>> and sarah bajc is still trying to desperately cling to hope. >> i am coping through it.ust this huge vacuum, because, you know, it is not only that philip is missing, and by any reasonable person's calculations, he is most likely permanently missing, and i can't quite accept that, because, you know, what my head is telling me and what my heart are telling me are two very conflicting things. >> as she hopes, the data is fine-tuned, the search area shifts again, and the world waits. >> we can't stop thinking about this and wondering, because how could it be in the 21st century that a modern airliner could go missing? how could that be? and here we are with a missing airliner, and i think that just boggles people's minds, and we just need to know what happened, don't we? >> a mystery unsolved, clues scattered, questions unanswered, and heartbroken families are left to pick up the pieces. imam don lemon in the cnn newsroom. here are your headlines. airplanes from china, south korea and the united states have taken off to start scanning for anything plane wreckage related to

his partner, sarah bajc, lives in beijing. she teaches economics there. arah says there is no reason to conclude, no reason to assume that the plane necessarily crashed. that it is possible the plane has been brought down and landed somewhere. that even though that would mean something obviously went terribly wrong, it should also mean there is no reason to give up hope. joining us now from beijing for the interview is sarah bajc, her partner philip wood was a passenger on flight 370. thank you very much for being willing to talk to us. thank you for being here. >> rachel, thank you for taking me on the show and applying your factual and logical reporting style to something that so many other news agencies are just sensationalizing. >> thank you for saying that. i think that's an important part of this. for those of us just watching this story from afar, the conflicting information, the disproven and in many cases very irresponsible speculation, i mean, it's been hard to follow, hard to understand. i can't imagine how hard it has been to handle from your p

thousands of miles away in beijing, the day begins as usual for his partner, sarah bajc. >> i get up early. i drink coffee in front of the window and look out over the sunrise. we live next to an apple orchard. and i do yoga every morning and eat my oatmeal and go to work. >> in the early morning hours, phil will take the red eye home to sarah in beijing. the airport at kuala lumpur connects southeast asia to the continent. paul weeks needs to make it thousands of miles inland, all the way to mongolia. >> he was doing this for the right reason. it was his dream job. >> weeks is an engineer, husband to danika, and the father of two young boys. >> he spent so much time with his kids. he'd take them to the zoo, like, he was his little shadow. >> in fact, preparing the boys was a major issue before paul left for his 28-day assignment abroad. >> we cried when we left. i mean, this is a big change for the family. and we'd prepared lincoln. a little pad to skype him and a map with, you know, where daddy was going to be. >> when weeks left home, he told his wife he was leaving a few things b

thanks for sharing sarah bajc. thanks for being up at this hour from beijing. >> for the very latest on the search. any details about flight 370, i'm joined by bill neely and tom costel costello. you heard about the lack of information from the officials in beijing to the families but the sense is that the australians are handling this correctly. >> reporter: yes, you could hear the frustration in her voice and of course there's frustration here most of all from the air crews -- five air crews have come back having seen absolutely nothing but there is a sense that the australians are as the prime minister said, toniy abbott, throwing everything they can at it. he went to some way i think to lowering expectations and saying this is just about the most unacceptable place on earth to carry out a search and saying what was seen on satellite images on sunday and then shown to the world or thursday, could be shipping containers. and it is true that the south indian ocean is a wash with containers that have fallen off shi

. >> and coming up in our next half hour, you'll hear more from sarah bajc, including what she believes happened and whether she thinks philip wood is still alive. >> most of the people on that flight were chinese nationals, and their anger at the airline and the malaysian government is growing by the day. 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

cnn's david mckenzie sat down with sarah bajc.e of the three americans on the plane. although she says she has to move on, she can still strongly feel his spirit. david? >> reporter: don, throughout these weeks, there's been scenes of frustration, anger, and grief from the families, but also strong voices have emerged. like that of sarah bajc. her partner from texas, phil wood, was on the plane. i asked her what it was like to get the news that the plane had gone down by text message. >> to me, it was the message that it was over, that everybody was dead, and all of this hope that i've been putting forward and all of the energy i've been pushing forward to be positive and hopeful had just been wasted and it was done. you know, so i think i crashed into a point of crisis. and then i was listening to the press conference, itself, and i'm thinking, wait, he's not really telling us anything. you know, i started to have a little bit of -- a little nugget of disbelief already. i have to keep moving forward. i mean, life has to go on. an

and sarah bajc, who you mentioned, her partner was on board that flight, phil wood. he was an ibm technician. he had already moved to malaysia. the family was due to move there in the coming weeks. then her world got turned upside down, and she talked to me today and described what it was like to receive that text message saying that the plane had gone down. >> i don't know a better way to explain it but that i felt like i was just pushed over the edge of the cliff and i was falling. so, it was an extreme shock. and then to watch the press conference -- because, i mean, to me, it was the message that it was over, that everybody was dead and all of this hope that i've been putting forward and all of the energy i've been pushing forward to be positive and hopeful had just been wasted, and it was done, you know? so, i think i crashed into a point of crisis. >> reporter: well, really, that shows how many families have been reacting to this, this closure that then was opened up again. and you see even today, when they changed the search area to a completely different part

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>> reporter: sarah bajc's american boyfriend philip wood was on board flight 370. he was running late and almost missed it. malaysia airlines called bajc nine hours after wood's flight was scheduled to land land. >> my son had to tell me to turn my computer off. he put me on a schedule, you know-- you can only look at the news so often. it make you totally crazy. >> reporter: the couple was floong relocate to malaysia. movers were to come hours after his flight was set to land in beijing. with no answers, she says she's just clinging to hope. >> until there's proof-- that phillip is dead, i refuse to believe it. of anybody that could survive something like this, it's him. i mean, he's such a fighter, and he has so much to live for. >> reporter: two-third of those passengers were chinese, and as time has passed here, tensions are only rising. scott, a team from the ntsb has now arrived in malaysia. they are just awaiting a location to investigate. >> pelley: seth doane in beijing for us tonight, seth, thank you. both malaysia airlines and the 777 have excellent safe

sarah bajc is a former high powered businesswoman, she's now a teacher here in beijing. they were planning to move together to kuala lumpur soon before -- soon after this plane vanished, and she says she believes he's alive and well somewhere out there. >> the entire u.s. population is reliving things like 9/11 in this experience, right? if an unthinkable thing can happen even after we've taken all these precautions, what could happen next? this is a planned activity. somebody wants to do something and make a message out of it. it would serve them no good to be seen as callous and brutal and just start killing people unnecessarily because they won't have as much bargaining power, i think. i think. i mean, i can't imagine to put myself into the mind-set of somebody who would possibly even contemplate this but i've got to believe that the hostages are valuable to them. as the only adult american on the flight, philip would be a valuable asset to them. and it happens to be that he's also very calm and very put together and he would know to step back and, you know, not cause

. >> reporter: we hot sarah bajc after the flight disappeared with her boyfriend, philip wood on board. today we asked what she was thinking. she replied by e-mail. i'm desperate to hear, it is an airplane wing and there are survivors clinging to it and one of them is philip. apprehensive it will be unrelated and wait will just continue. i'm prepared for dead bodies, she wrote. but i am not prepared for never knowing. the passengers' friends and family members we've spoken with have told us they're dealing with grief in different ways, school, they all say the waiting is the most difficult part. >> pelley: very lates on cbs this morning tomorrow. seth, thank you very much. in another major story breaking tonight, president obama has slapped russia with new sanctions, they are meant to punish president vladimir putin's inner circle after russia took crimea away from ukraine. the russians responded with the sanction, banning several americans including john mccain, house speaker john boehner and senate majority leader heard reed from entering russia. the bigger concern is what will putin

can you feel my love coming through, sarah bajc writes on her facebook page. it should be able to reach you, no matter where you are. her boyfriend, philip wood, missing for more than two weeks, a passenger on malaysia flight 370. my heart is aching for you, she writes in another note. and in another, please come home, baby. in kuala lumpur, this woman shakes her head in disbelief that her 24-year-old son is still missing. god give me strength. i can't tell you how much i miss my son, she says. he has been gone now for so long, i've been talking to a photo of him, asking, when will you come back to me? stunned by criticism of relatives, malaysia airlines held a meeting in beijing, but family members left confused and still angry. they said there was no crash, no hijack and no shooting down of the plane, says one. i asked them to explain, but they said they couldn't. increasingly, families have been questioning the search for flight 370. today, the malaysian government has so few answers to their questions. malaysians themselves made their support clear, organi

sarah bajc is appearing on the "today" show this morning. she's waiting for word about her boyfriend phillip wood from texas who was on that flight. she was asked if she feels survivors are getting enough information. >> i had frustration but honestly my frustration is not with the authorities giving me information because i understand they can only give information that very have. if they haven't fair fied it she shouldn't give to the me. my frustration with the process. >> watch the rest of the interview right after "today in the bay." >> stay with us for continuing coverage of this search. it will continue to develop. you can find updates 24/7 on our website. also through our witter handle. >> happening now firefighters waiting until first tight to continue fighting a 300 acre wild fire. it started early yesterday by a krot owner trying to clear hand. it's south of salinas. strong winds caused the flames to jump and spread. the fire fight was called off at night fall. >> new this morning 6:05 a fire forced dozens of people including many

with the search now concentrating on possible debris, sarah bajc is praying that her boyfriend, philip wood landed safely although that hope is fading. >> i'm cautiously pessimistic about this. i don't want it to be parts of the plane because i've been holding out that the passengers are still alive. >> reporter: patrick gomez is the chief steward on flight 370. his four children, his 2-year-old grandson rafael and his wife jacqui have kept a candle burning in his bedroom so even his soul could find its way home. >> if it's in the ocean, it brings us closure, but we hope that if it's a hijacking and all that somewhere, then there's hope that he's still alive. and he'll come back to us. but if it's in the ocean it's final, you know. he comes back in a different way. which is all that we want. >> reporter: what does rafael know about all of this? >> he doesn't know. >> reporter: he has no idea this is happening. >> yeah. >> reporter: there is also anger bubbling among the families. at the news conference this week, a protest from this chinese mom and then dragged away into a separate roo

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 paper, they said, we want everyone to sign their names, tell us what they're jobs are and what their strengths and skills are, and we're going to take care of ourselves. we've seen this grassroots effort with these families, saying we're j

i spoke to phil wood's partner sarah bajc.nd i asked her what it was like when she received a text message to say that the plane had gone down and everyone on board had died. >> to me, it was the message that it was over, that everybody was dead and all of this hope that i'd been putting forward and all the energy i'd been pushing forward to be positive and hopeful had just been wasted and it was done. i think i crashed into a point of crisis. then i was listening to the press conference itself and thinking, wait, he's not really telling us anything. i began to have a little nugget of disbelief already. i have to keep moving forward. life has to go on. i want life to go on with philip back in my life. but the reality is life has to go on even without him. >> do you still feel his spirit, his presence? >> i do. and that hasn't changed. it's particularly strong when i'm by myself in those little daily patterns of life. i've continued to keep up with doing yoga every morning and he's definitely next to me when i'm doing that. you

moved to beijing for a job with ibm and that was the year he met sarah bajc who was in the process of headed back home to help her pack her boxes for a move together to kuala lumpur. sarah is with us now. i mean, sarah, i had seen you do some interviews before that news and just was, i mean, just so poised and you've been in my thoughts and after that announcement, we got this question about whether there is physical proof. you put on facebook, there is still no proof that the plane crashed and all souls were lost. do you think the malaysian government spoke too soon? >> well, first of all, good morning from beijing. i think they did speak too soon, but it was such an abrupt change in their behavior from before. i mean up until that point, the malaysian government had been very reserved, very careful in the kinds of information they were releasing, which ended up being basically no information since they didn't know anything. and then to suddenly come out with this pronouncement in the most shocking, possible way. you know, the last-minute calling of press release already had everybod

he was so adventurous, we talked to sarah bajc, we have a sense from him. very personal perspective, what stage of his life was he at when this all happened? >> renewal is the best wordy can tell you. he was at the stage of renewal. he had been in texas for a long time and then in 2010 moved to beijing. kind of to start fresh and his kids were now in college and he was getting ready to just have a new adventure. so i think that was a key -- that's a key word that keeps coming back to me. then as -- he was going to kuala lumpur, it was another step with sarah this time. she sends her -- by the way, i wanted to let you know that. >> so kind. >> he had said something to us that echos in my mind. he said it to my parents actually. he said, i don't know what the future holds but i'm not afraid. and it's haunting me. but those were his own words. >> that is so poignant and i can't imagine what it would be like to have a relative lost and not know what had happened. we just give you all of our hopes and prayers for answers to this mystery, that engaged the nation

. >>> earlier i spoke with sarah bajc, the partner of the philip wood who was on flight 370. >> in lighte latest news that a new zealand plane appears to have discovered a substantial amount of debris, is that the type of information that could provide closure or do you need something more than that? >> debris alone doesn't provide closure unless it can be proven from that exact flight, right? if they can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt, they have seat cushions and other types of luggage debris, then i would accept that as evidence that there has been a crash. now, as evidence that all of the passengers are dead, you would actually have to have bodies to be able to confirm that. but you know, i'm a practical person and evidence of a crash would be a step in that direction, but there's an aux lot of junk floating around in the ocean. so we have to wait and see what they find. >> i also spoke with sarah on whether she's hopeful the plane still might be found and how she feels about the treatment families of the passengers of flight 370 have received over the past weeks. you can see our fu

sarah bajc is his partner.ve been together for two years and were about to move to beijing to kuala lumpur where they have two jobs. they planned to get married this year. she has not given up on those plans. she joins me from beijing. sarah, i can't imagine what these last 11 days have been like for you. you're staying busy, you're a teacher, continuing to teach. how are you holding up? how are you getting through this? >> i'm staying busy, anderson. coming to speak with you is part of that. and i appreciate the attention you're paying to this story, keeping it alive. >> i know you have a son, philip has two sons. how are they doing? >> i actually have two sons and a daughter, so between us we have five. and they're all finding this to be a very, very difficult process. i mean, we just finished planning a big family reunion in kuala lumpur over the summer. both of philip's boys were going to come over and my older two kids in university in the states were going to come over. and the seven of us were going to g

they say they're doing their bit, but earlier today i spoke to sarah bajc, who is the partner of american phil wood, who was on that plane, and she says it was a real shock when she received the news that the plane went down via text message. >> i don't know a better way to explain it but that i felt like i was just pushed, pushed over the edge of the cliff and i was falling. so, it was an extreme shock. and then to watch the press conference -- because i mean, to me, it was the message that it was over, that everybody was dead and all of this hope that i had been putting forward and all of the energy i've been pushing forward to be positive and hopeful had just been wasted, and it was done, you know? so, i think i crashed into a point of crisis. >> reporter: well, certainly, now it appears the families have banded together. they have leaders here in beijing, and they're putting up a united front against the malaysian airlines and malaysian authorities. so, certainly not giving an inch, as it were. and they just demand answers, answers, it seems, that no one can give them. poppy and chris

out of the briefing room by security. [ screams ] just after the plane vanished, we spoke with sarah bajc, the girlfriend of philip wood, the only adult american on board. >> the clothes in his closet are the worst. >> reporter: how so? >> i open the closet, and it smells like him. >> reporter: today, i e-mailed bajc to ask about developments out of australia. she replied, "i'm anxious for news as the waiting is killing me. i'm desperate to hear it is an airplane wing and there are survivors clinging to it, and one of them is philip. i'm apprehensive it will be unrelated and the wait will just continue after many more hours of misery. i am prepared for dead bodies," she wrote," but i am not prepared for never knowing." it is the wait. it is the not knowing that is so excruciating, charlie and norah. everyone here just wants answers. >> seth, thanks. >>> we want to look at where the investigation of the possible wreckage goes from here. bob orr is in washington. bob, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie. >> bob, what are the chances this debris is flight 370? >> i think there's

. >> just along that line it sounded like sarah bajc who was talking to chris, she seemed to be dealingas holding out hope. cautiously pessimistic because she has hope that philip will be -- that they will be reunited. this hour, officials are supposed to be in a briefing with some of the family members of the missing passengers at a hotel in kuala lumpur that should be going on as we speak. what more information will they learn i wonder. >> we have the press conference. they released all the information they were able to release. all of that mostly coming from australia and then giving the logistics. who is going where. the southern corridor is the place to be. they subject all their ships and almost all of the aircraft to that area. so that gives you an idea of how seriously they're taking this information and where they think there might be some debris from this plane or that they think that this is a really important area they'll find something. but what they are going to tell the families, i think some of this is just so the families can vent and talk through the questions that the

sarah bajc is joining us live now from beijing.o much for taking the time. >> you're welcome. thank you for having me on the show. >> of course. it seems every new day there is new information and a new twist in the investigation and the search for your partner and all on the flight. how are you today with every new twist that comes your way? >> i'm actually better today because i stopped watching the news. other than the occasional check in to make sure there's nothing critical. but, you know, the reality is every lead has been a false lead so far. and up and down was killing me. so i just had to stop watching. >> i think many people would understand that. earlier this week, it seemed from your facebook postings and messages that you had come to the point where you were resigned you were not going to see philip again. now it seems you still are hopeful. what has changed for you during this week? >> well, the message that i had put out was actually monday evening. it had been a traumatic runup to the press conference. the conferenc

bajc. we were interviewing sarah this morning at the very moment when she received the devastating news. this footage that we've chosen not to air out of respect for her privacy and dignity and the same privacy and dignity of all of these grieving families. she did send us an e-mail, quote, the announcement is on data only and no confirmed wreckage and no real closure. we're going to return to what's ahead for the families but first i want to go to keir simmons in kuala lumpur and joins us with the latest on this announce. . thank you so much. what's the atmosphere like right now there on the ground? >> reporter: pretty somber. this is the hotel where some families have been staying. there have been other families but we are here when a small group of relatives gathered in the area behind me there to listen to the prime minister's news conference to hear him make the announcement remember, what they were listening to was him making an announcement that their 29-year-old son was on and the boys father sat stoney faced silence. his wife, the boy's stepmother just gently stroking his arm in