debris floating on the surface. it is probably the best lead we have right now. the american navy and a group of 18 ships scouring the area. aircraft taking to the skies. storms at sea, though, hampering efforts. dealing with white caps, bigger waves. tough to see things. ships move more slowly. families just finishing up a press conference. should a miracle be required? that s what we re hoping for. as malaysia manages expectations. for the families around the world, the one piece of information that they want most is the information we just don t have, the location of mh-370. here live in the cnn newsroom. good morning. thank you so much for joining me. i m carol costello. this is a special edition of newsroom. this morning, breaking news and a possible big break in the search for that missing plane. the latest lead satellite images of two large objects floating nearly 1500 miles off australia s southwest coast. one of the most remote areas on earth. t
charlest charleston, south carolina, mary schiavo, an aviation attorney who works for a law firm that sues airlines. describe exactly what this team, u.s. team, ntsb and faa personnel would actually do once they get there. it s true they have begun to find parts of the wreckage. one report is a door. if that s true, the most important thing the faa and ntsb will be doing is getting that wreckage in coordination and cooperation with the other countries that are investigating. just from the pieces of wreckage, even a small piece, they can see if there s telltale fittings, if there was an explosion, explosive residue left on the plane, what that wreckage looks like, or if it looks like it was torn apart when the plane had fallen into the ocean. that s going to be important. the fbi was detached to work on the case, whenever there s a threat of criminal activity, terrorism, certainly there was criminal activity with passports, we have a protocol the fbi takes precedence. you wa
many people might say why didn t we know this before? the australian investigators say this is not untypical for an investigation like this which is such a mystery. we keep getting more information. you keep refining the information you have. you keep putting it into other models and getting toward different conclusions. this has been happening in this search zone. we started in the south china sea. so it continues to narrow down. it is still a 300,000 climt search zone. ships won t get there until tomorrow night. planes are on the scene now. the latest heading out. it was a p-8 arriving from the u.s. navy. we ll be waiting for information from that. the first plane has returned. no word on whether they ve seen anything. i should add the conditions, the sea conditions and the atmospheric conditions, much kinder in this part of the indian ocean. it is out of those deep southern latitudes where you get the big storms that whip up very quickly. we should know the u.s. is depl
we begin with breaking news as a passenger plane is shot down by terrorists over ukraine and 298 people are killed. now, the hunt to find those responsible begins. ukraine blaming pro-russian militants and russia blaming ukraine. this morning, live team coverage on new information we have been learning about the crash and motives for the crime. innocent passengers who were caught in the cross fire. good morning and welcome to early start. i m lara in for christine romans. i m john berman. a lot going on this morning. it is friday, july 18. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. we begin with the latest on the attack that brought down, that shot down flight 17. wreckage, human remains strewn across miles of eastern ukraine. a jet shot out of the sky. a source tells cnn the evidence points to pro-russian separatists as the suspects attackers. president obama is warning the world is watching as concern grows that the crime scene there is being compromised. our coverage of the crash of
big welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. top stories for you this hour. we are now seeing the full extent of the devastation in gaza some 24 hours into a humanitarian cease-fire between israel and hamas. meanwhile leaders from both sides are in cairo today in hopes of workingous a long-term peace plan. we ll take you live to the region. plus inside the fight against ebola. cnn s david mckenzie speaks to aid workers willing to risk their thrives stop the epidemic. and patients who are beating the deadly virus. also ahead, the fall out from an attack on coalition forces in afghanistan that left a measu american general dead and more than a dozen others wounded. what could this mean for the relationship between u.s. and afghan forces? thanks for being with us. they won t be meeting face-to-face, but israeli and palestinian negotiators are in cairo today for talks aimed at cementing that cease-fire in gaza. israel says it has withdrawn its forces from