Hbos hit fantasy series gets ready for the fifth series. Welcome to Market Makers. I matt miller. We are going to talk to erik on the phone. He is on location in malaysia. We will get to him in a moment. I will start off with breaking news with new home sales that it and a scarlet fu is in the newsroom with headlines. Scarlet we have new home sales unexpectedly rising to a sevenyear high. 539 thousand, which tops even the most optimistic estimate among economists that we surveyed. This is an increase of 7. 8 from january when economists were looking for a drop of 3. 5 . We should mention that the previous month numbers work also higher. It was originally a decline of. 2 . That has been revised to 4. 4 increase. A 539,000 annualized rate and a sevenyear high for new home sales. It appears that weather did not really stop the buyers necessarily. A lot of people have been anticipating a weaker number than what economists have been looking for. It certainly was a drag on data points we hav
Troops started fighting on sunday the capital juba the situation dan peters said calm down. The complex has spread to other areas tell you how load deeply concerned the sake of the gemini and ponies are about the Current Situation so saddam. In one thousand nine gained its independence two years ago the country has been in turmoil since presence albuquerque and accused his former Vice President of wanting it to him in efficiency at least five hundred people have being killed. Protesters in thailand are not letting up in efforts to push the Prime Minister from office in nineteen oh one has tried to appease them by calling for an election but theyre still on the streets. The judges say much rather have too much influence tax in two models listed as Prime Minister until he was overthrown in two thousand six hundred s is one of those in february most towns. Candidates for the election expected to start registering on monday i guess it lacks the credentials to run the governed. I ofcourse t
Investigators know or suspect. Cnns will ripley has been sifting through this report. He joins us from malaysias capital, kuala lumpur. Tell us more, will. Reporter hey, carol. Yeah, this is a fivepage report and other supporting documents attached to it. Weve been going through them. Here are the things that really stand out. You talk about those 17 minutes when nobody even noticed the plane was missing. Okay. That said, then we talk about the four hours where what we see here, this is a report that kind of describes all of the events that were happening over those four hours. And what it says to me, carol, is that there was a lot of confusion during those four hours initially about where the plane even was. At one point, Malaysian Air Traffic Control was saying oh, we think the plane is possibly in cambodia. Check with cambodia. We now know it never was based on the satellite and radar data. And meanwhile, even when the planes transmitters, carol, that were switched off, the transmit
Did. There are conflicting reports tonight on flight 370s captain, on his behavior leading up to the flight. The contents of his home Flight Simulator, any political influences on him and what investigators are telling reporters both in malaysia and here at home. I want to stress that there are conflicting reports. Were going to explain the sourcing on both of them for you. Well be totally transparent about the fact that different sources with different connections to the investigations and potentially different agendas are as you might expect saying different things. Usa today citing a highranking unnamed malaysian Law Enforcement officer who says the captain, Zaharie Ahmad shah, is believed to be solely responsible for the flight being taken off course. As for american investigators, theyre also focusing sharply on the crew, analyzing captain shahs home Flight Simulator among other things. For the very latest we want to be joined by our justice correspondent pamela brown right now. I
Location north and west. And over land. So that is a large area. And this will be a different situation when it comes to trying to find a situation. You hope, somehow, someone can survive this. You dont know. But youre hoping that is the case. Yes. Absolutely. Anything else that crossed your mind that we havent touched on yet . Your first knee jerk reaction . My first reaction is oh, god. I spoke with my middle east contacts yesterday. There is significant concern about weapons that made into that area, the so called arab spring turned out to be a negative for security in the region. Theyre very concerned. First thing that went through their mind is no guns and ended up being half. They had that thought for significant number of months. Viewers know were not speculating whatsoever. Were giving a list of what the possibilities are. That is whats happening now with our folks, our intelligence folks. Theyre putting out possibilities. And there are a plethora of them. You hope its not terr