i am speaking with argumethur and pauline frommern. the ability to earn a living wage, you have written . the ability to earn a living wage, you have written. between the time you arrive, you are going to pass by a lot of people working at that airport who do not earn -- who may be earning minimum wage. >> right. >> in the state in which they are in? >> to my amazement, i discovered this is the situation in laguardia and jfk airports, there are all sorts of people who clean the inside of the planes who act as security guards who are earning the minimum wage of $320 a week, which is not a living wage in new york city. and i feel badly that we, as tourists, as travelers, are traveling on their backs so to speak. the minimum wage must be increased in the united states. it eventually will be, and the sooner the better? >> it's not just the people who work in the airports. it's the people who work in the airplanes, a beginning pilot makes what did we learn? >> a regional pilot. >> a regional pilot. >> earning 40 dollars a year, which is muc

how does one know, pauline, which one to get? who are you catering to and like. >> i think we are catering to the middle american. we want to talk to the largest audience possible. but the guides have different styles and i hope they don't mind me saying this. lonely planet has tried to be incredibly comprehensive. because of that, its reviews are small. we have tried to be more curiated in our approach. we don't think you need to know about 100 restaurants in one city. so we are bringing it down in our new guides. and we wanted to ha it to have a personal voice. we usually have one person doing an entire designation. if you trust them for musems, you will trust them for fronts. fordor's who we think is slightly more high end, they have a different specialist in each section. it's less of a personal voice. i think. i hope the people from foder's don't mind that. >> that's how i would classify the difference between the major brands. lonely planet is used more like backpackers. we would love to get them back. >> they are very big.

we'll get back to pauline as soon as we can. meanti meantime, visibility in the south indian ocean is ideal right now. this is a good development. >> that window of opportunity, howev however, could be closing soon. it's a brief window. meteorologist chad myers is tracking conditions in the search for missing flight 370. >> john and poppy, what a difference 24 hours makes in the weather across parts of australia. we had ugly weather yesterday, i mean, white caps everywhere. think about looking for a white plane with white caps everywhere. didn't happen. now, for today, now finally ending, it's getting dark down there pretty soon, things have been perfect. high sun, lots of sun, clear skies, calming seas and very, very few white caps. so, that has really helped tremendously. yesterday, honestly, there wasn't even a chance of finding anything out there, the weather was so bad. now it has certainly changed. high pressure in control of the area for just one more day. need to really get some debris going here, find some of this stuff

pauline chiou is live in beijing with that part of the story. good morning, pauline. >> reporter: good morning to you, john. yeah, there's still this steady demand for answers from these relatives here in beijing, and emotions once again are running high at these daily briefings between the families and the airline representatives. earlier this morning, one mother stood up and made this very passionate plea. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: she says, "we have only one child. we are respectful chinese people. it's hard to control your emotions when you might have lost your loved ones. we just need the truth," she says, "don't use them as political pawns." now, she did say this is her only child. and keep in mind that china does have this one-child policy. so, many of the sons and daughters of the 154 chinese citizens on this plane were only children, so that's another reason why these families are so desperate for information, john. >> so awful to hear, pauline. we also understand that china is now saying that it has ruled out the possi

pauline, thank you. we appreciate the reporting.now it's got to be difficult just to be there with all of the emotion and everything that these families are going through. thank you. >> the united states front and center at this moment in the search for flight 370. right now, one of the u.s.'s most sophisticated surveillance planes is in the air over the southern indian ocean. i want you to listen to cnn's chief national security correspondent jim sciutto describe the role that the united states and other nations are playing right now in the hunt for flight 370. >> the u.s. has deployed its p-8 poseidon, most advanced surveillance aircraft. it can see very far and travel very far and stay on station for a very long time to search for this. it's also got a p-3 orion taking part as well. you know that the u.s. is looking at its satellites in this area, commercial and perhaps some military to see what they can add to these images that we've seen already. in addition to that, the u.s. and australia along with new zealand, the uk and can

pauline chiou in beijing. thank you, pauline. >> questions and conspiracy theories, obviously. that's the toughest. >>> well, there's word this morning of a problem aboard another malaysia airlines jet, this time a flight from kuala lumpur to south korea. the airbus a-330 had to be diverted to hong kong because of a failed generator. the plane landed normally and passengers were transferred to other airlines to finish their trip. >>> all right, breaking news this morning from washington state, where authorities trying to rescue survivors this hour from a deadly landslide there. the pictures are just frightening. the very latest on that in washington state, next. >>> following breaking news this morning from washington state. the death toll from a massive mud slide rising. eight people now confirmed dead in what's described as total devastation in this area north of seattle. 18 people still unaccounted for this hour. officials say rescuers are struggling to reach people because the terrain is still unstable. >> significant extent, mother nature holds the cards here on the abilit

any sense, pauline, what they heard? >> reporter: yeah, in fact, john, that briefing is still going on, and there's a lot of discussion right now about the four emergency beacons that are on that aircraft. this is the elts, the emergency locator transmitters. now, this is a continuation of a discussion that we had yesterday, at sunday's briefing, when one woman asked about the elts. and it was discovered that four of them are on the aircraft. and when a plane makes impact, these four emergency beacons are supposed to emit signals. and a malaysian airlines engineer has said that as of now, no signals have been received, and malaysia airlines and the government doesn't know why. so, that's a big question mark. so, we're continuing the discussion today, and the technical team here is answering those questions, and that's ongoing right now. judging from the questions that families are asking, they're presenting some scenarios, john. one person saying, perhaps the plane landed somewhere, and that's why these emergency beacons

pauline chiou is in beijing covering that part of the story. pauline, it seems so sad. >> reporter: so sad and so incredibly frustrating. and on that hunger strike that you mentioned, johns are only a handful had expressedest from in that yesterday. we know already that two people have stopped. we talked with an aunt, and she said that her two nephews had gone on this hunger strike yesterday. by 3:00 p.m., she was able to talk them out of it and they were able to eat. we're not sure how much momentum that has gotten. but i can tell you several relatives today, several of them have said that they're getting sick because of the stress and the fatigue and the lack of sleep. one woman said she's a doctor and she's had to take sleeping pills just to be able to sleep two hours a night. an elderly man today said that he's beginning to feel dizzy. and he doesn't even know where the hospital is in beijing because he's not from beijing. and we have to remember of these 465 registered relatives here in beijing, many of them are from places far away from t

pauline? >> reporter: john, and these families are so impatient with those officials that are giving that news conference every night out of kuala lumpur, those briefings you just touched on. they feel that the flow of information is just too slow, and they just want to know what happened to their loved ones. we also have briefings here in beijing between the family members and airline representatives. again, very few answers, and this morning emotions were running high, as one woman said, listen, this is my only child. please, just give us answers, please don't use them as political pawns. and in this briefing, you got a sense that the families were starting to get much more focused in their questions. they were asking technical questions to these airline representatives, like what happens to a person, to a passenger when you're flying 35,000 feet in the air and then go up to 45,000 feet in altitude and then down to 5,000 feet, as some reports have suggested. and this indicates that the famil

pauline chu joins us live from beijing and no doubt, pauline, this is adding to their agony, perhaps. >> reporter: yeah, they're still waiting to hear whether or not this debris is confirmed to be from the plane or not. now, for the first time today, natalie, the families got what they asked for and that was a high-level meeting with high-level executives and officials from the malaysian government as well as malaysia airlines. that meeting took place a couple of hours ago. i was inside the room so i was able to hear what was discussed. it was interesting when you heard the questions from family members. they asked very technical methodical questions, almost as if they were attorneys. they asked about the timeline, when did you know what when? when did you lose contact with the civilian radar and the military radar? and then one woman asked pointedly to the malaysian air force official "is the radar for the military and the civilians in the same room?" he said "not in the same room, in the same building separated by a wall." so that leads to the whole question of if you lost track of

we seem to have lost pauline. we will go back to her in beijing, she's with the families where so many of the passengers are, they are demanding answers and not satisfied with what they're getting. some threatening a hunger strike until we find out more. >> and we, of course, will continue to follow the mystery of flight 370 all morning long. but first, ukraine authorizing its forces to shoot after a deadly attack on a military base, they're vowing to keep crimea from leaving the country. could war be moving? we're live after the break. >>> welcome back, 17 minutes past the hour. breaking news this morning in crimea where ukrainian forces have now been authorized to fire in self-defense, after a soldier was killed when armed men stormed the military base near crimea's capital. it's first military death since russian forces marched into crimea last month. and those armed men who attacked were apparently wearing russian uniforms. this just add to get confusion over the fate of crimea now that it has signed a treaty

pauline, they marched on the malaysian embassy there. was this a protest or a chance to vent anger at malaysian officials? >> it was a major protest. and, john, you've lived in beijing so you know what this looks like and it doesn't happen very often in the capital city. but these family members, they are not satisfied with the malaysian government's explanation of why they think the plane went down. they want hard evidence. we've talked to several relatives that said "show us debris, show us a suitcase, show us a seat cushion. if you don't have that, we don't want to hear that this plane went down." so they are very angry about this and angry with the way this message was delivered by text message and also suddenly with this announcement by the prime minister. so this morning they all congregated, they protested, they were trying to get to the malaysian embassy by bus but police officers would not let the buses out of this hotel area. so they decided to walk and they walked about one kilometer to the malaysian embassy and they protested

so, pauline chiou, thanks so much. we appreciate your following this for us. >>> a grim update this morning from the scene of that deadly landslide northeast of seattle. 14 people are now confirmed dead, as many as 176 are missing, and authorities say the death toll will almost certainly rise. saturday's one-quarter-mile slide wiped out 30 homes. more than 100 emergency responders are now canvassing the scene. they've got search dogs and heavy equipment. nicole webb-rivera's parents live right where the landslide happened. her daughter and daughter's fiance were visiting when the ground gave way. she tells anderson cooper she hasn't heard from them since. >> all of us who are waiting for word on our family members know each other, we know the other family members that are missing. it's such beyond the scope of my four missing family members that it's just -- it's grief for our whole town, so just pray for our whole town, please. >> you're seeing google images of the before-and-after of that town. in some places, the mu

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pauline hsu has more from beijing. i can't imagine what these families are still going through.at are they telling you? >> reporter: they're going into day 15 of this, with very few answers, and there's still so much raw emotion as they're desperate for information, we saw another second meeting between families and high level officials from malaysia, that meeting took place this morning but it did not end well. it ended after only one hour because emotions ran so high and things got very turbulent after about an hour, when one official started listing all of the resources that were put into this search, all of the airplanes and the ships from different countries and finally a man stood up and interrupted him and said don't waste our time. this is information that you can put up on the wall. we can read it later. for now, give us the information and the answers that we need and suddenly you saw many families get up and join him, some starting to shout and scream at these officials criticizing them for the way they've handled the situation the past 15 days because as you know, th

and pauline, how are those families doing this morning?ey're not doing well, and there's this tense atmosphere in this conference room here at the lido hotel in beijing. there's a tentativeness, a fear of what this debris might mean. they've received this new lead with mixed emotion. because in their mind, the fact that no debris had been found was actually a sign of hope that maybe they could find this plane somewhere with the passengers on board, but they are getting realistic as we're going into day 13. now, you showed a clip of that news conference from australia. i was in the ballroom, in this conference room when that news conference was going on. many families started trickling in because they heard about it, they heard about the debris. and as john young from the maritime safety authority was speaking, i was looking around the room. these family members were tense, they were worried. they sat up in their chairs, they leaned forward. they were hanging on to every word of the chinese translation. i heard a few people sigh very heavil

pauline, hello. >> reporter: hi, natalie.t the hotel where most of the family members are saying and gather for daily news briefings. the briefing is later on today, in about three hours. yesterday we saw families with outbursts of anger directed at representatives. today there is a somber, more palm atmosphere. one relative told us today she thinks people ar little bit more relaxed today, ironically because there is no news. i did walk into that briefing room, a ballroom that has been converted into an update room. there are a handful of family members there, about three dozen. i suspect that most of the relatives are in their hotel rooms resting, waiting for this briefing in a few hours. they were talking with airline representatives who were there to help, there's a buddhist spiritual group here to help them. i saw relatives pull chairs together in circles. they were just chatting with each other. a few people were watching television, they were watching the news and updates on the search. but the reality, natalie, is that

pauline chiou is live in beijing with that part of this morning's story. pauline? >> reporter: john, that's lack of coordination that we just heard sarah talking about in that interview that has had the families of these 154 chinese citizens so angry and frustrated as well. we're going into the tenth day of this mystery, and they shake their heads at the lack of information they've gotten. now, i was inside the hotel today behind me where many of these families are staying, and we saw them at lunchtime, where the hotel has roped off an area of a restaurant where they were eating. they are hungry for information, but they're not getting enough, so you see them checking their smartphones all the time, checking for updates online. they're even asking the media here, what's the latest and what we know. so, that gives you an idea of the hunger for information. now, the atmosphere in the hotel today is actually a little bit more relaxed than what we've seen in the past. yesterday we saw a lot of outbursts against the airline's representatives. today one relative says tha

pauline, what are you hearing from these families? they must be, frankly, so frustrated and in agony here, you know, going into the third week. >> reporter: yeah, it's been a wait of agony and anguish. these people have been suffering, and they're emotionally exhausted. now, we heard deb and jim there talking about speculation and theories, and there's a lot of that going on here in beijing because the chinese families of the passengers feel they're not getting enough information. they say they're not getting consistent information from the malaysian officials. for the past few days, they've been meeting with this high-level delegation from malaysia. we had another one of those meetings today. and again, the families said they posed certain questions to these officials, even that report out of cnn that a source had told cnn that this plane had gone down to 12,000 feet. they asked the officials here in beijing about that, and the answer was we cannot answer that because there's no one from the military here to address that question. an

good morning, pauline. >> reporter: good morning, john. and these families are frustrated because there is no one here to answer their questions. there's no one from the malaysian government, no one from the embassy, no one from the chinese government, and just legal representatives from malaysian airlines that come here every day to give them some briefings or to try to answer their questions. so, that's part of the frustration for the families. and at this briefing early this morning, one woman stood up and made this passionate plea. [ speaking foreign language ] she's saying, "we have only one child. we are respectful chinese people. it's hard to control your emotions when you might have lost your loved ones. we just need the truth. don't use them as political pawns." now, many of these families only have one child, because there is that one-child policy in china, so the sons and daughters on this malaysia airlines flight, for many of these families, their only children. also, john, we noticed that the family members were asking very te

pauline, thank you. >> so difficult. it's about 154 -- families of 154 people on board the plane, and that's really the families that are just most upset. >>> well, just when search teams appear to be on the verge of finding flight 370, the mission had to be suspended. a storm in the south indian ocean making it simply too dangerous to fly. pilots now anxiously waiting to get back to the area, because they saw something very promising. it's an area where they believe flight 370 went down. andrew stevens is monitoring developments in perth, australia, this morning. it's got to be tough. it's got to be tough. you see something, and then all of a sudden, the weather and the waves sort of snatch it away. he's get a wind gust there where he is. we've had trouble with andrew being able to hear us. we're going to try to get that connection up and running, but he has been monitoring from perth what is now a stalled search, because the ships on the ground, the planes in the air, at least for today they're going to have to call of

and pauline, it seems tensions there have been growing. many people, it appears are now at a breaking point. >> yeah, and now they're taking things into their own hands. there are more than 400 relatives of these passengers here in beijing, spread out among three different hotels. life the past 12 days has been incredibly, incredibly difficult. here's what they've had to go through. every day they shuffle in and out of the grand ballroom, which has turned into a briefing room. hoping for some good news with the daily update with malaysia airlines. >> it feels like they gave us hope but now they are taking it away. . >> reporter: but instead of concrete information, hundreds of passenger relatives get little guidance. the stress, sadness, frustration boil over. we only have one child. we are respectful chinese people. it's hard to control your emotions when you might have lost your loved ones. we just need the truth. >> reporter: in the early days, malaysia airlines executives gave briefings to the families. now the airline's legal team and

pauline chew has more on the pictures and how the families are reacting to them. >> reporter: news of this latest satellite image was handed on a piece of paper to the acting transportation minister during the news conference. it was so new, he got the dimensions wrong and had to issue a correction. this image was taken on tuesday, march 18th at noontime. presumably, the chinese government spent the past couple days studying it carefully. the last time they released satellite images it caused controversy. here is what happened a little over a week ago. remember the satellite images from the south china sea. they were released by the research center on their government website. the very next day, the foreign ministry of china said they were not aware of the images and the malaysian government had not seen the images. in the end, it was described as, quote, a mistake. the family members of the passengers here in beijing are not reacting to the latest images. they are being cautious. they have gone through so many ups and downs emotionally, they want concrete facts before they can focus

thanks, pauline. >> from the very start of this mystery, speculation has swirled over the actions ofight 370's pilot and co-pilot. i talked about that a bit earlier with clive irving, contributor for "the daily beast." clive irving, thank you so much for talking with us. you have said that you think the air crew of flight 370 was trying to bring the plane to safety. why do you believe that and what evidence is there to prove your theory? >> i felt all along that the air crew were getting the short end of the stick here, that i had a feeling that they were almost being framed by the way that the discoveries were being cast, as though they had intervened. i think there's a very plausible scenario here and i think it's few days when we found out, for example, the acars was turned off after the last communication, not before and the change of course was -- came after the last communication and not before. everything that we know and we don't know enough to be totally sure of this, but everything we know points to the fact that wapd here w what happened here was some sort of emergency tha

hello, pauline. >> natalie, this is a very tech savvy group here. they're always on their smartphones. certainly getting the updates that came out of australia that we just heard. as they were saying, the challenge is the remoteness. the planes that go out -- they can only go a certain distance. and then by the time they get to the search area, they spend a couple hours there before they have off to come back. that avenue the concern for the families here. 154 chinese people aboard that plane. their families have been waiting, going to into day 16. right now a lot of the families are meeting with malaysian officials behind me in the hotel. there was a meltdown i told you about yesterday. between the chinese families and malaysian officials. uncertain whether the officials would come back. they did this morning. they're hammering out certainer use. now media is not allowed in. because the the malaysians requested no media inside. because of that, because that happened. they're concerned about the safety of their own officials. we did catch up, one pe

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pauline chiou is in beijing covering that emotional part of the story. pauline, you have spent a lot of time with these families. what are they telling you? >> reporter: yes, spent a lot of time with them. and i was listening to that interview with sarah bajc, some of the family members here in beijing are echoing exactly what she had said in that interview, they're saying if this was a political act of terror, they're saying please don't use our loved ones as political pawns. that's what they've been saying for days now. during a briefing with malaysia airlines, many family members say they're starting to get sick. they're feel fog teague from lack of sleep and the stress. many of these families, 465 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 pa

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pauline chiou is live in beijing with that part of the story. pauline, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, rosa. there is so much frustration among these family members here in this hotel behind me. we're going into the second week of this mystery, and to be perfectly frank, they are just dumbfounded at the way this investigation has gone and the many directions it's gone. now, earlier today, we were in this hotel, and the video that you're looking at is of tempers flaring yesterday as relatives are trying to get answers and as also they were responding to a suggestion by malaysia airlines that they might be able to go home and that malaysia airlines would pay their return journey home. that was taken as an insult by these family members. now, today, the relatives are going to be attending another briefing this evening, so we're waiting to see what happens there. but earlier, one father of a passenger spoke with journalists. his name is mr. wen, and he was very critical of the malaysian government. he said malaysia talked nonsense an

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pauline chiou, cnn. >>> more on the search but first a check of other stories.in washington state mudslide could be heard crying for help. a wall of mud hit northeast of seattle saturday morning. three people are dead. at least 18 unaccounted for. that number could very well go up. a rescue helicopter in the air today did not find any survivors. >> to a significant extent mother nature holds the cards here on the ability of ground personnel to enter the slide area. it is essentially a slury. when those rescue personnel did take some risks yesterday, and i'm very appreciative of their efforts, they effort at least seven people through airlift and on the ground efforts, some of them who went in literally got caught up to their arm pits and had to be dragged out by ropes themselves. >> by the way, a slury is a thick mud. at least six houses destroyed and many more damaged. residents said it happened in an instant. >> i was coming down the hill, i just saw the darkness. like somebody grab you. everything was gone. like three seconds. >> the fire chief described the

we'll continue to check with pauline coming from beijing later. the words from john young used in the press conference. very important to repeat. he said, credible sight, but indistinct, they do not know clearly what they have been looking at. they can't say for sure it is from any aircraft. they do not know. they say it is possible related to the search. i want to bring in the professor, the crash investigator for more than 30 years, also head of the aviation security international. i appreciate both of you joining us. bill as you listen to this press conference what jumps out at you? what happens next? >> well, the first thing they have to do is put eyes on the debris from the aircraft. i heard you mention earlier the marker bouys, sometimes the team will use the science to not lose the object is drop a marker buoy on it. it has a radio yantenna on it. what it does is transmit pieces of data. so if it doesn't move too far from the debris. >> philip, obviously finding the debris, if it is the debris from the flight that gives the focus point wher

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our pauline chu has an update on those clinging to hope. >> reporter: for the very first time in twoeeks, the chinese families here in beijing got a chance to pete face-to-face with the high level delegation from malaysia and asked pointed questions about what happened to malaysia airlines flight 370. one man got up and asked about one scenario. he said, is it possible that a country's military shot down the plane? while the malaysian air force official was very careful in the way he answered that. he said, based on the data and the radar, at this point in time, shooting by military is not highly possible. those were his words. another man stood up and asked about the debris off the coast of australia, and what was happening with that. and he also asked about a possible scenario. he said, "i have learned there are two uninhabited islands in that search area. are you going to look at that." now the official said, of course, we have to confirm first that the debris is from the plane. but if it is confirmed, they will go and check out these islands, if they exist. but the very fact that

pauline chu has more. >> reporter: family members here in beijing are digesting the news that this searchgotten more difficult, now covering topography of 25 countries and the indian ocean. but there was some optimism. there was a mention that one of the satellite communications with the plane may have come from the plane on the ground, and family members were telling me that this gave them hope that perhaps the plane had landed somewhere with the passengers on board. earlier sunday we saw tempers flare at a family briefing at this hotel. malaysian airlines has been paying for the hotel and meals of hundreds of relatives for the past nine days. on sunday they did tell the relatives if they chose to return home the airline would pay for that return journey. many relatives took that as an insult, and one woman stood up in the family briefing and started screaming at the airline representative. this woman said, "we are not going anywhere. we will wait right here." another man took the microphone and asked all of the people in the room who has lost faith in the malaysian government, who has l

pauline chiou has been spending a lot of time with the families. she joins us from beijing. what is the latest this morning? we know they tried to storm the malaysian embassy. we know they're demanding answers. what is the latest? >> reporter: well, they're demanding more answers at this moment in a meeting right now with malaysian government officials. military officials, as well as officials from malaysia airlines. also malaysia airlines has sent a senior boeing 777 pilot to this briefing that's going on at the moment to answer technical questions. and they're going over satellite data. the speed of the plane. possible flight paths. relatives are asking why did you narrow it down to this particular flight path. it's quite technologiciqucal an. and my producer inside have said it's so technical that some of the relatives have fallen asleep. they're going into to the second hour of this briefing. the big picture is these relatives are not satisfied with the explanation that the malaysian government has given them. and they say how can you draw conclusion from just a power po

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. >> pauline chiou has been following the families for some days now.nk you. >>> president obama in a war of words with russia this morning blasting the country as he met with world leaders criticizing its grab for part of ukraine. we're going to take you live and tell you what's happening right now. straight ahead. >>> president obama is in belgium this morning for the e.u. summit, talks expected to be dominated of course by the crisis in ukraine. european leaders will reportedly press president obama for nor natural gas exports from the united states so they can reduce their dependence on russian energy and punish moscow for invading crimea. michelle kosinski is live in russia. michelle, a lot of developments out of the norm overnight. >> reporter: yeah, definitely, some u.s. lawmakers have been pushing for more gas exports from the u.s., trying to reduce that dependence on russia. of course, the ukraine issue will dominate today as well. the white house has said when president obama today gives a speech to the belgium people which he hasn't done befo

. >>> pauline is live in beijing with more. hello pauline. >> reporter: these family members are not satisfied with the announcement the plane has gone down. they say they want hard evidence, a piece of luggage or a seat cushion, some debris from the plane with 370's markings. until they see that, they don't want to close the door on the search. this morning, outrage and furry as people face off with the government. family members are protesting. >> from the beginning, they hide everything. i don't think this kind of government, a liar and even murderer can solve anything. >> following the message from the prime minister -- >> flight 370 ended in the southern indian ocean. >> frustrated by malaysia's handling of the incident they descended on foot marching over two miles after police prevented them from taking buses and blocked the embassy once they arrived. furious and skeptical of malaysia's investigation, some chinese family members released a statement reading in part the malaysian government and malaysian military continue