Thought. If that is true, which they seem to think it is now, it means it burned more fuel, which suggests it did not fly as far south as first thought. So the Surveillance Aircraft are getting airborne and have a new ocean to search. This chinese plane lifting off a short time ago outside of perth, including some ultrahigh tech american p8 poseidons. The second heading to the region from okinawa, japan. Well have an explanation of why exactly now this radical shift 1600 miles difference in the search area, so theres a lot to cover tonight. We begin with the latest from Western Australia with the breaking news from paula newton that joins us now. This information could be a game changer. Why are they shifting the search area . Reporter it is definitely a game changer. The reason is that when they say they refined their radar analysis, they determined that plane was likely flying faster, which means it ran out of fuel, which means its in a completely different location than they thought
Is live with us from lumpur. What is the latest . Reporter the search is still continuing, fredricka, 1,000 miles off the coast of western australia. Details are pretty thin in terms of what they found in terms of concrete developments but it seems theyre still continuing overnight with the search of the underwater situation to try and find it, try and detect any further pings coming from underneath the water, coming from those beacons on the black box flight recorders. So far there hasnt been anything in the past four days. But nevertheless theres still very much at work at this. The search area has been reduced further to 16,000 square miles as you mentioned, which is significantly less than it was, for instance, a week ago but its still a vast area of ocean which the search teams are still currently looking in closely to try and find any trace of this missing airliner, fredricka. All right, matthew chance, appreciate that in perth. Lets go to joe johns. Joe, what are you hearing fro
Neighborhood. Your new day starts right now. This is new day with kate bolduan, Michaela Pereira and john berman. We begin with breaking news this morning. A possible breakthrough in the search for flight 370. Could be a big one. Pilots from australia and china reporting debris sightings in the south indian ocean. Kate bolduan is tracking it all from perth, australia. Kate. Good morning, everyone. A News Conference wrapped up just moments ago. The australian prime minister, tony abbott, had told them two object, one round, one rectangular had been spotted by pilots in the southern indian ocean and they could have those objects in their possession within hours. Thats the near end of that timeline. Thats big news. Also a chinese search plane spotted two large white suspicious objects. We are also learning new details about what might have happened in the cockpit. New radar shows the plane descended to 12,000 feet after making that infamous sharp lefthand turn. Two objects have been locat
The hunt for Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Searchers managed to detect two more pings deep underwater. Theyre more optimistic they can locate the airliner. Signals are weakening, suggesting dying black box batteries, adding new urgency to efforts. Full coverage coming up this hour. Lets begin now with the horror at a pennsylvania high school. Police in pittsburgh, in a suburb there, say a teenager went on a stabbing and slashing rampage wounding at least 20 people, most of them fellow students. Well bring you a live News Conference any moment now. For the very latest, lets get the background, go to the town of murrysville, right outside of pittsburgh. That town in shock. Justice correspondent pamela brown is on the scene for us with new information. Pamela . Reporter thats right, wolf. According to a source with firsthand knowledge of the investigation, we have learned that the suspect in this stabbing spree, a 16yearold, male sophomore at the high school, has been charged as an adult
Ukraine. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. A potential lead in the search for flight 370. Latest developments. Australian authorities are looking into what they call an object of interest, a piece of sheet metal studded with rivets picked up on the coast about 1,000 miles from the search zone. Stormy weather slows the Aerial Search for debris but the underwater hunt continues. Bluefin21 surveyed 80 of the search area and authority are considering bringing in more assets to expand that search. Our analysts are standing by here in the situation room. Our correspondents are standing by around the world bringing you the kind of coverage only cnn can deliver on the hunt for flight 370. The ukrain crisis and the south korean ferry disaster. Lets begin, though, with michael holmes, the very latest in perth, australia. Michael . Reporter wolf, after weeks of frustration, a development, but were being cautious on this. Could be a development that proves to be nothing. A piece of deb