who is joining us in beijing. for the loved ones who are waiting this the clearly a heartwrenching experience. a heartwrenching experience, wolf and with every day new theories that gives these people some kind of hope even though one believes that hope has all but vanished. now what would be a worst-case scenario for everyone who deals with plane crashes, that of a hijacking or terrorist attack appears to be what people are saying is their best case scenario. several family members we talk to who are stuck in a hotel here in beijing say they hope that the plane was hijacked because maybe that gives them some hope that their family member ps are alive. that really tragic hope at this point exactly seven days, it must be said, since this plan was due to arrive here in beijing. we ve been following this from the start here. at first shock, then anger and frustration and now just the desperate clinging to any hope by these family members here in
so far, they can t come up with anything. barbara starr at the pentagon, thank you. let s take a closer look at the lithium battery in the cargo hold. they can be very volatile and they ve been blamed for krachs crashes in the past. what are you looking at, pamela? they are looking at whether the lithium batteries may and i stress, may have been a factor in the plane s disappearance. this is based on cargo information provided to officials and the fact that lithium batteries have sparked plane fires in the past. let s take a look here. this is a lithium battery. this is what you see. this is coming from a laptop. airplanes ban passenger s from putting lithium batteries into checked baggage. in fact, you may recognize this tag here. at the very bottom there s a tag that says dangerous goods, including spare lithium batteries are prohibited. here s why. lithium batteries are more prone to causing fires in other types
our correspondents and analysts are working their sources. they re sifting through all the new leads and the theories. they are all standing by with a lot more information, but let s go to barbara starr over at the pentagon. she broke this story of this classified intelligence analysis of what happened to flight 370. tell us what you ve learned. wolf, it is an analysis, it s the best information they have right now. nothing is proven. but a classified analysis in conjunction, a team, the malaysians, the united states federal aviation administration, the national transportation safety board and military imagery analysts all put their heads together, looked at every piece of data. they re looking at radar data, they re looking at the satellite pings that we have talked about and look at the map. here s what they have come up with. when the plane crossed back over the malay peninsula and flew to the west and they believe they have a radar hit showing that happened it went in possibl