Transcripts For CNNW CNN Newsroom 20140426 : comparemela.com

i'm victor blackwell. >> we do have breaking news we need to tell you about this hour. the crisis in ukraine, it is intensifying by the hour it seems. the country's prime minister accusi accusing russia of crossing air space multiple time sfwls they are ready to release a round of additional sanctions. we're live in the ukraine with the latest. >> reporter: well, as you're saying, the situation here does grow more tense by the moment. the government in kiev continues to say they are launching what they're calling their anti-terrorism operation. just an indication of how chaotic the situation is, the organization for security and cooperation in europe had mandated a military verification mission here. 13 people were taken hostage, detained by these pro russian groups. amongst them are eight europeans, five ukrainians. the mayor saying they don't believe they are part of the osce, that they are in fact spies. placing the onus of responsibility on the government in kiev saying it took place within ukraine's borders. and of course, russia also reiterating the fact that they want to see ukraine stop that military operation. >> we've seen the russians refuse to support this deal reached last week to decrease the tensions. they haven't mandated the militant groups to step down. is there any indication that anything is working? we know the g7 sanctions -- well, they're ready to go, so the president says. any indication as to when they might actually take effect? >> reporter: well, they could go into effect as soon as monday bearing in mind too that the second rounds of sanctions are going to be targeting putin's alleys, prominent businessmen, possibly russian institutions as well. unclear as to what specific affect they may have on russia's economy. one also needs to remember it's not just russia potentially effected. rish and europe are -- europe relies on russia for around a third of its natural gas. at this stage, we do have this on going standoff with neither side willing to back down. the russian's violated air space seven times in the span of 24 hours. we continue to see this posturing by all players on all sides. >> thank you so much. joining us from the eastern ukraine. the russian prime minister in rome today urging russia to, leave us alone. all this unfolding as president obama is halfway around the world in malaysia. >> he's reafrming washington's -- affirming washington's commitment to the on going search for flight 370. the crisis in kraun is certainly on his mind as well. the president warned that russia could face sanctions as soon as monday. >> i think it's important for us not to anticipate that the targeted sanctions that we're applying now necessarily solve the problem. >> let's bring in cnn white house correspondent in kuala lumpur. michelle, president obama, as we saw there with malaysia's king and queen at this state dinner, tell us this is initially was -- when it was scheduled the first time, to boost economic ties with malaysia to grow jobs there and in the u.s. expound that, if you would. >> reporter: right. it's his recommitment to asia that the administration wanted for president obama's second term. it helps to realize that this comes in the context of. this is the first visit to malaysia of a u.s. president since 1966. so it's being met with much fanfare. trade, of course, is a big teal on this visit. malaysia is a willing participant in the 12-nation trading block that's still being worked out. it may or may not come to fruition. there are good signs that malaysia will cooperate fully with that. the president already mentioned some of these issues in an interview he gave. some top opposition leaders here in malaysia have been arrested and charged recently with crimes. some see them as trumped up cha charges. the chief national security advisor will be meeting with them. we expect the president to sort of mention that situation in a gentle way. also military cooperation in this region is a big one. malaysia sent troops into afghanistan and has expressed a willingness to really partner with the u.s. on a number of different areas. so kind of one of those key partnerships in the region which is seen as increasingly important for the u.s. as economies emerge here. and i think even though the president might not have what they call dlifblees to -- deliverables to take home to the u.s., it really happens before a fascinating backdrop. we have the crisis in ukraine. some of this region see that as providing a bad example. we have the missing plane. the u.s. is continuing help with that. and you also have other world events -- you know, china that really affect this area. malaysia is one of three countries on this trip that has a territorial dispute with china. they are trying to balance out making alliances with other countries and also still cooperating with china. >> a timely or untimely visit there. thank you. president obama one of the things he did say that was a head line, was that he says the u.s. is going to continue to be committed to the search for missing malaysia airlines flight 370. it's been seven weeks. the searches have been exhaustive and officials have been unable to locate a single piece of debris from that boeing 777. >> right now, the bluefin-21 is scanning the ocean floor in the 14th mission. if the bluefin-21 does not find any debris, search crews plan to shift their focus slightly north. let's talk about this. we have cnn safety analyst david suecy and michael kay and a professor at embry riddle. >> what do you think of this possible shift north? i mean, is it all they've got really? >> well, it's not only all they have, but it is -- it is the best choice that they have at this point. i think that they've exhausted what they can do with the bluefin. as they shift north, it's going to be deeper. they're going to have to take a break and re-evaluate. i think they're still focused on those pings. they believe, as i do, that those pings came from the black boxes. >> bill, what about you? i'm wondering, we got word this morning that the bluefin was slowing down today. are we running that thing into the ground. >> well, i think it's getting tired. there's a lot of effort been expended with that vehicle and it probably needs some maintenance and i think the decision to change platforms and change location is a sound one. hopefully -- i agree with david. there's nothing else down there that those pings could have come from but one of the flight recorders. so you got to stay in the area. that's the best chance we got. >> we have the orion. michael kay, other possible resources, which would be your choice to assist in this search after the bliefin ends its work. >> i think really we've got to look at the technology and what its constraints are. to david's point, you've got to align the technology with the requirement. and if the bluefin can't get down to the depths in the last 5% of the search area, then it makes sense to go onto something else. in terms of the expectation management, the bluefin has only been really deployed for 12 days. the first part of the underwater search was all ping locator and looking for the black boxes and the pings. they come in amplitude and strength. they don't locate where the black boxes are. when they transferred from bluling it out of the -- pulling it out of the water to deploying the bluefin, right at that very moment, we're now in this for the long haul. that long haul can last years. we've only been going 12 day wts bluefinish. we need to reset our expectations because this is going to take a long time. >> i think it does feel like a long time to a lot of people. we know that the malaysian prime minister said he will release his report next week, i believe on monday, as to what happened in those first few hours when malaysia airlines disappeared. what do you expect we're going to see in this report? and is it going to be anything significant we don't already know and are they holding back? >> it's a preliminary report that's required for the international civil aviation organization which is part of the un. that report is going to be very just to the facts, man. straightforward, there's a lot of boxes and checkmarks. it's also going to include a sequence of events. it would talk about when the aircraft departed. what happened along the route to that which could be available information that the families have been asking for. other than that, it's going to be very factual, no conclusions. it would just be saying, these are the facts. what's going to be concerning to the families is it will also be redacted. anything that the international community or malaysia determines to be privacy information will be blanked out where the families won't see it. i'm certain that will be construed as a conspiracy when in fact it's fairly routine. >> professor, what's the value, if any of the air search at this point, day 50? >> at this point, i don't think it's going to turn up anything significant other than possibly finding a piece of debris. by this time, it's way too long past the point where we can trace things back to where they might have gone into the water. the only think it might confirm is that the airplane was down. >> who do you think -- let me ask bill. who do you think can contribute to the most detailed underwater search in terms of the country sns is there is fear that some countries are going to start pulling back resources? >> i think at this point, the united states probably has the most assets that are capable of doing this type of search. again, the orion particularly, that has the best possibility in the deeper waters. so i think we're in it for the long haul too. president obama just recommitted us to continuing with this search, so i'm confident he'll do that. >> michael, the person, the figure who i think a lot of people had the most confidence in was air chief marshall houston. we haven't seen him in quite some time now. why do you think that is? >> i think it's because there's nothing to report. what he did from the outset is he established a relationship with the world and a relationship with the people, the friends and loved ones of the families from hm-370. and that relationship was based on credibility, transparency and coming forward and being open and honest when there was information. if you go back to the beginning, you'll remember the satellite photographs about various ocean debris on the surface. that's not completely dried up. we haven't really seen much of that at all. people are learning, angus houston, despite the credibility he's bringing to the search, he's learning as well. it's all about expectation management as we move forward. angus houston wants to make sure when he comes onto the world stage he has a piece of information next that's unequivocal. i think malaysia are learning from that as well. hopefully the preliminary report will be issued soon and that will establish malaysia's sort of piece on the credibility aspects of the investigation. >> all right. gentlemen, thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with us this morning. >> if you've got plans for the weekend, watch out. especially if you're in the southeast because tornados, they've already torn through parts of north carolina and it is not over yet. karen is with us. >> we have a multi-day severe weather outbreak potential. and the potential is fairly high. we'll let you know how many millions of people this could effect over the next several days and what areas could be hit by damaging or deadly tornados. that's just ahead. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ abe! get in! thanks, g. let quicken loans help you save your money. with a mortgage that's engineered to amaze! [ doorbell rings ] stall them. [ imitating monkey ] stop stalling. cascade platinum fights cloudy residue 3 times better than the competing gel and helps keep your dishwasher sparkling. cascade platinum. you friends of ours waking up in eastern north carolina, i know this is what you're waking up to. storm damage. multiple reports of tornados in the area late yesterday. authorities say at least two touched down. severe thunderstorms sliced through neighborhoods and damaged a lot of homes there. there were some minor injuries reportered. more twisters too could be on the way today. >> let's go to karen. she's been monitoring the latest weather developments. i see this huge map behind you with the clash of the dry and warm. who is next? >> we have millions of people right across the central united states in the slight risk of severe weather. there are a lot of ingredients taking place here. one of them being, we have lots of moisture coming up from the south. all the way to wichita and oklahoma city and towards the dallas area, those are the folks who are looking at the risk for severe weather. we have not had a fatality so far this severe weather season. that's the good news. this is awfully late for the severe weather season to really start getting rolling, but this is going to be a multi day event. this frontal system moving slowly across the central plain. so more people are going to be in the firing line and we could see 5 million people in that moderate risk for tomorrow. also 30 plus million people in a slight risk of storms. and that moves a little bit further towards the east as we go into monday. still this area of low pressure hanging back. still have warm, moist air out ahead. this is considered the warm sector. that's where we get high dew points and high temperatures and there's going to be that rotation in the atmosphere. that is prime combination for severe weather. what we're picking up now is pretty good thunderstorms lighting up the atmosphere between kansas and well to the northeast of oklahoma city. but watch out. later on this afternoon. stay tuned to your local television station or noah weather -- noaa weather radio. if a warning is issued, take cover immediately. >> that's good information. my parents were leaving tomorrow to go from atlanta to ohio. i got a text already. buy honey, we love you. >> glad you're going to get home safely. >> this is your hug. >> thank you so much. take heed out there folks. you know, this is prom season. there was a 16-year-old girl in connecticut who was supposed to be at her junior prom last night. this morning, she's dead. stabbed to death at school and her class mate is accused of killing her. we've got details on what possibly may have led to this vicious attack. predibut, manufacturings a prettin the united states do. means advanced technology. we learned that technology allows us to be craft oriented. no one's losing their job. there's no beer robot that has suddenly chased them out. the technology is actually creating new jobs. siemens designed and built the right tools and resources to get the job done. ♪ ♪ ♪ ben! well, that was close! you ain't lying! let quicken loans help you save your money. with a mortgage that's engineered to amaze! investigators in connecticut are trying to figure out the motive behind a deadly attack on a 16-year-old honors student. this happened yesterday at a school in milford just a few miles away from newtown. >> here's what we know. police say maren sanchez was slashed several times in the hallway of the school by a classmate. >> this should be a celebratory time. lots of juniors, maren sanchez is one of them. she should have been going to her prom last night. instead, this morning, we are dealing with this situation, grieving family and friends. investigators are looking into the possibility that she was attacked because she said no to a prom date. police say high school junior maren sanchez was attacked by a class mate. she was slashed in the neck, chest, and face. they say the attack happened in the stairwell of her school at around 7:00 in the morning. they tried to save her life, but she was pronounced dead about an hour later at a local hospital. the school community is devastated. >> vibrant, very, very involved in jonathan law high school. an incredible contributor. someone who was loved and respected by both her peers as well as her students. >> investigators recovered a knife at the scene. a 16-year-old male is being held at a local medical facility and a murder charge is pending. police haven't determined a motive. police cautioned against any speculation, including the idea that the boy was angry because sanchez had refused his invitation to the prom. >> whether or not that's factor rumor, we don't know. i think it's important that no one here and no one out here speculate on these rumors. >> the victim's cousin read a statement from the family. >> maren should be celebrating at her prom this evening with her friends and classmates. instead, we are mourning her death and we are trying as a community to understand the senseless loss of life. >> the school's prom scheduled for last night was postponed. ♪ amazing grace >> family and friends held a vigil at a nearby church and hundreds of people gathered at a local beach to release balloons. purple was maren's favorite color. >> she was very nice. she was gorgeous, too. >> she was amazing. she did everything right. everybody loved her. she was always -- she was always smiling. >> so much love for maren sh sanchez, the alleged attacker has an arraignment on monday. >> all right. thank you so much. stay with us. we're back in a moment. >> we'll be back. get all your favorites all day, every day. olive garden's signature favorites, just $10 all week long! including everyone's favorite fettuccine alfredo, and our classic lasagna. with sauces made from scratch in our kitchens every morning. all served with unlimited homemade soup or fresh garden salad. and your all-time favorite, warm breadsticks. signature favorites now just $10. all day, every day. at olive garden, we're all family here. discover 70 lunch combinations including our chicken parmigiana sandwich starting at $6.99. it's not for colds, it's not for pain, it's just for sleep. because sleep is a beautiful thing™. ♪ zzzquil. the non-habit forming sleep aid from the makers of nyquil®. take a look at the stock lately. 31 minutes past the hour. why would you look at the clock? it's saturday. >> i'm victor blackwell. good to have you with. >> let's talk about the annual meeting of the national rifle association. they are looking forward to the 2016 presidential race. >> they also face a challenge that looms even closer. a new gun control campaign bankrolled by the former new york mayor michael bloomberg. tell us about it. >> reporter: a lot going on here. this is a three-day long rally around gun rights. prominent republicans are lining up to take the podium and taking the opportunity to unif you recall fierce criticism at efforts to enact stricter gun control policy. >> look, we're all outraged and heartbroken at recent incidents in which so many innocent people have lost their lives. but public policy must always be guided by common sense by embracing what works and rejecting what does not. making it harder for lay abiding americans to defend themselves has not, does not, and will not prevent future tragedies such as these. >> now, these folks on the left, they are ady shus. they're also gutless. they refuse to admit their real agenda. michael bloomberg, eric holder, so many of the liberal backers in hollywood do not in fact believe in the second amendment at all. >> you just heard louisiana governor name former new york city mayor michael bloomberg. he recently announced he's bankrolling a new gun effort. this weekend, the nra unveiled its response. >> bloomberg voied to spend -- vowed to spend $50 million to beat us in november. he said he'd do everything he could with all of his 50 million to con front and defeat the nra. well, here's our response. >> michael bloomberg says he has $50 million to attack my gun rights. well, i have $25 to protect them. >> i've got $25. >> i've got $52 too. >> he's one guy with millions. millions to our 25 bucks. >> so there you have it. the nra ready to take on bloomberg's group. the organization was set up to try and counter some of the influence of the nra. >> thank you so much. speaking of gun laws, there's a controversial new law in georgia that's given gun owners to go ahead and pack heat in surprising places. schools, churches, government buildings, bars. >> critics say the law goes too far. gun rights advocates say the new rules provide additional protections for law abiding citizens. >> while we still guard against tearny, america today cherishes this right so people who follow the rules can protect themselves and their families from those who don't follow the rules. >> earlier today, we spoke to jerry henry, he's the executive director of georgia carry, the group that lobbied for the bill. also gun control advocate and survivor of the trechb virginia tech chuting. >> what the governor failed to mention and media outlets not failed to cover is it actually expands the stand your ground laws as we know it. people who don't have carry permits and people who are intoxicated can't use it. now they can in georgia because they changed the law. i'm not exactly sure how giving stand your ground immunity to felonies with firearms or someone under the influence of alcohol is really a safe change to that. it's a smart change that a lot of people missed and it's something we need to talk about. >> okay, what do you say to that? >> stand your ground is the duty -- no duty to retreat basically. it did not expand that. the only thing that it did was that if i go into a location that i'm not supposed to be in to protect someone's life, if i'm standing across the street from a campus, i can't carry on campus, if i see my daughter or wife being attacked on the campus, i can go over there and protect them and not be charged with carrying a firearm in the wrong place and run the risk of losing my license and right to carry because i protected my wife and daughter. they say it protects felons. they have always been allowed to use stand your ground law. >> you can take a gun into schools under this law. the school districts can appoint certain employees to carry firearms. you were a victim in the 2007 virginia tech shooting, so you know about guns in school very well. would that deter, duo you think someone that there may be somebody else in that school who is armed? >> i don't think so. there have been instances were there have been shootings at schools were there have been law officers before. the law was worse, not only was it k through 12, it also would have forced all universities in the state of georgia to allow concealed carry as well as also forcing the churches in the state to allow people to carry. before they were trying to be forced. so this bill started out much worse. through the grass roots activity, we actually made it a little bit better right at the last minute. >> go ahead. you have the last word. >> okay. the churches are private property and they like any other private property have the right to tell you no, whether it was this law or opt in or opt out. if you come to my place with a gun and i don't want you there, i can tell you to leave. it should be treated that way. >> of course, that conversation will continue for some time to come. you know, it's been 50 days z 50 days since flight 370 disappeared. there have been days of anger and frustration. a lot of it towards the mansion government. now the families of flight 370 are turning to boeing. >> up next, will their call for help be answered? ♪ ♪ abe! get in! punch it! let quicken loans help you save your money. with a mortgage that's engineered to amaze! thanks, g. it's the trusted resource. and now, kbb.com has a whole new way to help you decide on your next new car by showing you what really matters. use 5-year cost to own to compare the long term cost of maintenance, insurance and gas. read reviews. woman: gas milage is awesome. from actual owners and kelley blue book experts. and get the full picture on what it's like to own the cars you're considering kbb.com it is hard to imagine what the families of flight 370 have been going through for the past 50 days. frustrated with the malaysian government for what they say is a lack of information. they're now banding together and demands answers from boeing. >> we don't have a lot of mechanism to communicate in any formal way. we've all gotten together to draft requests directed to really the shareholders of boeing and the kinds of commitments they believe boeing should be making on behalf of solving this mystery. >> so you may be listening to this thinking, but does boeing have a responsibility or an obligation to respond to their request. want to bring in an aviation attorney. thank you for being with us. from a legal standpoint, can boeing talk to the families since this is an active investigation anyway right now? >> yes, they can in part. boeing will say that they are prohibited from talking to the families under annex 13 of the ico but that really only applied to information gathered during the course of the investigation. it will say they're prohibited from doing that and won't provide the information. >> the first lawsuits have already been filed. at some point, those will either be settled or go to trial. but how are those impacted by the lack of evidence? there's nothing. >> respectfully let me correct you for a second. no lawsuit has been filed as yet. there was something filed in chicago by a firm called a petition for discovery which i predicted it would be dismissed and it was. there has been no lawsuit filed yet. and in answer to your question, it's very much impacted as to a claim against boeing by the absence of the recovery of the wreckage or the black box. you are not going to be able to bring a claim against boeing now without the records or the black box. you can bring a claim gengs malaysia air. it's governed by the montreal conventi convention. so you could bring a claim right now against malaysia air. not against boeing in my view without the plaqblack boxes. >> we know they're expected to release their official report. what do you expect to come out of the report and will it have any legal implications? >> that's a very good question. i don't expect much and it won't have any legal implications. that's my view. no one knows what happened and they're not going to be able to say much in my view. watch, it will be very bland, just very basic facts we all know. the media has done a better job reporting this than the investigators. >> the family have composed this report of 26 questions, potentially going after boeing, what legal tools, legal avenues do they have to get answers, serial numbers from some of the parts, what can they do? >> you know, that's a great question. and the answer is unfortunately, not much. the u.s. legal system is the best in the world for getting answers, but you have to have a lawsuit first. you have to have a viable defendant and a viable claim, then you can file a lawsuit. then you can institute discovery. you could get that type of information. but you have to have a lawsuit fist. you can't do it yet against boeing because you don't have records, you don't have a viable claim. the claims against malaysia air could be brought, but they are governed by the convention as to where you can bring them. you don't have the discovery tools in those countries. i'm very pessimistic with getting those answers. i don't see it happening through the legal process as yet. >> you answered a lot of good questions for us today. thank you so much. >> thank you, tloid. >> thank you. good questions. >> thank you. so switching gears here, more and more emergency rooms are treating patients with a once forgotten illness and misinformation about vaccines. that may be the problem here. >> we're going to take you inside california's measles outbreak next. the performance review. that corporate trial by fire when every slacker gets his due. and yet, there's someone around the office who hasn't had a performance review in a while. someone whose poor performance is slowing down the entire organization. i'm looking at you phone company dsl. go to comcastbusiness.com/ checkyourspeed. if we can't offer faster speeds or save you money we'll give you $150. comcast business built for business. well, american hospitals are seeing this disturbing new trend. there's an increase of the number of patients with measles. >> yeah, the disease had been nearly eradicated. some doctors say they've never even seen a case outside of a textbook. that is starting to change. >> we're following the story from the center of an out break. >> this is a highly infectiocti disease. >> a spot chi red rash is its signature. >> you may not know you're sick. >> reporter: many people in the united states have never seen measles. >> i have been practicing for over 30 years. i've seen it. but theny physicians haven't seen it. so part of the campaign that public health has been doing so to make sure they know what to look for. >> reporter: in california, the number of confirmed cases has risen in the last couple of years. so far this year, 58. in orange county alone, the number has skyrocket. >> we've had 22 cases. over the past five years, no more than two cases a year. >> reporter: why the sudden outbreak, the growing number of parents refusing to vaccinate their children. in orange county, a 30% increase. >> is there any reason to support this idea that vaccinations could be dangerous to children? >> absolutely not. there are serious consequences to having getting the measles. >> reporter: so here, they are trying to spread the word faster than the virus that vaccinations work. >> the two imizations, the mmr that you get, is almost 95 to 98% protective. >> reporter: more people are getting their shots. maria tells me she brought her children in two days after hearing about the outbreak. >> education can overcome the perceptions. >> reporter: another reason is our shrinking world. according to the centers for disease control, 90% of the people diagnosed with measles in california contracted it abroad or from someone who just returned from overseas. >> it's pretty prevalent in other countries. >> reporter: the doctor says the majority of the people opting out of vaccinations are in the more affluent parts of orange county. he's hopeful through education that their minds will be changed. >> and listen to this, the public health problem you may not be aware of right now. yeah, they are providing free psychological first aid to hundreds of children coping with unresolved grief. hotel with a wet pool,g foa i go to hotels.com. you can get up to 50% off with their private sales. that man's privates are no longer private. all stations come over to mithis is for real this time. step seven point two one two. verify and lock. command is locked. five seconds. three, two, one. standing by for capture. the most innovative software on the planet... dragon is captured. is connecting today's leading companies to places beyond it. siemens. answers. because you can't beat zero heartburn. woo hoo! [ me announcer ] prilosec otc is the number one doctor recommended frequent heartburn medicine for 8 straight years. one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. frequent heartburn medicine for 8 straight years. beautiful day in baltimore where most people probably know that geico could save them money on car insurance, right? you see the thing is geico, well, could help them save on boat insurance too. hey! okay...i'm ready to come in now. hello? i'm trying my best. seriously, i'm...i'm serious. request to come ashore. geico. saving people money on more than just car insurance. this week's cnn hero has made it permission to help grieving children in baltimore. she grew up in a funeral home surrounded by death and fwreef. >> she's helping in a city where the homicide rate hit a four-year high last year. >> chicken nuggets, fremplg fries and a milkshake. my daddy ordered the same thing as me. that is my daddy. >> my son father, he was murdered. their bond, it was just a bond that a lot of kids don't have with their father. >> i love my city. i have lived here all of my life. but people here are having crisis after crisis. i believe that the violence in this city and grief are directly connected. >> i feel sad that somebody hurt my dad. >> a child's grief can be very different from adults. they can easily lose their identity and their security. and that shift can be very dangerous. there you go. write your feelings. how you feeling today? our program provides that safe place for a child to recover. our volunteers help the children explore their feelings. >> why did you choose red? >> i was angry when my dad passed away. >> and talk about healthy ways of coping. >> get that anger out. >> we teach our children that it's okay to cry. >> his brother died so he's feeling really sad. coping is how we deal with our feelings. we're giving families a sense of hope. we're helping to heal wounds and bring families back together again. >> kudos to her. love to see people who just -- they lift it up. they make it better. >> use what you have to do what you can. >> thank you so much for spending part of your day with us. >> be sure to keep it right here. there's much more ahead in "newsroom" starting with our colleague fredricka whitfield. >> thank you so much for leaving that hour with that note of inspiration. hello everyone at home and wherever you are at the 11:00 eastern hour of the cnn newsroom which begins right now. a lent string of -- a violent string of tornados is moving across the middle of the country right now. it comes on the heels of another storm that already did lots of damage. and president obama visiting a country tormented by that missing plane, but russia is becoming a major distraction right now. what the president is saying about all of that. plus, a touching and emotional tribute to a teenager stabbed to death in the middle of her high school. what might have motivated that brutal attack coming up. we begin with that potential outbreak of severe storms packed with tornados and large hail. it's threatening at least 9 million people this weekend. two tornados already ripped through parts of north carolina and shredded homes. one person was taken to the hospital with a traumatic injury and at least four others were injured. a man who survived the storm says things were flyinger where. >> it was like a complete fog of heavy rain. i mean, it was so intense. everything was bending down under the pressure of it. stuff was flying everywhere. it was a total mess. >> meteorologist karen is in the cnn severe weather center. which areas of the country could get hit next? >> well, we're looking at a slight risk smack across the country's midsection. we're seeing a couple thunderstorms right now from kansas city extending now into the northern sections of alaska. these aren't severe, but millions of people could be effected today by what could be an eruption of thunderstorms which could spawn tornados. going into sunday and monday, possibly tuesday, we're looking at moderate risk across the country. i'll give you those specific areas in just one minute. here's the setup. area of low pressure moves out of the interior west. it's going to start to move slowly. we get that return flow of moist air coming up from the south. much cooler and drier air on the backside of that. then for sunday, about 5 million people all the way from southern sections of missouri across a good portion of arkansas into northern louisiana, a moderate risk. they are saying it could be up to a high risk. we hardly ever see that. this has been a season that has been very quiet. we have seen no tornado death so far this year. that's a good thing. the bad news is, over the next several days with this violent weather that we're expecting and it shifts a little bit further to the east across the tennessee valley and ohio valley, we may see that streak come to an end. there is a high potential for violent storms and tornados which could become deadly. we'll be watching that over the next several days. we'll have complete coverage throughout the days over the next several days right here on cnn. >> and in large part because it's gotten so warm so quickly in many of these places that we point out? >> exactly. it has warmed up dramatically. in some cases, temperatures are running about 10 degrees above where they should be. warm, moist air, area of low pressure, that adds a rotation to the atmosphere. that's the reason we're seeing this set up. >> all right. thanks so much. check back with you later on. meantime, overseas president obama has a lot on his plate as he visits malaysia today. the missing airliner is weighing heavily on the nation. the crisis in ukraine is also demands his attention. erin mcpike is live at the white house. the president spoke about it in an interview with tmalaysian newspaper. he spoke to how the u.s. and other countries can go about preventing something mist fieing like this from happening again. i want to read part of those comments to you. he said any time there is a tragedy like this, we have to also reflect on what can be done going forward. that discussion has begun in malaysia and around the world. we'll see what improvements might be recommended. there's another important point he made. he said that the u.s. was one of the first countries to assist in the search and investigation. that's important because some officials in some countries suggest that the search might be wiebding down. he said that the fbi will continue to investigate what caused the plane to go out of radar and also that the u.s. will continue to support those search efforts. >> and then the issue of ukraine which is bubbling up. how is the president addressing that crisis in ukraine? >> reporter: really, the focus is on russia and more sanctions on rurn. in the past month or so, the united states has tried to get european leaders on board with ratcheting up sanctions. i want to read a statement to you from the g7. they say we will now agree that we will move swiftly to impose additional sanctions on russia. given the urgency of a successful and peaceful democratic vote. we have committed to act urgently to intensify targeted sanctions. russia has continued some of its military excursions into ukraine. we know a russian plane has moved into ukrainian air space. it seems that russia is not backing down. however, the united states has continued to say that sanctions have had a very crippling effect on russia's economy and they would like to continue in that way going forward. we may see additional sanctions as early as monday. >> thanks so much. appreciate that. meantime in all of this ukraine's prime minister says russian military aircraft crossed into and violated ukrainian air space seven times last night. now they are to meet monday to announce a new round of sanctions. we report the other big problem is the pro rab mill tabts who are putting up a fight to keep the ground they've seized. >> reporter: this is the command and control center of the pro russian revolt. cnn was given rare access behind the barricades of the security services building on condition we don't show any faces. just as kiev announced the second phase of its so-called anti-terrorism operation. the units are digging in. this is one of the vehicles that was captured from the ukrainian military around a week ago. those that are inside the security services building, they are absolutely confident that they can repel any sort of attack. this man, a former military man turned spokesman says, they have 2,000 fighters at the ready and plenty of weapons. it's war trophies. the ukrainian army gave them to us, he says. they are communicating and coordinating with pro russian groups in other cities and towns. he says they have developed several layers of defenses which were tesd on thursday when the ukrainian military approached their barricades on the outskirts of the city. the barricades are set on fire which then warns the mobile groups that the enemy is approaching, he plains. they seemed to work. the ukrainian military withdrew. confidence seems to be growing. at a nearby air base, smoke drifts into the sky. a helicopter was fired on and destroyed says the ukrainian defense ministry. others say it was an accident. ukrainian soldiers looked edgy as they argued with curious locals. for now, the pro russian groups seem assured that what they have, they will hold. >> and joining us live right now. the militants are not leaving. russia continues to thumb its nose at the u.s. and western allies. do these threats of sanctions really mean anything? >> reporter: at this stage, no, they don't. it's very much a measure to try to warn russia that it could face not just sanctions but perhaps even more aggressive action in the future. the issue is that for true -- for something to make a true difference on the ground here, it's going to have to have a lot more impact than these sanctions. one also has to remember it's not just necessarily russia impacted. europe is also potentially going to feel some of the bite because of the trade ties that exist between europe and rush also because europe relies on russia for natural gas. >> all right. thank you so much. appreciate that. meantime, other matters overseas still of huge importance and concern. that bluefin is wrapping up its search for 370. another kind of sub is an standby. and he says he's been misunderstood. nevada rargeer cliven bundy tries to explain his controversial comments. guy: hey captain obvious, watch this! captain: when i'm looking for a hotel with a wet pool, i go to hotels.com. you can get up to 50% off with their private sales. that man's privates are no longer private. if your denture moves, it can irritate your gums. try fixodent plus gum care. it helps stop denture movement and prevents gum irritation. fixodent. and forget it. politically incorrect, perhaps, but racist had no. that's what a nevada rancher is saying about his recent comments about african-americans. cliven bundy is still under intense scrutiny this morning for suggesting that blacks might have been better off under slavery. >> they abort their young children, they put their young men in jail because they never learned how to pick cotton. and i've always wondered, are they better off as slaves picking cotton. >> beyond disturbing no matter how many times you hear it. dan simon from nevada. so this story is not going away. the rancher is still under fire and still talking. what is he saying now? >> reporter: well, he said he's sorry if he offended anybody, but he's not sorry for what he said. as you and i both know, usually when this happens, the usual script is that you issue a full apology and then you shun the spotlight for a while. in the case of cliven bundy, he's doing the exact opposite. he's continuing to have news conferences and do interviews. >> that's what i'm talking about. reverend martin luther king wanted us to get over that type of stuff. i said that -- yesterday, i said it's time for a discussion about this. we need to be -- get over this. i don't care what your race is, whether -- we need to get over this prejudice stuff so that those words are not offensive. they are not offensive to me. you can say them to me and i wouldn't be offended. >> reporter: well, the people who championed bundy's cause like sean hannity, they have back away from cliven bundy. he still maintains his core group of anti-government supporters. those people are still here at camp bundy if you will. one of those supporters happens to be an african-american body guard. >> i would take a bullet for that man, if need be. i look up to him just like i do my own grandfather. after having met him a few times, i have a really good feel about him. and i'm a pretty good judge of character. he treats me as his own family. >> well, the irony there is super thick. in terms of where things stand right now, it was a couple of weeks a goe when you had this major standoff with the federal government. they came here to seize his cattle because he hadn't paid his grazing fees for 20 years. faced with the prospect of a bloody confrontation, they backed down and say they're going to pursue this matter through other means. it's not clear what that is, but for now, the prospect of violence seems to have been quelled. >> goes from outrageous to simply odd. so bundy made headlines with his claims that he was being taken advantage of. nevada state lawmakers and conservative media were quick to support him. to talk more about it, we're joined by brian. at first, he was an american hero. now people can't get away from him fast enough after he revealed himself with those comments caught on tape. what made everyone jump on his band wagon so quickly before doing any real homework? >> until a few days ago, if you had heart of him, it was most likely from comfort outlets. they presented him for some legitimate reasons as a victim of government overreach. as government on wild. there are some core underlying issues here that are worthy of debate that are very interesting to talk about. conservative media april chores would say why does the united states government own so much land out west. some of that should return to private property. but that story shifted from being a conservative media story to being a story i think being covered by the rest of the media as soon as those racist remarks e merged a few days ago. >> so those racist comments overshadowed any of the other issues. there's a real lesson i guess being taught in all of this, whether it be from the media outlets or maybe of the political persuasion who are quick to latch onto him before finding out, you know, what he really represented, you know, at the core. so are the -- the represent -- reputations damaged of those who chose to speak out, like hannity or the lawmakers standing by his side? >> you can certainly hear soul searching going on. conversations about how this happened and how this could have been avoided. to be fair, there were a number of conservative commentators and reporters who come with a clear point of view who were very skeptical all along, who were very careful about this guy, who did not speak up and come to his defense. those are the people now saying, i told you say. now saying, let's not let this happen again. to your point about whether people's reputations will be damaged, i actually predict they won't be over the long term f. you were a fan of sean hannity, you're going to stay a fan. >> you see -- do you see that possibly this bundy moment may find its way in political ads? >> that's what was so interesting about this this month. he saw politicians being asked about this case because of the attention it was getting on fox news and other conservative circumstance ls. that will continue i suspect even though we will see everyone condemn his racist comments. we will see this issue of government overreach continue to come up again and again. all right search officials may move onto another sub now if that bluefin-21 doesn't find flight 370 soon. the new technology that could go even deeper than before. hi, i'm jay farner, president of quicken loans. and we're here in detroit michigan helping folks refinance their homes and save money. does it make sense to refinance right now? a lot of times we can lower the monthly payment, we can consolidate debt. we just want to make sure that you know your options, and we're here for you. we're not just number crunchers. i specialize in what i do and i care about my clients. from beginning, the middle and to the end, you're gonna talk to someone. not a machine. call us today for a mortgage experience that's engineered to amaze. manx officials are -- malaysian officials are getting ready do move the search for flight 370 to the north. the bluefin has so far come up with nothing. fit comes up empty handed in the end, officials say it will move to an area where a separate ping was picked up. it's been 50 days since flight 370 went missing. malaysia will release a full report of the disappearance to the public next week. it includes safety tips for better tracking systems in planes. the blue finn's part of the hunt is almost over. what is next? it could be the 6,000, a side sub capable of going even deeper. this man conceived the concept of the sub here to talk more about what it can do. >> good morning. >> what can the reemus 6,000 do that the bluefin couldn't? >> i wouldn't look to compare the two things. i think it's better to look at what each one can do. >> okay. >> one thing that it's very good at is it can operate to 6,000 meters. so it's well equippd to get to the depths in the search area and has operated those depths quite a bit in the past. it comes with a very capable launch and recovery system. that's how you get it on and off the boat. it increases the weather window you can operate in. the third part of the problem really is navigation. when you think of this as finding a neddle in a hay stack, it's more like trying to find maybe a lost antique coin or a big football field in the middle of the night. you really have to fold back the pieces of grass and look very kaf any. so navigation becomes extremely important. our systems are very capable of using this because we use sea floor transponders to navigate them. we have cooperative vehicles. they can run two or three at a time. by doing that, you increase dramatically. >> how many are there available for this? how many would be made available for a mission like this? >> there's currently six in operation today in the field. four of them are operated almost continuously by the u.s. navy. but there are two that are independently owned. i understand they could be made available in a number of weeks. probably within three weeks. you could look at -- >> i'm sorry to interrupt you. i know we have a little bit of a delay. sorry. go ahead. >> yeah. you could look at it as not trying to move onto another asset. you could look at taking -- rather than having one system down there, you could have three of them and three times the productivity. you can split up the work space. that's why robots are so valuable in a search like this. >> so conceivably the u.s. navy has four of them. they could say we're going to volunteer ours or more than one, but it will take times. perhaps weeks to get it to that region. as far as you know, currently it's not in the region of the southern indian ocean. >> no. there's one in germany. there's only two really that would be available. >> thank you so much for your time. appreciate that. >> all right. a teenager was stabbed to death in the stairwell of her high school on prom day. the stunned student body and police. they all want to know why. all stations come over to mission a for a final go. this is for real this time. step seven point two one two. verify and lock. command is locked. five seconds. three, two, one. standing by for capture. the most innovative software on the planet... dragon is captured. is connecting today's leading companies to places beyond it. siemens. answers. investigators in connecticut are trying to figure out the motive behind a deadly attack on a 16-year-old honors student. it happened yesterday at a school in milford. just about 20 miles away from newtown. police say a classmate slashed maren sanchez to death in a school stairwell. this is heartbreaking. what happened? >> she was a very popular girl. we're hearing a lot on social media from her friends and family. at about 7:00 a.m. this all unfolded in the stairwell of a high school. according to law enforcement officials she was slashed in the neck, throat and also in the face. there was at least one school administrator that tried to perform life-saving on her. >> do we know anything about the relationship between the person responsible and ms. sanchez? >> well, there's a lot of rumors. we do know that they were classmates. they were friends on facebook. you're looking at the victim, maren shan chez. they are looking down this theory, though, that she may have been attacked because he asked her to prom and she said no. that's a possibility. they mentioned that in the press conference yesterday and a line investigators are going down today. >> so a young man arrested. what's next for him? >> there's a pending murder charge. he will be arraigned on monday. but there's a pending murder charge right now. we believe he will be charged with murder on monday. >> and treated as an adult then? >> juvenile court. so we're not sure. >> all right. thanks so much. tragic situation. >> definitely. >> all right. we're going to move back overseas now. the bluefin-21 only has 5% of its search area left to go. so far, no sign of flight 370. malaysian officials will move the search slightly north if nothing is found likely to an area where a separate ping was picked up. malaysia's transportation minister says he'll release a report to the public next week. it has been 50 days since flight 370 went missing. let's bring in our panel now. david, let me begin with you. so if a -- if nothing has been found in the current search area, does that mean the ping that led them there just was perhaps a false positive or does it simply mean that there are -- the other pings were stronger and now it's time to move onto the other search areas? what does this mean to you? >> from what i understand the first pipg was at the highest amplitude. the ocean can play a lot of tricks on sounds, both from the debris -- whatever's on the ground, the seaweed around it, the temperature layers. things like that can play a lot of tricks on sound. the pinger is just supposed to get you into a general location. so moving to the north, i think, is encouraging because of the fact that the first ping they picked up was a sustained period of time. it was almost two hours. although the amplitude wasn't nearly as high as the second ping. the first ping was just as promising although it is much deeper there. >> peter, how do you interpret this? >> i mean, my expectation is they're going to have to search all four pipg -- pings. they were quite optimistic when they announced they'd heard the pings. i don't know how they could say we've looked at one or two and we're not so optimistic about the remaining. so i think they're obligated to go to all four and search them in the same way in the 6 mile or 8 mile radius around the ping and that that's what's going to happen. >> does this seem reasonable to you, michael, the strategy has been to focus on one ping area at a time and to sweep that area as opposed to simultaneously sweeping all of the four ping areas if they were significant in the first place with various types of technologies? >> i think the strategy is absolutely correct at the moment. i think the reason we're in the area as david pointed out was because ping two hadded high -- had the highest amplitude. in order to actually locate it, then you have to triangulate it and go across the area a number of times. clearly, the signal didn't last that long. we're looking at an area over 10 million square miles. we're now back into the area. i think it's a process of elimination. when you put the bluefin in the water, it takes a long time to make absolutely 100% sure that the area they're looking at has been looked at. it's been looked at again and therefore can be eliminated before they move onto the next event. so i think the strategy is absolutely right. >> david, in your view, is the bluefin-21 the answer here? perhaps you heard my conversation with someone who helped conceive the idea of the reemus 6,000. there are certain advantages it has over the blue ffin-21bluefi. is it time to move on to a different kind of technology like that in your view? >> well, not only is it time to change tools, but it's time to change the strategy because you can't just change a tool without having a new crew, a new group that understands how to use those tools? different ways. >> like what? give an example. >> well, for example, is there combination of tools that might be more beneficial. instead of just saying let's stick with the same idea of let's search the ocean floor, you can have two or three of these units out working at the same time as they did in flight 447. they had three out there at that time. what i'm concerned about is that the malaysian government or the australians or whoever is guiding this telling the tools where to go and what to do is one thing. but to just say let's replace the tool and do the same thing is not the right thing to do. they've got to stop and strat jazz. i hope that's what they do over the next couple of weeks while they wait for the new tools to do come in. bring in new eyes to say, are we going this the right way, because it's an entire system of certainly. it's not just about this tool or that tool. it's about how the system works together. they may need other planners like some other person or group that's done this before exactly like flight 447. >> peter, what are you expecting to hear from that report next week that is to be released to the public? >> having written these reports in the past, they are generally very dry, very factual. they are well scrubbed. and i think there will be less there than people are hoping for. but it will establish certain facts. i'm sure we're going to get the timeline. i am sure we're going to get the background on what exactly the radar contacts were. but these reports, by their nature, are very sterile. >> and michael? what are your expectations? >> yeah, i don't share peter's opinion on the radar traces. i think the prime minister had a co-none drum right from the outset. he had two options. the fist was did the malaysian military authorities actually see everything and does he acknowledge that to the world. second option was, if they did see something, why didn't they do something about it. yes, they want for the latter option and deemed it not hostile, but it was certainly suspicious. how can an aircraft not identified that isn't part of routine airway's traffic, how can that descending not be suspicious and not warrant putting your f-18ds going to have a look at it. to me, there are a lot of unanswered questions. i don't think you're going to see that information in the preliminary report. >> perhaps we can talk about that more in the next hour when i see you again. thanks so much. also coming up, a veteran's hospital in phoenix putting america's best on secret waiting lists? where they stay without care and for some, when their turn comes, what happens. all right 40 veterans died while waiting for care there. this is a cnn exclusive investigation you don't want to miss. right back after this. humans. even when we cross our "ts" and dot our "i's", we still run into problems. that's why liberty mutual insurance offers accident forgiveness with our auto policies. if you qualify, your rates won't go up due to your first accident. because making mistakes is only human, and so are we. we also offer new car replacement, so if you total your new car, we'll give you the money for a new one. call liberty mutual insurance at... and ask us all about our auto features, like guaranteed repairs, where if you get into an accident and use one of our certified repair shops, the repairs are guaranteed for life. so call... to talk with an insurance expert about everything that comes standard with our base auto policy. and if you switch, you could save up to $423. liberty mutual insurance -- responsibility. what's your policy? could mean less waiting for things like security backups and file downloads you'd take that test, right? what are you waiting for? you could literally be done with the test by now. now you could have done it twice. this is awkward. go to comcastbusiness.com/ checkyourspeed. if we can't offer faster speeds or save you money we'll give you $150. comcast business built for business. all right. now to what may be the most shock example yet in cnn's on going investigation of u.s. military veterans. dying while they wait for medical care at va hospitals. we have uncovered just how far one va hospital went to hide its out ray justly long wait times. the managers were actually keeping two waiting lists. a sham list that made the hospital look like a model of efficiency and a secret list that showed the deadly reality. here's our senior investigative correspondent, drew griffin. >> reporter: it was a plan by to management at this veterans hospital in phoenix, arizona to hide as many as 1,600 veterans waiting many months just to get a doctor's appointment. cnn has learned at least 40 veterans left waiting for care. many who are on that secret list are now dead. and what's worse? according to multiple sources, the management's plan included shredding the evidence to hide the fact there was awaiting list at all. this doctor just retired after spending 24 years with the va health system here in arizona. he says the hospital did have a list that showed the va was providing timely appointments within 14 days, but that was a sham. >> the only record that you have ever been there requesting care was on that secret list. they wouldn't take you off it until you had an appointment time that was less than 14 days. so it would give the appearance they were improving greatly the waiting times when reality it had been in some cases 21 months. >> reporter: in the case of this veteran, the wait ended much sooner. >> he started bleeding in his urine. it's like, we got to get you to the doctor. >> reporter: he says his brooklyn-raised father, so proud of his military service, would go nowhere but the va for treatment. with a history of cancer, teddy and his wife rushed him to the phoenix va emergency room where he was examined and sent home to wait. >> all they wrote on his chart was must have primary doctor in one week. >> urgently. >> and they sent him home. >> reporter: did anybody call? >> no. >> reporter: sally kept calling day after day from late september through october, through november. then she no longer had a reason to call. thomas died on november 30th, 2013. the bleeding was from inoperable stage 4 bladder cancer. >> they call me december 6th. he's dead already. >> reporter: they called you and said -- >> i said what is this regarding. she goes, we have a primary for him. i said, really, you're a little too late sweet heart. >> reporter: to management including the phoenix va director knew about the actual wait times and defended its use of the list to their staff. which makes this statement all the more strange. it is dishart ning to hear about the allegations and we are open to collaborative discussion that assists in our goal to continually improve patient care. sam foot says that response is tuning. >> this was all planned by the highest authorities here in phoen phoenix. >> correct. >> basically, you have medical directors cooking the books. >> correct. >> it is now getting the attention of the house veterans secret or not to be part of an on-going investigation into delayed care at the va, which may have led to deaths of u.s. veterans. fredricka? >> thank you so much, drew griffin. late yesterday, the phoenix va sent an additional statement saying they have had problems accessing care and have taken numerous actions to meet demand while we continue to serve more veterans and enhance our services, end quote. cnn has continually asked the director of that hospital for an interview, so far has been refused. still ahead, history in the making at the vatican. the faithful are flocking to rome to take it in. we'll take you there live. ♪ ♪ ♪ ben! well, that was close! you ain't lying! let quicken loans help you save your money. with a mortgage that's engineered to amaze! predibut, manufacturings a prettin the united states do. means advanced technology. we learned that technology allows us to be craft oriented. no one's losing their job. there's no beer robot that has suddenly chased them out. the technology is actually creating new jobs. siemens designed and built the right tools and resources to get the job done. trwith secure wifie for your business. it also comes with public wifi for your customers. not so with internet from the phone company. i would email the phone company to inquire as to why they have shortchanged these customers. but that would require wifi. switch to comcast business internet and get two wifi networks included. comcast business built for business. catholics around the world are preparing for an historic event tomorrow. the first time ever, they will canonize two poeps on the same day. pope francis will lead the ceremony. at least a million are expected to attend in st. peter's square. delia gallagher joins me from rome with more where people are starting to converge. talking about 1,000 bishops expected to attend the ceremony, delia. >> reporter: that's right, fredricka. you can see behind me they're already coming in. it is start to go rain, but they have back packs and umbrellas on, they're ready to camp out for the night. as you say, 1,000 bishops and 6,000 priests, pope benedict is expected to attend as well. perhaps most important people at the occasion will be two of the women that received miracles from john xxiii and john paul ii. a french nun that recovered from parkinson's, the same thing john paul ii, and another that had a brain aneurysm, which inexplicably disappeared when she prayed to john paul ii. >> thank you so much. extraordinary event. we have lots of people there already. we will check back with you. we know millions are expected to descend and already thousands have. gluttony is one of the so-called seven deadly sins, but one city in france sell bralts the overindulgence of food and wine. and who else other than anthony bourdain to take us there in this week's "parts unknown." >> i gained about 8 pounds in less than a week. if you plan to come to leon, bring your lipitor, get your reservation at betty ford squared away in advance, because you're going to be eating. this is the home land of the original gangsters of cuisine, the godfathers and godmothers, high end, low end, sausage, cream sauce, cheese, oh, yeah, real good cheese. more sausage. did i mention sausage? all sorts of things, rich dumplings of fish and shellfish sauces, most of them with cream involved, butter, yeah, lots of butter, and sausage. that's sausage. >> and that's leon. okay. anthony bourdain, taking us there, that's fun. keep an eye on bourdain's french adventures sunday on "parts unknown" 9:00 p.m. eastern. and at 10:00 p.m., dessert with inside man and morgan spurlock. he is looking at america's love for pets. find out how far some will go to spoil their animals. guy: hey captain obvious, watch this! captain: when i'm looking for a hotel with a wet pool, i go to hotels.com. you can get up to 50% off with their private sales. that man's privates are no longer private. ♪ ♪ abe! get in! punch it! let quicken loans help you save your money. with a mortgage that's engineered to amaze! thanks, g. hello again, everyone, i'm fredricka whitfield. here are the top stories we're following in the cnn newsroom. a violent storm is moving. it already caused damage and injuries. millions are at risk this weekend. and president barack obama visits a country tormented by a missing plane. but russia is a major distraction. what the president is saying about all of that. and a touching tribute to a teenager stabbed to death in the middle of her high school. what might have motivated that brutal attack. a potential outbreak of severe storms could become deadly this weekend. it is threatening at least 9 million people. two tornadoes already ripped through north carolina and shredded homes according to wtkr. one person was taken to the hospital with traumatic injury and at least four others injured. folks that survived the storms say they heard a loud bang. others had trouble reaching loved ones because of bad cell phone service. >> i just heard it going over the house and i heard glass shattering and heard a loud bang. >> everything that's my sister, that's my family, i didn't know. i couldn't get a hold of anybody, didn't know if she was okay. >> karen maginnis is in the severe weather center. karen, which areas could be hit next? >> this is about a three day event. the first starts out across the central plains. the setup is an area of low pressure moves out of the central rockies on the back side already some areas in montana, three inches of snow. but out ahead of it, moisture is coming up from the south. temperatures have warmed up dramatically across the southeast, running a good five to ten degrees above where they should be this time of year. so you get high temperatures, high dewpoints, you get some rotation or spin in the atmosphere, key ingredients for a severe weather setup, like we're looking at today. but probably more so going into sunday and into monday. you can see the jump in the number of expected or average tornadoes from april and into may, really it is april through that june time period when we see frequent tornado reports. now, we have seen a fairly quiet system, but i think over the next 24, 48, 72 hours is going to be a very different story with millions of people from sioux falls, south dakota, all the way down towards dallas and into the austin area, you're under a slight risk. but then going into sunday, a moderate risk. we don't see this too often. it does happen, but moderate risk suggests we could see violent tornadoes, maybe some deadly tornadoes coming up. that across the tennessee valley and into ark-la-tex. and still the same setup going into monday when another moderate risk, two days out, extends from tennessee to louisiana. we will have more. >> now is the time people need to get their tornado plans in place. communicate it to everybody and have weather radios if they can as well. thanks so much, karen maginnis, appreciate that. all right. overseas, president barack obama is in the middle of his asian tour, and today he is visiting malaysia as that country is in the middle of a desperate search for flight 370. obama didn't mention the plane when he spoke at a special dinner today but he did talk about it in an interview with the malaysian newspaper earlier in the day. erin mcpike is with us from the white house. erin, what did he say? >> reporter: fred, president obama offered his condolences to malaysia and made some important points about the help that the u.s. has provided in the search. i want to read part of those comments to you from the star. he said as a friend and partner of malaysia, the united states was one of the first countries to join in the search for the missing plane. u.s. navy ships, aircraft and personnel remain on the scene, assisting in the search. our fbi is working closely with malaysia on the investigation into what caused the aircraft to disappear, and will continue to offer our support and assistance as the search and investigation continue. that is, of course, very significant because we have been hearing from some officials overseas the search could begin to wind down, but of course president obama has said now that the u.s. is committed to this effort. he also said that the cooperation and partnership between a number of countries has been very significant as this search has continued and he said that the u.s., malaysia and other countries are beginning to reflect now on what they can do to prevent something like this from happening again and how they can improve aviation security, fred. >> and then, erin, there's a situation of ukraine bubbling up. how is the president keeping abreast of that or even addressing it? >> reporter: fred, he has certainly been threatening more sanctions. the rhetoric has been escalating incrementally over the last couple of months and that's been no different. we've been hearing from the state department and from the white house that sanctions are having a very harsh impact on russia's economy and they have been trying to get european leaders on board with additional sanctions. they have been working on that for the past month and it does appear that they have succeeded. i want to read a statement from the g 7 to you. leaders say we agreed we will move swiftly to impose additional sanctions on russia, given the urgency of securing the opportunity for successful and peaceful democratic vote next month in ukraine's presidential elections. we committed to act urgently to intensify targeted sanctions and measures to increase the cost of russia's actions. we know european leaders will be meeting on monday. we could see new sanctions as early as monday, fred. >> thanks so much, erin mcpike joining us from the white house. all right, so let's talk more about the tension between russia and ukraine and how that's ratcheting up. ukraine's prime minister says russian military aircraft violated their air space seven times last night. while in rome, the prime minister responded. >> we ask russia to pull back its security forces, not to provoke and not to support russian terrorists, that are located and deployed in eastern and southern ukraine. we urge russia to leave us alone. >> let's go to the center of attention in eastern ukraine, cnn's arwa damon is in da mask. russia has thousands of troops near the border. now the air games in ukrainian air space. is vladimir putin going to listen to the plea to quote, unquote leave us alone? >> reporter: that would be highly unlikely and extremely surprising at this stage. russia is, though, denying it did violate ukraine's air space, but as part of the claim and counterclaim verbal battle that's been going on over what's been transpiring in ukraine pretty much since the onset, you have the ukrainian government, united states, the european union, all of whom put the onus on russia to de-escalate the situation. they do believe russia is directly orchestrating what we have seen happening in eastern ukraine. russia, of course, denies all of those allegations. the ukrainian government is saying it is in the second phase of the so-called anti-terrorism operation, though we haven't seen any sort of significant military movement by ukrainian forces, and of course, the pro-russian protesters remain heavily armed and deeply entrenched in their various positions throughout this part of the country, fredricka. >> arwa damon, keep us posted. appreciate that. the mystery surrounding flight 370 has reached a fevered pitch now, and so have the theories into what may have happened to the missing plane. we'll explore some of those next. [ male announcer ] if you're taking multiple medications, does your mouth often feel dry? a dry mouth can be a side effect of many medications but it can also lead to tooth decay and bad breath. that's why there's biotene. available as an oral rinse, toothpaste, spray or gel, biotene can provide soothing relief, and it helps keep your mouth healthy, too. remember, while your medication is doing you good, a dry mouth isn't. biotene -- for people who suffer from dry mouth. a dry mouth isn't. de>>who's got twond rhooves and just got ae. claim status update from geico? this guy, that's who. sfx: bing. and i just got a...oh no, that's mom. sorry. claim status updates. just a tap away on the geico app. [ female announcer ] f provokes lust. ♪ it elicits pride... incites envy... ♪ ...and unleashes wrath. ♪ temptation comes in many heart-pounding forms. but only one letter. "f". the performance marque from lexus. but only one letter. and we'll be here at lifelock doing our thing: you do your shop from anywhere thing, offering protection that simple credit score monitoring can't. get lifelock protection and live life free. almost 51 days and still nothing. the mystery surrounding flight 370 is frustrating for officials and agonizing for families of those on board. with so many questions and very few answers, conspiracy theories are growing rampant. here is cnn's randi kaye. >> reporter: conspiracy theorists believe they know what happened, even where the missing plane is. one of the more outlandish ideas? aliens stole flight 370, and abducted everyone on board. >> the notion that a particular tragedy or terrible thing that's happened is attributable to aliens seems preposterous. >> reporter: cass sunstein wrote a book why conspiracy theories persist. he says people are drawn to mystery and suspicion, especially when feelings of fear, anger and grief are involved, as is the case with the malaysian airliner. on social media, conspiracy theories about the missing plane are still going viral. this tweet pretty much covers it from time travel to an invisible cloak for the airplane. others wonder was the plane hijacked to afghanistan? or did it land on the u.s. military base known as diego garcia, the island in the indian ocean has restricted security clearance, but that's only amped up conspiracy theorists, so much so the idea even found its way into the white house briefing room. >> some news reports saying that the missing flight could have landed in the u.s. military base, diego garcia in the central of the indian ocean, do you rule in that or rule out that. >> i'll rule that one out. >> reporter: another conspiracy, an outrageous insurance scam. the malaysian police chief gave that theory legs. listen. >> could be somebody on the flight that bought huge sums of insurance who wants the family to gain from it. or somebody who has owed somebody so much money. >> reporter: if not that, then perhaps some suggest north korea took the airplane. >> the notion that north korea would choose to exercise such authority and capacities as it has to hijack this plane, that seems in the realm of desperate speculation, too. >> reporter: of course, not all theories are as implausible as those, others are more believable. pilot suicide hasn't been ruled out, nor has rapid decompression, during which everyone on board passes out, allowing the airplane to fly for hours until it runs out of fuel. another reasonable theory, fire from lithium batteries in the cargo hold brought the plane down, or a real hijacking that ended with the plane crashing into the sea. >> and so to exclude the ones that are wild and inconsistent with anything that happened in human history is probably a good start and to have technological explanations that fit with what sometimes happens or could happen, that's a little more solid. >> reporter: more solid, but still, no concrete explanation and no plane. randi kaye, cnn, new york. another mystery that happened in this country, a teenager stabbed to death in the stairway of her high school on prom day. why? students and police are all stunned. your education is built to help move your career forward. here's how: we work with leading employers to learn what you need to learn so classes impact your career. while helping ensure credits you've already earned pay off. and we have career planning tools to keep you on track every step of the way. plus the freshman fifteen, isn't really a thing here. and graduation, it's just the beginning. because we build education around where you want to go. so, you know, you can get the job you want. ready, let's get to work. golive garden'svorites asignature favorites, just $10 all week long! including everyone's favorite fettuccine alfredo, and our classic lasagna. with sauces made from scratch in our kitchens every morning. all served with unlimited homemade soup or fresh garden salad. and your all-time favorite, warm breadsticks. signature favorites now just $10. all day, every day. at olive garden, we're all family here. discover 70 lunch combinations including our chicken parmigiana sandwich starting at $6.99. ♪ (vo) oh. my. tongue. finally. (announcer) all-new friskies saucesations. a taste experience like no other. in cheesy, creamy, homestyle, or garden sauce. friskies. feed the senses. captain: when i'm looking for a hotel with a wet pool, i go to hotels.com. you can get up to 50% off with their private sales. that man's privates are no longer private. c'mon, you want heartburn? when your favorite food starts a fight, fight back fast, with tums. heartburn relief that neutralizes acid on contact. and goes to work in seconds. ♪ tum, tum tum tum... tums! investigators in connecticut are trying to figure out the motive behind a deadly attack on a 16-year-old honor student. happened in milford, not far from sandy hook massacre. this time, a classmate stabbed maren sanchez to death in a stairwell. family and friends say she was full of hopes and dreams. so what happened? here is nick valencia. >> reporter: police say maren sanchez was attacked by a classmate, slashed in the head, neck, face. it happened in the stairwell of the school at 7:00 in the morning. staff members and first responders tried to save her life. she was pronounced dead an hour later at a local hospital. the school community is devastated. >> vibrant, very, very involved in jonathan law high school, an incredible contributor, someone who was loved and respected by both her peers and her students. >> reporter: investigators recovered a knife at the scene. a 16-year-old male is held at a local medical facility and murder charge is pending. police haven't determined motive. the police chief cautioned against any speculation, including the idea that the boy was angry because sanchez had refused his invitation to the prom. >> we heard those stories or that information, whether or not that's rumor, whether or not that's fact, we don't know. i think it is important that no one here and no one out here speculate on the rumors. >> reporter: the victim's cousin read a statement from the family. >> maren should be celebrating at her prom this evening with her friends and classmates. instead, we are mourning her death and we are trying as a community to understand the senseless loss of life. >> reporter: the school's prom, scheduled for last night, was postponed. family and friends held a vigil at a nearby church and hundreds of people gathered at a local beach to release balloons. purple was maren sanchez's favorite color. her classmates, heartbroken. >> she was very nice, she was gorgeous, too. >> she was amazing. she did everything right. everybody loved her. she was always smiling. >> nick valencia joining us live. how unbelievably sad. >> so emotional. >> there is a suspect, a young boy. >> her classmate, 16 years old. he is under arrest, murder charge is pending, and expected to be arraigned monday in new haven, connecticut, but getting back to the emotional scenes there, her classmates, fred, gathering around at the beach, all dressed up in prom attire to memorialize her, remember her legacy, sending off one of her favorite colors was purple, sending off balloons. just so tragic, you know, and you think about the motive, that line that they're going down that she could have been possibly attacked because she said no to him after he asked her to prom. of course that's just preliminary, but they believe that's what happened. >> thank you so much, nick valencia. our hearts are going out to the family and friends of young maren here. all right, the black boxes aren't the only things that could help solve the mystery of flight 370. cell phones apparently could provide other clues, but can their data ever be retrieved? we'll find out. hey. i'm ted and this is rudy. say "hi" rudy. [ barks ] [ chuckles ] i'd do anything to keep this guy happy and healthy. that's why i'm so excited about these new milk-bone brushing chews. whoa, i'm not the only one. it's a brilliant new way to take care of his teeth. clinically proven as effective as brushing. ok, here you go. have you ever seen a dog brush his own teeth? the twist and nub design cleans all the way down to the gum line, even reaching the back teeth. they taste like a treat, but they clean like a toothbrush. nothing says you care like a milk-bone brushing chew. [ barks ] ...and let in the dog that woke the man who drove to the control room [ woman ] driverless mode engaged. find parking space. [ woman ] parking space found. [ male announcer ] ...that secured the data that directed the turbines that powered the farm that made the milk that went to the store that reminded the man to buy the milk that was poured by the girl who loved the cat. [ meows ] the internet of everything is changing everything. cisco. tomorrow starts here. flight 370's flight data and cockpit voice recorders may eventually solve this historic mystery once and for all, but they're not the only source of potentially vital situation. chances are the 239 people on the flight had smart phones, and many of the words and pictures on the phones actually can be retrieved, even now. here is cnn's ted rowlands. >> fred, imagine how much information there could be on the passenger and crew cell phones from flight 370 if found. there's a group of computer forensic experts here in chicago that believe even if those phones are at the bottom of the indian ocean for months, they would be able to get the unsent texts, e-mails, even video and still photographs off those phones. well, we put them to the test. some of the final messages from passengers on flight 370 could be with the missing plane at the bottom of the indian ocean, unsent texts, e-mails and photos to loved ones. but could they be retrieved if the plane is found? >> absolutely, it is a matter of finding the devices, determining what kind of damage was associated with them and handling them properly. >> we decided to see if it is possible by putting this cell phone in saltwater. we turned on the transmission, tried to send e-mails and text. i will take video of the chicago river and some stills. we'll see if those survive. we took our phone to chicago's shedd aquarium and met a fish biologist, george parsons. using water from the ocean floor exhibit, they prepared this pressure chamber for our phone. >> we have the salt compositions right. we have the temperature very cold, not as cold as it will be in the indian ocean, but pretty close. and now we have a pressure chamber. >> the plan is to leave our phone in water for a week and see if the test e-mail, text, video and photos can be retrieved. >> it is 2:30, april 8. we're going to place it into our chamber right now. this is going directly into saltwater that simulates the indian ocean. >> within seconds, saltwater fills the inside of the phone. eight days later, two of the computer forensic experts come to the aquarium to remove the phone. >> i can definitely see salt core ocean built up on the outside of the phone. it is whether or not it made its way all the way inside, built up on the electronics, whether it co corroded the memory chip. >> because oxygen will increase core roegs, we keep it in water. >> we will get it in a solution where we can clean it up. >> a few hours later at the discovery lab. >> look how it ate the plastic. >> to retrieve data, the phone is pulled apart. it is bathed in an ultrasonic cleaner several times. any salt deposits are chipped away. >> this is the most important part. this is where all of the data is held and stored, so this is actually looking pretty good. >> there we go. >> the chip is then actually removed, using heat. >> it was in pretty good shape. so the next step quite honestly is possible it into an adapter like this. >> eventually, there it is, the e-mails i tried to send, the text message, even the photos, and a portion of video we recorded of the chicago river. and while our experiment with the aquarium tank is not the same as the indian ocean, our experts believe they could also retrieve data from cell phones on flight 370. >> the chips are fairly well protected. we were able to get the data off, i think it would be possible. >> bottom line, experts say it is all about these tiny chips which are in each cell phone. they say the chips themselves are very well insulated. if you find the phone and the chip itself is not crushed, physically crushed, the experts say they're able to get the data off of it. they think even if the phones are at the bottom of the indian ocean, they'll be able to retrieve the data if they're handled properly during the recovery. fred? >> ted, thanks so much. of course, they have to find the phones and plane debris, period. let's bring back our panel of experts to find out what's next in the search for flight 370. cnn safety analyst david susie, and peter goelz and michael kay. michael, to you first. 50 days later, still no signs at all of this aircraft. are we at the point where the size and scope of the search needs to be reevaluated? are you even convinced that the concentrated efforts need to be still at sea? >> i think, fredricka, there's an iterative evaluation going on from day one. angus houston will be sequential planning. they'll be evaluating the intelligence, the data, the feedback. and he will be doing it 24/7 the fact that we're just reaching another critical phase of the investigation is part and parcel of the way this is playing out. there have been a number of those since the start. the first one was how do we even begin to search an area above 2500 radius from the south china sea over 10 million square miles. then we have the immarsat data. then we get into the unprecedented act of searching for black boxes or the needle without going near the haystack, which never happened in aviation history. so i think at every point there's constant evaluation and analysis going on by the jacc, led by air chief marshall houston, and it is unprecedented. tomorrow's evaluation might be different. and i think that's what we've got to accept. this is a very unusual, unorthodox investigation. >> and peter, i wonder in your view when reviewing this investigation, whether the malaysian authorities or all of the nations involved here, what is going to be the most important thing in your view for them to revisit? is it the immarsat data, the malaysian military radar data to see the trajectory of the plane path, what's going to be most important and most critical to review one more time, even if it is with the fresh eyes you have been talking about for a couple weeks now? >> right. i think the two most important aspects are the radar data and immarsat data. that's how we got to find the four pings. let's make sure that that's correct, and let's make sure we explore all four pings. i think they're in the right area. i think they've just got to keep searching and we've got to make sure we have the correct equipment. if the depth is too deep, then we've got to bring in some new equipment to make sure we get to the bottom. >> and david, while this search is being reevaluated, reassessed, whichever way you want to look at it, you've got family members who are saying we want some answers. one of the partners of the americans that was on board is saying a number of people are going to be going to the boeing shareholders meeting next week to try to put some pressure on boeing because of the fiduciary interests in her view. in your view while this investigation, the search for this plane, investigation is going on, how do you see this as being helpful for the family members? can they even expect they'll get any information from boeing? >> well, i think it's good for the family members to continually try to reach for answers and strive for answers. it keeps the pressure on the team. on the other side of the coin, the pressure on the team is really not helping a whole lot. but when you talk about the boeing shareholder meetings, i have been to those. they're very organized and very structured. there's no way they're going to allow any kind of disruption to that. if there is a disruption, or if they're not on the agenda, i don't think they have a chance at all of getting in there, particularly during the investigation, which is highly regulated as to what information boeing can share with anybody. boeing has to report to the investigating authority, which is malaysia, if they have any information about the airplane, where it went, how it was manufactured, that's only going to the investigative authority. it does not go out anywhere until after the final report has been issued which could be years down the road. >> david, peter, michael, thank you so much. gentlemen, appreciate that. >> thank you. the national rifle association has a fight on its hands now. an anti-gun lobby, backed by a billionaire, is raising the stakes at the group's annual convention, but the nra is fighting back. ♪ led to the one jobhing you always wanted. at university of phoenix, we believe every education- not just ours- should be built around the career that you want. imagine that. ♪ (vo) oh. my. tongue. finally. (announcer) all-new friskies saucesations. a taste experience like no other. in cheesy, creamy, homestyle, or garden sauce. friskies. feed the senses. ♪ here's a good one seattle... what did geico say to the mariner? we could save you a boatload! ♪ foghorn sounds loudly ♪ what's seattle's favorite noise? the puget sound! ♪ foghorn sounds loudly ♪ all right, never mind doesn't matter. this is a classic. what does an alien seamstress sew with? a space needle! ♪ foghorn sounds loudly continuously ♪ oh come off it captain! geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. the annual meeting of the national rifle association is under way. members are already looking ahead to the 2016 presidential race and what they see as a potential threat to their gun rights. they also face a challenge right now. a new gun control campaign, bank rolled by former new york mayor michael bloomberg. cnn's alexandra field joins us now from new york. looks like the nra does have a big fight on its hands? he is pretty powerful in this area. >> reporter: absolutely. we haven't seen him back down from a fight yet. mike bloomberg announced an effort for gun control policies. you knew add roe -- advocates at the nra would have something to see. we see the executive vice president wayne lapierre going on the offensive in front of a big crowd. >> you know, bloomberg about to spend $50 million to beat us in november. he said he would do everything he could with all of his 50 million, to confront and defeat the nra. well, here is our response. >> michael bloomberg says he has $15 million to attack my gun rights. well, i have $25 to protect them. >> i've got $25. >> i've got $25, too. >> he is one guy with millions. we're millions with our 25 bucks. >> all right. a slew of republican speakers are also taking the stage this weekend in indianapolis. among them some potential republican presidential hopefuls. some criticize the obama administration stand on gun policy. all of them trying to drum up support for republicans before 2016. >> our current president should take comfort because in 32 months, he can return home to live in the anti-gun utopia that is chicago. >> we are gun owners, all of us. we like to shoot. we like to hunt. and very importantly, we like to protect ourselves, our families and our homes. >> the same liberal extremists that want to come take our guns are the same forces that want to take away religious liberty, are the same forces that don't think we're smart enough to pick our own health insurance products, the same forces that don't think we're smart enough to decide what soda we want to drink or what foods we want to eat. >> reporter: every year it is a massive event for the nra. the convention lasts through the weekend and expected to draw some 70,000 people. tonight, fred, we'll hear from sarah palin. >> all right, alexandra field, thank you so much. in new york with that. meantime, a new law in one state will let people carry guns into possibly churches and bars. it is stirring up a major controversy. is the law a life saver or will it lead to deadly consequences? our legal guys weigh in next. what if a photo were more than a memory? what if it were more than something to share? what if a photo could build that shelf you've always wanted? or fix a leaky faucet? or even give you your saturday back? the new snapfix app revolutionizes local service. just snap a photo and angie's list coordinates a top-rated provider to do the work on your schedule. the app makes it easy. the power of angie's list makes it work. download snapfix for free. disturbing the pantry. ortho crime files. a house, under siege. say helto home defense max. kills bugs inside and prevents new ones for up to a year. ortho home defense max. get order. get ortho®. a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. plus, in clinical studies, celebrex is proven to improve daily physical function so moving is easier. celebrex can be taken with or without food. and it's not a narcotic. you and your doctor should balance the benefits with the risks. all prescription nsaids, like celebrex, ibuprofen, naproxen and meloxicam have the same cardiovascular warning. they all may increase the chance of heart attack or stroke, which can lead to death. this chance increases if you have heart disease or risk factors such as high blood pressure or when nsaids are taken for long periods. nsaids, like celebrex, increase the chance of serious skin or allergic reactions, or stomach and intestine problems, such as bleeding and ulcers, which can occur without warning and may cause death. patients also taking aspirin and the elderly are at increased risk for stomach bleeding and ulcers. don't take celebrex if you have bleeding in the stomach or intestine, or had an asthma attack, hives, other allergies to aspirin, nsaids or sulfonamides. get help right away if you have swelling of the face or throat, or trouble breathing. tell your doctor your medical history. and find an arthritis treatment for you. visit celebrex.com and ask your doctor about celebrex. for a body in motion. a new gun law in georgia is generating a lot of attention and controversy around the country. here is why. it allows people with concealed carry permits to take guns into some bars, churches, school zones, government buildings and parts of airports. it also prevents police who spot someone carrying a gun from asking for their permit, unless the person is committing a crime. opponents around the u.s. call the law dangerous, but supporters, including georgia governor nathan deal, say it will make its residents safer. >> while we still guard against tyranny, america today cherishes this right so that people who follow the rules can protect themselves and their families from those who don't follow the rules. >> let's bring in our legal avery freedman and richard herman, criminal defense attorney and law professor from las vegas. >> hey, fred. >> i feel like it has been too long. >> way too long. >> finally we're together again. avery, you first. does this law in your view have real staying power? >> well, it may very well in terms of constitutional power, but you know what's odd about this thing, it is a fire storm in a number of respects, you laundry listed some implications of it. but you know what, since 2008, the supreme court talked about individual rights to own a gun. individuals don't need the government of georgia saying look, you have a right to bring a gun to the airport and you have a right to bring a gun to a bar. you have the right anyhow. the weirdest thing about this law to me is that prosecutors are now barred from prosecuting people who claim i'm trying to employ self defense, even if i use an uzi or ak-47, if it is self defense, those people can't be prosecuted. that is unbelievable. and that's why many law enforcement people opposed the law that was signed this week. >> so richard, one area where the law seems to go beyond what other states have on their issue of stand your ground, the provision will waive criminal prosecution of felons that use illegal firearms in a crime or self defense. doesn't this turn things upside down, particularly for those prosecuting crimes involving guns as avery was mentioning, giving an example or two? >> doesn't it encourage these felons to obtain these guns in case they get in altercations where they feel they have to use them in self defense? it is a dicey situation in georgia. it is why the supreme court hasn't come down and ruled on these issues that the state of georgia and other states can enact these types of legislation. i mean, it is really -- you can now, if you are a licensed gun owner in georgia, you can go to a federal building with a gun, go to church with a gun, you can go to governmental buildings. i mean, all over with handguns. >> but there are some -- >> if they approve, if a bar approves, you can go in with a gun. i can see why it would be important to bring a concealed gun to a bar and start drinking with everybody. that's an important reason to have a gun there. but the governor of georgia says only 5% of the population in the state of georgia are licensed gun owners, so that's what the statute is effecting, and they're not the ones that cause the problems, it is those with mental health issues that cause the problems. that's the dichotomy here. >> avery, do you see other potential land mine's, when people have concealed weapons, have their permit, they forget, go to the airport, and have an altercation with the tsa agent and you have another big problem going on? >> there you go. that's the tip of the iceberg. richard mentioned going into bars, going to the airport. yeah, georgia says sure, come onto the airport. good public policy, show up at the airport, at hartsfield-jackson, the busiest airport in the world, with a gun. that's good public policy. holy smokes. >> you might feel threatened. >> the implications are phenomenal. it is worse than that, fred. even if you don't have a conceal carry license, not licensed in the state of georgia and you get in an altercation and you happen to have a handgun and use that handgun to defend yourself, you cannot be prosecuted for the unlawful possession of a firearm. it is pretty unbelievable statute, i think. >> avery, richard, thanks so much. sorry, we only have time for this! >> that's okay. that's all right. we'll come back. >> incrementally, we're getting a chance to see each other more. that's good. >> we're going to stay on after hours with you, fred. >> there you go, that's right. >> i like that. all right. richard, avery, good to see you guys. once political rivals, now family friends. what will happen to the dynamics between the bushes and clintons if jeb bush and hillary clinton both run for president? that's next. to keep life balanc. i don't always have time to eat like i should. that's why i like glucerna shakes. they have slowly digestible carbs to help minimize blood sugar spikes. [male announcer] glucerna... say "hi" rudy. [ barks ] [ chuckles ] i'd do anything to keep this guy happy and healthy. that's why i'm so excited about these new milk-bone brushing chews. whoa, i'm not the only one. it's a brilliant new way to take care of his teeth. clinically proven as effective as brushing. ok, here you go. have you ever seen a dog brush his own teeth? the twist and nub design cleans all the way down to the gum line, even reaching the back teeth. they taste like a treat, but they clean like a toothbrush. nothing says you care like a milk-bone brushing chew. [ barks ] captain: when i'm looking for a likehotel with a wet pool,chew. i go to hotels.com. you can get up to 50% off with their private sales. that man's privates are no longer private. my guests are "nathan, which dish is better?". now i say you can have it all with our new seafood trios! red lobster's new seafood trios is three times delicious! choose one option from the wood-fire grill, one signature shrimp dish, and a pasta like new lobster mac and cheese. three choices all on one plate. just $15.99. for a limited time only! you can build it any way that you like, pick your three favorite things. it is spectacular! i'm nathan tavernaris and i sea food differently. this week, jeb bush said publicly he is considering a run for president. hillary clinton has also hinted at the topic. it has been more than 20 years since the first presidential faceoff between the two families. today, the former rivals are actually good friends. how will the dynamics of these dynasties play out if both hillary clinton and jeb bush run for president? here is our chief political analyst, gloria borger. >> reporter: while they're both publicly coy about it. >> i am obviously thinking about all kinds of decisions. >> i am deferring the decision to the right time, which is later this year. >> reporter: as brother neil bush tells it, behind the scenes it is another story. >> mom and dad dancing. we get together as an entire family every christmas, and of course everyone is kind of curious what jeb is thinking, but no one wants to ask him. i don't know if he's got the burning desire to run. if he runs, he'll have that burning desire for sure. >> reporter: over at the clintons, it is the same subject. paul begala has been their close friend more than 20 years. >> do you think bill clinton wants hillary clinton -- >> absolutely. >> to run? >> yes, i do. i think many, most, all people who love her. >> do you think he is actively talking her into run? >> believe me, i don't get in the middle of that dynamic. >> reporter: that's between husband and wife. it is more of a mother-son dynamic for the bushes. >> to campaign in the communities. >> he is by far the best qualified man, but no. there are other people out there that are very qualified and we've had enough bushes. >> we are in the waiting room of the hotel, waiting to go to the bush library event, and mom said that, we were all watching jeb standing in the corner. like what's your response to that? but it is not going to effect jeb's decision. if you ask dad, if you ask dad the same question, should jeb run, he would say yes. >> he would? >> yeah, he would say yeah. >> have you asked him? >> i've heard him answer that question. >> reporter: after three decades of bushes and clintons. >> and secretary of state, hillary rodham clinton. >> reporter: with all that political baggage, the families could be at it again. but call them dynasties and you get push back from the patriarch. >> it is not a dynasty, it is whether she should be eliminated because she happened to marry me a long time ago. >> never thought we were entitled to something. >> reporter: you think about jeb bush running. the question is this is another member of the bush dynasty. >> mom would kill you for using the dynasty word, but go ahead. >> reporter: go ahead, what's wrong with that dynasty word? >> i don't have any problem with it. but the fact that there happens to be name recognition or brand recognition for the bush name and brand to me shouldn't be a handicap, so it is not like it is automatically a benefit to have a famous name, but it clearly gets jeb off the starting blocks much quicker. >> reporter: brand recognition works for hillary clinton, too. and former george w. bush speech writer david frum complains it gives the families an unfair edge. >> the thing they bring to the table that nobody else has is this massive pre-existing ability to raise money. >> reporter: so the system is rigged. >> if we end up having a presidential race in which one dynasty plays off against another dynasty, you'll say is this america or last days of the roman republic? >> reporter: the families are very different. the bushes have longevity, starting with senator prescott bush in 1952. and sheer size. the clintons came from nowhere, start white gold a young, unknown governor bill clinton in 1978. it is a boutique operation. together, the two families have produced three governors, three members of congress, a multitude of rising stars, not to mention three presidents and two could be presidents. >> just like hollywood or anywhere else, there are certain names that stick and people remember. >> it is not an ego thing, it is a limited number of people that have all of the requisite attributes. >> where were you all in '92. >> reporter: that's when bill clinton beat bush 41. if the families face off again, there's a new wrinkle. they're actually good friends and the presidents co-humanitarians. >> i love george bush. i do. [ applause ] >> i love bill clinton, maybe not his politics, but i love bill clinton. >> reporter: barbara bush even started to referring to bill as her adopted son, sometimes as the adopted black sheep son. i don't know how jeb and his siblings feel, but i know bill loves it. >> reporter: how would that effect the relationship between the bushes and clintons if hillary ran against jeb? >> i don't think there's ever going to be animus, the friendship won't stop, there will be a wall, and on the other side of the wall is politics and it will be a pretty bitter, tough campaign i think. >> reporter: with two candidates, each family always considered stars. >> jeb from his family, he was the chosen one, and similarly with hillary, there was a feeling before she married even bill clinton, people in the early 70s were starting to think someday there will be a woman president, who might it be. >> i actually tried to talk hillary into leaving me when we were in law school. this is the god's truth. i said you have more talent for public service than anybody in my generation that i met. you shouldn't waste it, i shouldn't stand in your way and you should do this. she said oh, bill, i'll never run for office. >> but she did. >> i believe i will bring a lifetime of experience to this job. >> reporter: she lost. the long resume and clinton name could not beat change. >> it is a great privilege for me to be here with you. >> reporter: if a clinton and bush run this time, that fatigue factor is center stage. >> if i was to run, i'd have to, you know, overcome that, and so will hillary, by the way. >> back when i was a younger man, we were saying the same thing about kennedys serving in different ways. so there's an ebb and flow. who knows if high tide is set in for the bush family. i don't think so. i think the tide is still rising. >> bush and clinton said they're going to make a decision by end of the year, fred, so we'll know then whether we are going to see a replay of bush versus clinton. back to you. >> fascinating. thank you so much, gloria. much more ahead in the cnn newsroom which begins right now. hello again, i am fredricka whitfield. here are the top stories we are following in the cnn newsroom. fears of an imminent invasion of ukraine are growing with allegations russia violated the country's air space overnight. will new sanctions stop vladimir putin's aggression? a historic day in the making. pope francis gets ready to elevate not one but two popes into sainthood. we will go live to the vatican for a preview. and a potential deadly disease that shouldn't be on the radar any more. but measles are making a come back. a push against vaccines could be at the heart of this dangerous trend. our top story now, at least 9 million people could be at the mercy of possible deadly tornadoes in the u.s. and storms this weekend. several violent tornadoes ripped through parts of north carolina just last night, they shredded and damaged several homes. folks there are cleaning up and trying to salvage what they can today. one person had to be taken to the hospital with a traumatic injury and at least four others were injured. a man that survived the storm says it was a total mess. >> it was the roughest night. it was like a complete fog of heavy rain. i mean, it was so intense. everything was bending down under the pressure of it. stuff was flying everywhere. it was a total mess. >> meteorologist karen maginnis is at the cnn severe weather center. karen, which areas of the country are in the next potential bullseye? >> this particular one for today is right across the central united states from sioux falls, south dakota, all the way into north central texas, around the dallas area and towards san antonio. that shifts a little to the east going into sunday. then into monday, even a little bit further to the east. a fairly slow moving weather system, but very vigorous and dangerous consequences as far as the atmosphere is concerned. here is that yellow shaded area between 5 and 10 million people potentially effected by an outbreak, a slight risk of severe weather, high winds, heavy rain, heavy downpours expected. also the potential for an isolated tornado. but we have a moderate risk going into sunday. this includes the area from southern missouri towards the ark-la-tex, texas, louisiana, arkansas. watch out, that could be upgraded to a high risk meaning the potential is definitely there. then we move it towards the east, as we go in towards monday. so this system is not giving up any time soon. warm, moist air coming up from the south. behind it cooler, dryer air. those thunderstorms, the tornadoes which touched down in eastern sections of north carolina not associated with this system as all, but we've had a slow start to the tornado season, the severe weather season. heavy rainfall across this region, high winds. but you saw the damage from the tornadoes which touched down in elizabeth city. we're just now beginning the severe weather season. if you've got a noaa weather radio, pay attention, listen to it. if a warning is issued, that means severe weather has been spotted. if a watch is issued, it means conditions are favorable. you can see this spike in the threat for tornadoes through the months of april, may, and into june. they start to taper into july. so fred, we've got a lot on our plate. we're going to continue to have coverage throughout the afternoon. meteorologist jennifer grey will be here starting in the 2:00 eastern time. we have lots to tell you about. lots to stay on top of. >> karen maginnis, thank you so much. folks need to pay attention to those warnings as you mentioned. meantime, overseas, president barack obama has a lot on his plate as he visits malaysia today as part of his asia tour. the missing airliner is weighing heavily on that nation and as obama extends his sympathies there, the crisis in ukraine, a continent away, is also demanding his attention. erin mcpike is live at the white house. erin, let's begin with the missing plane and what the president has said about it while overseas. >> reporter: well, fred, president obama spoke to the global impact of this missing plane. i want to read part of those comments to you that he made to the star. he said any time there is a tragedy like this, we ought to also reflect on what can be done going forward to prevent something similar from happening again. that discussion has begun in malaysia and around the world and we'll see what improvements might be recommended to continue improving aviation security. now, he also pointed out that the united states was one of the very first countries to get involved in the search and in the investigation, and even as we're hearing, the search efforts could begin to wind down, he committed the united states to helping in the search efforts and that the fbi will continue to investigate what caused the plane to disappear, fred. >> and then the other issue, bubbling issue, ukraine. how is the president addressing it? >> reporter: well, fred, he's continuing to talk about more sanctions. he's escalating the rhetoric, threatening more tougher sanctions against russia. so far the state department is insisting that even though we're seeing that russia hasn't yet gun to back down, the state department is insisting the sanctions are having a chilling effect in slowing russia's economy. in the past month or so, the united states has been trying to get european leaders on board with ratcheting up sanctions. that effort appears that it is working. i want to read a new statement to you from the g-7 leaders, they say we have now agreed we will move swiftly to impose additional sanctions on russia, given the urgency of securing the opportunity for a successful and peaceful democratic vote next month in ukraine's presidential elections, we committed to act urgently to intensify targeted sanctions and measures to increase the cost of russia's actions. we know also that european leaders meet monday to iron out what it may look like. we may see new sanctions as early as monday, fred. >> erin mcpike, thanks so much from the white house. there are new developments in ukraine that have the tension in that country escalating. ukraine's prime minister, in fact, says russian military aircraft violated their air space seven times last night. now g-7 leaders are saying they'll discuss a new round of sanctions monday. bring in arwa damon in eastern ukraine. she's in the divided city of da mask. arwa, in addition to the actions, russia has thousands of troops near the border, and pro-russian militants are not laying down their arms and going home. so from what you have seen, is there potentially an all out war developing? >> reporter: that's what people here are very afraid of because it is difficult to see how the stalemate is going to end, given how polarized and determined all sides are to hold their various positions. the government in kiev dispatched the military in the second phase of the so-called anti-terrorism operation, but we haven't seen real significant military movement. the tensions have been increasing here on a daily basis. you mention the russian troop presence on the other side of the border. tens of thousands of russian troops. russia also undertaking training exercises, saying that that is in direct response to what's been happening here. and also according to the ukrainian government, the prime minister, russia has gone so far as to violate ukrainian air space. here is what he said earlier in rome. >> we ask russia to pull back its security forces, not to provoke and not to support russian lead terrorists that are located and deployed in eastern and southern ukraine. we urge russia to leave us alone. >> reporter: now, russia has denied it did, in fact, violate ukrainian air space and russia continues to deny that it is involved in what is happening in eastern ukraine. however, russia has continued to maintain that it does reserve the right, should the need arise, it will take measures to protect its interests and the russian speaking population. >> and the g-7 nations meeting monday to apply more sanctions. will it take more than just sanctions for ukraine to get its land back, to get russia to retreat from the border? >> reporter: it seems like it willity -- at this stage. the first round had an effect. russia was forced for the second month to increase its interest rates, but the russian government is saying it believes it can actually weather the sanctions. it is not just russia that will be impacted. the european union and russia do have very close trade ties and europe relies on russia for about a third of its natural gas supplies, so there's still quite a few cards that all sides have to play. >> arwa damon, thank you so much. all right, next, the sinking of that south korean ferry, it is a heartbreaking disaster. should the ferry company have learned valuable lessons from another sinking that ended much differently? and it is a highly infectious disease that had almost fallen by the wayside. now fears of a link between vaccines and autism are helping it make a dangerous come back. [ male announcer ] this is the cat that drank the milk... [ meows ] ...and let in the dog that woke the man who drove to the control room [ woman ] driverless mode engaged. find parking space. [ woman ] parking space found. [ male announcer ] ...that secured the data that directed the turbines that powered the farm that made the milk that went to the store that reminded the man to buy the milk that was poured by the girl who loved the cat. [ meows ] the internet of everything is changing everything. cisco. tomorrow starts here. [ female announcer ] f provokes lust. ♪ it elicits pride... incites envy... ♪ ...and unleashes wrath. ♪ temptation comes in many heart-pounding forms. but only one letter. "f". the performance marque from lexus. oh! the name your price tool! you tell them how much you want to pay, and they help you find a policy that fits your budget. i told you to wear something comfortable! this is a polyester blend! whoa! uh...little help? i got you! unh! it's so beautiful! man: should we call security? no, this is just getting good. the name your price tool, still only from progressive. we are the thinkers. the job jugglers. the up all-nighters. and the ones who turn ideas into action. we've made our passions our life's work. we strive for the moments where we can say, "i did it!" ♪ we are entrepreneurs who started it all... with a signature. legalzoom has helped start over 1 million businesses, turning dreamers into business owners. and we're here to help start yours. divers are waiting for the waters off south korea to calm down before resuming the search for victims of last week's ferry disaster. that search was suspended today because of bad weather. one diver says he is searching like those victims like he would for his own children. 115 people are still missing. friday they found the bodies of 48 girls huddled together in one room. 187 people are confirmed dead. 15 crew members, including the captain, had been arrested for, quote, causing death by abandoning ship. as for what caused the wreck, investigators are looking into how alterations to the ferry may have made it less stable and prone to capsizing. here is a look at a nearly identical ship and the safety lessons its japanese makers may have learned from another disaster. >> reporter: the ferry sinking with hundreds of people trapped inside, shocking korea and the world. but in japan this is déjà vu. november 13th, 2009. a japanese ferry was traveling from tokyo to okinawa, less than 12 hours into the journey the ocean current was very rough, says a marine scientist. he says the current shifted the cargo to one side, causing the ship to capsize. the ferry doesn't just look like the korean ferry accident. the two ships were made by the same builder, run by the same operator. they weighed almost the same and capsized nearly the same time into the journey. here is a major difference, says the professor. when the koreans bought the ferry from japan, they expanded it to pack in more people, turning it into a ticking time bomb. the koreans bought a used vessel from japan and added lots of cabins, and the cabins were built on top. the japanese ferry accident had only 29 passengers and crew aboard, and the crew saved everyone, pulling them to the upper deck and deploying all lifeboats, in the wake of its ferry accident, japan toughened ship regulations to lockdown and limit cargo, especially in poor weather or currents. since that change in the law, japan has had zero accidents in vessels of this size. the korean ferry company appears not to have known much about the risks of cargo and the current. it bought the japanese ship in 2012, refitted it to carry hundreds more passengers, and launched it as the sewol, the doomed ferry that carried the passengers to a disaster japan had already learned to prevent. he is one of the biggest names in business. so what does warren buffett think of the push to raise minimum wage? his answer just might surprise you next. to raise or not to raise the federal minimum wage. several cities and states have made the move and president obama wants congress to raise it from $7.25 an hour to more than $10 an hour. is that the right move? poppy harlow posed that question to business magnet warren buffett, got a rather surprising answer from him. >> reporter: hey there, fredricka. i sat down with warren buffett this week at a restaurant in new york city. we talked a lot about the minimum wage debate. federal minimum wage. it is $7.25 an hour. the issue whether it has been raised is one he thought about for a long time. should federal minimum wage be raised? that's the toughest question. i thought about it for 50 years. i don't know the answer on it. >> really? >> i just -- in the economics, you have to say and then what, and the real question is are more people going to be better off if it is raised. and i don't know the answer to that. i know if you raise the earned income tax credit significantly that would definitely help people that have gotten short sticks in life, but you lose some employment as you increase the minimum wage. you know, if you didn't, i would be for having it be $15. if you got the same result in all other ways, but you won't. and i don't know the tradeoffs. >> is $7.25 an hour a living wage? >> no, i think it is terrible. $7.25 an hour is not what should be what people are trying to live on in a country as prosperous as ours. >> reporter: it is important to keep in mind, some states have a higher minimum wage than the federal minimum wage, and many companies pay above minimum wage. he is warning raising minimum wage could cost jobs. he suggests altering the tax system to give those with more moderate incomes a boost. in this interview we also talked about jobs of course, many higher paying industries like manufacturing, et cetera, have shrunk as technology has improved. interestingly, he says that shift is not a bad thing. >> what do you do in a day and age where ipads can replace certain jobs and they are? >> it's always good to replace jobs. >> always good to replace jobs? >> yeah. i mean, i don't know if it was 70% of people working on farms, think of the number of jobs. if you told people then we're going to get rid of, it will be 2% or 3% someday, they would say the world is going to go to hell. but you want to free up people for other things. the less people it takes to build a car, the better off we are. >> will they have other jobs to go to? >> that's the question, when the tractor came along and the combine, and when they put robots in auto factories. people say where are they going to go? the market system has found places for most of them. >> reporter: but of course the challenge is finding that new job, especially right now, just ask the more than 10 million americans that are out of work currently. but he emphasized he has faith in the market system and says it worked in the past. we talked about a lot more in the interview, including his thoughts on the 2016 presidential race. you can see all of that at cnn.com and cnnmoney.com. fred? >> thank you so much for that, poppy harlow. president obama is in malaysia today as part of his four country asian tour. and the economy is likely to be a critical topic. obama got a warm welcome at a dinner with the prime minister and the country's supreme king in malaysia. tomorrow, it is time to get down to business. obama will meet with the prime minister and then both will be holding news conferences. cnn richard quest asked him about that meeting. >> reporter: what is the message that you will be giving to president obama? >> is that we want to be friendly with both united states and with china and we expect the true super powers to play a productive, positive role in the region. >> good luck. they both want you on their side, perhaps to the exclusion of the other. you know that. >> well, that's life. you just have to manage the two super powers. do we need to choose? i don't think we need to choose. we need both. we need america's market, technology, america is the strongest super power. and we need china. china is our largest trading partner. and mind you, the economic relations between united states and china is also quite strong. so you know, we have to be realistic about it. >> the prime minister and president obama will hold a news conference at 1:15 sunday afternoon in malaysia. that makes it 1:15 a.m. eastern time. we will have live coverage of that here on cnn. also, up next, distress beacons are supposed to start transmitting with a crash. the ones on flight 370 never went off. what could that mean? straight ahead in the newsroom. dear sun, meet your biggest competitor: philips slimstyle led bulb. beautiful quality light with a slim design, at a slim price. a short word that's a tall order. up your game. up the ante. and if you stumble, you get back up. up isn't easy, and we ought to know. we're in the business of up. everyday delta flies a quarter of million people while investing billions improving everything from booking to baggage claim. we're raising the bar on flying and tomorrow we will up it yet again. all right, bottom of the hour. welcome back, i'm fredricka whitfield. here are the big stories crossing the cnn news desk right now. it has now been 51 days since malaysia airlines flight 370 vanished, and as they're trying to move the investigation forward, they're hosting president barack obama in their country. he arrived in malaysia earlier today. obama is the first u.s. president to visit the country since lyndon johnson. he was welcomed at a state dinner with the malaysian prime minister and the country's king, and russia says its foreign minister and secretary of state john kerry have talked on the phone about the crisis in ukraine. they issued a statement saying lavrov sees the need for the ukraine to crease operations in the eastern part of the country. they seized land and government buildings and refused to give them up. meanwhile, ukraine's prime minister says russian military aircraft crossed into and violated ukrainian air space last night. russia denied violating the air space. and catholics around the world are preparing for a historic event tomorrow. the first time ever, the church will canonize two popes. pope francis will lead that special ceremony. at least a million are expected to attend that event in st. peter's square. incredible images coming out of illinois. this is all that's left of a home in suburban chicago. authorities say an explosion possibly caused by a gas leak leveled the house and damaged 30 other homes nearby. amazingly, no one was seriously hurt. the explosion could be heard two towns away. police in milford, connecticut are investigating the stabbing death of a 16-year-old girl, maren sanchez. she died after being slashed in the neck, chest and face in the school stairwell. she was set to attend her prom that night. a classmate is under arrest and faces a murder charge. the prom was postponed, but in an emotional moment, students all in their formal wear gathered around the prom dress sanchez would have worn. friends describe her as a bright light full of hopes and dreams. officials are re-evaluating what to do next in the search for flight 370 but it could mean heading north. the bluefin-21 drone covered 95% of the designated search area, but so far has come up with nothing. if it comes up completely empty handed, officials say it will move to an area where a separate ping was picked up. it has been 51 days now since flight 370 went missing. malaysia's transportation minister says he'll release a full report of the disappearance to the public next week. it includes safety recommendations for better tracking systems in planes. the families of the missing passengers have demanded the release of that report and asked for answers to a series of questions, including this one. why weren't there any signals from the emergency beacons that are supposed to go off upon impact of water or land? brian todd explores what that could mean. >> reporter: fredricka, we're told by sources there were four of these devices called emergency locator transmitters on board the missing plane. they're supposed to send locator signals on impact or if there's sudden deceleration. not one burst was sent from flight 370. could the reasons why these didn't work lead us closer to finding out what really happened? it is one of the most baffling questions in an already confounding mystery. why didn't any emergency beacons on the missing plane send a distress signal? they're called emergency locator transmitters, elts. malaysian officials say four were on the plane. >> emergency locator transmitter is a small radio transmitter, it sends a signal that's detected by satellites in the event of an airplane crash. >> reporter: signals sent by elts to satellites are relayed to monitor stations on the ground. they're not related to the pinger, the signal from the black boxes containing the flight recorders. these beacons are designed to be activated if they sense extreme deceleration or by impact. those are circumstances that could have played out with flight 370. experts say there are other possible scenarios with the missing plane where the elts would not work. >> if the plane crashes with too much velocity into the surface that the entire plane is disintegrated, also, if the plane lands gently enough, in the case of captain sullenberger and the miracle on the hudson, if it landed gently enough with not enough force to activate the elts. >> reporter: and a crash could have broken the antennas. there's a time lag after impact. takes 50 seconds for the first signal to be transmitted. >> even after it hits the water, it has to stay afloat more than 50 seconds or they won't sound either. >> reporter: even two elts placed near life rafts and triggered by contact with saltwater might be useless because elts don't work underwater. >> once these things become submerged, the radio signal is no longer able to reach the satellite. >> reporter: could the transmitters have been tampered with? experts say two of the transmitters attached to the fuselage probably would have been inaccessible to anyone on board. two near the life rafts which are portable could have been tampered with. fredricka? >> brian todd, thank you so much. let's bring in our panel, cnn safety analyst, david susi, and mary sciavo. mary, this notion of that device, we talked about it a couple weeks ago, what happened that it wouldn't go off. now we're listening to brian todd's report and jeff wise's theory that maybe it landed so gently perhaps it didn't go off. do you have any new thoughts as we have to now revisit the resetting of the entire investigation? >> well, sure. right. sure, the piece was very good explaining what might have. but there are two more things that might have happened, too. one, we don't know when they last changed the batteries, when they last checked on the batteries on the elts to make sure they were in functioning condition, and some of the satellite algorithms, and which satellites these were going to signal to did change a few years back. we don't know if they updated their service. there are additional reasons why even if they did go off, they might have not been received. so there's lots of mysteries. but the malaysian airlines, of course, could solve that mystery by explaining when they last changed the batteries and what satellite locator service they were using and if they were current. >> david, how do you see this? we are in kind of a reset mode. everything is being reconsidered. everything is right back on the table, back to square one. >> well, not really back to square one. i think the searching for the pings now is the best lead, and i still believe that's where the pings came from, this aircraft, but back to mary's point, i agree there's reasons that the elt wouldn't have sounded. however, i did check to see in their maintenance program they do routinely check the batteries, they have to be replaced every two years, which is sufficient for that type of elt. and also that year of aircraft was sent from boeing with the 406 megahertz elts, which is the frequency measured by the satellites, so that makes it a little more curious as to why they didn't go off. >> okay. now a few things to look forward to next week. we heard from the malaysian authorities who say they're going to release a report, make it public so as to help appease or answer some of the questions of family members. mary, what could be in this report that might comfort family members? >> well, i think what's going to be in the report are just the facts. the preliminary reports are usually bare bones. they try to put in there only things they know for sure and as best as we can tell, they don't know a lot of things for sure. it will have the basics about the flight, when it took off, the equipment, and the last known contact, et cetera, and so it will be a little disappointing in that it won't be very long or detailed. what is encouraging, the prime minister had a recommendation, i think a recommendation to beef up security of the cockpit, so that's kind of different. that's helpful to get changes under way while the focus of the world is upon them. >> one of the other recommendations potentially, david, is going to be so there's a better way to track the planes live as it is happening. do you feel like this is cart before the horse? these recommendations coming too soon? number one priority should be let's find the plane? >> well, i think we have concurrent priorities for sure. this is really unique in the history of aviation in that they're taking action before the accident report comes out. i really am proud of how the aviation community is responding, both malaysia air and the entire aviation, commercial aviation industry in taking action, getting recommendations out. i know that many airlines have already started to change pingers from 30 to 90 day pingers, which will be available next month more readily. i think they're already taking action. >> wow. david, mary, thank you so much. talk to you later on. appreciate it. it is a potentially deadly disease that was considered eradicated in the u.s. now measles is making a come back. we'll tell you why and what you might be able to do to help stop it. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] great rates for great rides. geico motorcycle, see how much you could save. (mom) when our little girl was greatwe got a subaru. rides. it's where she said her first word. (little girl) no! saw her first day of school. (little girl) bye bye! made a best friend forever. the back seat of my subaru is where she grew up. what? (announcer) the 2015 subaru forester (girl) what? (announcer) built to be there for your family. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. a deadly respiratory disease appears to be spreading in saudi arabia. health officials said friday 14 new cases of the middle east respiratory system corona virus were diagnosed in a 24 hour span. five people died. saudi arabia officials have called on the world health organization to meet this month to address this virus. the virus is in the same family as the common cold, but not much else is known about it. back at home, american hospitals are seeing a disturbing increase in the number of patients with measles, a disease that had been nearly wiped out. we have the story from the center of an outbreak in california. >> this is a highly infectious disease. >> reporter: it may start with a fever or cough. but a sploch ee rash is its significant. >> you're infectious four days before symptoms. you may not know you're sick. >> reporter: many haven't sebring measles since it was all but eradicated 30 years ago. >> i have seen it, but new physicians haven't seen it. part of the campaign public health has been doing is to make sure they know what to look for. >> reporter: in california, the number of confirmed cases has risen the last couple years. so far this year, 58. in orange county alone, the number of cases has skyrocketed. >> we had 22 case in orange county. that's a lot more than we normally have. we have in the past five years no more than one or two cases a year. >> reporter: why the should outbreak? the reason is the growing number of parents refusing to vaccinate children. last year in california, there was a 15% increase of people opting out of immunizations. in orange county, a 30% increase. >> is there any reason to support the idea that vaccinations could be dangerous to children? >> absolutely not. there are serious consequences to getting the measles. >> reporter: they're trying to spread the word faster than the virus that vaccinations work. >> the two immunizations, m mr is 98% effective. >> reporter: maria brought her children for immunizations two days after hearing about the outbreak. >> education can overcome the perceptions. >> reporter: another reason for the outbreak is our shrinking world. according to the centers for disease control, 93% of people diagnosed with measles in california contracted it abroad or from someone that returned from overseas. >> measles is prevalent in other countries. when you go to visit, you need to be sure you're immunized. >> reporter: he says the majority of people opting out of vaccinations are in affluent parts of orange county. he hopes their minds will be changed. cnn, orange county, california. up next, history in the making at the vatican. we will go live to rome for a preview of the ceremony that will elevate two former popes to sainthood. [ male announcer ] this is the cat that drank the milk... [ meows ] ...and let in the dog that woke the man who drove to the control room [ woman ] driverless mode engaged. find parking space. [ woman ] parking space found. [ male announcer ] ...that secured the data that directed the turbines that powered the farm that made the milk that went to the store that reminded the man to buy the milk that was poured by the girl who loved the cat. [ meows ] the internet of everything is changing everything. cisco. tomorrow starts here. [ female announcer ] f provokes lust. ♪ it elicits pride... incites envy... ♪ ...and unleashes wrath. ♪ temptation comes in many heart-pounding forms. but only one letter. "f". the performance marque from lexus. i'm taking off, but, uh, don't worry. i'm gonna leave the tv on for you. and if anything happens, don't forget about the new xfinity my account app. you can troubleshoot technical issues here. if you make an appointment, you can check out the status here. you can pay the bill, too. but don't worry about that right now. okay. how do i look? ♪ thanks. [ male announcer ] troubleshoot, manage appointments, and bill pay from your phone. introducing the xfinity my account app. catholics around the world are preparing for a historic event tomorrow. for the first time ever, the church will canonize two popes on the same day. pope francis will lead the special ceremony. today he met at the vatican with ukraine's acting prime minister. several world leaders and tens of thousands of faithful are >> cnn's gallagher is joining us more now with even more people behind you. at least a million bill pilgr p going to t a teattend. they are there already. what's going on? >> many of them are already here as you can see behind me. the largest contingent so far is certainly from poland. they're most obvious because they're carrying the flags with the names of their hometowns from them. many are from pope john paul ii's hometown. many dignitaries are expected to attend the ceremony. it's come one, come all. no official list of who will be attending. we're just finding out from various sources who will be here. certainly the president of poland, the president of italy, and the royals from spain are expected. and pope emeritus benedict has confirmed he will be at the ceremony. >> this is a historic event clearly for catholics but it has significance for non-catholics to what degree? >> well, i think, you know, certainly there are non-catholics who have respect for both of these popes. in particular tomorrow there will be a big representation of the jewish community. john xxiii opened the second vatican council and opened a document on catholic/jewish relations. john paul ii we know was the first pope to enter a synagogue. he established diplomatic relations with israel in 1994. so both of these figures not only for catholics, also for the jewish community, are highly respected. >> can you give us a thumbnail sketch of the ceremony tomorrow? what do we expect will happen? >> well, what happens is it's a very formal vatican ceremony. they do a litany of saints, procession where they sing in latin invoking all of the saints. they have the incense. they will have relics of john paul ii and john xxiii. the pope has asked formally three times if he will canonize these two popes and the third time then he pronounces the actual words of canonization and all of this happens right at the beginning, just before the mass and then they will go into the regular mass. so it should be a fairly long ceremony but one of those things that only they can do at the vatican with all of the bells and incense, as it were. >> right. very special place for many, many reasons. del delia gallagher, thank you so much there in rome. you can watch this canonization ceremony live beginning at 4:00 a.m. tomorrow morning right here on cnn. all right. you've heard the old tale of the baby left in the basket on the steps of someone's house? well, in california a couple opened their door to find this, a baby bear, waiting for them. the full and very fuzzy story next in the "newsroom." that's a man interviewino.for a job. not that one. that one. the one who seems like he's already got the job 'cause he studied all the right courses from the get-go. and that's an accountant, a mom, a university of phoenix scholarship recipient, who used our unique --scratch that-- awesome career-planning tool. and that's a student, working late, with a day job, taking courses aligned with the industry he's aiming to be in. ready to build an education around the career that you want? let's get to work. all right. now for an update on mortgages. rates are down this week. take a look. ♪ ♪ abe! get in! punch it! let quicken loans help you save your money. with a mortgage that's engineered to amaze! thanks, g. ♪ (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities. all right. alison kosik is up at the top of the hour for a new edition of "your money." what do you have for us? >> hi. we managed to stump the legendary warren buffett. >> that's the toughest question you can ask me because i've thought about it for 50 years and i don't know the answer. >> plus, how exconvicts became silicon valley entrepreneurs. that's coming up at 2:00 p.m. eastern. >> we'll look for it. thanks so much. hey, this, too, very cool. a california family looked out on their doorstep and what did they find but a bundle of joy. but as our jeanne moos reports, they're going to have to grin and bear it and then give it away. >> reporter: she is cute enough to lick. okay, maybe not quite that cute. but just imagine someone dropping off this bear cub in front of your house. >> you look out on the front doorstep and there's a baby in the basket. here's a baby in a dog kennel. >> reporter: oops. this 10-week-old black bear cub still has trouble walking. someone dropped her off last week at the home of the head of the bear league who then took her to lake tahoe wildlife care. >> she doesn't even have teeth yet. she can't eat. she would be dead. >> reporter: sheryl and tom millem feed her special bear formula every four hours or so. but this is no goldilocks story. the experts theorize that this wee baby bear lost her mother in a car accident or perhaps to poachers. but whatever traumatic event happened it hasn't stopped her from chorling. >> it's just like a motor running. it's intensive. >> what the tear cakers don't want is for the bear to bond with him so they try not to talk to her or hold her any more than they have to. >> we don't cuddle her. >> reporter: that's because in a year or less they hope to release her back in the the wild. in the meantime theerks trying to figure out how she t got here. the only clue so far, an e-mail. >> it said, i think i know where the cub came from. >> reporter: they want to find out where the bear is from because that's where they'll eventually have to release her. california's deposition of fish and wildlife requires release within 75 miles from point of capture to give the bear a better chance of survival. she's got some growing to do before she can graduate from stuffed animals to facing real ones. but she was born with wicked claws to scamper up trees. cute but needs a mani/pedi noted one fan. you can lol, but she can c churtle. cnn, jeanne moos, new york. >> way cute. we're wishing that little bear the best. when the "cnn newsroom" continues he says he has no idea how many people he saved but dozens of people may owe their lives to a south korean fisherman who used his tiny boat to rescue them from that sinking ferry. this story when the "newsroom" returns in 30 minutes from now. i'm fredericka whitfield. stay tuned. right now, time for "your money" with alison kosik. >> america's middle class no longer the richest in the world. i'm alison kosik in for christine romans. this is "your money." your middle class paycheck is not keeping up with the rest of the world. this week a stunning report from the "new york times." for the past 14 years median incomes have grown nearly 20% in canada and in britain as well. they've also grown double digits in ireland and the netherlands, but in the u.s.? median incomes have barely budged at all, up just .3 of 1%. meantime america's rich are doing just fine, from 2000 to 2012.

Related Keywords

Arkansas , United States , Montana , Louisiana , Nevada , Australia , Alaska , Valencia , Carabobo , Venezuela , China , California , Chicago River , Illinois , Russia , Washington , District Of Columbia , South China Sea , Brunei General , Brunei , Connecticut , Mary Point , Jizan , Saudi Arabia , Ukraine , Wichita , Kansas , Arizona , Rome , Lazio , Italy , Netherlands , Hollywood , Ireland , Poland , South Korea , Spain , Chicago , Elizabeth City , North Carolina , New York , Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia , Canada , Japan , Germany , Missouri , Texas , Afghanistan , Kiev , Ukraine General , Virginia , Ohio Valley , Georgia , San Antonio , United Kingdom , Sioux Falls , South Dakota , Tennessee , Okinawa , Israel , Montreal , Quebec , Phoenix , New Haven , Sandy Hook , Houston , Peter Square , North Korea , Ohio , Dallas , France , Americans , America , Ukrainians , Australians , French , Malaysian , Russians , Japanese , South Korean , American , Russian , Britain , Ukrainian , George Parsons , Prescott Bush , Subaru A , Randi Kaye , Paul Begala , Cass Sunstein , Neil Bush , Michael Kay , George Bush , Vladimir Putin , Michael Bloomberg , Victor Blackwell , Jerry Henry , Hillary Rodham Clinton , Karen Maginnis , John Kerry , Maren Shan Sanchez , Dan Simon , Diego Garcia , Delia Gallagher , Anthony Bourdain , Sean Hannity , Indian Ocean , David Susi , Avery Freedman , Barbara Bush , Arwa Damon , Lyndon Johnson , Warren Buffett , Morgan Spurlock , David Susie , Martin Luther King , Richard Herman , Jeanne Moos , Jeb Bush , Gloria Borger , Betty Ford , Ted Rowlands , Christine Romans , Wayne Lapierre , Barack Obama , George W Bush , Las Vegas , Sarah Palin , Mike Bloomberg , Brian Todd , Hillary Clinton , Maren Shan , Maren Sanchez ,