haystack that gets smaller and smaller. andrew fascinating. thank you for all of that. it has been an agonizing week for the families of 239 people on board that missing airliner. after more than 16 months many are treating this news with caution. will berkeley is live in beijing where the flight was headed before that part of the story came out. reporter: family members say this brings them right back to march of last year when we saw them in such apgnguish and such pain. that uncertainty continues right now as they still don t know where their loved ones are. the families at this point only have each other for support. the information center has been closed. the hotline shut down. they don t have any official information. they are only getting it from the media. i want to read you a statement from some of the chinese families here saying quote, no matter where the debris is found, we care more about the whereabouts of our family
walker come much closer. so if you re a republican looking at this poll you are really or looking to win the general, you hope donald trump doesn t win the primary because according to this poll he doesn t have much of a chance against the democratic contenders. that s an important perspective, chris. thank you. we ll pull up what you are talking about in terms of putting trump against hillary clinton. here are the latest numbers. hillary clinton gets 48% of the vote. donald trump gets 36%. and contrast that with clinton and bush. jeb bush right now leading hillary clinton 42% to 41%. that s right. look there s a reason why every democrat who comes on tv is cheering donald trump. because of those numbers. they know that the best news in the world has been for them is donald trump doing well. but chris also makes a point that according to this poll not just this poll but other polls, trump does appear to have a ceiling. because it is such a splintered
equivalent of the ntsb. and they have been 2300 miles away. that s been their search area. he says he s still confident that that is the right search area. what do you think? well, i think given the piece of where it was found, you know if i was doing it i would want to expand a few hypotheses and go back at the initial theories of if the plane made that initial turn in the last primary tracings and secondary radar as well from that plane, where precisely was it headed? and i would also want to enlist the aid of persons in madagascar and reunion and look for other pieces on the beaches in that area. if they can find just a few more pieces that might help them triang late better and get a better fix on some of the currents and where it came from. so i guess at this point it would open my mind a little further to france look at other theories and expand the area. but the most important parts
and they have a set of experience in looking at air crashes as well. that s a very good point and want to dig deeper with that. in terms of how you are being updated, i know you have been quite critical over the past year almost 16 months as we have been saying of how the investigation has been handled. how are they updating you or are they updating you at all? did you receive news of this possible debris? i did receive an e-mail update from the jacc that s the australia investigative group saying that there was an unconfirmed sighting of debris. it came within the last couple of hours. since the australians took over they have done a good job with that kind of paper. or e-mail format update. but it s usually about a day behind what we see in the news. so i m not sure how useful it is. well, i know you ve had great concerns about the malaysian handling of all of this. just a short time ago the
major development in the search for the missing malaysian airline mh370. a piece of debris found on an island in the indian ocean thousands of miles from the search zone. it does appear to be from a 777. mh370 was a 777. australian officials say we could know in 24 to 48 hours if it belongs to flight 370. so we ll look again how we got to this point. the plane took off on march 18 2014 and went off radar an hour into flight. at that point the search stuck right around malaysia. but satellite companies revealed the plane communicated with their system for hours after that. they predicted the plane may have been on this arc you re looking at right now. the signals moved the search closer to australia in this red area right here i m standing on top of. they were searching the last