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>> this video is to be used to optimize, in order to reduce your electric bill. >> now to the first officer, 27-year-old fariq hamid who just graduated to the cockpit of the triple 7. his family and friends say he is a good son, a great muslim, recently engaged. but this week, a passenger said on an earlier flight he invited her and another passenger inside the cockpit and flirted with them. that is not a violation here in the united states but when malaysia air found out about it, they were sho...

Says all of the evidence so far points to the likelihood that someone inside the plane deliberately took the plane off course, and the investigation will now focus on the crew and passengers. this is video of police leaving the home of the planes copilot. the pilots home was also searched. u.s. authorities say they continue to review the backgrounds of the crew and the passengers, but so far have found no links to terrorism. and satellite signals now indicate the plane may have been airborne sev...

Had an extremely senior captain in the left-hand seat, and here again, you have a very senior captain, and 18,000 hours. that is way up there in terms of the number of hours. what we can deduce is with the family details and cases before where the pilots have gone awry and almost perfect family backgrounds with children, and so we cant sort of necessarily import too much from that. >> and the fact that he had a sim simulator in the house is out of the ordinary this is. >>le with, the size of the...

In the technical issues tas it relates to the airplane. while you have to work with the security folks and the crimin criminologists there are two, three parallel investigates going on right now. the ntsb is going to help try to find the airplane. once they do find what they believe is the airplane, then they get to do the technical stuff while the criminal folks will get into the backgrounds of these crews to see if they have got issues. silk air, we had to work hand in hand with the criminal i...

Airlines and their potential connections. you have too look at people on the ground, the fuelers, baggage handlers, the people that clean and prepare the airplane, the caterers and look at their backgrounds and potential associations. look at the 239 passengers, look at that manifest. you have to get with the u.s. and other western agencies and begin to have access to some of their lists to see whether there are any potential threats you can develop. >> id want to know more than who what in the ...

Lana zak returns with the five most important products for any parent-to-be. it is wednesday, march 12th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." good morning. im marci gonzalez in for diana perez. >> im john muller. well get to the fate of flight 370. it is no closer to any answer than the day it disappeared. malaysias military says the aircraft may have tried turning back before vanishing from radar but there is no evidence it reached the strait of malacca. cia director john...

>> this is a youtube video. >> reporter: 35-year veteran, with more than 18,000 hours flying. his co-pilot, fariq ab hamid is much less experience and the airline said they were investigating reports that he was a kind of airline playboy, violating rules in the cockpit. these two girls. asked to ride with him in the cockpit on a ride to kuala lumpur. >> they were turned around and so engaged in conversation. >> reporter: theres nothing known about them that suggests foul play but their backgroun...

>> i assume, tom, you know a lot more about this than i do since youve worked with interpol, youve been involved in these international investigations. theyre taking a very close look at these two malaysian pilots. their backgrounds, their history, to see if theres anything at all suspicious. >> right. thats standard. the investigators from the beginning would be looking at. obviously they have everyones lives in their hands. so theyre going to be a key focus right from the beginning and would h...

Surveillance video and they have also determined that these tickets were purchased at the same time. what kind of questions do you have in terms of advancing the whereabouts and locations of the passengers. >> right now its going to be tough to link the videos to the individuals who purchased the fraudulent tickets. that will be ongoing and they will try to do that but its not going to be an easy match. there is the possibility the individuals carrying those passports had nothing to do with the ...

Quaint downtown shops than it is for gang activity. gang related crimes do occur here. in the citys bergen county jail about 15% of the inmates are gang affiliated. while most are divided among racial lines, the dominant gang here has found strength in diversity. >> the predominant gang inside bergen county jail is united blood nation. they recruit anybody. they believe in numbers. its a numbers game for them. there could be bloods from different ethnic backgrounds, black, white, hispanic. when ...