that's a search and rescue vessel. the calcine for this flight is "rescue 74."e're tasked to search an area that's headed toward the south pole from all -- almost due south of kuala lumpur. this -- what we're being told by the flight crew here that is they have some intelligence now that there is some sort of debris in the water. they're not clear what. we will be the first plane on-site. and we are just descending through the clouds right now. this plane has some of the highest-tech gear available, much of it classified. and if anybody is likely to find something down there, this plane has a very good opportunity to do so. it's a serious enough sighting of debris that not only is this plane headed into the area but two australia planes are also headed this way. they're going to be combing the waters for the next several hours. we'll be searching for three hours, looking visually for the plane and also with the high-tech gear they have on board to see what just might be in the water. maybe a false alarm but they seem to be treating it as a very promising sign. i

you think it's a military vessel. it's not a military vessel. do you think this is maybe the best hope yet to find something? this is indeed a vehicle that could do it? >> i think expectation is the key word here, don. i think we've got some sophisticated technology both in the form of -- sorry, above the surface, vessels and aircraft. but i think the australian prime minister hit the nail on the head in terms of the air force 447. we knew where the haystack was and it took two years to find the black boxes. and unfortunately, the families need to gear themselves for that long haul and set their expectations there. because this is a huge area. what i would be wanting to do in this situation is really try and get some cooperation of the search area, don. we're putting all our eggs in this expectation hope basket of hopefully the search area will give us something. but i would like to go back to the indonesians. i still find it -- i still find it odd the thai radar and the malaysian radar had something on the trace, yet indonesia didn't. >> i want

the first vessel will not be a military vessel. there's a civilian vessel that's diverting its direction over to this area. >> thank you very much. one of the things we'll be watching for is the wind and the currents. we'll be back with more. ♪ ♪ ♪ where you think you're gonna go ♪ ♪ when your time's all gone? [ male announcer ] live a full life. the new lexus ct hybrid with an epa estimated 42 mpg. ♪ the further you go, the more interesting it gets. this is the pursuit of perfection. >>> on board that missing malaysia flight. the best piece of information we've had so far. satellite imagery that shows two pieces of debris. the largest one, 78 feet. the other one somewhat smaller. assets are on the way both in the water and in the air. bog bob hager, what happens now? >> first of all big picture, i think this is potentially very, very important development because we have all these theories about where the plane might have been and pings charted here and there. nobody can figure out what's happened to this plane. if you can find so

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the chinese warned the vessel to turn around. it's the latest in a long-running dispute. china, brunei, thailand and vietnam laid claim. >> a signed peace agreement between the philippine government and the moro islamic liberation grant, and openings the potential for a largely undeveloped area. >> farmers in south philippines call it their white cold. the area was once at the center of the muslim insurgency. not any more. now these rubber trees are growing, where once there was baron land. the project was set up in 2012 by the local government, a solution for a region battered. it appears to be working. around 2,000 farmers are benefitting from this project. they are from different tribes and religious groups. despite their differences it has given them a chance to work together. the philippine government signed a peace agreement with the largest rebel group, the moro islamic labour ration front -- liberation front, ending fighting that killed 150,000 people. war has left most of the area poor and undeveloped. the economic potential for mindanoa is huge. the peace agreem

the libyan government threatened to bomb a north korean flagged vessel if it shifts oil. militias have been loading oil on to the vessel, an act that is criminal. >> loading oil on to a tanker in one of libya's biggest ports. it should be a sign that the economy is on track after the war in 2011. the government in tripoli threatened the bomb to ship if it leaves port. >> translation: last night a ship called "morning glory" entered and docked. the stat of libya sent a warning to the ship, and the embassy of north korea as the ship is flying its flag. the captain said an armed group jumped on the ship. he called them militia. the shipp will be bombed if it tries to lead. >> the prime minister of the eastern region dismissed the threat. >> translation: we reaffirm we do not accept threats to tankers or ships we are dealing with. we are not making threats and do not want to use force. if anyone attacks us we'll be prepared to defend ourselves. >> he says the government does not meet demand to share oil wealth. >> translation: there are current communications with our people

ships on the way, there's a commercial vessel close to the area. that has been diverted and will be around the area now, and an australian naval vessel has been redirected to the area, but it will take days before that boat arrives. if there are objects to be found, if they are in connection with the missing airliner, it's that naval vessel that will bring them on board and back to shore. i must add, we don't know yet whether it is debris from the missing plane. >> 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

they'll bring a naval vessel. they are really hoping that they have found something of gans. >> it's a large effort. >> the news comes as the u.s. takes a larger role. the u.s. and australia have a close relationship. >> they do. the malaysians are in charge, but they ceded to the countries that are closer and can do the search. the southern area, where hopefully the promising pieces of debris has been found. it is being led by australia, capable and a lot of experience doing this sort of thing. they are taking the lead in this region. this is the area where they think it is likely that the plane did go down. they plotted a northern ark and a southern ark. all of the officials i was talking to felt that this southern area was likely route that the plane would have taken as it went to the north over a number of countries. the ntsd took a close look and did analysis of the satellite pinging from the aircraft, trying to narrow down the search area, and the ntsd effort allowed them to cut the search area in half. stil

treats what the price of the international community russian warships a book i did keep fighting vessels named to the port of service toppled russian troops have attempted to grow like allco was ukrainians into switching allegiances to support the puppet regime. moscow has in stored in crime and with very limited success. a recent eckstein flyer idea revealed the captain of the ukrainian ship responding to the russian world through c'mon did his surrender was like saying i'm a newly old ukrainian citizen and a russian vessel by one to round up russians do not surrender. the crisis in crime in a kind following the posting of president dixie on a cut of its last months of the protests in kiev which killed more than one hundred people the situation has escalated off the crimean parliament voted to join russia with a referendum on the cheap branded as an eagle on western countries set the sixteenth of march. some seventy members of moscow's lesbian gay bisexual and transgender community protest the beginning of march to celebrate international women's day the march which was authorized by ci

, russian naval vessels, were headed into the black sea.ey just going shall as might be routine, to their naval base in the crimea or are they not saying? is the russian government not commenting yet on these two ships? >> we don't have a direct explanation for that right now. according to a number of reports, i hadn't been able to confirm, the russians were in the eastern mediterranean off the coast of syria, the syrian government, an ally of the russian government. the turkish government has to allow naval vessels to sail through here if they are members, it if they are from black sea government countries. they are supposed to be given -- if they're going to come through. turks said these vessels are performing normal, routine maneuvers. we're being escorted here. this appears to be a turkish warship following not very hard behind the flagship of the ukrainian navy on route back to the ukraine right now. jake? >> ivan watson with some amazing on the ground -- on the water reporting. thank you so much. we appreciate it. the next hour of "c

navy p8 poseidon that's a surge and rescue vessel. it's rescue 74. we're past a search area that's headed towards the south pole from all those due south of kuala lumpur and what we're being told by the flight crew here is that they have some intelligence now that there is some sort of debris in the water. they're not clear what. we will be the first plane on site and we are just ascending through the clouds right now. this plane has some of the highest tech gear available, much of it classified and if anybody is likely to find something down there, this plane has a very good opportunity to do so. it's a serious enough sighting of debris not only is this plane headed into the area but two australian planes are headed this way combing the water for the next several hours searching for three hours looking both visually from the plane and also with all the high-tech gear they have on board to see what this might be in the water. it may be a false alarm but they seem to be treating it as a very promising sign. it's about 1400 miles from antarctica, 2, 77

there are naval vessels, surface vessels headed to that region right now to get as close as they can.some time to get there, maybe even days to get there by sea. but right now, the planes have been flying overhead and are now flying back to perth, australia, which is the closest land point. >> some of the difficulties that officials are telling us that there could be, of course, is visibility in this area. it's a very remote area, and i believe the minister of transportation is starting to speak now. let's listen in. >> -- call from the prime minister of australia, informing him that two possible objects related to the search for mh-370 had been identified in the southern indian ocean. the australia authorities in kuala lumpur have also briefed me on the situation, and the australian foreign minister has spoken to the foreign minister of malaysia. the australian maritime safety authority continues coordinating the search for the missing malaysian airlines aircraft within australia's search-and-rescue area, with assistance from the australian defense force, the new zealand air force an

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two involved other vessels. u.s. guard captain brian penoyer. >> visibility, the traffic, the meeting and crossing arrangements, all of those will be pursued completely. >> reporter: a layer of black tar has covered nearby beaches and marinas, david prater fishes these waters. what is it like to see that? >> it's very devastating. yup, not good. that look at that stuff, man, that's-- more and more. >> reporter: scott, there could be an economic cost to this as well as cargo traffic at one of the nation's busiest ports have been put on hold. nearly 80 vessels are waiting to get through the houston shipping channel and there's no timeline yet on when it might fully reopen. >> pelley: manual, thank you. today five members of bernie madoff's office staff were convicted of helping the wall street swindler in his $65 billion ponzi scheme. prosecutors said madoff secretary annette bongiorno pocketed more than $14 million over the years. the five will be sentenced this summer. madoff is serving a life sentence. in a rare int

meanwhile five chinese naval vessels are heading for the southern indian ocean to join the international such vessels are expected to take five days to reach what is southwest of perth in australia was suspicious object was supported china's research vessel and icebreaker the snow dragon is time to impart preparing to set off to the army. it will also take up to five days to reach the location the chinese navy has two of the police deployed in the search operation. each of these consist of one control ship and one rescue ship. one fleet is responsible for searching and i met west appears in danger of crossing the strait of malacca what the other thing to a section irs out of christmas island and about twenty six kilometers northwest of puff meanwhile three chinese of course things have been sent to malaysia to help the search. australian prime minister tony abbott has spoken to the press and that progress in the said for the missing plane. thus a megaphone cold to chinese president xi team paid to update him on the search. he agreed with costs at the bay area to try to lose more about wh

this vessel has a free board of some 80 feet. so it's a pretty good observation platform for whatever is in the immediate area of the vessel. and they're under constant direction from the australians for where to look for what. >> you've got a norwegian ship, mostly filipino crew, part of the international search on that high high boat there. thank you, we appreciate your time. >>> with planes and ships all converging in that area, attention turning to exactly how they'll look for a trace of the missing plane and white caps and tides and winds, and one answer might be satellite tracked buoys that can help. we'll get a live demonstration here tonight. luka, great to be with you. show us what you're doing. these are satellite buoys? how do they work? >> right. so what we have here is what we call a drifter. and this instrument is designed to do basically three things. we have an element which is underwater. we call it a drug. that follows the ocean currents. then we have another sensor which is a temperature sensor. it measures the

there are vessels. the vessels are going to be absolutely critical.s talking about the success of the australian navy vessel. that is there. there are 200 plus crew on that ship. i was told earlier this evening that every man who was available was on deck, looking, eyeballs, binoculars. they are going to do the same thing six or seven hours from now. >> reporter: there are two chinese vessels that are also on the way and they will get here tuesday. >> three chinese vessels and two search and rescue vessels as well plus the british rescue vessel. >> maybe even bfr efore we got official confirmation. the focus was in the southern corridor. >> if you watch where the assets were moving and the focus of the search, it seems as if everybody involved has assumed the focus is right here in the southern corridor, without saying they are not worried about the northern corridor anymore. it has been the defacto decision. >> reporter: there was a lot of raised eyebrows when the australian prime minister came out and said, there was credible new information about t

right now, an australian naval vessel with special equipment. it could take up to three days to reach the area. 11 ships, ten planes scoured the indian ocean by 1100 miles west of perth australia. that is the most vessels. it gives you an idea of the urgency here. australia's prime minister tells cnn the search is intensifying. >> the effort is ramping up, not winding down. we will have more aircraft in the sky tomorrow. we have more ships in the area. so we are ramping this effort up. >> let's go straight to the australian air base outside perth, australia, where we find our paula newton. we just heard the australian prime minister say that the search is ramping up. let's face it. no he did bring, no debris field has been found. they don't really know where to look. what is the game plan with time running out? >> reporter: well, at this point, there are key differences in the way they are searching now, mikaela. we have really assets on the air and sea. about 11 ships. the "ocean shield" will be joining them in a day or two with the expert equi

more of the sea vessels there. the most we've seen throughout all of this. >> do we know how much of a new search area, how much the search planes have covered? >> reporter: we know yesterday they did comb through about 280,000 square kilometers. that's a significant size. if you compare it to how it was on the very first day they were only clearing about 30,000 square kilometers. so it is significantly jumped day by day. and part of it is that that clock that you're referring to is ticking and ticking very loudly. there are only a certain number of days. approximately seven to ten days left for those black boxes. the battery on the black boxes which sends out a ping for it to be detected. so that's certainly all the search teams are aware of that clock and they are racing to try to find the debris before that battery runs out. >> and let's talk about the australian prime minister expected there at any moment to give a press briefing. i believe we have live pictures from where he's going to give that briefing. ther

this vessel has a free board of some 80 feet. so it's a pretty good observation platform for whatever is in the immediate area of the vessel. and they're under constant direction from the australians for where to look for what. >> you've got a norwegian ship, mostly filipino crew, part of the international search on that high high boat there. thank you, we appreciate your time. >>> with planes and ships all converging in that area, attention turning to exactly how they'll look for a trace of the missing plane and white caps and tides and winds, and one answer might be satellite tracked buoys that can help. we'll get a live demonstration here tonight. luka, great to be with you. show us what you're doing. these are satellite buoys? how do they work? >> right. so what we have here is what we call a drifter. and this instrument is designed to do basically three things. we have an element which is underwater. we call it a drug. that follows the ocean currents. then we have another sensor which is a temperature sensor. it measures the

several chinese vessels are taking part in the mission and more are on their way. the area is vast. three weeks in and no wreckage has yet been positively identified. >> miracles do happen. remote or otherwise. that is the hope that the family members want me to convey to the not only the mall asian government but to the world at large. >> some relatives say they will not give up hope until there's physical proof that the plane crashed. >> the relationship between berlin and beijing has never been close. that at least is the message from german and chinese leaders after meetings here in berlin on friday. the two countries have agreed to intensify business cooperation and they've agreed to disagree on human rights. >> it's a partnership that's paying off. under the eyes of the president and chancellor, germany and china signed 18 economic agreements. berlin remains beijing's most important trading partner in the eu. deal was signed between the banks. for germany's financial capital to become europe's trading center for china's you juan currency. and the two countries plan to cooperat

meantime it nose clear us yet exactly who owns the vessel.licting reports its previously sailed under a north korean flag but officials in pyongyang said they already cut ties with the ship. why did the president order this, well, military act here? >> well, shepard, because the three armed libyans who stole the oil tanker had it anchored in the mediterranean sea and were trying to sell 243,000 barrels of oil on the open market. libyan is part of opec and there are rules who is allowed to sell libyan oil and these gunmen were not allowed to. the secretary of of -- the following statement was issued: no one was hurt when u.s. forces at the request of both the lib yap and cyprus government boarded and took control of the commercial tanker, stateless vessel, seized by libyans. the libbans are now detained onboard the vessel and well be handed over to the libyan government. the seal team launched from the uss roosevelt. the oil company had been flagged to north korea but the north koreans say it was not their vessel. >> if you're the sailors wher

minds claim falls the jack love to be sent to the area and a matching chair bound australian navy vessel are also on their way. at a press conference the state's president of the australian marine safety or thirty gave bill a taste. the satellite image has a low blow with an assessment of twenty four meters. against that which is the assessment has been made on the expected a better system. images are expected to cost a commercial satellites were re directed to take high resolution images of the areas of interest. jenks has posted around two thousand five hundred km south of that in the southern indian ocean the corsair is said to be several thousand free to speak. i'm told is a devotee is likely to hamper the operation. flight three seven am from quantum has depreciated disappeared twelve day to get addicted to the two hundred and thirty nine people on board to investigate is now the nikkei closing time to read i tend to build course and that somebody time don't like to update innings and retired to the plano west. russia's ambassador to the united nations has defended his country's act

vessels heading to the search area. sarah brings up us to date with the latest developments. >> reporter: malaysian officials

there's a commercial vessel that might be, oh, 90 minutes away.until somebody has a look what this stuff is, i think that everything is speculation. however, there was a reason that they were looking in that neck of the woods. they had information that may or may not be known publicly that tended to put them down in that search area and to focus their assets in that one particular area. so whether or not this turns out to be the magic moment is certainly there's a reason to be looking there. and hopefully, for the families' sake at least, it it will turn out to be something that will allow us to then go down and find the black boxes which until we have the black botches we're not going to know what happened. >> we don't want to get ahead of ourselves. as we've said, this hasn't been confirmed. the p-8 plane that is on target, it's right there over the location. over the coordinates that were seen on those satellite images. again, the satellite images are from four days ago but they can be calculate with computer programs including the wind and the

it is designed to be towed behind a vessel to pick up the pinging of the black box at 20,000 feet. it may be at the limit in the indian ocean. they might be brought to bear but first they have to get it to see if it can be ruled out or in. >> luge lou ziader, thank you. >> we are turning to 8 people now dead in the massive mud slide in washington state. the huge pile of debris spans about one square mile running several feet deep. >> devastation is just unrelenting. people have seen pictures of course but it is ten times more devastating when you see it yourself. >> the conditions are very, very muddy. it is like quick stand. they are not acceptable at this time. >> 30 homes are destroyed. about two dozen people remain missing. rescue crews say all efforts are being used to find any one who map be trapped. >>> a massive oil spill near galveston, texas. a ship collided with a barge with 158,000 gallons of fuel. boats are helping cleanup efforts. oil ruz due has been spotted as far as 1212 miles out. right now the shipping channel is closed. oo be >> don't let the calendar fool you.

there's a lot of vessels in the search for that area. there are three other chinese vessels. the british are coming out with a special underwater sonar detection equipment. this is a race against time. the flight recorder and box has a life of 30 days. we're past the halfway mark. that's a beacon to be working out to 30 or 35 days. this could be a breakthrough on 2 search from the xinhua news agency. there's big objects with smaller white ones around them in several kilometers. we need to get information on when the vessels arrive. and flights going back out there, trying to get more eyes on that flight. >> in terms of credibility, andrew, this coming from the state media, xinhua, in china. that carries some weight. >> that's a good point. xinhua, is the official state media. two days ago, the chinese, one of the government agencies, sending out the satellite pictures of some debris in the south china sea, which turned out to be a false lead. and the chinese official said it should never have been released in the first place. we have more images coming from the chinese. these

the australian navy is sending a vessel to the area. it's not going to arrive until sunday. a cargo ship has been diverted and more planes will head out including a c-130 which will be deploying drift markers that will track the currents so they can estimate where the debris was and where it might be headed. again, part of the problem in finding those objects, that part of the indian ocean is not friendly. it's 9 foot seas, 25 knot winds and poor visibility. >> that is going to play such a role as you mentioned the drift, especially the fact the satellite pictures are old. >> and the other thing is no one is saying that debris is from flight 370. it's new credible evidence. it's along a maritime route where containers fall off ships. one of those objects is much longer, the other could be in that range. >> interesting. thank you so much for the latest. >> we have learned that malaysian airline desire not implea agreement simple computer upgrade that could have helped find the missing jet. it cost about $10 per flight, it would have given the direction, speed and altitude of

them chinese china was moved its search for the west into two bombs in a car doors eleven chinese vessels on the thing in singapore to team up with the mission. china has also mobilized twenty one satellites to look for the missing jet. as the international search efforts that continues twenty six countries are helping in the operation. investigators have determined that the plane's last communication with the satellite was in one of two cargo is the norm in carnal stretches from the border of caustic sound and turkmenistan on to northern thailand. and the solemn cargo stretches from aids in asia to the southern indian ocean australia says it's taking the lead in this set to carry out comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty organization says its international monitoring stations have not detected any collision or a crutch. chinese ambassador to the ledge up long way kang has said china has ruled out the possibility of hijacked or terror attack on the inhalation flights by chinese passengers the finding came on for investigations into the backgrounds of all passengers of chinese nationals on

a barge hit a vessel and one of the tanks sprang a leak. some of that oil is leaking into the gulf of mexico. >> it is releasing oil. that oil is not only in the galveston bay, but as the winds and the tides drive it out, it is receding offshore. >> investigators are not saying what caused the accident, but there was fog. visibility was probably a factor. >>> if you don't have health insurance by the end of the month you probably will receive a fine. you better act quickly. >> reporter: in the tenderloin, glide memorial is making health insurance a priority. they are lining up for the chance. >> i haven't had insurance for over 10 years. >> reporter: he calls his trip to the e.r. an expensive disaster. >> it would be like a total relief for me. >> reporter: for 4 hours representatives from glide helps people through the website getting questions answered and signed up for coverage in a familiar environment. they hope to enroll a couple thousand people on covered california. >> they are being helped and told their choices. there are choices.

more naval vessels are heading there, particularly chinese naval vessels, plus a chinese icebreaker, would you believe, been diverted from perth here in western australia, but that's all taking time to get there. there's only one vessel on site at the moment, and again, that's coming back to this visual sighting. that is what they need. that is what they are going to confirm, identify any parts of mh-370. that will have to be a very close-up visual identification. >> and you mentioned that u.s. plane that was diverted to the area, the p-8. is there significance to the type of plane that is being diverted? is it a larger plane that's headed out now to take a look? >> reporter: it's a larger plane than the workhorse p-3s, which are being used by the u.s., the australians and the new zealanders, and it's also got a lot of sophisticated surveillance and imaging equipment inside, so that is obviously going to help to actually locate this debris. they've also been able to look at drift models. so, the chinese saw where this debris was, they radioed in the coordinates. the model then, the n

they pulled from the ocean, a ship from china and australia, and those objects are sitting on the vessels right now waiting to be examined. and what is going to happen here is that planes are going to be spotted and marked yesterday and the crews know the coordinates and that is where they are going to be headed this afternoon, and planes are going to be searching for additional objects and we need to stress that we don't know if they are going to be connected in any way to flight 370, but there are a lot of objects frankly floating around in the indian ocean, but what is new here that has not happened before is that planes that have been searching for debris are now looking and seeing of the objects and thinking that they look suspicious enough, and different enough that there might be a chance and we see the objects that are white, orange, red, blue, and all of these have been marked and the ships will try to locate them, because it is one thing to take a picture from the airplane, but another to have them, and have the experts s take a look at them see if there is a connection to the f

"hmas success" remains the only vessel in the search area.arriving in the search area on the 25th of march. three aircraft, two from japan and one from the uae, have already departed today and are on en route to the southern corridor. six malaysian ships with three ship-borne helicopters are now in the northern part of the southern corridor. ten chinese ships are in the southern corridor carrying out search-and-rescue operations. "hms echo" is currently refueling in the mole deevz and will be sailing to the southern corridor this evening. in the northern corridor, turkmenistan confirmed they have had no sightings of mh-370 at all on their radar. each piece of information we receive from our partners in the northern corridor helps us to continuously narrow that corridor. satellite images, new leads into mh-370's possible location have come from satellite data. this is one of the four tools we identified that could narrow the search area along with surveillance radar data, increasing surface and air assets and bringing in more technical experts

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today, the malaysian government insisted not just debris the vessels are looking for. hope against hope. of course, we are praying and continue our search for the possible survivors. finding the haystack is just a first step here then comes the more difficult task of finding the needle. listening deep under water, with this device, for any pings from the black boxes. as day breaks here, the search will resume in earnest. it's a race against the clock. because the batteries on those black boxes have just one week left on them. >> one week to go. thank you. back here at home and to the devastating mudslide in washington state. that mountain of mud coming down one week ago. in those early hours you'll remember families and neighbors gathering at the fire station with hope their loved ones will be pulled out. tonight so many of those families returning to the same spot after a difficult week. abc now on the family now digging in the mud and looking themselves. >> reporter: for the first time in a week, searchers paused -- a moment of silence to remember the victims. >> rep

they cleared 252,000 kilometers and now for the first time, we see more sea vessels. so 8 were crisscrossing the area going to the places where the objects were spotted. a jump in the amount of square foot age that is being covered. we have pictures of air assets that are going up. there are now two p-8's looking for pieces of this missing flight. thank you. i want to talk now about these latest developments with our panel of experts. we have jim tillman and cnn law enforcement analysts the former assistant of the fbi. and miles o'brien. jim, if i can start with you, another day turning up objects that look possibly from several hundred feet in the air like they could be from the plane. some of them more than four to six feet long. when you hear of those dimensions or color does that make you think that it could be parts of this plane? >> yes, it does. because, you know i don't know the dimension ps of the evacuation slides but it falls in that general arena. i don't think it looks like the rafts which are a completely different style and size. but that would be wonde

vessels, while two other heavily armed ukrainian ships remain blocked from leaving port by russian vessels ten days the people of crimea will be asked to decide in a referendum whether they want to stay part of ukraine or join russia. they will vote on whether they can join russia. that is a very very big deal and i think a little bit unexpected. at this moment ukrainian riot police are in a tense standoff with pro-russian demonstrators in the southern ukraine port city of odessa a very historic city. our matthew chance is there. matthew, give us a sense of what you're seeing on the ground. >> reporter: hey, john. a lot of tension here in odessa. you can see i'm at the main government building in this city. it's the third biggest city in ukraine. and these hundreds of people that have gathered outside ofare pro-russian demonstrators in this city in ukraine. they're demanding that the authorities that, of course control this administration building here authorities loyal to kiev leave the building and hand it over to them. they're also demanding that there should be a referendum here as wel

russian warships continue to block ukrainian vessels in a black sea port. one of muammar gaddafi's sons is handed back to egypt and put behind bars. >>> the high profile trial of three al jazeera journalists is put back three weeks after hearing from prosecution witnesses >> lacking diplomacy. >> i stand corrected. >> president obama's new ambassador nominees are lambasted with being unqualified. >> ukraine's interim leader says he's open to talks with russia. that's despite russian war ships blocking ukrainian vessels in a black sea port. there are also russian troops in other military bases in crimea. speaking ahead of a summit in brussels, the european parliamentary summit reiterates that the e.u. stands behind ukraine. >> we need to urgently tackle this problem. and we are ready to find a solution in the contact group and an offramp, together with the u.s., e.u. russia, and clearly with ukrainian participation. and we ask russia to respond. whether they are ready to preserve peace and stability in europe or they are ready to instigate another provocatio

the entire front is a pressure vessel. the pilots have a number of safety devices at their disposal. they have to get the mask from the holder and working in just a beat. they are good at doing it. they train all the time. as far as the smoke, they can put on the smoke hoods as well as seeing through that. the passengers drop on oxygen masks and that's the full extent of the emergency oxygen they had. it is one big system of pressurization. there different ways to get oxygen in terms of depressurization. >> as you mentioned the plane and bells and whistles going off to tell the pilots put the masks on r on, if there is an issue. thank you both very much and keep the questions coming. we will answer more questions next hour. up next, we will talk about the ocean in the search. an oceanographer who said it is not far fetched to believe this is debris from the plane. also ahead, the other breaking story. the president speaking out making a surprise announcement on the crisis in ukraine. russia slaps sanctions against u.s. law

vessels out in in water. they're going to try to pinpoint where exactly the plane went down. they don't know that yet. >> okay. and they're at the airport. you mentioned there were a number of loved ones that are at a nearby location. what, if anything is being said by them about what they're hearing from the airlines? what is this like for them? >> nothing, you know. they are just completely smothered in grief. they have been left here for more than 24 hours. no word fwr their families. obviously, hope is fading of finding this aircraft. they know that. they want some closure. they want some answers. that might help them to understand what has happened. where their loved ones might be. what is the possibility they would even be able to recover their bodies. they don't have the answers to any of that and perhaps the question that baffles the most, the one they're asking themselves, the most difficult one that may never been answered is why. >> all right. jim clancy, thank you so much. keep us posted. >>> making her first court appearance in the u.s., the mother charged with a

there are commercial vessels in the area. we don't know yet who has been diverted into that search area. remember, where this debris has turned up is actually beyond the southern end of the search sector, so it is in a new area. it's going to take a little time, quite a lot of time, actually, for people actually in vessels to get there, john. >> now, andrew, when it comes to getting eyeballs on the scene, like you mentioned, talk about some of the difficulties, whether it be weather or whether it be sunlight, to get at least the aircraft hovering over these pieces of debris. >> reporter: well, it's just about everything you care to mention. you mentioned two there. there's about four hours of daylight left in that target zone, and there has been planes circling that area for several hours now. they're going out in stages. this is a staging post, so they're going out in staggered intervals so they can have at least one plane on target at any one time for several hours. the weather is not playing its part. visibility has been d