Sonar sonar technicians are sweeping the bottom of the ocean looking for a ping. How do they do it . And how can they fly for so many hours without anyone looking for it. Well talk about the delay and the dysfunction in the malaysian response. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Right now theres new optimism in the search for flight 370. Five weeks after the airliner disappeared, australians Prime Minister says that the search area has been cut down significantly and he is very confident that searchers are closing in on one of the two black boxes. More confusion, though, from malaysian authorities a week after the Prime Minister said that all of the passengers have been cleared. The defense minister said, quote, everyone on board remains under suspicion. Air crews are et going ready to resume their hunt for flight 370 which may have drifted hundreds of miles since the plane went down. Our analysts and supporters are standing by here in the United States as well as around the
Examining them . And in the politics lead, much like the shoe hurled at her nothing begin, how a scrappy group of up starts turns 25 bucks here, 50 bucks there into millions of dollars to support a clinton presidency. Good afternoon, everyone. Im jake tapper. Welcome to the lead. Well begin with the world lead. Very confident. Thats the opinion of australias Prime Minister about whether four signals picked up by u. S. Navy equipment are from flight 370s plaqblack boxes. Its now been five full weeks since 239 souls disappeared, 237 of them passengers. It was announced that all of the passengers had been cleared of any role in the disappearance. Yet, today in the contradiction of the investigation, they were told that everyone on board remains under suspicion as it stands. Families met with Airline Officials today and they came away unconvinced of any real progress. Sarah bajc said all of this back and forth is taking a serious emotional toll on the families. Every time some official giv
Also, after all of those miscalculations and all of that misinformation, searchers are finally honing in on the black boxes. Now the u. S. Navy is pouring even more resources into the hunt. And our national lead. New information about the high School Attacks outside pittsburgh. The suspects Attorney Says he was wellliked and came from a good home, never had any Mental Health issues. So what could have possibly possessed him to stab 21 people inside his school . Good afternoon, everyone. Im jake tapper. Welcome to the lead. A wealth of new information in the search for flight 370. Over much of the next hour well try to fit it together for you. Searchers are finally in the right area. Also, somehow, even at this late date, new information is coming out of malaysia that alters the understanding of the planes path and raises new questions about what malaysian Government Officials knew and when. Questions of competence and transparency. Its been 35 days since flight 370 disappeared with 239
of the california state senate, will you not find leland yee. he has essentially been erased as have two others in trouble. one convicted of perjury and voter fraud and another pleaded not guilty on bribery charges. they have all three been suspended but they are still being paid their $95,000 salaries. wolf blitzer is joining us. your team is looking into it. what else is on the show? as you know, you get these conflicting statements from malaysian officials. one the other day said all of the passengers have been cleared. now not so fast. maybe some of them haven t been cleared. we re going to try to find out what is going on. ken beazley, very impressive guy, he s going to be in the situation room and we ll talk about what his prime minister tony abbott had to say. he seems to suggest that they are only a few kol lom tilomete
change. the accusation out there at the moment that relates to confusion and confusing information, it s not going to improve by releasing every fact or factoid as it becomes available to them. mr. ambassador, your australian government is leading the search and has paid for more than half of the $44 million that this investigation has already cost. prime minister tony abbott has said, quote, at some point there might need to be a reckoning, there might need to be some kind of tallying but nevertheless, we are happy to be as helpful as we can to all of the countries that have a stake in this. as you probably know, the air france search reportedly cost $160 million over two years. at some point, is australia going to have to say to malaysia, china, other countries, look, you need to either help kick in or we re going to have to stop? we don t have unlimited funds? you know, i think we are