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nick robertson brought this story to us. he's live now in kuala lumpur. rst, nick, the news that the boeing 777 may have been deliberately flown to avoid indonesian air space. how did they get that information? what does this signify? >> reporter: what we understand from the senior official, this information has been derived from the radar dat a at that a provided by neighboring countries. it allowed them to see the full flight path, if you will, of mh 370. until now, we understood it had flown away from malaysia, on its route to beijing, taken the left hand turn, flew back across malays malaysia. we didn't know what happened next. now that's clear. it flies north around avoiding indonesia, turns south t on the western side of indonesia outside of radar controlled air space. then travels south along that trajectory that was predicted by the satellite hand shake data a that's allowed searchers to focus off the coast of perth and australia. what's vital here is now to have the full path and perhaps to have a better understanding of what was in the mind of th

but as nick robertson shows us, families are caught in an emotional limbo. >> reporter: for six weeks, leila has been waiting. >> emotion ally is up and down. sometimes i'm okay, sometimes so-so. sometimes always very sad. >> reporter: the worst was three weeks ago, when malaysia's prime minister said flight 370 ended in the sea. >> it extremely hurts. >> reporter: her husband was one of the cabin crew. they met 19 years ago, when she too was an air stewardess at malaysian airlines. a conversation they had a week before the fateful flight helps keep her going. >> we are going to celebrate our anniversary this year. and he was telling me, of course, it was the best for him. i was asking him, are we going to have the next ten years together? of course. >> reporter: also helping her to cope, their three children. two boys, 12 and 10, and a girl, just 8 years old. >> they don't show their emotion much, i'm trying to hide my emotions as much as i can. they try to cheer me up. >> reporter: after six weeks, her hardest moments, finding a way to tell her children they may never see their fath

i want to go to nick robertson. malaysian initials held another briefing today and officials won't even confirm whether the plane crashed. tell us about that meeting. >> reporter: one of the family members came out of that meeting and said it was three hours long. it was incredibly painful. what these families are looking for is a sense of sort of closure on the information. the government cannot or doesn't appear to provide them with that. they've been unsatisfied with the details they've heard so far. and with no debris being discovered so far, government officials are just absolutely unwilling to say what to many people seems obvious that the plane is beyond coming back. and this is what is frustrating the families. so the government wouldn't even say whether it had crashed on land, what had happened to it. so these families are just left hanging. i was at a memorial service last night, prayers, if you will, held at a school. there was a husband there, his wife was a passenger on the plane. he also is wondering w

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nick robertson, thank you so much for that reporting.ore on that. if it is so small, why are they still searching in two places. we'll answer that question after the break. co: sometimes you don't know you need a hotel room until you're sure you do. bartender: thanks, captain obvious. co: which is why i put the hotels.com mobile app on my mobile phone. anyone need a coupon? i don't. what'swithout the thinking capitathat makes it real?? what's a vision without the expertise to execute it... and the financing to make it grow? whatever your goal, it can change more than your business. it can change the future. that's why, at barclays, our ambition is to always realize yours. >>> the huge swath of the indian ocean the search for flight 370 is now being conducted over a much, much smaller area. the australian prime minister says he is confident that the signals that he is hearing is coming from the missing plane. i want to start some of this out. let's bring in cnn safety analyst, david one of the things that you have been trying to explain,

nick robertson gives his firsthand account between officials and journalists. >> reporter: mr.ter, how are you? >> i'm happy to see you later. i'm just doing my walk about. >> reporter: we've requested an interview many times. with that, the man heading the hunt for missing flight 370 is off. the defense minister and acting transport minister is hosting an international arms fair. from helicopters to tanks to guns. reporters invited along. some questions apparently not so welcome. you don't have to push. as his tour continues, his aides advise us to wait for his press conference. that's good, because the question just refused to answer, when they told civilians they picked up flight 370 on their radar, is a contested question. precisely when did the military inform the department of civil aviation about what they saw on the radar? >> i said earlier -- >> reporter: no answer, then. he doesn't want flight 370 questions. buts a the conference continues, it turns out some flight 370 questions are okay. >> tell us, are you any closer to deciding who will extract the data from the bl

senior international correspondent nick robertson spoke with the wife of a steward about her struggled on. >> reporter: for the past six weeks, layla has been waiting. >> emotionally, it's up and down, you know? sometimes i'm okay. sometimes so-so. sometimes, always very sad. >> the worst was three weeks ago when malaysia's prime minister said flight 370 ended in the sea. >> when we hear that they have ended there. >> reporter: her husband was one of the cabin crew. they met 19 years ago when she, too, was an air stewardess at malaysian airlines. a conversation they had a week before the fateful flight helps keep her going. >> i was telling him, we are going to celebrate our 10th anniversary this year. he was telling me, of course, the best for him. and i was asking him, are we going to have next seven years together? of course. >> also helping her cope, their three children. >> they have faith their father will be coming back. >> two boys, 12 and 10 and a girl, just 8 years old. >> little one doesn't show emotion much in front of me. but for me, i'm trying to hide my emotions as much

nick robertson is in kuala lumpur. ripley out on a boat in freemantle, australia. will, teams will be out there searching. tell us about the conditions right now. >> reporter: you know, you heard angus houston mention the white caps that can really pose problems when you're trying to do a visible search. if you look at the ocean behind me, these conditions are similar to what are being described in the search zone. you're not seeing those white caps. that's the good news. the not good news is that the clouds are lower right now, about a thousand feet above sea level. these planes can fly as low as 300 feet when they're doing the visual, but obviously the less cloud cover the better. visibility right now about six miles, so the conditions are fair for the search today. >> nick, you know you have been with the families. you've reacted with them. you've been telling their stories. how did families react, how do you think they'll react from hearing angus houston? will this news conference on this sub sea search honing in a smaller search area, will that give them hope?

here's nick robertson. >> reporter: this map of flight 370's radar track was much of the reason for upsetor families last week. the image captured by still photographers in the family briefing. it shows a very different route from the left turn depicted until now and it's raising even more questions about what exactly happened to flight 370 -- questions the family members were unable to ask at the time. >> the family briefings were closed door. next? >> reporter: chinese relativesover flight 370 passengers say they created the map from publicly available data. a source with knowledge of the investigation tells cnn that beyond doubt the new map, if accurate, shows that someone with excellent flying skills was at the controls of the aircraft. that no one on board would have felt the turn. it's a claim that's getting heavy pushback from malaysian officials. >> as regards to the issue of information as being revealed outside the press conference or speculation and diagrams in google or anything else on the internet, i cannot confirm or discount, i can only base on what i've informed you in my

one passenger's mother spoke to our nick robertson in kuala lumpur.are alive. all the passengers are alive. >> another family member spoke with our anderson cooper. >> like most of our other families, i continue to push by asking more questions. sooner or later, we're going to get to the truth. i mean, either we're going to find the plane and there will be a conclusion found as to why it was taken or why it was crashed. and so whether the continued data that we're getting is cob substantiately changed or not, we still have to keep asking for it. it's a real quandary. on the one hand, i want to be a logical and thoughtful person and say, okay, i get it. the plane has crashed. we need to find the black box, and then we can discover what happened. you know, the scientific line of inquiry says there was probably some catastrophic failure on the flight and the pilots were able to stay in control just long enough to get the auto pilot n conked out and the plane kept going. i can accept that's likely. but emotionally, it's impossible to accept that because i

. >> all right, nick, thank you. nic robertson in kuala lumpur. joining us, sonar expert arnold par. the australian prime minister says he's, quote, confident the signals, the four signals detected from the flight 370 black boxes are, in fact, signals coming from those black boxes. are you confident he's right? >> i can't say i'm confident. i'm very hopeful. things are looking good for an number of reasons. that being there are repeated signals being derived from the pingers. granted, they seem to be weakening. that's important, where you can repeat something. i won't be confident until we have verification. verification doesn't necessarily mean you need a camera on side looking at some recognized piece from the aircraft. i would be confident with the verification through sonar of a debris field that resembles the plane and hopefully that debris field will be a relatively intact airplane. something like at least the tail and the wings. the tail being important because that's where the black boxes are. >> you're confident they're right -- that fift

michael holmes is live in perth, and nic robertson in kuala lumpur. nickgood morning to you down under. what is the latest on the bluefin mission? ongoing again? >> reporter: yeah, it is ongoing. we're waiting to get the latest update from the search organizers. it should have been in by now, and you think about it now, bill, that is three out of five missions had some sort of trouble. the fifth mission was aborted shortly after launch due to some problems with the navigation system, we're told. that is according to the u.s. navy. since the bluefin did not go to the ocean floor, of course, there was no side scan sonar data to review on that mission. of course, the bluefin-21 was relaunched. we're told it is on its sixth mission. there were no problems with the first five. bluefin-21 had not identified any wreckage, but had when it was working performed pretty well in terms of the detail of that 3-d side scan sonar images of the ocean floor, bill. >> okay, you know, for weeks, we were under the impression, nic robertson, that the pilots turned off the trans

we want to go to cnn's rick robertson in kuala lumpur. nick, where does this bring us now?completely correct and the plane did fly outside indonesian radar, what does that tell us? >> reporter: well, what we have here is malaysians putting more information explicitly on the table about the track of the aircraft, that it did fly back across malaysia and then loops north of indonesia avoiding its airspace, and as the senior government official is telling us that their inference here, what they have learned, it seems to show the pilot or whoever was at the controls tried to avoid indonesian airspace and avoid radar detection which for investigators here really is another piece of the puzzle. that turnaround when the plane turned back on its flight track to beijing, the question initially was was that because of mechanical trouble. what we're learning now and clearly what the investigators here have had in their pockets for some time is they're very clear that this is not a plane avoiding mechanical trouble. this is a plane trying to get away from radar and trying to get away f

nic robertson joins us from kuala lumpur. nick, we see the passengers have been cleared of any criminal involvement in the flight's disappearance. what about suspicious of the crew? where does that leave things? >> well, 12 crew members on board including the captain and the first officer and the investigations continuing according to the director general and the police. he said that they had talked to the wife and daughter. the police chief denied that and said it wasn't the case. the investigation continues to focus on all the members of the crew, all 12. the captain said they had taken 170 statements so far. he made it very clear there is a long way to go on this investigation. investigating things like the cargo, who loaded it. investigating things like, who prepared the food on board, who was responsible for that. was there any tampering with the food, looking at ground crew as well. with he do know from officials, it is obvious. they say someone on board the plane took control of the plane and was therefore taking it. this i

senior correspondent nic robertson is in kuala lumpur for us. nick what more can you tell us about the plane allegedly skirting indonesia radar? >> fredricka, this is significant, malaysian officials tell us. it shows to them or appears to show to them whoever was flying the plane, someone who had good control, good flying knowledge of the aircraft this person was intentionally trying to avoid radar detection by indonesian radar. they say to put this picture together with the help of radar information from neighboring countries. really this is going to give investigators here an additional sort of insight into the psychology of the person piloting the aircraft at that moment. we know investigators are looking at the crew. they have been trying to determine whether it was the captain or first officer who made the last radio communication before they went to radio silence, before they turned off transponders on the aircraft giving its location. it appears that whoever was flying the plane was trying to essentially disappearocity radar map, fly into a v

senior international correspondent nic robertson is live for us in kuala lumpur, arab. nickwhat more can you tell us about the plane skirting indonesia and why? >> well, fredricka, what we're being told by officials here, they have been able to make this calculation based on more radar data available for neighboring countries. they have been able to use that to get the accurate plot of where the flight flew after it crossed back over the peninsula. it told them something very concerning, very important, and maybe a big clue for the investigation. it has told them, they believe, that the pilot was intentionally flying to avoid radar detection before taking off into that very remote part of the south indian ocean. why is this a concern? we know in the past day or so, officials here on the investigation have played the air traffic controller's recording between air traffic control and cockpit of the aircraft. they played that to colleagues and friends of the captain and first officer. why? they want to know who made the last radio communication before transponder switched off,

our senior international correspondent nic robertson joins us live now from jindo, south korea, this morning. nick, this has just got to be a brutal process for these families. >> reporter: and no place almost harder for the families to be seen than the harborside this morning. the pace of the bodies brought ashore by police has really picked up, and it is an indication that the divers are getting to grips better with the location, the locations they're searching inside the ship. but as the bodies were coming ashore today, carried from the boat into a temporary, sort of white tented mortuary on the harborside. and then with great dignity and solemnity, stretcher bearers carrying each individual body to a waiting ambulance, and the ambulance is driven away, and then another group of three or four ambulances brought in, and another group of bodies taken away. so, it's a very moving process for everyone involved. terribly difficult for the families. obviously, the arrival of the bodies. for some of the families, this means the waiting is near to an end, but for so many others, there's still so much u

our senior international correspondent, nic robertson, is joining us now from the malaysian capital of kuala lumpur. what's the latest there, nick? >> reporter: a list of 26 questions, wolf. we've seen some of the questions before, but as the time has gone by, the families haven't had answers, this list has grown. the first 12 questions are all about the emergency locator transmitter. this transmitter or transmitters that could be or should be deployed if the plane crashes, if it impacts water. so some of the questions that they have, how many of these elts, emergency locator transmitters, were onboard? and when were they checked? did they have physical protection? should they float to the surface on impact with water? should they begin transmission on impact with water? what are the frequencies that they use? a lot of very, very detailed questions where there should be very specific answers. they haven't got those answers yet. they would also like to know the serial number of the black box. they would like to know precisely what data can be expected from the black box. they've asked the question about contact phone numbers for

our senior international correspondent, nic robertson, joins us with more from kuala lumpur. hi, nickcarol. we are beginning to see a real focus on the crew, on the cockpit. new security rules issued by malaysian airlines states that the pilots cannot be left alone individually inside the cockpit. if one of them needs to leave the cockpit, they must be replaced by another senior crew member. that's a new guideline. it shows that malaysian airlines is concerned about what happens, what the pilots do if left alone in the cockpit. we have heard that from the chief of police saying that all 227 passengers now cleared in this criminal investigation are describing it as a criminal investigation as it has been for a number of weeks. this is how he put it. >> this is a criminal investigation. it is on going. we have not gone there. we are still waiting for reports from exports overseas. >> so all 227 passengers cleared. we know they had been cleared previously for any connections with terrorist organizations. now, he says they are cleared from all of them. four areas of the investigation, fro

but first, i want to go to nic robertson who broke the story about the missing plane's flight path, is in kuala lumpur tonight. nick, 39,000 feet, turning in vietnamese airspace. let's start with those two things. why are those so significant? >> well, again, it's more detail over and above that that we'd already got from officials here. the fact that it was actually fully in vietnamese airspace when it made that initial turn, and it was only after it had completed the turn that it began the climb to 39,000 feet, these are details that we didn't have before. investigators really are not any closer to solving why the plane climbed to this height, this particular point on its return journey. but, again, it's just a piece of information they will use to try to put together the complete picture. one thing it does tend to show them, but already they have more information that points in this direction. the aircraft at that point wasn't going through a sort of a structural mechanical issue that was causing it to rapidly lose altitude in any way. it was able to make a controlled turn and then make a controlled climb, and t

nic robertson is in kuala lumpur where a new group has heard the air traffic control conversations. good evening to you, nick. . >> friends and colleagues of the first officer and the captain on board. which one of the two was the one who was last to communicate with the air traffic controllers is key in the investigation. more after this break. can be. w painfuln for fast, long lasting relief, use doctor recommended gaviscon®. only gaviscon® forms a protective barrier that helps block stomach acid from splashing up- relieving the pain quickly. try fast, long lasting gaviscon®. relieving the pain quickly. so ally bank has a that won't trap me in a rate. that's correct. cause i'm really nervous about getting trapped. why's that? uh, mark? go get help! i have my reasons. look, you don't have to feel trapped with our raise your rate cd. if our rate on this cd goes up, yours can too. oh that sounds nice. don't feel trapped with the ally raise your rate cd. ally bank. your money needs an ally. >>> welcome back to our special coverage. we are waiting for a press conference to start at 11:00 p.m. eastern time in th

let's get to nic robertson who has the latest live in jindo, south korea. nick, have they acknowledged at this point they are moving into just a recovery mission or do they believe that there's still a chance they could rescue some survivors? >> kate, officials here are still calling it a rescue mission. they stand by that. there is a hope that people may be trapped in octobers on air aboard that ship. today another very tough day for the families, a tough day for the divers down below the waters as well. >> reporter: the arrival of each police boat brings some closure to a few families of the missing. for so many more, the uncertainty continues. the scope of this tragedy becoming more evident with each body brought ashore as authorities hearsay most of the people they find are still wearing life vests. the company which operated the ferry posted a public apology on their website saying, in part, we apologize to all the people who are grieving for the loss of their loved ones. we beg for forgiveness from the victims families and we pray for the dead. the search