from kuala lumpur. and what can you tell us this morning? >> reporter: we know there was a phone call that was made from australia to the prime minister here in malaysia, and basically telling him this new information that they called new and credible information, that these objects were found in the southern part of the indian ocean and that they were hoping but did not know for sure, whether or not they were related to this missing flight. what we do know is that conversation took place, and the malaysian officials reacted to it, sending out very cautious statements, basically saying, look, the australians themselves have not yet found this evidence, and until they do, until they're able to find these objects that were spotted by satellite, there is no guarantee that they have anything to do with mh-370. very, very cautious, because as you know, these families have been put through this before. there was the oil slick at the very beginning that people talked about might be from the plane. that turned out not to be true. there were the satellite images that china released. those turned out to be not true, had nothing to do with the flight an

. >> and you're joining us from australia. we'll rejoin you in a bit. now to michael kay. john kirby said we're looking for the haystack, not just the needle yet. one of our viewers said, how long would it take to find that needle? what is one piece of evidence you would like to see that would help investigators here? >> we're talking about an investigation that has been over 17 days, with no conclusive leads. so, the analysis that the inmarsat guys are doing, that effectively is the interface between the satellite and the acars system. they use that to provide altitude and speed when the acars system is switched on. and that gives information back to the airline. so, it's a lot of space, 10 million square miles. so, what they've been doing in terms of trying to narrow it down to the sector in the area of perth, trying to do that. locate that haystack. and the progress that's been made, a lot of people slamming inmarsat or the malaysians for not getting it quicker. if they're going through this process of trying to work through the doppler shift and correlating mapping wit

from the u.s. and five other countries are helping. nbc's ian williams joins us live from perth, australia. good morning to you. this search area is so remote and so large some estimates have it the size of alaska. >> good morning to you, betty. officials say they are searching area today, which is smaller and more focused, but, yes, it is still the size of alaska. today's deployment is the biggest we've seen so far. 12 aircraft, including those from australia, new zealand, u.s., china, japan, and korea joining that hunt. also two ships out there, an australian and chinese ship. had he say conditions have been better after that 24-hour suspension because of horrendous weather. visibility today is said to be good, although the water is still very choppy. as of now it's, what, 5:00 in the afternoon here in australia. they have reported no sightings of anything suspicious or significant. now, also yesterday here in perth the arrival of new u.s. assets, submersible as well as a device which they call a pinger detecter for helping to detect that black box, but neither will be deployed until they've massively narrowe

we turn to john blaxland, senior fellow from the national university joining us live from canber canberra, australia. thanks for being with us. can you give us a sense of where they are in the search now? it's day two of these planes flying overhead, day two of that norwegian cruise ship being in that vicinity. and now, you know, it's five days after the satellites first took those images, so where do we stand today? >> well, you're absolutely right, it's five days after that image. so, the debris that was identified in those photographs is now quite at a different location. it's moved on. it's moved on to a different spot entirely, probably several hundred miles further to the east. and the problem is now, okay, there's been a request for additional imagery, but the imagery may not necessarily identify very much at all. the problem is that even though we've got good conditions at the moment, the photos that we saw from five days ago had an item that was just below the surface of the water. we don't know today if it's a meter or 3 feet further down or if it's still visible at all. so, it's really pr

and nbc's own bill neely joins us from australia. >> another day of frustration and there's been a searchthe coastline and having seeing no signs of anything unusual, you've got this curious thing of very high-tech planes, satellites, of course, 22,000 miles above the earth and very low-tech men on deck with binoculars but, sadly, all coming up with the same thing, that is nothing, and a little defensive today saying it's about the most inaccessible place on earth to conduct a search like this and he was also hinting that this area can be where shipping containers can be in the ocean having fallen off ships. so it is a difficult area. it is a difficult search. the search will resume tomorrow but sadly, today, another frustrating day. nothing found. bill neely, nbc news, western, australia. >>> climate bills, massive subsidies and fracking bans, president obama didn't deliver. now they are mad and against democrats and he will. my next guest says the stage is set for a democratic energy civil war. energy civil war. joining me now, greg friend, kim strassel and columnist. kim, great article

colleen keller, michael kay, les abend and will ripley joining us from australia and we have rosa floress is just in from hms toowoomba has made best speed and entered the search area for flight 370 after departing on sunday afternoon. there we go, the ship has made its way into the area where we believe the objects were found. and so they are -- made good time on saturday afternoon. so there we go. we have that ship. we've also got the ship that will is out shadowing. and then we have this new information that rosa flores is bringing us. i want to get to you first, colleen. what do you make of rosa's information here talking about, you know, if the origination of two different places in the ocean where objects were found, and it doesn't -- the data doesn't quite jive? >> it's no problem that the data doesn't jive. the reason is the data is uncertain. so you could have two separate hypotheses and they could be conflicting. since you have overlap and uncertainty, you have to keep them both on the table until you exclude one, until you have credible evidence that takes one completely away.

civil aircraft, five ships racing against time to find the items oochl dan, thanks for joining us from australiathat update. that is all the time we have left this evening we want you to set "hannity" to record the series so we get to see you every night. thanks for being with us we'll see you back here tomorrow night. >>> o'reilly factor is on. tonight. >> are you concerned that america's influence in the world, your influence in the world is on the decline? >> a new poll says most americans still believe president obama is a strong leader, many descenters are confused. we'll explain the situation. the agency most remote agency annualized the areas one area of the ocean measuring 400 square kilometers were able to identify 122 potential objects. >> searchers closing in on possible debris from the missing jetliner. we will update you on what the u.s.a. is doing to solve this intense mystery.

civil aircraft, five ships racing against time to find the items oochl dan, thanks for joining us from australiaeciate that update. that is all the time we have left this evening we want you to set "hannity" to record the series so we get to see you every night. thanks for being with us we'll see you back here tomorrow night. >>> breaking right now, a game changer literally. that is rocking the world of college spores. northwestern university football players winning the right to unionize. now, this is going to change everything. and this stunning breaking news sending shock waves through the college sports world. "on the record" investigates in just minutes. also developing now this is what conditions are like in the southern indian ocean. and searchers are just taking off in australia trying to locate a possible flight 370 debris field. we are going to take you there but right now threats. threats of contempt, charges are flying as republican lawmakers spar with the irs commissioner. it happened on capitol hill. republicans demanding the irs turn over emails from lois lerner and others in th

ian, joining us from perth, australia, thank you. >>> now, some breaking news in the oscar pistorius murder trial. it was supposed to be the first day of the defense's case and possibly testimony from pistorius himself. but, there is now a hang-up and a delay in the trial. mike taibbi joins us live in pistorius, south africa. mike, what happened? >> this has to do with the differences, some would say the peck you'll yarities. this is a first-degree murder trial in the high skort. a judge, not a jury, trial. the jury is assisted by two assessors called other lawyers. the judge announced as soon as court started that one of the assessors had taken ill and thus the court was not properly constituted and there would have to be a postponement. pistorius is the only person that knows what happened at 3:00 in the morning on valentine's. this is going to include his own testimony. he claimed he thought he was shooting an intruder and not his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. there were many witnesses that said they heard a wild and heated argument prior to the shots that he admits he fired that re

joining us from perth australia nbc news correspondent ian williams. ian, bring us up to date on the latest details. >> reporter: good morning, thomas. well, today was the largest number of aircraft deployed so far in what is day five of the search out of perth. ten out in the search area, two of them chinese military aircraft. it was one of these chinese aircraft that spotted from 33,000 feet on its way back to base this latest debris. now the description they gave was of two large square shaped objects. they were white. floating in the water. and a large number of smaller white objects spread over an area of several kilometers. now the chinese relayed the details and the coordinates back to the australians who are coordinating this and they let various shipsz know, its own ice breaker which is cruising towards the area expected to arrive tomorrow. then the u.s.p-8 aircraft was asked to go look for themselves. they saw nothing. they couldn't see these objects that the chinese had seen even though they allowed for the potential drift. today, this aftern

. >> nikki batiste joins us from perth, australia, with more. re you hearing and able to tell us? >> reporter: good morning, we're still waiting for the u.s. flight to come back, but nothing has been confirmed. we were hearing earlier they may have detected some significant size objects but nothing confirmed at this point but my understanding now regardless whether or not they find anything, best case scenario is they will take images of any objects they did see. this he'll come back and those images will be analyzed, see whether or not they might be the flight so no matter what, no one will return in the next hour and two and say with absolute certainty this flight has been found. >> nikki, how far away is that site by air? we're talking a few hours away from the coast of australia? >> reporter: it's three-hour flight to get to the search area, so the p8 poseidon is on its way back, spent ten hours in the air. it will be returning in about two hours. they spent three hours searching the area. >> it could be a while before we have any confirmatio

. >> that's andrew thomas joining us from sydney, australia. >> while malaysian authorities are meeting australian counterparts, here is what the acting transport minister in malaysia said earlier. >> aircraft and vessels are there, you know how huge the area is >> reporter: how long will it take? >> every lead is a hope, we are conscious and want to verify, corroborate it. >> reporter: have you seen the image yet? >> let me meet the australians. >> crossing live to nicole johns ston, a brief statement. this is a lot of information to digest for malaysian authorities. >> yes, that's the only thing we've had on the record. in the next 30 minutes the daily press briefing at the media center in kuala lumpur will be held and we'll hear an official response from authorities about the participation sighting. the malaysian prime minister spoke to australia's prime minister. they have been well and truly informed as to what was going on. the statement about the phone call was reserved and measured. highlighting that they don't know whether the two objects belong to the missing plane. malaysia i

. >>> joining us from perth, australia, is jeffrey thomas, editor of airline ratings.com. thank you for being with us this morning. >> pleasure. >> let's start with this. the satellite images show possible debris, yet nothing has been found so far. that can't be considered too much of a setback considering the conditions they had to deal with. >> you're absolutely right. the distance involved is very considerable. it is a little bit like flying from one side of the united states to the other, searching around los angeles in two hours and going back to the other side of america. it is a big mission. ten hours of flying and only two hours on station. and then you get on station, you're dealing with low cloud or fog. you're dealing with high seas. you're dealing with rain showers. it is a real challenge. and, i mean, there is enormous number of resources being thrown at this, ships arriving, even hearing today that three chinese warships are coming down to help in the search. it is really becoming a multinational cooperation between australia, the united states, china, new zea

nbc's ian williams is following the latest for us from perth, australia. ian, will this shift make the search any easier? >> reporter: craig, i should tell you first that we just heard from the australian authorities who were overseeing this. the new zealand aircraft, an orion, had spotted what they call objects out in that new search area. it should be landing back here in perth soon, carrying photographs and the amas, the australian authorities say that ships are on their way to examine this further, although those ships which are being diverted from the old search area won't be in the new search area probably until the end of tomorrow. so that's kind of an initial encouraging sign, though that said, oceanic experts are warning in this new search area, that is probably more trash than there was in the old area. but certainly, they say, the new area is closer to mainland australia, 400 miles closer, which means it takes less time for aircraft to reach there. also, the weather generally is a little bit better, though it is still a very big area. but this i

he joins us from perth, australia. good evening, sir or good morning i should say to you. >> good morning. >> what is the flying weather like right now? >> right now it's clear here. low cloud ceilings on the search area, we are expecting good weather today and should be good conditions for a visual search. >> what is so good about the p. 8? i have been studying a little bit it's a modified 737 as best i can see. why it is the ideal aircraft to do this search? >> it's reliable. it gives an opportunity to cover a lot of ground. we are able to cover roughly about 2500 miles of square miles per ocean per hour. >> is it speed or is it something you have on board that allows you to have any sort of depth so you can can can detect something at some depth? technological reasons for that plane or just speed? >> it's both. and we have sensors on board that allow us to search the ocean both above and below water. we are con sen search now above the water search non-acoustic sensors, radar both out the window and via couple serie

aircraft from australia, china, the united states and japan searched the area today. cnn's kyung lah is joining usrom perth, australia. what is the latest as far as the search is concerned, kyung? >> reporter: well, in about 40 minutes, the first planes are going to take off at daybreak. there's a renewed drive here. the reason why? the families have their answers now. we all know what happened to this plane. now we need the evidence. bring those pieces of the plane home. see that's what the air forces are going to do. they are going to mark it via air. yesterday, a good day. there were two different spots were the debris was seen. we don't know yet if the debris is connected to the plane. by air they mark it. the ship that has to go there, pick it up, and bring it home. a tough task. it will be made tougher today, wolf, because the weather is expected to be very bad. wolf? >> that's not encouraging. kyung lah, thank you. >>> outrage as families of the missing passengers were told by malaysia airlines in some cases by text messages that their loved ones did not survive. our senior national corresp

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they had been focused 1,500 miles off australia but now search crews have moved off from there 680 miles north and close to land. holly williams joins us by phone from perth, australia. good morngs holly. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. the conditions have improved here today, so ten aircraft, most of them in the military, along with six ships are searching for wreckage of malaysian flight 3706789 but as you said, the area where they're scouring for debris has moved almost 700 miles to the northeast. martin dolan, the head of the transportation safety bureau held a press conference today to explain why. >> this continuing analysis indicates the plane was traveling faster than was previously estimated, resulting in increased fuel usage and reducing the possible distance it traveled south into the indian ocean. >> reporter: new images from satellite have been tied. one shows large pieces of debris floating in the southern indian ocean and they could well be the fragments of the boeing 777, but nearly three week after the jetliner went down in mysterious circumstances, not a single piece of its wreckage has been recovered. the sear

he joins us tonight from australia. last week you were certain they were looking in the right spot.d given tonight's news you seem to be right. you also thought there is more to there than we are being told do. you still feel that way? and if so, why? >> anderson, absolutely. as soon as australia was tasked with the role of looking after the search zone part of this arc with the help of american intelligence and british intelligence, some search areas were defined and now we find that those search areas are exactly where the debris is and precisely where the airplane is confirmed to be by inmarsat. so they obviously a week ago, they had a very, very good idea of what has happened to this airplane and where to find it. >> the suspension of the search effort today, obviously that is a big blow to thaev was hoping there would be some news today especially the family members who wanted to get some degree spotted by human eyeballs in terms of the weather in that region, particularly in that search area is that a portent of things to come? the clock is ticking here. things are getting wor

let's bring in our cnn correspondent, will ripley, joining us from perth, australia, where the search effort is based. will, what can you tell us about these 122 pieces of possible debris? >> reporter: wolf, we know a french satellite spotted these objects three days ago at a time when the conditions in the southern indian ocean were extremely treacherous. huge waves, gale force winds, scattered around 154 square miles, 1,600 miles off shore from perth, australia, and where they were then and where they are now are two very different places, which makes the search effort much more complicated. >> you know, will, these pictures, these satellite images were taken on sunday. now it's wednesday. did the pilots who flew out on a dozen missions earlier today, including a p-8 poseidon flew by u.s. navy personnel, were they given the exact pictures where these 122 objects were spotted when they flew out in the morning and have now returned to base? >> reporter: as far as we know, they were informed about these satellite images. malaysia learned about them yesterday. passed that information al

we're going to turn now to john blaxla blaxla blaxland, joining us live from australia. john, i think the first question i want to ask you is this, those satellites spotted something in the sea five days ago. five days later, is it possible now? why haven't more satellites been focused on areas around that to see if they could pick something up? shouldn't we be seeing more images, if there really is debris there at this point? >> well, there's no question that additional imagery requests have gone out, and whatever satellites have been passing over that area i'm sure have been passing their imagery to the analysts of the australian geospatial industry and intelligence organization to analyze and then pass on to the australian maritime safety authority boat as well as the air force people and the navy, u.s. navy boat, operating their surveillance aircraft. the problem is that while you get the data, if you can't see anything, there's nothing to show. so, that picture is now five days old. i had done some analysis of the current flows from the buoys and from the wind analy

>> ian williams for us from perth, australia, ian, thank you. pivot here and switch gears back home and argument on twitter. about a new black conservative magazine that argument turned into much more. the controversy start when the senior editor at "ebony" magazine dismissed the launch with a tweet that read in part, i have already have drinking games in mind. when williams with the republican national committee tweeted he hoped that the senior editor could encourage diversity of thought, he said, oh great, here's a white dude telling me how to do the black thing. the part of the issue is williams to whom the tweet was addressed is black. the gop in a letter called for an apology and "ebony" said, quote, nearly 70 years ago this magazine began on the principle that as black people we are all somebody, we all count. thursday the spirit of this mission was disregarded by ebony.com senior editor lemieux in a personal exchange between herself and rnc press secretary williams. he joins me now. let's start there, sir. are you satisfied with "ebony" a

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from australia and malaysia, that and the other day's news ahead. as we go to break, here is rehabilitation from malaysian officials to the news out of australia. stay with us. >> i'm meeting the australian delegation now. as i have been doing from day one, we have been following every single lead. and this time i just hope that it is a positive development. >> welcome back to al jazeera america. breaking new us overnight in the search for missing malaysia airlines flight mh370. australian officials say satellite images have floated something that may be debris in the south indian ocean. crews are on the way to the search area. i want to bring in todd curtis, joining us via skype and is a transportation al jazeera coordinator. what do you make of the location of the objects and the flight path of the plane. >> the location makes sense, given it's been about 13 days since the event, and the currents and the wind could have pushed them outside the search area. these debris - debris was spotted south of the recommended search area from the ntsb. also, what strikes me is that during the conference, the australians basically mentioned that one of the organizatio

from the us. in the southern part of it. there are any fight it off shore from the age of five from australia. three from china. fall from indonesia to continue to fall from japan. one can use it and two from south korea won from the u a e and one of his feet. all eighteen ships in the southern corridor six from malaysia want from us to get a flight from china and six from indonesia. this is one of six helicopters to be from asia and three from china. until the second and it took a hit and miss g seventy seven jet rescue operations will continue in fourth quarter door. i can compose a tenacious ending to a crop of kazakhstan and uk spending should watch it to the southern corridor. in addition to this effect is this about a number of countries in another court or carrying out search and rescue officers within the airport every tree. china is using every means possible including twenty one set of rights. this thursday here within its borders and is ready to send warships in the crop. wherever the obvious. in june twenty oh four helicopters are conducting search operations within ten to thirty dollars for the spri

nbc's ian williams joins us from perth, australia, which has become the international base for the search. so what's the very latest there, ian? >> reporter: well, good morning, kristen. as you can imagine, there's a lot of frustration here out at the air force base, which is the hub of the search operation. after it was grounded for the second time this week by bad weather. aircraft did take off this morning, but had to turn around almost as soon as they reached the search area, because of that weather. the commander of the u.s. flying team here described visibility so bad, he could hardly see the ends of his wings. now, they were to have checked out objects identified by a french satellite last sunday, but that simply wasn't possible. one bit of encouraging news today, as you point out, was that thai satellite image appearing to show 300 objects down there in the indian ocean, in the southern sector, objects ranging in size from three to four feet up to 50 feet. but the thais did caution the resolution is not good. also, we haven't yet heard from either the malaysians or the australians

. >> cnn's paula newton joins us from perth, australia. paula, that's where we believe the objects will be brought to be examined. is that right? >> yeah, absolutely. some of it though is pretty obvious what they've been taking out of the water is what they describe as garbage and nothing significant so far. but as you point out, within hours we will have the full contingent of at least six ships in the area and they can begin that process of actually retrieving the objects out of the water, taking a good look at them and really going back to those spots that were first spotted by the planes. i don't know if you can hear behind me, the last of the p-3 orions just arrived here at base. that's after spending a lot more time on the scene. because of those different locations, better weather, before they were spending an hour and a half to two hours on the site. now they're spending closer to three and four hours. we have no word yet if this last flight spotted anything up there that's worthy of going back and checking up on but we should expe

andrew stevens joins us now on the line from perth, australia. the sighting of these two relatively big floating objects with the other smaller objects could very well prove to be a break through in the search for flight 370. but how long is it likely to take to confirm what these suspicious objects are exactly? >> reporter: that's the question, rosemary. if you look at what -- it could be longer than we think. you remember back to two or three days ago when a jet spotted debris in the water. that was two days ago, yet we still don't know anything more about that debris. but i can tell you this obviously -- [ indiscernible ] it is in the target zone. it is in the area of interest. it is not far from the satellite images which have been released by the australians and the chinese. the chinese aircraft took photographs of those two objects you're talking about. that aircraft is now returning to perth here. and other military aircraft have been dispatched to that search zone. so at this stage, it could be a breakthrough, if it's still -- [ indiscern

. >> thank you so much, ian williams for us, watching the latest from australia. >>> curt hoffman was holding his arm underwater trying to catch a wave. then suddenly the kite boarder felt like he got caught in a bear trap, only it was a little bit bigger. try a shark. >> you can see the teeth marks and around it, about seven inches wide, the width of the mouth. and then pretty intense, kind of shocks your system at the moment that it hit. >> i bet. >> and florida shark bites are different than california shark bites. >> yes. a little bigger, aren't they, out west? great whites there. >> in florida, a lot of them are the feeding sharks, nurse sharks and sand sharks, yeah. they nibble. >> a little contact. >>> let's talk about what happened in washington state, horrible mud slide. we had an incredibly wet march. we're up over 7 3/4 inches of rain for the month of march. it just has been getting drenched there in the pacific northwest. and, you know, we haven't gotten a lot of that down in southern california where we need it. we have another storm on the way. you see the big swirl ther

holly williams joined us by home from perth, australia, staging point for the search efforts. good morning, holly. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. the search has resumed off the coast of western australia today after a frustrating 24 hours when all search planes were grounded because of 50-mile-an-hour gale-force winds and powering swells in the area. there are 12 planes in australia today which is 1,500 miles off the coast and an australian naval ship and chinese air breaker. they're carrying out the first of the sweeps. they're hunting out debris to help them work exactly where exactly malaysia flight 370 went down. it's still roughly the size of alaska. the u.s. has sent an advanced robotic submarine to the area as well as a ping locater which could help find the plane's black blockses or flight recorders, but neither of those pieces of equipment will be much used until a narrow underwater debris field can be found, and we we don't have that yet. in fact, the head of australia's air force says they're not looking for a needle in a haystack. they don't even know where

geoffrey thomas is back with us from bulls brook, australia. >> geoff regarding this township of the ranscript retained by the telegraph newspaper you say the signoff from the copilot still doesn't sit right with you. why? >> no. well, the international protocol from the international civil aviation organization is that the signoff should be a repeat of the instruction given by air traffic control. so typically the signoff should be mh 370, contact ho chi minh city on 120.9, good night. it repeats the instruction. that's the international protocol. all right good night is either very -- way too casual, not compliant, or maybe it's a coded message. >> so it could be just sloppiness. you're saying it could also be some sort of a coded message. >> indeed. indeed. >> i guess one way would be to try to find out other planes that the copilot has flown on to see if this is what he commonly signs off with. australia's deputy prime minister came out today urging caution saying whatever the debris is or was may not be floating anymore, may have already sunk. with certainly different tone than w

from flight 370. shows joining us live now from perth, australia, where it's nearing 5:00 a.m.e? they spotted stuff pretty quickly yesterday. do they think that now they are starting to look at pieces from this airplane? >> reporter: they don't know. they need to verify what these pieces that were spotted on the ocean actually are. on the p-8 that i was on, what they managed to see were objects on the surface of the ocean. as we were entering the search area, what the p-8 saw were some white floating objects, somewhere in those white objects there was a white circular object, almost like a ball. there was also orange rope that was spotted as well as a blue bag, almost like a blue plastic bag but we didn't have anything beyond the description of a blue plastic bag. so they are very reluctant, the people who are aboard this plane, to say anything other than, hey, we spotted something. they marked the coordinates and they are asking that a vessel go there and check it out. there were five planes out of the ten that did spot something, jim. again, we don't know if anything that is

not long ago, digital global in colorado released a map giving us the more refined location of the wreckage 1500 miles from australia. it comes from its world view 2 satellite, giving us the exact coordinates for the images of what some say look like debris. the images are from march 16th. digital globe said the australian government began to comb through the data and came up with this possible lead, amid the criticism that the u.s. military is not doing more to help with the search. the pentagon insists they are using some assets we cannot see. >> we didn't get into the specifics of some of those tools because some of those tools we don't talk about. >> meanwhile, the navy will rely on the u.s. poseidon, that is expected to be in the search area in the coming hours and will remain for three hours, the navy's p-3 orion will not be flying today and is undergoing maintenance. it would take days to get there if ordered. the search is now being focused 1500 miles off the coast of australia, sean, half way between australia and the antarctic. that is how far away it is. sean. >> all right, jennifer, great reporting, than

now there's new technology from the united states headed to help find the pinger, we're told. nbc's ian williams joins us live from perth, australia. before we get to the latest on the search, start with how much time searchers have to find that so-called black box. >> reporter: hi, craig, well we'd assume they'd have another week, because 30 days was the assumption was that it would keep pinging for 30 days, and that ends in about a week from now. but just before the ping locater left perth, the u.s. navy captain, mark matthews, who's in charge of this operation, said that it could last another 15 days. he said, you know, the accepted time, the published time if you'd like, was 30 days, but it still may be sending signal for an additional 15 days, which would take us into the third week of april. so gives us a little bit more time. the ping locater left this evening, but will take four days to get out to the search area. the problem they have is they are not really going to be able to use it until that search area has been massively narrowed, because they need to have a better idea of precisely where the plane might have gone dow

australia where the focus of this is. we have a correspondent, andrew stevens there. we'll talk to him shortly. we have all the assets of cnn deployed on this. kyung lah is joining us froma. i want to show you what australia's prime minister said earlier this evening, earlier this morning australia time. let's watch. >> the australian maritime safety authority has received information based on satellite imagery of objects possibly related to the search. following specialist analysis of this satellite imagery, two possible objects related to the search have been identified. >> i want to bring in a former faa investigator, author of the book "why planes crash." david, can you explain why if this is in fact wreckage and again we do not know, if this was in fact wreckage from the flight why this flight could have ended up in that region of the world. why the focus so much of the search has been there for the last 24 hours or so. >> well, either one of the most credible angles or theories could explain why it is in the area, one, because there was a fire on board and the pilot just continued into that area, but as far as if somebody took over the plane i wouldn't have an exp

from the plane. this video just coming in. let's check in with our correspondent kyung lah. she's joining us now from perth, australia. that's the staging area for all the planes that are going out and searching this new search zone. you had a chance to fly out on one of those missions earlier. tell us what happened. >> we were right near that new zealand plane that you just saw video of. we were on the united states p-8 poseidon, a state of the art plane. and it was going back and forth over the search area. what i can tell you is even though we can't show you the video aboard the plane because it is so highly classified, is that we were skimming the surface, very close to the ocean, and we actually saw some objects floating as well. one of the spotters saw white objects bobbing in the water. so we took a couple of paths around it. also spotted some orange rope as well as a blue plastic type bag, unsure of exactly what that was. all of this was marked. the coordinates were marked and the crew did ask that a sea vessel go and check it out. don't know if it's related to the plane, but certainly an intriguing lead, wolf

cnn's kyung lah joining us from perth, australia.our or so ago, the weather was horrendous. what does it look like as daybreak starts? >> reporter: that horrendous weather appears to have passed, at least temporarily. we are seeing some very strong wind gusts here. some rain, but it's the wind, i think, that's the biggest concern. i have reached out to the folks here at the air base to see if they are going to be able to take off or if they've already taken off. at 6:00 a local time, that's five hours ago, that's the very liftoff of the first ship -- the first plane, that is. the p-3 orion. then at 8:00 p.m. eastern time is the scheduled departure of the second one. right now we haven't heard if they've had a delay or if it has indeed taken off. still waiting to hear on that. but when we spoke to the air base before that horrendous weather, the spokesman was telling us that they are looking at a very tough day. that the people who are going to be boarding have been here for several hours. they were briefed. they were going to board.

ian williams joins us live from perth, australia about 1,400 miles from the search zone. crews are just about to give it another go. what's the latest there? >> reporter: hello, karen. they'll be heading out about two hours from now, a massively enhanced search. saturday we had six aircraft heading to that area. today we'll have chinese and japanese military aircraft joining them. also, a small flotilla of ships, including chinese ships and an australian military vessel capable of lifting the debris out of the water. the big problem at the moment is they haven't actually found any. of course hopes have been raised by that latest satellite picture from china taken four days ago, although the australians are cautioning that that photograph was taken in an area where they have been combing quite extensively over the last two days. nevertheless that will be the focus of the search tomorrow -- today rather, it's already sunday here. the weather could be another big factor. friday and saturday were good days. the water was flat, the visibility was good, the winds were low, but

jeffrey, thanks so much for your insight joining us on the phone this morning from perth, australia. >> thank you, betty. >>> one world trade center has been billed as the safest commercial structure in the world, but now a security breach is raising some questions. 16-year-old justin casquejo of new jersey managed to sneak through a foot wide hole in a security fence. he scaled a scaffold to the 6th floor, took the elevator to the 88th, then walked up a staircase to the 104th floor. he got by a security guard who has since been fired. he climbed a wire to the an ten know and snapped some photos. casquejo was arrested in the lobby and faces criminal charges. >>> simmering tensions between russia and the u.s. president obama is leveling more sanctions against president vladimir putin. this time it's his inner circle and his chief of staff and four russian billionaires close to the president. they're pleading with moscow to pull back in crimea so economic sanctions will ease. putin has given them no assurances. >> the world is watching with grave concern as russia has positioned its mi

stack is the way that andrew thomas describes the search efforts unfolding right now in australia and joins us fromth. >> it's such a remote area, you get in a plane and fly for 3 1/2 hours before you get to the search zone narcs is the equivalent of flying from one side of australia to the other and look around for about two hours which is all you get before you get low on fuel and have to turn around and go back. we pushed our luck a lit bit and stayed in the search area a bit longer than they normally would and they said we were low on fuel and had to head back and we did, we had two hours 40 minutes actually searching. when i mean searching you are low on the water going very fast and very hard to spot objects. >> reporter: in perth, australia and we have todd curtis, todd tell us at this point in time and joins us by phone on day 16, do we know anything, can we rule anything out? >> well, as far as the cause of why the airplane went that far south, we really can't rule anything out because as i stated before, with limited data we have about the aircraft is the behavior that has been observed f

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from flight recorders. the americans have also provided an unmanned underwater vehicle to carry the device. the crews that will use the equipment are heading out from perth, australia, on board an australian navy ship. they'll search an area in the southern indian ocean. teams on planes and ships from six countries scoured the same area on sunday. they spotted some objects but they did not pick up anything and they haven't confirmed whether any of the objects were part of the missile airliner. >>> philippine government officials are asking an international tribunal to resolve a dispute in the south china sea. they say china's territorial claims violate the u.n. convention of the law of the sea. the details of the plea have not been made public. but the philippines government is believed to be arguing that the country's sovereignty is threatened by china's increased maritime activities. the government filed for arbitration and hearings began last year in the hague. the chinese government has refused to participate in the hearings. it says the philippines complaint cannot be decided by a court judgment. vietnam and malaysia also have territorial disputes with china b

nbc's ian williams joins us from perth, australia.ts, as they stand right now? >> reporter: well, this is a pretty big shift in focus, mika. 700 miles almost north of the previous search area. and it does kind of suggest that all those multiple images we saw from satellites and from aircraft may have been false leads. it does suggest that perhaps there is a concern that these areas -- this could have been something different other than the debris from the aircraft. now, the new area they're now focusing on is closer to mainland australia, just 400, 500 miles out of western australia, which means that aircraft can get there rather more quickly. it's also an area where they say the weather is better than it has been down in the south. it's still very deep there. we're talking about 6,000 to 13,000 feet in depth. and it's also now the size of new mexico or poland. it's a pretty big area. but they're rapidly shifting assets up there. aircraft were in the area today, although we have had no sightings of anything suspicious. they're moving

he joins us now from canberra, australia this morning. break this down for me. talk to me about the satellites that took these images, when they were taken and why they set off the red flags that they set off. >> okay. this is a photograph from the 16th of march, so it's several days old now, but this is not an area of the world that we try to photograph all that frequently. i mean, let's not forget, there's nothing there except lots and lots of water. so, this is far away from anywhere. it's far away from australia, from africa. this is not a part of the world that is frequented very often. it's not even right on the track, the sea lines of communication that the major maritime trailing ships pass by. so, this is out of the way. this is something that had to be photogra photographed, and these photographs are taken around the world all the time, but you know, the level of granulation of the photographs is often not very good. so, what the analysts have done is they've taken this from the satellite, they've looked at the photographs -- and these are major, massi

. >> ian williams joining us live from perth, australia, as we continue to watch as the search has changedch area has moved to the northeast, and we will continue to follow all this for you and bring you the latest right here on msn bbc. >>> thanks, ari. good to see you there. thanks to you for joining us the next hour. if you paid taxes in new jersey, look what you just bought. to the tune of $1 million was just spent on this hardheaded analysis by a $650 an hour law firm. as you can see here, this is from page 227 of the new report that just came out today. the report is more than 300 pages in total, but this is page 227. and as page 227 clearly shows, body language analysis apparently is what we need to clearly disprove all of these scurrilous allegations against new jersey governor chris christie. literally this is the evidence they are presenting to discredit allegations by one new jersey mayor who says she was threatened by members of the

he's covering this story for us from perth where the search on the australian end has been based from, perth is the state capital of western australia. andrew, very early stages but it is coming from the prime minister's office. they are deploying assets to try and inspect this debris from flight 370. what else can you tell us? >> that's right, john. at this point we have to be very cautious. what we can tell you is that the australian state-owned media operation here is saying that tony abbott, the australian prime minister is telling the house that two pieces of debris have been spotted in the southern indian ocean. he says that they could possibly be related to mh-370. certainly at this stage, not saying definitely. a plane has been diverted from its earlier search area to the destination where this debris is believed to be floating. that is due to be on the scene around about now, john. and we understand another three aircraft have already been dispatched to that same area. at the moment, what we can see is tony abbott is being reported by the australian broadcasting corporation, those two pieces of objects have been found, and