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Forensic exofficers are investigating and we dont know if the pilot was the one who deleted it of course, every answer we get, more questions come with it a Law Enforcement official confirmed to cnn also that its believed the planes first turn off course was programmed by someone in the cockpit at least 12 minutes before that final haunting contact coming from the copilot when he said, all right. Good night. Meantime, a u. S. Government source tells cnn its likely the plane flew south after losing contact. Australian officials have narrowed their focus there, while indonesia has come under fire for slowing the search. The u. S. Has a plane has a plane down there equipped to locate large objects, like submarines under water, but the navy hasnt gotten clearance to fly over indonesian airspace. A lot going on early in u. S. We were talking off air, the more answers we get from the press conferences, the more questions they that come from it. What do you take from the fact the Flight Simulator had data deleted . It is hard to same we dont know what it means. There has been a lot of scrutiny about the Flight Simulator. We have seen him sitting in front of it in the youtube videos. Why did he have it . Was he just a flight aviation geek, as he has been described . And the deletion of the files, because they happened in february, they may mean nothing at all. Its really hard to read. Is hard to read, of course, but obviously shows the focus remains on the pilot and copilot. Other big details out of the press conference that just wrapped up, malaysian officials did receive information from a neighboring country, would have helped if they said what country to try to help out. Could be anything from thailand to indonesia to thailand, indonesia and singapore. We dont know. Exactly where this plane was, what are they telling us . It comes back to the issue of transparency, that has been the frustration for a lot of the governments in this, how much is malaysia telling and how quickly are they revealing it to all the parties involved . Did get background checks in from ukraine and other countries and that they said that they did check out, didnt see anything strange but they reiterated the point still investigating, all passengers, all crew and all grounds crew. It sounds to me like we are one step forward, two steps back. But thats the way its been. At least now, what we are getting a sense of from people within the flying community, they are trying to get a more unified message together, at least. We need to note again, they are about day 12 at this point and we saw that we saw that wait of the days and the torture of the anguish that these families of the missing passengers have faced. You saw that right in front of you and it played now the a very dramatic moment in the press Conference Room before it started. Lets show our viewers what that video is and afterwards, i want you to tell me when about what you saw. [ crying ] i mean, that went on for much more that went on for a longer period of time than that, kyung. Can you describe what was happening . You were caught in that crush of cameras . Literally almost crushed. We were standing right there i stood there as a woman was going by right in front of me. The way it happened was about an hour before the press conference began, we heard that there might be something going on in the press Conference Room in the back. So when we ran up, we saw two Chinese Women holding a large white protest banner with some chinese written on it and then another woman standing to the side and they were screaming, they were very emotional. And what they were saying is that they are fed up, that they want answers, they want the truth, we dont believe Malaysia Airlines. And we are getting a snapshot here. This is just one moment in time, but a snapshot of how frustrated and upset and how anguished these families are. The one woman who is absolutely hysterical, as you saw her being pulled out. Looked like they were am almost trying to help her, she didnt look like she could walk out on her own. A small example what will we all need to remember, we enter day 12, that these families are waiting for any detail and those details are just not coming to their fast enough for them we can say at least. Thank you very much. That happened just moments ago, kyung ran out here as quickly as we could. Now, back to chris in new york. Chris . Bring in cnns aviation analyst and former u. S. Department of transportation Inspector General along with cnn safety analyst and the author of why planes crash, mary, david, good to have you, as always. We know from disasters in the past, the waiting is the hardest part for the families. How much of the waiting here, mary, at this point, do you believe is a function of the malaysian authorities not getting informed wrangled, analyzed and out the way they should have . Oh, a good portion of it and not just out the way they should have but doing the briefings for the families, taking care of the families. I mean, we do it so differently, because we have laws that cover it here, family assistance act and providing information, even information that you dont have information is very good to keep the families briefed. And the ntsb pretty much briefs them every day, twice a day, when they run an accident. Its very crucial. As painful as the reality is the process here is also part of the problem for these families and its important to keep in mind, one of the reasons we are pressing the investigators as hard as we are. These families deserve it . They deserve it. And it helps. Now we get what it is they are waiting on, the information, new information. Do you believe this is new information or believe, again, a reflection of the process, just not crunching the data as quickly there, so this 12minute period that just came out suspect necessarily new, just new to their understanding. Fair point . Exactly. They are acknowledging that they are saying this is information they are using in the investigation, rather than trying to say that it is conclusive, its not. So, again, as mary pointed out, the malaysian government not understanding how to commune kay. At least not pushing back as they were in the beginning. Every time information would come out that wasnt from them, this he would debunk it. This came out from a u. S. Source. We are told that the reason the u. S. Is putting it out is a little bit of frustration, we would have put this stuff out already, they didnt wrangle the data quickly enough yet. Lets look at it put blame aside for a second. If it is true, 12 minutes go between making the change to a new waypoint not on course and the copilot saying, all right, good night. If we accept that as true, how do we explain air Traffic Control allowing the adjustment to be made and not discussing the course adjustment, mary . Well, it can be a lot of reasons, but not the least of which is they werent paying attention, the plane was leaving their airspace and they hadnt entered into the new airspace yet. They had to have noticed it, particularly the turn and they should have challenged them. Is it damning . It sounds damning to the uninitiated. Common sense, when i hear that you changed your course and then you said good night it seems like you are doing something intentionalsome that unif a ir . Not at all i think thats exactly what it is. Why would you intentionally come off of a course that youve already set and predetermined, then say everythings okay, basically, by saying good night . In testing this idea of why it would have been done, do pilots ever do this, i dont like a different course, im going to pick a new course, go the wrong way around . No. In fact, as the airplane is starting to take off, when its on the runway before it even leaves, the waypoints are already predetermined, programmed into the system. So, here to was reprogrammed into the system or changed en route. So, two facts. We not we, i certainly have been shading my reporting on this away from blaming the pilots, unless absolutely required by the facts. This, if true is a bad fact, mary. True . Its a bad fact for the pilots, yes, because there is one reason, of course, you would turn and not tell anyone and that is if you had something terrible going on in the cockpit, but they had 12 minutes to communicate that and if something terrible is going on you communicate that because you want help and it is unusual enough to not be seen as inspect that this would happen . Very unusual. Its really not protocol. This other fact that came out, a little bit of suggestion, a bit of fact that the main pilot was supposedly being threatened with jail time for sodomy that is believed to be maybe politically retribution. You guys aware of this, that alsoth has come out, a local Political Party there who he supposedly supports that this is going on, some kind of political retribution that this may have been in his head . But again this is information thats coming out of the investigation but we dont know what it really means, whether he felt threatened by this or not. That part, i couldnt quite figure out who they were accusing of. What the news reports were so different. What i expected to see is if he was somehow thought to be doing something, you could would find something in his home in his data, in his background. Also sounds damning. Who how do we know what the data is from the Flight Simulator. Perhaps it fills up fat and it starts to slow down and he cleared the hard drive a little premature to say he deleted data . You can tell from the simulator, depends what data you deleted, the waypoints you practiced or if it was old data from old flights or maybe it was balancing his checkbook. I mean, we dont know at this point. But if you only deleted part of it, yeah, youd want to know. You need to know what it is david, otherwise, it just sounds bad, right . Yeah. What concerns me, it was deleted february 3rd and so theres if this predetermined, if it was preplanned, his his preparation would have extended past february 3rd, i would think. So, hopefully theres some gleaning of information as to where the aircraft went on that Flight Simulator if indeed, it was. Now, what we understand about them shifting the search zone. The australians are driving that certainly in their waters near the indian ocean, they are moving it more southwestsome this about coordinating data from what they heard about the thai radar exposure or how do we explain it . Well, lets hope thats what it s hope they have been able to continue the smooth the data and get better data points. The first set of points was literally a fourth of the globe. Now they have refined it, hopefully that its that and we have still havent been told exactly what was or what wasnt on the various data points and the computer information. Perhaps they have found additional waypoints there. But apparently, there werent any more on the plane. When you divide up an investigation, you luke at information and relevant facts. Fair to say this 12minute window, if accurate is a vel vant fact . Without a doubt. Without a doubting it s keeps leading you down the road of why did it happen and, of course, how does it lead us to where the plane is . We will keep putting the puzzle together, test each piece of information. David, mary, thank you for being here. We will be monitoring the investigation into missing flight 370 as it is war rarpted by new information but theres a lot of other news as well. Lets get to you john berman for that john . Thank you so much, chris. Cia and senate are dangling again and now, the fbi is evaluating whether a fullscale investigation is needed. The cia alems Senate Staffers gained unauthorized access to classified documents about its post 9 11 interrogation program. Senators claim they simply found the documents on their computers. Just last week, senator Dianne Feinstein accused the cia of hacking into her intelligence committees computers. 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The numbers drawn tuesday night with 11, 19, 24, 33, 51, the megaball 7. The jackpot, the sixth largest lottery prize in u. S. History. Somebodys doing a dance of joy in florida and maryland. How did you know jb didnt whip . He is here. Thats right. We are glad you are. Every day. Today, man, im nowhere near that. You are the man. Epps the man. All right. So, we were complaining about the fact that winter seems to be endless. In general. No, you were. I was complaining about winter in general. Guess what . Guess what, what is happening . Dont worry, i love you, michaela, goes both ways. Not yet, right . One day away, we need this so badly, we want beautiful weather. Im gonna just jump aneed tomorrow and show you where it is going to look nice. Temperatures rebound, many places in the country above normal, we have to get there, first. Now the Debbie Downer go back to what we actually have on the last day of winter. Winter weather. Here we go yes. Talking about more rain and even snow, see it there, a la the current radar now. That is going to be a little tricky, especially the morning hours, temperatures above freezing, maryland, virginia, could be looking for freezing drizzle in the morning hours. Eventually, the system will spread farther to the east, so looking for a lot of us right under the warm front. With that, most of us are going to be talking about rain, on the back side, yeah, a little bit of snow again, we are transitioning seasons here, not many of you will be seeing the heavier snow, the bulk of that staying to the north, upstate new york, even maine up there a half an inch of rain, see it throughout the day, even through tonight. Again, your last day, guys, hanging on tight. Keep in mind the winds, these guys gusting up, talking about midwest and eventually in through tomorrow, start to see some of the strong winds but one day, we can handle this, right . One day, tomorrow, looks so good. We can all smile. Except for you. Grimace. Thats right r be just like a straightline smile. As good as you get. Thanks. Sure. Take a break on new day. When we come back, more breaking coverage of the disappearance of play 370. Focus on the families, 239 souls on board, their families and loved one running out of patience and hope with the pace of this investigation. What you are hearing is a scene that unfolded just this morning, we will take you there, involves the mother of one of those missing on flight 370. Breaking this morning, russian flags flying over parts of crimea as prorussian demonstrators storm the Ukrainian Naval headquarters much the question today, can crimea remain calm or are tensions going to boil over . vo you are a business pro. Maestro of project management. Baron of the buildout. You need a permit. To be this awesome. And you. Rent from national. Because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle. And go. 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No reports of violent clashes at the facility, but now, it is flying the flags of russia and its navy. This comes after a gunman kill adieu cranian soldier at another base in crimea, leaving the government to authorize its troops to fire back in selfdefense. And this all comes after a day after russian president putin signed a treaty make willing crimea part of russia. We have reports to you now from crimea, moscow, and russia. We will start with nick peyton wall nsh sebastopol, crimea. Give us the latest, nick. Reporter real concerns the these remaining Ukrainian Military bases across the crimeaen peninsula. The First Military death of this invasion of the crimea at a base where im standing here near the capital. This morning, the main port city of sebastopol, 200 or so protesters stormed in to the base, we understand, suggestions Russian Troops were with them, assisting them. No reports of violence or deaths, but inside, it seems the ukrainian soldiers gave themselves up, reports of them leaving unarmed their installation and russian flag being hoisted, too. Went to a base in the northwest of the peninsula yesterday, saw tense scenes, Russian Troops moving in and around that base. We understand this morning, a tractor broke open the gates and prorussian protesters and Russian Troops are standing there, asking the ukrainian soldiers to give themselves up and the ukrainian and the russian flags are flying above that installation. Ukrainians defense minister is trying to fly here, pretty clear the local government wont let him land. No such suggestions of negotiations here, a real sense of fear about what could happen to these ukrainian soldiers or these prorussian protesters. Almost predestined to join russia, historical right. A lot of confidence among thanks crowd and concern what is that might do to ten eggses around these bases. All right, nick, the white house watching this keenly. And the Obama Administration condemning russian president Vladimir Putins move to annex crimea, calling it a threat to International Peace and security. In fact, they have dispatched Vice President biden to the ream ton reassure nato allies. Cnns michelle dozen zin ski picks that up at the white house. Reporter white house has been extremely measured in its language, its response to russia, clearly, the administration doesnt need a war of words with russian president Vladimir Putin, even though russia has been exactly the opposite. The u. S. Imposed sanctions, those sanctioned have called them hilarious, an hopper. Putin said the west overstepped the line and crimea is part of russia. The white house responded that the u. S. And western nations will not recognize this attempted annexation and that there will be more costs. The administration has really been pressed on this the last few days. What should the response be now since it seems nothing has encouraged russia or forced it to reverse course . Well what we know at this point, there will be more sanctions, more support of allies in that region. Next week, the g7 nations will meet on this subject and that excludes russia. And at this point, it seems extremely unlikely that those nations will attend the g8 summit that russia is hosting in june. Michaela . All right, hill later not exactly the desired effect they are looking for. Michelle dozen zin ski, thank you for that. A day after Vladimir Putin signed the treaty to annex crimea, russian lawmakers are essentially going about the business of making it official. A crimeaen delegation in moscow today meeting with members of parliament. Cnns fred plight kin is in russia and we understand quite a biz zard happening outside behind you, fred. Reporter yeah, michaela, there absolutelisome it started early this morning and been snowing all day its foggy, its snowing, however, traffic moving. Russians are used to this kind of weather but certainly is something that is keeping us in arms a little bit. As you said, while this is going on, the russians and the crimeaens are finalizing the deals to make crimea part of russia. Officially, it is, there is this crimeaen delegation meeting with russian lawmakers today. They are going to talk about things like pairing up the tax systems about gas security about energy security, certainly, they are giving every impression that they are moving on. There are still a couple of things that need to be done for all of this to become permanent, michaela and one of them is that the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation has to look at all of this and they are currently doing received the treaty that Vladimir Putin signed yesterday and looking to see if thatted a others that russian launch as michelle was saying, absolutely true the russians are showing absolutely no indication of backing down on these matters. They say that any sort of sanctions will be levied upon them will see counter sanctions from the Russian Federation, exactly what sergei lavrov, the Russian Foreign minister told secretary of state john kerry in a call last night. Appears the russians are well on their way to a big confrontation here. Guys . Fred pleitgen in moscow. Blatant disregard ofity nearingal law you what, Vice President biden called this annexation of crimea. Very complicated, you have on the other side, the people have spoken, say it violates the constitution, we didnt monitor the vote, but its very popular in russia. It s putins numbers are very high we will take a break here on new day. When can he come back, we will keep looking at the new information only if the 370, testing it. If a what is fact what is just new takes on whats going on. Most frustrating for the families waiting for answers. You are look ac the a scene from this morning. They are growing desperate, more so by the hour. One mother had to be dragged from the News Conference that just ended. We will tell you about the extreme measures some families are willing to go to for answers. And we are learning that data was deleted from the personal play simulator belonging to the pilot of flight 370. We are gonna take you inside this, our new day Flight Simulator, where we will attempt to recreate some of the movements of that missing jetliner. 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That is a heartbreaking scene you are listening to as loved ones crashed that mornings Malaysia Airlines News Conference with many malaysian officials, happened before the News Conference. But they are hysterical. They are crying. They are screams of anguish, nonetheless, heartbreaking. They are looking for answers, of course. Some still clinging to hope that their loved ones are still alive but the wait has become agonizing. People are beginning to believe that we may never know what really happened to flight 370 and that uncertainty has family members resorting to desperate measures. As each day passes, the search widens and the clock ticks but conflicting information remains. While frustrations are boiling over. In kuala lumpur, hundreds gathered to show support for all of the families of the missing, each with their own story, but all stuck somewhere between anger and grief, grasping to a faint possibility their loved ones are still alive. Sarah bayjack, partner of missing american, philip wood, told Cnns Anderson Cooper she will never lose faith them one day be reunited. Miracles to do happen. They happen every day. I have intuition and i have a feeling that they are still alive. Reporter she, like many others, believe the plane may have been hijacked and offers this emotional plea. Im hoping and im asking, please, to not not hurt the people on the plane. You know, find some other way to accomplish what youre trying to accomplish but dont hurt the people. Let phillip come back to me, please. Reporter a prayer echoed by Maya Elizabeth nari, the daughter of the chief steward on the flight, andrew, begging for her fathers return on twitter. Come home so you can watch the game, she writes, you never miss watching the game. Its your very first time. This man also waits for news about his brother but says the delay is torture and he fears hope is slipping away. And maybe in response to the anguish of these families and their demands for more information at the press conference this morning, officials announced they are assembling a highlevel team involving folks from the Prime Ministers office, the Foreign Ministers office and beyond to travel to beijing immediately to give to give updates, more updates, i guess we should expect, to the families of those missing. Well will continue to follow this, of course, throughout the show but now back to new york with john berman for some of todays other top stories. John . Thanks so much, kate. This morning, new revelations about the size and scope of the nsas surveillance operations. Documents given to the Washington Post by leaker Edward Snowden says the agency has engineered a system capable of recording every single phone call made in a foreign country and can then rewind and review individual conversations up to a month later. The post confirm it is withholding details that could identify targeting countries at the request of administration officials. After suffering a big setback, the defense is expected to rest today in the terror trial today of Osama Bin Laden putting mohammed sheik on the stand. He claims gave had no military role in al qaeda and he is accused of conspireing to kill americans. Ntsb investigators are starting to piece together clues in that deadly crash of a news helicopter in seattle. Two people on board died. Another on the ground seriously hurt when the chopper slammed into a street, burst into flames. Witnesses say they heard strange noises when the helicopter first took off after refueling. Look at that mother in massachusetts put her life on the lane to save her twin toddlers from a rolling car. 22yearold mindy tran had her two children buckled in the back seat of her car when she got out to lock the front door of her house. Just as she got out of the car, it started moving down her driveway and thats when her i think estimates kicked in. She used her body as a speed bump to slow down the car enough for a neighbor to get in and bring the car to a stop. My drawers my everything. Theyre my everything. And i dont want to see my daughters in the hospital and i knew at that time, it was either mine or theirs. Super human adrenaline kicking in. Tran crushed her left knee, dislocated her hip and although she says she has a long road to recovery, she vows she will walk again. And i promise you, she thinks every bit of it is worth it. Wow. Super human. Exactly what it is. Also known as the love of a mother. Right. You know . Cant fight with that. See it time and again. Any pain she is experiencing im sure she feel is he is worth it because she feels she did what she had to do to save her kids. Great story, jb. Switch to something thats little bit more of benign occupation it is getting time for march madness. We had the playin games last night. Dont worry, plenty of time to fill out your brackets. Mine is done under lock and key in my office. Really . Didnt hear about that getting competitive, see how she turned away . Yep. Were i think in andy shoals with this mornings bleacher report. Sure you have your bracket done there, too, mr. Perfect smile. Working on it for hours, guys. The teams they can got to take part in what they are calling te first four last night. Technically, its part of the tournament but a whip gets them into the field of 64, which is where you really want to be. 12 seed on the line between nc state and xavier, the wolf compaqing out on top in this one, many have them as a sleeper i can to upset st. Louis in the next round. The other game last night, albany, they beat mount st. Marys. They were led by 59 guard dj evan, the little guy. He had 22 points and 9 rebounds. Albany will play top seed florida tomorrow. Now, two more teams will advance to the field of 64 tonight, iowa and tennessee will battle for an 11 seed. And going to be an emotional day for hawkeyes head coach fran mcbacken, iowa city this morning where his son, patrick, scheduled to have surgery to remove a thyroid tumor. Mccaffrey will fly to date. To coach iowa in their first tournament game in eight years. Bleacherreport. Com, president obama has revealed his final four. He is going with florida, arizona, Michigan State and louisville. And i really hope he does well, guys, because i have the exact same final four, you can compete with me, chris, michaela, john, kate, and all the us fellow anchors here at cnn at cnn. Com blackets. Michaela, you said you got yours on lock and key. A lot of research. Got mine right here. Letting everyone know. My final four is the same as president obamas. I like that. Just as powerful. Clearly. I wish. Do you have a very electable face. For what these worth. Maybe i should run for office someday. Maybe. We will consult. We will consult. Going to take a break here on new day, see if we can find michaelas brackets and check in with the coverage of the disappear perhaps of play 370. We have learned that data was deleted from the Flight Simulator belonging to one of the pilots, how relevant is that . What kind of data would you snore how do you delete it . Turns out we have someone that can answer the questions. We have a Flight Simulator here in the new day studio, we will take you through it with experts who will let us know what is fact and what is fiction. [ male announcer ] a car that is able to see, to calculate, to think and can respond to what it encounters. Even if that means completely stopping itself. Its the stuff of science fiction. Minus the fiction. The 2014 eclass. See your authorized dealer for exceptional offers through mercedesbenz Financial Services. Until youre sure you do. Bartender thanks, captain obvious. 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We are told Forensic Experts are working to retrieve the information and figure it out. How difficult will the process be . What kind of data will you put on a flight simulate hammered with can it show us about what might have been practiced here. We have faa inspector mr. David suocie and jay laboeuf in the new day studio. Have been pract. We have faa inspector mr. David suocie and jay laboeuf in the new day studio. We are cruising along. What are you flying now . We have the cockpit up, a 777, all the flight information, air speed, horizon, altitude, and we have here the center console, carrying the flight Management Computer and this is where the pilots would enter all of the waypoints for the trip that they would be flying. David hurricane is the obvious this is something that would be very similar to what you would have had, what this pooh i lot would have had in his home. The big question of the idea of deleting data what data do you store on this . Why would you delete it . What are the typical parameters here . What we are doing right now is flying the aircraft and its recording what it is that youre doing right now so that later, you can go back and retrieve this flight and see how it flew, what flew, and look at it without your hands on the wheel and see what it is that you did before. That does get stored. Like any other data on hard drive. Jay, in terms of using a simulator, how often do people delete, why do they delete . Is there a needle leet . There is no need to defeel leath it. The files are saved when you intentionally save them. So, if they had files that they want toddle leet, they would have saved those files first. If they were just in a casual flight, just for entertainment or for practice, that flight would never be saved and there would be no need to delete it because it would not exist. So what your sea sayire sayg simulator no sifg flights do different route and practice how you want to practice, whatever you want, would you have to intentionally save something in the first place and then about how much Storage Space you have before you would delete anything . Yes. The Storage Space is tiny. These are tiny little files that exist in the windows operating world. So youre saying it takes only a little bit of space . Tiny. Tiny. What does that mean to you that somebody is deleting things . They were trying to remove information that somebody might want to look at. So its suspicious to you is what im saying . Yes it would be suspicious to me, there would be no need to do it. Do you echo that . I do. Yeah. If you save it in the first place, why would you need to delete it . Just small files. Not like vad to do an on the miz zblagts of the hard drive or anything like that unless it was some kind of failure in the computer. The dat bothers you . It does. February 3rd . February 3rd. So, it depends. February 3rd, well planned, he would be practicing after february 3rd, maybe information where the aircraft may be headed what his intent was. Any information would help. Last thing thats important to do here, the big disclosure from officials in malaysia, not necessarily new information but new information they figured sought that 12 minutes before the copilot said all right, good night they inputted data for this additional waypoint. Is that something that would be done and not communicated ordinarily, jay . Well, typically, the flight Management Computer would be loaded with the complete trip from start to finish. And so for them to interfere with that, two have to go in and interrupt the program that had been loaded and then insert into that program new lines of code which would change altitude, heading and air speed. So already not routine . Not routine. Its no the like you could say oh, we are seeing a little weather here. Maybe we will put in an additional waypoint in case something happens, nobody no need to tell anybody about it . Thats not how it works . Not typical f this was a regular route flight that trip would be saved in the flight Management Computer as a code and then they fly that trip every time they fly that flight. Mmhmm. And same reckoning of this . Because im trying to give every benefit of the doubt to the pilots that we can until the facts dictate otherwise. This does line up like a bad fact. This isnt routinely and not ne people . I dont see any reason they would do that unless they had perhaps a specific reason, they had to have an alternate, they were running low on fuel, Something Like that, then they might say, look, i want to have this alternate, i want to be prepared to go there. Important to note, not saying that they altered course 12 minutes before saying good night, just that they inputted the additional waypoint . Exactly. All right. Look, the best we can do with it now. Thank you very much for letting us understand exactly how this works. Jay, plug the company, why is it that you know so much about this . We built Flight Simulators and training simulators for aviators, educators and now we are writing a program to teach math and science for flying as a visual learning tool. Beautiful. Kids love to learn through these types of devices. This is a good one . Jays pretty impressive. Yeah, he is. Thank you for giving us an understanding of how the data retrieval works, when would you delete and otherwise. Very important based on what investigators doing. David, you will stay with us of course. Mick . Thanks so much, chris. Going to take a short break. Professional pilots cant even seem to come to a consensus about what might have happened aboard flight 370. It was mechanical error or did it involve human interfere reps . We have two veteran aviators joining us this morning. They are gonna break down the evidence ahead. 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All right. Welcome back to new day. We are following our breaking news in the ongoing search, now day 12 in the search for play 370. Malaysian official says data was deleted from the personal Flight Simulator belonging to the planes pilot. So what happened on board . Well, it would appear that even professional pilots cant come to consensus. Was it mechanical error or human interference . Joining me now, former u. S. Marine colonel, pete field, who has more than 40 years of experience as a pilot and 777 plight and cnn aviation analyst, less avan. Good to have you with us, gentlemen. We wanted to bring the both of you because you both are professional pilots, you both are experienced, you both have been at the helm of these types of jet liners. We wanted to find out where you sit on some of these things. So colonel field, lets start with you. What is your take, that it was someone or something that doomed thisly if the . Well, i havent ruled out mechanical failure of some sort entirely but thats only about 10 . I think most of the evidence that we can we can believe right now, and theres a plethora of speculation out everywhere, is that this airplane was commandeered by the by the pilots and taken to some other destination, we dont know where, but some other destination. And you have said that your opinion is sort of altering every hour with new bits of information. I think all of cust join with you that sentiment. Captain aben, lets talk to you house, do you respond to that, do you think it was someone or some thing . I have been contending all along it is still a mechanical issue we havent determined what it s it just i wont rule anything out either, but at this point, it just seems almost impossible, not impossible, but it seems more very diabolical for the knowledge that was require even for us as pilots to do what weve apparently seen with regards to disarming the transponder, the acars. It just seems implausible to me. All right. So lets go to these 12 minutes, the new data, this information that 12 minutes before the signoff of all right, good night, those Communication Systems were shut down. Well, that was confusing yesterday but according the release that im seeing today, theres no indication that this waypoint was put in there prior to reaching a boundary between vietnam and they were actually in singapore controls airspace and then they went into vietnams airspace, ho che minuminh center, i believe. That is where the copilot would have said all right, good night indicated a normal operation. Where where is the waypoint that was entered after that . We dont have that information why . We have this but we dont have we dont have the diversionary my contention, that was a die versionnary airport they were putting in. Colonel field what is your contention . I agree the waypoint was a diversionary airfield but i have a difficult time with the transponder being turned all you were an airline pilot, some reason, dont want to be seen, really an antithesis for any airline pilot, you want nobody radar contact, you want to know where other aircraft r and so if the transponder avenues office, they cant tell much about you, they can see your location but cant tell your height or speed or identify you positively. So, the transponder going off smells to me of nefarious act on the part of the pilots or it might be somebody that breached the cockpit door and is holding those pilots at gunpoint. So you say no conscious aircraft captain would have turned that transponder off of his own volition . I think not. I think theres no real reason for that. You would want Ho Chi Minh Center to pick you up, leave the transresponder on two of them on the airplane. So if had you a transponder failure, would you certainly you would certainly Say Something about that. Youre required to. The other part of that is if if you are if youre a if youre being held at gunpoint, you might be able to tell from the pilots voice inflections what was going on. It doesnt sound like the copilot, if thats who it was, was under any duress. Right. This sounds like like a plan. The reason that i have a hard time with mechanical failure is that there are two guys flying the airplane. Certainly one of them would have had an opportunity to turn and say to any controller that they are in contact with, weve got a problem, we are coming back toward toward malaysia. Last quick final point to that i have a yate, navigate, communicate, we know the order that youre to do things n. And i appreciate that. And the fact that the traps ponder came up, i agree that thats not something we could do under normal operation. However, its in conjunction with the acars turning off also, which indicates to me something was happening in that compartment, albeit a fire, a smoldering fire, something was might have been systematically shutting it down near that those components, so, thats thats my contention, then they slowly started to see that they were having an issue by messages on their screen and they are dealing with that. Captain abend and retired colonel pete field, two very smart men, experienced in the field, pun intended. We appreciate you both joining us and lending us your expertise in this matter in the ongoing search for flight 370. Chris . All right, thanks very much. We are following big stories this morning, big concerns coming out of crimea, just one more day to spring and of course, new information into the search for missing flight 370. Its time to give the top news. Some data has been deleted from the pilots Flight Simulator. This thing was already heading in a different direction when they are saying good night. They didnt indicate any of the hijack codes. You have a serious problem, like a fire. One thing youre gonna want to do is get on the ground as soon as possible. How difficult is it to take this particular 777 off course . [ crying ] find some other way to accomplish what you are trying to accomplish but dont hurt the people. Let philip come back to me, please. Good morning, welcome to new day im chris cuomo. We have breaking developments in this mornings search for Malaysia Flight 370ful the big question, why was data testimony leeted from the pilots home simulator. Lots to bring you get you up to date on this story. Kate bolduan is live in malaysia. Kate . Reporter thank you, chris. Thanks so much. Wither coming to you live, of course, from kuala lumpur where there is a renewed focus on the pilot this morning. Malaysia officials confirming that some data had been deleted from thinks Flight Simulator, the simulate theyre they found in in his home. What the data was we dont know and we are not even sure if it was the pilot who deleted it. Forensic experts are investigating. Maine official does tell us, an important and per flex plexing new detail coming out. A u. S. Government source tells cnn it is likely the plane flew south aft losering contact. Australian officials have narrowed their focus there, but indonesia, which is supposed to be helping lead the southern search, that southern arc that we have been calling, that corridor, indonesia is facing criticism for slowing that down. The u. S. Has a plane there built to locate large objects underwater but the navy hasnt received clearance to fly over indonesia yet. Now, a Law Enforcement official confirmed to cnn the plane likely changed directions when commands were made in the cockpit about 12 minutes before the final words were heard from the plane. And with all passengers and crew under review, malaysian official says they have heard back from all countries except, maybe not surprisingly, ukraine and russia. Now, this mornings press conference in in this mornings press conference, some very dramatic moments as family members of missing passengers put their anguish on full display, demanding answers. Our kyung lah was there. I want to get your take how this played out. First and foremost, we should let the video speak for itself. Take a listen to what kyung experienced and our cameras caught today. What are you doing . What are you doing . What are you doing . Back up back up [ [ crying ] [ screaming ] it is truly difficult to listen to you were right there, we saw you being crushed by cameras. What do we what more are you learning about what happened . Well, these women clearly showed up there because they wanted to share their stories, they spoke directly to the cameras, came to the press Conference Room and they were speaking. They said that they did not trust the malaysian government, they wanted help from the media to put pressure on the government to help find this plane that they didnt believe that the government was telling them everything. And then as they were talking, you saw the military move in and start to pull them out. You saw the woman crying, being dragged out of there. And its a lot of grief, its lot of anguish, its lot of frustration. We also see that the maine government is really having a hard time trying to control all of this. They have to deal with the families. They have to deal with intense focus by the press and what youre seeing here, this crush, this mess, this really gives you a snapshot of the government thats leading this investigation. Do we have any idea what happened to the woman afterwards . Yes. They were taken to a room across the way, but what happened . You saw the woman disappear. She went into the double doors of that room right at the bottom and then we waited outsaid by 15, 20 minutes much the military, we kept asking them what are you doing to this them . What are you doing . Whats going on. They wouldnt answer our questions. Some lied boldfaced right to me, said there were no women in here. I saw them go in. Of course, they are in there. Then they came out. They were, again, led out by members of the military. You know, nothing. They are speaking for many more people than themselves because we know that many, many families share their anguish and also know that in the press Conference Today they can did announce that they are putting together a officials to beijing. Some are threatening a Hunger Strike because they feel the government is not revealing enough to them. Thank you very much for bringing that to us. Get back to chris in fork for more. Bring in mary key is yaf vo, cnn aviation expert and an aviation attorney as well, and mr. Jeffrey beady, National Security studies at the university of new haven and former fbi, cia and the delta force terrorism expert. The credential does not be better. Now, lets test the insight as we vet information coming out of this thanks to both of you for being here. The big headlines today, first about the pilot. He has a Flight Simulator, not unusual. They say that he was deleting data from that simulator as opposed to from his home computer. We have an expert who is in the Flight Simulator business, he says he doesnt understand why would you do that. Insight, mary . Well, i mean, i certainly dont have one thats probably as sophisticated as his, but on the Flight Simulators that you have on your desktop, it saves lot of your plays, so you can see what youve flown before and how youre doing fanned youre a desktop pilot, getting better. There really suspect any need to have to delete that data and does look interesting why it was deleted but it was testimony leeted some time before the flight. Hopefully, they can recover it and lots of times, its very recoverab recoverable. Say it is almost impossible to delete anything these days unless you take the hard drive and throw it into the garbage itself. So we will follow up on that. But right now its still just an open issue. The other big headline, and again this is about the malaysian authorities and how they are processing data as opposed to getting new data. Not only did the copilot say all right, good night but 12 minutes before he said that, he input data for an additional waypoint that was not part of the play plan. He didnt change course, but he gave himself the ability to do so. What does it mean to you, mary . Well, because of the delay if the delay is right it certainly signals that youre intending to delay course and didnt call any may day, you didnt indicate that you had any problems. So, its a change in course with without a readily apparent reason and a 12minute time in which could you were have expressed the reason for the change in the course. Jeff beady, can you give a me a good reason or a benign reason or an innocent reason that this waypoint would have been put in and not communicated . Well, chris, theres sadly not a really good reason for that at all. You know, the problem is they put the way point in, they had multiple opportunities to indicate duress, through putting duress into a transponder code or even within aviation theres a way when you verbally communicate to people that you give a verbal duress call, so if someone had a gun on your head in the cockpit, cause they had got noon it, you would still be able to subtly inform your headquarters or any of the air Traffic Controllers that, in fact, you were under duress and that didnt happen all right. And this fact if it is a fact, and the coordinating Additional Information about turning off the transponder, which they believe may have been done manly, ate cars system being disabled, which is very difficult to do if its not done intentionally that steers you toward pilots. However, and we have about discussing this earlier and jeff, youre on this, so, lets get to this point we still dont know what was in the cargo manifest of this airplane. You think thats relevant. Why . Well, it is certainly something we want to eliminate. People have talked about simply a heist. The airplane itself is going to be hard to get rid of a hot airplane. But what about the carrying zbhoe was there some incredibly highvalue cargo . But now we are seeing we watch want to eliminate that but also seeing information that may have indicated that this operation was planned months in advance. Youre not going to necessarily know months in advance whats in the cargo manifest. One of those things we want to check off and say, okay, probably was not about the cargo but we dont know yet what that cargo might have been. So its a noting in something that necessarily we dont know what it, the unknown is troubling here. You want to know as much as possible. Could have been hazardous carrying goes, could be something that gave off fumes, not necessarily highvalue cargo or could be good cargo. I was hearing that from u. S. Sources here, they were concerned about the cargo, a compression event, explosion, they moved away from that you start hearing the additional suggestions of circumstances, like with this 12minute delay, moving you away from accident and more toward this was intentional . Well it is because before when we had the timeline, there wasnt time, it was boom, boom, boom, the system started going down and they made the turn, it could have been to an alternative airport, but here 1 minutes, particularly if you have a problem, 12 minutes is a pretty good chunk of time and you always want someone to know if you have a problem. Even built into the paradigm of i have a yate, navigate, communicate, this window is big enough you could talk about it jeff beatty, how much stock do you put in the idea of this plane having landed somewhere, being intact . We know that u. S. Authorities guiding the search into the indian ocean, that australias coordinating the search, moving it into the southwest portion of australia seems to suggest the authority it ditched into the water. What about balancing that out with what we know that leads us to believe it may have flown north maybe somewhere . Do you buy that at all . Well, i certainly think its still on the table, chris, until we can eliminate that possibility. But you know, we are gonna get some indication of that when we look for the rehearsal information. Any act like this thats an ann intentional act whether it is a criminal act or terrorist act there is always information and activities that happen before it, proceed it theres casing activity, rehearsal activity before the actual act. And so what we need to find out is where did this pilot bid in previous months . Did he fly other places that why did he pick those trips . Was he senior enough to pick a better trip than the trip that he particularly went on . So, rehearsal information may be in the simulator, that if they can recover it, its great it could also be that he flaw to some other places in the previous months as part of his rehearsal to plan for this operation. So we have got to lack for those rehearsal items that might help us lead in this search and narrow the search down a little bit, not just on what happened that fateful night. You know, one of the big problems here is that this is a very sophisticated investigation. You have all these Different Countries, you dont know what they are telling and why they are not telling it, because there are a lot of sovereign rules and a lot of spy games going on. You have a lot of data to wrangle. A lot of goes ask and malaysians, while being well intending, dont have a lot of experience with this, until very recently, werent looking to share. You put all that together, you get a lot of unknown of and time running out. Fair point, mary . Fair point. Also, you have got two different investigations going on. You have the Civil Aviation investigation, what happened to the plane, you know, lake an ntsb investigation and you have the criminal investigation, a Major International criminal investigation, like what the fbi would do. And then those two have to coordinate as well. All right, head guys on the u. S. Side saying dont say they are expanding things because time is moving, not showing more information. Jeff beatty, thank you very much for the insight, appreciate it needed it. Mary, good staying with us. Mick . Another concern, chris, the batteries on that black box or the flight recorder only last 330 days, sometime certainly running out. Much important mystery of the missing flight 370. Right now, we want to take you to crimea where overnight, the naval Head Quarters were stormed, raising russian flags. The situation there is dangerously close to a breaking point now that russias claimed crimea as its own. The u. S. Is condemning russias annexation of crimea as a land grab and a violation of international law. Vice President Joe Biden is meeting with leaders of latvia and lithuania today, working to reassure them of american support. Cnns Michelle Kosinski live at the white house. Michelle. Reporter clear linger the administration doesnt need a sort of war of words with russian president Vladimir Putin, and so its been extremely measured in its language, using the same phrases every die describe the situation and its response, the u. S. Imposed sanctions, while in russia, those sanctioned describe them as hilarious, an honor. Putin said the west is the one that overstepped the line and that crimea is now a part of russia. Well, in responsen the white house said the u. S. And the International Community will not recognize what it called an attempted annexation and that there will be cost. Well, we have been hearing now, we sought sanctions but the administration has been pressed on this over the last few days. What are costs really and what should the response be at this point since it seems nothing has changed russias course . What we do know is that there will be further sanctions, more support of allies in that region. Next week, the g7 nations will meet on this subject. And that excludes russia. Also, it seems extremely unlikely that the g8 summit to be hosted by russia in june will happen. Michaela . Other neighboring European Countries concerned and watching this situation, knowing what it means for their fail. Michelle does zkosinski, thank much. John berman has more headlines. Looking into allegations u. S. Senators hacked cia computers. Senators gained unauthorized access to classified documents about its now defunct post 9 11 interrogation program. They insist the documents appeared their computer by a whistleblower or error. Last week, senator feinstein accused the cia of hacking her intelligence committees computers. The fbi now evaluating whether a fullscale investigation is needed. Court adjourns in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial until monday. The judge granting the prosecutors request to consult with four or five remaining witnesses through the weekend. Earlier this morning, gruesome testimony, blood spatter and ballistic experts testifying about riva steenkamps wounds. At one point, pistorius was seen covering his ears. The ballistic experts testified pistorius was likely not wearing his prosthetic legs when he pulled the trigger. New details expected today about the 1 billion settlement between the Justice Department and toyota. The agreement should spare the automaker criminal charges for allegedly misleading authorities over complaints about unintended acceleration. Some 10 million vehicles were recalled over this problem. Last year the company paid out over 1. 5 billion to car owners. The new jersey teen who sued her parents for Financial Support and tuition is now dropping the case. Rachel canning moved back in with her parents lack week she moved out in october, her parents say, because she couldnt follow the rules. Last week, canning also filed new court papers alleging abuse but tuesday, she appeared in a family court to say she was dropping the suit voluntarily. Her parents say they are happy that shes home. That is good news. That case needed to go away. We have been covering it from the beginning. The system sometimes overtakes it. There were all these weird backstory factors there, who was this family who was helping her . Who was pressuring this kid into this situation . Hopefully, they can figure it out. Interesting to know whether there were costs associated with this to the state, legal costs that everyto cover white family worked out. Judges time, court time, absolutely. I know it was setting a precedent, but so glad that these cases arent, like, our lives, that our lives, we werent living them out, as a teenager. I wouldnt want my behavior to be broadcast to the world. Everybody knows this girls backstory. By all rights this family was solid, typical teen parent dynamics. Angst at that time. At least now hopefully they are back home and figure it out. A good one. We will send good thought theirs way. They need t coming up on new day breaking details about the flight of search 370. Could a crack in International Cooperation be hampering the search . We will tell you ahead. Also ahead, we are gonna see what Hillary Clinton has to say about Vladimir Putin and whether she thinks a new cold war is brewing with russia. Im beth. And im michelle. 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Tums the world joins forces to finds the missing jet, are the 22 countries honest enough . Are they being fuelled by malaysias missteps . They are slow, disorganize and the countries had to reach out to other countries to lead the search. One of the countries, indonesia is slowing the search with red tape, keeping search planes on the ground. How much is politics and how much are the trapracticalities doing something so complicateded . John negroponte, former director of national intelligence. Thanks for joining us on new day. Good morning. Put this in perspective, if you could, how much criticism is warranted on the investigation itself, building in the factors of some 26 countries. I think the spotlight is on malaysia as a result of this convenient and they dont have mu of this event and they dont have piece, yep with this. I can recall past crises of this kind, where they had difficulty with channelling aid and so forth because the local authorities overwhelmed. I think one of the turning points was went Prime Minister himself stepped into the situation and had the pre prest conference the other day the situation had risen to a serious level within their government. Im sure in regard to a country like indonesia or any other country in the region, if they had information that had a direct beerpg the whereabouts or what happened to this aircraft, they would have certainly shared it with the government of malaysia already. Youre confident of it . How could it have flown through india or the airspace and it not picked up the plane if it landed . Thats good question. Im confident that any government in the region, if it had that information, im sure i it would have shared with it with the malaysian authorities, all these countries have their own national airlines, in addition to the obvious obligation to report on these kinds of things, they would expect reciprocal treatment if the same thing happened to. They u. S. Sources louder on the issue believing the plane is in the water. Obviously work under australia in the region of the indian ocean. You can see the search zone is shifting a little bit coordinated to information that came from the Thai Government. Are you hearing the same thing . Here is the great difficult with this situation. I dont think we have seen any fact yet that turns this in an absolutely decisive direction. I think thats what we are waiting for. We are waiting for some revelation that sheds significantly more light on what happened than what we have seen so far, maybe in some recorded flight path that got dell fleemtd a simulator, i dont know. All im saying is at the moment, we are practically where we started in terps of the scareness of facts in this situation. You are confident the government would turn over information, u. S. Authorities, when they got a call from the head of transportation and defense in malaysia, doing all most of the press conferences, they said, wow this is unusual. Malaysia doesnt usually reach out for hip. The Thai Government turned something over but not right away, they didnt discover it right away. Indonesia, keeping the u. S. Search plane on the ground, while you believe they would turn over information, doesnt necessarily mean they will make it easy. You think we are seeing signs of that also . No i would just say if they had specific information, they would turn it over, coordination efforts are difficult and better coordination as time goes on, for example, the maines decided on how to divide various quadrants of the ocean so they could be searched by various Different Countries and not have an overlap of effort. So, i think they are getting organized for this, but regrettably, sometimes these things take times, as i said earlier, especially in the case of a country that has not had much if any Prior Experience with this kind of situation. I think under the circumstances, they are doing the best the best they can. Its about as difficult set of circumstances as you could imagine. Absolutely. We will know better when we find out what actually happened. That will be a good day for sure, especially for the families and loved ones involved. Let me take advantage of having you to ask you a quick question about the situation in crimea and ukraine. The headline that seems to be bubbling up is putin won, he got exactly what wanted. The u. S. Cant do anything to stop him. By the way, its going to get worse because you have syria and iran and now you have Vladimir Putin who feels he doesnt have to help with you any of your foreign objectives, west and United States. Do you see that way . Well, i mean, he is certainly creating facts on the ground in crimea. Whether he is going to go beyond that i think remains to be seen and i think theres reasons for some hope in that regard. He, himself in his speech yesterday said they had no interest in going beyond Vice President crimea. History doesnt stop n response, we have got show strong support now for ukraine and for the other European Countries that are concerned that russia might try to repeat this kind of behavior in the those nations where there are russian minorities also living there, such as in the Baltic States and elsewhere. So this is a time when we have to close ranks with our western european friends and allies, both nato and the European Union to really form a common policy toward this situation. It is a situation that begs the question, what happens next . Mr. Negroponte, thank you very much. John negroponte. Its great to have you on new day. Thank you. Mick . Next up on new day could it have been a flight 370 sighting . A fisherman in a remote village claim was to seen a lowlike plane around the time the Malaysian Airlines jet vanished. We spoke to him. Also, next on inside politics we will check up on republican efforts to crush tea party challengers. I quit smoking. Ive quit for 75 days. 15 days, but not in a row. For the first time, you can use nicorette. Even if you slip up. So you can reach your goal. [ male announcer ] now, quit on your own terms with nicorette or nicoderm cq. And better is so easy withrning you cabenefiber. O somethings better for yourself. Fiber thats tastefree, gritfree and dissolves completely. So you can feel free to add it to anything. And feel better about doing it. Better it with benefiber. Welcome back back to new day, a lot of news, get to you john berman for the headlines. Investigators trying to recover data from a Flight Simulator from the pilot of Malaysia Flight 370. Officials said this morning some data was wiped off but they couldnt say what it was or even who took it off. Forensic experts are now investigating. A source says the prevailing thought among u. S. Officials is the plane flew deep into the southern indian ocean. Australian officials narrowed their folk douse there. Cnn confirmed that someone in the cockpit likely input a new route on the plays computer about 12 minutes before the means last verbal contact. The nsa has surveillance operation that is so vast it can record 100 of a foreign countrys phone calls and play each one of them back up to a month later. Thats according to new documents given to the Washington Post by former nsa contractor Edward Snowden. The post acknowledging it has withheld information about which countries may have been targeted at the request of u. S. Officials. An investigation under way this more nothing the deadly crash of a news helicopter in seattle. Two people on board died, another on the ground seriously hurt when this chopper slammed into the street and burst into flames. Witnesses say they did hear strange noises when the helicopter took off after refueling. Valor has no color. That was the message tuesday as president obama awarded 24 minority war veterans their longdelayed medals of honor. Vietnam war vet, melvin morris, one of only three honorees still alive, was shot in the chest, arm and left ring finger as he carried casualties out of the lane of fire back in 1969. Chris . All right, john, thanks for the headlines. Now it is time to turn inside politics on new day with mr. John king. John king, always great to have you. Chris, good morning. We are gonna start driving our day inside politics, Hillary Clinton talking about some issues on the world stage, also talking about whether she will frourp president in 2016. With me this morning to share their reporting and insights, Julianna Goldman of Bloomberg News and cnns peater heavy. She gave a speech in montreal yesterday. She didnt talk much about her role in the u. S. russian relations, the reset which republicans say aha, look whats happening now. Listen to what she is talking about Vladimir Putin and her hope that things dont get worse. I hope theres not another cold war. Obviously, nobody wants to see that. I think thats primarily up to putin. Did we learn anything, julianna, about what she would do differently . She was a tad critical of the president saying the United States needs to do more to help the government, the new government in kiev but nothing very specific . No she was very careful. She talked about the u. S. Needs do more to help europe become more Energy Independent from russia, but this is the challenge for Hillary Clinton right now, because she esense slit de facto president ial frontrunner for the democratic party. Everything that she says on this issue is going to be looked at and picked apart and she she might be the front run but does she necessarily have the Campaign Staff and thats advising her with these kinds of issues . And so, it sets her as, you know, she needs to run now like she is running 30 points behind, because she risks like 2008 where she can just walk in and get this nomination. Shes been inevitable before to juliannas point about her being essentially the de facto nominee, unless she denieds no, peter, of course, the question came up. Lets listen. Havent made up my mind. Of course, i i feel a deep sense of commitment to my country and its future. Its that last part, she always works Something Like that in you cant stay on the sidelines, i feel that deep sense of commitment thats what people who want her to run or republicans watching her say aha, she is going to run. The wall street journal this morning, there is a fascinating story, very well documented about the clinton inner circle, some of her close advisers dont want her to run. Cheryl mills, former chief of state, jace go through that . John podesta is brought in to reorganize and get the white house trains running on time the wall street journal says john poe december gnat obama white house, a guy named Vice President joe biden now wants to ork nice the weekly hillary meetings to prepare her if she runs. Isnt that a slap at the Vice President . Certainly seems like it heads exploding in the Vice President s office. Its not just podesta. Remember jim messina, top president ial adviser recently left to advise super pac that will ostensibly supporting a president ial campaign for Hillary Clinton. That rankled bind and his allies. Look, bind, we dont know if he wants to run but certainly keeping his name in the conversation and i think he just wants a little bit of respect. This has to really this really has to stick in his craw, i think. Cant make him feel much better that we are talking about this, where you haved bien in lithuania now and poland yesterday dealing with this issue hands on. Clinton all the attention now. Died biden does not. What makes secretary clinton fascinating, she was secretary clinton, she was senator clinton and also first lady Hillary Clinton. She made a highprofile trip to china in the 90s. I bring it up because Michelle Obama about to go to china with her mom and two daughters. The white house says that is not policy this is all promote cultural exchanges, lets build goodwill. The one hand, smart, right . One of the most important relationships if not the most important the next 25 years,ed about build goodwill. What do they think inside white house, any ries if you can she avoids any criticism knicks public i say it in this context,s here the New York Times lead when Hillary Clinton went in september 1995. Speaking more forcefully on human right than any american dignitary has on chinese soil, Hillary Clinton gets that lead. Can Michelle Obama stay back from all that . The white house says this is not going to be that kind of trip. They say thats the president and a chinas president xi are going to be meeting next week at the haig on the margins of the Nuclear Security summit. The first lady is going over there, her children are on spring break. Sasha, her daughter, learned man darren at school here in washington, d. C. When hu jintao the former president was visiting. She was able to speak man darren with him. What they are saying this kind of soft diplomacy, can be just as important, foam people ties, the cultural exchanges, look for her to subtly refer to some of these flashpoints she talks about her own personal story, american values, you know, that hits at human rights. They are going to be having these virtual ways of following the first ladys visit in china, blog posts some, that also speaks to the Internet Freedom and censorship issues. Obama leaning hard in the rebalance in asia or whatever. So allies like japan, south korea, the philippines, also going to be watching closely what she says in china. Gop crush is not a soda brand. Mitch mcconnell said we are going to crush the tea party everywhere this year. Hes his own challenge back home. The establishment at the moment, peter, seeps to be winning. Convinced scott brown to get into the New Hampshire senate ray not a tea party, per se, but think he is more of a mainstream candidate if he runs. Just in this last week in colorado, first they convinced corey gardner, mainstream house member to run, two of the republicans dropped out, now the third one dropped out to clear the field. The most interesting one is mississippi. You have a republican incumbent, thad cochran, recently said i dont know much about the tea party. Hello. And now haley bar bourke the former governor and barbours son and the whole barbour operation trying to get into mississippi to help thad cochran. How important is this . This is a big deal. This is a victory so far for the socalled establishment and the republican party. Look, some of this is establishment forces of kind of coopted the tone and language of the tea party since they are sort of ascended here in 2010. Part is they are teaming up. We have saw rand paul, a hero of 2010 cut a radio ad for carl roafs american cross roads to run in that florida special election. Another big factor here is just that theres not a lot of heat in the tea party this year and frank floirkt a lot of great candidates. If you talk to so outside groups, freedom works, club for growth, people around sarah palin, for instance, they just dont know who endorse. Who do we get behind . Look at challengers in tennessee in kansas, in south carolina. These are places with sort of old longtime established senators not facing potent challengers and one reason why the establishment is leading right now. Thats got to make the white house very, very nervous because you talk to democrats, political strategist and they all say that somethings changed over the last 60 dies a month where the president , his aides, are really wake up to the realization they could lose the senate. As we toss back to new york, you guys weigh in real quickly if you want, peerptd julianna, men, the president s final four. The president s final four bracket, guys, i know filling yours out in new york this morning, why we do inside politics, so you guys do do other business on the set, louisville, florida, arizona, Michigan State. What strikes me theres the president on espn. I think he is channeling his inner mitch mcconnell, a chance for a great political detente, there is no Greater Louisville fan in america than the Senate Republican leader, mitch mcconnell. Cuomo, who is gonna win it . Thats tough. Thats tough. I cant answer that at this point, john. I dont like arizona as a pick though and not just because Indra Petersons went to arizona. I dont like arizona, not in my final four. Is in mine. Can i just give a shoutout to the people who do our banner at the bottom, baracktologjr jp, arizona in the final four . I find they lose early often. Rick pet pitt teen know, a close friend of president obama. My first job in providence, rick pit team know the coach of Providence College at that time. I pick his teams. Billy donovan. Do. We know the president has any game when it comes picking black sets in. Remember, reggie love said they used to put their breaks together a lot. Reggie love. He has some depth. Played the game as a younger guy. Very smart White House Correspondent is shaking her head, julianna says no. Fans nervous. Appreciate it, jk. Have a good day. I will see you tomorrow. Ahead on new day, fishermen in a remote village off the coast claim they saw a lowflying airplane right around the time flight 370 vanished. What they said, just ahead. All these theories, hijacking, pilot sabotage, others you read somewhere. One pilot says he has a simple, logical explanation for the disappearance of play 370 it involves the pilots but in his mind, they may be heroes, give that you theory straight ahead and the basis for it. Ext level. So we talked about her options. Her valuable assets were staying. And selling her car wouldnt fly. We helped sydney manage her debt and prioritize her goals, so she could really turn up the volume on her dreams today. And tomorrow. So lets see what we can do about that. Remodel. Motorcycle. [ female announcer ] some questions take more than a bank. They take a banker. 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The flight made its last known recorded location and shortly after that, it made that crucial turn. Well two fishermen believe they saw a very lowflying aircraft that evening. I have been out at sea with them today on their boat, talking to them about their sighting. Now, they say this was very unusual. I asked them, have you ever seep a plane flying so low before . They see planes ought all the time because they go fishing underneath the play path. They say, no, i have never seen a plane flying so low. We both remarked, wow, is this pilot crazy . I quote, i then ask them what exactly did you see of this aircraft . He said it was flying so low, the lights looked the size of coconuts to me. Well, they went home they told their families and their coworkers and they reported it to the police. It was shortly after that that they discovered flight had gone miss bug we cannot confirm if that was indeed flight mh370, but the timing is pretty close, they saw it at 1 30 a. M. One piece of the puzzle, thank you, one piece of the puzzle that doesnt seem to fit together. We will continue to stay on top of it of course. Coming up next on new day many theories floating around about what happened to play 370. Some think the pit loss of the missing plane acted heroically, but does the theory hold up . Business itn do more with less with less energy. Hp is helping ups do just that. Soon, the worlds most intelligent servers, designed by hp, will give ups over twice the performance, using forty percent less energy. Multiply that across over a thousand locations, and theyll provide the same benefit to the environment as over 60,000 trees. Thats a trend we can all get behind. The disappear perhaps of flight 370 has fueled so much speculation. A lot of people are paying attention to a theory thats emerged online, a simpler theory. This one comes from a canadian pilot by the name of chris goodfellow, getting a a lot of traction online. He subjects that after pilots made their contact with air Traffic Control around 1 19 a. M. , they were forced to change course. He contends in this theory that there was a fire, maybe an electrical fire, overheating somehow, caused the cockpit to fill up with smoke, then the pilots were forced to focus on control willing the plane. First change willing the course on the flight toward the most desirable airport for them to land at, which would be Langkawi International airport, which is an island right off the coast of malaysia there. The smoke likely left, and again in his theory, the pilots and the passengers on board incapacitated, unable to communicate with air Traffic Control. The plane continues on the last program course, eventually running out of fuel and crashing somewhere in the indian ocean. Its a big search area. We want to bring in jeff weiss. He is gonna test our here tory. He is an aviation journalist for slate. Com, also the author of a book called extreme. Really good to have you here. You see some holes and some problems with this theory. I liked at that time for slate. Com, popular online, excited about this theory, unfortunately, major holes in it, doesnt really stand up, you look at some of the unfortunately, what happened after that is the well problem with the theory. He seems to see the pilots again we dont know. In his theory hes looking at the pilots as her jobs they took heroic measures to save this plane, save the passengers on board. Exactly. This is why the narrative is so emotionally compelling. The focus of the investigators as the malaysian Authorities Say the pilots are culpable, to hijack the plane. They are villains in this scenario. No, they are not villains they are heroes. If the narrative holds up, its very nice to believe that. Lets go under the fire. Is that plausible at all to you a fire under board, an overheating of some sort. Its true if the pilota fire on board they would have immediately taken action. A fire on board is one of the most perilous things to happen. Would the closer airports been easy other or more difficult to land at . You dont care. You want to get down. In this scenario is there time to make a may day call . Yes. Unfortunately, it is the case that in many Airline Incidents pilots dont make may day calls. Air france plane never were so hopeless that they actually gave up and called may day. But the theory, they didnt enter the code for lin gq aye. They were continuing to navigate. An important point, if the plane had continued on this ghost ship scenario, it wouldnt have continued on. If the plane was on this trajectory it would have gone to the middle of this circle area towards madagascar. It was either down here or up here. The ascending 45,000 feet, he says that, again, in this theory, goodfellow says maybe it was a last ditch effort to seek breathable air or to change the climate within the cabin. Yeah. I dont know if the worst pat of his theory is the explanation or 45,000foot climb. Thats one of the more suspected data points. In the simulator it doesnt sound the plane would come together. The idea this waypoint was entered 12 minutes before the copilot said good night and the plane began its change. This was not the result of a last minute panic to reach an airport. It had been planned well in advance. So it doesnt really jive at all with though theory. Noout interesting as you said i think so many people want to find resolution for the families, for our own peace of mind. It makes sense this has the heroic theory and the heroic story line. I can see why people are attached to it. We like to think were rational creatures. Er with not as rational as we would like to think. Its been almost two weeks now and so little information. Were grasping at strauss. Weve seen the desperation in the families. Fascinating stuff. Breaking news in the search for flight 370. 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So you can reach your goal. [ male announcer ] now, quit on your own terms with nicorette or nicoderm cq. Away for your bachelorette weekend. For shopping and dancing. til monday do us part. [ male announcer ] be a weekender at hotels like hilton and doubletree. Book now at hiltonweekends. Com. Some data has been deleted from the pilots simulator. Breaking this morning, Officials Say data has been deleted from the Flight Simulator the missing pilot had in his home. The copilot signing off after the change of course had already been punched in. A painful scene here in malaysia. Hours ago family members of missing passengers being dragged away after protesting their frustration spilling over. Also breaking this morning, standoff in crimea, a day after putin declared crimea is part of russia, resistance on the ground and tough talk from all sides. Which have the very latest. Your new day continues right now. Good morning, welcome back to new day open him chris cuomo here in new york. Kate bolduan in live in malaysia. Were focusing on the missing malaysia jan jet. Two factors. The main pilots Flight Simulator data wiped out for a month before the flight took off. What could that mean . The copilot changing the timeline when he was talking to tower and saying good night versus when they put in a different waypoint. What does it all mean . Kate. Reporter thanks, chris. Thats absolutely right. 12 days into the search and questions keep on coming about the folks in the cockpit. Theres nothing definitive yet. Among the new issues what data was deleted from that simulator and why . Of at any time pilot that deleted it . The search is focused on the bottom corridor of that map. Its likely the plane headed south after losing contact. Australian officials have narrowed their search down there. On the flip side indonesia is fending off criticism for slowing the process. The u. S. Navy has a plane there that locates large objects under water but havent been allowed to fly yet. Overnight Law Enforcement official confirmed to cnn the plane changed direction after orders were put in. About 12 minutes before the copilot last spoke with the ground. Most countries have completed background checks of their passengers. Only russia and ukraine have yet to respond and obviously the investigation of everyone involved continues. This mornings revelations is not the most dramatic. Family members of missing passengers laid their emotions on the line. This whole thing unfolded. Lets just watch this video and we can talk what more we learned. What are you doing . Back up back up [ crying ] [ screaming ] its heartbreaking honestly to watch and hear the desperation in her voice. What more your learning, a bit of translation what these women were saying what are we learning about that woman that was carried snout. That woman wearing the reddish shirt we learned that shes the mother of number 80 on the manifest. The reason she came to the back of this press room, this is where all the press congregates for the daily press briefings. She said she wanted her son back. She wants the International Media to help bring her son back. Get information from malaysian government and Malaysia Airlines. Thats reason she was there. There were other mothers. You saw that one moment where im saying, back up, back up, they were taken away by the price. You see a snapshot of whats happening to these families, the pain they are feeling, the information void and what it means for them. But also that the government simply seems little out of step with what the families want. The families are not having it. When translation that i was seeing of their comments, the malaysian government is lying to them, that they have been sitting here these women said weve been here for ten days and youre giving us nothing. They want their sons back. They want to know what happened. They clearly are not getting the answers. Are they going to get tans. Is the malaysian government going to do anything more to make them feel better about the process because clearly what they want to know is where the plane is and no one has found that yet. We have a couple of messages that were getting from the government. What we heard from the man who is leading the News Conferences every day hes saying we hear you but we have to find the plane. Hes very much on task. At the same time he issued a statement at the end of the day after, i think the government started to realize what these pictures were making them look like, and said that we understand your anguish, we understand your devastation and well try to get you answers. Look its a difficult position to be in. The malaysian government sunday a lot of pressure to get this right and get the information out there and to find the plane and coordinate with 25 other countries to make this happen. But they have to be focused on these families. They have to. At the same time they have to bridge those two problems. Find the plane, be compassionate to these families. You got to get it right. Its clearly not happening. Thank you so much. Lets send it back to chris in new york. Kate lets bring invasion analyst and former d. O. T. Inspector general and captain for northwest airlines. Good to have both of you here. Lets tick off whats seen as the moments in this story and see what we believe and trust and what we do not. First, the pilots Flight Simulator files being deleted, data being deleted. To be there are more questions than this suggest deserves. But its getting a lot of attention, why . You wonder what were in the files that were deleted. I feel confident since we did it in under investigations they can recover other information unless something was rewritten over it. The deletion looks suspicious especially if youre using your Flight Simulator to try out fun things and keep your skills. Well get an answer to that one . Right. The investigation kind of goes back and forth. It flip flops between lets look at the pilot, this must have been a bad accident, this must have been a hijack. Now they are swinging back to the pilots again. They are going rigorously through the passenger manifest. They heard from every country involved except crimea and ukraine. Our second factor this new understanding not new information that after the copilot said good night, thats when we used to end the timeline. Last thing we knew. Now they believe that 12 minutes before that, the copilot or somebody inputted a waypoint that wasnt part of the direct route. Can you think of a good reason that was done . Sure. It would be normal. They hit the top of climb, the airplane is stable in cruise flight. The captain being a training captain hell know every possible procedure, hes always thinking whats the worst thing that can happen. Ill put in an airport i know i can get to again gate help on the ground. He uploaded that airport on his flight management system. A lot of guys do it. I dont. I like to keep the fms as clean as possible. Maybe thats his normal procedure. The malaysians wild find that out by talking with other crew members that flew with the pilot. Youre always thinking about when you are out over water or any time you are flying where can i going an emergency. This captain looks like he was on top of thing and probably preloaded his alternate airport, suitable alternate airport, not necessarily the closest place to land but the place i can go and get Passenger Service if i have a medical emergency, a mechanical, something that doesnt allow me to continue flying over water away from land, hes looking there. My guess is, if he had continued on up a little further north he would have loaded probably ho chi minh city. Okay. This doesnt look suspicious to me. It looks quite normal. You take it all by itself and this is a cautious pilot. Dont read into it. You dont know if it was the pilot or copilot. You cant tag to it when the copilot said anything. But then you put it into context with the other facts which is the flight does wind up deviating in this direction. Transponder does go off. The acard system does go off line. Does the picture change . No, i think what the captain said is right. You want to have those safety nets. Where the picture gets murky is in this gap, in this 12 minutes, 11 minutes whatever it turns out to be. Its a fluid gap. The timeline has changed. If you were having a problem thats what your safety airports are. What everybody is looking at is a big wide runway with no obstructions. You want that airport because theres no obstructions in the way you dont have to maneuver anything. What people are troubled about is in those 12 minutes you probably would have wanted not probably you would have wanted to tell your airline and probably even Flight Control so you can get in there. You get priority over other flights even if you western a full blown may day you want priority. You tell someone. Im coming. I have a problem. Pan pan is we have a circumstance, u not critical but you need to help us. We dont think were going crash but were in trouble. I put in this waypoint just in case, im cautious. But then if something happened and i ended up heading towards that waypoint why didnt i communicate . Exactly. You have this idea of the search shifting to the southwestern part of the indian ocean near australia. Do we believe this is an intelligent move based on what they learned from the Thai Government and radar or do you think that they are just trying to make it smaller . I think its probably an intelligent move. You got a lot of assets down there, takes a lot of money and effort to move this large ship to an area. They have some info base opened the arc and time from the last pings off of the engine Monitoring System that was reported remember the last ping is the last known location or last time we heard from them. There were other pings along the way that were probably somewhere on that arc which would lead me to believe thats where they want to start their search, not just happen to fly by as they do it. Its a big ocean. We were talking about, i heard one of the cnn reporters say were looking for three or four people in the United States Walking Around on the ground. This is a very difficult search. The investigation wilkon scene at any rate on what we know about the people and maintenance status of the airplane and its history and the searchandrescue folks job is to fine the airplane. Its difficult if you assume the plane is on the surface, different if its sunk. Lets end on this. At this point have you been told anything that you believe that makes you feel that this was more likely an intentional pilot driven event or hijacking than it was an accident and a chain of events that they couldnt roll . Do you feel more inclination. Absolutely not. No. Im still back where i was when this first happened, you know seven, ten days ago. This is probably a cascading electrical fault that turned into a fire. My guess is when we do find this airplane and we will, when we do find this airplane thing flight data recorder and voice recorder will show us thats what occurred not unlike swiss air 111. When you fighting the airplane its hard to pick up the radio to ask for help. Nobody on the ground can help you anyway. Youre calling for help. Nobody can what are they going to do for you . I guess, mary, goes to how you behave in those circumstance which is why you would communicate . Plus, sometimes you can do en route trouble shoot but that often doesnt have a good outcome. So, you can get help from the airline and manufacturer. Boeing will get on the phone and help the plane in distress which is why the 12 minutes they could have communicated cause people trouble. You have to follow both leads, both mechanical or catastrophic and some kind of criminal activity but the 12 minutes where they didnt communicate and couldnt have gotten information to do a trouble shoot if they had trouble is a problem to reconcile. Okay. Mary, thank you very much. We dont know what was going on with the flight deck. Levelly at some point get answers for the 239 families that are out there waiting for them so desperately. Well return to the coverage as the information warrants but theres a lot of other news as well so lets get to john berman. Reporter pro Russian Forces taking control of crimea. No reports of other violence. This comes a day after the june soldier was killed in an attack on a military base. President obama plans to meet with other leaders on the sidelines of a summit next week to discuss broader sanctions against moscow for annexing croom jai. Possible break through in the disappearance of madeline maccan. They want to speak to a man who was involved in a dozen break ins. Young girls were sexually assaulted in their beds. Mccann was 3 years old when she disappeared back in 2007. Toyota agreed to a 1 billion settlement with the Justice Department on claims that it misled authorities. Toyota will avoid criminal charges. It toledo the recall of 10 million vehicles. More details on the agreement are expected later today. Court adjourned in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial until monday. The judge granting the prosecutors request to consult with its remaining witnesses through the weekend. Earlier this morning, fwru some testimony and ballistic experts testifying about Reeva Steenkamps wounds. You have to take a look at this frightening moment. This happened in iowa. A pickup truck goes airborne. Nearly takes out the cop. Both cops are at the scene of the accident. Police say 49yearold Michael Schmit crashed his semi into the back of a pickup truck. Just missing those officers on the side of the road who were looking at another crash. Amazingly no one was seriously hurt in this. Wow. Thats crazy. Thanks so much for that. Back now to the search for flight 370. A u. S. Government source told cnn its likely the plane flew south. Australia is narrowing its search towards that bottom of the southern arc that weve looked at. We know that obviously maritime conditions and ocean currents and weather play a factor and we would bring in meteorologist Indra Petersons to look at that. The last satellite contact we had yesterday. Today we narrowed down that search off the coast of australia, 2300 kilometers off of australia. Lets talk about this large region what kind of things could be problematic. One of those things is the ocean. Southern indian ocean. You have that extremely deep, 4 1 2 miles deep off the coast of australia. Theres the southeast indian ridge a depth of half a mile. On the other side deep ocean. This is why they are focusing just on the surface because they know its a vast region, take several weeks just to search the surface. One factor thats favorable this is actually their Hurricane Season. In the cyclone. Look at the trade winds. This is what causes hurricanes. Very easy to see in the search region, clear, nice conditions. That will help aircraft with visibility. Yesterday they had ninefoot seas. Today where they are searching fivefoot seas. If the debris floated south, very difficult to see anything that could be floating around. Keep in mind look at the currents. Anything in that area would stay in that region as the currents go in that circular fashion. Hard to say in the last several weeks whether or not that has been the case. Well look to the north not ruling it out. While its that Hurricane Season or cyclone season in the southern indian oh, up north its winter. Several days, continue to look at fronts moving through the area. Moving through kazakhstan. Another cold front moving through. Inclement weather. Large storms, peaks 20,000 feet high and poor visibility. Something they wont be ruling out there as well. Inclement weather in the north and threat for cyclones in the south. They dont need any more challenges. Nope. I dont think you could have more variables. Good way of putting it. Well take a break here on new day. When we come back well continue the coverage of the flight 370. Data was deleted off the pilots personal Flight Simulator. Why . Fortunately we have a man who knows the answers. We have our own Flight Simulator and take you through what is known and unknown. Stubborn love by the lumineers did you i did. Email . So what did you think of the house . Did you see the School Ratings . Oh, youre right. Hey babe, i got to go. Bye daddy have a good day at school, ok . But what about when my parents visit . Ok. I just love this one. And its next to a park. I love it. I love it too. Heres our new house. Daddy youre not just looking for a house. Youre looking for a place for your life to happen. Welcome back to new day. According to malaysian authorities some data from the pilots inhome Flight Simulator was deleted. No indication yet what exactly was deleted and no confirmation that it was the pilot that is the one that did the deleting. They are trying retrieve the erased information. Is it suspicious . Lets bring in a triple 777 pilot and cnn aviation analyst. And were flying our virtual boeing 777. Les, i want to talk to you about this new data about the information being deleted from pilots in home simulator. Is that nefarious to you at first blush . Pilots are organized people. We try to keep our life that way. It may have been deleted because he felt there wasnt enough space on the hard drive. But i dont really see it as something nefarious. Doesnt set any flags off for you . How about you, in terms of the capacity of a hard drive, is this a regular maintenance thing somebody would do to clear out space on their hard drive or did these files not take up a lot of space . Very unusual to go in and delete a file. A flight is saved in a folder, a menu folder and it represent as tiny bit of space. Its not giga bytes, its kilobytes. As pilots we may not have that information lets get it out of the way. We dont have knowledge of that kind of i. T. Information. The information that was deleted, obviously investigators are going to do what they can, Forensic Experts will try to get that data back and figure out what was deleted. What could it point to . It could point to what they were training for . Possibly. I mean if you go with that scenario. Nonnefarious. Maybe he had a recurrent training coming up and trying out different procedures. So, its possible that company have been just doing, getting prepared for regular Recurrent Training Program. In terms of this notion that the data was deleted about a month they are looking at, about a month before the flight disappeared what does that say to you . Does it say anything to you . Not really. I mean not really. It doesnt really you know i go back to that, that he might have been preparing for a Recurrent Training Program or just enjoying himself. You can point toer side, nefarious or nonnefarious. Does it Say Something to you to set off a red flag. The way this works is you would be setting a location, an altitude and a heading and the purpose of saving it would be to return to it. Right. So, for instance in this scene joy set this plane up at 35,000 feign hit the reset button it will reload that flight at exactly where i tell it to start. The purpose of saving it is to practice a flight from a particular location at a particular heading, altitude, and air speed and then you would fly it from that beginning point on. So the purpose of saving it would be to return to a point in space or a location and then fly from that. Okay. So many times well save locations like if we want to fly out of laguardia, well name it with a plane. See as you name a file in your kpter. To that end in terms of retrieving this data i lost information on my hard drive that i cant find it. We know these guys are much more capable than any of us are. They can easily retrieve this data and look at it and examine what was he was training . If the file exists you would reload and put it right back up. In terms of safety features on this, on a simulator are there any protections, or security you would have . You could run Failure Modes. If a pilot is training theres all kind of Failure Modes for a pilot to train in that event. Thats typically what a simulator would be used for. May have been simply embarrassed with his performance on a Flight Simulator and didnt apartment memory of that particular incident. Do most flying pilots, working pilots have simulators in home or have access to . Microsoft has a simulator. For the most part i would say no because youre flying enough to keep your skills up. This is like going to work for me. But, you know, other pilots are very into they enjoy it. It becomes a hobby to them. Its not typical, but then, again, you know its not unusual. Bottom line to you it doesnt set out any major red flag . Thank you to both of you. Chris, over to you. People hear he deleted the information and it sounds so suggestive. Testing these ideas is all about. Lets take a break on new day. When we come back the families of those 239 families on board are desperate or answers and obviously they are sideline coming. Now, they are getting desperate themselves. Threatening a Hunger Strike if they dont get more information. We also hear about stark words from Vice President biden this morning. He said nato allies will be defend after russia grabs crimea. 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Before we returntoflight 370 i want to bring you into the latest on crimea. As john just reported hours after russian president putin annexed crimea they stormed the military headquarters after a june soldier was killed. We have reports from crimea and washington. Lets start with Nick Peyton Walsh live in crimea. Whats the latest . Reporter we are hearing that the june naval chief who was at that base stormed by hundreds of pro russian protesters some of them reportedly armed hes gone missing according to the june defense ministry. Thats raising some concerns. Seems that base has changed hands more or less peacefully despite the aggressive assault against it initially. And pictures of unarmed june soldiers leaving. Tensions are high after yesterdays first death of june Service Member in the ruin takeover of the base. Were hearing reports across the peninsula, a path is emerging. Pro russian protest is backed with the armed force of uniform men who go to bases, pressuring people. In the northwest a tractor smashing open its gates, protesters staying at the entrance. Russian flag hoisted above that building as well we understand. Despite june soldiers seemingly leaving peacefully the tension dissipating something could go wrong. People are concerned about that. Yuk soldiers are leaving peacefully. This vote was seen as the end but this is probably just the beginning. Now Vice President joe biden is in ukraines backyard visiting with leaders of lithuania and latvia. Hes assuring them the u. S. Will respond. Britains Prime Minister is raising the possibility of expelling russia from the g8. For that part of the story lets go to the white house for details. Reporter weve seen the steps leading up to that. Initially when this started the first action that was taken by western allies was to cancel those preliminary meetings leading to the g8 but still keeping the door open for discussion and action that really never happened on russias part. So its been asked intensively over the last couple of days what does this mean if no one is participating in these meetings leading up to g8 does that mean its not going to happen because russia is hosting it in june. But the white house wont really respond directly to that. Again it seems like theres still that window open that things could change if russia adjusts its course but the white house did say yesterday, you know what . A g8 isnt going to happen if preliminary meetings arent going to happen, those are necessary and we know those meetings are not going to happen. They have not said for certain that the g8 is out of question. Cameron and britain is taking it a step further saying russia should be expeld from the g8 or discussions to that effect should take place and g7 nation will meet next week which excludes russia. Complicated to see what russia will do next. President clinton offered the g8 membership to russia as a theory of goodwill now its being taken away. Does russia care . Well come back after a quick break on new day and talk about the family members of those 239 souls on board flight 370. They are growing more desperate by the hour. The information is slow and confusing. Well show you what happened at a News Conference when things boiled over and many family members said they will take extreme measures to get answers. Well take you through. What does an apron have to do with Car Insurance . An apron is hard work. An apron is pride in what you do. An apron is not quitting until youve made something a little better. What does an apron have to do with Car Insurance . For us, everything. This is the first power plant in the country to combine solar and natural gas at the same location. During the day, we generate as much electricity as we can using solar. At night and when its cloudy, we use more natural gas. This ensures we can produce Clean Electricity whenever our customers need it. [ crying ] [ screaming ] one of those women protesting today saying, i want my son back, i want my son back soon. Im coaching live to you from kuala lumpur. That heartbreaking scene took place moments before Malaysian Airline officials were starting their Daily Press Conference meeting. The mother wants attention to this, saying, accusing malaysian officials of hiding the truth. She was escorted out. Family members growing more frantic by the hour for answers. As each day passes the search widens and the clock ticks but conflicting information remains. While frustrations are boiling over. In kuala lumpur, hundreds gather to show support for all of the families of the missing. Each with their own story, but all stuck somewhere between anger and grief, grasping to a paint possibility that their loved ones are alive. The partner to phillip wood says she wont lose faith that one day they will be reunited. I have feeling they are still alive. Reporter she like many others believe the plane may have been hijacked and offers this emotional plea. Im hoping and asking, please, to not hurt the people on the plane. Find some other way to accomplish what youre trying to accomplish but dont hurt the people. Let fill lp come back to me, please. Reporter a prayer echoed by the daughter of the chief stewart. Come home so we can tornado watch game. You never miss watching the game. This man also waits for news about his brother but says the delay is torture and he fears hope is slipping away. We continue to follow their stories and continue bringing developments as the search continues. Coming up next on new day the search for flight 370 now has multiple nations converging on the waters of the southern indian ocean. A vast area. They are trying to narrow that search. More on that coming up. Welcome back to new day. Were following the disappearance of flight 370, american officials believe the jet headed south after controllers lost contact with it. Thats the freshest information. Australian officials and australia is in control of the search in the indian ocean. They are to discussion on the waters southwest of perth as other nations are heading for the southern indian ocean. How do you find something so small compared to the waters thats so widespread. Here to offer her expertise is retired rear admiral. So good to have you with us. We keep making analogies to how much space, how much has to be covered, how small this is what were looking for. Whats the strategy and what are the tactics involved in taking on a tall task . Chris, this is a very difficult challenge for any nation that would pursue this task. First you have to consider the water column, the depth of the water, the surface bottom surface whether its a rough surface whether its a smooth surface. Theres so many factors involved in this. Thats why its incredibly important to narrow down the area of the search. Now when the uss kidd got pulled off of this there was concern expressed and u. S. Sources told us no, no, we have the p 8s, they are great that. Were great at surveilling from the sky. What are p8s. What do they do the p8 is the newer version of the p3 oryan Long Distance surveillance aircraft. It can do an aerial sweep of a large square mile area. So it really can surveil the surface of the water at a very highspeed and give us a determination rather quickly, again, we have to couch that in a very careful way, quickly is a relative term whether or not theres debris on the surface of the water. That doesnt tell us anything whats below the water surface. Below the water surface. You raise that early here in the conversation about something thats relevant, the water column, the depth. How big a factor is depth here given were dealing with something thats obviously heavy and wouldnt float for long . Actually thats a very critical element. The depth of the water in this area, i know youve had other experts comment on this previously, but youre looking at 10,000, 11,000 feet of depth. To find anything thats a static item, a piece of metal, an aircraft seat on the bottom at that depth is extremely challenging and you would need to use remote vehicles to do that type of search. And, what kind of assets will be involved . Were talking about these p8s. Planes. Weve heard about sonic buoys being used. The p8 aircraft again is specifically a high volume surface search aircraft. So its only going to be able to tell you what you can see on the surface. A sonic buoy collect sound information in the water column. That sonic buoy is only effective when you have an object thats moving through the water column. So the aircraft and parts of an aircraft which were dispersed are not moving through the water column they will drift to the bottom. So the real search is going to be to look for things on the bottom of the ocean floor. And that would have to be done with remote vehicle assets that would be tethered from a surface ship, tethered to a remote vehicle that would scour the bottom of the ocean. Now for all these different variables the urgency from the beginning has been time a concern especially on the u. S. Side was boy the longer they wait the big terrify area gets, the deeper everything gets. Thats the biggest concern. At this point 12 days in is there any kind of relevant time frame you have to fit in . We know the black box lasts 30 days and stop transmitting sounds. How else does time factor in . Quite frankly time is our enemy. You do have ocean currents that have been discussed and debris even though sitting on the ocean floor will be affected by ocean currents and the debris field will move around a bit again depending upon the composition of the bottom of the ocean floor at the spot of the wreckage. So, time is a factor. But the more data as time goes by the more data we can gather that would indicate a more precise search area time would be that time would be very beneficial. To be realistic about this are we still dealing with when as opposed to if debris is found assuming the plane did hit the water, assuming that it is able to be discovered . How are we doing in terms of when versus if . This is an extreme challenge. I would lean more towards the if. We find debris, can we find enough debris to ascertain where the airplane wreckage is, if its on the bottom of the ocean. So it really in my mind is an if situation. This is like hunting for a needle in a haystack or a needle in a group of haystacks. Its a very serious challenge. They would welcome the challenge of finding a needle in a haystack. Rear admiral, thank you very much for the perspective. Tough news to hear but fwoesht accurate than to have hopes where they dont belong at this point. Ahead on new day, we got an amazing story for you out of southern california. Moving is a huge hassle. This move ended up being a life saver. Well explain it in the good stuff coming up. Neutrogena healthy skin liquid makeup. 98 saw improved skin. Does your makeup do that . Neutrogena® cosmetics. Feeding your lawn need not be so difficult neighbors. Get a load of this bad boy. Whoa. This snap spreader system from scotts is snapcrackin simple just snap, lock, and go. [ scott ] feed your lawn. Feed it at farmers we make you smarter about your insurance, because what you dont know can hurt you. What if you didnt know that taking pictures of your belongings helps when you have a claim . 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Thats what we have for you today. In fact, were going to start with one and go into another one. First one, moving. Moving not so good, right . But for a young couple moving out of you their burbank apartment moving made them heroes. Conrad and jennifer, they are lugging mattresses. They spot a toddler dangling from a second floor window. They only have second. They threw down their mattresses. The baby fell. Conrad caught. They both fell back to the mattress. The day was saved. It didnt seem real until he was hanging from that cord because theres no way hell get back in the window, now up to conrad to catch him. It feels like i watched a tv show, like it didnt happen to me. Then right after that we actually had to move. Moving is so bad that you think about it even after saving a childs life. Amazing to make the catch. Using the mattress to fall back on cushion the blow. Before they saved the baby they got stuck in a Storage Space elevator to iv minutes. Did they have the mattress with them . They say had that not happened had they not been stuck they would not be there to catch the baby. Everything is purposeful. Servicing related. When you think about the fact they were just walking by with a mattress when a baby is dangling. Next time youre stuck in an elevator theres a reason im stuck here. No matter how miserable their day was. Theres your first one. How about double stuff. 22yearold mindy from massachusetts had her two kids buckled in the back set of her car when she got out to lock the front door of her house. As she got out of the car the star starts to roll down the driveway. Thats when morale instincts kick in. She uses her body as a speed bump to slow the car. I thought of everything and i dont want to see my daughters in the hospital and i knew at that time it was either mine or theirs. Mothers love nothing more powerful than that. I said slow the car not stop it because the core under up crushing her knee, dislocating her hip. Although she has a long road to recovery she vows she will walk. Her kids need her. A mothers love could have lifted that vehicle. Its amazing. True story. Jerry berman once crawled into the sun roof of a car as i was rolling away. I put the car in neutral and starting rolling down the driveway. My father called into the sun roof. Little fact, john berman was 19. Last year. At the time. What is wrong with you . Strange man. Fantastic. Thats it for us here on new day. Kate will continue to report from malaysia tomorrow so be here with us for that and now time for the newsroom, miss carol costello, john berman 19 years of age his father had to save him from a car. I dont know what to say to that. Im glad youre here with us today, john. Have a great day, guys. Newsroom starts now. Good morning, im carol costello. Thank you so much for joining me. Its been 12 days since Malaysia Airlines flight 370 went missing and for the families of the missing passengers frustrations are boiling over. Despite headlines about search areas and flight paths and black boxes, despite the perceived inaction from the malaysian government still at the heart of this story are people. Mothers, fathers, fiancee today anner a