Prorussian militants are gaining ground. This was the scene today in one eastern city. Demonstrators there attacked and overran that police station. In many cases police have stepped aside to let demonstrators in. This violence comes after a deadline said by the Ukrainian Government passed with no action. The acting president had warned of an antiterror operation if militants didnt surrender. Now theres this news coming from the pentagon concerning a russian fighter plane and the u sr uss donald cook. Barbara starr joins us with details. Reporter this happened on saturday one of the most significant encounters between the russians and u. S. Military in year. Two russian fighter jets two su24s flew near a u. S. Navy ship. One of the fighters stayed a fair distance away, but the other one made 12 passes on saturday near the donald cook in the eastern black sea. That su24 flew at various times just 500 feet off the surface of the ocean and 1,000 yards off the side of the ship. So think of
Daybreak. They return in the evening and report. They saw nothing. Whats the frustration level that youre sensing there, if any . Yeah, youre right, don, it must be frustrating for the crews up there. Some of them are doing 150 hours a month out there in the air and scanning back and forth. Were into our sixth week now. And they found absolutely nothing from this plane other than those pings from the flight recorder or believed to be from the flight recorders. You heard the australian Prime Minister tony abbott say everyone involved in this search is starting to get close to the opinion that they might not get another ping that these bat drink ryes may indeed be dead if if that is the case theyve got to work with what theyve got, the four confirmed pings from the data recorders and try to bring down the search area as much as possible and why do they have to do that . Well, the next step is submersible, the flbluefin. Takes two hours to lower it down, 16 hours down, and two hours to br
Airlines investigation breaking his silence. Malaysias Prime Minister today sat down with richard quest, his First Television interview since the plane disappeared 49 days ago. Its a bizarre scenario, which none of us could have contemplated. Now the Prime Minister would not confirm to richard that the plane actually crashed. Richard quest is in kuala lumpur tonight. And richard, as the search has become, you know, more and more targeted, a lot of people have been saying look are, they focusing too much on one area . Do they actually know where the plane went . I want to play one of the most incredible moments from your interview. This is very, very different from the air france incident, very different from the silkair incident. This is totally unprecedented. What do we have going for us . What is the evidence . The evidence simply lie with the pings, the handshakes that we have analyzed. Thats all we have. Thats all we have, he says, richard. Thats pretty incredible. Absolutely extra
Hours. Search coordinators describe what theyre looking for as acoustic v events. Pilots call them pings. Well talk much, much more about that with an audio expert coming up. Chinese searchers say they picked up pings twice. Over two days. Also today investigators trying to figure out why the plane would fly this route. Skirting the coast of indonesia before heading for the open ocean. That flight plan was confirmed today by malaysian officials. And if youre counting days, like a lot of people are, today marks the 31st day since Malaysia Airlines flight 370 just simply vanished. Live right now to the place where the flight originated. Kuala lumpur, malaysia, and our jim clancy. Jim, i remember when this mystery was just a few hours old. You were there at kuala lumpur airport. Who would have predicted wed still have no answers 31 days into this . Tell us how that place and the malaysian people have handled this Major International event over the past month . Reporter you know, i dont th
This is cnn breaking news. This is piers morgan live. Tonight breaking news focused on the cockpit. Questions about the pilot of flight 370, his behavior and what investigators think might have happened. Meanwhile, the fbi working around the clock trying to find clues on the computer hard drives of both the pilot and copilot. And dangerous weather rolling in again to the search area in the southern indian ocean where planes and ships are hunting for any trace of flight 370. This in a part of the world thats renowned for high winds and rough seas. Aircraft from australia, japan, china and the u. S. Are closing in on the site along with ships from australia and china. All searching for whats being called the best lead yet in the mystery of flight 370. 122 objects floating in the southern indian ocean ranging in size from 3 feet to 75 feet. It turned up on satellite images from a French Defense firm on sunday. Theyre digging into that and every other new detail of the information with my