Between president s obama and putin. Is the crisis in ukraine sparking a new cold war . And cashing in, should College Athletes get paid like pros . The critical legal case that could rockarch madness. Good morning, again. Im martha raddatz, so much to get to today. Including stats whiz nate silver of fivethirtyeight. We have a first look at his exclusive analysis of the midterm elections. But we begin oversees with malaysia air flight 370. As we come on the air this morning, the search for wreckage is intensifying. Focusing on this area where satellites spotted what might be debris. But two weeks in, what happened to flight 370 is a mystery. We all want answers. We have complete coverage of the search for answers, beginning with abc david wright who just stepped off a search plane out scanning those waters. David joins us now from pearce air base in australia. Reporter good morning. We spent ten hours aboard the plane, coming back empty handed. The crew had high hopes, the assigned se
You noted that you raised this and asked the russian side to pull these forces back from the border. Did they agree to do so . If not, what reason did they give . Secondly, both sides have talked in recent weeks about the possibility of federalization in ukraine. Largely as a means of protecting the interests of the russian speaking population. But the russian side appears to have a far reaching concept of federalization in mind. One that would give the regions Veto Authority over national policies, even foreign policy. Did you make any headway tonight in narrowing the gap on this core issue . And what are the next steps . Thank you. Thank you very much, michael. As i said earlier, both sides made suggestions today on how we can deescalate the security as well as the political situation in and around ukraine. And, yes, we talked very seriously and at length about the impact of the massing of troops and the importance of including the drawdown and redeployment of some of those troops wi
To be revealed. Translator we want malaysia to apologize for the information that caused confusion in the first week which delayed the search mission. And we want the malaysian government to apologize for irresponsibly announcing on march 24th that the plane had crashed. Of course, our reporter and our experts are standing by, standing at the ready to bring us the very latest. Lets get going right now here on cnn. Cnns sara sidner joins me from kuala lumpur, malaysia. Do we know how many search planes are heading out there . Its believed to be about ten. Is the main focus to relocate those orange objects . Reporter yeah. Eight to ten planes going up today. Now that its light out, we do expect that the planes will be in the air shortly. We also know that the Prime Minister, tony abbott, is expected to visit the air base there. The significance of that, we dont know. But obviously these objects that they are now looking at, saying that they could potentially be something from flight mh37
Look suspicious enough, and different enough that there might be a chance and we see the objects that are white, orange, red, blue, and all of these have been marked and the ships will try to locate them, because it is one thing to take a picture from the airplane, but another to have them, and have the experts s take a look at them see if there is a connection to the flight 370. We just dont know. Thank you, will ripley. Joining me is aviation analyst miles obrien, and cnn aviation analyst rob mccallum as well. And let me start with you, rob. Are there search areas that are easier to find . Well, there are things that are easier to see like notsom, and things that are buoyant and collect together, but the real hit s a hits are the things like a tail or a wing tip, and in the case of flight 447, it was the wing tip that was easier to spot. And you saw the objects there the crews pulled out of the water there, and not too much speculation, but does it look too much like an aircraft ther
Our homes up. Cautious optimism. Those very same orange objects could be ocean trash when crews do find them or they could be the huge break desperately needed to help solve the mystery of flight 370. The whole world is watching and waiting for physical evidence of the missing plane despite those on board. They stay truth needs to be revealed. We want malaysia to apologize for the information caused confusion in the first week which delayed the search mission. And we want the malaysian government to apologize for irresponsibly announcing on march 24th that the plane had crashed. Our reporters and experts tang by, toward bring you the very latest information so lets get started. Kyung lah with the search planes that took off. Do you know iffist in planes are trying to relocate those four orange objects . Whats going on with that . Reporter what we do know is that the secretary of the ten planes are expected to take off. Expected to take off moments from now. There are going to be a tota