On the next washington journal, governor gary herbert will be here to discuss his meeting with the president and state priorities for this weeks nga annual meeting. Then congressman donald norcross, democrat of new jersey, talks about his priorities for the 114th congress and what can be accomplished under a republican majority. Later, our spotlight on magazines features James Fallows on the atlantic with his cover story of the armed forces. Well also take your calls on the sentencing of former Virginia Governor robert mcdonnell. Washington journal is live at 7 45 a. M. On cspan. Heres some of our featured programs for this weekend on cspan networks. On cspan2 the pitfalls of Group Decision making and what to do to avoid them. And sunday afternoon at 1 00 part of the influence of hiphop on politics and [cy and on cspan3, saturday lectures on history. Brian dirck uses lincoln to talk about slavery during the civil war. And a discussion on Birth Control with Margaret Sanger and the Birth
Indianapolis. But the willis retirement has many scratching their heads. I think with Patrick Willis this is a multilayered thing. I think there are football reasons, i think there are health reasons. But i think the overriding thing is that Patrick Willis feels like he has a higher calling outside of football to help youth and make an impact outside of the game that hes been playing for the past eight seasons. Well have much more coming up in sports including the latest with justin smith possibly playing some games with the red and gold nebs season. We have players getting arrest pd. The 49ers have been struggling with their team image. We might not win the super bowl every year but we can conduct ourselves with class and we can conduct ourselves in a way that makes me proud. That was the day they parted ways with jim harbaugh. Not only bruce millers arrest but the 49ers recently signed jerome simpson. Hes recently been arrested for Marijuana Possession and dui. A lot of 49ers fans no
I need to be honest with you. It could take some days before the information is available to establish whether these detections can be confirmed as being from mh 370. In very deep oceanianic water, nothing happens fast. And when he says deep, he means water some three miles deep. A u. S. Underwater drone is being prepared to scour the ocean floor near where the latest pings were heard. And as the search continues, so does speculation about what happened inside a cockpit. We are told the plane may have steered a curious course around ind neezian air space, a route that suggests an intent to avoid radar detection. We are in australia and talked to the u. S. Navy captain in charge of the operation aboard the ocean shield. Will . If this really is the missing plane and thats still a big if, how could you even begin to describe such a discovery . It certainly would be a miracle if this does turn out to be the aircraft location. A strong word with a stronger warning from u. S. Navy captain f
Majority of nationalities on board. Incredibly interested and have a great stake in the progress of the Search Operations, trying to locate that missing airliner. And i think that even though tony abbott was cautious in what he said he went a little further than any australian official has so far done in terms of describing the progress. Take a listen. We are confident that we know the position of the black box flight recorder to within some kilometers. Our confidence in the approximate position of the black box is not the same as recovering wreckage from almost 4 1 2 kilometers beneath the sea or finally determining all that happened on that flight. But what Angus Houston, the man in charge with overseeing and coordinating the multinational search effort, he down played the Prime Ministers remarks saying essentially theres been no major breakthrough. However, he said that the search area has significantly narrowed down to about 18,000 square miles, which is still a big patch of ocean,
It is onboard australias ocean shield. It picked up two ping signal detections just over this weekend. The first one actually for more than two hours. The second for about 13 minutes. And cnn has now turned around what those clicks sounded like this weekend. Thats what they heard. Thats what theyre listening for again. Relocating these pings. Now the main focus. Today the search zone is drastically scaled back, reduced to 30,000 square miles. Here you have 14 ships, 14 aircraft involved in todays search. They are on borrowed time, as today we keep counting day 33 since that plane vanished. With the 30day more or less battery life of those black boxes, really more or less out of juice. Australias defense minister said theyre Holding Nothing back. You can be assured that we are throwing everything at this difficult complex task in these at least these next several days, whilst we believe the two pingers involved are still active. The underwater drone is collecting dust onboard the ocean