Lets bring in Michael Holmes live in perth, australia, for all the details. Good morning, michael. Reporter good morning to you, kate, from perth in Western Australia. Yes, thats right. Those four pings that were now pretty certain came from the flight recorders well, they havent heard anything since last tuesday nearly a week. And theyve given up hearing more. They now think that the batteries have gone flat and it is time to move in for a new phase. Ray shift in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 after three straight days, australian officials announced they will begin searching the seafloor with this underwater vehicle. We havent had a single detection in six days. Its time to go under water. Reporter the crew aboard the australian ship ocean shield will launch the unmanned bluefin 21 to map out the search area using its side scan seasoner technology. It will take the vehicle two hours to dive to the bottom. 16 more hours to search a roughly 16,000 square feet secti
White house. There were some positives. The u. S. Said that both sides understand that there should be a diplomatic way forward. Russia emphasized the importance in u. S. Russia relations. The u. S. Has begun sanctions and russia still needs to talk to ukraine. In on hourlong phone call, president obama again urged Vladimir Putin to pursue a diplomatic solution telling him to have dialogue with ukraine to let in international monitors and pull back his troops to their bases. Putin agreed on the need for diplomacy, but they see the situation differently. Crimea is part of ukraine. Crimea is ukraine. Reporter russia called it impossible to act in the face of unilateral semihysterical views. The administration saying it has grave concerns the situation could escalate further and wants to be prepared with powerful, flexible tools. If this violation continues, the resolve of the United States and our allies and the International Community will remain firm. Reporter but not for now sanctioni
About 95 of those senators invited here today for lunch to show up. They hope this is more of a strategy session where, like you said, they can figure out what theyre going to do next. The question is, what strategy are they going to purr . Theyre meeting request a president who publicly advocated for several different strategies including repeal and replace then repeal and replace at a later date and letting obamacare fail which is what President Trump brought up yesterday during a meeting here at the white house. It will also likely be a venting session for these senators who dont think trump has done enough to publicly advocate for this bill. He never gave solo speeches dedicated to this Health Care Bill leaving more of the leg work up to Vice President mike pence. Now, during the last dinner, the Health Care Bill essentially collapsed when senators lee and moran came out in opposition against it. Donald trump said that that surprised him though it didnt surprise many other people.