High school, the accident that sent two dozen people to the high school. I walked down the aisle of any supermarket in the country and you will see how much of the food that is part of our diet is grown in california. Reporter you dont have to be a california farmer to feel the pain from the worst drought in the States History and walk down the aisle of your local supermarket. Search and rescue crews from Nine Countries including the u. S. Are scoring the South China Sea and looking for the jet that vanished between malaysia and vietnam and it has been more than two days since Malaysia Airlines 370 went missing with 239 people on board. It was supposed to be a routine flight from kuala lumpur to beijing and whereabouts still unknown and no block box signal since it disappeared and debris found off the tip of vietnam does not belong to that plane, 34 planes and 40 ships are part of the widening search and an american patrol and u. S. Navy helicopter are in the gulf of thailand and the c
Like this from ed. It says if flight 370 landed intact on the Ocean Surface would it be completely crushed by the intense pressure as it sank to the bottom . I want to go right to cnn reporters in the search zone michael, i will start with you. What are you hearing in perth about the search efforts . Its ongoing, as you said. The planes have headed out. There they are searching that area as they have been now for weeks. The ships are out there, too. More than a dozen ships. One ship that is towing the pinger locater that u. S. Navy had, they are going up and down slowly trying to find anymore pings. We had two last week and two pings on tuesday and looking for more before they run out. This is day 34 for the batteries on the locaters. They are meant to last 30 days or so. So they are running down. The more pings they can narrow the search down. They have the ship out there towing it around. Interestingly we were on a website that tracks ships a few moments ago and saw a british ship th
Snoou. A warm welcome to on you viewers in the u. S. And around the world. Air force one just touched down in kuala lumpur moments ago. Hes in the asian region during a particularly painful time for so many people. Well stay on these live pictures and wait for the u. S. President to depart. We expect that to happen in moments. But this has been a busy trip for the u. S. President. Overshadowed somewhat by a number of transportation tragedies in different Asian Countries on friday, in south korea mr. Obama offered condolences for the sinking of the sea ferry there. He pointed out he has two daughters the same age of many of the School Children on that vessel. In malaysia the anger and anguish continue for so many families. President obama arriving in the country right now, seven weeks after the disappearance of Malaysia Airline flight 370. 239 people aboard that boeing 777. As we said, not a trace of wreckage has been found. The u. S. President told malaysian newspaper, in fact, his cou
Fleet in midflight between amsterdam and kuala lumpur. The plane departed amsterdam scheduled to arrive in kuala lumpur 12 hours later. Air Traffic Controllers lost contact with the plane two hours after takeoff. About 31 miles from the Russia Ukraine border. It is a stunning twist of fate that this was another Malaysia Airlines flight. The pictures are terrifying and tragic. Human beings intact, passports, even a guide book for a vacation unharmed. Yet every single human being on that plane lost their lives. This ominous picture of mh17 before takeoff was purported i taken by a passenger on the plane during boarding. He posted this picture referencing the missing plane, in case it disappears, this is what it looks like. We dont know how Many Americans were on the plane but the loss of lives are felt immediately on the ground. Dutch passports, many found on board seen on the ground untouched by fire or ruined. Some look unused, new. The wreckage you can see here in a field near the Don
Search has been halted until daylight. Unfortunately no new facts. But let me redo this statement from the airlines ceo. He says we will deeply shocked and saddened by this incident. Were cooperating with the authorities to the fullest extent to determine the cause of this incident. But meanwhile our main focus is keeping our families informed. Lets begin with cnns aviation correspondent Richard Quest, he joins me now, and i believe we have Andrew Stevens up. Hes at the airport and hes been there for a few hours now. Andrew how are officials and families dealing with whats happened . Reporter its a very very tough situation as you can imagine, brian, the families have been gathering here. We understand that they have been taken to a hotel nearby. They are airasia staff, obviously with them. Were also being told that ceo Tony Fernandez, he touched down earlier, about two or three hours ago, and is also expected to be seeing those family members as well. But at this stage there is as Ton