Five including two fight attendants to the hospital. I thought we were going down. Reporter the orlandobound flight hit severe turbulence. Passengers say the drop in altitude came out of nowhere. We were going and there was a drop like you were going down the bottom of a roller coaster. Reporter one passenger reports seeing a woman flying out of her seat. The lady three rows in front of me bashed her head to the plastic. The plastic was broken. Reporter this photo shows cracks in another overhead compartment after a passenger crashed into it. It was crazy, lifted out of our seats. If this sounds familiar remember just back in february we covered a United Airlines flight with severe turbulence. A number of people were injured in that case. As for this particular case here we know the faa is investigating. There is also continuing to be the search for flight 370. An expansive new search in this area is underway now and search teams will need more scientisticated equipment to get a closer
Them to the plane. Memories prove too much. Oscar pistorius overcome and breaks down on the stand as he tells the court about the night he shot and killed his girlfriend. And president obama this hour signs two executive orders aimed at shrinking the pay gap between men and women. The president s actions coming on equal pay day. But is this really about pay or politics or both . Great to see you. We wont talk about how much each of you makes. D it is 11 00 a. M. In the east. The search for flight 370. Search crews once again coming up empty. They failed to relocate the pinging sounds they had hoped would lead them to flight 370s black boxes deep in the indian ocean. This certainly seen as a setback as the search enters a second month. Right now the search zone is drastically scaled back, reduced to 30,000 square miles. One expert is he instesays inst size of texas, now searching the size of houston. Still daunting. They are on borrowed time with the batteries either dead or dying. Aust
The victims. Well, you are up very early or up late or up late. You might be finishing this sunday night. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im victor blackwell. Nice to see you yes, good to see you. Im christine romans. Its monday, april 14th, 4 00 a. M. In the east. And it may be early, but still a lot to get through this morning. We begin with breaking news in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Its now been 38 days since the boeing 7 77 went missing and this morning officials are switching their strategy, preparing to launch an unmanned submarine to look for wreckage on the ocean floor after admitting they have not heard any other sounds that could be from the black box pingers. They have not heard any other sounds in a week. That subs movements will be slow, it will be painstaking, the process covering just a few miles a day, as the search zone has widened again, and the head of the search revealed overnight that they found an oil slick in the ocean that could be conne
Moved to a new area of the indian ocean. This new area, 680 miles to the northeast. This is based on what australian Officials Say is new, credible evidence. Four aircraft already over the new search zone has since returned and all ten planes and six ships now have new marching orders and are on the way there. Theyre now searching somewhere else entirely. Why . Well, new radar analysis suggests the plane was traveling faster than previous estimates. That means it was burning more fuel and would have flown a shorter distance in the indian ocean. Lets get to cnns Andrew Stevens. Hes live in perth, australia. Shifting the focus of that search, andrew. This is going to allow the australiabased aircraft more time over the zone. Its actually closer to the continent, isnt it . Reporter yeah, thats a very important point, christine. They are quite a lot closer, about 1,800 kilometers, versus 2,500 kilometers away from this new search site. The planes can get there quicker, and as important, mo
Many people might say why didnt we know this before . The australian investigators say this is not untypical for an investigation like this which is such a mystery. We keep getting more information. You keep refining the information you have. You keep putting it into other models and getting toward different conclusions. This has been happening in this search zone. We started in the South China Sea. So it continues to narrow down. It is still a 300,000 climt search zone. Ships wont get there until tomorrow night. Planes are on the scene now. The latest heading out. It was a p8 arriving from the u. S. Navy. Well be waiting for information from that. The first plane has returned. No word on whether theyve seen anything. I should add the conditions, the sea conditions and the atmospheric conditions, much kinder in this part of the indian ocean. It is out of those deep southern latitudes where you get the big storms that whip up very quickly. We should know the u. S. Is deploying a second