Has been listening for word of her loved one. We are waiting for word on what could be the last search for the bluefin in this phase. What is the latest tonight . Yeah, and if it goes as it has in recent days, john, we should be hearing about mission 12 in the next hour or two or three. But as you said, the previous 11 missions have yielded absolutely nothing, no sign of mh370. The mission 12 should be done by now and we should hear about that any moment. You make a good point, though, this was the area that the searchers were expressing confidence about. They thought it was their best shot. This was focused around the largest and longest acoustic sound that they hoped was a ping from the black boxes. We are hearing they are still confident they will find something at some point, somewhere, how long will it take, they dont know. How long are you hearing about the plans for the longterm search . Because we really do seem to be at that phase. Reporter yeah, with this focused area they re
Disappearance of flight 370. Families had pressed for it to be made public, and now 55 days after the plane vanished, that report is out. Some of the details are frankly shocking. So lets get straight to it. Will ripley joins us from kuala lumpur with the details. So will, tell us what is in the report. Reporter well, its not just whats in this fivepage report, john, but its the time line attached to it. Some of these supplemental documents. And you asked the question, what took so long . Thats the question that i can bet a lot of these families will be asking as well. Because, you know, the plane disappeared from radar at 1 21 a. M. It wasnt until 1 38 a. M. , a full 17 minutes later, that air Traffic Control in another country, vietnam, reached out to kuala lumpur and said hey, have you heard anything from flight 370 . Okay, so had that not happened, k. L. Air Traffic Control may have taken longer than 17 minutes to notice that a plane with 239 people suddenly disappeared from radar.
We want to begin with breaking news in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Search planes taking off right now. The biggest search day so far thats just beginning at this hour. 11 military planes and four civil jets are taking to the skies. They are joining 11 ships. Today two navy vessels are towing pinger locators to locate the black box. They are beginning the underwater search. They are racing against time. The plan was to deploy those locators once the debris field was found. Since the chances are next to nothing it will find the debris without an indicator. The black box ping will go silent forever within the next few days. Its a long shot beyond long shots. The ship needs to move slowly in order for the locator to bronxerly. The ships only move three miles an hour. The search area is 84,000 square miles. We go to perth where the search is beginning. How do they think they can cover that vast amount of space at such a slow pace . Reporter well, where those two ships are p
Narrow the search zone, again, word on that any time now. Were also hearing from flight 370 that it was the captain there on the left, not the first officer, who uttered those worded to air traffic control. That has gone back and forth, remember, from others who said it was the copilot. And they suggested that the plane descended sharply after crossing the malaysian peninsula. That and much more, lets start with Michael Holmes, so the air force michael detecting another signal after the other four that were heard. How did they detect it . Yeah, it is fascinating, anderson, what they are. They are called sonobuoys, or buoys, they are dropped from the aircraft and are being spread around the search area as an added tool if you will. Electronic ears, listening to anything from malaysian flight 370. They can carry up to 70 of these, peppering the ocean field. One has already picked up four pings from the towed pinger locator. They drop a line down from a thousand feet and listen basically.
Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. A desperate and dangerous search and rescue operation is continuing at this hour in western washington for more than a dozen people still missing after a massive mudslide buried parts of a residential community. Several lives were lost when a debris field washed out a rainsoaked mountain on saturday, unleashing a torrent of mud on to homes below. Today, after surveying the scene from the air, washingtons governor described it as a square mile of total devastation. Making matters worse, the quicksandlike ground has created perilous conditions for rescuers. Nbcs Miguel Almaguer is near oso, washington, 55 miles outside seattle. Miguel, whats the latest . Reporter lester, good evening. The road behind me leads to oso, the road behind me leads to oso, the Small Community demolished by mudslides. While some residents are being allowed into the area, responders are searching the m