Of snow this winter and counting. And breakthrough for owen. How parents learned to communicate with their autistic son, by becoming the cartoon characters he loves. Good evening to you on this wednesday. And right now, as we come on the air, experts around the world are studying satellite images from asia. New images that show something floating in the ocean five days after that passenger jet vanished. 239 people onboard. So, are these images part of the answer . Are will they just deepen the mystery . Abcs bob woodruff walks us through the new twist of the disappearance of that plane. Reporter tonight, intriguing, new clues. Those images captured by a chinese satellite. One, after the other. Three in all. One nearly 80 feet long, found in the search zone, reportedly closer to the original path of the flight. But are they from the missing plane . To answer that, the search is growing. The zone, now the size of indiana, spanning a distance greater than chicago to atlanta. Finally, american experts have been let in to help pore over the clues. After five, long days, all we know for sure is this. Flight 370 took off at 12 21 a. M. And fell off civilian radars by 1 30 a. M. Saturday morning. Right here. The pilots last words to the tower, all right. Good night. But still a mystery, claims by the malaysian military that their radar picked up a signal 45 minutes later that might have been the missing plane, soaring way off course, all the way over here. Added to this, a worker aboard this oil rig saying he thinks he spotted something. Emailing that he saw what looked like the plane burning at high altitude, in the night sky, here, in the waters off vietnam. The vietnamese searched the area but say they found nothing. For the families of the 239 missing, face after face, fathers, high school sweethearts, grandparents, it is agony. Its just disappeared off the face of the earth. And if we could just find wreckage or something, it would be a help, probably. But nothing. Reporter so, now, the eyes are really focused on those images taken by the chinese on sunday. And now, finally released. The question, are these pictures of that plane on the water . That, hopefully, well find out soon enough. Diane . Abcs david kerley covers aviation for us. He is standing by right now. Show us where they found these objects. The chinese say they took these pictures on sunday. Lets take a look. We know where this plane ended up. This last radar hit was over the south china sea. Theyre saying they got these pictures is in the southeast area. About 25mile circle, where they saw the three different items. They see the large pieces of floating debris. The pictures are not supersharp. But these are big pieces, 30 feet to 80 feet across. Experts will say its not possible to identify objects with a satellite picture. One expert told us, these pieces might be too big to be part of this plane. But this could help concentrate a search. Also, the debris field. Could answer Big Questions for us. We have an aerial photo from the air france crash in the atlantic. It hit on the water. Its debris field was more concentrated. A wide debris field could mean that the jet broke apart at altitude. So, these pictures are being analyzed. We asked u. S. Officials. The first they heard about it today. We asked, have you moved satellites to look at this area . They would not comment or tell us anything about that, diane. Again, david, were talking about something fairly close to the regularly scheduled route. It is were hearing anywhere from 100 to 200 miles to the southeast. So, that could be heres part of the problem, diane. The last ping we saw, and the plane apparently stayed in the air for a little bit longer. Did it fly that way . Or has debris floated that way . Is it even debris from the aircraft . Thank you, david. Im going to turn to one of the leading experts, a pilot, colonel steve ganyard. Youre looking at these pictures. Can they be made clearer . They are tantalizing. I dont know if theyre clues yet. I wish we could blow them up. Theyre a little too fuzzy were going to get any clarity. We have to get ships out there and make sure these arent parts of the airport. But david raises the possibility they could be too big. Theyre longer than the wingspan of a 777 or the fuselage. Maybe they are too big. But at this point, we know so little that we have to investigate every potential clue. And they certainly are tantalizing. You have been reminding us, even if it is debris from that plane, it could be a long time before we know what happened. Exactly. We found debris after five days. But two years underneath that debris before we found the black boxes that held the secrets. And we will not find out what happened in this mishap until we get those black boxes. All right. Thank you, steve, for joining in tonight. This really is an intriguing night. Thank you. And our team will be staying on the story. Now, we turn to the latest battering ram of winter weather. Millions of americans digging in and digging out once more. And if you think this winters been colder than the rest. Well, tonight, confirmation. For much of the country, this has been the coldest six months in more than a century. Abcs alex perez shows us. Reporter just when they thought they were in the clear, Mother Nature clobbering the midwest with a massive snowstorm. In chicago, spinouts during the morning commute. Car accidents killing at least two in ohio. With this season, now the thirdsnowiest winter the windy city has ever seen, chicagoans have had enough. Tired. Ready for it to be over. Reporter chicagoan matthew wallburg measured his driveway and sidewalk, and got a crew stat. He shoveled more than 25 tons of snow this winter. And along with the snow and wind, wild temperature swings. Its tuesday here in chicago. And the temperature is about 43 degrees. One of the warmest temperatures weve seen all year. Fastforward 24 hours. And today, in chicago, the temperature plunged to 20 degrees. And in some places, theres as much as six inches of fresh snow on the ground. Indianapolis, 68 degrees tuesday. Tonight, headed for a low of 10. Todays fastmoving storm, headed east. Cant really see much of anything now. Reporter parts of new york and new england could get as much as two feet of new snow. And behind this storm, cold. Across the east coast, windchills dropping to the singledigits tomorrow. Winters chokehold, lingering until the bitter end. Alex perez, abc news, chicago. Next, we take you to a smoldering scene right here in new york today. A city still haunted by the sights and sounds of 9 11. And this city heard a powerful explosion once again. Tonight, rescue teams still working to find survivors in the rubble. And abcs ryan smith is there. Reporter at least a half a dozen still missing, after an explosion leveled two apartment buildings in manhattans east harlem neighborhood. Family members distraught, as they desperately search for loved ones. At 9 30 a. M. , residents say they felt a large blast. Then, saw thick smoke and flames. I just i didnt i went in slowmotion. And i just got out of there. That was it. Reporter just 15 minutes earlier, a call to a utility company. Complaining of gaslike odors. Crews were on their way. The walls started coming down. I didnt know what else to do. Just run for my life. Reporter more than 250 firefighters working to contain the blaze. The blast, leaving at least two dead and dozens injured. Tonight, many residents without a home and wondering what will happen next. A as you can see over my shoulder, fire trucks still on the scene, as well as heavy equipment trucks cleaning up debris. Running cadaver dogs, as well. As for families and residents displaced from the two collapsed buildings, home seems like a long way away. Diane . Thank you so much, ryan. Next, we head out west to colorado. And a oneman crime wave caught on camera. Police say it began when a man stole this red minivan with a 4yearold boy inside. Watch as he runs another car off the road, jumps behind the wheel, leaving the boy unhurt and behind. That driver was tossed out. The passenger escaped out the door. And then, carjacked a third vehicle, throwing a woman to the ground. Crashing minutes later. Arrested and trying to run away. And there is a stark, new warning, tonight, for american families. A spike in the number of children rushed to the emergency room because theyve swallowed potent drugs. And a surprising number of cases show those pills belong to grandparents. Abcs amy robach, now, with an exclusive first look at a new report. Reporter Poison Control Centers get calls like this 500,000 times a year. Poison center, can i help you . Yes. My daughter just bit into a rozerem. Reporter children under 5 are rushed to the emergency room 64,000 times a year from medications they got into at home. And this new study finds theyre not just finding their parents pills. In 38 of these cases, the medications belong to a growing group of care givers, grandparents. We have more grandparents living with their families today. Theres been a 23 increase since 2005. And we know that older adults take more medicine. Reporter 74 of grandparents who regularly care for children, take a prescription pill every day. All these medications can be dangerous, even in a single dose. Reporter and even lifethreatening . Lifethreatening. Reporter and childproof packaging is a myth. Watch when my colleague, paula faris, asks six kids, ages 3 through 6, to see what they can do with the socalled childresistant bottles. The youngest of the bunch needs six seconds to pop over a pain prescription bottle. The kindergartners proceed to open every, single bottle. In just a sevenminute period. I opened this one, too. Reporter because of memory problems or arthritis, grandparents may be unintentionally making it easy for kids to get into their meds. Many of the medications are put in plastic bags, the weekly pill organizers. Reporter and if theyre left on the counter, theyre probably pretty tempting. Yes. The pills can often look like candy. Reporter the mothers of the kids in our experiment, they were shocked. And theyre going to make some changes. I just opened it. Were going to go home and have a new lesson, how not to open the bottles. Reporter and parents, tell your parents to keep those medications up high and away from small and curious hands. And doctors warn, there are two age groups most susceptible to accessing prescription bottles. Toddlers who open them by accident, and adolescents who are looking for an easy high or easy money. Diane . This the a great wakeup call. Thank you, amy robach. Now, we turn, next, to General Motors, americas largest automaker. And tonight, the subject of a criminal investigation because of those engines that shut down in cars without warning. A defect reportedly linked to 12 deaths. Tonight, abc news has learned the fbi is on the investigation. Abcs chief business correspondent, rebecca jarvis. Reporter for the people whove experienced it, its terrifying. The car had its own mind. And it was going where it wanted to go. Reporter walter lubo was driving his 2006 chevy cobalt just last month, when the power shut down and the steering locked. I flipped. I spined out to the middle of the road. My air bag did not deploy. Reporter Megan Phillips says the same thing happened to here. All of a sudden, i had no control of the car. And i thank god i still have my life. Reporter gm is now recalling 1. 6 million cars. Models from 2003, to 2007, including the chevy cobalt, pontiac sole cities and ion. The problem was with the ignition, shutting down the car and its safety system, including the air bag. Gm says a heavy key chain or rough roads can cause the problem. Gm has known of complaints for over a decade. But it wasnt until last month that they issued the recall. Now, abc news has learned theres a criminal investigation already under way by the fbi and justice department, focusing on what gm told regulators and when. And what, if anything, gm omitted. In the meantime, General Motors offering anyone with a recalled car a free loaner and 500 to buy or lease a new gm vehicle. Rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. And up next, right here, tonight, a family breakthrough moment for an autistic boy. How a mother and father learned to communicate by becoming the animated movie creatures he loves. And what this means for other families, tonight, when were back in two minutes. Your hepatitis c. Forget s slow moving, you tell urself. I have time. After all there may be no symptoms for years. No wonder you try to push it to the back of your mind and forget it. 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