altered by computer, by someone in the cockpit. airline officials say the course was originally set for beijing, but they couldn t rule out the possibility that the flight was reprogrammed. and the search area now covers, get this, 2.2 million square nautical miles. that s about the size of the continental united states. we re covering this story as only cnn can. our correspondents and analysts are all standing by. let s begin with a closer look at the report that the plane s course was most likely altered by a computer by someone inside the cockpit. our justice correspondent, evan perez, is joining us now. evan, you have some new information. well, yes, wolf. we know from the government from the latest government briefings that the u.s. believes it has enough information to indicate that the heading of the aircraft, when it deviated course from its scheduled from where it was scheduled to go to beijing, somewhere over the gulf of thailand, it decides to start heading west.
necessarily catholics but that doesn t mean that our mission should have to be changed by these regulations. well, their mission doesn t have to be changed and the opt out provisions that this attorney is talking about aren t going apply here. it is a very strict application. they have to be hiring catholics. they have to be serving catholics. has to be for a religious purpose. these are are social institutions. you have hospitals, you have academic institutions. you know, not every religious conviction is going to withstand the attack from the first amendment. otherwise the government couldn t rule. there are certain social policies that are going to override some individual s particular religious concerns. and that is the way society has to function or we are not going to function as a society. and want to give you the tial word here.
beverly monroe s daughter came to her rescue. is your mother a murderer? oh, god, no. a recent law school graduate, katie monroe was convinced the case against her mother amounted to little more than speculation and conjecture. i could hardly imagine a weaker case. i can say with complete confidence that the prosecution did not prove that this was a homicide. because they d initially assumed the death was a suicide, police at roger s home hadn t preserved the crime scene. there was no physical evidence, no fingerprints, no fibers, nothing to implicate beverly. besides, says katie, that initial assumption that roger had killed himself was correct. both of the prosecution s firearms experts said that they couldn t rule out the possibility that this was a suicide. the defense theory that roger had killed himself because he was an aging, ailing emotional wreck. a man terrified of suddenly having the very thing he d thought he wanted.
that would put roger himself on trial. the defense hoped to prove that roger wasn t a victim, he was a villain. beverly monroe s daughter came to her rescue. is your mother a murderer? oh, god, no. a recent law school graduate, katie monroe was convinced the case against her mother amounted to little more than speculation and conjecture. i could hardly imagine a weaker case. i can say with complete confidence that the prosecution did not prove that this was a homicide. because they d initially assumed the death was a suicide, police at roger s home hadn t preserved the crime scene. there was no physical evidence, no fingerprints, no fibers, nothing to implicate beverly. besides, says katie, that initial assumption that roger had killed himself was correct. both of the prosecution s firearms experts said that they couldn t rule out the possibility that this was a suicide. the defense theory that roger had killed himself because he
attacks, essentially millions of simultaneous online hits, shut down access to government websites and newspaper websites and other online media. then the telephone networks, the credit card verification systems, banking, even the basic indexing structure of the internet, all tied up in estonia. it went on for weeks. essentially a total shutdown. the russian government said they did not do it but couldn t rule out the possibility that patriotic individual russians just did it on their own free time. the russian government also said they weren t behind a similar but more crippling attack on internet and i.t. systems in the nation of georgia the following year. even before physical military fighting broke out, georgians could not get access to information from their own government. they could not read online media, they couldn t call out of the country or send e-mails out of the country to let anybody else know what was going on in that war. that s cyber war. russians appear to be good a