239 passengers were on board. "there were // three us citizens. // philip wood, nicole meng and leo meng were on board." the u-s sent f-b-i investigators after interpol confirmed that two passengers were aboard the plane with stolen passports. that, despite that an international alert of the specific names on those passports released last year and the year before. "you find that there's a passport stolen two years ago and someone can use it isn't a crack, it's a gaping hole." the airliner was at 35-thousand feet in good weather when contact broke off. malaysia airlines chief executive says radar data indicates "a distinct possibility the airplane did a turn-back." "if it's below the surface of the water, we will not be able to detect it." the malaysian airliner was a boeing triple-7, regarded as one of the safest airliners ever developed. but boeing is dealing with hairline cracks found in 40---787 dreamliners still in production...and low oil p

we went to china, tokyo, kuala lumper and. >> you also tried a beer. >> it was. we tried it.aid okay. >> does that happen a lot that you have to go back to the kitche -- >> usually you can see ingredients lying around and know the technique and know it. did a good job. >> i love that. international espionage. >> that's the best way. stealing it or have somebody make it. we were in shanghai. we met a crew of cheffings we had hired to help us open this restaurant. a dem plij chef. so it was quite an interesting trip. >> people didn't catch it when they heard your last name. they probably heard that you're an italian. >> indeed. born and raised in brooklyn. >> how did you get involved in this kind of food. >> when you grow up in new york city you gravitate toward certain types of food. it was always just a passion and something i really really like. with the tao group, their number one food was tao. we took it over to asia and really, really fell in love with it. >> you mentioned you started cooking with your mom. was she really the one who ignited your interest in foods? >> she

kuala lumpur. state department says equal law lumper is transit point and operational planning point for terroristin southeast asia. the philippines in that part of the world has an islamist insure againsy that has al qaeda roots in it. so there's a lot of reasons to be concerned. hezbollah is operating in that part of the world. so i don't want to rule it out. we just don't have enough evidence at this point. i think we have to include that in when we're looking what may have happened. jon: for all of the complaints we have in this country with the transportation security administration and onerous search that is we have to go through before we can board an airliner, they have done a pretty good job of keeping, you know, problems, keeping, you know, weaponry and so forth off planes in this country. there are places in the world where security is not so strict. what about malaysia? can you tell us anything about that? >> i haven't been through kuala lumpur, kla, as they call it in a while. they had a terrorist problem and they went after it and i think they did a pretty good job with it. i think w