obsession. i m talk to the son of one of the passengers. we ll talk to two friends of the pilot. they say the man they knew would never deliberately crash a plane. our bill story is of course flight 370. we are covering every angle with cnn reporters all over the globe. sara sidner in kuala lumpur, david mckenzie in beijing and richard quest with me. dramatic developments that happened during our show last night where the search moved suddenly at least 700 miles north. we ve got this photograph from new zealand air force from a plane, not a satellite. what is the significance of this picture potentially? reporter: well, it s a very promising lead. but at this point we don t know if it s actually debris from the plane. it is a floating object in the water. you could kind of see it s rectangular in shape. and the plane that spotted it was actually a p 3 orion from new zealand. the lieutenant that saw it gave some brief comments as soon as he landed here. take a listen. yes,
an exclusive look inside inmarsat, the british satellite company solely responsible for pinpointing the search. reporter: this is inmarsat, the company which for 35 years has been used by ships and planes to keep in touch. we were given exclusive access to the network s operation center. here in the satellite control room in london that you see the technology involved, and you start to understand how they came to the conclusions. the satellite involved is inmarsat 3-f1. one of 11 satellites in the inmarsat collection. it s in stationary orbit just over the indian ocean and it was to this satellite that mh-370 sent the signal, the so-called handshakes. leading the team here was mark dickinson. with his colleagues he dived deep into the data. three types of information we have. we have actually messages from the ground station to the plane and back again. that essentially tells you the terminal is twitched on, powered up and timing information. in addition to that, some fre
flight 370 has disappeared. we could be no closer to finding the plane. grief and anger for loved ones like steve wang whose mother was on the flight. sarah bajc with a loved one on the flight as well. and has the gm brand been injured by support. and a semantic debate has embroiled the 9/11 museum in new york city raising the question of what to call the 19 who perpetrated that violence. plus, have we seen the last climb to the world s tallest peak? and should police scan license plates at random and store the information? wait until you hear what that technology just did. let s get started. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. we begin with breaking news from ukraine this morning. ukraine s security services says internation international observers seized are being held in inhumane conditions. one need medical care, but the pro-russian militants are not allowing any assistance in. in the meantime, it was 48 hours ago when the ukraine issued a 48-hour deadline to ex
mclaughlin live in perth, us austral australia. erin, what are they saying this object is? good morning, chris. martin dolan, the head of australian s transportation and safety bureau telling cnn this object of interest washed up onshore about 190 miles south of here in western australia. he said that the atsb is currently studying photographs of the object, photographs also have been provided to malaysian authorities. he described the object as a sheet metal attached to something with rivets. he also says, it is sufficiently interesting, but he says the more we look at it, the less excited we get. and that was a direct quote. the object, we understand, is currently in the custody of police. according to the australian maritime and safety authority. they are bringing it here to the joint agency coordination center in perth for further analysis. clearly authorities treating this as they treated every other lead in this investigation. they re taking it seriously. something th
good morning to you. i m michaela pereira. i m john berman. 11:00 a.m. in the east. 8:00 a.m. in the west. those stories and more @ this hour. analysts are poring over satellite data used to calculate where malaysian airline flight 370 might have landed. they released that information more than two months after the families asked it be made public so other experts could test the data. almost a ream of paper. 47 pages of technical information that details communications. so-called handshakes between the planes and the immarsat satellite network. some key info is not there. how the company traced the jet s path that led search teams to one of the most remote places on the planet. immars immarsat s ceo spoke about that on new day. what we have put out so far is dissemination of the raw data across our network which is what came out today. there is obviously more information inside the investigation team. different models. different workings. a variety of different info