Christine romans. Im john berman. 5 00 in the east. We do begin with the latest on the flight for 370. And the news that broke overnight that once again, search crews have heard signals, possibly from the jets black boxes. Two noises were detected by the United States equipment on an australian ship. Only for a few minutes this time. The signals were weaker than they had been before. That in itself could be revealing and its being called a positive sign and likely at this point the best chance to find flight 370. Perhaps within a matter of days. Cnns Erin Mclaughlin live with the latest. And it seems again from the body language from the announcement overnight that they seem fairly optimistic that these signals are coming from the black boxes and they are narrowing down that search area. John, this is very encouraging news. Angus hughson is the man responsible for coordinating this search effort. He gave a press conference earlier today. Hear how he characterized these new detections.
This new strategy will likely drag out the search a lot longer. This bluefin21 submarine takes six times to search as the towed pinger locater. Today the sub can only carry an area of about 15 square miles which is about 7,200 football fields meaning the scan of the entire search area which is the size of los angeles could take up to two months. The deployment of the autonomous under water vehicle has the potential to take us a further step towards visual identification since it offers a possible opportunity to detect debris from the aircraft on the ocean floor. I would caution you against raising hopes that the deployment of the autonomous under water vehicle will result in the detection of the aircraft wreckage. It may not. However, this is the best lead we have, and it must be pursued vigorously. This morning the head of the search team says an oil slick was found in the search area, but lit take several more days to figure out where the oil came from. Cnns will ripley is in perth,
Jerusalem to find out, is there a solution . Also, a new u. N. Report. The most exhaustive yet about Climate Change. Well talk to tom friedman to tell us what the world and the United States need to do now. And the great Anthony Bourdain will take us with him to russia and india and other places. Well talk about politics and food, of course. But first heres my take. Russias aggression in ukraine has had the effect of unifying the western democracies, at least in their robust condemnation of the nation. But travel further afield and one sees a variety of responses which shadows the great u. N. Tension between global norms and National Interests. Consider the response of the worlds most populous democracy, india. New delhi was mostly silent in the events though through february and march, refused to support anything to do with russia and declared that russia had legitimate interest in ukraine, all which led Vladimir Putin to place a thank you call to the prime minister. Indias reaction c
President obama pushes for an immediate cease fire in gaza as the death toll rises on both sides. Two more Israeli Soldiers were killed on monday bringing the total to 27. And some 573 palestinians have been killed. So lets begin with the latest news in the flight 17 crash investigation. Cnns Nick Peyton Walsh joins us live. Whats the latest . Reporter we know that at 3 10 local time, 8 00 your time, the train carrying 200 of the bodies of the victim of flight 17s departed from the donetsk. They took a different route than anticipated. It was expected to travel straight to kharkiv. Theres been a lot of contrary information about when the train was supposed to leave, what direction it was taking. And it will probably take at least seven hours to make its way toward kharkiv where it will be met by an increasingly large number of australian, dutch, consular officials, those trying to go through the extraordinarily grim and difficult task of taking these bodies which are now a number of da
The way the white house sees it, the future of ukraine is bound to the elections on may 25th. But russia today started poking holes in ukraines election plans. While the prorussian separatists tried to shoot holes in each other. Youre looking at the twisted remains of a helicopter knocked down in the Eastern Ukraine city of slovyansk. And this video, while undated, reports to show ukraines forces near donetsk. Its where pro russia forces have seized government buildings. Ukrainian military is in the middle of the biggest offensive yet. But russias foreign minister Sergey Lavrov pointed to scenes such as you just saw to lay the ground work for russia to possibly question the legitimacy of ukraines elections. Translator the situation when they use an army against their own population is quite an outstanding one. This is not afghanistan. This is a completely different situation. How very reassuring. President obama has said if russia interferes with ukraines elections, it will target enti