Ukraine. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. A potential lead in the search for flight 370. Latest developments. Australian authorities are looking into what they call an object of interest, a piece of sheet metal studded with rivets picked up on the coast about 1,000 miles from the search zone. Stormy weather slows the Aerial Search for debris but the underwater hunt continues. Bluefin21 surveyed 80 of the search area and authority are considering bringing in more assets to expand that search. Our analysts are standing by here in the situation room. Our correspondents are standing by around the world bringing you the kind of coverage only cnn can deliver on the hunt for flight 370. The ukrain crisis and the south korean ferry disaster. Lets begin, though, with michael holmes, the very latest in perth, australia. Michael . Reporter wolf, after weeks of frustration, a development, but were being cautious on this. Could be a development that proves to be nothing. A piece of deb
Cleveland where the party will be meeting in less than three weeks. The Presumptive Republican nominee trying to rally his base. Donald trump is also under scrutiny for backtracking on his proposed muslim ban. Cnn political reporter, sarah murray, is joining us live from pennsylvania. That is where donald trump will be speaking. Give us a sense of what we are expecting . Reporter good afternoon. This is key to any donald trump strategy. He feels like he can tap into these White Working Class voters that helped him propel to winning the republican nomination and becoming the Presumptive Republican nominee. We are expecting him to talk about Hillary Clinton is the candidate of globalism. Donald trump will cast himself as the candidate who will put america first, create jobs, who will help boost americans. We are expecting him to be hitting Hillary Clinton really hard in this speech today, brianna. He is expected to go after Hillary Clinton on trade. What exactly specifically is he going
500 feet long. Theres nearly 300 crew on board. As you can see, its sustained pretty serious damage. It got that damage when it collided tonight with this other ship. This is a japanese container ship. Its a special vessel. You can see the damage to the container ship is comparatively lighter. Its to the front left side to the japanese container ship, the port side of the bow. These two very large ships apparently collided with each other about 65 miles off the coast of japan in the middle of the night local time, 2 30 a. M. Local. 1 30 p. M. East coast time in the united states. Were not sure exactly why this collision happened. Things like this do not happen very often. Its a big ocean. And these are two immense and modern ships. But nbcs excellent pentagon producer whos been on this story since it first broke, she tells us the fitzgerald suffered significant damage as you can see on its right side, and the damage is apparently both above and below the water line, which is bad. Just
Well, yes, they arrived in pittsburgh by bus. Theyd been sequestered for two weeks. After that marathon and intense 52hour period of deliberation. For several days of that, they had already announced they were deadlocked. They kept pressing on trying to come to a decision. A unanimous decision. Many Court Observers thought what was happening was there was a majorities of jurors pushing for a conviction and they couldnt convince a minority. A hole out or two or three or four to go along with them to get past that notion of beyond a reasonable doubt. So thats where we are. Hopefully some day well hear more from them. The judge asked the jurors, ordered them actually, not to talk about the deliberations, but they are allowed to talk about their thoughts about the case more generally. So thats where we are with that. Here its as if the trial ended and then begin right again. The prosecution saying they are going to retry bill cosby. A process that could get started in as soon as 120 days.
Collided tonight with this other ship. This is a japanese container ship. Its a special vessel. You can see the damage to the container ship is comparatively lighter. Its to the front left side to the japanese container ship, the port side of the bow. These two very large ships apparently collided with each other about 65 miles off the coast of japan in the middle of the night local time, 2 30 a. M. Local. 1 30 p. M. East coast time in the united states. Were not sure exactly why this collision happened. Things like this do not happen very often. Its a big ocean. And these are two immense and modern ships. But nbcs excellent pentagon producer whos been on this story since it first broke, she tells us the fitzgerald suffered significant damage as you can see on its right side, and the damage is apparently both above and below the water line, which is bad. Just for reference, let me show you these pictures here. Can we drop the banner . There we go. This is what these two ships look like