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Enough to sweep away parts of homes overnight. Also overnight, a suspected gas explosion caused part of a jail in pensacola to collapse. That incident killing two inmates, injuring more than 100. Its unclear though if the blast is connected to the severe weather. Lets get to ed lavandera. Hopefully youre starting to get a better idea of just what happened. Good morning. Here the crews are waiting for the sun to come up. The jail and part of the green structure on the build that you see that exploded last night. It was a dangerous situation and deadly. Breaking news overnight. Day four of a catastrophic storm system in the southeast is now barreling up the eastern seaboard threatening millions more. Officials have issued flood warnings from florida to new york with six inches of rain predicted in some parts of the northeast. City streets are already submerged. In maryland several thousand gallons of water rushed into a town 20 miles south of baltimore after a breach in the dam. In baltimore the deluge so heavy that it caused a massive landslide on one roadway sending a half dozen cars tumbling into a revere. In the southeast, an explosion caused a roof to collapse in a county jail in the florida panhandle, injuring hundreds of inmays. Its not known if flooding in the area played a role yet. You can hear the roar of the violent flood waters on wednesday spawned by nearly 20 incheses of rainfall in only 24 hours. In an hour everything just started gushing. Reporter flooding over five feet in some areas forcing hundreds of rescues. In mobile, alabama, a dramatic moment as flood waters trapped one man, barely able to cling to a tree before hes rescued. The town of orange beach, alabama, almost completely flooded. Local marina now under water. And in pensacola, florida, the torrential rains went over a scenic highway, sending cars plummeting into a ditch. I twoentd one home where the foundation was gone. Reporter leaving entire neighborhoods in the city inundated. Ive lived here two 20 years. Ive never seen this happen anywhere in the city like this. Reporter and. This is a closer look of the jail here in pensacola that exploded last night. You can see the structural damage from the force of that blast. And officials here trying to figure out the cause, chris. That building did take on extensive t water in the flooding. The flood t waters have receded. Theyre trying to figure out if that flooding is what caused this gas leak and this explosion last night. Chris . Theyre going to have to check for cracks above and below to see if the building maintained its integrity. You just heard ed mention that dam break in maryland that was forcing hundreds of people to evacuate overnight. So lets get to janet with our cnn affiliate wjla. She has details. Reporter the rain has stopped for now but its too little too late for whats going on here. The current situation. Take a look behind me. This is route one in laurel. Look at the water levels here. This has been going on for the past several hours. I also want you to see right across the street theres a car dealership here. You see the cars parked. And that should give you an idea of how high these water levels are. A little over the halfway mark on those tires. Evacuations currently under way because of this. Everyone in the surrounding area is being asked to leave over 100 residents are already being sheltered at the robert j. Community center. Hundreds more are expected. But i want to explain why this is going on. It is due to the rainfall but its indirectly. Officials say they were forced to open the dam because of the rainfall and the levels. And so all seven gates are open indefinitely. Evacuations are mandatory. It is not an option. Of course, it is for the residents safety. We will follow this story as it developss. Back to you. Lets turn to another story breaking. Torontos embattled mayor rob ford is now taking time off from his job and Reelection Campaign to seek additional treatment for alcohol abuse. This comes just after reports of a new video surfaced that all e allegedly shows ford using crack cocaine. We have two developments live in ottawa. What do we know this time, paula . Kate, what have we ever known here . I think many supporters, even his lawyer saying last night, look, they wish he had said this months ago, and rob ford finally uttered those words that everyone wanted to hear, i need help. Calling it one of the most difficult times in his life, embattled toronto mayor rob ford says he is taking a break from his Reelection Campaign. This comes after the toronto globe reporting to have seen a new video allegedly showing the mayor smoking crack cocaine from a copper colored pipe. The publication saying the video was shot this past saturday in fordss sisters apartment and that they cant verify the substance was, in fact, crack. In may of last year cellphone video was released appearing to show ford smoking crack we cocaine which he at the time denied and later conceded. Yes, i have smoked crack cocaine. Reporter this morning his opponents, outraged. For the good of the city i call on mayor ford to resign from office as mayor. Reporter mayor ford released a statement saying in part, i have tried to deal with these issues by myself over the past year. I know that i need professional help, and i am now 100 committed to getting myself right. His attorney told cnn ford is taking a leave immediately for Substance Abuse problems. Also in comments to the globe he questioned the authenticity of the video and the motivation behind it. In march ford was recorded stumbling and swearing outside Toronto City Hall, and back in january ford admitted to a, quote, minor setback after this rant surfaced. He insisted he had a small amount of to drink but had not taken any drugs. Now, Canadian Media saying that they have seen partz of this new video. None of it has been released. At this point, kate, even his lawyer saying, look, he needs help. Hes taking some time out to deal with what are clearly some very serious personal issues. Michaela . Another dramatic chapter in the life of rob ford. Lets look at more of your headlines. The simmering tensions in ukraine threatening to come to a boil. Russias calling on kiev to halt militaryistic statements after ukraines acting president declared his countrys military was put on full combat readiness. Ukraines leader making a stunning acknowledgement wednesday saying prorussian militants have taken control of much of the eastern chunk of ukraine. In virginia, federal investigators are raising to find out what caused a train to jump its track in downtown lynchburg. Several cars burst into flames. Thousands of gallons of crude oil were dumped into the james river. Cleanup crew rsz scrambling to contain the damage. Some 50,000 gallons of oil are unaccounted for. Thankfully no injuries were reported, but the incident has Safety Experts calling for greater oversight. Flight departures expected to be back to normal this morning. Out west after a Technical Glitch for several airport toss ground the airplanes. F,aa sayses there was a malfunction at a radar center north of los angeles. It afri affected los angeles, phoenix, and salt lake city. No word of what it caused the radar problem. Of course, theres the Ripple Effect. Technology. Air travel today . A lot of questions this morning but at least we have one answer. We now know how quickly the nba owners will meet to decide the fate of Donald Sterling. They will meet today, in just a few hours. And they will decide if the clippers owner should be forced to sell. Sterling was just banned for life and fined 2. 5 million. Thats the max he could get, because of his racist comments. There appears to be no shortage of suitors for the franchise but the big question is will Donald Sterling give up the clippers or is he going to fight it . For more on that lets get to cnns Stephanie Elam. I am banning mr. Sterling for life. Reporter now that nba commissioner adam silver has ousted Donald Sterling from the league, the question is, will the clippers owner put up a fight to keep the team. Donald sterling to me is not going down without a fight. Reporter sterling disgraced after his racist rant went public told fox sports that the team is not for sale. But according to the nbas constitution, if 3 4 of the owners agree that he has to go, sterling could be forced to sell. Silver pledging to do everything in his power to ensure that happens saying he pecks to get the backing he needs. More than 20 teams stating they support silvers harsh punishment but its not yet clear if those public positions would translate into votes. And sterling does have the right to try to convince the other nba owners to side with him. Any owner who decides to side with Donald Sterling in this is a fool and in the court of Public Opinion he will just as guilty as sterling. Reporter allstar trio is already waiting in wings ready to pay big bucks for a contender in the league. A spokesperson for Oprah Winfrey says shes talking to entertainment mogul david geffen and software billionaire Larry Ellison and a possible joint bid. Peaked interest in boxers Floyd Mayweather and oscar de la hoya. What about sterlings family . His wife was at the game but only after asking for and getting the green light from head coach doc rivers. This ruling applies specifically to Donald Sterling and Donald Sterlings conduct only. Reporter the nba says no decisions have been made but the Players Association telling yahoo sports it wont accept any sterling as an owner. The nba once they get the 3 4 vote, they are in charge of this franchise and they decide who gets to buy whoond doesnt. I have zero doubt that the nba is going to prevent anyone from the Sterling Family from controlling this franchise. Reporter Stephanie Elam, cnn, los angeles. How long will this legal battle drag out . Well have to see. Yeah. Its a little confusing. The standard for why they can make him sell. Never happened. The reason why the make him sell is fuzzy in this. We have a document here, beautiful read if you want to look through it. But how he will test that process is what the question is. Uhhuh. Lets take a break. Coming up next on nnew day, were wait for a first look now at a preliminary report expected to be released any moment by malaysian investigators on the disappearance of flight 370. Its been a long awaited report. Families have been demanding it. Is it telling us anything we dont already know . Our experts will break it down. 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We are anticipating the release of a longawaited report on the disappearance of flight 370. Now, the malaysian government is agreeing to make it public this morning, so lets turn to cnns Richard Quest who has been covering the story since day one. And very well, i might add. Now, we have to wait on it obviously to get the details but there are some things that we can expect to see. Right. The very basics of the report. This is a report that is required by icao, International Civil Aviation Organization. It has to be presented within 30 days. They just about made that deadline. Now, what would we expect this report to say . You want to real basics. You want the who, the when, and the where. Those are the details. The absolute basics that this report needs to do. Now, once youve done once youve short of ticked off the who, what sort of plane was it, where was it flying to and who was flying it and when was it flying. Those are the details. Thereafter, you can move into an entire arena of possibilities because at its basic, for example, the United States, when it does a preliminary report, the ntsb, its just three pages long. It is literally the who, what, when, where, and why not the why. The who, what, and where. You can put more information in. So for instance, we may want to know what happened at this particular point when the plane was flying and it did its turn back and which route did it take. They may tell us that. They may not. Do they know . Well find out when the report comes out half an hour from now. What would be the rational for not putting obvious disclosures into this first report . The reason why you might keep the report extremely brief is you really dont want to give too many details away because youre not sure of those details. But im going to give you an example of where we have seen pretty different types of reports. Where we have seen them. Lets take, for example, in the case of air france 447. Now, in air france 447 the report ran through 128 pages. In 32, 53 pages. You can do large pages if you so wish or you can choose to make them three to four. Known data or completeness . Is there a lot of stuff in this thats just paperwork . You would expect to find out the plane, the route, the details of what time it departed, which route it left. Youre looking as if to say tell me something i dont know. No, no, no, its not that. But theres something curious. A big function of this if im hearing you right is motivation of those putting out the report. And the idea that, well, you may not put out some details because youre not certain of them, okay, but what if you just dont know details or what if you do know things and for some reason, see, thats the suspicion here is they may know things and theyre not saying those things. Right. That is not the function of the icao preliminary report. The function of this report is known facts. And the rationale and the annex 13 under the icao treaty, manual of accident investigation, is that after several weeks you know certain things and those certain things can be released publicly. What i think is perhaps a little bit worrying here is, first of all, the malaysians didnt tell us that they sent this report. We had to pull it out of them. Secondly, theyve made such a deal about releasing it. This should have just been released when it was sent. You were generous. You said the period is 30 days and they just about made it. My understanding, my understanding is they were given leeway. And quite right, too, because they had such an enormous task on their hands. I can look, if this report, when it come out, is only five pages long or four pages long, i can make an argument that says, i can understand why because theyre too busy trying to find the plane. Theyve got a blank sheet of paper what do they know exactly . I feel i can put it down as one screen what they know, right . Other than the obvious and kind of, you know, boring details of the plane and all of those other things. Why this actually happened and why this other stuff put into the report should be very thin. Yes. But will be the detail, were looking for detail here about after this last known point of contact what did they know as the plane did this. Whatthats what were lookin for. Who saw it as it went over malaysia. What did they do about it . What happened at this last point of contact . Did vietnam notice it . Did the controller at malaysia notice it . Thats what youre looking to find out. And if they know details about this, we know this from air france 447, we got chapter and verse on what the air Traffic Controllers did. If you know it here are they going to tell us it now . Why do they get to control the report . Why wouldnt you have someone issuing a report like this checking on the actions on this body as opposed to allowing the body to dictate the completeness of their own work . That happens everywhere. Thats like saying when the ntsb does a report who polices the ntsb . The bea in france, somebody has to present the report and its the investigating authority of the state of occurrence or state of registry. Its just how it is. It is. So we look for woord to getting it. Im morest sbred in whats not in the report. What it seems they dont know or what they speculated about that they shouldnt have. I can tell you one thing. From my visit to malaysia, there is is no great single fact out there that is not known. There is no hidden secret thats under the carpet that i believe that everybody is saying, pst, dont tell anybody about that. There are things they dont want to talk about but its not a big secret. Richard quest, thank you very much. We will be back with you soon. Kate . Coming up next on new day, about two feet of rain fell in pensacola, florida, in just over 24 hours. Record flooding now producing some streets to rubble or making them look like lakes. Were going to talk to the citys may yr about how they are dealing with all of this this morning. Plus, hes an owner in exile. Thats for sure. Will Donald Sterling fade away or will he fight back against the nbas efforts to force a sale of the l. A. Clippers . A prominent sports attorney is here to give us his take. Eat are acidic. T most of the time people are shocked when we show them where theyre getting the acid, and what those acids can do to the enamel. Theres only so much enamel on a tooth, and Everybody Needs to do something about it now if they want to preserve their teeth. I recommend pronamel because it helps strengthen the tooth and makes it more resistant to acid breakdown. We want to be healthy and strong through the course of our life, and by using pronamel every day, just simply using it as your toothpaste, you know you will have that peace of mind. Im spending too much time hiring and not enough time in my kitchen. [ female announcer ] need to hire fast . 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The conflict in ukraine entering a new volatile phase. The president publicly admitting the government lost control of two key regions. They seized symbolic buildings in more an a dozen towns and indust cities. Lets get the latest from our Senior International correspondent arwa damon in d donetsk. One of those key cities where we are right now in donetsk there was a rally here earlier where you did not see a single ukrainian flag. Instead, people chant for russia, chanting that they want a referendum and absolutely no indication of authority coming from kiev. At the same time, in lieu hangs, the other key city, now under the control of the prorussian camp there were even sandbagged fighting positions that had been set up in the corridors. Plans of moving ahead there to hold a referendum as well. Despite all of the talk from the Central Government of wanting to launch the socalled antitechnology operation on the ground in these sar use key locations. There is absolutely no indication whatsoever what kiev has any sort of authority or that it can take any sort of measures to try to regain any semblance of control over the rapidly disintegrating situation. Arwa damon, thank you for that latest there in ukraine. Meanwhile, back at home, serious damage being caused by all sorts of bad weather across the east coast. Hundreds of people have been evacuated in laurel, maryland, after a dam opened up releasing thousands of gallons of water. In pensacola, largely under water after a storm of epic proportions. The weather could be responsible for a deadly gas explosion at a local jail. One woman was killed by flood waters yesterday. Were go to talk about the damage. The mayor of pensacola will be joining us on new day in a few minutes. Meanwhile, the winds have died down. Mandatory evacuations have been now lifted for over 1600 homes in the foothills east of los angeles. Wildfire in the areas has burned over 1,000 acres. Families in the northern neighborhoods are still being urged to evacuate voluntarily. Since winds are still too high to fight the fire from the air and we certainly know firefighters have their work cut out for them. Theres a red flag warning in effect yesterday. Gusts up to 80 miles an hour, chris. A lot of concern there in east of los angeles. Well keep an eye on that for you. S theres no bigger enemy to fire than wind and obviously thats been a big factor there. Now, today is a big day. Nba will be one step closer to pushing Donald Sterling out of the league. Tenmember committee of owners is set to hold aen cofrens. On call today together to discuss the next steps in removing sterling as an owner. Is it going to put up a fight . The answer will be yes, if anything is to be expected here. So what will happen here . Jeffrey kessler joins us. Sports law attorney, partner at the firm of winston and strawn, llp. You know the documents. Youre the right guy to talk to. Im going to represent sterlings interest in this. Just to help people kind of follow along with the process. All right . The first question is, can you do this . You represent the owners. Can you do this to me in the first place . Can you hold a vote and see whether or not i have to sell my franchise . Well, the constitution and bylaws says they can hold the vote. They have to bring a charge. He gets to respond to the charge and theres a hearing. It all happens supposedly within 20 days under the constitution and then they make a decision with the vote. Thats colorly in the document. It gets heavy here because its why. Why can you do this . It says in the constitution for violations of article 13. Article 13, i read it. There are several reasons given here. Six, seven, eight reasons. None of them seem to fall under the category of what were talking about here. Its all about not paying dues, not doing the right things as an owner from a fiduciary, financial capacity. None of this about morality, none of this about behavior, theres none of that of what we we often see in player contracts. What are you going to see i violated . There are at least two provisions that i think the league is going to use. One has to do with violating any of the rules, regulations, agreements of the nba. Somewhere in the nba theres a rule of regulation that says you cannot engage in racist comments, behavior, in this league. They have that handle. Secondly, they have a provision about violating agreements with adversary affect the interests of the nba. Violating agreements that adversary affect the interest of the nba. What does that mean . It means you do something bad in violation and agreement with the league and they can take this vote. Its a very, very broad prescription. So you dont need necessarily the specific who can anticipate this . Who would ever think that somebody would express these types of views in this way. Their behavior off the court is as relevant as what they do on the court. Its a growing part of the understanding of the contracts between players and management but it isnt in heerks i would argue, its not in here for a reason. You cant judge me on this level. Actually the rules about what the league can do for players are much more limited than what they can do for owners. Owners are members of their club. They voluntarily join it. They agree to these restrictions. They are set to one set of rules. Players have a Bargaining Agreement which and the owner doesnt have the same standard. You make an interesting point that will come as a surprise to in many people. Whats the presumption . Money matters. But in this situation its more onerous for Donald Sterling when he walks in this room. This hearing is not a very fair forum. Its done by a board of governors who is motivated against him. The rules of evidence do not apply. He can have a counsel but it doesnt matter because the arbitrator is a governor. The commissioner of the nba can be involved and you know he doesnt like sterling. Its set up against him here even though its called a hearing. Fair . I wouldnt say its fair. Its the hearing he agreed to. He agreed to subject himself, all the owners do, to a vote of their peers. They agree to these procedure p. In fact, in the constitution it says when you agree to this the vote is final and you waive your right to go to court. Again, very different from the players. The players would have a right to an arbitrator. I waive it for any reason even if it doesnt fall within the bounds of the contract, undue burden being placed on me, its way too fuzzy . If i fight on those grounds can i beat my own contract . The language says you waive it for any reason. There is an exception. The exception is legal exception, not in the constitution. If he claims an antitrust violation you cant waive antitrust rights. Thats the law. However, you have to an antitrust claim. Just because you have a right to file doesnt mean you have a claim. Antitrust would mean what . Well, his problem is he would try to claim, if he filed the antitrust, that there is some restriction illegally on competition. Its very hard to see how theres any restriction on competition here. This is replacing a very foul owner selling a team to another owner. Same competition. So i dont think there is an antitrust claim. His only defense is going to be to go to other owners and say its me this time. Next time it could be you. You want me out, thats fine, but let me do it my way because this is a real slippery slope. He might say that but i will be stunned if the owners did not back the commissioner, if the owners do not back their players on this. There would be an open revolt among the whole community, sponsors, fans, players, if the owners did not go through and decide this. You dont know who votes and how. I think the vote is not going to be close. We all see. It wont matter. If youre an owner, would you want it to be an open vote . I wouldnt care because i would be happy to tell the world how i voted. This is some interesting stuff. And its great to have insight into it because for so many its a mystery. We dont know whats going to happen and how you do. Thanks for telling us on new day. Pleasure. Kate . Coming up next on new day, pensacola, florida, slammed by record rainfall destroying homes, forcing residents from their homes, to their rooftops even. Were going to talk with pensacolas mayor to see how the community is coping this morning. Also ahead, the much anticipated initial report on flight 370. What did the malaysian government find and what do families of the passengers say . Were going to hear from the partner of an american passenger coming up. Make every day, her day with a full menu of appetizers and entrees crafted with care and designed to delight. Fancy feast. 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It has not stopped raining overnight. May be getting a bit of a brief pause at the moment. Indra petersons is in howard beach queens in an area hit particularly hard overnight. Indra, what have you been seeing . Really sun believable this morning, kate. When you talk about four or five everythinges of rain in one day, talking about severe flooding. Just look at what residents are waking up to this morning. Theyre seeing several feet of water. You can see some of the residents coming, trying to get out of their homes this morning. Heres the concern though. After talking to people in this region we heard this is actually the waters that have receded. I want to show you what is just right behind oh me on the right. What were hearing is that really a lot of this is the sewage water that got flooded and then now drifted down this hill right in front of their homes. A lot of people are dealing with about two feet of this sewage lying in their basements of their homes this morning. That is the concern. Unfortunately were still talking about more rain expected on the way. Definitely not a good situation when you have flood warns across the entire area. Still dealing with the flash flood and watches out there. Im in a worm froarm front. Unfortunately the break is not going to be the case. We still have the cold front to get to. Heavier rain expected between 11 00 and 4 00 p. M. This evening which means areases that look like this when you talk about all of this flooding on the ground means only more sewage and more city runoff is expected to build up in front of residents homes. A lot of streets are impassable. More rain, one to two inches. Not as much as we saw yesterday, kate. Either way definitely not something anyone wants to see today. Indra, thanks for the update here in new york. Lets head to another area really hard hit overnight. The powerful rainfall has led to historic flooding in florida, in con poens co pensacola alone. Overnight apparent gas explosion ripped through the county jail in the city, causing a deadly partial Building Collapse. Lets get the latest from the mayor of pensacola, ashton hayward. Thank you for joining us this morning. Good morning, kate. How are you . Doing better than the town of pensacola is fairing at the moment. Let me ask you about the apparents gas explosion at the county jail. Not clear from what ive seen yet if it is weather related but what are you hearing . Yeah, what im hearing right now, im getting the details as we speak. Theyre coming in. I understand theres over 600 inmates here and over 100 folks had to go to the local hospitals here. And theres a potential of two deaths right now. I am getting the details and ive heard the same thing that it was maybe a gas explosion. So im getting the details right now. Any concerns where the inmates are . I assume everyone has been cleared out of the jail even though its a partial building collap collapse. Where are all the inmates . Inmates are setting up a temporary jail as we speak. Some of them had to go to the hospital. Over 100 are at the hospital. They were able to contain the others. Were taking care of that right now. Lets go from that to what the entire community is dealing with. You are breaking records for all of the wrong reasons overnight. Tell me, put it in perspective, what it has been like, this historic rainfall and the flooding that is taking out roads in your town. As you know, Public Safety is number one and citizens safety is number one. Tuesday evening the storm just parked over pensacola, kate, and it didnt move. We were hoping it would move to the east 25 miles an hour but it hovered over pensacola and dumped over 22 inches of rain in a matter of 24 hours. So its been devastating to us. Obviously were prepared for hurricanes but when you talk about flooding, pensacola has never had this kind of flooding. Pensacola is on the water so theyre used to that but not this flooding. You grew up in one of the neighborhoods that was hardest hit. What happened to it . I did. Theres a street called piedmont that runs east and west in pensacola. And it just completely blew out. The retention ponds from near our airport just overran and came right into this street. It was an old riverbed over 100 years ago, so the water just completely blew out. But growing up over there, you never imagine that we would have flooding on this street. The asphalt blew out, the swuer blew out, the gas blew out. It devastated homes right there. It was really almost it was surreal. Absolutely. I can only imagine what that looked like. What is the situation for residents now . Do you have people who are missing . Have you heard of fatalities . Are emergency vehicles what are they doing . Well, ye yesterday we didnt have any fatalities in the city. There was one death we believe in the county, however, people are displaced from their homes ride now so theyre going to be displaced for weeks and months. So were managing that situation right now. We havent had to rescue anybody over the night. The water did recede, which we were very fortunate. But were just being proactive and obviously taking care of our people and Public Safety is at the forefront. Absolutely. From what i can see from where you are it looks like the rain has stopped for the moment. Are you expecting further rain today . No, were not. The weather dropped about 20 degrees which was interesting, so we have a little cold front that came through here. And were expecting the skies to be clear. So thats a good thing that helping out search and rescue efforts and Recovery Efforts this morning. What are the Biggest Challenges as first light comes up . Obviously organization and Public Safety but most importantly from an infrastructure standpoint weve had major damage within the city of pensacola. Theyre contained which is a good thing so we can manage people getting to and from work. However, were going to have our Team Together and the Engineering Department getting the roads temporarily repaired so we can go forward. Youve talked about that one road being completely blown out and other weve seen some video of a lot of flooding. But put it in some additional perspective for our viewers who maybe havent been to pensacola who dont understand what kind of flooding you are up against. Have youer se ever seen anythine it . Ive never seen anything like it. I lived in new york city for a long time and we would have flooding in manhattan but imagine walking out of your front door and then just walking right into a river about 4 1 2 feet deep and water running through your front yard. So it was, like i said, surreal and an anomaly for pensacola to have this flooding. Whats your best advice for residents this morning what are you telling them . Well, i can tell you it is dry. The temperature did drop. The schools are canceled today. However, parents are going to have to go to work. So just use caution. Be smart. People know our city. 37 geographical miles. Manage your way around the city and be careful and be cognitive of the Law Enforcement and Public Safety. Cost estimate on how much the damage is going to cost the city . Just a guesstimate but i can fell you its over the 100 million mark. Ouch. Thats a painful price tag to be looking at in just over 24 hours, mr. Mayor. Well, we know how infrastructure is and a lot of infrastructure is under the ground. Theres a lot of money that goes into that. Were going to put a pen to the paper and get focused and get after it. The cost right now obviously is not the priority. Its making sure everyone is safe and getting making sure the roads are passable and everything is back up and running. Thank you, mayor, for coming on. Good luck today. Thank you, kate. Of course. Wow, chris, theyre up against a lot. Youre telling me. Boy, if youre a resident of pensacola were going to put pen to paper, get focused and get after it. Thats what you want to hear from your elected official. Well find out what happens once they do that. When we come back on new day, the malaysian government about to release its report on what happened to flight 370. So what can we expect . Were going to go live to kuala lumpur. And, many have opinions about the amanda knox case but we have someone who knows the case better than most. A judge who decided it. Youre going to want to hear what he has to say. Millions of peaches, peaches for me yoplait. It is so good youll want a different peach everyday. Ive quit for 75 days. 15 days, but not in a row. 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Feed it im taking off, but, uh, dont worry. Im gonna leave the tv on for you. And if anything happens, dont forget about the new xfinity my account app. You can troubleshoot technical issues here. If you make an appointment, you can check out the status here. You can pay the bill, too. But dont worry about that right now. Okay. How do i look . Thanks. [ male announcer ] troubleshoot, manage appointments, and bill pay from your phone. Introducing the xfinity my account app. Welcome back to new day. Obviously were awaiting the release of this first preliminary report of the disappearance of flight 370 from the malaysian government. Were expecting it at any moment. The family of those on board are demanding to see these findings for weeks now. Theyre hoping to get some answers for the fate of their loved ones. Live from kuala lumpur. Anxiously awaiting is the way to describe how the familying are feeling. What are we expected to hear in it, will . Well, you know, were not really expecting any major surprises. A lot of details in this report are details weve already reported here from kuala lumpur and throughout the region on cnn. Were pegging a rundown of what happened with the flight, information that we know, the time it took off, where it was when there was a last radio transmission and the plane turning and, transponders being switched off. Were going to hear more about the satellite data that shows the plane most likely took a southern course towards the southern indian ocean. These are all things reported. Were not expecting any major surprises in the report but this will be the first time that these families actually have something tangible they can hold in their hands to look at and say, okay, here it is in black and white spelled out. There was supposed to be a press conference here in kuala lumpur where this information was going to be released. That press conference was canceled. So what weve been doing, we were told it was going to come in via email. Weve been check ourg inboxes to see when the report comes in and as soon as it does we will let you know. Yeah, were hope that there might be some nuggets of new information but were not anticipate that will be the case. In any sense the report will ak gonlg the bay of bengal, the georesonance report . Theres been a lot of skepticism coming from our aviation an lists about this. Any sense they will address that . We dont believe that it will simply because georesonance just came forward been the last few days. We know there are two ships from bangladesh heading to the bay of bengal to check things out. The australian search chief Angus Houston is either here in kuala lumpur or on his way to meet with malaysian authorities. They may be discussing this new information. But the search Chiefs Office has said all along they are focusing on the search corridor in the southern indian ocean. And one thing that will be laid out is perhaps the details to expand the underwater search. Maybe well learn what kind of technology will be used aside from the bluefin21. Well have to wait and see. Will ripley is live in kuala lumpur watching his email as we are here. We will bring you that preliminary report from malaysian government as soon as we receive it. You can count on cnn for thanchthat. Lets turn to the amanda knox case. They are explaining why she is guilty. At least one person is calming eight fantity fit for a movie script. He should know. He is the judge who has given the case after the original conviction. Take a look. Im not responsible for what happened. I didnt do it. I wasnt there. I dont know anything more about it. Amanda knox has long maintained her innocence in murder of her british roommate meredith kercher. Now as she fights back against new theories and allegations, shes getting support from a veteran of the italian justice system. Claudio hellmann, the italian judge who tossed out knox conviction in 2011. Hes now lashing out at his colleagues who overturned that acquittal. In a hefty 337page report an Appeals Court in florence justified reinstating knoxs murder conviction, not only placing her at the crime scene but also claiming it was amanda herself who delivered the fatal knife wound to kerchers neck. The motive, a fight about rent money the night of the crime. But judge hellmann is dismissing the report as, quote, if result of fantasy. In a scathing statement obtained exclusively by cnn hellmann slams the courts lack of physical evidence to support their reasoning against knox and then boyfriend rafael sollecito. He says they have written a script for a movie or a thriller book while it should have only considered facts and evidence. There is no evidence to condemn knox and sollecito. Its the latest battle in a sevenyear legal saga for the 26yearold. And its show nothing signs of ending any time soon. Judge hellmann is now retired and fears knox will fall victim to politics, telling cnn, i think that the high court will be obliged to confirm the florence ruling if they dont want to openly contradict their colleagues. Im afraid to go back there. I dont want to go back into prison. Understandable. Now, how do you judge hellmann . On the one side hes retired so he can speak freely. Maybe hes upset because his decision is the one that was overturned by this latest decision that were going to go through. On the other side, why would he lie . Whats his interest in lying . So his comments are very important. But even more important is what will amanda knox say to what is in this new report and she will speak out for the First Time Since the release of this damning new report in our exclusive oneonone interview with her that will air tonight in a cnn special report the trials of amanda knox. That will be at 10 00 p. M. Eastern only on cnn and then well bring you more of that interview and parts that you will want to hear tomorrow on new day. More on the flight for 370. That search, the reports coming out any moment. Were going to give it to you when we get it as well as the latest on the devastating floods that are on the east coast. And news about torontos mayor rob ford taking a leave of absence to deal with Substance Abuse issues. Lets get to it. Seems like the malaysians initially did not intend to release this report until we find the actual plane. No one anticipated it would just keep raining and raining and raining. A new video allegedly showing the mayor smoking crack cocaine. The nba, they decide who gets to buy and who doesnt. Any own whole decides to side with Donald Sterling in this is a fool. There is not a stitch of evidence a implicates amanda knox. Good morning. Welcome back to new day. It is thursday, may 1st. 7 00 now in the east. And there are powerful storms leaving their mark all along the east coast. Breaking overnight, hundreds of people forced to evacuate in a city in maryland after a dam opened up spilling thousands of gallons of water. The northeast dealing with powerful wind and rain. Many folks waking up to flooding in and around new york city. We have it all covered starting with Indra Petersons in queens. What do you see out there . Reporter just look what people are waking up to. Youre seeing several feet of water here in queens. Youre looking at what looks like maybe a runoff from the city. Were hearing reports that a lot of what is sitting on the ground is actually sewage. Keep that in mind if youre thinking about walking across these waters. At points in time residents were saying it was so high vehicles were under water. You can see if i walk up this hill just a little bit, this is the problem. We saw all of these streets completely flooded, that the sewers were actually overflowing and running into the basements of many homes where residents are waking up to a good two feet of sewage in this home in their homes. Keep in mind this is not limited to the new york area. Were hearing this all across the northeast and even the southeast this morning. Breaking overnight, day four of catastrophic storm system in the southeast. Now barreling up the eastern seaboard threatening millions more. Officials issuing flood warnings from florida to new york with seven inches of rain predicted in the northeast before its all said and done. In maryland several thousz gallons of water rushed into a town 20 miles south of baltimore after a breach in a dam. Forcing hundreds of residents to evacuate. In baltimore, the deluge so heavy it caused a massive landslide on one roadway sending half dozen cars tumbling into a ravine. Rain triggering a mud slide in upstate new york collapsing this retaining wall. The torrential rain will continue battering parts of the northeast for hours to come. So this is the concern again this morning. We still have so many areas under flood warnings this morning and even flood watches of the entire tristate area. From the northeast down to the southeast many areas are already flooded just like this. Many of these streets completely impassable and the concern is more rain is on the way which will only mean conditions like this are expected to worsen. Watching it here in new york. Lets head down south where the storms have left a trail of devastation there. In pensacola, florida, forcing some people to navigate streets by boat. Overnight, a deadly gas explosion caused a partial Building Collapse at an area jail. Cnns ed lavendandera is at the jail. We just spoke to the mayor and he said he grew up in pensacola and has never seen anything like this. Reporter kate, thats saying something considering the number of hurricanes and powerful hurricanes this region of the gulf coast has seen. I spoke with many people who yesterday said the flood levels and the flood t waters they saw here rivalled any kind of hurricane they have seen. Nearby 20 inches of rain in 24 hours. This is a situation the emergency officials are dealing with here in pensacola. That is the county jail. Explosion late last night killing two inmates. Having to force the evacuation of this building. Atf and the state fire marshal are investigating. You can see the power of that explosion and the Ripple Effect that it had through that building. A lot of structural damage there that theyre dealing with. It was the flood waters and for the most part have finally receded throughout the region here from mobile, alabama, all of the way into pensacola, the waters have receded and people are getting a good chance today to continue the cleanup efforts in what we saw throughout the area was powerful and some homes had taken up to three feet of water. Other neighborhoods swallowed up by five feet of water into their homes. A lot of cleanup left for these folks. Everywhere we went yesterday people telling us they had never seen anything like this or dealt with rain with this intensity and this magnitude for a long period of time. Thank you, ed. We also want to tell you today the ball is in the nba owners court. Will they force clippers owner Donald Sterling from his team. They will meet on this today after sterling was banned for life from the league for making racist comments. Cnns Stephanie Elam is live in los angeles. The big question is, how will Donald Sterling face his fellow owners . That is the question, chris. And theres a lot of rich people already looking at ways to put their money together to potentially get a bid together. But the first thing that has to happen is is theyve got to get Donald Sterling out. I am banning mr. Sterling for life. Reporter now that nba commissioner adam silver has ousted Donald Sterling from the league, the question is, will the clippers owner put up a fight to keep the team . Donald sterling to me is not going down without a fight. Reporter sterling disgraced after his racist rant went public told fox sports that the team is not for sale. But according to the nbas constitution, if 3 4 of the owners agree that he has to go, sterling could be forced to sell. Silver, pledging to do everything in his power to ensure that happens, saying he expects to get the backing he needs. More than 20 teams stating they support silvers harsh punishment but its not yet clear if those public positions would translate into votes. And sterling does have the right to try to convince the other nba owners to side with him. Any owner who decides to side with Donald Sterling in this is a fool. In the court of Public Opinion, he will be just as guilty as sterling. Reporter allstar trio of would be buyers is waiting in the wings ready to pay big bucks for a contender in the league. A spokesperson for Oprah Winfrey says shes talking to entertainment mogul david geffen and software billionaire Larry Ellison about a possible joint bid. Peeked interest from mayweather and de la hoya. About his wife . Only after asking for and getting the green light from head coach doc rivers. This ruling applies specifically to Donald Sterling and Donald Sterlings conduct only were the nba says no decisions have been made but the Players Association telling yahoo sports it wont accept any sterling as an owner. The nba, once they get the 3 4 votes, they are in charge of this franchise and they decide who gets to buy and who doesnt. I have zero doubt that the nba is going to prevent anyone from the Sterling Family from controlling this franchise. Reporter and commissioner silver said he wanted swift action and that he was going to stay on it. To that end, the owners are supposed to have their first meeting about this topic today. Kate . All right, one step in a long process. Stephanie, thank you very much. Also new this morning, torontos controversial mayor rob ford announces hes taking a leave of absence to get treatment for what he calls a struggle with alcohol. This comes after reports of a new video showing ford smoking what is allegedly crack cocaine from a pipe. Cnns paula newton has more. Reporter calling it one of the most difficult times in his life, embattled toronto mayor rob ford says he is taking a break from his Reelection Campaign. This comes after the or tront globe and mail reporting to have seen a new video allegedly showing the mayor smoking crack cocaine from a coppercolored pipe. The publication saying the video was shot this past saturday in fords sisters apartment, and that they cant verify the substance was, in fact, crack. In may of last year cellphone video was released appearing to show ford smoking crack cocaine which he at the time denied and later conceded. Yes, i have smoked crack cocaine. Reporter this morning his p oppone opponents, outraged. For the good of the city i call mayor ford to resign. Reporter mayor ford released a statement saying in part, i have tried to deal with these issues by myself over the past year. I know that i need professional help, and i am now 100 committed to getting myself right. His attorney told cnn ford is taking a leave immediately for Substance Abuse problems. Also in comments to the globe he questioned the authenticity of the video and the motivation behind it. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. Reporter in march ford was recorded stumbling and swearing outside Toronto City Hall and back in january ford admitted to, a quote, minor setback after this rant surfaced. He insisted he had a small amount to drink but had not taken any drugs. [ bleep ]. Now, rob fords lawyer declined to tell us exactly where hes going for this kind of help, what exactly what kind of help he would be getting. And he wont say, rob ford himself, how long he will actually be out. He has not called off his Reelection Campaign, merely saying hes taking a break to deal with some serious problems. Paula newton with the latest on the embattled mayor in or ront tonchts lets lo toronto. Ukraines acting president is making a stunning acknowledgement saying Security Forces are helpless in stopping militants in yearn ukraine but put military on full combat readiness on wednesday. Prorussian gunmen have taken control of key buildings in the region. Ukraine ordered expulsion of russian diplomat it accuses of spying. Syria is not handing over what remains of chemical arsenal as agreed according to the washington post. U. S. Officials say syria is holding on to 27 tons of saran as leverage in a dispute over the future of storage facilities. Sunday was the deadline to turn it over to International Observers who want tunnels and buildings used to store the weapons destroyed. This morning Safety Experts calling for tighter regulations after yet another crude oil train derailment. A Freight Train jumped the track wednesday in linkburg, virginia, erupting into flames and spilling thousands of gallons of oil into the james river. Some 50,000 gallons are unaccounted for as cleanup crews fight to contain the spill. Federal safety investigators are trying to figure out just what went wrong. Fortunately no injuries were reported in that crash. Chris . All right, thank you very much. Were awaiting the release of the first report of the disappearance of flight 370 from the malaysian government. Meanwhile, Malaysian Airlines has just issued a press release. We are reading it as were lng to the headlines. Theyre going to close down Family Assistance Centers around the world by may 7th. They will maintain a presence in beijing. Lets bring in david soucie, cnns safety analyst, to discuss this. David, im looking at it right now. In line with this adjustment, they say, adjustment meaning the new phase in the search and investigation, theyre going to be closing all of its Family Assistance Centers around the world by may 7th, 2014. They will keep in close touch with the familys, new updates, telephone calls. We then hear word they may keep something open in beijing. Thats not what this says. What do you make of this . Well, i think theyre probably consolidating resources. The issue with having everybody together in one place is mostly for the purpose of being there when things are discovered. The Family Assistance Centers, i think, are probably not very useful at this point, to be honest with you. The families are frustrated and theyre trying to get some information but theyre just not getting it anyway. But dont they matter the most . You have so many different it should. So many different silos of resources. This is the one group of people that actually deserves information. Just to clarify, it says while its closing those Family Centers it says, with the support of the malaysian government the Airline Family support centers will be established in kuala lumpur and in beijing. So theyre closing these worldwide ones, whatever that number is, and theyre going to open these two new ones. They will keep some presence. Thats good because, again, the families deserve it. Another point. As were waiting for this report, why are we waiting for this report . Forget about the malaysian authorities and their teaming. Couldnt we have gotten this from icao . Thats right, chris. Thats the part that i dont understand at all, is when the report goes to icao, icao is under no obligation to try to protect anything thats in that report other than the personal and secret kind of things. In other words, you want to protect privacy. You want to protect anything to do with the criminal investigation. And icao cant release that kind of information if its on there, which i doubt it is. Icao has the authority to do this. I just dont understand why thats not being pushed. Weve heard very little from the icao authority, from the organization itself, from any of the ambassadors from any of the countries. Remember, countries that are part of icao and the united nations, remember, icao is part of the united nations, each one of those ambassadors assigned to icao is part of it. Theyre part of the organization. Theyre part of the leadership. Ive seen very little leadership out of icao. Where are the ambassadors . Theyre wait for malaysia. I dont understand that. This body icao is in transition, right . The person who is the head is out. The new head is pending approval from the obama administration. Submitted by but waiting on it. Could it be that theyre caught flatfooted in this situation . Theres a lot of people at the table and United States is not one of them. United states under duanes leadership used to be the president of the Airlines Pilot association, hes been actively involved in airlines, and he was fantastic at his job. He retired in december. There was a nomination made. Michael lawson, from los angeles, and Michael Lawson has had some ridicule actually. Hes not got the kind of depth of experience that duane did and yet congress has drug its feet on trying to nominate someone else or they just basically said were not going to put this guy, were not going to confirm him so, therefore, its a done deal. Where is the new nomination . This is the worst time in history to not have some representation on tirks cao. Theyre going to set some rules. The United States have to follow them and were going to be stuck flatfooted as you said to respond to the icao rules. The United States isnt driving the entire thing but you do want some representation there to be sure. So this report is going to come out. We expect it to be a basic cursory analysis but the reason that were interested is because it will be a window into how malaysia has been thinking about this all along and where the points of focus have been because legitimate questions about the investigative process here. Well be waiting on the report and when we get it well come right to you, david, and get your take on it. Thank you for lemmi inghelping these other factors. Coming up next on new day, the company that claims they had identified plane wreckage suggesting it down meissing plane. Were going to talk with a critic coming up next. Coming up on inside politics, its the clintons versus the media. 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Ells you, welcome back to new day. As we wait for the malaysian government to release its long awaited preliminary report on what they know about the disappearance of flight 370 so far, we want to dig deeper into one of the latest developments in the search for the missing plane. A new response this morning from the Australian Exploration Company that claims it found possible wreckage from what could be an aircraft in the bay of bibengal, thousands of miles from the current search area. Here to discuss, miles obrien. Good morning. Good morning. I want to read and i dont know if we have a graphic for this yet but i want to read, i think, probably the most interesting part of we call it a response. I think we call it a defense of what theyve done from georesonance this morning. I want to get your take on it. They say in part, its surprising that some media commentators who have not heard of the technology or do not have an understanding of quantum physics dismiss the technology outright. Georesonance is not attempting to educate the world on technological capabilities. Georesonance goal was to offer findings to government search authorities. They seem theyre defending their actions to this point. Do they have a point, miles . Well, theyre defending their actions without providing a shred of evidence that they have technology that works. They say they have trade secrets. I get that. Why not show previous verifiable examples of this Technology Working . They havent done that. You dont have to reveal trade secrets to say heres what weve done in the past and heres how it works. None of that has occurred. What also bothers me about this press release is its kind of an exit stage right press release. Weve identified this site in the bay of bengal. We did it for moral reasons. Now goodbye, everybody. Thank you very much for coming. And that to me is just pretty much case in point that this is about publicity as much as anything else. Now, the company says that it did provide all of their technical background to the malaysian government in a briefing that they held. They said they spoke for about an hour. They dont feel the need to release that to the public. And now bangladesh has announced theyre sending two ships to that area to figure this out. So is this back and forth do you think in the end all for not because its essentially we may find out one way or the other if what theyre claiming is true. Well, yeah. I mean, but remember, they briefed the malaysian officials, the real experts for an hour, and they dismissed the whole thing. Dont forget that. Number two, the malaysian navy, if it wants to check this out because theres so much public pressure, thats fine. If this company, which claims a moralal truistic goal is really all a it that why dont they keep helping with the search . Why dont they train their technology on the southern site in why dont they prove somehow they can identify a verifiable piece of wreckage deep beneath the sea . None of these things have r. Happening. Theyve identified this apparent wreckage in the bay of bengal and now theyre saying theyre done. I think we should all be done with it. You make a very good point not only do you always make a good point but on the fact that if you think your technology has worked here, why not apply it to the area where everyone is focusing the search. I havent heard that thats question has been posed to the company yet. Have you heard any response on that . Ive been posing it for a day but nobody seems to be listening to me at georesonance. If they truly had a Verifiable Technology that could locate an ircraft on the bottom of the ocean floor, aim the satellite at the search site in the southern ocean, help out the search in that way. Thats the moral obligation. What could be provided that would give you more interest in this kram rather than saying that they need is it just more evidence . Is it their methodology, is there more information they could provide that could make it, i dont want to say more valid, but at this point, more people are skeptical than they are finding this promising. Again, you know, i just think that, you know, i agree. Im sure there are secret things that they any Company Needs to hold close. But theres a whole body of knowledge and General Information which they werent sharing with anybody. Just the basics of how this works, but, you know, basically some verifiable examples would go a long way. Heres how we did it in the past. Heres a piece of wreckage. Heres a shipwreck, heres how we did it. Go to their website. They made claims of finding a shipwreck in the black sea. That ship has not really been located, as it turns out. Theres an abs sense of examples. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. And there is no extraordinary evidence here. The thing that also is at play here you talk about an absence of evidence and absence of examples, theres also an absence of any real evidence in the other part of the search effort, in the search indian ocean. I think that is why some of the Family Members are feeling ingi little bit of why not at this point. No, and i do. You know, if the Bangladesh Navy wants to check this out, fine. I was concerned yesterday that somehow there would be pressure to move resources that are on the search site where weve had the pings, where weve had the inmarsat arcs, you know, where we might have had who knows Australian Defense radar verifying things. That wont be released publicly. If you moved resources off that, that would be bad. For the Bangladesh Navy to steam out there, call it a Training Mission and see if they can find wreckage there, why not. I see no problem with that. Real quick, miles. Along the vein of looking for real hard and true evidence that are facts, as were waiting and anticipating this report to come out from the malaysian government, what are you going to be looking for as i know youve read many of these reports in the past. Repair yourself to be underwomened. Ive seen the form youre supposed to fill out for icao. Its very basic information. Stuff we already know. When it has room for a narrative. The narrative has to be 200 words or less. So i suspect if they follow the letter of the icao procedures for preliminary report, were going to be sadly disappointed by all this. 200 words, thats practically a tweet. At this point, a tweet plus a little bit of something. All right. Exactly. Yeah. Lets hope that nothing when it comes to an explanation of evidence when it comes to this, the missing flight and everything thats gone on and the little that we know after some seven weeks can be summed up in a tweet. Miles, great to see you. Thank you so much. Youre welcome. Coming up, the malaysian authorities report that we were just talking about on flight 370 as soon as it is released well bring it to you. Also, we have inside politics this morning. Well go inside the white house, find out about president obamas favorite new stress reliever. Were going to tell you how he blows off steam and makes key decisions at the same time. Welcome back to new day. Heres a look at your headlines. Malaysian officials are expected to release the first report on the disappearance of flight 370 any moment now. Well bring it to you live. Family members have been demanding to see those documents that document for a while. For weeks, in fact. This just in. Malaysian airlines announcing it will close the support center where the families of flight 370 have been gathering at a hotel in beijing by tomorrow. Theyre also going to close some of their other Family Support centers. Were told they will keep Family Support center open in kuala lumpur and in beijing. Huge parts of the east coast are under water this morning after massive storms. Hundreds of people have been evacuated in laurel, maryland, after a dam opened up. Several thousands of gallons of water was released. The dam has since been stabilized. Pensacola saw rainfall of epic proportions. We know that one woman was killed. The weather could also be responsible for a gas explosion at a jail that collapsed part of the roof injuring some 100 inmates and killing two. A major concession by ukraines acting president admitting Security Forces are essentially helpless to stop prorussian militants, even so he put his military on full combat readiness wednesday. Prorussian gunmen have taken control of symbolic buildings in more than a dozen cities and towns taking over much of the eastern portion of ukraine. , in brk a Ownership Committee meets today to discuss Donald Sterlings future of the owner of clippers. The commissioner wants the owners to use their power to force him out. That would require the support of 3 4 of the other nba owners. See how i did that . I could bless you and tell the news. Im sorry. I really tried to hold it . We are human doing this show. That baby doesnt need a sneeze. Dont want to wake her up even though we have to be up. Didnt mean to scare her. I want her up. Everybody has to watch. Be nice. We want her to see asleep as long as possible. Thats a dedicated viewer there. Named christopher as she should be. Great name. Works for other genders. Split screen. Appropriate reaction. Not appropriate. And thats why were both here. Thank you. Balance. All right. Time for inside politics on new day with mr. John king. J. K. , how are you . Immigram great but if you w keep going, we can watch. The baby moves every time she hears your voice, john. Shes into politics already. Well be back to you. Inside politics, a lot of ground to cover. With me margaret of Bloomberg News and politico. Lets start, i often talk about the politicians, the democrats and republicans seemingly living in parallel universes. Sometimes the Economic Statistics operate the same way. I want to get your sense of how much the debate about the economy and pessimism about the economy affects the election this year. Gross domestic product, growing, flat lined. Last quarter, pretty much nothing. The economy was stalled. However, if you look at wall street, the markets hitting record lies. If you have a 401 k youre probably doing well. Margar margaret, how much frustration is here at the white house that they think the numbers, most of the numbers are Getting Better and yet seven in ten americans are pessimistic about the xhoi economy . They think is the lag and doldrums of winter that coming into the new year as it picks up, second, third quarter, things are growing. But the white house knows that really this doesnt matter that much until the summertime or late in the summertime. Republicans are going to use this now to push down on democrats fortunes and get the most they can out of it. It really is a mixed bag and too soon to see how much it will hurt them. Interesting perspective. You think it was just the winner. Were going to be fine. Late spring and summer, things will be better. Isnt there a sense that because this has gone on so long, because the recovery has been modest, theres just a psychology of people that it not Getting Better out in america. People in washington might be optimistic when you look at the statistics. If you travel the country, races rim pacted. Democrats wanting to run on the economy this year. They didnt want to run on the Health Care Law. They hoped the job numbers improving, the market improving, all the statistics showed an economic recovery that was going to get stronger, not be this type of recovery that weve seen over the last several years. But as we saw yesterday, thats not going to be possible for democrats if we see Economic Growth not keeping pace with the has been in previous quarters that its going to hurt people like mark pryor in arkansas, red states like in louisiana where they wanted to run on the economy instead. The best way to win is to viscerate their opponents. Lets move on. Yesterday we talked about a newly released because of a lawsuit by a conservative Group Showing the deputy security adviser ben rhodes was trying to give advice about benghazi and other issues in the middle east with susan rice in 2012. Came up contentious issue at the White House Briefing yesterday as to why, why did the white house not release this document with so many others a year ago. Why were you holding back this information . Why was this email not turned over to the congressman . Why did you not release this with of t. Other emails . This is directly relevant. Jon, again why did it take a court case for you to release this . Jon, i can say it again and again and i know you can keep asking again and again. This document was not about benghazi. I dont know how you know, i dont have two hands. I dont know how you can say this is not about benghazi. If you look at the timeline of events i cant understand why the white house did this because if you released it with all the others you could say, ben rhodes, when he wrote this document was following, looking at the timeline, previous email that came over t from the cia saying here are the talking points. They can release this and people could say it was wrong or misleading and be done with it a year ago. Now people are saying why are you hiding this . Right. In a year we will probably get the memo release and why they didnt release the memo, right . Must be some combination of executive privilege, lawyers saying we dont need to release this. All of that. Bottom line is it makes perfect sense for the Deputy National security adviser for communications to be advising the National Security adviser on how to communicate and now its turned into an eruption that they didnt need. It makes perfect sense for the skeptics of the administration to say what else are you hiding . This is going to fuel calls from the republicans to create a select committee to investigate what happened in benghazi. This is what a lot of republicans have been banging the drums over. This is what makes the white house nervous about giving republicans control of the senate come fall buzz thatecaus going to be a huge push. Purri in pushing and doing more investigation on benghazi, thats whats going to happen should republicans narrative for 2016, especially if hillary ends up there. Not just the Obama White House but potentially about secretary of state Hillary Clinton at the time and on that segue, not just jay carney who sometimes gets mad at reporters, listen to bill clinton speaking to Georgetown University yesterday. His context here is the Health Care Law mostly. He says in the coverage of obamacare people decided months ago it was a failure and as theres more evidence of it coming in he says the Political Press focuses on whats up here not on the facts. There is a craving which borders on blindness to shoe horn every fact, every development, everything that happens into the story line, even if thats not the story. Thats bill clinton speaking from his experience. So much fun. You can just see the fun to come in the months to come. Ive been on the receiving end of bill clinton temper tantrum. I was a writing in those days mostly before i switched into television. M manu, hillary showed up. She was there. Maggie from politico as well as one of our friends in the inside politics family has a piece on the clintons relationship with the media. In it there is this quote from a campaign veteran. Look, she hates you. Period. Thats never going to change. Thats right. Interesting to sort of coming out there before shes even said shes going to run. What the clinton friends are saying is that may be a reason why she does not run is because of the barrage of media scrutiny, the relentlessness of this 24 7 media environment. This could be her big factor and why she does not actually u lly ultimate take an easier path to the nomination. Vast left wing conspiracy to boost the clinton juggernaut. Thats part of this is that president clinton is concerned that she will not get credit and he will not and by virtue of the, you know, convey to her, get credit for being left wing enough. And his argument is right now, hey, you know, my moderate approach to welfare reform was about income and equality and the press doesnt get it. We just dont get it. Quick footnote here and well move on. If Hillary Clinton needs an incentive to move on, the poll chose her 4941 over jeb bush, the former governor of florida. Leading republican candidate. Look at that. Thats a good poll for Hillary Clinton. It is 2014. Not so bad. Margaret, i want to end with a piece you wrote on bloomberg about how the president now when hes feeling stress decides to make big decisions. Goes outside, walks around. Theres a track outside the white house. We first learned about this in a policy context during a decision on whether to let Congress Vote or should american troop bs used in syria. Walking with his chief of staff. How often does he do this . Depends on the weather. We had that really cold winter where he wasnt getting out there much at all. Now that its nice again hes been out there as all the obamacare stats were coming in waiting to find out were they going to hit that 7 million target. For obama the frustration, so many frustrations, that walk helps him to kind of feel like he can get some movement on issues when things are really stuck. When things get stuck. Can you discuss sensitive intelligence issues outside the white house . Some things are better left for the sit room but if its politics youre talking about, 100 . A lot of that around the track. Edward snowden has a memo on that. As we go back to new york, often we let jimmy kimmel or David Letterman or colbert end it, but frank trying his hand on late night comedy. Listen. Oh, no. I think we lost that one. Barney frank on last night saying he used to be whats more controversy, being gay american or politician. He says its now much more controversial, people frown on the politicians. Barney frank, postoffice. I bet hes loving his life. Its good that i hope hes right about that. You know what i mean . Absolutely. At least thats an objective basis for criticism as opposed to what somebody is about. As john noknows, Barney Franks once told me, i asked him a question he was on the banking committee. At the time the banks were taking a beating and he was blaming the republicans. I said, wait a minute, dont you have responsibility . Youre the senior person of the banking committee. Why sb it your fault. He said, you are the worst. He said to me. You take that as compliment. At the time it was very frightening. I had a great routine at that time chasing him around the hill. Hes got a certain charm when barney frank doesnt feel like answering. He would always say, that is a stupid question. And kind of move on and not oons it. There you go. Ill take stupid question over youre the worse. Lots of people can ask stupid questions. Coming up next on new day, malaysian authorities reports on flight 370 is set to be released any moment. Well have it right here with you and we will break it down. Plus, as many try to figure out how to force clippers owner Donald Sterling to sell the team, the focus is shifting to the women in his wife. The mi mistress, the wife who is suing the mistress. Stay with us. [ hypnotist ] you are feeling satisfied without standard leather. You are feeling exhilarated with frontwheel drive. You are feeling powerful with a 4cylinder engine. [ male announcer ] open your eyes. To the 6cylinder, 8speed lexus gs. With more standard horsepower than any of its german competitors. This is a wakeup call. 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. 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While sterlings clearly under the microscope what about the women in sterlings wife including his wife you see on the right and the girlfriend who taped his infamous racist rant. You see her on the left. Randi kaye explains. Reporter no doubt v. Stiviano had dreams of making her mark one day. Listen to this. One day i will become president of the United States of america. Reporter yes, thats stiviano telling the paparazzi about her plans to be president. For now shell remain the other woman in the Donald Sterling saga. She reportedly first met sterling at the 2010 super bowl. She claims to be his archivist. But its unclear exactly what that means. Whether on sterlings arm as a clippers game or on her own, she is tabloid fodder. Are you surprised by all the attention that youve been getting . Im trying to walk my dog. Reporter on her Instagram Account where she posted this picture with Magic Johnson that set off sterlings racist rant, she writes, i do it all. Describing herself as an artist, lover, writer, chef, poet, stylist, and philanthropist. Her photos include this one posing as an angel. Another in a bathing suit. Plus, photos of cars with personalized license plates, alleged gifts from Donald Sterling. The plates read, i heart you v. , and v. Hearts you. Which brings us to another woman in Donald Sterlings life, his wife, rochelle sterling. Shes been married to the clippers owner for more than 50 years. A relationship thats also a bit hard to explain given that rochelle is well aware of stiviano and her relationship with her husband. So aware that rochelle filed this lawsuit against stiviano in march to protect and recover community property. Sterling alleges that stivianos conduct was designed to target, befriend, seduce, and then entice, cajole, borrow from wealthy older men. The lawsuit claims the cars and money Donald Sterling gave stiviano were Community Assets given without the knowledge, consent, or authorization ofs his wife. Those include at least 240,000 in living expenses, plus a ferrari, two bentleys, and a range rover wor worth more than 500,000. And stiviano was given 1. 8 million to buy a duplex in los angeles. As far as her husbands comments, on sunday afternoon rochelle sterling called them despicable. Telling tmz, our family is devastated by the racist comments made by my estranged husband. Later that night, a different story. Caught leaving a restaurant with her husband, she defended him. Listen. Are you a racist, mr. Sterling. No, of course not. Forget it. Its not true. Not true . No, of course not. Reporter whatever the real story is and whatever their relationship, one thing we know for sure, neither of these women will be cheering on the clippers alongside Donald Sterling anymore. Randi kaye, cnn, new york. Thanks to randi for that. I was going to say, thats the truth. Theyre not going to be sitting by him in any games because hes not going to any games any time soon. Coming up on new day, Malaysia Airlines announcing its closing the support center wheres the families have been gathering and comforting each other for weeks. Thats not all the grieving families are being told this morning. We have details for you ahead. A. growls man thats a good look for you. woman that was fun. man yeah. man let me help you out with the. woman . Oh no, i got it. man you sure . woman just pop the trunk. man vo i may not know where the road will lead, but. Im sure my subaru will get me there. announcer love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Thats why i got a new windows 2 in 1. It has exactly what i need for half of what i thought id pay. And i dont need to be online for it to work. It runs office, so i can do schedules and budgets and even menu changes. 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Welcome back as we abate the release of the report into the flight of 370 due out in moments, we have just learned that Malaysia Airlines is closing the support center for families of the missing passengers at the hotel in beijing. We also know daily briefings updating the families on the investigation are also being stopped. Officials say they will open two smaller centers. The families were given this news at a meeting this morning. Joining us from beijing is sarah bajc. Her partner, phillip wood, was on the flight. She was at that briefing. She hustled across town to get in front of a skype camera to talk to us now. First of all, i understand you were at the meeting. Tell us what the tone of the meali meeting was like. It was extremely tense. There were probably about 500 Family Members gathered in the room. I think i was the only caucasian person in the entire place. And police everywhere. So there might have been one Police Officer for every maybe ten Family Members. They were out in force. And what all were you told . Well, the meeting began with really no personal introduction whatsoever. The presentation which was taped interviewed of the ceo of Malaysian Airlines, he came up on the video came up on a bigscreen tv in english. And the chinese Family Members all watched it. I was there as well watching. And then when that video completed, i think it was maybe seven minutes or something. When it completed, then the screen went blank, and then an interpreter who had been taking notes during it came on the microphone and started to give the chinese translation of the message. And then all of the Family Members started to cry and to yell out. And i left the room at that point because it was starting to feel very, very tense. And i didnt want to get stuck in there. Do you have any idea of how that meeting ended . I could hear i stayed outside of the room. I could hear a lot of yelling. Some of the Police Officers that were outside went in. And they started to file Family Members out through a separate exit. So i could see them leaving in a line. And then there were a number of people still inside yelling. Im not sure how much of the presentation was in english. What did you understand and what do you think the families were so upset about . Well, the entire presentation by the ceo of Malaysian Airlines was in english. So i probably thood understood better than anybody else in the room. Most of the Family Members are not english speakers, so they only could get the content of it after the translation began. And thats when people started to break down. But i can tell you from prior conversations with the subleader group of the general family association, we met actually last night for dinner. And we were talking about this as a possibility. And they are very distraught because the average chinese Family Member will be sent home to mostly a very rural place with limited access to internet, and they just feel like all lines of communication will be cut. Sarah, youre speaking of the fact that the Malaysian Airlines has talked about closing these Family Support centers. I understand theres going to be one kept open or a variety of one kept open in kuala lumpur, one kept open in beijing, but that hotel where so many families have been gathering, that is no longer going to be there. And it has really provided support for you and the families. Well, its provided support for the chinese families who dont have access to any other information. Thats for sure. Because in china, the media is very, very blocked. For instance, even all day today, i wasnt able to get online for most of the day. I had to go to a friends house in order to access their internet connection. Mine is certainly being monitored and cut off at opportune times. So its really only the more educated chinese who have access to Internet Connectivity through an office as an example. Right. Who have any access to the international news. Well, to that end, we nld e understand the next of kin, you have received a copy of this report. You have it in hand, but you havent had a chance to go through it, is that correct is this well, i havent received the report yet, the preliminary findings report. That was not in the email i received. What did you receive . What i received was a copy of the briefing notes. So the presentation that was made and some sort of documentation around compensation calculations that will be discussed now with Family Members. I only had a chance just briefly to look at the email content before we started this interview. I need to go back to it. Well, were all awaiting that iko report. What are you most specifically hoping to hear and glean there it . Well, im hoping that theres going to be some actual factual information in it. We are all quite frustrated with getting only analysis because we dont trust the analysis thats been done. And were a pretty smart up groo group of people with a lot of engineers on our team and a lot of external experts who have come forward and volunteered their services to help look at factual data and try to come up with perhaps a different kind of analysis from it. So were hoping that there are facts in the report. Sarah, really quickly, the bay of bengal, the report, a lot of aviation experts are poking holes in this or at least theyre skeptical of it. Do you still hold any credence in that . We know that theres a couple of bangladeshi frigates headed that way to investigate further. Well, im not sure that the bangladeshi frigates have sonar capability to reach down 1,000 meters, but im very, very pleased that they have stepped forward to do that. And a huge thank you to them. You know, i look at it this way. If their Technology Works, theyre going to find something there. If its the plane, then well all be devastated, but we can at least grieve properly and go on with our lives. If its Something Else, like a ship, then at least we know the Technology Works and they could use that elsewhere. And if its nothing at all, then they have some explaining to do. Sarah bajc joining us from beijing, we appreciate you making time and getting to a skype connection to talk to us about this. Sarah, thank you. Kate . Michaela, thanks very much. Lets take a break. Coming up next on new day, the malaysian authorities report is expected any minute now, and well have that for you and have full analysis on what it means for the search going forward. What new things are we learning . Plus, these torrential rains and flooding that are causing chaos from florida all the way up to the northeast. Were going to be live with a closer look at the damage and the cleanup and whats coming. Stay with us. Dear sun, you created light. You are loved. Celebrated. 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So when youre. Ready to buy a car, make sure you. Never overpay. Visit truecar. Com today. Welcome back to new day. Its thursday, may 1st, 8 00 in the east. Breaking overnight, extreme weather wont let up, leaving millions to face recordbreaking storms all along the east coast, the gulf coast was hit with some of the worst of it. In wednesday cola, florida, almost two feet of rain fell, washing away parts of homes and leaving much of the city flooded. Also overnight, a suspected gas explosion at a county jail there killed two inmates, injured 100 more. We are covering it from north to south for you this morning. First lets get to ed lavandera whos outside that florida jail with the very latest. Ed . Reporter good morning, kate. You can see the building behind me. This is the jail, if you look on that green part of the building, you can see the force of this blast has forced that building to buckle. We looked on the backside of the building, and the force of this blast blew out parts of the walls on the back of the jail as well. Breaking news overnight, day four of a catastrophic storm system in the southeast is now barrelling up the eastern seaboard threatening millions more. Officials have issued flood warnings from florida to new york with six inches of rain predicted in some parts of the northeast. City streets are already submerged. In maryland, several thousand gallons of water rushed into a town 20 miles south of baltimore after a breach in a dam. Forcing hundreds of residents to evacuate. Water started coming through a joint in the dam. The water was coming from the backside to the front side, and eroding away some of the soil on the front side. Reporter in baltimore, the deluge so heavy that it caused a massive landslide on one roadway, sending a half dozen cars tumbling into a ravine. In the southeast, an explosion caused a roof to explode, injuring hundreds of inmates. Rlt sa of tas a result of st yesterday, there was extensive flooding in this building. Reporter its not known if flooding in the area played a role yet. You can hear the record of the violent floodwaters wednesday spawned by nearly 20 inches of rainfall in only 24 hours. In an hour, everything, just that gush. Reporter flooding over five feet in some areas, forcing hundreds of rescues. No mobile, alabama, a dramatic moment as floodwaters trapped one man. He was barely able to cling to a tree before he was rescued. The town of orange beem almost completely flooded. Its local marina now under water. And in pensacola, florida, the torrential rains washed out part of the scenic highway, sending cars plummeting into a ditch. Its unbelievable, the amount of flooding weve had. I went to one home where the foundation was gone. Reporter and leaving entire neighborhoods in the city inundated. I lived here 20 years. Ive never seen this happen in a city like this. Reporter and now this is Something Else that investigators and emergency officials here in pensacola have to deal with, cleaning this up. There was a great deal of water where we were, where were standing here now, chris. That water had gotten into the building. As we mentioned, theyre trying to figure out if the floodwaters is what might have caused the explosion or led to the explosion here in pensacola. Let us know what you find out. 20 inches in 24 hours, that is amazing. Right now the northeast is bracing for more heavy rainfall. By rain, we meet street flooding, cars sinking, historic dambreaking amounts of rain. Overnight hundreds of people were forced to evacuate a city in maryland after a dam literally opened up, sending water gushing. This morning the tristate area waking up to dangerous flooding. Lets get to indra petersens live in queens. Indra, its looking like youre going to need that raincoat again before long. Reporter yeah its definitely not good news and the tristate area is waking up to flood watches across the region, and for good cause. Theyre waking up to flood warnings because residents are waking up to sights like this, water so high that is making roads completely impassable. Now, it may look to the naked eye like this is just water. You get a little closer here and youll notice this is actually sewage. I spoke to a lot of the residents. They said last night the water was so high that their cars were completely submerged. Now, the water has gone down just a little more, but keep in mind, they were seeing those sewers flooding and that water was going into the basements of their homes. Several feet high is actually what theyre still dealing with this morning. Of sewage into their excuse me, sewage into their basements. What are we looking at today . Yes, more rain expected in the forecast as we go through the afternoon today. No, not as much as what we saw, but several more inches of rain where many areas are still experiencing flooding. Never a good thing when you see this tristate area already looking like this. All right, indra, well be back to you. We do have breaking news. This is the moment weve been waiting for. If youre following the search for flight 370. The malaysian authorities have released their first report on what happened. Lets get live right away to kuala lumpur. Will ripley is there with the news. What do we know, will . What do you see . Reporter hey, chris. Yeah, this is the fivepage report i have in my hand right now. We just printed it out, and i have to say, as im scanning through it, as we have been saying, there really are no big surprises here. It lays out in detail the time frame of mh370s takeoff, the flight and then the disappearance as we know it. So it talks about the transponderswitched off, the last radio communication, the good night malaysian 370 that we talked so much, and the satellite communication, those six hourly handshakes that we have also reported about. One thing at the end of the report on the bottom of page 4 and 5, it has some safety recommendations. It talks about the fact that im going to read to you while commercial transportation airport spend considerable amounts of time operating over remote areas, there is currently no requirement for Realtime Tracking of these aircraft, and there have now been two occasions during the last five years when large commercial air transport aircraft have gone missing, and their last position was not accurately known. It goes on to say it is recommended the International Civil Aviation Organization examine the safety benefits of introducing a standard for Realtime Tracking of commercial air transport aircraft. In other words, its saying that what needs to happen to prevent mh370 from happening again is that we need to find a better way to track these planes when theyre in the air over these remote areas like mh370 was where it literally was able to vanish. Here we are nearly eight weeks into this search and still not one single piece of the plane. What this report does not include, though, is a lot of answers to the questions weve been asking. Specifically what is it about the satellite data, the inmarsat satellite dat that that makes investigators so confident that mh370 is sitting in this corner of the indian ocean and not somewhere else . We were hoping this report might explain why, why theres so much confidence that mh370 is in this search zone where theyve been searching so long, chris, and havent found a single piece of the plane or any evidence that the plane is there. Thank you very much. Lets assess if the malaysians put their best foot forward in this situation. Whats in it, whats not. We turn to cnn aviation correspondent and allaround knowledgeable man on this, Richard Quest. First question to you, richard. Youve got the report in your hand. To question that the safety recommendations matter. It is an entirely separate issue and one of the main reasons we keep following this story, because after 9 11, the idea that an aircraft could just disappear and not be tracked is a dangerous proposition. So thats in there. Thats good. What else do you see in the report that is relevant to the search . It is important to state right at the outset that the report meets the requirements of iko. Its meant to be a basic assessment of the core facts known at this particular juncture. And theres no question at alta this meets that standard. Because . Because it tells us what basically happens. The plane took off. The plane lets see if we can get this thing up and running. So what does it tell us . It tells us owhen the plane too off. It tells us where it went, the direction, and tells us that it was missing. So thats like the duh factor. That is the duh factor. So what else does it do . And that is what weve got from this report. If we take a look at actually some of the things that it doesnt tell us, we can actually get a little bit more information. Lets take this one over here. Clear that out from earlier. What it doesnt tell us is who did what, where, when and why on the night. It does not reveal and were waiting for more documents which i believe are going to come out in the next hour, theyre putting a lot of appendices with this. The report itself does not go into details about why kuala lumpur missed it when it says it right here, it fell off radar. It fell off radar. 1 21, it was observed on radar. At 1 21 13, the radar disappeared. Which means . Which means literally thats when the transponder was switched off. We dont know. Theres a 13minute gap before vietnam said, hang on. Wheres that plane . A 13minute gap before vietnam said, we havent seen mh370. Where is it . And then we get to what i think is probably the Biggest Issue of what this report doesnt say. What im calling the fourhour gap. For four hours, air Traffic Control between malaysia, hong kong, vietnam, thailand, they were all talking to each other trying to find the plane. The report makes it clear between 1 38 and 5 30 local time, they were all saying wheres the plane . But nobody nobody started the rescue Coordination Center. Wheres the period is that within the period when they stram be scrambled planes . They didnt. So that was before. We know from the Prime Minister they didnt. But what we also know from the Prime Minister is that during that fourhour gap while the plane is going this way, malaysian military is monitoring it. And what the report doesnt tell us yet and i need to see various documents that have come out with it, because they are releasing a lot more documents than just this report, ive been told, we need to know, in that socalled remember, were calling it the fourhour gap in the fourhour gap, were malaysian military involved in discussing . But dont they say that they scrambled planes . Doesnt the military say that . No. Somebody said it. We were reporting it. Somebody had said they scrambled jets and they said no, there were planes, but they did scramble them in this direction. No. Not during the time. So that was after. Only after the 0530. Only after the 0530 when the plane is now known as missing and the Coordination Center. But heres the really awful fact about this whole business. This is what needs to be brought in mind. At 0530, the rescue Coordination Center is activated. 0530. This plane is still flying. Its flying thousands of miles further south. And it continues to fly for another 2 1 2 hours. So not only have you got a fourhour gap, youve got 2 1 2 hours after that where the plane is still flying and nobody knows where it is. And the Biggest Issue is going to be, in this part of the investigation, this. Who knew what in the fourhour gap. And you also have diego garcia over there, right, which is the u. S. Intel outpost that they have that supposedly has surveillance technology. The plane flew by it also. Its not unusual for there to be a gap of several hours when a plane goes missing. You know, i call you. You call them. They call them. Have you seen such what about that . And everybody goes and has a cup of tea and then comes back and says no, i havent seen them. Have you . Its not unusual. But after air france 447, to have four hours of a gap where nobody seems to have said, where is this plane . Its four hours without contact. And what this report does not do and i think is deficient in not doing hold on a second. The last and most important point at this juncture, before they have their appendices and most legitimate question for you for the rest of the day, because were setting the table, why are they adding to the appendices when theyve had plenty of time to release it, are they filling in the gap because they dont know or because they dont want to fill in the gap or want us to know . Thats a key question. Its a key question, absolutely. Absolutely the tick tock in our language of who said what to whom in that fourhour gap it might have had no effect on the final result. By the time this happened, the plane was somewhere down there. It matters for the accountability of process. It matters for the accountability because as they say in their recommendations, you know, for a plane to go missing is pretty unconscionable. The australian Prime Minister says, in this day and age, for a plane to go missing. So for the fact that it can be missing for four hours before the rescue and Coordination Center, and we dont know if malaysian military spotted it doing that, that, i think, is going to be key in this whole question now. All right. And thats where we begin, really, with this now for the rest of the day. Well see what the appendices are. Youll be going through it. Richard, thank you very much. Kate, over to you. Next on new day, well continue to pore through the malaysian Authorities Authority and the appendices, some of the Key Information is that we might get. Well ask our experts if they think the report offers any new clues. Where do they go from here . [ male announcer ] this is jim. A man who doesnt stand still. But jim has afib, atrial fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. That puts jim at a greater risk of stroke. For years, jims medicine tied him to a monthly trip to the clinic to get his blood tested. 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[ male announcer ] celebrate every win with nicoderm cq, the unique patch with time release Smartcontrol Technology that helps prevent the urge to smoke all day long. Help prevent your cravings with nicoderm cq. Welcome back to new day. Breaking news were continuing to follow at this hour. The malaysian government has just released its initial report on the disappearance of flight 370. Lets continue to break it down. We have now documents just coming into our inboxes right now. Lets break it down with miles obrien, cnn aviation analyst and science correspondent for b pbs and david seucie. I know youre going through these documents as we are. Lets first get your initial reaction and then go through some of the information. Miles, you said for me to prepare to be underwhelmed. I would put this in the category of beyond a preliminary report, which is good. Basically, a preliminary report in the ntsb model investigation comes out a few days after. And it states the very basic facts. And if they really had stuck to that, you know, threeday post incident kind of model, we would have gotten a lot less information. Id put this in the category of more intermediate type of report, not final, and it does provide a lot more detail about the route. I dont know if you can bring up that map. Yeah, lets put up that map. And i hope this is the map youre talking about as well, miles. From what i can gather, i think thats maybe five possible routes that they believe the plane may have taken south. Is that what youre looking athe . Yes. Yeah, and what it does is and it looks like it provides much more specificity on the exact points at which radar interrogated this aircraft. I dont know if you can zoom in on that on the air, but it indicates the last air defense radar point. And then it indicates what their suppositions are on speed and their the time. And im trying to see if theyre just using guesses on the speed. But the point is, it provides a lot of information as to how they derive these the highest, lowest and mid probability areas. The highest probability area being the red box, low being yellow, mid being green. Thats where the initial and now current search is, the current search being in the red box area. It does provide some information on the speed and altitude which they used to derive all of this. Thats helpful. Yeah, it is helpful. David, come and join us on this conversation. In the reports that you have looked through in the past, is this typical . Because as i first saw this map, it kind of looked like one of those Spaghetti Models that our meteorologists use when were kind of trying to track a hurricane as its heading closer to shore. Is this kind of a model showing the possibilities of where the routes could be and theyre helping us out here, trying to zoom in. Is that typical to see . You know, it would be in any kind of a search operation, but typically by now, you would have found, by the time the 30day report comes out, you would have found an aircraft. This search is this is the key piece of the data. So therefore the key piece of the data should be in the preliminary report. But there is something thats very interesting to me in this report. The information that we didnt have before, which is the 40 degrees. They say that the pings or that the locator on the inmarsat data gave us 40 degrees from the satellite. Now in my opinion, that really increases my confidence in this information. The reason is that at 40 degrees, what theyre saying is this arc was derived from a 40degree angle from the satellite, meaning that they now exactly what this came from that spot. Thats incredibly encouraging for me and raises my confidence degree with that information. So thats very important to me, and it really reinforces that its there. Now, thats getting technical, but thats kind of where we are in this. And thats what no, im glad youre bringing it up. Thats the kind of information that as i understand it has been lacking to this point. Folks have not been they have not been giving us the reasoning why they are so confident in the inmarsat data in how they have used a new way of calculating never before used to try to figure out the path of this plane. Is that what this 40degree angle is helping you better understand . Well, the 40degree angle is not new. The 40degree angle from the satellite is something thats known. What wasnt known and whats new is using dopplereffect radar to determine whether it was the north south, north or south route, and to earn did the degree at which the points relate to themselves. So, again, its getting very technical and hard to explain without talking about asmussen and triangulations and things like that. If you visualize this satellite in space and you draw this being zero and you draw 40 degrees down from the satellite and then that comes down to the earth. So 40 degrees and then you draw a circle at 40 degrees from the satellite, thats going to tell you where these arcs are. And then the radar or excuse me, the doppler effect is telling you how far from that it is. So youve got this information. Youve got that information. Now you can plot out where that aircraft went based on how short or long these distances were. And bottom line, david this is extremely important. And bottom line, this is really starting to give us a hint of how theyve reached some of their conclusions which is very helpful, which has been lacking. As we were talking, david, i think we had another map that i want to pull up. And i want to get your take on it, miles. We can throw that back up. This is another map that they have just released. And im seeing this for the first time as well. Pardon me. So im going to walk into this map. Miles, what do you see . I see a whole lot of timestamps, and im not understanding why. While you were talking not that your conversation wasnt stimulating, but i was looking at this its really interesting because it shows the exact points at which they painted it with radar. You see at 1722, upper right, last civil radar point. And then it goes updated last defense radar point at 18 22 is all the way far left there. And then it shows this turn, which it doesnt indicate its being painted by radar, but it shows that southerly turn there which its unclear to me what theyre using to derive that except maybe theyre juxtaposing against the inmarsat. Yeah then the pings come into play, maybe. Right. Go to the bottom. Its more clearly stated there. Threespeeds that they used, speeds and altitudes range, differentials to come up with these potential locations for search. Uhhuh. 332 knots, 344 knots, 350 knots. And go to page 3 now. If you could. And youll see youll see where that leads you. If you use those threespeed equations with an altitude of 30,000 feet or in one case they measure it at 15,000 feet. I dont know where they came up with these speeds and altitudes, but i think what theyre basica altitude which is redline speed, which is how fast you want to fly the airplane given the altitude. Theyve got 30,000 feet. Theyve got 15,000 feet. And they have 3,000 feet. So redline speed for those three altitudes. And thats what gives you red, yellow and green boxes. The highest probability area, which is where the search is occurring, assumes 323 knots, a range of 2,700 nautical miles and 30,000 feet. So theyve determined that you know, weve heard so much about altitude. Theyve decided that this altitude and speed is the perfect equation which puts us on the spot where, number one, the last inmarsat ping is located, and number two, the pings and sorry to confuse you using ping twice thats okay. Inmarsat handshake, well say. And then the pings from the black box is in that same location. Thats why weve got this highest probability area. Exactly. Weve heard Angus Houston use that terminology a lot. So i assume that is why hes using the term highest probability area. Ive heard him use that over and over whenever hes spoken to the media. Question on the altitude that you bring up. The altitude has been kind of a bit of a wild card throughout, i think. To say the least, yes. To say the least. Especially in the northern part. In the northern part of the route, kind of a little earlier on, were they at 35,000 . Were they at 12,000 . Do the maps tell us, confirm any of that for us in regard to that . Well, heres what you have to understand. The best military radars that are capable of identifying altitude, you can go back to page 2 if you want. We can talk about this. Okay. The best military radars in the world, you know, the u. S. Doline radars, if you will, are pretty much plus or minus 3,000 feet or so. So not so accurate. Not so accurate. Now, you have to assume, frankly, that the radar system, the military Radar Systems in both malaysia and indonesia, you know, theyre not prime for you know, some sort of cold war threat here. And so their accuracy, once that transponder is turned off and remember, the transponder is what sends to radar, it amplifies it provides information to the blip, tells you where the aircraft is relative to the ground. When that gets turned off, all you have is the blip. You have two dimensions instead of three. And so thats why we begin all this wild stock because frankly either their radar is not good even when its tuned up, or its not properly maintained. And so thats why all these altitude numbers weve been talking about i would heavily discount. Well, at least now we are just beginning to understand the most basic information that they are basing all of their assumptions on and why they believe that the plane has ended up in the southern part of the indian ocean, and thats why in that highest probability area for the first time were getting a little window into the analysis, this complex analysis that has been going on with these highlevel groups in australia, in malaysia. Miles, stick with us. David, stick with us. We have a lot to go through. Were really just scratching the surface. Weve got a lot of information. Thank goodness we have some of the smartest people here to help us. Coming up, well continue to go through this report. Richard quest has new information about that fourhour gap he was talking about from when the plane disappeared until the search, the real rescue effort, was launched. Well be right back. Frequent heartburn . The choice is yours. Chalky. Not chalky. Temporary. 24 hour. Lots of tablets. One pill. 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It says there was a fourhour gap from the moment the plane was missing until the start of the rescue attempts. Even more importantly, until they were able to track it again. And thats going to be a big, open question as to why. We have our team of experts with us. Lets bring in david soucie, miles obrien and Richard Quest. First, as we reset here, what do we now have . Lets have the documents that have been given to us in the last 20 minutes. We have the preliminary report, the basic bare bones, this is what happened. We also have a tick tock. 20 minutes ago i said we needed it. Now we have the tick tock. What did air Traffic Control actually say . We have a seating plan. Which of the poor passengers was sitting in which part of the aircraft . We have details on the cargo manifest. Those mangosteens. Lithium batteries. Lithium batteries. Who was shipping what, where, when and how and how they were all shipped. Important information. And crucial maps. Thats going to be most important. We want to bring in our guys for it as well. But we also have the real clean audio of the cockpit as well now, right . Because we had only heard it through the speakerphone that was being played for families. Correct. So youre able to get a sense of tone. Youre getting a sense of that Ambient Energy that was going on in the cockpit which would be relevant in assessing whats going on. Its not the cockpit voice recorder, obviously. Right. It is the air Traffic Control recording. Right. Between ho chi minh, kuala lumpur and the cockpit. But that matters. Yes. Because within less than ten minutes after that conversation, something very dramatic happened. It all happened. So do we have david and miles . Can we bring them in so everybody can point out what matters . All right, fellas. Good. Its good to have the band together. Lets look at this first map. And richard, you take the lead on this. And then fellas, you weigh in on what you want us to focus on. What do we now know from a hard data standpoint of what they understand about what happened . Okay. Lets follow this through. Heres the plane. It leaves kuala lumpur and it goes up to the last civil radar point. What this now tells us is the last transmission from the automatic reporting system is at 17 06. This is all, by the way, in universal time. This is the way its all been done. 17 06. The last civil radar point is at 17 22. Thats the last time that the plane is being tracked officially when its handed over from one to the next. Now, for contexcontext, when the last conversation with the cockpit happen . That happens here. Okay. That happens here. This is that calm, completely unimpressive, unextraordinary conversation of them just handing off and saying good night. Thats the famous good night malaysia 370. That is when whoevers in control of the plane is told contact ho chi minh. Miles, richard will get us to the next point of interest from your perspective, miles. What do you think . Well, a couple of things. It appears there was about a 16minute period of time as to 17 . Is that right . 17, between the handover when they last saw on the its im sorry, 22 being the last civil radar point. 16 or 17 minutes to me before Ho Chi Minh City first inquired about mh370. While they do not release the Ho Chi Minh City side of the equation, there is, as richards been pointing out, a very detailed time line as to what was going on between the two air Traffic Control centers. Theres also this interesting point that Malaysian Airlines ops indicated to Kuala Lumpur Air Traffic Control that the aircraft was in cambodian airspace. That one i cant richard, do you have any thoughts on that one . And they actually queried phnom penh to check further with a supervisor. This is fascinating. Fascinating, miles. What was that all about . Why would Malaysian Airlines ops have that supposition . I dont know where that came from. David, you got any on that one . Yeah. I do. Because phnom penh, remember, if youre going to turn around to go to a maintenance base, thats where you go. Right. So to me the reason for that turnaround has something to do with maintenance. People say theyre not going directly towards phnom penh, theyre going around. So if youre coming around, thats where it would put you. So you come down across the island where they had that last ping before it went down to 5,000 feet or below. Thats where you would make your turn to come back around to connect with the bottom near kuala lumpur. All right. Heres miles richard david, miles, richard, always keep in mind, you know much more about this and have sophistication than at home theyre not having. So lets keep it very simple. Right. Youre talking about who monitored what and then told whom . So what we have here is kuala lumpur basically being told by Malaysian Airlines that they believe that the plane has received information that its in cambodian airspace. But this is the one and only the first time weve ever heard this. I think were going to have to put it as a red herring because what happens, this happens at 2 03. The plane goes missing at 1 38. But richard, at item 9 on this, 2 15, it indicates that the Kuala Lumpur Air Traffic Control watch supervisor queried Malaysian Airlines ops, which is the Airline Operations desk, and informed that the flight was able to exchange signals with the flight and was flying in cambodian airspace. But none of that is reflected on the very map that they released. Im trying to figure out this inconsistency. What this document shows is at 2 03, cambodia is first mentioned. And at 2 15, we hear cambodia mentioned again. And this is the fourhour gap, by the way. This is what happened. Its the beginning of it. Yeah. Its pretty much all of it. It goes from 1 38 all the way to 5 40. What it tells oops. Excuse me. Thats all right. What it tells me is its the classic, classic confusion that happens in these situations. A says to b, have you seen the plane . B says to d, wheres that plane . D says back to ai i thought you saw it. By the way, have you still not seen it . And this goes on for hours. Right. Lets break down what this conversation means to regular people. David, when it says watch supervisor queried Malaysia Airlines ops who informed that mh370 was able to exchange signals with the flight and flying in cambodian airspace, mh370 is the plane, whats the difference between the plane and the flight . Well, its important to point out that the a cars, remember its sending information to ops. Communications is communicating with the airplane digitally. Not necessarily through voices. Its sending that information up to the acars and back down to ops. Ops is saying we think its in cambodian airspace. That doesnt mean it knows that it is. That means is we expect it to be there. And at 2 18, kuala lumpur queries if the plane is supposed to be going through cambodian airspace. Ho chi minh says it wasnt. Ho chi minh checked. Cambodia advised. Backwards and forwards. Ho chi minh confirms and onwards and backwards and forwards. Can we say it didnt go that way . It can be ruled out. And now we know why it can be ruled out. This is just stuff. This is the air Traffic Control noise. So thats what we can rule out. What do we now have to start about ruling in . What do we learn from what they see here on hard data points . So the plane crosses goes over this over the country. We know that happens. But looking back, and this is the this is the smoking gun, ive always said it from day one. If you look back in the fourhour gap, there seems to be almost no moment when the military is asked, did you see have you seen anything . And the military is go ahead. Go, miles. I have go to item 16, richard. This is at 0330. This is interesting. And it indicates here that the Malaysian Airlines Operations Center called up air Traffic Control in kuala lumpur and said that all this information that they had previously been giving them about possibly going to phnom penh and into cambodia was based on flight projection and not reliable for aircraft positioning. So heres what happens in my view just off the top is the whole red herring in the fray, as richards been well describing the confusion, the fog of war, if you will, about it going over into cambodian airspace probably is why we had such a delay in any sort of response in the way of military fighters, intercepts and so forth. They thought it was in cambodia. They didnt know where it was. And for some reason Malaysian Airlines ops was telling them call phnom penh, we think its in cambodia, and it wasnt. And obviously for reasons that we dont understand, the military, which is actually looking at this plane in realtime we know that it is . Yes, the Prime Minister admitted it in the interview with me. The Prime Minister said there was a Radar Operator. I know believe its a junior Radar Operator who was looking at it during the night. He saw they saw it going across, and that Radar Operator believed it was a civil plane. And therefore but the military was not part of that discussion. And the military either wasnt monitoring or its not their standard operating procedure. So as the plane goes across malaysia, nobody theyre all thinking its somewhere out there. Nobody thinks to say but again, we now know that theres good reason, from the military and the civil side, to know that it did go this way. And everything keeps making sense. The cambodia does not make sense, so forget it. Heres the really worrying thing. Cambodia or otherwise, they still didnt know where the plane was, and they still didnt have contact with the aircraft. And that goes on for many, many more hours. Particularly if you look at the hours from 2 00, 3 00 and 4 00. There were whole hours when nothing happens. 3 30, k. L. Inquired if ho chi minh had checked with the next station. 3 56, k. L. Queried Malaysia Airlines. 4 25, ho chi minh. These are halfhour blocks of a plane thats been missing for several hours, and nobody is thinking, wed better sound the alarm. And get this, though. The last item, richard, quick point, item 24. The first mention of search and rescue comes at 6 14. 6 14. And Kuala Lumpur Air Traffic Control queries Ho Chi Minh City and asks if a search and rescue had been activated. Where would the plane be at that point, richard, you know . Youre thinking my thoughts, miles. But hold the thoughts and heres why. Were going to take a break. When we come back, theres good and bad reason for why they were communicating and not being able to understand where the plane was, and then there becomes new data that theyll have that gives them their different search coordinates. 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That is the actual cockpit recording of what was going on between air Traffic Control and the pilots of malaysian flight 370. We have as part of the new report that malaysian authorities just released, the actual sound which will be helpful in assessing what the mood was in there at the last time they had communication. We have our experts here, Richard Quest, miles obrien. We have david soucie going through this. The commercial break is helpful because it allows us to keep reading through parts of the data. Where we had worked through so far is that we know for a fact, the last point that there was communication. We understand now why they know that the plane crossed malaysia. We have a big question about why there was such poor communication in finding where this plane was for some four hours, and that takes us to where we were in our analysis. Its now four hours. They still dont know where the plane is. Then what happens . Right. So lets jump right the way down to how they believe where the plane finally ended up. Forget about all this stuff up here. We move further down. This is the route of the aircraft. As they believe. Guys, jump in at any stage. The plane comes down this routing. How do we know . Inmarsat data. The pings. Well, because weve got pings under water, lets call them handshakes. Handshakes. To be clear. These are the six richard . Yes. David. Yeah, i was just going to say, it might be easier to at least in my mind, which is probably different than most, but is the 40degree mark from the satellite gives us the arc in the first place, and then we use the inmarsat data to go backwards and track that out. See what im saying . Okay. Why does 40degree angle matter from the satellite . Why is that relevant . Because that gives you a cone. If you look 40 degrees down from the satellite, it gives you that arc all the way around the satellite, 360 degrees. So thats what draws the initial arc. Then the inmarsat data verifies where on the arc it is. I know little about this satellites and arcs, david. It is the last transmission when it was on the arc of 40 degrees from the satellite. So that is the last bit down here where its on 40 degrees. Thats right. I hope were not confusing people with all this. For those of us who didnt do so well in math. How could we not . Basically, the inmarsat circles, what were drawing, all theyre doing is measuring the time it takes for the signal to travel from the plane to the saddle light. And as it moves, that changes by milliseconds. Thats how you get those circles on the map. And thats all were talking about here, all the other stuff you dont need to you dont have to understand the math. Right. What im saying is miles, youre making the right point because the perspective is what matters here. Were just saying i dont care about the angle or anything else. Im just saying from the new data that we have, theres now a basis for confidence in what they did in terms of plotting data points of where this plane might be. Thats the point that we now know. So the question is, where did that lead us . Because what they had to do, they knew the distance from the satellite. What they had to do was work out the potential destination bearing in mind speed and altitude. Right. And here we have, for example, speed 323 knots, 30,000 feet. Im not sure why at the bottom weve got 350 knots, 3,000 feet. Richard, i think what they did, they picked three altitudes and chose the red line speed at those three altitudes. Thats basically what they used. Low, medium and high altitude. And miles, that explains correct me if im wrong why these lines go from being very tight to then they start to broaden out like fingers because they started working off different assumptions . Yes. All theyre trying to do is find out the range. Okay. And thats the key. They know the circle. But where on the circle is it . Thats a function of the range of the aircraft. That has a lot to do with the altitude and speed. They know how much fuel was on board, but they didnt know the altitude and the speed. They put in three factors, low altitude, Medium Altitude and a high altitude, and they chose the speed which is what they call red line which is what you would safely fly at those altitudes. And thats why we have those three boxes. That really gives us an idea of how they came up with those boxes. We supposed that before, but we never had the detail on how they came up with those locations. All right. And then lastly, as we get into why we understand why this happened, the Big Questions, richard, what do you believe are the Big Questions that remain now after seeing whats here . After seeing whats in this report, the biggest question still comes back up to this area. It still goes back to those hours when the plane went missing. This will not answer what happened in the cockpit. But it will answer why nobody saw the plane going across the country, why nobody did anything about it, and after air france, why it did take 2 00 onwards, four hours in total, say two hours being charitable to do anything about it. Now, theres more to go through because theres the cargo manifest, the passenger logs. Theres a lot of information in the appendices that came out after. More information after the initial report. Well keep going through that and take a break right now, though. Kate . Well have much more on the breaking news on this report about flight 370. A lot to work through. More than maybe some had expected we were going to get this morning. Stick with us on that. And also, the latest on the severe storms slamming the east coast. What to expect today when newsroom with Carol Costello starts right after this break. Ortho crime files. Reckless seeding. A backyard invasion. Enter homeowner, and ortho weed b gon max. 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