what exactly would peter jackson be able to do with his private plane, christine? >> for example, the ocean shield, it does have a civilian crew of 30 on board. but that civilian crew is working under contract with the navy usually. and they are boat captains, they are technicians, they are there to launch -- the ocean shield is a platform, a diving operation platform from which they can watch. >> a big work space. >> a large work space. there's a lot of redundancy involved. they carry batteries, cable, a lot of extras for these machines and the crew to be able -- >> but peter jackson's jet? what can that -- and it's marvelous. i can't thank the guy enough for being so magnanimous, but what can it do to help in this effort? >> well, he has a very state-of-the-art gulf stream 650 which is top of the line private jet. and this has the capability to avel 7,000-mile range, it can climb up to 50,000 feet. it has up to 700 miles an hour, which military jets i think obviously can go much faster, but nonetheless this provides an extra aircraft with extra eyes on the ocean.

prince william and catherine met "the lord of the rings" and "the hobbit" director sir peter jacksonght the fantasy works of the late british j-r-re big screen. >> align there is breaking nils right now. fire crews are calling in for extra help with a fire that is burning right now in oakland. the 911 call came in about 20 minutes ago to an industrial area. this is on pendleton way near the intersection of 880 and the building at pendleton and the street. they're calling in for extra crews to be prepared because it is a building. >> the top stories on kron4 right now. the search off ocean beach for a teenager who disappeared. the 14 year old was with his family members when he got into trouble in the water yesterday. how is 17 year- old surfer rescued two of the family members. >> also burning up the web, a hot sauce in hot water. what the california city where sriracha is produced. >> a possible new underwater signal in the search for the missing malaysia airlines. incredible details on how searchers picked up the signal. it is one a minute developments in the story. >> we have dens

a private plane belonging to film director peter jackson has joined the search, as has a british submarinebut as of yet, there it's been no sign of wreckage from flight 370. now a u.s. pinger locator, which they hope can help locate the black box is on its way out to the search area, but won't get there until friday. and it's unlikely that can be deployed until they have massively narrowed the search area, which means finding some sort of debris. officials have australia and malaysia, though, have been playing down expectations. the former defense force chief here in australia has said it could take a very long time to locate wreckage, that they have very little information to go on. and today in lumpur--it could remain a mystery forever. back to you. >> nbc's ian williams, thank you. let's bring in aviation analyst johncox, he's a former airline captain. malaysia's inspector general who's running the criminal probe has cleared all passengers but says this could go on for years, saying, quote, investigations may go on and on and on, saying we have to clear every little thing. he says he ma

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he's climbing into the cockpit of a vintage war plane owned by peter jackson. jackson, there's kate. no prince george on this trip. kate said, it's just a little too noisy. we say good morning, america. >> it's good to know he cried. >> he's a normal baby. he may be a prince, but they still have their problems. >>> also ahead, coming up. oscar pistorius is on the stand, right in the middle of the cross-examination, by the aggressive chief prosecutor. the attorney calling him both insincere and egotistical this morning. >>> and "gma" investigates the pet harnesses to keep your pet safe in the car. why some of them may not work as well as they claim. >>> we're counting down to our huge world-wide sing-along. 50 years of "it's a small world." we're going to celebrate the world's most famous attraction, coming up. >>> we are looking forward to that. >>> first, we start out with the latest on the trial of oscar pistorius, on the stand for the second day of brutal cross-examination. this morning, abc's matt gutman is at the courthouse in pretoria, south africa, with t

now, oscar winning "lord of the rings" director peter jackson has donated his gulf stream jet to help in the search effort. australian firm confirms a private plane is helping, but search teams still have not found a single sign of the missing jet. that has investigators checking out every possible lead, no matter how unusual. police in malaysia say they questioned farm workers about the jet's cargo of mango steens, a tropical fruit, i've learned, in the last 45 seconds, in case somebody hid a bomb in a box. of course, we haven't seen one bit of evidence that the jet blew up. but as the passengers' families get more desperate, so does the hunt to find answers. the australian prime minister is calling it one of the great mysteries of our time. >> just, just awful. just awful. to lose a loved one is terrible. but to have a loved one disappear in such circumstances, in such mysterious circumstances, is just devastating. and it must be almost unbearable for those families. >> you know it is. the prime minister promised searchers will do everything they can to find the jet, even as investi

. ♪ >>> steven spielberg, peter jackson all great movie direct, but they have competition from paisley french bulldog. as you can see paisley has a go pro mounted to its head. paisley is about to show something we haven't seen on the show before, a proposal from the dog's point of view. >> cool. >> it started out as a photo shoot at their favorite coffee shop. what's interesting about paisley are the angles. i mean, just the vision of this director, getting everything from down below. >> very busy, artistic shots. >> creative. >> very creative. and that lady is michelle, one of pails sley's owners, michells taking a walk and they are going to the waterfront. they live in vancouver. >> another dog. >> they do run into another dog at the seawall, but watch when papa richie drops on one knee. notice the dog stays in the same place. and look the hand over the face as we always see in these videos. >> that dog is very well trained. it did keep a nice eye on exactly what was going on. >> got a close-up of the ring and then the couple did the obligatory selfie because they are going to get ma

hobbit director peter jackson sending his private plane to the search. what his jet can do that governments cannot. the search area moving again. are they give think up on the previous area too early? this is cnn's special coverage. . >>> welcome back to cnn's special coverage of flight 370. a new development we are following in the disappearance. cockpit security. malaysia airlines stepping up, putting new rules in place. i want to go straight to the justice reporter in washington. evan, interesting that for malaysia airlines these are new rules. what are they specifically? >> what officials are telling us in malaysia, these new rules are being put in place specifically because in reaction to the disappearance of flight 370, among the new rules, neither the pilot or the copilot or captain is allowed to be inside the cockpit alone. this is something that is just now standard as a result of these new rules. the senior cabin steward is required to be in the cockpit with the first officer or the captain when the other is gone. there is an increase in securi

. >>> filmmaker peter jackson has approved the use of his private jet for the search operation.mment on why the aircraft was being used except that it has remarkable range. jackson is best known for directing and producing "the lord of the rings" trilogy and "the hobbit" films. >>> a dying father walked his daughter down the aisle in an emotional ceremony that pronounced the two daddy and daughter. 62-year-old jim lets has stage 4 pancreatic cancer, only expected to live a few months. a photographer arranged the mock wedding as a surprise to give him a chance to celebrate a milestone he will likely miss as his cancer progresses. everything was donated by the murrieta community where they live in southern california. the suit, his daughter's white gown, even the cake, catering and flowers. lets and his wife are on a cruise to hawaii this week, all paid for with donations. >>> now a big headline about your health from a study of almost 1 million people. a new report says that you can cut your risk of cancer and heart disease by paying closer attention to vitamin d. >> reporter: it

. >> new zealand director peter jackson said a jet is assisting you in that search.fstream jet. is that helpful in the operation, do you think? >> they are hopeful. every asset is helpful. we have them helping to coordinate the communications back to rcc and other ones that help with the search, and royal air force helping with the military jets, as well. every asset is helpful. >> thank you very much. we appreciate you. when we come right back, much more on today's search for flight 370. can we learn important lessons from another missing plane? gotta get going. gotta be good. good? good. growth is the goal. how do we do that? i talked to ups. they'll help us out. new technology. smart advice. we focus on the business and they take care of the logistics. ups? good going. we get good. that's great. great. great. great. great. great. great. great. great. (all) great! i love logistics. but with less energy, moodiness, and a low sex drive, i had to do something. i saw my doctor. a blood test showed it was low testosterone, not age. we talked about axiron the only undera

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met up with "lord of the rings" director peter jackson. toured his collection of world war one aircraft which is housed at an aviation museum. prince william got to hop inside one of the planes. as for prince george, he stayed behind in care of his nanny. >>> 6:21 right now. so close. we'll tell you how a 7-year-old from the south bay almost won $100,000 with his basketball bracket. >>> and unexpected, definitely an understatement. we'll tell you how a crocodile wound up outside a t.j. maxx store in sacramento. >>> 6:24. welcome back to you as we take a look at menlo park and some of the traffic running through. we'll check in with mike in just a minute. >>> in the meantime, we are not that many crocodiles in the sacramento area, i assume, but there is one. someone abandoned a four-foot crocodile outside a reptile store yesterday. it was left inside a storage bin with a note that just said, call rescue. as you can see from the cell phone video, it somehow got out of that bin and started wandering around. the croc was caught outside a t.j.

. >> peter jackson has turned the hobbit, a book that is only a little over 300 pages, into three separate shrooks you keep tuning in and buying tickets you will continue to see these to be continued approaches. i think that actually if you want to know what else i think you can catch the second half of this commentary in the spring of 2015. >> >> i really think climate change is not just melting glaciers it is a people story. >> when does this become the priority. >> years of living dangerously, the series, only on show time. >> >> osgood: here is a look at the week ahead on our sunday morning calendar. monday is the 75th anniversary of the publication of the grapes of wrath, john steinbeck's novel about a depression era migrant family, later made into a movie starring henry fonda. >> tuesday, is the deadline for filing your income tax return. no need to thank us for reminding you. >> wednesday is when duke and the princess of cambridge arrive in australia continuing a royal tour that began in new zealand. >> storm never spice girl and her husband david beckham celebrate her 40th birthday

"lord of the rings" director peter jackson. he owns some of those planes.et too much of the prince. >> newsday says billy joel got to go to a billy joel concert. he made a surprise visit yesterday to an elementary school on long island to hear second graders sing 15 of his hit songs. the school invited billy joel but nobody expected him to show up. he applauded the children at the end and they were all thrilled to see him. a great example of if you don't ask you don't get. how nice of him to go. >> the masters is under way. it began as it always does. three of golf's greatest names downtown honors earlier this morning. [ applause ]. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to the 78th playing of the masters. [ applause ]. honorary starting tradition is a wonderful way of starting our tradition every year. this year we welcome three incredibly talented champions in golf. gentlemen who possess an unbelievable 13 masters titles. [ applause ]. and first on the tee i would like to welcome our four-time masters champion as we celebrate the were 50th anniversary of his

. >> reporter: while the military had aircraft in the area, a new zealand newspaper reports peter jacksone director, has been enlisted to help too, or at least his private jet, which reportedly was to fly over part of the search area. so if the pingers stopped, what next? sonar scans of the bottom looking for wreckage. that's what found air france in the atlantic. with the help of these math wizards in virginia. they use statistics and a computer model to figure out the most likely place where the wreckage might be and even in this case, they think it'll work. >> in fact, it's really the only technique to use at this point when you really need something to constrain the search area because, you're right, they're looking at half the indian ocean right now. >> reporter: investigators and police say this -- this still appears to be an intentional criminal act. if indeed it was, one would have to say whoever at the controls may have accomplished what they wanted. making a 777 disappear at least for now. >> wow, okay, david, thanks very much. >>> let's get the morning's other top stories from

peter jackson, of course, the lord of the rings trilogy. itching. oliver stone--political films.is ford coppola--well, he does the godfather. itching? what's this itching got to do with it? itching. who's doing anything with a grid here? [laughter] what--let me see. >> yeah, i don't know. i know you're off the grid right now. >> i'm off the grid. okay. uh, let me see now. i think i may have to punt on this one. >> you got all your lifelines. that's for sure. >> i do have my lifelines, and, you know, this is a pop-- i don't know. i think i'm gonna jump it. >> gonna jump it. >> i'm gonna jump it. >> decide to jump this. none of 'em really kind of popped out. you couldn't figure it out. it's very interesting. you jumped over. the question is now out of play. hazel, let's see what the correct answer is. it's francis ford coppola. all right. jumped over it. hopefully it's small bucks once again. what'd she jump? oh! whoa! big cash. well, i mean, the thing is that you're still alive. i mean, you know, there's still some money on the board to be made. it's all right. it's great. >> it's

to sit down with peter jackson and talk about some things and then the data that he called and said now you don't need to go anywhere they just gave you the parts. i've interviewed feeded incredible to me that piece fantastic i mean i think there were genius gets thrown around a lot nowadays but he is a genius he has the ability to you know compartmentalize his brain into so many different places he also takes a lot of money that he makes and puts it back into the film industry which is always the spirits like filming that it was two years of kind of being at university with a bunch of young single men who rolled in and so thin and you know scuba diving and jumping out of airplanes and having fun is a big you know the fellowship is essentially a group of men you know. it's kind of a sausage fest you know so that was kind of a fun time and we all did things that we've never done before and you know pete makes big movies have been a big movie you know doing battle scenes with four hundred people on horseback and stuff pretty special joint musical love music and that's went back there for

oscar winner peter jackson was there to show off his collection of world war i aircraft. >> he's a bigzealand, that guy. >>> bill o'reilly, we're going to get his thoughts on the potential candidates in the 2016 presidential race and his new book "the last days of jesus." >>> plus, at the urging of her adopted mom, a woman who was left in the bathroom of a burger king as a newborn turned to facebook. it worked. all three are with us exclusively for the first interview together. >> incredible. touching story. >>> we're going to begin this hour with day four of oscar pistorius, his most watched murder trial. he is facing another grilling from prosecutors. jeff lawson is at the courthouse for us. jeff, good morning. >> reporter: hey, savannah, good morning, yeah, as you said, the prosecutor came out of the gate hard yesterday, if you thought he would slow down today, think again. hammering oscar pistorius for hours this morning, accusing him of deflecting questions. grandstanding in the court for the cameras and lying about his entire relationship with reeva steenkamp. oscar pistorius, th

jackson who could turn snitch. >> we can pull the whole thing together and it's in his interest to do it to make a light deal for himself. >> legal expert peter king spoke on kpix5 sunday morning and he's also a former public defender who knows a lot about the criminal history of shrimp boy chow. >> well we always had sort of a suspicion that shrimp boy actually may have been in bed with the federal authorities in some way. >> because shrimp boy walked free and was given a visa to stay in the u.s. despite violent criminal convictions. kevin baker is a retired fbi agent. >> the governments in the process right now of trying to accumulate all of the evidence and provide it to the defense. >> the indictment handed down friday alleges public corruption and gun running charges, including evidence from an undercover fbi agent. it says as recently as march 11 the defendants met to discuss purchasing weapons from the philippines to import into the u.s.. baker says that's the best type of evidence there is. >> generally, with corruption cases it's about the one on one interaction with the official subject, whether it be a recording or audio or video.

peter's square. in a few hours, two popes become sain saints. a historic moment for the roman catholic church. good night. >> gun violence spreads throughout chicago over easter. the reverend jesse jacksonoins us. the fbi accused of using the no-fly list to force muslims to spy on their communities. and railing for other nations. and the fda tries to regulate e-cigarettes but is the government doing enough. welcome to "consider this." here more on what is ahead.

peter's square. in a few hours, two popes become sain saints. a historic moment for the roman catholic church. good night. >> gun violence spreads throughout chicago over easter. the reverend jesse jackson joins us. the fbi accused of using the no-fly list to force muslims to spy on their communities. and railing for other nations. and the fda tries to regulate e-cigarettes but is the government doing enough. welcome to "consider this." here more on what is ahead. >> we heard three to four gunshots. >> much of the violence is gang-related. >> why shoot innocent children that's just trying to live day-to-day. >> it is a wake-up call. we have a lot of work to do. >> the middle class is no longer the world's richest. >> the gain is to for those who want money and power. >> we want to help middle class out and bottom up so everyone has a chance. >> everyonthe government is tryo crackdown on the e-cigarettes industry. >> it's like the wild, wild west. >> out in the wild west you've got dangerous things happening. >> there are 41 women on the list. that's the highest number ever been. >> we love people to argue about the list. >> the list is not only about good people, but the influence for t