saturday morning. 239 people on board, including three americans. hopes were dashed a short time ago when malaysia s state news agency reported that a sample taken from an oil slick spotted in the south china sea was not aircraft oil but rather a kind of oil used by cargo ships. there have been other debris sightings but they have proven to be unrelated to the missing boeing 737. 40 ships, 34 planes and crews from 10 different countries all involved in this search. chilling words from the father of the new town shooter. peter lanza is speaking out publicly for the first time since his son, adam, went on that killing spree. he spoke out about it in new yorker magazine. in part, he said, with hindsight, i know adam would have killed me in a heartbeat if he had the chance. as you recall, he killed his mother, 26 children and staff members at sandy hook elementary school before killing himself. miss father tells the magazine,
shooting that left 26 people dead. what he says he now thinks about his own child. good morning, and welcome to early start. i m christine romans. i m john berman. it is monday, march 10th, 5:00 a.m. in the east. hope you had a great weekend, but it s all over now. sorry about that. thanks, john. we re going to start, though, with the latest on this tragic mystery surrounding the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370. every minute that passes, there seem to be fewer clues and more questions. still no sign of the jetliner, despite an exhaustive international effort involving dozens of ships, planes and search crews from eight countries. it has been nearly three days now since this plane vanished in southeast asia en route from kuala lumpur to beijing. reports of possible debris sightings have so far turned up nothing. there s been no link to terrorism so far as we have found yet. the search for answers has investigators focusing on two passengers who were traveling, thou
next for its leader. and what oscar pistorius calm and dismissive, or did the latest witness at the trial get it all wrong? a security guard back on the stand saying the blade runner told him everything is fine after the sprinter shot and killed reeva steenkamp. welcome back to early start, everyone. i m john berman. i m christine romans. it is 31 minutes past the hour this monday morning. it has been more than two days now, still no sign, no sign of a malaysia airlines jet. despite reports of debris sightings, malaysian officials say they have not been able to locate any wreckage of this plane that vanished over the south china sea. ships, planes and personnel from eight countries now involved in a huge search effort. flight 370 was headed from kuala lumpur to beijing with 239 people on board. right now, investigators are paying close attention to just who was on that plane, specifically two passengers flying with stolen passports. cnn s jim clancy live in kuala lumpur for u
short statement telling what the u.s. military had learned so far. all evidence now available to us including north korean claims and debris sightings leads us to believe that the aircraft was shot down by north korean aircra aircraft. as of this hour, regretfully, there has been no report of survivors. it seems certain that 31 c w crewmen of the plane are dead and american destroyer found the bodies of two of them today and the defense department said it concerned about the prospects of finding any survivors. defense secretary lard was talking to newspaper editors and gave some details on the lost airplane. it should be understood i think by all that during the
debris sightings is giving some hope in the exhausting effort to find missing flight 370. let s bring in now captain nash. good it see you. nice to be with you, arthel. let s talk about this satellite data that france has provided. what is your take away on this new information? in the lead, it s a radar satellite. you re not going to get imagery out of it, just finding targets that are significantly different than the water background. so, it s a great way to do kind of a quick bulk search and then get some location data on that. once you get the location data, then you send out systems that can take an image of it so that you can so it with the naked eye. now, that could be an aircraft with electrooptic camera and an inf infrared camera and something where you can start to piece together if this is just something out in the ocean or if