seth doane and jeff pegues have the latest. crimea gets ready to vote on whether to become part of russia on the eve of the vote elizabeth palmer reports on the leaders of ukraine's opposition who are disappearing. >> the billion-dollar bracket. we will talk to a math professor who says he has got the equation when it comes to picking winners the ncaa tournament. >> and we won mathematical mojo and we want to see you are hot going in. >> and history on ice. the story of a gold medalist goalie making her debut in what had been an all male hockey league. >> captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening, i am jim axelrod and this is a western edition of the broadcast. the prime minister of malaysia now says flight 37 at this was quote deliberately difficult disrerted and flew for at least another six hours after cutting off contact with the ground. 14 countries are now part of the search, 43 ships and 58 aircraft have been deployed, and now eight days later, investigators have finally searche

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 safety records. bob orr has been checking into the possibility of terrorism. bob. >> reporter: scott, law enforcement sources tell us tonight there is no evidence so far pointing to terrorism. intelligence officials say there have been no credible claims of responsibility from any terror group. and so-called intel chatter has revealed nothing to date pointing to an attack on that flight. investigators desperately need to find and recover the plane's wreckage and black box recording to pin down what was going on with the pilots and their airplane in the critical moments before it was lost. authorities are look at those two men who used stolen passports to board the flight. police say an iranian middle man bought the men tickets in thailand, one-way fares to fly from malaysia to beijing and on to europe. police have airport surveillance pictures of the two travelers and their thumbprints. the f.b.i. is expected to check that

seth doane and mark albert report. wall street's bull market turns five years old today as investors celebrate, history says a correction is coming. a new test to diagnose alzheimer's much earlier and with much more accuracy. dr. jon lapook explains. >> and how song birds survive. if you think the winter's been rough, imagine how these guys feel captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> jeff: good evening, everyone, i'm jeff glor with a western edition of the broadcast. and it's the first potential it is the first potential breakthrough in the search for a plane that's been missing for nearly two days now. the focus is on a stretch of water just south of vietnam on the gulf of thailand. vietnamese crews have spotted this piece of what may be from malaysia air flight 370. ships from 11 different countries are searching for more, including the u.s.s. pinckney. hundreds of families continue the agonizing wait. these parents in indonesia likely lost their 25-year-old son. at the same time, investigator

seth doane takes us on the search. bob orr on what we've learned today. the president moves against russia in the biggest east-west standoff since the cold war. elizabeth palmer and charlie d'agata on the crimea crisis. >> what happened to the universe right after the big bang? today scientists think they know. and break out your brackets with march madness upon us, james brown introduces us to the coach who made harvard a name to be feared captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. whatever happened to malaysia airlines flight 370, it has just lanned in the record booksment it has to you been missing without a trace for more than ten days and that's longer than any commercial airliner in history. the boeing triple 7 disappeared on a flight from kuala lumpur malaysia to beijing with 239 people on board including three americans. because the plane's communication systems were silenced, experts can only estimate that its final location is along one of these corridors toward the north or toward the

and seth doane is with the u.s. navy. >> reporter: this u.s. navy mission today was to cover 27,000 square nautical miles of open ocean in the southern corridor. are you looking for debris, are you looking for life rafts? >> i'm looking for everything. >> reporter: francis enriquez studies radar images on this flight that flew over indonesia and out into the indian ocean. >> the radar will give me pictures of anything big on the water. and then i will zoom in, verify that it's not debris and go back to the radar. >> reporter: the two corridors identify the possible location of the plane based on the last signal that was picked up by a satellite over the indian ocean. the size of the new search area is based on the estimates of plane's remaining fuel. to the north the plane would have flown mostly over land, china and kazakhstan are among countries asked to check radar records. the australians are leading the search in the south, mostly over water. and that is where this plane comes in. this is the u.s. navy's p3 o'ryan, it was developed to dete

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we'll get the latest from seth doane in beijing, and captain sully sullenberger. more russian troops apparently sent into crimea. charlie d'agata and elizabeth palmer are on the ground in ukraine tonight. budget cutters take aim at military commissaries. what it would mean for the families who depend on them to make ends meet. >> it would directly affect my household budget. >> axelrod: and daylight saving. who really stands to gain when we lose an hour of sleep tonight? captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod with a western edition of the broadcast. a malaysia airline 777 cruising along at 35,000 feet from kuala lumpur to beijing disappeared off the radar early this morning, no radio call, no distress signal. and now two oil slicks seen off the southern coast of vietnam are fueling fears that the plane with 239 people on board crashed into the south china sea. relatives of passengers have been gathering at the airport in beijing. three americans are reported to have been on board. the names of two pass

seth doane is in malaysia. seth, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, anne-marie. yes, this has been just an agonizing wait for family members as you might imagine over the last 12, 13 days just following this news. i just got off the phone with a friend of the pilot, a guy named peter chong who told me this has been like a roller coaster, an up and down of emotion. right now he says he feels like he's at the bottom of that roller coaster, not sure when he's going to go back up. we've had relatively limited access to family members in kuala lumpur, but cbs news has been speaking with family members back in beijing where there's been a mix of hope and one person whispered to our cbs news producer, we all know what this might mean. of course, everyone is being very cautious in saying we've heard news before, we've seen satellite photos before that have turned out to be nothing, so people are being very, very cautious to say too much. but i think that one e-mail i got just kind of sums it all up. it's from a woman named sara bajc who i interviewed back in beijing. she

seth doane, cbs news, kuala lumpur, malaysia. >>> australian officials said today they cut their search area in the southern indian ocean by half using new analysis of the plane's likely fuel consumption. >>> some new details this noon. surprise testimony from osama bin laden's son-in-law today after he unexpectedly took the stand at his own terrorism trial. the courtroom sketches show the defendant at his trial for conspiring to kill americans. he recounted the night of the september 11th attacks saying osama bin laden asked him to rally terrorists around the world against america. 48-year-old defendant has pleaded not guilty. >>> if you are looking for a job, head to north dakota. thanks to the oil boom, the state has about 20,000 job vacancies including everything from truck drivers to engineers to receptionists. north dakota will roll out a recruitment campaign in may. i wonder if they have an opening for a meteorologist. >> somebody likes a lot of cold weather. >> there you go. >> frosty the snowman. >> see, north dakota. >> it's unbelievably cold up there. they should pay those pe

seth doane is in malaysia, jeff pegues on what we learned today. toyota is hit with a colossal fine for lying about unsafe cars. jim axelrod has details. a simple new test is about as good as a colonoscopy in finding cancer. dr. jon lapook has the story. and the chairman of starbucks announces on this broadcast a $30 million gift for troops coming home from war. >> i was not mentally prepared or emotionally prepared for what we saw at walter reed. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. the mystery of malaysia airlines flight 370 is about more than a missing jet liner. it's about 239 missing people. today, distraught, angry relatives showed up at a press briefing in malaysia and demanded more information. two thirds of the passengers were from china, three were american. 12 days after the boeing triple 7 vanished on a flight from kuala lumpur to beijing, president obama called the investigation a top property. cbs news has learned f.b.i. has taken a role. th

seth doane is in kuala lumpur tonight and begins our coverage. >> reporter: when police searched captain zaharie ahmad shah's home they found a flight simulator. the 53-year-old pilot who is seen sitting in front of a simulate never a video he posted on-line. at today's press conference authorities say the simulator was confiscated and rebuilt at the police station. >> officials from the royal malaysian police visited the home of the pilot. they spoke to family members of the pilot and experts are examining the pilot's flight simulator. >> zaharie who had been flying with malaysia airlines since 1981 was an aviation enthusiast known to offer lessons on the simulator. today we tried to enter a gated community where the captain lived but found beefed up security. >> can we just come inside? >> reporter: police also searched the copilot's house saturday. >> this is the copilot's house. he lived here with his family. we rang the doorbell but no answer. neighbors tell us that they have seen police cars and motorcycles here. they also fell us this was a relatively quiet family that kept to the

seth doane is going to speak to wood's girlfriend, who is still holding out hope.hat's ahead right here on "cbs this morning." >>> this morning, no damage or injuries are reported after a powerful earthquake struck off the coast of northern california. the magnitude 6.9 jolt was centered 50 miles west of eureka in the pacific ocean. the quake was felt from san francisco to southern oregon. a half dozen aftershocks followed, but no tsunami alerts had to be issued. >>> and this morning, we are hearing from the father of the gunman who killed 26 people at sandy hook elementary school more than a year ago. one parent who lost a child that day has told us that the father quote, holds the key to this whole thing. don daler is here to show you what peter lanza is finally saying about his son. don, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. adam lanza also killed his own mother and himself that horrific december day in newtown connecticut. his father peter, gave an extensive, just-released interview with "the new yorker" magazine. he said the only reason he is alive is he wa

seth doane, cbs news, kuala lumpur, malaysia. >>> well, in this country, the supreme court will hear argued to a religious base challenge to president obama's health care law. a group of companies require to cover contraceptives. the largest company hobby lobby stores says it's against their religious beliefs to suffer such contraceptives. >>> the white house will reportedly change major changes to the nsa's way of retrieving and storing america's phone data. susan mcginnis. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. this is a huge overhaul for the program but the program was first reported by "the new york times" and it's edward snowden who first disclosed the government's massive program. it could end with what the government currently does, sweeping up phone records of millions of americans and holding on to them for five years. phone companies would still hold on to phone records but no longer than 18 months. the government could obtain specific records but it would need a court order. that would include any new calls made to and from a suspect's home. the fisa court, the foreign int

more from jim axelrod, barry petersen and seth doane. more russian forces are li charlie d'agata street appropriating for an invasion. an american general faced 20 years for sexual misconduct. today he walked away with a reprimand. wyatt andrews reports. and he got to the tournament with a secret that might have ruined his career. manuel been orcas with isaiah austin. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: they are the biggest clues yet in the disappearance of light 370 by size and maybe much more. don two objects spotted in the southern indian ocean 1500 niles southwest of perth, australia. that is at the tail end of the route that investigators believe the plane may have taken after it veered off course on a flight from kuala lumpur to beijing 13 days ago. the objects were picked up by a satellite last sunday but it took time to analyze the pictures of what might be the wreckage of the boeing 777. today, australia had so much confident it found something important that the prime ministe

seth doane, cbs news, kuala lumpur. >>> in this country another winter storm to report. spring officially starts thursday, but this morning more snow and ice is falling on the mid-atlantic states. by this afternoon, heavy snow is expected from the central appalachians to the jersey shore. it's already snowing in virginia where some areas could see up to 10 inches. meteorologist chelsea ingram of our baltimore station wjz is following the storm. >> we're seeing another round of winter for places like the mid-atlantic where winter just won't quit. snowfall plus mixed precipitation. we've also got a severe side to this storm system, and that includes places like florida that could see severe thunderstorms as we head into your monday afternoon and evening. but back to the winter side for the mid-atlantic. d.c. and baltimore, you guys even into the morning commute are going to be dealing with moderate to heavy snowfall. it's not until about the lunchtime hour where things begin to taper off quite a bit. we'll be tapering off from the northwest to southeast as we head into mon

seth doane tracked down a friend of the captain. who has a flight simulator in their house? >> pelley: russia seizes crimea. the white house response. charlie d'agata, elizabeth palmer and bill plante on the biggest east-west confrontation since the cold war. the head of g.m. acknowledges terrible things happened in a delayed recall that claimed 12 lives. jim axelrod reports. and 24 men were denied the medal of honor because of prejudice. today, justice was done, and david martin met two of the men who lived long enough to see it. >> reporter: so you took out the machine gun? >> oh, yes i did. i had no other choice but to do that. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. for most of the world tonight, it is an unsolved mystery. but for the families of the 239 people aboard that misses malaysian jetliner, it is unmitigated agony. in beijing today, some of them threatened to go on a hunger strike unless they get answers. but 11 days after the boeing e.e.e. 777 disappeared answers are still hard to come by. today, so

. >> pelley: seth doane with the families. holly williams with search teams making new discoveries, and jeff pegues on how one mystery was solved.many are dead and missinr a mudslide takes out homes and cars. danielle nottingham is on the scene in washington state. in a rare interview the commissioner of the nfl talks concussions and kids. >> reporter: you see some of the questions you get from mothers saying should my kid play football. what do you say? >> pelley: and these judges thought they heard an angel. they didn't know how right they were. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. the last sliver of hope vanished in an instant. malaysia's prime minister announced today that flight 370 went down in the indian ocean and all 239 people on board are dead. the conclusion is based on new analysis of satellite data that tracked the boeing triple 7 after it veered off course on a flight from kuala lumpur to beijing 17 days ago. the wrecka

seth doane is in kuala lumpur for us tonight. seth. ood evening to you, scott. sources say there is evidence that the plane was turned off that original course after someone typed a course change into an onboard navigation system in the cockpit. this would suggest someone had real training in the 777 systems, something far more sophisticated than simply turning a wheel. we asked malaysian authorities about that today. was the plane's path, a westward direction, programmed into the aircraft's flight management system? >> as far as we're concerned, the aircraft was programmed to fly to beijing. >> reporter: the c.e.o. of malaysia airlines said reports the plane's flight path was tampered with may have been speculation. is it plausible? is it something you've considered? >> once you're in the aircraft, anything is possible. >> reporter: that's only sharpened suspicion of the pilots, zaharie ahmad shah, and the copilot, fariq abdul hamid. >> captain zaharie is a person who enjoys his life, who loves doing things to make people happy. >> reporter: peter chong is quic

>> seth doane. thanks, seth. the search area for flight 370 this morning now covers 7 million square miles. while it's still possible the jet flew along a northwestern curve american officials believe it's more likely the plane traveled across a southwestern proute across the indian ocean. >> the combined range is so vast it's like searching all of russia. michio kaku is a professor who joins us now. good morning. >> good morning. >> we know this is the third largest ocean in the world. what is our biggest concern? what's everybody's challenge? >> hollywood has us brainwashed into thinking we can locate a cell phone in the middle of the ocean. wrong. it doesn't work that way. the indian ocean is basically a dead zone, a black hole with regards to radar. remember that even in the atlantic ocean, where we can actually map the atlantic ocean, it took 17 years to locate the titanic and it took two years to locate the flight recorder even though we knew precisely where air france went down in 1979. it's like finding a

seth doane is at the hotel where that dramatic scene unfolded. seth, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. yes, these press briefings have become almost routine, a kind of predictable back-and-forth between the authorities and journalists who are trying to get answers from those authorities. but today, as cameras were getting set up and journalists taking their places, it was anything but normal. [ cries ] a chinese woman, apparently the relative of a passenger, was dragged by security kicking and screaming, from the press briefing room today. just before along with other relatives, they'd held up a banner that accused the malaysian government of withholding information. the acting transport minister addressed the chaos at the briefing. >> one of our main priorities is how to manage emotions and how to appease the families. >> reporter: earlier today thai military said they possibly picked up 370 turning west on radar, eight minutes after it lost contact with air traffic controllers. sources tell cbs news there is evidence flight 370's apparen

ahead we are going to seth doane in malaysia and he was there as families stormed a press conferencehis morning regarding flight 370. very tough for the families there. then we'll look into why pilots have the power to turn off that tracking technology. plus, al qaeda's latest magazine wants terrorists to be inspired by the boston marathon bombings. so counter-terrorism expert john miller is back in studio 57 with the new tactics. finally, do you find yourself tipping more? how new technology and the power of suggestion may be costing you big bucks. the news is back in the morning. we'll see you at 7:00 and i always think tipping more is a good thing. >> i do, too. i'd rather tip more than not. right? >> i was in the service industry. it's the best. if you get good service, take care of them. >> thank you, see you at 7:00. >>> bracketology time now. break out the brackets. march madness is here. and here at channel 5 we are getting into the bracket challenge. we are going to take a look at some of our predictions for the big hoop tournament that started also night. we start with me.

seth doane with how the government reacted. [ screaming ] >> reporter: a chinese woman apparently theof a passenger was dragged by security kicking and screaming from the press briefing room today. just before, along with other relatives, they had held up a banner that accused the malaysian government of withholding information. the acting transport minister addressed the chaos at the briefing. >> how to manage emotions and how to appease the families. >> reporter: today the malaysian authorities said data had been deleted back in february from the flight simulator confiscated during the search of the pilot's house. >> some data has been deleted from the simulator and forensic work to retrieve it is ongoing. >> reporter: sources say an initial review of the pilot and copilot's seized personal computers and emails revealed no evidence of any hijacking plans or plot. you can certainly feel those tensions rising. of course, earlier in the week, family members of passengers threatened a hunger strike in passengers and earlier of course there were those scenes of chaos here all underlying

and then seth doan, he is in china, he spoke to the girlfriend of one of the american passengers. reason she is still holding out hope that her boyfriend is alive. and then, finally, a california pioneer in human genetics is with us in studio 57 with his plan to help people live longer and healthier live. we all want that. the news is back in the morning. we will see you at seven. >> all right. norah, thank you. >>> it is 65:71. we have a fight over francisco's waterfront and it's washing ashore. >> should the voters have to weigh in any time a developer proposed a tall building on the edge of the bay? a judge is set to hear arguments in week. we have an inside look. >> good morning. frank and michelle. imagine you are a developer and you want to build a high-rise on the waterfront. you spend millions of dollars paying architects and lawyers and getting permits and approvals from all the right city agencies. this takes years, by the way. once you are done with that it's still not clear you are going to be able to go forward because you have to go to the voters. and they could be n

seth doane and mark albert report.l street's bull market turns five years old today as investors celebrate, history says a correction is coming. a new test to diagnose alzheimer's much earlier and with much more accuracy. dr. jon lapook explains. >> and how song birds survive. if you think the winter's been rough, imagine how these guys feel captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> jeff: good evening, everyone, i'm jeff glor with st

seth doane and jeff pegues have the latest. crimea gets ready to vote on whether to become part of russia on the eve of the vote elizabeth palmer reports on the leaders of ukraine's opposition who are disappearing. >> the billion-dollar bracket. we will talk to a math professor who says he has got the equation when it comes to picking winners the ncaa tournament. >> and we won mathematical mojo and we want to see you are hot going in. >> and history on ice. the story of a gold medalist goalie making her debut in what had been an all male hockey league. >>

. >> seth doane is in kuala lumpur where victims' families are demanding better answers. seth good morning. >> reporter: good morning. yes, officials today here in kuala lumpur used today's press briefing to go through those calculations that experts used using satellite data to try to determine where that plane went. talking with family members, what we're finding is that all of this data these new announcements, they're not answering questions. they're raising questions. and fueling frustration. anger poured on to the streets of beijing today in a rare public protest washed closely by police and paramilitary. passengers' families marched two miles to the malaysian embassy, carrying banners reading "give us an explanation." malaysia airlines executives tried to do that today in kuala lumpur. >> we do not know how this terrible tragedy happened. but as the airlines family we are all praying for the passengers and crew. >> reporter: it was little solace for distraught families. some learned the news by a text message that read malaysia airlines deeply regrets that we have t

get latest from our seth doan. >> the hunt is expanding as rescue teams widen their search. 22 aircraftnd 40 ships have been deployed to search the area of the south china sea where the flight enroute to beijing lost contact with controllers. at a press conference this morning officials revealed that radar suggested the plane may have turned back before it disappeared. malaysia airlines says the pilots of the boeing 777 aircraft never sent a distress call. investigators are reviewing security camera video from the airport focusing on two passengers who were on board that flight traveling on stolen passports. at a beijing hotel not far from the airport emotional family members are conducting their own search for answers. this woman didn't give us her name, said her sister, 20-year-old, was on that flight. the family cannot take it she told us. i can't break the news to our 84-year-old father. the flight was supposed to land a day and a half ago. malaysia airlines warned families to prepare for the worst. why can't they find the plane, she asked? science and technology are so developed, h

seth doane speaks with the family of a missing american. >> until there's proof that philip is dead,use to believe it. >> pelley: bob orr on the investigation. and we'll talk to sully sullenberger about what might have been gone wrong. foe rstime, the father of adam lanza talks about the sandy hook shootings and his son's mental health. >> reporter: does he blame himself in any way? >> pelley: don dahler has the story. a blood test may predict alzheimer's disease. dr. jon lapook on the new research. and chip reid reports on what may be the biggest obstacle keeping man from reaching mars. captioning sponsored by cbs

. >> pelley: seth doane with the families. holly williams with search teams making new discoveries, and jeff pegues on how one mystery was solved.many are dead and missinr a mudslide takes out homes and cars. danielle nottingham is on the scene in washington state. in a rare interview the commissioner of the nfl talks concussions and kids. >> reporter: you see some of the questions you get from mothers saying should my kid play football. what do you say? >> pelley: and these judges thought they heard an angel. they didn't know how right they were.

seth doane takes us on the search. bob orr on what we've learned today. the president moves against russia in the biggest east-west standoff since the cold war. elizabeth palmer and charlie d'agata on the crimea crisis. >> what happened to the universe right after the big bang?

seth doane tracked down a friend of the captain. >> reporter: who has a flight simulator in their house? >> pelley: russia seizes crimea. the white house responds. charlie d'agata, elizabeth palmer, and bill plante on the biggest east-west confrontation e the ld war. the head of g.m. acknowledges terrible things happened in a delayed recall that claimed 12 lives. jim axelrod reports. and 24 men were denied the medal of honor because of prejudice. today, justice was done, and david martin met two of the men who lived long enough to see it.

we'll get the latest from seth doane in beijing, and captain sully sullenberger.e russian troops apparently sent into crimea. charlie d'agata and elizabeth palmer are on the ground in ukraine tonight. budget cutters take aim at military commissaries. what it would mean for the families who depend on them to make ends meet. >> it would directly affect my household budget. >> axelrod: and daylight saving. who really stands to gain when we lose an hour of sleep tonight? captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod with a western edition of the broadcast.

we start with cbs news correspondent seth doan in beijing. what's the latest? >> good morning, the search for flight 370 has widened to include 22 aircraft and 40 ships from 11 different countries including the united states. people from have been sent in to assist with the investigation, today in malaysia authorities there say they will review radar images that seem to indicate that the plane may have turned back just before it lost contact with controllers. there think are also looking closely at security camera footage from inside kuala kualar airport focusing on two passengers who were traveling on stolen passports. two-thirds of the passengers on board this plane are chinese. and family members here in beijing have been taken to a local hotel where malaysia airlines is offering what little comfort, little information they can. today the airline did tell those waiting family members that they should begin to prepare for the worst. charlie? >> rose: thank you, seth. joining us cbs news justice and homeland security bob orr who spent many years on the transpo

seth doane tracked down a friend of the captain. who has a flight simulator in their house? >> pelley: russia seizes crimea. the white house response. charlie d'agata, elizabeth palmer, and bill plante on the biggest east-west confrontation since the cold war. the ad

seth doane speaks with the family of a missing american. >> until there's proof that phillip is dead, i refuse to believe it. >> pelley: bob orr on the investigation. and we'll talk to sully sullenberger about what might have been gone wrong. for the first time, the father of adam lanza talks about the sandy hook shootings and his son's mental health. >> reporter: does he blame himself in any

seth doane is in malaysia, jeff pegues on what we learned today.a is hit with a colossal fine for lying about unsafe cars. jim axelrod has details. a simple new test is about as good as a colonoscopy in finding cancer. dr. jon lapook has the story. and the chairman of starbucks announces on this broadcast a $30 million gift for troops coming home from war. >> i was not mentally prepared or emotionally prepared for what we saw at walter reed. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley.

seth doane is in kuala lumpur where a news briefing ended a short time ago. seth, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. authorities here released new satellite images today that revealed 122 possible objects in the southern indian ocean. they calculated the size of those objects between roughly 3 feet and about 75 feet, which is about the size of a tennis court. those objects are about 1500 miles off the coast of perth, australia. the acting transport minister held up those images in the press briefing earlier today and explained how satellites were able to look through -- peer through gaps in the clouds to see what he called white dots which were those possible objects. these in the water not far from where other countries' satellite data showed objects there. he said that this was one of the most credible leads so far. this was malaysia's acting transport minister. >> we have now had four separate satellite leads from australia, from china, and france. showing possible debris. it's now imperative that we link the debris to mh370. >> reporter: authorities

for "cbs this morning," i'm seth doane in kuala lumpur. >>> search crews north of seattle say there aresed to sit at the base of a hill before several inches of rain fell last week. on saturday morning, much of that hill came crashing down. mud and debris cover one square mile this morning. danielle knottingham is there. >> reporter: after a massive mud slide destroyed the town of oso, washington, 30 homes and a section of highway were destroyed when mud ran down the mountain. today's rescue efforts have been hampered due to the size and severity of the mud slide. first responders did rescue a 6-month-old baby over the weekend. the baby was one of eight pulled from the mud flow. washington governor jay insley took to the air to view the devastation. officials believe this mud slide was caused by massive rain. this area of washington state has received nearly twice the normal amount of rain this month. charlie, gayle and clarissa? >> danielle thanks. >>> we want to look at the science of mud slides with "cbs this morning's" contributor michio kaku physics professor at the city college of

. >> seth doane is in kuala lumpur as families await word, and bob orr on where the investigation goes from here. >>> we begin with today's "eye-opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> this is probably the best lead we have right now, but we need to get there, find them, see them, assess them. >> possible breakthrough in the search for flight 370. >> australia has released satellite images of debris which may be related to the missing flight. >> the aircraft have been sent to try to find the unidentified objects some 1,550 miles southwest of perth. >> the flight 370 families have already been briefed. the malaysians have dispatched six ships to help with the search. >> the location of these objects will be extremely difficult. >> russians are finalizing the official takeover of crimea. >> we won't be getting into a military excursion in ukraine. >> first lady michelle obama on her first visit to china for the week-long three-city visit with her mother and daughters. >> in pennsylvania, deputies say a teenager tried to poison his exgirlfriend's new boyfriend with ricin. >> caught on camer

seth doane is there where the relatives are anxiously awaiting. >> reporter: that initial flight path to include other areas that the plane might have reached based on how much fuel was on board. the focus of the international hunt expanded today, from the south china sea where the plane vanished to malaysia's west coast at the maloca strait. >> it's a huge massive operation. hopefully, the combination of all these efforts, we'll get more tangible results. >> reporter: as this search stretches into a fourth day, relatives of the 239 people on board are growing more frustrated. the amateur video appeared to capture bottles being thrown at malaysia airline representatives during a heated meeting monday. along with providing food and lodging at this beijing hotel, the airline is offering passengers' relatives $5,000. but this man's 26-year-old son was on board hasn't taken it. also, he told us he doesn't plan to accept the airline's offer to fly him to malaysia until there's concrete information about the missing flight. so far he says there's nothing. a vigil was held on the streets of

seth doane is in kuala lumpur where the relatives remain desperate for information. seth, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, norah. that's right. all of the attention here in malaysia is still on that search off of the western coast of australia. authorities here tell us they believe that is still the most credible lead, though they do remind us the search continues in the northern corridor, as well. they cautioned us in today's press briefing that this will be, quote, in their words, "a long haul." ♪ in this kuala lumpur suburb midday prayers have taken on new urgency. >> every single prayer i am praying for mh-370. >> reporter: annur rizal comes here every day. many have wondered what the grainy satellite images out of australia might mean. >> still no concrete evidence so we still have the hope you know. hopefully, they are still alive. >> reporter: and there's particular interest in this international mystery at this community mosque. it's where the co-pilot of flight 370, fariq hamid, prayed. he lived just a few doors down. here, there are serene pra

. >> reporter: seth doane has been following this story since it broke and he follows this story from kuala lumpur, malaysia. seth good morning. >> reporter: good morning. here all eyes are on the search off the coast of western australia but as holly broadcast, the news of the chinese satellite seemed to take the acting transport minister by surprise. he seemed surprised by that news. just earlier he mention thad a high delegation went to beijing today to meet with the passengers' family members there. >> the malaysian government affects the highest party and search and rescue. >> reporter: representatives from the malaysian government met with passengers' relatives in beijing today but left without taking questions. we are here. we want to know what happened. >> reporter: some worry the search may only issue more false hope. this man's flight was on flight 370. every bit of major news turns out to be disappointment, he told us. i wonder how much disappointment is still ahead of us. shu was among those protesters who made international headlines when they unfurled banner criticized t

>> the hunt, seth doan is along for the search. >> too much coverage, sand are a?coverage, because we don't have a lot of facts, everything you receive is mostly speculation. >> what we're trying to do is put pieces of the puzzle together because triple 7's don't evaporate into the air. >> if a pilot is going to dump an airplane, if you're going to kill yourself and the passengers you put it down, you don't then have to make the left turn and fly for hours afterwards. and i've been around the block a long time. >> a very long time, forever. >> even more than all of us combined, geraldo. >> and south second street and waynesburg -- >> i had fun watching you -- >> all right, get your bobby socks out. my point is, you can't tell the audience what the important story is, they will tell you. if they tell you that is what they want you -- to your detriment -- >> there is a certain amount of casey anthony curiosity -- >> the cop on the corner asks me about it, my mother asks me about it. >> i went out this weekend, that is all anybody wanted to talk about. >> there was ne

plus, seth doane is in malaysia why the announcement was just made that more than 100 options possiblyto flight 370 were spotted on satellite. we're also on board a search plane this morning as crews fly through rough weather trying to find the wreckage off australia's coast and nascar's drive to diversify. we talk to daryl bubba wallace, jr. and other drivers about their effort to change the face of the sport. the news is back in the morning. we'll see you guys at 7:00 straight up. have either one of you heard of daryl bubba wallace, jr.? i know the bigger names in nascar. that's not one i know. >> i haven't heard of bubba. >> thanks, gayle. >> you're going to meet him today. >> all right. another reason to watch. thanks, gayle. >>> new surveillance video of missing 8-year-old relisha rudd and her alleged abductor kahlil tatum show the two the day rudd disappeared. police say the video was taken february 26 at the holiday inn express in northeast d.c. tatum was working as a janitor at the homeless shelter where rudd lived. he also is wanted for murdering his wife. her body was found a

navy takes our seth doane along for the search as new evidence this morning points to sabotage. >>> gmes another major recall as its new ceo faces the crisis head on. >>> plus, the breakthrough that could help protect you from spoiled food. >>> we begin this morning with a look at today's eye opener. your world in 90 seconds. >> whoever did this had some expertise in flying. this was not just someone on the an

. >> seth doane is in kuala lumpur as families await word, and bob orr on where the investigation goeswe begin with today's "eye-opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> this is probably the best lead we have right now, but we need to get there, find them, see them, assess them. >> possible breakthrough in the search for flight 370.

seth doane with a very pricey fish story. >> it's the fish, the knife and a little rice.re's not much else. >> eating fish is part of life. >> part of life? >> yeah. >> at his tokyo restaurant isana the chef told us something surprising in this fish-obsessed city some customers expect the seafood to come from a certain market. that market called tsukiji is the largest. packed with every type of seafood from bright colored octopus, shrimp to king crab to tiny sardines. the chef is usually here searching for inspiration. >> i found some squid. >> you're creating the menu as you shop. >> yeah. >> more than four billion dollars worth of seafood mass through tsukiji in japan but consumes 10% of the world's fish. >> i'm from chicago we have lake michigan, we have fresh seafood but nothing like it looks like the fish just got out of the water. it's amazing. >> alana is a teacher and foody. >> i had salmon and others which i love. like i would marry it just eat it every day. >> 30,000 tourists a year come to see the find tuna lined up for auction. >> the fattier tuna and with the

plus seth doane is in malaysia where that announcement was made that more than 100 objects possibly related70 were spotted on satellite. we're also on board a search plane this morning as crews fly through rough weather trying to find the wreckage off of australia's coast. and a bay area leader in the farm-to-table movement talks to her younger self about overcoming challenges and reaching the height of success. we're talking of course about chef alice waters of berkeley chez panisse. she shares her note to settlement. into us is back in the morning. we'll see you at 7:00. >> all right. >> reporter: back to you two, you guys. >> all right. thank you. >>> 6:51 now. for the first time in weeks, a big batch of snow is blanketing the sierra just in time for the weekend and you know the skiers are loving that. so is sean bennett up early from our sister station at kovr at donner summit with the very latest. sean. >> reporter: hey, good morning, frank and michelle. yeah, ideal conditions up here if you are going to come up skiing perhaps today, tomorrow, over the next couple of days because it is