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p.m. day 13 in the search for flight 370. david mckenzie is in beijing where families have been waiting for some solid information day after day after day. he spoke to a psychologist who s been talking with the families about how those families of those on board the flight are reacting. so far the information they ve been getting, how they may react when they finally get some real answers, david. reporter: that s right, anderson. think of the 12 days that have been this agonizing wait for these families. every day it seems brings false hopes, and then those hopes are dashed. still people today saying they re holding on to that hope. that psychologist we spoke to said that he is very concerned that the people in recent days, particularly the elderly in this hotel behind me who may have single children on those that airline because of china s one-child policy, he says many of them are having suicidal thoughts and they are filing
it was the first blackhawk shot down. and people left us all for dead. they figured, well, everybody s gone. they left us. we managed to get a hold of a survival radio and get some help and get out of there. so my experience is i m in the rescue business. i don t want to overdo the hope, but i don t want to see hope killed. and if this aircraft did ditch, the potential exists for survivors. it s not like the hudson sullenberger. but great book out right now, new york times best-seller list called unbroken. two aviators in rafts for 40 days. an extraordinary story. world war ii. yeah. so people survive these things. i m hopeful that if it was a ditching that there s going to be survivors. i give credit to the australians for not overdoing it and raising people s hope. hope is slim if in fact this is debris from the crashed aircraft. but there is always that. so i just wanted to share that about because i can understand what the families are
and investigators trying to figure out what happened to the plane and where exactly to look to find the aircraft. the hope, and so far it is only an educated cautious hope, is that they could be the sign of more to come. search planes are either on scene or on the way. we know some search planes are already on scene. commercial satellites have been redirected as well. i want to start our coverage this hour by going to john ostrauer from the wall street journal who s been breaking a number of stories on this over the last 12 or so days. he has some new information. john, what are you learning at this hour? at this hour certainly what we re following is the developing situation off the coast of australia with the australian maritime aircraft heading in that direction to investigate this 78-foot item, or blob as they described it. but our reporting this evening takes a deep look at the last 12 days and what really unfolded both in the u.s., the uk, and
into this hotel behind me prepared for when that news comes, if that news is bad, anderson, and they really worry that this eventual news will be a catastrophic reaction psychologically for these families. another psychologist i spoke to said because there have been all these loads over this time giving these families hope and then dark that hope that, again, if the news comes in the coming hours that this is in fact flight mh 370 and that it crashed into the southern ocean near australia it will be news that will be almost impossible to deal with with these families. they were expecting the worst when they arrived here 12 days ago. now they just don t know what to think. yeah. it s hard to imagine what these 12, now 13 days have been like for them. david, we ll continue to check in with you throughout the night as we continue to watch what authorities are searching for off the southwest coast of perth, australia. objects spotted in the water by satellites. australian satellites. try