Grounding all flights as Malaysia Airlines speaks to families. The fullpage ad. Words of support. Deeply saddened. Sincerence condolences. Will never be forgotten. A special edition of newsroom starts now. Good morning. Im carol costello. Developing news this morning. New satellite images. This picture taken on march 24th. It shows a debris field with 300 objects. Couple that picture with the next two images. They were taken by australia on march 16th. The fourth image was taken on the 18th. The chinese satellite snapped an unknown object. And this past sunday a french satellite spotted another large debris field. The common denominator in all of these pictures, they were all taken roughly within the same area. Some 1600 miles off the coast of perth, australia. Tom foreman is in washington to map it all out for us. Good morning, tom. Hi, carol. You are hitting on the main point. That they are all kind novembofe same area. You see the immense job of reading into these. This isnt being done just by human beings. There are computers being used to scan all these images to see anything that bears closer scrutiny. And now just as you mentioned, patterns are emerging. Lets go to the bigger map here so you have a sense of what were talking about here. This is australia with perth. And if you travel that 1600 miles, you can see it gets easily lost because you go out into this vast expanse of emptiness. Here are the earlier findings of where the spots were. And theres the brand new one. That was just reported now. So its hard to have your bearings out here. Thats within a relatively limited area. So thats why this is such a big important find. I have one caution here. Do bear in mind, all of the ocean out in here, according to all the people who know it, has the real potential to have different types of debris fields. So it doesnt necessarily mean this is from the plane. But if you go beyond that, heres the other thing that makes it hard to figure all of this. This is a map from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration imposed upon the world here with time lapses of it and the movement of different waves down here. And currents in the waters. So the area were talking about is actually right in the edge of this churning area in here. So you can see that its very hard to reverse engineer where this came from. And thats going to be the burden here. Even if you can say, all of this stuff is right here, how did it get there in all of this pattern of churning . Was it up here originally or over here. Generally moves to the east. Up here moves to the west. Thats going to be the big challenge. First challenge, get to this general area of debris and find some of it. Put it in your hands and find out if its the right thing. Second challenge go back through that maze and figure out where it came from. Carol . Tom foreman, reporting live in washington. For the first time this morning, were hearing from the immediate family of flight 370s captain Zaharie Ahmad shah. Some have speculated the captain may have hijacked his own plane. But his son, 26yearold ahmad seth zaharie says this father was neither suicidal nor a political extremist. Cnns Andrew Stevens is in perth, australia, with a closer look. Good morning. Good morning, carol. Just want to start by telling you about some news we just received here. This is from japans kyoto news agency. And its saying that they its government satellite, japanese government satellite spotting ten square shaped objects in waters about 2 1 2,000 kilometers southwest of perth which would put it right in that time and range that tom foreman was talking about. So another link to the growing picture if you like, taken from satellites of debris all around the same area. As we know, planes could not fly in the later afternoon over that area because of bad weather. Planes did get out there earlier. They didnt report seeing anything. Were expecting them to be back in the air at some time tomorrow, depending on weather conditions. This is the missing link. Getting more and more of a picture buildup by these satellite pictures. We still havent had any firm identification of any of that debris. What it could be. No link to this being something from mh370. This is the haystack that the australian officials havent found yet. If they can get some firm i. D. On a piece of wreckage or some part of that plane, then they can Start Building up the model to where the rest of that plane, the main part of that plane may be. This stage, its frustrating because we have these sightings, satellite pictures. We still cant narrow it down enough to actually get to those objects in the water. Can we go back for a minute and talk about this these, i guess, new revelations by the son of the captain of flight 370 because we have no clearer picture of him either. What did his son say . Im afraid, carol, i cant add to that. Were down here in perth looking at the search area. I know the son has been very obviously supporting his father. A very difficult time, obviously, for the family. Remember, were 19 days into this. There have been so many people, so many investigators looking into the lives of both the pilot, the and the copilot. The captain and the first officer. But we still havent reached any conclusive idea of whether there was anything nefarious going on in the cockpit involving one or both of these two. The son coming out today very much supporting his father. All right. Andrew stevens, i appreciate it. Just going back to the newspaper article from the malaysia newspaper, the son was interviewed. Hes a young man in his 20 pps he said his father wasnt fanatical. He does not believe his father hijacked the plane and he tries to ignore all of the reports coming over the internet and in other publications about his father. He said ive Read Everything online but ive ignored all the speculation. I know my father better. So with renewed focus on the flight 370 crew, we wanted to take a closer look at what we know about captain zaharie shah. Hes gn with Malaysian Airlines since 1981. Hes married. He has three children and one grandchild. He lives in a gated Luxury Community in the kuala lumpur suburbs. Hes described by colleagues and friends as an aviation geek. He also owned that inhome Flight Simulator. And shah was politically aware, supporting malaysias main opposition parties. David suchy is a cnn safety analyst. Peter golds is a cnn aviation analyst and former managing director for the ntsb. Welcome, gentlemen. Thank you carol. U. S. Officials tell cnn that no smoking gun has been found in regards to the pilots Flight Simulator data. This pilot seems like a normal guy, doesnt he . I heard the term aviation geek. I guess i fall into that category as well. So i have an aviation simulate normy house. Its not like what he has, but, you know, i dont see anything suspicious about that. And i really dont think theyll turn much of with that evidence. So some presumably investigators have been looking into captain shahs background for weeks and weeks. No suicide note has come to line. No family strife. Nothing from his Flight Simulator so far. So in your mintd, do you agree . Do investigators know more than they are saying or are they in the wrong place . I think there is no oh, im sorry. There is no evidence that is shown that this captain was involved in anything nefarious, as you say. What we do believe is that something occurred in the cockpit that caused the transponder and the acars system to be turned off and to be turned off manually. Thats the only bit of solid evidence that we have. And i think the report out of malaysia from the police the unsourced Police Spokesperson is probably a very poor lead and has been talked down extensively by cnns Law Enforcement analyst and others. David, some theorists say the copilot could be to blame because he was too inexperienced to make that sharp westward turn. Could you argue the 9 11 hijackers were way inexperienced, too, and they managed to hit their targets, sadly . I think thats going into speculation again. Theres a lot of danger in doing that. In my history with investigations is when you start starting to try to find conclusions, all the fact comes along and try to support that. So it really can lead you in the wrong direction. Ive tried to stay away from speculating about why or who. But rather the what. Rather the what. Go ahead. The person sitting in the right seat can fly the aircraft completely competently. Thats why theyre there. Thats why you have two pilots. Any indication that the copilot might not have the skill to fly the plane on this southerly course, simply foolish. Hes there in case the pilot becomes incapacitated. He flies the plane a significant amount of time. Hes a perfectly competently trained pilot. The other question, we havent really heard much about the ten flight attendants on board that plane or the some 200 passengers. Why arent we hearing more about them, do you suppose, david . Well, i know that they are being looked at. I know they are checking all that. Its just that some of the information they are finding there isnt getting out. And rightfully so. Until theres some conclusive evidence, theres really no sense in sending that information out. Im surprised they didnt send information to this degree out on the pilots because until its proven, its just pure speculation and in an attempt to try to figure out where this airplane may have gone, which is healthy. Its a good thing to do but to release it in this way is not a good thing. Peter is it possible that investigators have had a failure of imagination . In other words, are they not thinking of something because theyre stuck on all these established theories . No, i dont think thats true. The way in which this investigation has evolved, you are now seeing major roles played by the chinese, the americans, the british, the malaysians, the australians, even the new zealanders. I dont think theres any failure of imagination. I think there are enough trained investigators who have real skills, who have done this sort of thing before that theyre not going to go put on blinders at this stage. They are going to get to the bottom of this. Its going to take a long time, but theyre going to get to the bottom of it. I hope so. David and peter, thank you for being with me. I freesappreciate it. Still to come, the invest sgigs flight 370 and the investigation that hangs over the cockpit. 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Of course, until crews recover the objects, investigators will not know if they are actually connected to that missing plane. As investigators continue to search for any income evidenphy evidence, much of the speculation turns to the cockpit. Did one or both of the pilots deliberately bring down that plane . Usa today is reporting malaysian authorities are now focussing on the flights captain. But u. S. Investigators say there is no such evidence jumping out at them. Jim clancy is tracking the investigation in malaysias capital kuala lumpur. What have you found out . Well, you know, what i can tell you for sure is that people here in kuala lumpur are looking with great anxiety, with Great Expectations that some debris will be found. Something will be found to lead them to that black box because they know only that will clear up in everyones minds what actually happened in the cockpit. Who or what might have been responsible for the disappearance of flight 370. Take a look. In a vacuum of evidence, media reports persistently point to the pilots as those likely responsible for the disappearance of flight 370. They had the skill. They were the last ones who controlled. Government officials refuse to comment. But the former head and founder of Malaysia Airlines said he personally knew senior captain zaharie shah from the time he was a cadet 30 years ago. You knew captain shah. Some people point a finger at him. He is an excellent pilot and also an excellent captain. I think they are going the wrong way. They are pointing finger at him. You also knew the copilot. What can you say about him . His father learned the koran by heart. So he also learned the koran by heart. Hes a good muslim. And i know that hes a muslim. At times accusations have been colored with politics. He was a lifelong supporter of the Opposition Political Party and its leader Anwar Ibrahim. Some saw this has a way to rink him to the pilot and thats the reason it became a controversy. Its been reported captain shah was in the courtroom hours before the flight when ibrahim was sentenced to five years in prison on sodomy charges. Charges the opposition insists are designed to eliminate Anwar Ibrahim from politics. I am quite clear about it. Zawahiri wasnt that afternoon right up to the point the sentencing took place. As a multinational search effort continues, dr. Aziz hopes the flight data recorder will be located and with it, the evidence to clear the pilots. The black box. Once we get the black box, then we can have the answers. If we cant find all of those, then we will start pointing fingers. They will say all sorts of things. And its very difficult for us to defend. Captain shahs family has gone into seclusion. They did talk voluntarily with the police but they want to avoid all the media scrutiny. Thats why it was important that his son seth came out today and talked with local media telling them, forget all of this speculation. I know who my father was. Carol . Tom, we hear this all the time that malaysian officials dont want to be embarrassed, you know. They would be embarrassed, culturally if these pilots were somehow to blame. Is that your sense in is that a real concern . Not as much, i think, as, you know, people from the outside looking in think about it. They want the truth to come out. They want to know themselves. They know how important it is for malaysia, Malaysia Airlines, for the entire aviation industry. They want the truth to come out. They dont believe that the pilots are capable of this. They think the pilots with this much experience would have never put the passengers at risk. If someone wanted to commit suicide, why take along a whole plane load of passengers. All the theories are out there. All the speculation is out there. But the solid record of these two men seems to defy all of it. And we have to take that into account. Just like everyone on that flight is in one way or another a suspect. But all of them have to be judged on the evidence, not innuendo, carol. Jim clancy reporting live from kuala lumpur. Thank you so much. 16 people confirmed dead. 90 others missing after saturdays landslide in Washington State. Families struggle through devastating loss. Some are asking if this tragedy could have been prevented. Anna cabrera is here. Good morning, carol. The search continues for the missing in what is now becoming one of the worst Natural Disasters in this states history. And the questions about was there a warning ahead of time . More on that when we come back. Return on investment wall isnt a street. Isnt the only return im looking forward to. For some, every dollar is earned with sweat, sacrifice, courage. Which is why usaa is honored to help our members with everything from investing for retirement to saving for college. Our commitment to current and former military members and their families is without equal. 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