Captioning funded by cbs this is the cbs morning news for monday, march 17th, 2014. Good morning. Thanks for joining us this st. Patricks day. Im marlie hall in for annemarie green. We begin with the riddle of Malaysia Airline flight 370. Now more than a week after the boeing 777 and the 239 people onboard vanished without a trace, there is growing evidence the jet was deliberately diverted. Investigators say one of the planes signaling systems was shut down before the last contact. The final communication from the crew, all right, good night, did not mention any trouble, and its unclear who was speaking. The focus of the investigation has shifted to the pilot and first officer. Seth doane reports from kuala lumpur. Reporter when police searched captain zaharie shahs home, they found a flight simulator. The 53yearold pilot was seen sitting in front of a simulate never a video he posted online. Authorities said the simulator was confiscated and rebuilt at the police station. Officers fr
New evidence suggests it may not have been an accident. They continued to sing pings to satellite for five hours after it lost contact with radar. Now searching the indian ocean the sides of six United States. If it turned off the path it had to be a deliberate act. Us airways jet had to abort takeoff in philadelphia when its front landing gear collapsed. Secretary of state john kerry meeting with his london counterpart. John mccain said his own republican colleagues blocking the ukraine package. Ive been embarrassed before but i havent been embarrassed this way about members of my own party. The dow lost 231 points yesterday. It was the worst day for the market in six weeks. One of those days where you couldnt find an uptick for a while. Mark zuckerberg so outraged he called president obama to voice his frustration. Neither of them suffers serious injuries. All that. He got it wow. Game over. The fourth overtime. A young cheetah climbed on to a land rover, sticking his head into the s
Two small planes collide over San Francisco bay. One pilot missing, the other landing safely. And a frantic search in the cold, choppy waters. And she is the woman who stole George Clooneys heart. Shes beautiful, shes brainy and now she has snagged hollywoods hottest bachelor. All the details on clooneys new leading lady. And good morning, america. This is the scene right after the tornado hit. Crossing a major interstate, i40. You see it so clearly surprising so many drivers right there and look at these scenes right now, overturned cars, shredded and total destruction. This is all taken from a drone above. You can see the path as the twister headed east just as the sun was setting. We know the storm taking this path north of little rock over the towns of mayflower and vilonia, the tornado reported to be a half mile wide as it remained on the ground for 80 miles, george. So long. Ginger has been tracking this all night long and its not over. It is not over. There are still tornado wat
Clap along if you feel like get ready for happy monday, america. Superstar pharrell is with us and the smash hit of the year. We have an event so big its going to take all of times square. Its our biggest happiest dancealong ever. Good morning, america. And good morning, america. A very happy monday here and a morning filled with news. Yeah, busy morning, indeed. Tracking several developing stories including tornadoes racing across the south right now. Ginger will get into that. Those promising possible pings from the missing jets black boxes. But right to that dramatic testimony from Oscar Pistorius. It has been an emotional morning. Oscar breaking down on the stand as he apologized to the family of reeva steenkamp. Abcs matt gutman is in the courthouse in pretoria. Good morning, matt. Reporter george, just minutes ago after 15 months of unbroken silence Oscar Pistorius began telling his story of the past year of torment and terror but first he began by turning to reeva steenkamps mot
The sibling switchoff on dancing with the stars. Olympian meryl davis, trading in one brother for another earning 10s in a ballroom showdown. Is the Gold Medalist now the one to beat . Which way is right and good morning, america. But what a scramble last night on the dance floor. Unbelievable. All of the partners switching it up, but we have a lot of news to get to this morning, as well. We will get the very latest on the search for those pings from the missing planes black boxes in just a moment. And ginger will have more in a moment. Great emotion the exact moment of the shooting, much of this happening right before we went on the air on the west coast. Abcs matt gutman is there. Whats the latest . Reporter thats right. I was there in court as pistorius broke down for the first time talking publicly about that night. He began to sob as he described finding his girlfriends lifeless body. Those sobs turns to wails and buried his face into his hands and crumpled on to the witness stand