How different is this announcement from the malaysian government that they believe the plane was deliberately taken in this direction . Reporter its a hugely significant direction and a Significant Development too. What we know at this stage is the malaysian Prime Minister has finally given some concrete evidence just to say that, yes, the plane did travel in that direction. Yes, we lost contact after about seven hours or so. And there is two trajectories involved. One takes the plane down to the south into the deep southern indian ocean towards the Southern Ocean and one more worringly into the northern region, which does the trajectory, the ark that investigators are looking at does take it over countries like kazakhstan. China, western china, so they are significant areas that is going to be a political effort as well now for the malaysian government. They have to get the governments, all these countries on board. They have to share data. They have to look at the passengers as well.
Youre in the situation room. Searchers race against time to find traces of flight 370. Here are the latest developments. Questions are now being raised about a new map said to show the airliners radar track and shows a much different flight track. The airliners turn is being viewed as a criminal act. Malaysian officials now say the last words from the cockpit were good night, malaysian 370. The earlier version was all right, good night. The change raises questions about the handling of the investigation. And as planes get ready to resume searches of the airliner, pinger locators are on the way to the search zone but the batteries powering the black box signals will likely die within days. Our analysts and our reporters are standing by in washington as well as around the world with the kind of special coverage that only cnn can deliver. Lets begin with our Senior International correspondent nick roberson. Hes joining us with the very latest from kuala lumpur. Nic . Reporter wolf, weve b
In all, nine ships, ten military planes and a civilian jet took part in todays search. And a malaysian government source tells cnn, the jetliners turning off the course is being considered a criminal act. Either by one of the pilots or someone else on board. So for weeks, we were told the last words from the crew were, quote, all right, good night. Now weve learned the words were actually, quote, good night malaysian 370. The release of the transcript is raising many questions, and its also providing a few answers. Lets bring in our aviation and government regulation correspondent, rene marsh. Walk us through some of the details weve learned from this transcript, which has just been released. Right. You know what, wolf, we have learned that communications between the cockpit and air Traffic Control was pretty normal up until it disappeared. So this is the transcript here. Just a little bit over two pages long. And were going to pull from it. We know that at 12 40, according to this tra
With australias Prime Minister. This is a very, very difficult task but nevertheless were giving it the very best shot we can. And if anyone can find this aircraft, its us. How long can this be sustained realistically . The effort is ramping up. Not winding down. But its now a race against the clock as the battery life fades on those black boxes. Both of those devices have been emitting a ping for several weeks. We believe they only have about a week of battery life left youre live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning. Im Carol Costello. Thank you so much for joining me this morning. The search intensifies for Malaysian Airlines flight 370. Ten planes and 11 ships scour the southern indian ocean for debris. Malaysian officials confirm the most promising lead those four orange objects found over the weekend nothing more than fishing equipment. This is malaysian motors calling on the United States to deploy more military assets to the search zones. Australias hitech ocean shield is heading
Immigrants ahead. Welcome to early start. Im miguel marquez. Im ana cabrera. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east on this president s day. Lets start with the comment made by the president at the rally in tampa where the president slammed the media for falsehoods. He made a comment on where he gets his facts and how he forms his world view. President trump was trying to back up a claim that unchecked immigration poses a threat and listen to what he said here. You look at whats happening last night in sweden. Sweden who would believe this . Sweden took in large numbers and theyre having problems they never thought possible. The problem with that claim, ana, there was no attack friday in sweden. Mr. Trump and his remarks mentioned germany and nice and brussels and paris. This came one day after fox news interviewed a filmmaker who is trying to tie the refugees to the violence there. The white house is trying to clean up the mess and sweden is trying to contradict the president s claim. We have a