Churchs view on divorce with one word dont. But did pope francis change the way the church regards divorced people with a single, surprise phone call . Good afternoon, everyone. Im jake tapper. Welcome to the lead. Were going to begin with the world lead, could a mysterious object found just off the coast of australia, be the longawaited clue investigators have been looking for in the search for flight 370 . No pictures have been released of this socalled object of interest, and malaysian Officials Say its too soon to tell if its the real deal or a false alarm. Pamela brown joins us now with more. While we wait to hear back, is wore on how the underwater search is going . Malaysian Officials Saying over the next two days, jake, theyre going to be working to figure out what the next phase of the search should be. I think thats telling. Of course, there is that debris you mentioned found on the shores of western australia. Still waiting to hear from investigators whether its from the plane or just more ocean trash that weve had before. Reporter more than 1,000 miles from where crews are searching for flight 370, debris from something containing sheet metal with rivets and fiberglass coating washingtoned ashore in australia. Authorities are investigating but skeptical its from the plane. 777 is a complex system. Boeing knows their plane very well. It will be easy to identify whether its from the air frame at the end of the day. Reporter the subsea search of the sixmile radius area by the bluefin, considered the most likely crash site for flight 370, is more than 80 complete as investigators consider bringing in more assets to help underwater, the air search hits a snag. For the second day in a row, bad weather grounded planes looking for floating debris. Today as expected the malaysian government appointed aformal team to determine the cause of the accident its imperative for the government to form an independent team of investigators, which is not only competent and transparent, but also highly credible. As ive said since the beginning, we have nothing to hide. Reporter but malaysian authorities have chosen not to make public a preliminary report of facts, submitted to the International Civil aviation organization. To release it to the media reporter as the search continues, australias Prime Minister says investigators will not give up. We havent found anything yet in the area that were searching but the point i make that is australia will not rest until we have done that we humanly can to get to the bottom of the mystery. Based on their calculations, investigators say they have found a number of areas to explore, expanding the search from where they are now, shifting to where another ping in the area was detected. Also, when you circle back to the debris, australian Officials Saying that theyre more suspicious about it, basically saying the more they look at it less excited they get. The bluefin is almost finished scanning the most promising search zone without finding anything. Starting to near the point where australian officials will scale back the general effort or not . From hearing from the Prime Minister in australia, they want to throw all of the resources they can and not scale back but stay committed to the search and talking about long term, they want to do everything they can to fine wreckage. Theres no sense from the australian side, malaysian side, theres any scaling back of efforts. Just trying to figure out what the next phase should look like seems to be the focus. Theyre going to run out of places to search, one would think. Is this object of interest a potential confirmation on the fate of flight 370 or will it become the latest dead end in the search . David soucie author of why planes crash, dave mcallen. Judging by the description found, metal, rectangular, rivets, fiberglass coating how would they verify its part of the plane or rule it out . From what ive heard, it really wouldnt be convincing to me that of course without look agent picture we wouldnt know. What youd be looking for to make sure this is or isnt part of the aircraft, on the inside of the sheet metal thats on outside of the aircraft, inside of that is a zinc chromate finish, its a dark or light green color, and that green colors very distinctive, very easy to test to see if that zinc chromate is there. On the outside you have a enron paint it wouldnt be rusted or have any signs of extended wear other than along the edges, for example. And the third thing youd be looking at, is it aluminum or steel . Thats very easy to tell. Use a magnet. If the magnet sticks, its not probably part of the airplane. If a magnet doesnt stick, its aluminum, you do more investigative tests to see what it was at that point. Rob, lets talk about where this object was found. Looking at the location of where it ended up washing ashore and where the pings were detected, does the geography even work . You know, this late stage, jake, almost anything can work for the debris, which has been, you know, swirled around in eddies and through tropical cyclones. Whatever debris there was will be scattered far and wide. And this is a message to anybody thats living on a coastline around the indian ocean, that your beach combing could yield a very important clue. That means you think there is likely going to be debris. Ive heard some people say if there hasnt been debris thats shown for now, you disagree . A cant think of where a large aircraft disappeared completely. You hear of aircraft like amelia earhart, small aircraft, but a large, commercial aircraft disappearing completely without any trace . That would be a first, and unlikely in my opinion. David, cnns own Richard Quest asked malaysian Government Official today, if a preliminary report about the missing plane had been filed with whats called International Civil aviation organization, the malaysian Government Official said, yes, but it would not be made public. What would be in that report, and are preliminary ones typically released to the public . You know in my experience, they are lreleased to the publi. Whats in a preliminary report is just the facts, maam. Its just the pilots name, pilots certificate, ratings, how many hours they had. It would say what was the intended route of the aircraft was, what the flight altitude was at last contact. Its not going to yield answers to a lot of the questions that the families have, although those questions are easily answered. Im not sure why they havent been. The preliminary report wouldnt yield too many answers to those questions, it would yield some of them. You and i have been talking for weeks whether or not the bluefin21 is the proper device to search the ship with. The Australian Defense minister emailed about the next sage and said, the next phase we step up with a more powerful, capable sidescan sonar to do deeper water. If you do something more powerful, how powerful would it, how would you step it up . Well, you have heard me say before that sonars a tradeoff between range or distance and resolution. And the bluefin is a great tool for getting relatively High Resolution over a small area. To give you an indication of scale, if you put deep tow sonar in the water, everything done by the bluefin could have been achieved in a single day. Admittedly without the great resolution, thats great enough to find the 777. David, what do you think . You know, i think thats right. I agree with rob on that. The concern i have, though, is that what you dont want to find yourself in is another situation where you might have the wrong tool. Im not saying deep towed sonar is the wrong tool but at this point, step back, evaluate which tools are going to be used and what purpose. What are you looking for . All of those questions, all of the assumptions need to be challenged, once again, even back to the malaysian radar. Quickly, david, malaysian government Officials Say the Royal Malaysian Police still in charge of the criminal investigation. Does that make sense to you . You know, it makes sense the initial investigation is done by them, thats their responsibility. What doesnt make sense theres not a secondary organization, not an internal audit, not any auditing going on, not only in the criminal investigation to see if its being handled properly but there isnt an alternative audit going on on how the investigation itself is going on in general terms. Thats whos missing. This idea they have a new set of eyes or International Task force, that would probably work if they had the right experts in. But it seems to me theyre asking any country to participate, which is just a huge number of people that cant achieve anything, a huge bureaucracy. I can think of another word for it. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thanks for holding back on the word you were thinking. Coming up on the lead, canceled meetings, unanswered questions, why do malaysian officials seem to be avoiding the poor family members in all of this. Ill ask one man whose mother was on board flight 370. Escorted by fighter jets, after entering unauthorized airspace in scotland, what were they doing there . Dear sun, meet your biggest competitor Philips Slimstyle led bulb. Beautiful quality light with a slim design, at a slim price. At your ford dealer think . They think about tires. And what theyve been through lately. Polar vortexes, road construction, and gaping potholes. So with all that behind you, you might want to make sure youre safe and in control. 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Joining me now, steve wang, a family representative whose mother was on board Malaysia Airlines flight 37 on first, our thoughts and prayers are with you and other family members during this difficult time. I can imagine what its been like. I want to start with this object of interest, as its being called, off the coast of western australia. If confirmed to have been part of the plane, would that give you some confirmation that the plane crash in the indian ocean . Well, im not sure because it hasnt been confirmed, and you know, there are such kind of news and such kind of objects found every day since the beginning. We want to make sure. It is just a small pieces from the mh 370, we want more things to be found, because it has been more than one month and just suddenly a small piece was pushed on to the beach, that was a little bit strange. At this point seek closure, seeking information, are you hopeful that it is part of the plane, that you can finally start arriving at a point where there are answers or does it fill you with dread . You know, that is really confusing. One part i want something was found so that we could we could found where mh370 is but on the other hand i dont want that, because if it is, it means that the it is a bad result. I know there have been a lot of issues with the briefings that you and the other families have been receiving. Whens the last time you were briefed . Who briefed you . Did they answer your questions . For todays briefing, it is just from Malaysia Airlines. And yesterday they just canceled the briefing without informing all of the relatives. We are at the meeting room, but no one from the embassy or from the malaysian has been there. Its terrible and shows that irrespect to all relatives and theyre supposed to be a high level delegation come monday. They promised several times the government representative from the embassy and, they promised several times but break their promise. No one was in beijing monday. They stopped asking about the technical question, go on to the next, that is terrible. Both the australians and malaysians today promised the search will continue for flight 370. Take a listen. Australia will not rest until we have done everything we hu n humanly can to get to the bottom of the mystery. The search continues. This is an assurance we give to the families of the passengers. Does that give you any reassurance that they are going to keep looking until there is an answer to this mystery . Well, i think the first thing they have to do is to make sure, to make a confirmation, whether they are searching right place because they have been searching for a month, all of the ships, planes, not even small pieces of the plane was found. Steve, tell us about your mom. Well, it is really hard to talk about her because shes such a nice woman and she really loves the life, she likes to take photographs, likes to travel. She likes to help others. Shes a nice person. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and other families. Steve wang, thank you so much. Thanks. When we come back, as divers continue to sent for victims of the ferry disaster in south korea, prosecutors are now saying, the ferry companys owners home was searched. What were Police Looking for . Plus u. S. Troops begin military exercises in ukraine and russias foreign minister making it clear they will respond to anything that is perceived to be an attack. music defiance is in our bones. Defiance never grows old. Citracal maximum. Calcium citrate plus d. Highly soluble, easily absorbed. Feeding your lawn need not be so difficult neighbors. Get a load of this bad boy. Whoa. This snap spreader system from scotts is snapcrackin simple just snap, lock, and go. [ scott ] feed your lawn. 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In other world news, its still called a rescue operation but a New Discovery all but eliminated any hopes dive teams will fine survivors beneath a sunken south korean ferry. Divers clinging to the possibility that some of the missing 143 passengers managed to find air pockets on the ferrys third and fourth floors, but no air pockets were located in the latest underwater search. There have been 159 confirmed deaths. Many of them young teenagers who had been on a school trip. Some of the dead are being remembered as heros for their actions as the ferry went under. 22yearold park jee young said to have helped passengers escape, refused to leave the ferry with so many people in need of help. Lets go live to cnn correspondent kyung lah in a boat off the coast of jindo, south korea. Has latest news of the air pockets changed what youre seeing at search site behind you . Reporter for the last few days, it has looked very much like today. The only difference, jake, it has eerily quiet, more quiet today than other days that weve been here. Still, very much an active operation. You can see the flares dropped from planes up above, and then as you look down toward the horizon, you can see these giant banks of lights, these are squid boats that light up the area forethis operation to be 24 hours a day, in the very early hours of the day. Take a closer look, zooming all the way in, that is the heart of the operation. We can see divers getting on and off boats. We are very, very close to the center of where this sunken ferry has disappeared. So all of this still happening while the chance of finding survivors drops to nearly zero. A heartbreaking discovery aboard the sunken ferry, divers working tirelessly around the clock found no air pockets, dashing hopes that survivors are still trapped in the submerged hull. That comes as a blow to waiting families holding on to the possibility someone might be found alive. Searchers had been focusing on the third and fourth levels of the fivestory vessel, believing many of those still missing were likely to be there. Most passenger bedrooms are on the fourth level of the now upended ship. The search turned up only more bodies. In fact, for the first time, the number of dead is higher than the number missing. Boats are bringing those bodies back to griefstricken families waiting on shore. The number of crew members under arrest is now up to 11, including the sewols captain, seen in this video released today, receiving treatment at a medical facility after being among the first to be re