do you know anything about, obviously we are hearing this news from the vietnamese navy commander by way of the news in china. the you know about the cooperation taking place or the fastness of the search taking place in this area 100 miles from this island? >> reporter: at this stage it is too early to tell. we know that china, which had a major press conference with the foreign minister today because they are in the midst of important government meetings. he led that press conference and he had to rush to his offices at the ministry of foreign affairs to help with this effort. there certainly will be nays from both china given the fact they are saying they're sending out rescue vessels and from vietnam. considering the navy is stating the fact that this plane dropped out of the radar at that time knew that location. these are just early reports. we will have to wait to see exactly the nature of how this plane went down and what exactly happened. it would have been at cruising altitude at that point, an unusual scenario for a plane to go down. normally the most worrying times for an

since the report mentioned the vietnamese navy, i'm getting confirmation through the military on that. we should be able to get an answer regarding that piece of information in a couple of hours. >> live now to beijing international airport. rob mcbride is there. what is the latest? >> well, the waiting continues, waiting to get confirmation of this reported crash in the south china sea. these reports have been running for the past couple hours, mainly on reuters, quoting the state media, who interviewed a senior navy official from the vietnamese navy. they said that the aircraft crashed. until the malaysian airlines gets confirmation of that, until there is confirmation of wreckage and so on, it is difficult for them to give any kind of confirmation. the official line is that the aircraft are missing, and we don't know what happened to it. that's still the official position. we understand the various agencies are trying to get in touch with authorities in vietnam, trying to follow up and we are trying to find out how do we know the aircraft crashed. one assumes if it has crashed, it

a vietnamese navy plane found objects that could belong to the aircraft. ships reached the site of an oil slick but did not find any sign of the plane. interpol is trying to determine the identities of two passengers that boarded with stolen passports. 239 people were on the flight that disappeared off the coast of vietnam. we have the latest from kuala lumpur. >> there's no confirmation of what the mysterious object floating in the south china sea is. there's speculation that it may be part of the missing aircraft. the vietnamese navy plane had to turn back because it was too dark to investigate. once it's light the search mission by air is expected to resume and hopefully we'll have that information in a couple of hours. a day after two large oil slicks were spotted in the china sea comes another development. reports say parts of the the malaysia airlines plane may have been discovered. the navy planes have returned to base and will return the search on monday. the mystery surrounding the disappearance of m-h370 is deepening. the plane may have deviated

according to reuters a va vietnamese navy plane founds object that may belong to the aircraft. the united states has joined the search. a navy ship will arrive on the scene less than 24 hours from now. investigators from ntsb are recorded there. rescue crews are widening the search area since radar shows the plane may have actually turned back before it disappeared. this as families of the passengers wait anxiously for updates, but a spokesman from malaysian airlines delivered the news they had all been dreading. >> we had communicated to the family members that after more than 30 hours without any contact with the aircraft, we believe that the family members should prepare themselves for the worst. >>> now, to another twist in the mystery of flight 370. officials are looking into how two passengers with stolen passports from italy and austria were actually able to get on board in the first place. they're also investigating two more passengers who made it onto the flight but whose names didn't even appear in the flight manifest. >> the four names, i've indicated to our intellig

a vietnamese navy plane found objects that may belong to the missing aircraft, and teams are looking for the jetliner near the coast of vietnam. the plane had 239 people on board, and now investigators are checking surveillance video of the two men believed to have boarded the plane with that stolen identification. let's turn to scott in kuala lumpur with the latest. >> reporter: they've expanded the area they're searching from 20 naught call -- 20 nautical miles to 50 because there's indication they changed direction possibly coming back. so they expanded the area they search. a lot of nations have joined in the search, about a half-dozen plus air asats and ships. right now it's nighttime so only ships continue the search overnight, and the aircraft will be brought back in on monday morning. another area of focus on sunday have been the two gentlemen that boarded the plane using fake passports. a statement by interpol has said they're very concerned they're allowed on this aircraft mainly because the passports were in their system marked as stolen and they should have been red flagg

according to reuters a vietnamese navy plane may have found objects from the aircraft. radar indicates that the missing jet may have turned back before it vanished. based on that, teams looking for the plane widened their search on the coast of vietnam. now authorities say two people were able to get on board using stolen passports. two others weren't even listed on the flight but they did get on the plane anyway. we're in kuala lumpur with the latest. >> interpol has said and confirmed that those two names were indeed stolen passports, and they were on that -- the passengers used those stolen passports to board the flight. no it says it's of political concern there are no checks made since those passports were reported stolen. there were no checks made by any countries in the database that the interpol keeps. this database contains some 14 million names from 167 countries. so interpol says the fact none of the countries have made checks on nethese names means they're unable to find out if these people traveling on forged documents had made other travels into other coun

a vietnamese navy plane found objects that could belong to the jet liner.ey are trying to determine the identity of two passengers who boarded with stolen passports. scott hideler, do you get the impression that authorities are feeling confident that they are moving at least in the right direction with their search? >> reporter: well, they hope so. and we are going to get a press briefing in the next hour from malaysian government officials here at this hotel on the campus in kaula lumpur. there are lost. there are no definitive answers to where this aircraft might have gone down. we had two oil slicks discovered a couple of days ago. the oil from that is being tested here in malaysia. we are expecting that to come on monday evening local time. there is this footage of what an aircraft from vietnam said could possibly be a piece from the aircraft. >>, too, again is going to have to be retrieved they spotted it late sunday night before the sun set. they were going to have to go out this morning, retrieve it. obviously, that's going to have to be tested and v

the vietnamese navy plane spotted what may be parts of the aeroplane. the navy planes have returned to base and will resume the search on monday. the mystery surrounding flight mh370 is a mystery. it may have turned back. >> questions are being asked as to how two passengers on stolen passports could have avoided the flight. >> behind me is where passengers leaving kuala lumpur goes through immigration. according to interpol no officials in any country checked the database for the stolen austrian passport since they went missing. >> interpol says it's checking all other passports used to abort the missing plane, against its record of stolen or loft travel documents. malaysian investigators said they are looking at footage taken by security cameras, in particular of the two men travelling with stolen passports. >> we are not ruling any possibility. however, it's important to state that our main concern is to focus our effort in finding the missing aircraft. >> relatives of passengers on board the plane has been waiting for news. until the aircraft has be

. >> reporter: vietnamese navy planes spotted what they think could be fragments from a missing malasian airline. had they have yet to locate the debris. >> reporter: experts are part of the team investigating. >> we will have a better idea of what happened once we are able to recover the cockpit recorder. >> reporter: the boeing 777 carrying 239 people was en route to beijing from malaysia's capitol stay when it vanished. they may have turned back to kuala lumpur without warning. up to four passengers with questionable identification were on board. >> we should be careful not to jump into conclusion. >> reporter: the families of chinese passengers on board are demanding answers and applying for visas and expedited passports to travel to where the doomed flight took off. marlie hall, cbs news. >> the 11-year-old jet was last inspected ten days before the disappearance and was found in proper continue. continuing coverage on the missing flight, we will have the latest information on our news rooms and also online at kpix.com. >>> 4:32 now. a freak accident killed an oakland women. a littl

. >> reporter: vietnamese navy planes spotted what they think could be fragments from a missing malaysian airliner in the sea off vietnam sunday. but officials from the country say they have yet to locate the debris. >> we have not found anything that appears to be an object from the aircraft let alone the aircraft. >> reporter: experts from china, the national transportation safety board, and faa are part of the team investigating. >> we will have a much better idea of what exactly happened once we're able to recover the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder. >> reporter: the boeing 777 carrying 239 people was en route to beijing from malaysia's capital city saturday when it vanished. military radar suggests the pilots may have turned back toward kuala lumpur without warning. up to four passengers with questionable identification were on board, including two people who used stolen passports. >> but we cannot rule out terrorism at this time, but we should be careful not to jump to a conclusion. >> reporter: the families of chinese passengers on board are demanding answers an

the vietnamese navy is searching the area. beijing officials told relatives that the last words of the captain to air traffic control indicated nothing was wrong, but with no trace of the jet, the words did nothing to calm waiting friends and families. >> and we learned today, the pilot's last words were all right. goodnight. >>> the u.s. supreme court has ruled the city of sunny vale can ban sales of high capacity gun magazines. the nra argued that the ban violated the second amendment. today's ruling does not end the court battle which could drag on months. >>> police are warning parents tonight, don't let what happened to one kid happen to your kid. a 16-year-old mountain view boy was found unconscious on the steves creek trail. looks like he took a synthetic drug called doc. it is a halucinacen related to lsg. >> we don't know how bad this is. it is very dangerous. >> police are working with the school to try to get the word out about the dangers of doc. >>> take a good look at the man in this sketch. oakland police say he

the vietnamese navy is now searching that area. in beijing today, malaysian government officials told relatives that the last words of the captain to air traffic control indicated nothing was wrong. but with no trace of the jet, the words did nothing to calm waiting friends and families. >> that was clarissa ward reporting. we now know the pilot's last words to air traffic control were, all right, good night. >>> time now is 4:39. mother nature wreaks havoc on commuters in the midwest. the tragic aftermath when these big rigs tried to weather the storm on a busy turnpike. >> and one bay area neighborhood fed up with crime is not mincing their words. their message to people who are up to no good, when we come back. ,, ,,,,,,,,,, [phones rings] it's amanda. hey sweetie. what? okay, i'll send it. one hundred seventy-two dollars for a chemistry book, what is it, made of gold? just use citi popmoney. boom. ah, she's feeling lucky. hey sweetie...cancun, yeah no, you'll be spending spring break with your new chemistry book. with citi popm

the vietnamese navy is now searching that area. india sent ships to help the search today. in all a dozen countries are combing the waters for clues. in beijing today, malaysian government officials told relatives that the last words of the captain to air-traffic control indicated nothing was wrong. but with no trace of the jet, the words did nothing to calm waiting friends and family. scott, it will be daylight here soon and those search operations will continue. but a malaysian authorities are really now facing mounting pressure to show that this investigation is on the right track. >> pelley: clarissa thanks very much. here is the state of the search tonight. the chinese say they found objects in the region where the plane vanished. but that ghost radar signal clarissaward waclarissa ward was about leads to the other side of the malay peninsula. the clues conflict. and after five days, we still don't know much. former u.s. airways captain chesley sullenberger is our cbs news aviation safety consultant. you may have more experience than anyone ditching an airliner in the

the vietnamese navy may have spotted debris, but still no confirmation of the whereabouts. two passengers boarded the flight with stolen passports. interpol of grave concern that no one checked their database. >> it's seven years since an american working for the c.i.a. went missing in iran. an investigation by associated press reveals that robert levinson may have disappeared while spying for the c.i.a. >> pro-russian troops attacked at a rally, russian troops control the region. >> amy knight, an author offer various books of the soviet union and the kgb. thank you for being with us. how badly do you think russia wants crimea? >> i think russia would like very much to have crimea more under its sphere of influence. it's we important strategically because of the naval base, and i think that the possibility that a new government in kiev could change your the terms of the russian agreement with ukraine about this space, in terms of the number of troops and the level of readiness, and actually the amount of time that they have to continue with owning the space - i think that

the vietnamese navy may have spotted debris. two passengers boarded the flight on stolen passports. interpol calls it a grave concern and they are searching for the identity of those passengers. >> layers of different faith groups came together at the kuala lumpur airport to offer prayers and solace. 239 were on board the missing plane. tensions are escalating on the plane in crimea. pro-russian troops attacked activists. they control the area. >> russia says a referendum on ukraine's future is legal. the ukrainian government disagrees. russi russian forces continue to surround the crimea peninsula. some of crimea's minorities are nervous, among them the tatars, who are not ready to embrace. the leaders asked for u.n. protection. we have that story. >> they are not taking chances, especially at night, because these days tat tars and others feel under threat. >> we need a plan, a trusty plan. if the new regional government stay, i don't know what will happen to us. >> about 300 unarmed men deploy in shifts in a tatar neighbourhood. they can't fight off a pro-russian militia if it cam

vietnamese navy planes spotted what they think could be fragments. but officials from the country say it turned out to be moss covered trash floating in the ocean. >> we have not found anything that appears to be objects from the aircraft let alone the aircraft. >> reporter: experts from china, the national transportation safety board, and the faa are part of the team investigating. >> we will have a much better idea of what exactly happened once we're able to recover the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder. >> reporter: the boeing 777 carrying 239 people was en route to beijing from malaysia's capitol city when it vanished. military radar suggests the pilot may have turned back to kuala lumpur without warning. up to four passengers with questionable identification were on board, including two people who used stolen passports. >> we cannot rule out, but we should be careful not to jump to conclusions. >> reporter: families are applying for expedited passports to travel to where the flight took off. >> reporter: we will hear from the f

so i still question if the original search, which i understand was by the vietnamese navy, did they reallyten underwater with underwater microphones? or in the right part of the world zble world. >> exactly. >> in terms of a 777 plane, obviously very big, very modern plane, how easy would it be to land a plane like that, given the wide area it could have landed, without any radar detection? >> well, i think if you get low enough you don't worry about radar. you can fly this thing on what we call map of the earth where you're right down on the deck. could this cap have done that? i don't know. but i would love to see the authorities get into his home and download whatever is left on his simulator. because that's a very sophisticated simulator. and he may have done a lot of practice. it would take a lot of skill and practice to bring that airplane that low in that kind of altitude to skirt around and go where he's going. let me quickly also say something about the pings. yes, absolutely right. i'm glad that somebody mentioned that. the ping is a sound that was designed to give you the indica

vietnamese navy planes sp >>> five things to know at the :55.national hunt for a missing malaysia airlines airliner is moved to the opposite side of the country. they spotted possible fragments. flight in the sea off vietnam. it disappeared on saturday. >>> russia is proposing to end the crisis. secretary of state john kerry declined to neat with russian president vladimir putin on monday pushing moscow. >>> today japan pausing to mark the third anniversary of the devastating tsunami that struck on march 11, 2011. the 9.0 magnitude quake causing the tsunami with 30-foot waves which destroyed fukushima dai- ichi, 16,000 people died. >>> an emotional oscar pistorius reached for a bucket after his murder trial and vomited as he heard graphic details about his girlfriend's death. the evidence so explicit, a judge ruled it cannot be shown on tv. pistorius life in prison if convicted. >>> a car chase started in sacked and ended in richmond. the driver -- it started in sacked and ended in richmond. the driver was caught -- a car chase started in sacram

the vietnamese navy is now searching that area. in beijing today, malaysian government officials told relatives that the last words of the captain to air traffic control indicated nothing was wrong. but with no trace of the jet, the words did nothing to calm waiting friends and families. >> that was clarissa ward reporting. >>> time now is 5:09. robots are no longer confined to science fiction shows or cartoons. now they are being used in some bay area classrooms. >> working overtime. many americans don't get paid time and a half and it's legal. how president obama plans to start filling that loophole. >> winds calming down around the area, lots of sunshine coming up and patchy fog at the coastline. we'll talk about that coming up. >> and we just saw this tweet from 511. they just reopened all the connector ramps around highway 17 and 280. they were doing some overnight roadwork in the area. we want to know what drives you crazy during your commute. ask a question or share a gripe by emailing crazy@kpix.com. or tweet me at #ewenger

no confirmation yet if they have found the plane and the vietnamese navy is sending two boats to the area at this time. aircraft and ships from several nations have been searching the south china sea for several hours now, but malaysia's transport minister says so far no wreckage has been found. malaysian airlines boeing 777 went missing early hours yesterday morning on a flight from the malaysia capital to beijing. it had 227 passengers on board and 12 crew. there were 14 different nationalities on the plane, including three americans. 150 of the passengers on board were chinese nationals. contact was lost with the plane two hours into its flight. at that time, the plane should have been flying close to the vietnamese coast. vietnam has said the plane didn't enter its air space. the government's website says the plane operated south of vietnam. weather was reported to be good at that time. friends and relatives have been waiting anxiously for news. some have voiced their frustration at the lack of information being released by the airline. the boeing 777-200 is a long ranged aircraf

the vietnamese navy and air force, they did spot the oil slicks on saturday and they have taken a test for analysis and proven not to be jet fuel. there is also a suggestion they may have found a piece of the plane, a door but, when they picked that up, it wasn't part of an aircraft. so they really stumped at the moment as to what's happened. so they're expanding in the south china sea now through the straits in the indian ocean in case the plane which was at 30,000 feet when it seemed to have got a problem could have gone a long way on its descent, bill. bill: there are theories out there, david, i don't know aviation experts, saying distint graduation at 35,000 feet may have explained this? seems hard to believe that. in addition if you were to take that plane fly it nose first straight into the water, is that a possible explanation why there is no physical evidence today? >> reporter: i think the experts are saying a plane will likely disintegrate at 30,000 feet. we've had examples in the past with flights across the atlantic where they have taken many years to even find the black b

but the vietnamese navy has pinpointed it, spotting a signal, seeing an aircraft descending. >> aren't pilots trained to try to communicate until the very end? >> until the very end, every crash voice recorder i have ever heard, to the very end, they're fighting and yelling and shouting and coaxing the airplane and doing all kinds of things, that's what you're trained for. and that transmission is automatically going out. it's a reflex. you automatically hot mike and you're broadcasting and you're busy in there. so it's so unusual. i hope its not a duplication of a malaysian that has never been determined or the cause back in 1977, they lost a b-737 that did a high dive. there was a fight in the cockpit, there was a possibility that there was a hijack and the crew went in, or the crew itself, one of the crewmembers, killed another crewmember and took the airplane in. but since there was nothing ever left of that aircraft, from a high dive all the way in, it's a mystery. >> we don't have the double door system, where there's a little vestibule, pilots come out, the door locks, then you

scene or in the vicinity or are responding to the location, including the malaysian navy, the vietnamese navyare also led to believe that the chinese are sending assets and the united states navy is also responding. the weather at the time was reported to be good. there is no indication at all that that was a problem. no idea why this plane disappeared off radar screens suddenly. no indications yet of sabotage or any claims of a terrorist attack. you mentioned that these two europeans who were on the manifest, in fact, were not on the plane and had reported their passports were stolen. that is raising concerns with security experts. but only at this point concerns. there's no definitive reason to believe that anything nefarious happened here. so the question really is, why did this plane suddenly go off the radar at roughly 35,000 feet, roughly an hour and a half or two hours into the flight? nobody has a good answer. there are a lot of hypotheses out there. but there's no solid information. we don't even have one single piece of wreckage, to our knowledge. there's the time line leaving kuala

a vietnamese navy official say it crashed off the vote of vietnam. >> at the moment we have no information of any wreckage. we have no information of that, but we are looking at all possibilities. >> and ukraine's interim government says it will not give up op crimea, and is calling on russia to make sure international observers can brait in the region. the kremlin claims the men there are local defence forces not under russian control. >> now to india, where 170 million people live in slums, despite india's growth. 19 million houses is a factor, and disability and unemployment are contributing to the epidemic. we have more. >> this man and his puppets may not be here for much longer. families like this have been performing for generations. his nomads settled in out are arse -- in outer areas. >> we were were all parts of india and farmed a special community. >> over 25,000 people live in the slum. a private developer has bout the land and wants them to move. >> if our homes are taken away i become hemless, where do i go? >> homelessness is a big problem in india. many migrate to urban are

in any way be associated with this missing plane but you can imagine that that is why now the vietnamese navy is moving towards that location. the chinese navy is also assisting. the philippine navy, rather, is doing the same thing, same thing with the malaysian navy. a lot of assets to bear. this is also a part of the world where we do not have great radar tracking abilities. when you are flying over the united states or you're flying over europe, for example, you are never out of radar contact. when you're flying over vast stretches of water, there are gaps in the radar coverage. >> yeah. nbc's tom costello, thanks for your reporting and careful attention to details here. we will keep an eye on the story. as rescue crews continue their desperate search for this missing malaysian air flight and the 239 passengers on board, investigators are trying to work swiftly to figure out what happened and what they can do. for more on this fast-moving investigation we go to greg fyfe and assists on international incidents. joining us from denver, walk us through what an investigation looks like at this

vietnamese state media quotes a navy official saying it crashed off the coast of vietnam, near an island in the gulf of at the end of the day land. malaysian airlines has been reaching out to passengers and crews' family. malaysia airline flight m 8370 is a boeing 777. it can hold 31,000 gallons of fuel, weighing 541,000 pounds. and can travel 6,000 miles. and travelling monday to new york and tokyo to san francisco. now we turn to allen schauffler, where boeing makes the 777 for the reaction to the planes. >> this is one of the safest planes in the air, one of the best selling models that they have made and shipped more than 100 boeing 777s to triple 200 in a 200 model and a long range model. 300 more on order. they are sold over the world, have a tremendous safety yes record. they had one -- safety record. they had one flight in 19 years. 18 million plus airmiles, and one fatality crash. the company, itself, staying quiet. this is the entirety of their statement: >> that's what they have tweeted out. that's essentially all they there told us when we spoke to a representative recently a

vietnamese search and rescue teams deployed. chinese divers on hand. u.s. navy vessels at work. soon, even a submarine. for relatives, an agonizing wait. in texas, the family of american passenger phillip wood told abc news today he had visited home just a week ago. his father, barely able to speak. >> so, he had a big, big heart. >> reporter: and from his sons -- >> last thing i said was, i love you. i was on my way out. i was going back to college. he just stood up and he gave me a big hug and i just told him i loved him. >> reporter: seeing what these families at this hotel have gone through, a mother unable to face the loss of her son, a wife, certain her husband must have somehow survived, it's clear every step the investigation takes forward could offer critical comfort. david? >> so difficult to see the boys left behind in texas. gloria, thank you. >>> and last night here, we showed you the flight track of that plane, suddenly disappearing, but moments before it vanished, did that plane start to make a turn? that's just one of several working theories tonight, and abc's d

vietnamese search and rescue teams deployed. chinese divers on hand. u.s. navy vessels at work, soon even a submarine. for relatives, an agonizing wait. in texas, the family of american passenger phillip wood, told abc news he had visited home just a week ago. his father, barely able to speak. >> so, he had a big, big heart -- >> reporter: and from his sons -- >> the last thing i said was, i love you. >> i was on my way out. i was going back to college. and he just stood up and he gave me a big hug and i said -- i just told him i love him. >> reporter: seeing what these families at the hotel have gone through, a mother unable to face the loss of her son, a wife certain her husband must have somehow survived, it is very clear every step of the investigation takes forward could offer critical comfort. gloria riviera, abc news, beijing. >> be sure to stay with abc news as we cover all angles of this midair mystery. our live coverage continues on "america this morning" and "good morning america." >>> president obama will welcome ukraine's new prime minister to the w

vietnamese officials are investigating an object that might be part of the plane. they say a low-flying navy plane spotted rectangular pieces in the water around the same area where oil slicks were seen yesterday. the u.s. government has joined the investigation into the missing plane, the fbi along with the ntsb are reviewing surveillance video from the flight's origin as well as investigating two fraudulent passports used to board that flight. >>> authorities say three americans are on the plane, including philip wood. he's an ibm executive from north texas. his friend and computer programming teacher said wood embraced life and loved to travel. bill goad took the news hard when he heard that he was on the plane. >> i was driving this afternoon and it was like a gut punch that made me feel like i may need to pull over off the road. >> the passenger manifest released by malaysian airlines shows the other two americans were children, a 2-year-old and a 4-year-old, but it's unclear with whom they were traveling. >>> now to the crisis in ukraine. today dozens rallied in san francisco. they say

vietnamese authorities say they are unable to locating debris. they've been scouring the south china sea, where chinese satellites have captured three specific objects. a navy destroying has been diverted to the west coast as the search area widens to both sides of the peninsula. the "wall street journal" is reporting flight nh370 was in the air for four hours after its last confirmed location. the plane vanished about an hour after take you have from kuala lumpur as it was thought to be flying over the south china sea. let's speak to our correspondent. more confusion. the chinese government saying they have satellite images, they didn't release it for four days after they were discovered, and malaysians and vietnamese saying they can't find them. >> they are saying it was a breach of protocol. the officials say they should have had the information about images that satellites from china picked up, that could have helped them to direct the search operations to these areas specifically. it was in a bigger area they were looking at. because they waited for so long, they are calling it - malaysian officials are calling it a breach of the protocol. they dispatc

. >> osgood: first attracted our attention not as politics but navy pilot held as prisoner of war by the north vietnamesem down. but his captors forced him to appear in propaganda video in 1966. he blinked the word "torture" in morse code. in britain was freed in early 197 after more than seven years in captivity. >> i still don't have full use of my fingertips. >> he was elected at alabama first republican senator in 1980. served a single term. jeremiah was 89. and on the shore painted on napkin by pierre, some time around 1879 was unveiled at press release thursday at the baltimore museum of art nearly 63 years of a ii it was stolen. just five and a half by nine, it was purchased in 1920s by an art collector. who went on to lend it to the museum in 1937. the painting was stolen in 1951. gone it seemed for good. until that is the year 2012 when virginia woman bought it for just $7 at free market tried to put it up for auction. that triggered an fbi investigation and complicated court case which ended this past january with the judge's ruling it belonged back in the museum. to date the painting goes back

. >> vietnamese air force planes did spot two large oil slicks, though it's not certainly if they're connected with the plane. this map shows the location. the u.s. navy along with the safety board has joined the search. we've been following the latest on the efforts. duncan. what else do we know about the size and scope of these efforts? where are they all coming from? >> take a look vietnam, china, singapore, indonesia, thailand, the united states helping too, as you mentioned. of course it's nighttime there, so the planes are no longer out, but the shipping are continuing the search. they have widened the area. so there's there's two bits of information that raise more questions. >> low-fly iing airplane findina rectangular shape. vietnamese officials say boats are being sent to the area for look for the object. the second bit of attention, the air force chief saying that the airliner indicated it may have made a turn back. the boss of malaysian airlines that if pilots make a u-turn they of course should inform the airline, but we know there was no call, no distress signal. only adds to the mystery, alex. >> interesting. you heard me talk about the

officers that the north vietnamese realized that these guys were causing trouble and they had to get rid of them. so they identified 11 pows most of whom are senior ranking navy commanders and they needed to kick them out of the hanoi hilton. the other thing this tells you is how to get kicked out of the p.o.w. camp. jim stockdale and jeremiah denton jim stockdale received the medal of honor which he accepted on behalf of all the pows when he came home. jeremiah denton became a u.s. senator for the state of alabama and quite famously some of you all may remember this they put jerry denton on tv for a live interview and he did two things. one, he didn't say what he was supposed to say. he said what he wanted to say so he knew he was getting in trouble for that and he did get in trouble for that. but he also sat there and he blinked a lot. i think everybody thought he was just blinking because the studio lights were kind of right that jerry denton was a lot smarter than i am because i can barely talk and read the same time that jerry denton could talk and blinked torture in morse code again and again with his eyes, torture ,-com,-com ma torture, torture. george

. >> reporter: a vietnamese search link spots an oil slick in the area where flight 370 lost contact. but the slicks are later linked to cargo ships. vietnam's navy "a," we're not looking in the right place, or "b," the aircraft touched down not unlike captain sullenberger did on the hudson where the aircraft touched water. >> reporter: a satellite image puts it isn't the strait of malacca. by wednesday, the chinese released their own satellite images announcing the three suspected floating objects. search crews find nothing related to flight 370. interpol secretary ronald nobodile identifies two iranian passengers who boarded the flight with stolen passports questions with somehow linking to the disappearance. the investigation we have is so many ambiguous and complex and confusing, that's the issue. we're following all the leads but it can be mechanical and it can be terrorism. officials say they continue to find no link to terrorism, but everything is being considered. on thursday, searchers head into the indian ocean, amid reports based on data pinging that the plane could have flown four or five hours after it was last season on radar. >> co