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People that maybe never came here or whose names never come up. you have individuals who are nationals from 14 other countries. so those countries have to look at the backgrounds on their people. its a massive undertaking to try to identify every person and not to mention one last thing that hasnt been brought up. >> tell you what, tom, hold that thought. because we are going to come back after the break. but you make a great point there, as the search area expands you have the investigation exp...

On any given day, there are more than 5,000 inmates incarcerated in the five facilities that make up the orange county jail system. their charges, stories, and backgrounds, are as diverse as the southern california communities most of them hail from. but for the vast majority of these men and women, there is a common element that led to their troubles with the law. >> if you talk to any of the inmates in jail, most of them will have done drugs. their current crime is not drugs. theyre stealing f...

The malaysian minister of transportation says the investigation into the disappearance of flight 370 has entered a new phase. officials are now expanding the search area and digging into the backgrounds of the flight and ground crews as well as all the passengers onboard. adding to the mystery, one malaysian official says it is possible the last signal picked up from that plane could have come from the ground. officials have gotten any information about background checks from the 239 passengers ...

Reason to scrub the backgrounds of all of those individual passengers. >> and is it -- would it be unusual, do you think, for this to have been -- i think one of the reasons that some people think, its not terrorism, it has to be something else -- is that theres been no one going "we did this," "by the way, we did this." because the purpose of terrorism is to terrorize. this is a mystery that hasnt been solved. >> to be honest, i just have no idea. >> i think thats where most -- and who is worki...

I think a lot of people are wondering if thats pilots knew each other well and had new information about the two of them? did they not? >> well, they have done a certain much of their homes. one of the pill on the had a flight simulator he built himself. he was an enthusiast about flying. there is absolutely nothing in their backgrounds that really stands out. and -- although he had some, you know, political ties, a member of the political party in opposition for most of his life, so are million...

Logged in a history file on the computer. so they may be trying to actually see if this pilot had done anything that would be characteristic or at least representative of the flight that actually were talking about the last nine days. of course theyre going to want to get into their backgrounds, political affiliations, associations, things like that. when the silk air accident occurred several years ago and we started to look into the captains background, we found that there was a lot of life ch...

Anything to do with that aircraft and their backgrounds, theres not a lot of things that can be done. no crime scene investigation that can be done, no recovery operation and all of that kind of is on hold until and if, i guess, the plane is actually located and the flight recorders. even then the concern is that the flight recorders, especially the cockpit voice recorder, if thats a two-hour recording loop and re-records over itself, if the possibility is that the plane stayed in the air four, ...

And passengers. malaysian police searched the home of the pilot today in kuala lump lumpur. they continue to review the backgrounds of the crew and passengers but so far have found no link to terrorism. satellite signals now indicate the play plane may have been airborne for seven hours after it lost contact with ground control. and radar shows dra mat click changes in altitude during that time. officials have also concluded it likely flew along one of two disdinkt paths. the first, north. all...

Today malaysian police searched the homes of the pilot and copilot in kuala lumpur. they review the backgrounds of crew and passengers and found no links to terrorism. satellite signals now indicate the plane may have been airborne for seven hours after it lot of contact with ground control and the radar shows changes in altitude during that time. officials concluded the plane likely flew along that path. north all the way up to the border of kazakhstan. renee is following that for us in washing...

"cnn newsroom" starts right now. snooze -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello, everyone. im fredricka whitfield. wack to the cnn are in maria. brand new information about the events leading up to the disappearance of flight 370. heres what we know right now. malaysias prime minister says the cockpits signoff to ground control which was "all right. good night." was said after the planes communication system was disabled. more on what all that could mean straight ahead, and malaysias prime...