Im wolf blitzer and youre in the situation room. Shocking new images of violent confrontations in ukraine as ukranian forces chase pro russian intruders out of a base. Hate stred appeared appears to pish. They call on a vote on rejoining russia. Will president obama and john kerry weigh in with strong warnings and sanctions. And Russian Forces make a move of their own. Cap sizing an old warship in a narrow passage. Lets begin with jim sciutto with the very latest. Are with the announcement of the referendum, the president and secretary kerry really had to make definitive and strong statements today. And they also took the first steps with penalties on russia. These visa bans on senior officials as well as laying the ground work for further sanctions on entities which could include russian state banks. They are keeping the diplomatic path open, but that path moving frustratingly slow. Increasingly frustrated by the stalemate in ukraine, today the Obama Administration delivered new penal
Happening. And our money lead today. If there is one shred of evidence that those on board flight 370 are dead, it has not been found. But malaysian officials are talking about issuing death certificates anyway. Will relatives accept that . Good afternoon, everyone. Im jake tapper with the read. What happened to you, russia . Its like the u. S. Cannot even recognize you anymore. It wont. The seizure of during the trip to capital kiev. No nation has the right to simply grab land from another nation. No nation has that right. And we will never recognize russias illegal occupation of crimea and neither will the world. Native americans shaking their heads somewhere. While biden was speaking, the white house puts your money where the mouth is. Offering a package for ukraine which includes nonlethal aid for security forces. Thats diplo speak for no weapons. This comes at a time when Obama Administration is putting stocks in claims that proves Russian Forces are operating in their country. So
Center killer is charged with murder. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Right now, the best hope for finding flight 370 is under water searching for wreckage. The bluefin21 should be about eight hours right now into a 24hour diving cycle if, if, nothings gone wrong. It was a little after this time yesterday that we learned the bluefins First Mission had been aborted. Conditions are similar today, including the depth, which was a problem, so anything could happen. Right now, our correspondents in the United States and around the world are covering all the breaking developments and our team of experts, they are here in the situation room to break it all down. Lets go to our aviation correspondent rene march for the latest information. Rene . As we said, the underwater search is happening and the hope is the underwater vehicle will cover more ground this time. The navy says mis
Youre in the situation room. Lets get to the breaking news. China has said one of it satellites has found a crash area of what appear to be large floating objects. We have the kind of coverage only cnn can deliver. Our correspondents are standing by along with top analysts and experts. Lets go straight to jim sciutto with the latest. What were we learning . A Remarkable Development in six confusing days of misdirection. They look very small but they are very large. 43 feet by 49 feet one of them, 46 by 62 feet, another one 79 feet by 72 feet. A flatbed truck is 48 feet long, a mobile home 28 feet long so these are big pieces floating in the water. Let me show you on the map where they were found. Youll remember the flight took off from kuala lumpur on its way to beijing. This was the point of last contact when its transponder was turned off. And youll remember this was the area they were searching in in those early days but not finding anything. And then youll remember they had this ra
Could be a blank box. Im wolf blitzer. This is the situation room. We begin with extraordinary new information just coming in involving the disappearance of Malaysia Flight 370. No apparent struggle, no apparent panic. A british newspaper says it has a transcript of the final 54 minutes of communication between the cockpit and Ground Control. It allegedly shows nothing out of the ordinary beyond an unexplained call minutes before the final transmission. Fbi experts are working nonstop to recover clues from the hard drives belonging to the pilots, especially from the captains Flight Simulator. We have new evidence that files were deleted later than previously thought. And its morning in the indian ocean. Search planes are getting ready to resume looking for possible debris from the airliner but may once again face rather rough weather. We have the kind of coverage only cnn can deliver. Our correspondents and analysts are standing by. Lets begin with the new information coming in on this