steve: he won with 48%. ainsley: let s hand it over to heather who has headlines for us. good morning. heather: we begin with a desperate search underway at this hour for teenage boy and step grandmother swept away at the grand canyon. 14-year-old jackson and his 62-year-old step grandmother louann merrill last seen crossing pete s creek on saturday when they lost footing and fell in. researchers are resuming search today. they have found their backpacks with all of their belongings. one crew member is dead and two more injured when a black hawk helicopter crash lands on a golf course. you can see the mangled metal debris was all. conducting a training mission when they saw pieces just falling from the sky. it was out of control. just within a couple of
bodies. what is the latest now as another day of search begins? reporter: jim, this is the grim basically aftermath of an air crash. we are at the sur a baya airport and i ve counted ambulances lined up to wait for the bodies to come back and transported to a police hospital where the identification will take place. but the conditions we re being told are rough, it is still rough out there. that shadow of the plane, such a crucial part of the puzzle finding the actual main part of the plane, they can t relocate it. that is what we are being told about 15 minutes ago. so that is a focus. search today. obviously as finding bodies as well. but it has been an absolutely heart-rendering past 24 hours for the families of the passengers and the crew on board that flight. take a look. a grim recovery operation is now
bottom of the hour right now on this saturday morning. i hope it s been good to you. i m christi paul. make sure it s a good start. i m victor blackwell. the australian prime minister says he s confident four signals detected by a high-tech u.s. pinger locator are coming from one of the flight 370 s black boxes. the signals were all detected within 17 miles of each other. here s what that means. the ten planes and 14 ships are wrapping up today s search, focused on the smallest searched zone to date, which makes you think we re making progress here. let s put that into perspective. look at this map of the u.s. massachusetts and connecticut here, they re highlighted in red, that s the size of the narrowed search today. now, at one point, it was the size of the entire continental u.s. okay, david susie, a safety analyst and the author of why planes crash joining us now. and mary schiavo formerly
a specific search today. they heard a false ping, could that be trash or debris other than the plane? it could be. but as for how deep that trash might be, that s the big unknown. most of the plastic floats. 50% floats. the other 50% will sink. so it s possible some of those items might be throughout the water column. it s a huge unknown. how much trash is out there? i understand you brought some things that we can expect to find. can you show us? so we brought a few things to show you what we have found around the world in all five of the sub tropical jirs, fishing gear, fishing nets. we traveled through the site where they re searching now. we sailed from perth to maricious about four years ago, found derelict fishing gear, any kind of object you might see. that s background debris that s confusing the search for debris
language we re we heard today. the new british vessel the hms echo we re told will be conducting a specific search today. what does that mean? this about a specific location? if so what are they looking for? reporter: that s a little unclear. we re hoping to learn much more about what the hms echo will be doing during that news conference with angus houston. what we do know is that the search is going to generally be in the area that it was yesterday. it is being divided into three specific locations of concentration. that s where they re going to be looking today. kyung there, has been a lot of talk over the last several hours about this news conference from the people running this search. an operational news conference where we re expecting some new information. can you tell us what this might be? reporter: what we know this is real gloig to be the first substantial news conference being led by the man who is in charge of then tire operation. he did make comments when he took c