either the location of the airline, which is malaysia, where the ticket was purchased, the destination or the domicile of the passengers. which is malaysia or chinaey're going to have to do it in malaysian or chinese courts. that's going to be difficult because of the distrust of malaysian government all right. >> thank you. >>> i want to bring in the rest of our experts. the first sign of lawsuits to come, the discovery. >> it is. and if you read this, it's the ultimate in fishing expeditions. they've asked for maintenance schedules, fuselage, training. but the question really is, is it seemly? people are talking about malaysia announcing this. and whether or not we're talking about if they've found the bodies. and a law firm is starting a procedure. no clock ticking. there is a two-year period to do this. so, you ask people why? publicity and money. >> so, do you think it's the families or the lawyers. >> the lawyers. but there's no urgency to issue a discovery notice to boeing and malaysian airlines three weeks after the event, before they've even found the debris. >> and michael, nothing has been found and they're seeking discovery and possib

. >> malaysia or china or others if we don't find a way to get more heavily involved. >> if we don't into the politics of what's going on with this country with what the world looks at us now as americans go travel more and more around the world, you feel safe. you say i am in america no matter where i am in the world no matter they are going to come and help me. is this an example of america not being involved unless we are invited. you don't wait for the phone call because you show up at the various points of where you need to be involved where you stand outside the door and walk out the door and we are here to help. we have to look at what the different developments involved. their interest as we would see it in the united states is to have it as soon as possible. >> what do you mean the different interest or different government? >> malaysia, number one, this national airline lost a 777. until they get this cleared up and can point the finger at somebody else they are going to find someone flying malaysian airlines. the airlines and the government are not going to be in a hurry t

annex 13 investigations as well as the montreal convention, jurisdiction is reposed in either malaysia or china or the place of domicile of the passengers. so they do have legal recourse through that process. but to compel the malaysian government to do more than what it's been doing, it requires actions in malaysia. i will say that in the united states we have something called the family assistance act that was passed about 20 years ago. that has been applied most recently to result in a fine of $500,000 against asiana airlines because they didn't treat the passengers properly in accordance with that act in the united states. >> what does that mean? >> the crash that occurred in san francisco. >> that was the one where he missed the runway in the bay area. what does that mean? what didn't they do that cost them half a million bucks? >> well, in the united states -- now of course this law would not apply to malaysia airlines in malaysia. but in the united states since i believe it was 1996 there's federal law that requires airlines to have contingency plans in the case of a disaster like this.

it's hard for me to see a malaysian airline flying from malaysia or china almost all of the passengersoreigners, not domestic u.s. citizens, hard for me to see how there's any real likelihood, absent finding the plane, that this place could ever end up in u.s. courts. >> and let's say they go a couple of years or whatever and they do the payouts. and then we find the data boxes and there is something wrong with the engine or something that can be traced to boeing. then could one sue again? >> sure, if the statute of limitations hasn't run and if you find the plane and if you -- in finding the plane you can discover or investigate a mechanical failure. i mean there are all of these unknown scenarios. >> so bottom line, fred, you know, not knowing what happened to the plane, there is some compensation for the families, not much in u.s. terms, but in what is agreed to by an international treaty organization. so we have to see how this plays out and whether, in fact, they do find these data boxes. >> yeah. interest potential scenarios there. you also had with you senator dianne feinstein a

. >> malaysia or china or others if we don't find a way to get more heavily involved. >> if we don'tth this country with what the world looks at us now as americans go travel more and more around the world, you feel safe. you say i am in america no matter where i am in the world no matter they are going to come and help me. is this an example of america not being involved unless we are invited. you don't wait for the phone call because you show up at the various points of where you need to be involved where you stand outside the door and walk out the door and we are here to help. we have to look at what the different developments involved. their interest as we would see it in the united states is to have it as soon as possible. >> what do you mean the different interest or different government? >> malaysia, number one, this national airline lost a 777. until they get this cleared up and can point the finger at somebody else they are going to find someone flying malaysian airlines. the airlines and the government are not going to be in a hurry to share that information. we know they h

that, too, has to happen in -- any compensation at this point has to happen in either malaysia or in china if there is no cause found. if they don't find the plane? >> i think that is right. even if it is an american citizen, first under the treaty. is the american citizen living here or domiciled in malaysia or elsewhere? point number one, even if the passenger were domiciled here in pittsburgh or washington, d.c., the federal courts i think would immediately say, i think, the venue for this whole litigation really is malaysia or maybe china. but certainly not a federal court sitting in washington, d.c. >> and u.s. courts have been pretty o-- juries have been pretty generous in global terms to folks who have lost loved ones. could we expect that the malaysian courts might not be as -- what is the word -- >> generous? i think that is right. there are no courts quite as generous as here in the united states. but getting the litigation to remain in the united states in a fact pattern that you have described involving malaysian airline, i mean, really highly unlikely, no matter how creative m

at this point, when that comes out of mouths of malaysian leaders, people don't believe it in malaysia or china. >> i understand that. another side of the criminal investigation. is it unusual to find nothing suspicious about any passenger or crew member in 18 days? >> 18 days really isn't a long time. the search is cursory, looking at databases, have they come up, been arrested, come up on intelligence report or no fly list in the database, watch list we have. in terms of doing thorough backgrounds, a figure like 100 is minuscule. this should have had a thousand interviews. family members of those on that aircraft, family members and people that worked on it, the caters, people that come on and clean the aircraft to refuel it, put luggage on the aircraft, airport security personnel. reviewing the videos of the per of the aircraft. did anyone stow away or do something to it that others didn't notice. an investigation like that should be expanding all over the world on top of it. >> tom and mary, many thanks to both of you. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. we'll have more on flight 370 ahead. fi

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this will be like china or malaysia where things are different. ken, thank you.> good to see you. >>> so we've heard some pretty remarkable odds of our standards. and what we here in the united states are prepared to deal with when it comes to the possibilities of catastrophe. how does 1 one in a billion sound in a standard? and if that's standard, how did this happen? we're going to tell what the actual odds are and what the faa says should be our brass ring. coming up. across america, people like basketball hall of famer dominique wilkins, are taking charge of their type 2 diabetes with non-insulin victoza. for a while, i took a pill to lower my blood sugar, but it didn't get me to my goal. so i asked my doctor about victoza. he said victoza works differently than pills, and comes in a pen. and the needle is thin. victoza is an injectable prescription medicine that may improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes when used with diet and exercise. it is not recommended as the first medication to treat diabetes and should not be used in people with type 1 d

or anything never farous but there are connections. passengers on plate -- less probable it was the iranians with the stolen passports but others have connections with the chinese, extremist groups, whether in china or malaysia were experienced in simulation flights so there are other things to look at. as any great investigator know, not to take any options off the table. in global terrorism the biggest mistake is to be caught up in a plot that already occurred. people talk about 9/11 or talk about beefing up security for the boston marathon bombing. not going to happen that way again but a the terrorists know we have those bases covered. going back to 9/11, we take off our shoes, can't have liquid, but there are definite vulnerabilities and the aviation realm, and that we know that if foul play here, whether we want to look at everyone who is involved from the airport in malaysia, all the staff workers, look at all the airport employees, the pilot, copilot, everyone who was onboard, really anything that is possible here and that is what is really important to remember about they angles always be new and we can't apply old tools to combat the new tricks unfortunately. >> you're right. no two indents are eve

they all worked and lived in either china or malaysia.>>> we lost an hour sleep last night, but it's okay. it means spring is on the way, right? not so fast. meteorologist janice dean says we still may have another punch. we love you. tell us what you have to tell us. >> the good news, beautiful across much of the country tomorrow. 60s and 70s, even 82 degrees for our friends in phoenix, arizona. things will change over the next couple days. look at d.c. wednesday and thursday, our next storm system moves in. we're watching moisture moving into portions of texas and louisiana right now and energy across the northwest which is going to make its way across the central u.s. and give us some components that we need for our next big winter storm, if you can believe it. it's going to happen wednesday, thursday, for the big cities. we need to monitor this very carefully. we could be dealing with upwards of a foot -- a foot of snow! don't shoot the messenger. back to you. >> janice -- mike on our crew said he was going to pack up his snow blower

>> well, there are not many groups in the general vicinity in china, malaysia, pakistan or india thatthis aircraft. it is a remote possibility. however, there is a history of pilots common deering their own aircraft for a variety of reasons, suicidal or a radical purpose. if this was stolen, if the aircraft was stolen, there is one american precedent relative to planning to steal a major aircraft. back during the cold war, it's report thad the cia had actually trained to steal a russian aircraft and had plotted to land it at a remote airstrip, cover it with a giant tarp and sud study the systems and convince the russians the aircraft was lost. as remote and unbelievable as it sounds, there's a precedent for pilots doing that and there had been intelligence community plans to do just this kind of thing. >> it's extraordinary. sou sounds like it's out of a spy novel. with regard to how long it's taken to piece these separate pieces of information together and speculation, what do you make of that? it seems so unusual here seven days later. >> the malaysian authorities are not equipped o

china, several from malaysia. >> unless you bought your ticket in the united states or you're from the united states, all those lawsuitso be filed in china, malaysia or somewhere else overseas. >> that's where it takes an attorney to comb through that fine print. talk about the death certificate. how easy would it be for a family member to do that now? is it too early in the game for a family to pursue that? >> no, it's not. if someone goes missing, every state has different laws on how to do it in absence of a body. here they have come out and basically declared everyone dead. >> that declaration is important in this part of the investigation correct? >> that's right. it is very important. >> so in terms of the litigation the family can pursue, if they don't know the cause of why that plane came down, they can't necessarily sue boeing for mechanical error, right? >> that's right. plaintiffs have the burden of proof. in order to pursue a claim against boeing, you'd have to prove that the airplane was defective and that a defect in the airplane caused the crash. there's been a lawsuit -- well, it's not really a lawsuit.

switched off or disabled, as the phrase he used, as the plane goes out over the east of malaysia wp. >> just as it crosses the land area. >> the last known point of contact is in the china sea, there's either by transponder or the handoff between malaysia and vietnam. >> we also know those words were spoeken at that point. >> we know that because the authorities person said that. would i be surprised if tomorrow we're told that that never happened, i wouldn't be surprised. but on tuesday or wednesday of this week, that's what we were told. and once those words are out there, it was probably a longer senten sentence. it was probably malaysia acknowledging and saying "all right, good night." >> granted, so many things have changed. we remember the excitement over the satellite photos. but potential significance of this separation of things, it indicates that there was some control or decision making s that your view? >> it indicates, it suggests that at the moment when that last voice transmission was being made there was the incident was already underway. and there is no indication in what was said that we know of that leads one way or the other, but something could have

what's the latest well there's still no sign of the plane or the tune of thirty nine people were on board. but china has lashed out in malaysia for the way it's handled the investigation and the bowling triple seven had disappeared off the south china sea this past weekend nearly two thirds of the passengers aboard the plane or chinese nationals more keen what could be the country's second deadliest air disaster recorded. malaysian airlines flight in each three seven zero to top bunk while lump or on saturdays but vanished from radar on road to beijing there have been sightings of oil slick sen reported pieces of debris that international efforts have failed to find the wreckage. as of early monday forty ships and thirty four planes from nine countries have joined the operations but a search area expanded to include them all on the straight i let her sit in paris and has a mineral that especially as interpol has confirmed at least two passengers on board had been traveling on fake passports at any news on who they are. while malaysian authorities say they have recently identified one of the two passengers of the missing airli

to join the search for the flying which disappeared on road from malaysia to china two weeks ago the aircraft's flight dates of record or transmit timing signals from the thirty days after a crash joan and skiing and smiley opportunity announced she was ending korea on thursday the day she picked up the trophy for winning this season's downhill woke up this is not soon enough goals. this was a very hard decision for me. on the one hand can be seen as a lot of fun. it was all i did for the last fifteen years everything was focused on a sunrise on the thirty third enough to taste it. she handed them to korea on a high in some cheap this year with a gold and silver to do than pick medal tally. she also won two world championships in a decade of top level competition. korea was not without struggles injury threatens the future on occasions but she always stood up to the knox. on friday the european union beefed up its sanctions against russia. it also signed a partnership deal with the new ukrainian government. it recognizes the aspirations of the people of ukraine to live in a country governed by strenuous my democracy and

did it end up on the east of malaysia or out to the south china sea which is the course it should have taken had it gone all the way to beijing from kuala lumpur or did it make the turn and carry back over the malaysian peninsula to the west. we were filming over the straits, the strip of see and ocean that coming up the west coast of malaysia. we were filming that search and rescue operation there. we saw the ships out searching and saw the chief and minister of defense for malaysia. are you guys lot of as to where this plane is in why are you unable to pinpoint it. he said we are completely overwhelm overwhelmed, but trying our best. >> i appreciate you joining us. i want to turn to my expert who is sitting next to me. les, when you hear that malaysian officials are saying they are overwhelmed, they have no idea. you heard what the gentlemen said a little bit earlier. he said you know what, this investigation started yesterday. it has been so uncoordinated. what do you make of this when you hear from her and you hear from the other gentlemen. >> it sounds to me that a lot of assumpti

malaysia's transport minister. what we also know is that now more than six nations are involved in the search, including thailand, indonesia, china, said or, as well as the u.s. all parties contributing one way or another. some hardware, ships, planes, even intelligence. experts from boeing are headed to malaysia to m put togetherh the story what happened to 370. the search, it is concentrated to 20 knot miles. nothing so far. that is the frustration felt by all searchers and family members. >> fingers pointing to perhaps people being radicalized good tell us what authorities are saying. hat information do you have? >> it is probably best it is puzzling -- it is puzzling. passports.stolen but what we are hearing is that it is not just those two passports, but at least four being investigating. the two passports you mentioned, one alone into an italian and the other belonging to an austrian, they were both stolen in thailand. interpol has made strong criticism. it's said that the passports should have been checked again before passengers were allowed to board. .hat is the issue at this time whether procedures were followed or security lack

the malaysia airlines went missing on a flight to beijing, the last known location was above the china sea between malaysia and vietnam. the plane's transponder was switched off orand no distress signal was sent. the officials say the plane may have tried to turn back to malaysia. they have been searching for the aircraft to the seas to the west of malaysia in case it traveled that far. and there are reports that the search may have even been expanded to the indian ocean. thank you. >> and joining us, a commercial pilot, former new jersey state criminal investigation john lucich is here with us. we have mastered air flight, have we not? >> absolutely. >> we really have. >> this plane has had one incident with fatalities, so a great record with the incredible redundancy with these airplanes. to be turned off it would have been done manually by the pilot. >> whatever you do it would have to be manually unless there as a type of failure. >> type of failure, electrical. but wouldn't redundancy have kicked in? >> absolutely, once we know the facts -- >> with the track record that goes two decades, one incident, steppeding the runway with three people dying and the ot

or conflicting statements from different officials. for a while they were they are searching in a stretch of sea between malaysia and vietnam in the south china sea. then later military records indicate the plane may have turned back. or that it so far west it went into the strait of malacca. they have not tracked the plane out there yet. they have an idea where it is. they're just not willing to reveal it publicly. in normal circumstances in malaysia would be the end of the story. the government here is used to controlling the message. the traditional media is linked directly or incorrectly to the government coalition. and that would be the end of that. but in this case you have passengers from 14 different nations. you have the international media all pressing for answers. fortunately, malaysian officials are finding themselves being under fire for not being able to give the answers they need at this point, which must be heart wrenching for the families. >> jennifer, thank you very much indeed. jennifer pak from kuala lumpur airport. no one hosni more information than the plane has vanished. >>> angela merkel warned of catastrophic conseque

. >> robert, if you look at the map, this plane was taking off malaysia and then heading north to china. but it was found, orisç is found -- not sure obviously if it is the wreckage. this debris was found if you look at this map off the coast of australia, way far south of where it was heading in china. what does this tell us? does this location make any sense? >> if we consider theat lookingt point of where it was, up there in the bay of thailand and if it turned around and did fly back across the peninsula of thailand and headed to the west, southwest, this is pretty much in line with that same course, meaning it never turned at all, which is,Ñtr again, very strange because there was no place that it could possibly have landed headed the way it was. and now we're really going to start wondering what in the world was going on. >> thank you so much for joining us this morning. we really appreciate it. >> you're welcome. >> this area of the indian ocean is tens of thousands of feet deep. the search obviously a daunting task. maria molina is here with a look at what search crews are facing, the conditions rig

malaysia. >> we want the government to tell us what is really going on. whether we go or not we need to know. >> several nations and international organizations are trying to determine what happened to the missing jetliner. china's ministry of foreign affairs has called upon the malaysiaens to do more to try to solve the mystery. >> we have a responsibility to demand and urge the malaysiaen side to increase search efforts as soon as possible and. >> three days out confirmation without the aircraft's fate, they believe questions are going unanswered but but the most important question of what happened to the flight, still no one can answer that. >> peter lanza said he wishes his son was never born. in an interview he said he hopes he can prevent another similar attack from happening. peter lan da alaska said he believed that adam wanted to hurt him saying with hand sight i know adam would have killed me if he had a chance. i don't question that for a minute. the reason why he shot nancy four times. one for each of them. once for nancy, once for him, once for ryan and once for me. he said he tried to reconnect with adam but adam lanza ignored those requests. >>> in boston's marathon three people were killed and ma

or some other plane, that's still unclear. and in is concern from china and vietnam that malaysia does not know what it's doing and coordinating the search well. >> just not handling it well in terms of coordination, or the entire effort. >> the entire effort. >> maria? >> reporter: crowd sourcing is when information is gathered by the public, people like you and me. in this case a company called digital clone pointed tw satello of it's slightlie satellites on. you can see this looks like just a cloud and water, but when you zoom in, you may be able to see something that is floating on the water. they're asking people to go through thousands and thousands of and thousands of these tiles and volunteers from all over the world had been combing through these maps. take a look at what some people have found. so canadian maven writes after tearing astaring at so much oces always a shock to come across something big. this looks like an oil rig. this looks like a ship. louisa said found two boats very close together. now you also have mike, and he found this, and he took a screen shot of what he found. >> what is that? >> this right

china will want to keep malaysia as a good neighboring country. >> but many are already calling for a boycott of everything malaysia. it's not a matter of sympathy ornsation for the relatives of the plane's passengers. they feel the way malaysia handled information showed a lack of respect and understanding not just towards them but china as a whole. and it isn't enough for these relatives that chinese officials allowed them a rare public show of emotion. they want their government to do something more to punish malaysia. >> the key here is the extent of the public pressure coming from within china itself. and i think to the extent that that is the case, the really revealing thing about this story is not so much the relations between malaysia and china as the regime of china itself. >> reporter: it's now down to the chinese government to balance the situation. >>> still to come, here at al jazeera -- >> first we heard a roar. i thought maybe there was a 747 or something going down. >> the death toll may rise after a mud slide in though u.s. state of washington. and we're in somalia where the government is gaining ground in the fight against al-shab

or seen this plane. there are malaysian 777 down this hour we believe somewhere between malaysia and china. brian, back to you. >>> there are reports tonight that what has been a cold war style standoff between russia and ukraine has turned hot, apparently after russian troops have moved in on a ukrainian military installation. now that the russians have taken effective control of the crimea region, no one really expects they will ever give it up. the largest question perhaps is how far this goes and how much of what is now ukraine does russia consider its own. our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell starts us off again tonight from our d.c. newsroom. andrea, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. until now both sides were avoiding a military crash in crimia. but tonight they escalated the conflict. armed men ran through two gates of a ukrainian missile defense in sebastopol. even as vladimir putin back in sochi was kicking off the paralympics and telling the ukrainian delegation he hopes the games will help reduce tensions between their countries. ukrainian athlete

china to malaysia awe shoul to be heard. >> reporter: they are racing to find the black boxes or flight recorders.they could help explain what went wrong but they only have eight days of battery life left. the u.s. navy has flown in an under water black box locator and it should arrive in the search area in the next 48 hours. mark mathews in charge in such says it could take years. >> right now the area is basically the size of the indian ocean which would take an untenable amount of time to search. >> reporter: the long wait for news is frustrating for the families of the 239 people who were on board. and today some of their families traveled to cool la kua blvmentp per. we want to know what happened to her families. holly williams, cbs news, perth, australia. >> glor: in ukraine between secretary of state john kerry and sergey lavrov ended in paris today without an agreement. a press conference followed that meeting and margaret brennan is in washington tonight. marg, any progress. >> well jeff, both sides agree to continue talking. so the four our long meeting included what kerry said was a sou

china finlandize malaysia. at the same time, we cannot allow the nationalists, the hot-blooded nationalists, the philippines, vietnam or example, to get us into a military conflict with china. our relationship is so important for peace in the 21st century. it is a matter of steering between those extremes. >> the book is called "asia's cauldron." geography is his thing. he looks at the impact on geopolitical events. there is a lot to be argued and understood. ♪ >> next month, eight hundred million voters will cast their ballots in india's general elections. it will be perhaps the largest democratic exercise in history. it may mark a political turning point for the world's second most ppopulous nation. early polls predict a win for opposition leader. joining me, sadanand dhume, milan vaishnav, arvind panagariya, jonathan shainin. the significance of this election? >> this is a historical election. one of the most important ones. i would compare it to the 1977 election. the last 10 years have seen governance of the kind which has not done great for india. >> it is about corruption? >> it is both. there have been numerous

china a key economic nightmare for malaysia. yemen officials from the two countries met me or call lumpur on wednesday to discuss the sec sch. it too not to cut the debate. we want to tell the families that we have deep consideration the feelings and we asked them to understand that this is something totally unexpected they should know that we are trying our hardest with everything we have our disposal to keep. he promised tv deal is that malaysia will do everything in its power to find the missing plane. he simply concerned about the impact of the mystery on chinese probably get canned now if the nation released by the malaysian military has added to the sense of confusion about where the missing aircraft lands on a skewer term indian grass is for points from kuala lumpur airlines flight three cities nearly disappeared at around one thirty am on saturday fifteen minutes after taking off on the newport international airport bound for bg. civilian air traffic controllers lost contact with each end. government sources in the nation see. many carry reader has identified a possible clue to what happened. an object was detected i

meanwhile, authorities have yet to find any debris or wreckage from the vanished yet. crews from malaysia, u.s., china, australia, thailand, and philippines have joined the search. malaysian authorities said today that, an oil slick found over the weekend initially believed to be the plane is not related to the crash. more than 72 hours after the plane first disappeared new details may be emerging relate together flight path. the plane may have turned around just before contact with air traffic control was lost. and today, malaysia expanded the search area to include land in the western part of the country, which is a mix of mountainous terrain and beaches, where 80% of malaysia's population resides. joining me now, nbc news correspondent tom costello. can you tell us more about what this means measurably in terms of the search area being expanded? we were looking at a totally different part of the globe, now looking at western part of malaysia which seems decidedly more populous. >> tells you a couple of things. one, they have no idea where this plane is. we have no emergency locationer transmitter b

meanwhile, authorities have yet to find any debris or wreckage from the vanished yet. crews from malaysia, u.s., china

adding to this confusion, the head of malaysia's civil aviation department now says his agency has not received or even seen the newly released satellite images from china. >> very, very strange indeed. mary schiavo, the former investigator for the u.s. government suggests u.s. officials should take over the lead in this entire probe. what are you being told about that? >> reporter: a former ntsb official tells us that it cannot happen. it has to be the country where the incident occurs who has to take the lead. that's according to international treat es. the malaysians have this now. they'll have to make due with it. >> they'll get a lot of help, no doubt about that. families there sharing more of their anger, more of their grief. look at this. passengers, relatives threw water bottles at malaysia airlines officials in beijing and accused them of being liers. 239 people were on board where the plane suddenly vanished. two brothers who were traveling to indonesia on business. they spoke to the third brother who appeared in shadow because he doesn't want to draw attention to himself. he described the pain his family is experiencing right now. >> translat

malaysia to china. no word of where the jet is at this hour or the 290 passengers and crew. david: ebay rejecting activist investor carl icahn two nominees to the board saying both are, quote, unqualified. icahn owns 2% of e-commerce company. they want ebay to spin off the paypal unit. liz: use fruit firm chiquita brand and rival 5:00, reached a deal to get create the biggest banana supplier. -- fife. they will control 14% of the global banana market. david: the pizza chain, sbarro filed for bankruptcy protection for the second time in three years. it has been struggling with too much debt and changing consumer tastes. keep it right here. "after the bell" starting right now. liz: let's take a look at all of today's biggest market action. we have michael binger, gradient investment senior portfolio manager. he will tell investors why they should keep an eye on inflation in the u.s. drew kanaly, thinks this bull market cycle would continue for, wait for it, decades. all right, drew. lincoln ellis, green scare managing director down in the pits of cme. lincoln, a lot of blame f

malaysia/china relations. >> quick exit question. do you think this does permanent or semi-permanent damage to that relationship? >> i think it's not permanent, but it's something the malaysians are not going to forget. just, you can't erase it out of your mind. >> gordon chang from "forbes," thanks so much for being here. >> thank you. >>> all right. after a comprehensive safety review, the transportation security administration, were the tsa, wants to place armed law enforcement officers at airport check points during peak flying times. the agency began reviewing its policies after one of its own was killed during a shooting at l.a.x. in november. the 26-page report was released today. other recommendations include more training for dealing with gunmen and improving emergency kmup communications in airports. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ told ya you could do it. (dad vo) i want her to be safe. so, i taught her what i could and got her a subaru. (girl) piece of cake. ♪ (announcer) love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. you want a loan to build you can't do that.ica? nobody builds factor

china sea between malaysia and vietnam. the planens transponder was switched off or disabled and no distress signal was sent. the malaysian authors say the plane may have tried to turn back to malaysia. they have been searching to the aircraft to the sea to the west of malaysia in case it traveled that far. now the white house may have new information which suggests they may well have to now search in the indian ocean. back to you, greta. >> is there any information about the pilots themselves, their personal lives and where the -- what was in the cargo bin of that 777? >> well, there was reports that malaysian police had searched the homes of the one of the pilots. they actually refuted that report earlier today. we do know that the co-pilot a few years ago had invaded two women travelers into the cockpit in an earlier flight. there is is a lot looking into the background of these two guys. nothing has surfaced that raises any red flags, greta. >> any unusual cargo on that plane? >> no i haven't heard anything about the cargo. that is one thing they need to check. there was one report that five people even

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and tonight growing complaints that malaysia's investigation has been very unfocused, no clear leader or director. china'soreign ministry seems to agree saying it's been hard to decide which information is accurate. the flight was headed from kuala lumpur to beijing. >>> all over the bay area, the high winds caused all sorts of problems. this was the windy scene on the bay bridge early this morning and you can see the camera shaking there. high winds also causing the closure of alcatraz. in the east bay there were power outages and downed trees. kron4's therese astosio reports from martinez. >> reporter: here in mart toes, crews spent hours trying -- martinez crews spent hours trying to repair this. all of this on bridgehead road just off the 680 freeway. pse&g owe -- pg&e officials pulled -- by mid-morning, power had been rerouted and restored out here to most customers. the power outage initially affected 2721 customers. in else reito -- el sore -- sorito, eliminating power to 65 customers. power was not expected to be back until mid-afternoon and look at this in berkeley near ashby and harper. tree bra

or towards the indian ocean. it that means the search in the south china sea will end. >> it then flew in a westerly direction back over peninsula malaysia before turning north-west. up until the point at which it left military primary radar coverage. this movement consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane. >> scott heidler is with us from kuala lumpur with the latest. what scenario is being painted here now, with what we have heard from the prime minister? >> well there are a couple of different scenarios. he's not confirming hijacking but is not ruling it out. obviously the investigation now is going to go into who was on the aircraft when it happened. who had the skills, the know how to turn off the transponders so it disappeared from the sky in the middle of the night last saturday. they were looking at who was on the aircraft, who might want to hijack it. what was the state of the flight deck crew. all these possibilities are out there of maybe who and how and why it was commandeered. as to where it is now, that is the big question, that's why they are shifting the focus of the search. shutting down what was going on

malaysia, thailand, vietnam. the possibility it through for four hours or so you are talking about a search area that includes india, china, australia. this plane could be almost anywhere in this part of the world. it will raises that tough, tough question. if we continue to fly why was the transponder turned off? >> there is clearly a situation here where the transponder was turned off, no one can explain why. the in hollywood we have seen movies like home land where the governments around the world can track our every call and every movement. it is hard for the people of china and people in malaysia and all around the world citizens on board the flight can understand how 229 people can just vanish. >> do we know the trance -- this is a mystery. this would be directly at odds with that piece of chinese supposed wreckage. that appears to be a plane size or consistent aircraft crash. this was found near the original search area. this wouldn't be indicative of an aircraft that continues to fly for another four hours or so. ainsley? >> doug luzader life in washington. thank you, doug. >> to an extreme weather alert for you a

malaysia and china. a new working theory is emerging this evening presuming that the boeing 777 was forced into silence, and that it may have been taken in this direction towards western china orhe countries of central asia, and the plane carried enough fuel to get that far, and it is part of the world where some of the extremist groups have political and ethnic struggles with the governments of china and the west. i'm jim sciutto in new york, and the coverage of the mystery of missing flight mh 370 continues. >> thank you, jim sciutto. i want to begin with the breaking news here in the news of the missing flight mh 370. barbara starr is saying that the focus of those in the cockpit are being responsible for the deliberate missing jet. and now an official is telling us that the focus is now in the southern indian ocean. look at this, and this is as abc news is reporting that the abrupt left turn off of the original flight plan was preprogrammed and raising a lot of questions tonight about whether that was a rogue pilot or hijacker in the cockpit. i want to get stht

china's ambassador to malaysia said that no evidence has been down that would lead any of the chinese nationals on board to a possible hijacking or attack. heading to the united states were scientists at the harvard smithsonian center for astrophysics. cba found traces of echoes of the big bang of the fourteen billion years ago. it confirms a crucial connection between quantum mechanics and general relativity predicted by albert einstein. if they are applied as proceed to be one of the most important scientific discoveries in history. the gravitational waves were spotted by carting a telescope on a specific area of the sky outside the galaxy known as the southern pole or small fluctuations gave researchers new clues on how the early universe galaxies and stars were for. there are of superlative international stories making headlines around the world. i'll see you back here tomorrow night all welcome to prime time sports and even to the world's number one ladies golf or i can be set to hit the links at the gp b c founders cup and is seeking her first lpga tour win of the season to follow recent victory on the ladies european tour.

china was about to relocate to malaysia. back home in tks t, wood's brother says he and the family want answers, whether the plane crashed, or of terror or even a hijacking. >> that would be a whole lot better than what we've been thinking. so i'm crossing my fingers that, you know, maybe there's a happy ending to this. you know, this is pretty fresh, and we're processing it and we've just had a little bit of time to be together as a family. we're pretty calm, we're pretty strong. and, you know, we're hanging in there. >> the families of many other passengers have been waiting anxiously at the airport in beijing where flight 370 was headed. cnn's david mckenzie is in beijing. >> reporter: wolf, first of all, shock, then anger and frustration by the family members here in beijing who are wanting to know some clarity about where their loved ones are on that missing flight mh-370 that vanished over the skies of vietnam early saturday. >> translator: i'm not going home until i know what happened. we've lost loved ones. and they need to answer our questions. when are you going to tell us? and what are you going to do? we still do

or the children call 911. >>> a japanese search team made a final flight over the south china sea looking for the missing malaysian airlines jet. vietnam is also ending its efforts. malaysia's prime minister said the search has entered a new phase. it's one of the most puzzling mysteries in modern aviation history, where is flight 370? the search is taking a new direction. >> the malaysian jetliner missing for more than a week was deliberately diverted and continued flying for more than six hours after losing contact with the ground. that's according to malaysia's prime minister, it's to communication systems were shut down less than an hour into the fly. a voice on the radio said, thank you good night. malaysia's prime minister said the plane suddenly fluid a westerly direction before turning north west and leaving military radar coverage. >> these movements are consistent with deliberate actions by someone on the plane. >> the plane. >> the plane departed for an overnight flight from kuala lumpur to beijing on march 8 then flew back over the malaysian peninsula. it could have gone as far northwest as kaz expand or into the indian ocean's southern reaches. the search area

or you live the u.s. you have different rights and different ability to bring a lawsuit in the u.s. but there certainly are rights in other countries and malaysia and chinafor some of the other passengers as well against the airline. >> let me go to ambassador keith. >> are you familiar with anwar ibrahim and the opposition and how that works over there and the pilots' loyalties with the opposition and having gone the trial within seven hours of taking off that day? how does that fit? i'm not saying we're looking for a necessary connection but what does it mean politically to the leader shape the pilot of this plane that's been lost was in the opposition? >> i wouldn't over interpret that. i think the key lesson it seems to me associated with the politics of this is that this is a maturing political society. that is they haven't had the chance, the give-and-take and the battle of political parties and civil society to hone the skills necessary to do a better job of communicating in the midst of this crisis. so it's more along the lines of the fact that they haven't developed those skills because they haven't allowed that sort of opposition to play a role

relatives here in beijing, from all parts of china, they're saying they're not getting enough support, emotional support from the malaysian government or malaysia airlines. so they've decided to take matters into their own hands. and would people today stood up and said we are going to start a self-help family support group. and they pulled out pieces of paper, they said, we want everyone to sign their names, tell us what they're jobs are and what their strengths and skills are, and we're going to take care of ourselves. we've seen this grassroots effort with these families, saying we're just going to take care of ourselves because the government and the airline is not. rosa. >> some stuff words there. sometimes, it just takes neighbors helping neighbors. in this case, we're definitely seeing the best of human beings out there with those families. pauline chiou, thank you so much. >> we're continuing to follow the 370, all morning long. including the focus of the search arc. news just in that the plane is more likely in that southern arc which would put it off the coast of australia. and there has been a renewed focus by the australians in that

china sea. between malaysia and vietnam. the u.s. is sending this destroyer and a sophisticated radar plan to help. but there have been no signs of wreckage or debris. the disappearance of the flight with 239 people onboard is a we do know at 12:41:00 a.m. y. local time malaysia airlines flight 370 a boeing 777 takes off. 2:40 a.m. the plane is cruising at 35,000 feet when it loses radar contact where the sea meets the gulf of thailand. no distress call is received. 6:30 a.m. family members await. two hours go by before the plane is declared missing. >> no use. no nothing. still waiting. >> reporter: at this hotel room family members gathered in tears. i don't want to live. what is the point of me being alive says this mother who's 40-year-old son was on boaboard plane. officials came out to talk, hundreds of people had poured in creating a dangerous situation in the hotel. >> out of control here. i can't even believe this. >> we are working with authorities who are activated the search and rescue -- >> reporter: there have been no claims of terrorism. but reports say two passengers on the plane were traveling on pass ports stolen from europ

or tweet me. @w@wowowpgg >>> the investigation into malaysian flight 370 has been so confused right from the start. our politics in malaysia, china and even the united states to blame. with me, john bolton. ambassador, thank you so much for being with us. i wanted very much to talk to you about this. you probably have a better grasp on this an anyone. what is going on? people have to know more than they're telling us. i just said to jim couchen, the nsa knows my password, they know when my dog goes out. you tell me 600,000 pounds of an airplane, it can just disappear off the face of the earth? >> i'm afraid that's exactly where we are. i am sure, well, i guess i should say i'm hopeful, that our government has more information than they've revealed publicly, and there's a reason to keep what they know quiet. we can't come to any conclusions and i think part of the problem is that the united states government and senior political levels did not -- it's clear the malaysian government is not up to this. it's clear other governments may have things to hide. the united states really has the biggest stake. we should have at the senior l