they asked rick white's mother if they could speak to him. >> is richard home? m. >> investigators found the garage behind the white's home in ruins. >> there was one victim inside the building, along with a dog. a large dog. >> the victim had been decapitated. a driver's license found on the work bench identified him as richard white. >> we did not know if we had a victim or a suspect. >> but that question was answered as investigators sifted through the rubble. >> there were parts of bombs in there in the process of being made. and tools, wiring, all kinds of things that you could use to make pipe bombs. circumstantial evidence would indicate that he intended to kill himself. to avoid having to talk to the police. >> next to white's body was his german shepherd dog. it matched the description of the dog given by the witness near the first bomb site. >> he was obviously clutching the bomb close to his body. and he had his one friend in the world there with him. his other arm around his dog. >> also, in the garage investigators found blue silver coated wire. the

. >> richard white, director from the center for political analysis from the hudson institute. >> what do you make of this meeting. how encouraging do you thing it is. >> well, i'm somewhat encouraged. i don't see an agreement coming on how to deal with crimea. i think the american position as russians who open will not gave back to ukraine, therewon't be an opportunity there. to avoid russian potential against the rest of ukraine, i think both the russians and the americans agree on the need to allow more autonomy. they allow the community language rights and rights to choose local independence. >> let's talk about that. what you are talking about is the federal solution bounced around. an idea presented by russia, about the russian speaking areas of ukraine, basically allows freedom, independence and control over local affairs. >> is that the idea in getting attraction here. >> the american experts know ukraine better than i. it's a centralized system, too much authority, and the government took actions with some russian areas, infrin ging on language, providing an excuse for the rus

in a facebook post he said: >> richard white is a senior fellow at the center or military analysis.e said abb as's remarks show desperation. >> in the past they've been able to keep the tensions under control. there must be some concern on abbas's part that basically they have positioned themselves to succeed him. that is something that abbas would strive to prevent. this kind of manoeuvre strikes of desperation, and is again even if it becomes a new success or not, whatever the outcomes, it will leave a major split in the movement for a long time. >> the world bank authorised an investigation into labour and human rights violations at tea plantations in india owned by tatar. they are not being treated fairly. we travelled and spoke to workers at a tea plantation. >> this man and his wife have been living and working on the tea estate for more than a decade. five years ago amalgamated tea, owned by the conglomerate covered employees a chance to by company shares. he and others were not interested, but were not given a choice. >> we were told if you don't take shares, your work will

and richard white is a center fellow at the center for political military analysis at the hudson instituteays the remarks showed desperation. >> you would think that in the past they have been able to keep these kind of tensions under control but there must be some concern that he is basically positioning himself to success him and that is something that abbas would strive to prevent. this kind of maneuver is a desperation and if darlan is a new successor and does not, whatever the outcome, this will leave a split in the movement for a long time. >> reporter: world bank authorized an investigation in labor and human rights with tea plantation owned by the giant in india and workers say they have not been treated fairly despite the company making huge profits and they traveled and spoke to workers at a tea plantation. >> he and his wife have been living and working on the tea estate for more than a decade. about five years ago the tea owned by the conglomerate gave them a chance to buy company shares and he said he and others were not interested but not given a choice. >> translator: we wer

. >> earlier we were joined by richard white from the hudson institute to discuss the which ford. >> ukrainian forces are in the process of relocating, from crimea. that should occupy the russian forces for a while. there's no evidence that they plan to move into eastern ukraine. >> why do you think they'll stop with crimea, people tried to judge what putin would do in the past, and no one predicted he'd take crimea. >> we are about to have a security summit in a couple of days, and it would secure an anti-russian coalition. it will take a while for the russians to absorb crimea. they have a bunch of things they need to do, and it's just useful for russia to have this dangling over the head of the ukrainian government. if they cause problems, the russians will occupy more of their country. in a way what russia can do is exercise control, avoid the rest of ukraine without having to occupy it. >> what happens if russia gets more aggressive and tries to make more of a grab for eastern ukraine. what are the options for ukraine's government? the options are they can apiece russia, become

. >> join us via skype from arlington, virginia, richard white, the director for the center of politicalilitary analysis at the hudson institute. richard, thanks for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> we have seen the russian forces over take the basis. do you think it's the beginning that the russian military may move in to as so many fear eastern ukraine? >> i think we are seeing the end. my impression is the ukrainian forces there are in the process of relocating, they say banning crimea, and that should p preoccupy the russian forces for a while. there is no evidence yet that they plan to moved in to eastern ukraine. >> but why -- that's -- that's a great point. why do you think they are stopping with crimea because so many people will say wait a minute. we have tried to jum what president putin has done in the past no. one predicted he would take crimea. >> that is correct. it's possible he will move in. but he said he wouldn't in a big public speech. >> that's one obstacle. second, we are about to have this new one in a couple of days when obama and all of the world lead

saying in new york, richard, white plains. >> good afternoon. like to address the woman who asked the question, why do republicans not win elections? were apointed out there number of speakers who have not won elections. >> it is an anomaly and eating is cpac there is9 are twice as many people who identify themselves as conservative. when 90% of the news media are comprised of liberals, basically they are feeding the public the democrat talking points. that is a simple explanation for it. minnesota, cindy is on the republican line. >> i wanted to comment about rand paul. i am familiar with him to his father, whom i supported. what i would like viewers, that they are getting to know rand paul, he is a republican, he is for the republican party, just like his father. he is an american. he is 100% for our constitution. i want to caution others about the candidates, the words other candidates use, because basically i guess in a nutshell we do not want wannabes, we want someone who is truly for our constitution. i believe that jesus said it best when

. >> richard whites is a senior fellow nor analysis at the hudson institute. good morning.joins us from washington, d.c., the president issuing a stern warning to russian penalty vladimir putin wednesday. >> women continue to say to the russian government that if it continues on the path that it is on, then not only us, but the international community, the european union and others will be forced to apply a cost to russia's violations of international law and encroachments on ukraine. >> clearly the e.u. and united states are winning the war of words, but absent putting troops on the ground, nato troops there, is there anything that can be done to stop vladimir putin from effectively annexing crimea? >> no, what the president's trying to do, which is a natural response, is to present the russian president with the equation that he will lose more from annexing the crimea than he would by not doing so. so the idea to build up the incentives for him not to take an action and build up to distance him, the penalties he would face if he were to do so, but i think that we have not

richard, you served in the white house. is this a situation where the united states in america assist the other nations as a conduit for malaysia? to washington and washington distributed the information to the other nine or 10 nations? we both investigate independently and assist other competent authorities that are doing so. in this case, that would include malaysia, but it is not just malaysia that would be receiving u.s. assistance. the chinese, the vietnamese, and they would all, be, in the extent they were involved in the search, would be receiving information from the u.s. at the u.s. was learning in the course of its own work. they are also going to be a sensitive part of the investigation that they will not be informed of, the vetting of the manifest on the flight, and that would be done by the counterterrorism and intelligence personnel using sources and methods we will not necessarily want these other countries to know about. that would be held privately until there is a determination made that it needed to be sh

also, former white house advisor richard falkenrath. >> the aircraft did not land at some airport nearbythis is not like in "lost" scenario and the people are on a beach. we know where all the airstrips are in that area that can handle a jet of this size. you've really are down to some form of crash. in the ocean somewhere. it needs to be found. the questions of -- the scenarios, none of them can be ruled out. who did this and why they did it. it is too early to say. the data is too fragmentary. >> back to the tsa founder, where do we go? >> go to the very beginning, you have to look at everybody who touched the air force since it landed in kuala lumpur. all those things have been examined. now that you have 2 transponders turned off, it flew at a lower altitude, they were still communicating with the ground. that is a scenario, a head office is where you put all the investigative things together. this leads you to assume it has to be one or both of the pilots. >> someone else who also knows what is going on on an airport is laura gladding, president of the association of professional fl

. >> specifically richard, if you were still advising the white house directly, what would you be urging them to do to prevent further action by moscow? >> some of the things that the administration is doing, i would argue against draconian -- i would argue for more jacksonian sanctions and tell the russians what they are going to be. and essentially, reinvigorate nato. u.s.ld be announcing policies about energy exports. while he would not have a dramatic immediate effect, it will clearly send the message that russia's principal lever to my which is oil and gas exports, is going to be one of diminished utility down the road. essentially, a mixture of military preparations within the region, moving of the energy exports direction, and above all, much more demanding or painful economic sanctions. labeled, believe he is vladimir putin -- do you believe he is able to be swayed, but a mere putin? >> i do. above all, he wants to preserve his own political status. and secondly, he would like to grow, if you will, the russian federation, some version of a restoration project. this becomes clear

that will change over the next several years from a white house security advisor. richardalkenrath explains why. >> to get from one country to another, you need one. not surprisingly, terrorists, criminals, and fugitives have been trying to get their hands on stolen passports for a long time. in 1980, it was establish the basic standard for all passports currently in circulation. they have four main features. in the upper right-hand corner, a unique identifying number. in the middle, some basic data about the person holding a passport. at the bottom, the same data in machine-readable form. and most importantly on the left, a standard picture. in the old days, it was fairly easy for a criminal to travel on a stolen passport as long as he or she fit the basic description of the person stolen from. the most important thing was to replace the photograph. and since on old photographs it merely consisted of a physical photograph covered by lamination, all they had to do was cut the photograph out, replace it, and they could travel. after 9/11, it became clear that the internatio

. >> reporter: richard heard noises outside his home. >> i see a white mustang facing that way and it was stopped. there was a black suv facing this way. >> reporter: police say the witness blocked culliver from leaving until officers could arrive. >> i thought it was just like an everyday regular arrest. we don't have nfl players out here. >> reporter: the 49ers released a statement in part saying, the 49ers organization is aware of the recent matter involving chris culliver. as this is an ongoing legal matter, we will reserve further comment at this time. >> really just, i guess, not thinking or something i thought but nothing i feel in my heart. >> culliver made headlines last year when he said during super bowl media day that he didn't want gays in the locker room. he spent last season out because of a torn acl. 49ers have been eyeing culliver for a starting cornerback position for the upcoming season. meanwhile, the bicyclist is okay with minor injuries. >> thank you. more details now. not just chris culliver. san jose police are active withwith aldon smith, facing three points o

. >>> i'm joined by nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel in eastern ukraine and white houseondent who just got back traveling with the vice president. are you hearing any reaction to the latest round of sanctions? >> reporter: well, russia has responded with its own round of sanctions. this has become quite personal with individuals being named by washington that they are sanctioning, people who are close to vladimir putin and the kremlin coming around and naming american officials close to the white house or close to centers of power in washington and saying that they are persona nongrata as far as russia is concerned. here in eastern ukraine, there is a lot of tension. we just returned from the russi russian borders and saw ukrainian soldiers digging in. they were using sand bags and somewhat happen hazardly built trench. i don't think it would have done much to stop the advance of russian forces but might provide psychological support. this country is far weaker than russia. if there were ever any military intervention here in eastern ukraine, there wouldn't be any match

is about 87% white that is where it stands. >> richard, you have been working on the case. can you explain how the new york city fire department compares to other departments across the u.s., and why it has been so disproportionately white? >> it is the worst in the country. there is no fire department in a substantial city that has had a worse record on diversity and the new york city fire .epartment it has been chastised for that for decades, including by federal courts, but for some reason, the administration has not chosen, until now, to take steps to remedy an obvious problem. >> why is new york city's fire department so bad, if other departments in the country have not reflected this kind of make up? >> the truth is, most departments around the country have changed because of lawsuits. for some reason -- i guess we know the reason, really. paul could talk about it better than i. it is a terrific job being a firefighter. if you ask any firefighter, they would hunt you the job is absolutely wonderful, exciting, short days, eight days a month, the pay is good, well-respec

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richard lui. president obama is at the vatican for his historic first meeting with pope francis right now. let's get right to nbc white house correspondent peter alexander. he's at the vatican. peter, good morning. this is the first meeting between the two men. >> reporter: richard good morning to you. a short time ago president obama wrapped up his first visit with pope francis. these are two pivotal figures, of course. the first african-american president, first latin american pope, the world's most popular political leader meeting the world's most powerful religious leader here. there is a lot they share, and also some differences between these two men. we're waiting to hear statements from both the white house and the vatican to get a better sense of exactly what took place in the course of that conversation. one of the real shared interests that the president has been focusing on, he's discussed the inspiration that this pope has provided people around the world with his focus on inclusion and equality. the issue of income equality is one of the signature issues for president obama, certainly a topic he's likely

. >> that is why today i am nominating mary jo white to lead the securities and exchange commission and richard to continue leading the consumer financial protection bureau. this guy is bothering me. as a young girl, mary jo white was a big fan of the hardy boys. i was, too, by the way. as an adult, she has had a career that the hardy boys could only dream of. she helped prosecute white-collar criminals and money launderers. in the early 1990's, she brought down john gotti, the head of the gambino crime syndicate, and she brought down terrorists responsible for bombing the world trade center and the american embassies in africa. so, i would say that's a pretty good run. you do not want to mess with mary jo. >> what did you think of that when the president said that? >> pretty awesome, i guess. i would like to live up to that. >> the hardy boys? what were their stories? >> mystery stories basically. nancy drew, i think, was the woman in nancy drew. detective novels. i had an older brother, i do have an older brother. he read them, so i read them. >> any lessons in the hardy boys? >> i am a cop a

our guest is richard falkenrath, former adviser to the white house on national security.ws. starting with apple introducing a system to use in iphones and cars with voice command. it will be rolled out at the motor show this week and be available in vehicles later on this year. google and samsung have objected to the plan to buy nokia phone business. they have asked the ministry of commerce to make sure the deal does not result in higher licensing fees. chinese mobile phone makers have artie expressed concern about the deal. valued at $5 billion after posting the first profit. weighing in on china's largest microblogging platform after posted a profit last quarter. ipo said to be pursuing an in the u.s. >> today at 1:00 and 6:00, bloomberg west with the best in technology. thrilled to have cory johnson with us this morning. got it. what is the distinction i need to know about? >> i am always arguing that we are quick to focus on businesses and companies and not on stocks and markets. i think the market is an of theg ipo that is one biggest technology ipos ever and think t

richard. >> the law will not get repealed. point blank period. beyond that point, by the time we get to 2016. if the republicans take over the house and senate and whitethe law will be seeing the benefits and it will be ultimately impossible. >> richard, this is why ted cruz' logic. he said demd-- democrats in red states that have distanced themselves from the law and not on board with the law. people have tried to come up with their own solution to. it and that's why senator cruz thinks there are vulnerability. >> that is because of the roll out not being good. but the receipt poll shoes that young people like the government help people to be better americans. and they will be voting in 2014 and 16, what will happen vulnerable democrats will get support from the millennials. >> i know you argue it is not seltzed law. >> it is not true. >> you have to have the white house. if you are a republican to get rid of it? >> the president realized that the law is disasterous. and the evidence of that he made 25 major changes in the law. we talk about the subtle law. it is modified so much it no longer resembles what the supreme court signed off on and congres

despite a wave of sanctions from the white house and european union today, many are wondering just how far russia might go. we'll hear from richard angle in crimea in just a moment. first we're joined by our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell in our washington news room. andrea, good evening. >> good evening, lester. vladimir putin was defiant tonight. signing the decree recognizing crimea's independence, ignoring economic sanctions today from the u.s. and europe. the russian president still strutting in the afterglow of the sochi games today awarding medals to the russian pair olympians, seemingly unfazed by u.s. sanctions. as crimeans celebrated, u.s. officials tacitly acknowledged crimea is lost. so is a ukrainian natural gas plant nearby, taken over by russia in a helicopter assault this weekend. the white house's new red line, any russian move into the rest of eastern ukraine. like donetsk, where pro-russian demonstrators were out in force. >> further provocations will achieve nothing except to further isolate russia. and diminish its place in the world. >> reporter: today the president froze american bank a

richard falkenrath is here. he is a former white house security and visor. he is a commissioner for county terrorism. he is now a principal at the chertoff group. i guess we need to start with this. you are an expert in counterterrorism. that is what you did at the new york city police department. does the situation to your i have the hallmark of terrorist acts? >> is suspicious. it fits the pattern. you wait for the fact to speak for themselves. there are more than one possibilities to explain this. in general, you do not leap to the most extreme or most exotic right away. one of the mottos i have had is that when you hear the hoofs, think of horses and not zebras. you do not reach that conclusion until you have data. >> investigators are combing the season and have not to date found anything. how unusual is that for a plane to this appear? -- disappear. >> very uncommon. planes are the safest when they are cruising. it has to be at altitude. it has to be in an area with no air traffic control coverage and limited radar. it has to be over water. it does hap

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richard nixon. a new american ambassador, today the moment that surprised even the chinese and abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl on it all. >> reporter: it's not quite the ping-pong diplomacy that preceded nixon's visit. but first lady michelle obama kicked off her trip with a little table tennis at a high school in beijing. with the president back home, the first lady along with her daughters and her mom are on a five-day tour, building goodwill and seeing the sites. checking out the forbidden city. in a surprise, china's president greeted the obamas. this, after their guide for the day was china's glamorous first lady, herself a longtime chinese pop star. she proclaimed an instant bond with mrs. obama, although it's the first time we have ever met, she said, it feels like we are old friends. unlike laura bush and hillary clinton who both pressed human rights on their trips to china, the white house says that mr.s obama will shy away from issues that might be controversial with her chinese hosts. >> jon, thank you. >>> we turn now to your money tonight. your tax return. with tax day

richard. we spoke with the new zealand air commander. remember a new zealand plane spotted this white object. he said -- this is an hour or so ago. he said within the next two hours they now anticipate a ship will reach this area where this white object is. they'll be able to pick it up because the waters are pretty calm over there, the weather is good, so maybe within an hour or so they will have access from a ship to this object and other objects as well. that's a significant development. >> it is hugely significant and it will be interesting to see the manner with which this news will be handled. i suspect the australians will announce that they have picked up some debris or some objects. whether or not they choose to identify it even if it's glaringly obvious what it is, if it's from the aircraft, will they wait for the -- to get back to base, will they announce it in australia or more likely perhaps will it be announced in kuala lumpur in malaysia because they are -- that's where the investigator in charge is, that's the investigating country. >> and one of the things they're goi

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richard engel. we go now to nbc's kristen welker live at the white house.the white house, we got a response from them just a while ago on this referendum. tell us about that. >> reporter: well, karen, the white house is reiterating statements that they have made in the past, namely that they do not recognize the referendum. they are calling on russia to allow international monitors into ukraine. that's something that russia has resisted in the past. they say this vote violates ukraine's sovereignty. here's a little bit of the official statement that was released by white house press secretary jay carney who says, quote, as the united states and our allies have made clear, military intervention and violation of international law will bring increasing cost for russia, not only due to measures imposed by the united states and our allies but also as a direct result of russia's own destabilizing actions. a senior administration official tells me that you can expect the united states will likely announce sanctions against individuals in russia, not putin himself,

white dodge durango believed to be involved. >>> a man from emeryville was killed in a rollover accident in salono county today. he is identified as richardn. the chp says he was driving a legacy eastbound when he crashed into the divide. the driver was wearing a seat belt. the highway patrol says it came off during the impact. no other vehicles were involved. >>> fire destroyed a building in a south bay church today which held church records. it started this morning at the church of god in san jose. firefighters kept the flames from spreading to the search and neighboring homes. the fire does not appear to be suspicious, but federal agents will be called to investigate. >>> it's not fire season yet, but you'd never know from the ficktures here. it took nearly 5 hours to put out the grass fire yesterday afternoon. all the flames scorched through some 40 acres. without assistant from the air, it would have taken longer. mike reports what fire crews already stretch ed then, some wonder what it foreshadows for when the temperatures really heat up? >> reporter: today a man looking for answers. looking find out what sparked this. a 3-alarm gra

. >> joining me now, nbc's white house correspondent and host of "the daily rundown" chuck todd and richardlcome both. chuck, the president at the nuclear summit explaining how he evaluates the threat from russia. what about the support he got from the allies for the next set of sanctions if putin were to go farther beyond crimea? >> reporter: well, and that's what the white house aides are trying to tout, he got everything he wanted for next steps. what's left ambiguous, he only got symbolic moves for the status quo right now from the european allies. you can just see both in answers from prime minister ruda and the president, there's clearly angst about how to escalate sanctions further against russia. they did get u.n. nimty that they would do tougher sanctions about specific industries in russia, if, and this is the if, if the russians destabilize eastern ukraine crossing the border with troops, et cetera. while the president refused to be in the kacamp that others ar acknowledging that crimea is essentially gone, they didn't come to an agreement, how do you get putin to back out of cri

you can see him here in the white co-pilot seat. cnn's richarde he was flying. richard's visit to the plane was authorized. a south african passenger says she had a much different kind of visit to the co-pilot's cockpit. she says in 2011 the co-pilot and another pilot invited her and a friend to sit in the cockpit for an entire flight from thailand to malaysia. >> we boarded the plane normally with all the other passengers and went to our seats. a short while after taking our seats the air hostess came to us and asked us if we would move into the cockpit. that's where we spent the flight. >> if your system is suffering from any kind of heat month cold air coming in -- >> reporter: and his first officer. gary tuchman, cnn, atlanta. >> we just learned that the investigation into that flight simulator continues. it has been dismantled at the home. now transferred to a facility where investigators have reassembled it and are now looking through this system for any evidence that indeed in was something that was managed from the cockpit. >> doing that

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white house rocking big time with the women of soul. it's friday, march 7th. "early today" starts right now. >>> good morning to you. i'm richard lui. we start with fast moving developments in ukraine. u.s. fighter jets now in the region after crimea's parliament votes to join russia. a move that did not sit well with the u.s. secretary of state john kerry is growing visibly irritated at the lack of progress and diplomatic talks and just hours ago, more countries including the baltic states condemning russia's actions. adding to regional tensions. nbc's jim maceda is in moscow watching the story for us. presidents obama and putin have that one hour long phone call, that happened thursday. some asking what's next now. >> hi, richard. that's right. president obama reached out this time to president putin at the end of that thursday day, a busy one it was, that saw the crimean peninsula voting to secede from the -- from ukraine. that was followed by obama's executive order to slap sanctions on all those who threatened ukraine's sovereignty, at least in theory. potentially, by the way, including putin himself. it was the second long cal

democrats haven't ee leked a governor since ann richards, hold onto the republican voters that have elected republicans to statewide office for two decades, whiteen, suburban women and just a smidgen, maybe a quarter or third of the hispanic electorate and he can hold on. what has to happen for wendy davis is tougher. she's really facing a head wind, a political head wind in texas. and i think that interview that you had with her was good. it shows that candidates in texas have to show they can do two things, lead a prayer and shoot a gun and be pretty darn tough. texas voters want someone like annie oakley, at least democrats do and they think they may have that candidate in someone like wendy davis. what she has to do is expand voter turnout among hispanics where you were in south texas and draw a number of moderate women from the suburbs. if she does that, she could win. >> more than 12,000 democratic volunteers have been pouring into texas. i saw a lot of those people on the ground. do you think that's going to be a game changer? why does texas matter so much to the democratic party nationally right now? >> it could be, it's too soon to kno

to believe, as i sit down here at cpac, that just because you're white and you have an argument with a black person you're a racist. richardth words is it relevant -- is irrelevant and in the end this man needs to walk off the stage. >> all you've got are e deflections, david. bill: gentlemen, i appreciate you coming on. >> thank you, bill. bill: david webb, richard fowler, thanks. martha: news on this story this morning, rutgers university administrators are now standing by their decision to invite condoleezza rice to speak at the school's imrawtion. graduation. this after a faculty group had caused controversy and gotten a ton of attention from folks out there on twitter and elsewhere when they asked the school to rescind the invitation to condoleezza is rice, the former secretary of state under president george w. bush. they said she should not be honored because of her role in the iraq war. that got karl rove fired up. >> it shows their ignorance, it shows their political bias, it shows their cheap attempt to denigrate a respected leader of our country, the former secretary of state, for their own narrow, ideological o

white caps there which suggests there isn't a huge amount of wind. but gives you an idea of the enormous nature that is undertaken. >> those aircrafts can fly relatively low, too, can't they, richard? >> they have to. that's what they are very good at. exactly. and also, of course, a bit different from you and me looking out there. these are men and women who are trained and they know how to do it and they know how to -- they're not looking at the vast expanse out to the horizon like we would. they're looking at very defined blocks of area and then, of course, here what you you've got, the release of the transmitter buoys that will gauge the drift of the tide so that they'll be able to work out where these things may or may not have moved to. look at the height that they're at. 10,000 feet, very low. >> richard quest reporting for us, thanks. new images and new video just coming in courtesy of reuters. >>> just ahead an in-depth look at those satellite images. what is it that is giving australian authorities some serious hope? more of cnn's breaking news coverage, the mystery of flight 370. that's coming up. so our business can be on at&t's network for $175 a month? yup. all 5 of

sometimes they might talk about white people and white racism, sometimes they would talk about president eisenhower, president kennedy or richard nixon, sometimes they would talk about baseball or football or food -- i mean, how to fry chicken or whatever. i mean, it was just what normal human beings talk about. i guess if you had to boil it down, mostly we talked about love and death in one sense or another, which, after all, are the great themes of modernist art, right? i mean, that's what all art boils down to in the end, in one form or another. we would talk about political oppression sometimes. so often in traditional black literature -- that is, black literature written before 1970, when black women started to write in great numbers -- so often in that literature you would think that all we sat around and talked about was white people, that all we were concerned with was white racism. and that was a valid area of our concern, but that's not all we talked about. it wasn't even the majority of what we talked about. we were human beings first, vulnerable and frightened and eager and ambitious and passionate, and we were blac

away, struts the world stage and knows he has an adversary in the white house who will do nothing and he whose done nothing. martha: richard is now the chairman of foreign relations. >> in '56 president eisenhower didn't do much when hungary was invaded and under george w. bush he didn't do anything when georgia was invade. the truth is what happened in ukraine was a strategic setback for mr. putin and what he did was essentially compensated. he grabbed crimea, a part of ukraine that's close which gives him great geographic advantage where they have access to a port and the majority of people are russian and russian speaking. it was a strategic defense to a strategic loss in the bulk of the country. martha: aren't the first two examples you gave what led to the cold war? >> russia is not a super power. it's a country of 140 million people with a limited economic reach and it's quite vulnerable. i think we need to keep the pressure on economically. we need to strengthen the neighboring countries to send a message and we ought to keep diplomacy alive and offer the russians an offramp to strengthen the ukraine. the biggest is

white house. why? >> it is just been a factor. i can understand some of the problems. i was president, i had two immediate successors, predecessors to work with. richardixon and gerald ford. they were acquaintances of mine. i kept them briefed until richard nixon said i don't need any more. i'm getting too many. i would say that is the relationship that president obama has had with his immediate predecessors. i have been out of office 35 years. i am ancient history. >> but you travel around the world. they talk to you. >> that's true. >> it is not like you are holdout in georgia. >> i wanted to talk about them abouti wanted to talk women tonight. >> [indiscernible] >> it has been aggressive since i left office to have an equal relationship with palestinians and arabs on the one side, and israel on the other. we have had some controversial things we have done. regularly with hamas. we have counseled with the palestinians. when i go to israel, i meet with the leaders of the israeli government. i also meet with palestinians. not politically popular in the united states. i wrote a book that was not very attractive. that may be one reason why we don't cons

white house announced the u.s. department of energy will soon make some major decisions about exports of liquefied natural gas. let's go to new york, richard quest is standing by. richard, what does that mean? >> what it means is if russia decides to use the weapon of its oil and gas exports, not only via and to ukraine but like germany, hungary, czech republic, even as far as france and uk, if they start denying exports of liquid or natural gas, can the u.s. pick up the slack? can the u.s. from its vast and growing production of gas particularly as a result of shale gas so-called fracking, the u.s. has about 110 different facilities for importing and exporting liquefied natural gas. now, it's not easy. and it's very expensive. and frankly if you start getting the gas out in the united states or be it at a fairly cheap price because of the sheer amount of production, then sending it to the eastern seaboard, liquefying it, putting it on a boat, sending it across to europe and then distributing it, you can start to see this is not a cheap or long-term solution. but, wolf, if russia turns off the taps and a crisis ensues, then, yes, the u.s.

white with a red strip. a small crowd outside parliament this they just decided there will be a referendum whether crimea will be part of russia. let's go to moscow to the bbc's richard galpin. as we look at the pictures, the speed at which the crimeans will be asked to make a judgment. >> reporter: certainly, nik. the crimean parliament such as it is has voted that the crimea should become part of russia and sent a request to moscow to the kremlin. and it's been reported now that president putin has received that request. so everyone now is waiting to see what mr. putin will do. will he say yes or no? meanwhile, the russian parliament is debating legislation which will make it possible quicker for russia to absorb new territory. we think that will take several days and therefore go into next week. it's certainly been sped through parliament so russia will be in a position to absorb new territory next week. >> it raises yet again the hand of moscow in this. yesterday in madrid, lavrov, the russian foreign minister, the soviet parliament in crimea, makes its own decision with no influence from moscow. >> nik, that is very, very difficult to believe. i think frankly wh

white house seems very comfortable with that. >> is this a pr move by the chinese government at this point, richard?they have been under attack in the world media for being missing in action for finding their own chinese nationals. is this on the level or is this part of some sort of geopolitical spin? >> you know, i think that the malaysians are in charge and that means that want we really don't have a country that's doing a very good job of leading. so other countries are beginning to put out, you know, their information and their bits of technology and you can't blame the chinese. if they are not in charge, they are extremely frustrated because they have a lot of their citizens on this plane and now what they are trying to do is really message that we do have leads, we are having little bits of technology that are pointing to some sort of pattern. the problem that i see is we're not pulling the technology together so that we have little bits and pieces of the technology. we don't have one lead country. >> in that regard we have breaking news now that chinese jets will be participating in that par

white, thank you for joining us. >>> now to steve liesman in washington with some breaking news. steve? >> brian, thanks very much. first, i want to give you breaking news from richard fisher on the wires. saying that asset buying should end in october. that qe ends in october. there's a debate that it's not totally settled. his opinion, it ends in october. we were just in a conference here where jim bullard and san francisco fed president were speaking and jim bullard gave the first comments about what that six-month period may have meant from janet yellen. and he'll talk, as you'll hear here, very reluctant about it. >> i think you have to ask individual members. my own dots are back to normal. on the considerable period being six months, the surveys that i had seen from the private sector had that kind of number penciled in, as far as i knew. and could see that that wasn't very different from what we had heard from financial markets. >> and bullard went on to say that the six-month time period mentioned by janet yellin, as far as he was concerned, was equal to what was already out there in market expectations in most of the surveys. now, john williams, the san fr

richard haass. oh, amy's there, now we know we'll get it right. >> now that we know it's our last day. let's take everyone through the storm here. the white on the map shows you where it's snowing. amy is going to circle that. amy got it right. detroit is not a fun morning commute. they're calling it potentially one of the worst you're going to see all winter long. chicago, we already have 4 to 5 inches on the ground. that's looking at the chicago picture on your left. amy, where would you not want to be later on tonight with the heavy snow falling? boom, burlington, vermont. up to a foot and a half of snow in the burlington area. we're going to continue watching northern new england going down hill tonight all the way into tomorrow. cleveland, ohio, you're going to get freezing rain and snow out of this. and let's leave people with a happy note. where would you like to spend your afternoon? a lot of us would. florida today about 80 to 85 degrees. didn't she do great? how awesome is amy? >> that's good. you always say that to someone who is about to stab you in the back. thank you, amy. bill karins, thanks. we'll be right back. ♪ [ girl ]