around the same time parents say the sail boat lost steering. that left them stranded about 1,000 miles off the gulf of mexico. they were transferred to a navy ship and that is taking them to san diego. the parents say their daughter is getting better. in a statement they say we understand there are those who question our decision to sail with our family. please know this is how our family has lived for seven years. we are proud of our choices and our preparation. a malaysian official reportedly claims the missing jet may have intentionally flown along a specific pass to avoid indonesian air space and the radar was there. they say this looks like this was planned. we ll look at what that could mean for the investigation and search teams try to zero in on the signals that they say are consistent with the plane s black boxes. i m nathan and i quit smoking with chantix.
moments ago. so watch as the conditions are favorable for tornadoes. this one until 9:00 p.m. local time. this one just issued for the panhandle of florida until 11:00 p.m. several thunderstorm warnings here for the panhandle, up towards southeastern georgia. and there is our tornado warning. really just issued moments ago for bellhaven, north carolina, some of these cells are seeing rotation here. and you can see that cell right there where we are seeing some rotation on radar. so we will continue to monitor that, obviously, but this is a situation that we have seen really within the last 12 to 24 hours across the southeast. you can see where the cold front is. back of the cold front, 50s and 60s. in front of it, 80s. so a lot of moist, unstable air here. the storms are across the southea southeast. we are seeing the potential for severe weather. up to the ohio river valley, a secondary area where we could see hail, damaging winds and
near the trench area, very deep part of the ocean. if he wasn t detected going in there and disabled the locater beacons and put the plane in tact in deep enough water so the pingers could not be heard then the chance of finding it was slim. it was interesting. i don t want to get too deep on radar but australia has radar that operates differently. it bounces and can see farther. it has the system. it is nothing new. it is over the horizon radar. it bounces the radar signal off the sphere and then back down to the ground and allows you to see a lot further out than conventional radar. conventional radar is essentially line of sight limited by the curve of the earth and altitude of the target. over the horizon still only goes out to maybe 2,000 miles.
lumpur. david is joining us from beijing. that s where flight 370 was originally headed. never made it, obviously. what s the latest there in china? well, the latest is the military here in china saying that their satellites and the other military assets including radar didn t pick up any sign of that flight going over that northern corridor. you know, china and kazakhstan were put in charge, in a way of searching that land route that the plane could have taken. this kind of meshes with what investigators have been telling cnn that they believe it s more likely the plane went south because of all the military assets in this region. china has also put out more boats into the andaman sea and southwest of sumatra to search for this missing plane. so certainly no effort spared from the chinese side to try to find this vanished plane.
apparently saw the plane turning, heading towards the straits of malacca and up to kazakhstan, other places that seem a little bit less likely. but part of what s coming out of this, ashleigh, because of all this confusion, are more and more of these theories that just seem more outlandish. but they re living, because what else can people do right now, including the investigators, except look at all possibilities. one, which has run a lot of attention, the idea that somehow the plane hid in plain sight. that it turned off all of its radar gear, then slipped in behind another airline that was flying along with all of its gear operating. and this plane didn t know this plane was here, because it was sending those signals. the radar didn t know it. and they basically became a single spot on the radar that nobody noticed going by. could it happen? be hard to pull off. but everything right now is a mystery. and it all seems improbable, at best. ashleigh? i have a better word is freakish.