vanished malaysian airlines jet. one of the passengers with a stolen passport was seekinging asylum in europe. they do not believe he has ties to a terrorist group and are in touch with his family. the search is expanding now four days later with 239 people still missing. the leplane's last location is the south china sea. tom costello has the latest. >> reporter: the search has entered its fourth day. dozens of ships, helicopters and planes running searches. so far, nothing. oil sheen and debris spotted over the weekend ended up being false leads. on board the uss blue ridge, commander william marks. >> it will make search conditions more challenging, but i can tell you our radars are very advanced and they can negate a lot of the surface clutter. but it does present a challenge for this big international effort. >> reporter: the last reported location for the boeing 777 was over the water halfway between malaysia and vietnam. but with radar suggesting the plane may have started to turn back, the search zone is expanding to include malaysia's mainland and now the waters to the northwest. among the questions why would the plane turn back, and why didn't the crew radio air traffic controllers, a former senior ntsb investigator says a sudden loss of cabin pressure could have incapacitated the crew and passengers within seconds while the plane t continued flying. >> you have to start looking at a trajectory path, at a speed and altitude that they were at, how far could this airplane go. of course it had 7 1/2 hours of fuel on it, but you have to be realistic. you have to come up with at least a rate of dissent. >> reporter: if the plane went come up on land, trabs minsmitt beacons should be sending a signal. but if it went down in the sea, black boxes should be sending a homing signal. >> these devices are designed to activate in the water. once active, they produce a brief pulse once a second for 30 days at a depth of up to 20,000 feet. >> nbc's tom costello reporting. back in this country and turning to politics, you are looking live at the senate floor. more than two dozen centers holding an all night session to bring attention to climate change. they call themselves the climate change task force. nbc's tracie potts joins us from washington. and they are still at it. >> reporter: they're still talking and proel wibably will r a few more hours. they got the two petitions with over 100,000 signatures and that's why they took to the senate floor to talk all night long about things like super storm sandy which many experts believe is related to these issues of climate change and issues of the global warming that they have been talking about for years but been unable to come up with any sort of legislation. listen to what some of those you lawmakers had to say overnight. >> carbon pollution is real. the damage is real. and it is time this chamber take action. >> we're here because if we fail to act, our planet will be destroyed. >> the seriousness of this climate problem is not lost on our average american. >> reporter: now, not all democrats were up there last night talking with climate change. take a look. these are some democrats who opted not to participate. interestingly, it they are also in tight races coming up in the fall. now, democratic leaders have given no indication that they're really going to bring any sort of bill to the floor that they think might pass. will is more to bring attention to the issue. republicans call it 30 hours of excuses. >> all right, tracie potts, thank you so much. the battle over recent gun legislation seems to be heating up in california. the national rifle association has asked supreme court justice an ton any kennedy to block a ban on capacity of more than ten bullets. the ordinance was approved by 66% of voters in november. the nra tried blocking the ban but was denied by a federal appeals court. gun owners will now have to either sell the high capacity magazines out of state or choose to have police dispose of them. colorado seeing a lot of green in more ways than one. marijuana brought the state more than $3.5 million in taxes and fees in january. more than $2 million coming from recreational pot. the rest from medical marijuana. 59 businesses filed a tax return for recreational pot by the end of january. in january, colorado became the first state to legalize their recreational sale of pot and customers bought more than $14 million worth in that month alone. now to news of another drug. one getting a major crackdown from the justice department. attorney general eric holder speaking out on heroin calling it an urgent and glowing health crisis. data shows abuse rose 79% between 2007 and 2012. and heroin related deaths are up 400% in some places. the doj is now targeting violent traffickers in an effort to rein in use. >> we're doing more than ever to keep illicit drugs off the streets. and to bring violent traffickers to justice. dea is our lead agency. we have adopted a strategy to attack all levels of the supply chain. >> the move is the first major effort since the death of philip seymour hoffman. he died from an overdose of heroin and other drugs. an american astronaut back after spending nearly six months on the international space station. the capsule carrying the crew landed safely late last night. it almost had to be postponed due to heavy snow and strong winds. crew members are reportedly doing well and were in good spirits. now to sports and frightening moment. medical personnel rushed to treat rich peverly. he had a history of an irregular heartbeat and he had undergone a procedure to regulate his heartbeat. he was immediately treated with a defibrillator, oxygen and iv. he quickly regained con susne e consciousness.rest of the game was postponed. lebron, d. wade and bosh led miami to a win over washington snapping a three game losing streak. and next to college hoops. three teams locked up their postseason on monday night. delaware, manhattan punched their tickets with the tournament wins. and a women's basketball player is the unemployment line after laying out an opposing player. and check out this not on friendly game of musical chairs at a rodeo. that's my chair, she says. not so fast. and then she goes godown, too. warm weather is reeking havoc as melting snow causes extreme flooding. the governor of montana has declared a flood emergency. hundreds of people have been cut off in rural areas because of overflowing roads. dozens have been evacuated. and in washington state, waterlogged farms, some race to save chickens from drowning. so everybody seems to be affected. and here with us is bill karins. seems like that whole storm is moving our way. >> that is what is heading an cross the country. if you're in chicago, detroit, buffalo, you just -- just don't listen because it's coming. another snowstorm. we have two storms on the map. you can see them there, the two ls, they will be combining in the middle of the country tonight. and we'll have a very large storm moving from right over the top of st. louis right through new england over the next 48 hours. and the north side of the storm is going to get heavy snow. so let me break it down. by 7:00 tonight, the snow will show up between iowa, milwaukee, down to chicago. and then by 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, heavy snow in the blue there from detroit to buffalo, northern new england right during wednesday afternoon, all wednesday evening into thursday morning. northern new england difficult travel. and this is how much snow we're talking about. the pink is 6 to 12 possible. lower michigan. and then over a foot of snow in northern new england. i mean, it does avoid i-95, a lot of the big cities won't get this, but for northern new england and the lower great lakes, i apologize. >> we feel for you. a new recall to tell you about. plus oscar pistorius vomits in court during testimony on the death of girlfriend reeva steenkamp. dad, why 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"way too early" starts right now. welcome to the view. joining us, please welcome msnbc anchor thomas roberts. >> thank you very much. i wore the breast secondhand suit i have. i'm not thomas roberts, but i am wearing one of his suits. i believe he wore this to his kindergarten gradation. pulling an all nighter. why two dozen senators have spent more than 11 hours on the sn senate floor. and new information on the men who used fake passports and the hunt to find the plane. this is "way too early". good morning. i'm bill karins in for thomas roberts. it's tuesday, march 11. welcome to the show that would talk weather for a half hour straight if only we had a weatherman to do it. but we begin with the latest on the missing jet and uncertainty surrounding its 239 passengers and crew. the search for the plane and any survivors has entered its fourth day after several leads turned out to be false. 34 aircraft and 48 ships in a total of ten nations are involved in the search which has expanded to the south china sea and areas west of malaise kra. officials say they are skeptical of foul play, but they can't rule anything out including a bombing or hijacking. cnbc's senior correspondent