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System moves through this region. showers right now being reported in the area as well. so when you consider whats happening, the depth across this portion of the yellow sea somewhere around 37 meters, or 121 feet deep. thats the depth where the vessel is lodged in between. we know very shallow reefs set up in places as well. folks wondering what are the water temperatures in the zone because as the search and rescue efforts take place to the west of it theres a very cold current. water temperat...

Investigatio investigation. >> they arent specific enough as the u.s. rules are to say theres a family assistance act and says you will give updates, will get briefs and will release the information to the families. that doesnt exist in the international community. thats where we are with this. they need to address that. >> you said the locate beacons, elts, black boxes, all of that, its just really -- how can none of these things you can hear none of them, find none of it, no debris, no nothing...

Victims at random. alex hribal remains in custody. there was no signs he was contemplating the attack. saying he was not a loner or a weirdo. president obama phoned the schools principal to express his sympathies. and some of the victims remain in critical condition. >> all right. the "wall street journal." the worst session in more than two years. the dow fell by 266 point. the biggest loss since february. and the nasdaq down by 121 points. its been a been a rocky year. all three indexes are in...

Suzanne malveaux tells us what we think we know about it so far. >> reporter: from the moment malaysia flight 370 took off it was communicating with a satellite orbiting more than 22,000 miles above earth, sending out pings or electronic hand shakes to say "im here and okay." >> the ping is really like your cell phone checking that its connected with a cell phone network. >> reporter: the first three recorded pings come between 12:30 and 1:00 a.m. local time as the plane takes off from kuala lum...

Something perhaps, what they call in the blind. just on that 121 .5 frequency or if he is still on a frequency that he had been assigned to by his previous controller. so very interesting to hear the tapes to see whether or not that happened. it still doesnt preclude the idea that there could have been somebody in the cockpit, perhaps making them do some things under duress. >> hole that thought. well continue to follow up after this very quick break. iwe dont back down. we only know one directi...

Athens in 2005. pilots forget to turn a pressurization switch from manual to auto. at 34,000 feet all 121 on board passed out and froze in their seats. so far we know the malaysian flight was flying for at least seven hours based on pings or signals emitted from the plane. he believes whatever took out the planes transponder and communications systems, acars, was mechanical and could have also damaged the planes electronic nerve center which among other things monitors the cabins climate. >> tha...

Mentioned, the response to salt water triggers that secondary one in the rear. my question, though, is if the aircraft hit at a great speed, would the elt go off? i dont know if it did in the case of air france? >> absolutely it would. in air france, i cant answer to that. i dont know what was equipped. the elt is not a required piece of equipment by the afr. it doesnt have to be on there. it is just this particular aircraft in this year, the manufacturer had this installed on it. it is more for...

Of its own problems, its fundamental problems itself. and the best way to do that in my view and to not excite this great rivalry that might suck us all in is to create a buffer state there, recognize crimea as being gone. create a buffer state in ukraine, get the cia out of kiev, get its equivalent in russia out of kiev, get the nab out of kiev, and let the ukrainians take care of that part of ukraine and bring it back to some part of prosperity and stability. >> the question upon which much of...

Reliability is very poor. when it was a 121 megahertz when they first came out, they were only about 53% reliable. >> we havent replaced them with something far bet sner. >> we have, we went to 253 megahertz and now were at 400 megahertz. >> i hear megahertz all the time, but as it pertains to this and where its pinging away, how close must i be on my search vessel or search aircraft in order to pick this up? >> id say it depends because weve got the satellite system looking at it, all right. so...

370. thats about the only thing that we can report with certainty this afternoon as the search for the missing jumbo jet enters day five, 121 hours since it last pinged. malaysian military general denies he ever said what he actualakly said, that it flu hundreds of miles off course me did say it. they independently confirmed his comment. thats what one of the many contradictory statements that the agonizing family members crying in confidence or even a cover-up. this all started when a jet dropp...