bill settle supervises these schools in southeast asia and west africa. settle: i worked in 20 countries with this program. and most farmers think that anything that is crawling in a rice field is potentially damaging the rice. they think that any little damage to the rice plants is going to result in yield loss. so there's a lot of inherent fear with regards to the nature in front of them. so to tell them not to be using pesticides, after "we" have been telling them to use pesticides for the last 40 years, since the 1960s and '70s, is difficult. what we do in our training programs is help the farmers demonstrate for themselves what's going on by doing simple experiments. narrator: experiments are designed for farmers to be able to observe and understand how pests are controlled in a system without pesticides. settle: we start with two plots. one is the conventional plot, where they do what they normally do, they apply the insecticides like they normally would. the other plot is something that is the experimental plot. call it the ipm plot. and even there

it is found throughout africa and southeast asia. there are a number of areas in southeast asia where al qaeda has tried to develop contacts and cells and put in place the infrastructure, whether for fundraising activities or support and facilitation. there is no place in the globe where al qaeda said they weren't going to seek some type of presence. southeast asia is where al qaeda has had a historical presence. >> [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> later after the house on c-span and c-span.org. the house returns in 20 minutes, 6:30 eastern for a series of votes including a resolution that would condemn russia. live coverage of the house in 20 minutes at 6:30. earlier today, the official text of the fiscal year 2015 budget proposal was officially presented before the u.s. house. tom cole is a member of the house appropriations committee and we talked to him this morning on "washington journal." >> we turn to the subject of the federal budget. president

in one of the lectures last year to import about the southeast asia could very possibly take time to play for the world's factory. the dough with labor costs increased in recent years. time is going to get less attractive to those seeking cheap manufacturers today at the country's total population of around three hundred million. nearly fifty percent of them breaking kicking and kicking four years old. the labor force there are three hundred ninety million people top asian country. dip into labor force me. there are many waiting for the opportunity to mingle with each other for years. according to the industry stress from china that topic is happening even exhilarating. for the past ten years world capital of the movement toward adding country. he'll increase of twenty five percent. china's always seen increased eleven percent growth every year. queued up to forty percent of nike shoes are made in china. only thirteen person or maybe not but john lennon china's manufacturing declined thirty two percent. that same year the amount manufacturers and forty one percent of likely she is. i

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. >> weeks is an engineer, husband and father of two young boys. >> he would take his kids to the zoo. >> in fact, preparing the boys was a major issue before paul left for his 28-day assignment abroad. >> we cried when he left. this is a big change for the family. we prepared lincoln, you know, to skype him and a map where daddy was going to be. >> when weeks left home, he told his wife he was leaving a few things behind. >> i'm going to leave my wedding ring and watch and should anything happen, i want the ring to go to the first son that's married and the watch to the second. i said something to him, like don't be stupid, just come back and i'll give it back to you and you can give it to them. >> hours later, the pilots pass through security at the airport. >> they're there early. >> miles o'brien is an aviation expert for cnn. >> they'll talk about the winds alof

we also have other terrorist groups active in southeast asia such as al-qaeda. i remember one group responsible for the bali bombing in 2002 and a number of other plots. hezbollah is active in southeast asia, and of course, if you want to tie china in to this, you have the stabbings, the number of people in china. there is an al-qaeda-linked terrorist group called the east turkistan-islamist movement that is active in china. >> scott, what do you think happened here? >> i think it was a criminal act. the 777 is such a reliable airplane i can't imagine that there was some sort of structural malfunction that was enough to bring this airplane down. you could have an engine malfunction. you could even have an engine do what is called an uncontained failure. but that would really have to be very catastrophic to bring the airplane down. the fact that you didn't have any transponder emissions, transmissions, anything from a system that is called acars which transfers to airplane back to the airline, you didn't have any of that such as you did with air france 447 back i

kuala lumpur connects southeast asia to the continent. paul weeks needs to make it thousands of miles inland to mongolia. >> and he was doing it for right reason. it was his dream job. >> reporter:er and he is an engineer and husband to danika and father to two boys. >> he spent so much time with the kids, and took them to the zoo. and they were like his little shadow. >> reporter: in fact, preparing the boys was a major issue preparing for paul's 28-day abroad assignment. >> itt wthis was a big change fe family and especially lincoln, and he had bought him a little mini pad to skype him and a map to know where daddy would be. >> reporter: when he left home, he told his wife that he was leaving a few things behind. >> he said, i am leaving behind my wedding ring and watch, and if anything should happen to me, i want the wedding ring to go to the first son marry and the second to have the watch. i said something like, don't be stupid, you come back and i will give it back to you, and you can give it to them then. >> reporter: hours earlier

adjusting for air passengers is intensifying in southeast asia. the colonies had seen the worst in the number of airlines serving the region singapore airlines already enjoys a high reputation for its customer services. now let's read all the efforts to attract even more passengers like josh hill reports. i think. singapore airlines unveiled its first class seats last year. it says will offer passengers extra cold for it. a line spent two years developing the seats in cooperation with the bmw group. as i have seen their premiums. never mind she's the one and remains in you to go to commit to live with us singapore airlines has a great deal of their forks into improving the quality of the cervix. our crew was granted special permission to visit the training facility dedicated to this purpose. i am. this is where are you tired of independence or training. competition to get into the facility is the errors. beeline employs a total of eight thousand sq cabin attendants. he recruits undergo sixteen weeks of training twice as long as the industry averag

of possibilities you talked about human trafficking but there are bad actor who's operate in southeast asia we don't normally think about. iranians. not necessarily this individual but there was a terrorist plot in thailand last year against israeli interests malaysia is a transit point for terrorist activities in southeast asia. we have al qaeda. a member was responsible for bali bombing in 2002 ask a number of other plots hezbollah is active in southeast asia. if you want to tie china into this, we had a terrible terrorist attack with stabbings of a number of people in china. there is an al qaeda linked terrorist group called east turkistan islamic movement active in china? >> scott, what do you think happened here? >> i think there was a criminal act. 777 is such a reliable airplane i can't imagine there was a malfunction that was enough to bring this airplane down. you can have a engine malfunction and an engine have a failure but that would really have to be very catastrophic to bring the airplane down the fact you didn't have any transponder emissions, transmissions, anything from the

>> there is a history in southeast asia of number one al-qaeda involvement. in 2000 in kuala lumpur, we saw a plot carried out, thankfully not carried out, but planned by the 9/11 master mind khalid shaikh mohammed to hijack 11 airplanes in southeast asia. some of the 9/11 hijackers passed through that country. if we are considering the terror angle, in western china, where this plane may have been diverted we're founding out, there was a group called the uighurs. they want to break away from china. form their own islamic state and if you want to make political statement against the chinese government, no better way to do it than to hijack a beijing bound plane. >> the problem is, they're not taking credit and if they want to get attention for who they are, these uighurs, wouldn't they have taken credit for this? >> well, judge, a few things here. one, they may still have the plane. probably unlikely, but who knows. if it was unsuccessful, say the plane went down and -- they'd be quite embarrassed. >> thanks so much. and with me now, former assistant director

it is found throughout africa and southeast asia. there are a number of areas in southeast asia where al qaeda has tried to develop contacts and cells and put in place the infrastructure, whether for fundraising activities or support and facilitation. there is no place in the globe where al qaeda said they weren't going to seek some type of presence. southeast asia is where al qaeda has had a historical presence. >> the next day, vice chair spoke briefly on the senate floor about the possibility of a special prosecutor to resolve the issue between his committee and the cia. the quorum call be diswendz with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. chambliss: i rise somewhat reluctantly to speak about an intelligence committee matter. allegations have been discussed in the halls of congress and in the press. based on press reports today, yesterday, and even last week, allegations have been made regarding the central intelligence agency's actions toward the committee as well as staff and members' actions on the international intel

. >> you said in november you were looking at things in southeast asia and north africa.ou still looking or has anything actually come through that you can't tell us about but that you're tracking closely. >> i can't tell you, as you know. we have -- first of all, the north sea is primarily our business. 100% of our production and 90% of our investment this year is in the north sea. we have a similar business model taking assets and developing those. we have assets in malaysia where we took over some old shell acerage and looking for fields and we have a deal in tunisia where we -- ct to have a >> how concerned are you about the political situation? this will have an impact on the way you do business, especially since all the parties here in london said if scotland is independent, they won't have a pound. >> again, the decision on the -- is clearly for the scottish people. i think that will come in september. for our business, clearly the vote for westminster as well as scotland, the oil business is extremely critical. it is the largest industrial business in scotland by

if you look in southeast asia, beyond normal situations.at kind of situation, it might be something that is interesting to look into. maybe 10% higher from current levels. your and quite a decent run. -- you have quite a decent run. inventory and in the u.s. is quite a low. we'll have a good harvest and down the road. we should see another high single digit pricing increase. sugar.ant to look into sugar is probably getting affected from the dryness and brazil. i did the valuation is cheap. what i would not change is coffee. up 80% yeartic as a to date. i think it's overdone. sufficient supply. it is awful on the brazilian side. we missed the rally. something else. we will look at sugar and oil, palm oil. something decent in return. books and dominic, have -- >> dominic, have a great week. banking on the success. their report. double-team from hong kong. ♪ >> the government of ukraine will move troops closer to crimea as the region voted to join a russia. leave voters want to ukraine and be under a moscow rule. with 20s are the worst east an

they haven't had a polio case in three years that means the who can now declare the whole of the southeast asia region free of this deadly virus. they say this announcement brings the goal of a polio free world much closer. major challenges remain. endemic.s cases have dropped substantially. bring the cases to 53 in nigeria. increasing from 58 and 2012 to 93 last year. ofitants have killed hudgins is a plotelieving it to harm muslim children. there have been outbreaks in countries such as syria and the horn of africa where immunization campaigns of been disrupted by conflict. cases rose by more than one third between 2012 and 2013. but with most of the world now officially polio free, there is greater optimism that the goal of wiping this virus off of the face of the planet is achievable. >> carbon emissions on only pollute the air that we breathe, they are having an impact on the biggest bodies of water. there is conclusive proof that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is making the oceans more acidic. for a glance of what the future might look like, naturally -- it is affecting the ocean f

initially you had so many ships from 10 countries yon wards search anything southeast asia, combing the coast of thailand, malaysia, vietnam looking for debris, looking for the plane because of what we now know based on satellite information theory is that the plane continued to travel for possibly another seven hours even after it lost contact with ground staff, with air traffic control. and it could be anywhere. an enormous area. that's why authorities are appealing for so much help. of course we heard today that they are in touch with their counterparts in the u.s. the u.s. navy called off one of its warships. it deployed many more long-range aircraft being sent to the southern corridor to help with malaysia's search in an area in which if there is any debris it is certainly very difficult to find now. >> many thanks indeed. we will of course keep you across any developments that we hear about in that search. >>> let's move on to our other top story this hour. after sunday's hastily organized and highly disputed referendum russia seems determined to absorb crimea as speedily as possi

it forms the upper reaches of meat on southeast asia's largest river. the city stretch one is packed language she means well. i mean thousand rice paddies reflecting the many tears at the heels of the region water splashing festival was a prayer for good harvest and protection from torture thirteen. this is the last to feature the traditional diet winter and the first day of the festival the festival last three games village is competing for christmas on the river and other events are held around the city mains water splashing comes on the final day. the parade is held in the city center ethnic groups original home was around she sometime. but overcoming the extended itself into two days time and miles as a result of the culture and customs so that i have much in common with those countries. the us chuck's of chili rice the only people in thailand which actually means water the people of the local word for water not only festivals whenever they want to express feelings of tool this is the traditional winter squash and water the festival grew from a ritu

nobody else in southeast asia is going to. if we weren't pushing, nobody else would be. >> certainly nobody else has the capabilities that we do in terms of investigating this kind of thing. let's talk about the fact, ambassador, that there were 239 people on this aircraft. about majority of them chinese. now is china, and they're realty sophisticated, are they going lay back and wait for the malaysian government? do you think they have their own thing cooking? >> i think they were worried. i think that's one reason they came forward with the satellite images. now, it doesn't say much for chinese intelligence if they looked at that debris and concluded it was from the airplane. i must say one of the first things i thought of when i asked myself who would destroy an malaysian airplane going from malaysian to china. my first thought was the uighurs. they have never conducted an international operation. they would want to do something to hurt at lot of chinese. their style in the past couple of months has been knife attacks. it's

. >>> back to the breaking news you've been following out of the southeast asia.earch is intensifying for the missing jetliners. several agencies are scouring the area. meanwhile, the agonizing wait continuing for family and friends for the passengers. malaysia airlines has send a senior management to beijing where the flight was supposed to arrive. an airline spokesperson says families members should, quote, prepare themselves for the worst. i'm joined by jim cavanaugh. with a welcome to you, we have learned this interesting fact that two passengers, possibly more, were traveling under false identities. how does this information impact the investigation? >> the commander are going to have to run thog leads to ground. it doesn't mean the answer there. worldwide travelers travel on fraudulent passports for a lot of reasons -- fraud, they want to skip immigration in china, or maybe their final destination. i think these passengers had tickets through to amsterdam and europe. they could have been trying to illegally immigrate or carry, smuggle money or drugs. terror

what kind of terrorism groups are active in that part of southeast asia. >> after 9/11, there was somerorist acts. remember the baly bonding. attacks on hotel. terrorist attacks against hotels in jakarta as recently as 2009. a lot of these groups are actually linked to all qaeda. so there are plenty of groups active in that part of the world. it is certainly a possibility. in addition, we have seen groups like iran active in there. we had that passport situation. but, last year in, in thailand, the ties arrested some iranians who had come through kuala lumpur and were involved in a plot to target the israeli embassy in bangkok. they have talked about there is planning that's gone on in kuala lumpur and there is also hezbollah that has been active. >> with the issues with the two iranians with the stolen pass ports, everyone seems to suggest there was no connection to terrorism. what do you make of the former cia, michael hayden, telling us, had their been some terrorist activity, there would have been more chatter by now but there has been nothing. >> it is hard to argue with the forme

nobody else in southeast asia is going to. weren't pushing, nobody else would be. >> certainly nobody else has the capabilities that we do in terms of investigating this kind of thing. let's talk about the fact, ambassador, that there were 239 people on this aircraft. about majority of them chinese. now is china, and they're realty sophisticated, are they going lay back and wait for the malaysian government? do you think they have their own thing cooking? >> i think they were worried. i think that's one reason they came forward with the satellite images. now, it doesn't say much for chinese intelligence if they looked at that debris and concluded it was from the airplane. i must say one of the first things i thought of when i asked myself who would destroy an malaysian airplane going from malaysian to china. my first thought was the uighurs. they have never conducted an international operation. they would want to do something to hurt at lot of chinese. their style in the past couple of months has been knife attacks. it's not j

they make sure no child is [ technical difficulties ] >>> -- in the whole of the southeast asia, we havelly achieved all polio free zone except for pakistan and afghanistan, and so long as we have live polio viruses in these two countries, we cannot be protected. >> reporter: india has always been declared polio free. with continued immunization campaigns, victims believe that polio will soon be a thing of the past. >>> i'm dave warren. a few storms we're keeping an eye on, impacting the national weather here, first in the northwest, the spin is an area of low-pressure that brought with it rain and snow to the higher elevations right over washington and oregon. but it has cleared out, and we're starting to see a few breaks in the clouds there. not a lot of snow, maybe just a few inches of snow coming down, so not a warning, but a fairly heavy ban of snow is producing that warning. here it is on the radar plus the clouds, right through nebraska, south dakota, and mp mn. a closer view shows this darker blue color indicating heavy bans of snow. in that is giving us about one inch an hour wi

. >>> it's sunday, southeast asia, a massive search under way for the missing commercial jet. the 777 disappeared on its way to beijing. tom costello has more on the search for answers. >> reporter: off the coast of viet na, two fuel slicks may provide the best hope. the plane left at kuala lumpur, the red eye flight to beijing, with 239 passengers and crew. among them, american phillip wood, ibm executive, but one to two hours into the flight 35,000 feet, air traffic controllers lost contact over the gulf of thailand. investigators say, it points to an abrupt end to a routine flight. >> whatever happened was catastrophic, and incapacitated the airplane such that the crew couldn't get a may day call off. >> reporter: the plane, boeing 777-200 series, nearly 12 years old, middle age for planes. it lost the tip of a wing after clipping another plane on the ground in shanghai. the wing was fixed but did that contribute to the accident? nbc news aviation analyst captain john cox. >> one of the things under way is a thorough review of all of the maintenance record of the airplane a

okay, at the to which show we talked about the search for the missing malaysia airline flight in southeast asiands one factor that could make the searchless difficult than other cases in missing cases, the gulf of thailand is just 250 feet deep at the deepest point. it will be much easier to locate debris. >>> we lighten things up, to gather around the water cooler. >>> the spelling bee that had to be postponed because organizers ran out of words. we have a winner, the word that ended it all -- stifling. >> steiflin. >> d-e-f-i-n-i-t-i-o-n. >> he's your spelling bee champion. he'll move on to the national spelling bee. for sofia, there's always next year. >> now, if you depend on toronto mayor rob ford to set the clocks, you may be running late this morning. daylight saving time starts this evening turn your clocks back and change the batteries in the smoke alarms. of course, we sprang forward over the weekend. we didn't fall back. look at that. he's amazing. the mayor had more than 143,000 twitter followers who have a solid excuse this morning for being late, it's rob ford's fault. >> that's w

is there a sense outside of china, inn southeast asia, that the malaysian government has handled this badly and for those count these perhaps have a smaller stake in the result of all this? which is to say not as many nationals on board the flight. is there a sense of frustration? >> the other regional governments, they might be looking at malaysia and thinking that they're handling it poorly. i'm not sure that too many other governments in the region would handle it well. we would be having very similar conversations if this had happened with the vietnamese airline, with a thai airline. the governments are not entirely transparent. and i was not at all surprised that it took the thai military ten days to respond. these militaries are secretive. thailand and splalz a decent working relationship, actually, but militaries in general are secretive. they don't like talking about what they can and can't see on their military radar and giving away information that could make their national security appear more vulnerable. and it probably just took them ten days to figure out what they actua

and southeast asia, these territorial conflicts with the philippines, with vietnam, and of course with the east china sea are hugely sensitive, and they can rally the public easily around those issues. it's worrisome because the truth is this is a dangerous gam. when you get the public mobilized around these issues, it can move in all kinds of different directions. so it may be targeted at japan one day, but it can easily come around and start to focus on the chinese the next day. >> evan osnos, fascinating. and of course you have a piece in "the new yorker" this week. it's on something completely different. coal. but we will read anything you write. up next, are women going to rule the world? think about it. some of the most powerful jobs in the world. the fed chair, the head of the imf, the chancellor of germany are all occupied by women. some argue that slowly but surely this will change the world. to understand why you're going to have to stay with us. predibut, manufacturings a prettin the united states do. means advanced technology. we learned that technology allows us to be craf

. >>> a frantic search now under way to finding missing passenger debt in southeast asia. the story we are focusing not and we want to welcome our viewers from cnn u.s. to cnn international. a boeing 777 like this one. richard qwest reports the jet was 12 years old. it took off from kuala lumpur carrying 239 people and heading to beijing. two hours and to the flight air traffic controllers lost all contact with the plane. chinese state media said the plane's radar signal was last detected over the ho chi minh air traffic control area in vietnam. search and rescue teams are working to locate the missing jet right now. china has deployed two ships to the south china sea to help in that effort. these are pictures of family members that had been gathering at beijing airport to greet their loved ones arriving on the plane and as you can see the distress of learning that plan would not be landing. it was to have landed saturday morning in beijing. using rather bleak language in a statement malaysia airlines said we are working with the authorities to have activated their search

just about this time one week ago came the first now of news out of southeast asia, terrifying word of a plane disappearing with twod 30 people on board. who could have expected, a week later, no one knows exactly where it is. the mystery began early hours of the morning local time. air traffic controllers lose contact with malaysia 370, it seems to disappear. a day later, the first confusing often contradictory clues, report the jet made a u-turn veering hundreds of miles off course. another terrifying report , are passengers with stolen passports. and malasian airlines say the final are report from cockpit, all right, good night. and forcing investigators to expand the search area from the gulf of thailand and the malacca straits all the way into the indian ocean. to make the challenge deeper, the average debt of the indian ocean nearly 13,000 feet. the original search area averages deaths of a couple hundred feet. "america tonight"'s lisa stark who has covered a number of air disasters joins us this hour. lisa the latest evidence suggests that perhaps this wasn't an accident, not a

unnecessary, a terrible mistake that cost the lives of 58,000 americans and millions of people in southeast asia. , i don't know how history is going to view any of us. my guess is that we will see this recent episode in american history, maybe not exactly the same but in a similar way. tavis: as hopelessly inarticulate as i have been tonight, -- >> you have been fine. tavis: as inarticulate as i have been, i do think that it is worth you seeing. you will determine whether or not you come away with the same blank stare that i did. "the unknown known" in theaters april 2 in los angeles and new york. then it rolls out across the country. i want to make sure i get a copy of this to put in my library. maybe in five years i will get what i didn't get the first time. >> by the way, i hate to contradict you but i think you did get it. tavis: if you say so. [laughter] good to see you. coming up, a conversation with ledisi. stay with us. tavis: eight time grammy nominated singer-songwriter ledisi has released her seventh cd called "the truth." she says it is all about embracing the new. we will find out

there are a number of areas in southeast asia where al qaeda has tried to develop contacts and cells. it be for fundraising, logistics or location. there has never been a place in the globe where they were not going to seek some type of presence. southeast asia is an area where al qaeda has had a historical presence. >> on wednesday, georgia senator saxby chambliss, ranking member of the intelligence committee, spoke on the senate floor about the cia controversy that the agency allegedly searched computer networks set up for staff. he said gop staff had not been made aware of the full investigation and there may be need for a special investigator. >> mr. president, i rise somewhat reluctantly to speak about an intelligence committee matter. past 48 hours the have been discussed rampantly in the halls of congress and in the press. based on press reports today, yesterday and last week, allegations have been made regarding the central intelligence agency's actions toward the committee as well as staff and members' actions on the senate intelligence committee towards the cia. feel compell

, across southeast asia allows vietnam going up to china, kazakhstan they are sending planes up to the air and looking at their radar and satellite data to look for this. look at the real allocation of resources where they're heading. china sending nine ships down to the southern indian ocean. unprecedented overseas and a good four out of five of the aircraft now involved in this international search, they're all heading south. so, that allocation of resources gives you a real sense of where the real focus of this search is today. >> where the intelligence is leading them. all right, thank you very much to jim sciutto. >>> "outfront" next really allocating all the resources to this spot. is it really there? the new satellite images have prompted this search. is this the best lead yet. we've seen these images before, remember a few days ago, last week, everybody thought they found it. if this is the missing plane, what does it tell us what happened aboard the flight. the whole question of motive. >>> the paerfamily of the passes hoping and praying tonight that this is not flight

a week after it disappeared in southeast asia, u.s. government source says the plane continued transmitting a ping to an orbiting satellite hours after going off radar and cutting communications with air traffic controllers. an investigator say it's increasingly likely the plane did double back making a left-hand turn flying over malaysia, strait of mall la ka and the indian ocean possibly staying airborne for another four to five hours. that means the plane could have traveled up to 2500 miles in any direction. a vast expanse of the globe that includes the indian ocean. who was piloting the plane and where were they going? malaysian authorities say anything is possible. >> there's been a lot of media speculation today after comments from unnamed u.s. officials that the plane may have traveled for some time after losing contact. as is standard procedure, the investigation team will not publicly release information until it has been properly verified and core bratsed with relevant authorities. >> reporter: the plane may well have flown

we find oils that are made from nuts in southeast asia, it's largely seems to be weather, but it's not one thing. >> it's not one thing. what makes this particular food price spike that we saw in the cpi report this morning somewhat different is that about four to five years ago there was a global food price increase, and they were rationing rice in some whole sale club retailer. >> i remember that. >> there is a strong food supply for basics, so it's not going to be--the increases in food won't be that strong. >> you know, you point out the rice shortage a few years ago because a lot of crops had been emphasized. corn crops have been emphasize because of ethanol. how easy is it to change consumer and prow producing behavior in the face of food crisis. >> research shows if beef prices go up, americans, they like their meat. they'll go to a lower grade type of red meat or they might switch to a cheaper--even a chicken or something like that. over all beef preferences are not as strong as they used to be, as you pointed out in your segment, so it's easy to sort of switch things around to

in southeast asia. we have more conflicting reports about the missing malaysian airlines jet liner. officials are denying a report by chinese media, who said their satellite images show what they believe to be debris from that plane. however, malaysia's civil aviation chief says, there is nothing. we went there, there is nothing. more than 200 people were on board that boeing 777 that was headed to beijing from kuala lumpur. >>> tonight, new york firefighters are sifting through rubble trying to find more victims of an explosion. today's blast killed four people. at least nine are still missing. a gas leak set off the explosion around 9:30 this morning leveling two buildings. >> i got the family together. i'm happy for that. those are the two things i can't replace. everything else in the house, i can replace. >> agents are on scene investigating call logs to the utility company. they say they're going to investigate the gas pipelines connected to those buildings. >> there is no cure for my cancer. >> my life has changed. lit never be the same. >> a long history of cancer with san j

we're in danger of thinking about aids in africa and latin america and southeast asia the way we show concern about malaria or epidemic diarrhea or problems of resistant tuberculosis in these same regions of the world. we forget what really made our concern about aids special and that it was a global concern. there is an urgent-- a very, very urgent need to develop a vaccine against h.i.v., not only to protect the billions of people in the world that are currently alive, but those who will become alive, and those who will live through the next century. the development of a vaccine is proving to be a very challenging task. harold varmus: it's clear that the aids virus, when it naturally infects the body, does not induce a sufficient immune response to eliminate the virus on its own. that's a daunting prospect for someone who wants to develop a vaccine. secondly, we have a very poor understanding of what components of the virus might be the most potent in inducing a response. i do think it will be a long time before we have an adequate vaccine. alexandra levine worked with jonas salk on

it's saturday afternoon in southeast asia. what's the latest? >> reporter: airline officials are saying despite the rules that the plane did crash, there are no signs of wreckage. we've learned there were four americans on board, including a mother and her infant and now more than 12 hours have past since the plane went missing. there are military planes and ships and helicopters from three different countries searching the waters to try and find this malaysian jet. it went missing about two hours after takeoff from kuala lumpur. the airline says the plane would not have enough fuel to still be in the air. they say that no one has reported the plane landing anywhere, so it seems all indications that this plane has gone down somewhere. the airline says in total, there were 12 crew members with 227 passengers, representing 14 different countries. meteorologists in that area say there was no significant weather in that area at the time, so that likely would not have contributed to what happened. and the pilots simply stopped communicating with air

but el nino could also cause problems in other parts of the world such as droughts in southeast asia and australia, now, as al said, this is by no means a sure thing. just two years ago the government issued an el nino watch, but it never came to be. the government puts the chances of the el nino happening this time at 50/50. brian? >> never boring on the weather front these days. anne thompson with all things environmental tonight. anne, thanks, as always. >>> an emotional jolt today in the trial of oscar pistorius. the former olympic track star was visibly shaken as he heard testimony from the neighbor who was first on the scene after the killing of girlfriend reeva steencamp last year. the neighbor described seeing steenkamp mortally wounded and an anguished pistorius crying over her, praying for her to live, saying he shot her thinking she was a burglar. >>> and still ahead tonight, a potentially deadly defect and it has some asking what took so long. >>> and later, winning four marathons wasn't enough. she decided to ski, is now competing for team usa at the paralympics. >>> bac

more flights between tokyo and southeast asia or europe will be scheduled during the daytime. with these changes, domestic airlines are rethinking how they work with travel agencies as hanada links tokyo with regions across japan, they want the agencies to set up overseas tourists that use the airport. >> translator: i want passengers to take our flights to hanada and transfer to planes bound for london, paris, frankfurt and munich on the same day. >> reporter: at present many people in japan's local regions get long haul flights from south korea's ancient airport. to attract customers, japanese travel agencies and airline companies will introduce a service giving passengers a free domestic flight to hanada if they fly from there. a hotel is now being constructed near hanada's international terminal to accommodate an crease in transit passengers from abroad. the hotel will provide 17 rooms for passengers in transit. a single room will look like this. guests can step off the plane and come straight to their room without passing through immigration. transit hotels are common aro

presence in southeast asia. especially in singapore and in the philippines, the u.s. relationship with australia is a strong as ever as evidence of i that continued plans for successive rotations of u.s. marines. with respect to the planned realignment of u.s. marines oconomowoc, the governor of okinawa approved a permit for the replacement at the end of last year. nonetheless, i believe that moving forward with the construction of infrastructure facilities on guam must await the final environmental impact in the actual record of decision. once those actions are completed and we have been provided the final master plans, including cost estimates and a time schedule, we will be better able to judge the feasibility of the plans. i support the be stationing of summer means from oconomowoc to to guam.kinawa should be done in a sound manner. admiral locklear and general scaparrotti, we would be interested in your assessments for the budget reductions and your ability to meet your mission requirements. we appreciate both of you joining us this morning. we look forward to yo

the organization's director for southeast asia praised india's leaders for their efforts to eradicate the disease. >> the successful completion of the long journey in this region to eradicate polio, it also marks one of the biggest public health achievements. >> the w.h.o. says 80% of the world's population now lives in a polio-free region. but health workers are still battling the disease in some parts of the world. the w.h.o. says polio replains endemic in pakistan, afghanistan, and nigeria. the organization has set a target of 2018 to make the entire world polio free. >>> prosecutors in tokyo have asked a court to impose a fine on the former governor. naoki inose is suspected of violating the public office's election law by failing to report a loan for his election campaign. the prosecutors say inose received half a million dollars from a medical group before an election two years ago. inose initially said it was a personal loan but he later agreed to regard the money as a loan for his campaign. the acknowledgment came after the former head and his son said that the loan was meant

it is found throughout africa and southeast asia.there are a number of areas in southeast asia where al qaeda has tried to develop contacts and cells and put in place the infrastructure, whether for fundraising activities or support and facilitation. there is no place in the globe where al qaeda said they weren't going to seek some type of presence. southeast asia is where al qaeda has had a historical presence. chatter,back over the you have not found anything to indicate there was a warning of an incident? >> not related to malaysian air. >> i want to ask you about ukraine and the charge that there was a intelligence failure. there has been an indication that the cia got this one right. and others did not. was there a disagreement about the analysis were smart >> under the leadership, they have done a good job to assure that the different elements have been able to work together. -- i'm proud that the work that the agency did on ukraine. our job is to identify the likely scenarios. times, world leaders will make incisions based on

growth---expected to come from the america's--the other half from emerging markets in india, southeast asia, china and eastern europe. onto changes at tesla--the electric car maker is adding a triple underbody sheild and alumimum deflector plates to model s sedan's. now that tesla is making the enhancements. the government is agreeing to end its investigation of two car fires last year. and, tesla struck a deal with the governor of new york that will allow it to continue selling cars directly to customers. in new jersey, lawmakers are giving the automaker until april 15th to continue direct sales. shares rallied $5 dollars friday. general motors chair mary barra testifies this week about the recall of a flawed ignition switch. gm admits some employees knew of the ignition problem as far back as 2004. the switch problem led to at least 12 deaths. as of friday, the recall expanded to more than 800 thousand chevy cobalt models. also on friday-- gm said its halting sales of certain chevrolet cruze models. the cars include 20-13 and 20- 14 models with a one-point-four liter engine. the automaker

staying in southeast asia ever since its handover in 1997 from britain to china, hong kong has been operating under a one-country, two-system rule. beijing promised to preserve some of the city's economic and social autonomy from the mainland, including freedom of the press. for a while, hong kong enjoyed one of the freest media climates in the region. in 2003,ing it ranked 18th in the annual press freedom index issued by reporters without borders. ten years later, the climate changed. hong kong now sits at number 61 in that same table. china is 5th from bottom. china watchers say beijing is gradually taking control over hong kong and the media are just a part of that. what was once a haven for free speech is now a dateline where critical journalists are attacked, newspapers editors are self sensoring and the government in beijing is being urged to back off. "listening post's" reporting of the steady decli of freedom of the press in hong kong. >> on february 26th, kevin lou, a veteran of the journalistic corps was attacked by two men with a cleaver. 11 men were arrested. any link was ruled ou