knowledge of what had happened. and that s just the latest. in this movement surrounding one of the five active investigations ongoing right now into the governor s office, two of which are criminal. now it appears that christie s response to the legal circus going on right now is to whip up a pr circus, a political circus. this week he s set up to appear on the tonight show with jimmy fallon. he s making a trip to mitt romney s utah summit and the conservative faith and freedom coalition and he s scheduled rga pit stops in new hampshire, iowa and of course, south carolina. completing the trifecta. and in interview after interview, governor christie remains defieant that he can escape this mess in trenton. i am what i am. when i travel around new jersey, hayer from most people that s the thing they love the most. and what about iowa? oh, well, i think they love me in iowa, too, diane. i ve been there a lot. i think they love me there, too. i m not the first chief executive who
narrow don t the search area even more. we can show you the current search area. on the left, in the yellow and black tinted area there, the hunt for floating debris. it s now an area the size of about the state of virginia. a quarter of what it was a few days ago. crews now say they ve already looked there but today thayer crossed it in tighter patterns. on the right is the area where the australian air force has been dropping sonar equipment to pick up signals. that area is the size of the city of los angeles. the head of the search is optimistic they ll find the plane soon. today, a malaysian government official says investigators now believe the pilot spoke the last and final words to air traffic control. it was very minute in question. and the last worths were: good night, malaysian 370. the official said the pilot s voice did not show signs of,
updated on that end. martha: okay. but no sense, are you able to see inside the yard right now? or is the whole area so blocked off you can t tell what activity is like in there. the yard is closed off right now. martha: nobody can get a sense of that. in terms of exterior, perimeters of the campus, we saw some fire engines out there. and we see kids walking around like no big deal. what is the presence like at that level? you know it is not something we ve been able to confirm totally but obviously given there are finals and three of those buildings, thayer, freshman dorm, the other three have plenty of finals that occur in them and so those obviously are evacuated and presumably had some students in them at the time and the students have gone to various places on campus. i would imagine one of our, we tweet ad picture of a number of students in annenberg, in the
well. they re talking about the emergency folks on the scene. just before the christmas break, they have been evacuated. thayer and seaver and emerson on the harvard yard on the center of the campus where the heart of this activity is going on. and they are at the science center which is part of the investigation. joining me now is bill gavin and he is a former individual. what do you make of this? information they have at this particular point in time. as you know they can t afford to take any chances and just
just in case they are needed. no explosions have gone off but a warning that potentially four buildings had explosives placed in them what set all of this in motion during the middle of finals week at harvard university this morning. bill: statement from the school. they received unconfirmed report that explosives may have been placed in four buildings on campus, science center, thayer, sever. that part of the boston university and the harvard yard have been evacuated. their finals have been canceled at least for the morning hours. we ll see if it continues through the afternoon hour. we re watching another camera from street level. you can see, those are police officers crossing to the left. we have pointed out that, and remarked that there does not seem to be a great sense of urgency just based on camera angles we have here. on outside of the yard, beyond the fence from what we can tell it is pretty orderly.