3 00 eastern here in the news room, and joining you from new york first up a new and Shocking Development in the downing of the plane, was the copilot who investigatoring deliberately took down the plane, hiding a psychiatric condition . The exgirlfriend of the 27yearold lubitz saying he was a troubled man who often had bad dreams that his plane was going down. Cnn cannot independently confirm that report. This comes after police found ripped up documents in the home of the 27yearold copilot saying he was, quote, unfit to work on a number of days including on tuesday, the very day that lubitz decided to steer that air bus a320 into the southern french alp. What was ailing lubitz thinking thats not yet been revealed. In addition to reports citing sources he was suffering from a Mental Illness, and new report in the New York Times says he was treated for vision problems that may have threaten his career. Lets go straight to the mountainside area where they are staging all this search and
Partial hand shake theyre calling it. Weve had six pings where they know the plane tried to connect to the satellite, and we know they were confirmed. And then there was the seventh, the partial ping. They couldnt say, and they were quite open about it, they couldnt say why, and they couldnt say the significance of it. Today, they said that they dont believe this partial ping was done by human intervention. In other words, this last ping only eight minutes after the previous one 8 11 a. M. Was believed to be the last communication from this aircraft. The sixth ping, yes. The sixth ping. Then you have this partial one eight minutes later, 8 19. The significance is, no human intervention, so nobody has tried to switch it on to register on the network. The significance, this is the plane, because its a ping not coming from the ground station that way, its the plane to the ground station, and this they believe is very significant or will be in honing down exactly where the plane was, becau
More than 20 people wounded in all, you will hear shortly more about how she helped to save her friends life. This as you might imagine is sending shock waves throughout the small pittsburgh community, where chances are Everybody Knows somebody involved. We have correspondent pam brown with more. Reporter chaos and tragedy this morning at Franklin Regional High School in murrysville, pennsylvania, police say a 16yearold ran into the classroom on the horrific stabbing spree. I can tell you when we got there, there was a hallway pretty much in chaos as you can imagine. A lot of evidence and blood on the floors of the hallway. We had students running about trying to get out of the area. I was walking over towards the exit. And there was blood all over the floor. Thought maybe somebody had a nose bleed or something. And someone yelled she got stabbed. Area hospitals are treating victims for stab wounds to the chest, torso, and back, according to officials. I would say half of them are life
Signals consistent with those emitted by aircraft black boxes on two separate occasions. I can tell you that ocean shield has been able to reacquire the signals on two more occasions. Late yesterday afternoon and late last night perth time. The detection yesterday afternoon was held for approximately five minutes and 32 seconds. The detection late last night was held for approximately seven minutes. Ocean shield has now detected four transmissions in the same broad area. Yesterdays signals will assist in better defining a reduced and much more manageable search area on the ocean floor. I believe we are searching in the right area, but we need to visually identify aircraft wreckage before we can confirm with certainty that this is the resting place of mh370. For the sake of the 239 families, this is absolutely imperative. Today the ocean shield is continuing the slow, painstaking and methodical work to refine the location around the four acoustic detections. We are not yet at the point
More suggestions that precious days were wasted in the early days, due in part on the malaysian end. Randi kaye has more on that later, and the malaysian Officials Say they tracked them on the radar after it turned west from the peninsula but then delayed sharing it with the government authorities. Reuters saying they didnt saying everything they knew about the westward flight path until days later and it took an order from the Prime Minister to make it happen. As you will recall it took days to stop the search in the china sea, wasting time. And australias Prime Minister said the pinger batteries are either dying or dead. As we report the conflicting information, the allegations have now apparently sparked an official investigation even as the government comes out with yet another statement. More on that from justice correspondent pamela brown. Reporter the defense Prime Minister making it clear once again that quote, everyone on board remains under suspicion as it stands. But just la