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>> reporter: and you cant find that box until you find the plane. >> this is an enormous search area. and it is something that malaysia cannot possibly search on its own. >> 2.24 million square nautical miles to be precise. an area nearly the size of the continental united states. dozens of planes, ships and helicopters from 26 countries are scouring this massive region. china and kazakhstan are taking the lead in the northern corrid corridor. australia and ipd nies yeah take the lead in the sou...

Its back in his pocket. >> warmer tomorrow but cold next week. hold on. i wanted to show this to everybody. im not killing you. the shot, this is what dylan was saying. raffle maccio. he looks fantastic. >> he could do a re-creation of the karate kid now. >> he looks good. >> mikes saying hes 40 something skbl hes 40 something. dylan, thank you. sorry. anything to get the karate kid in, right? all right. so coming up at the top of the hour on "morning joe," new details about when malaysia flig...

Request being able to fly there if they have him on a regular beijing route, maybe he wants to go to sydney or perth or brisbane. >> youre hearing from your sources that theyre pretty confident these fbi experts, that they can retrieve what was deleted on these personal computers as well as on the sim later. >> to a point. theyre confident they can retrieve something. they say t like fitting together pieces of a puzzle. and these are teams that thats their job. theyve got an expertise in looking...

Working, it turned. we dont know the facts as they stand now, if it could have been some other nefarious microwave technology within the flight path. >> dont we know it was altered by computer command? >> no, sean, they dont know. all they know is the plane turned, they cant know on the ground unless they have the black boxes that the plane was taken off the flight management -- >> im only telling you what "the new york times" is saying. the flight was altered by manual command not computer cont...

Transmitting. at 2:00 a.m., the plane disappeared from malaysian radar. six hours later, it disappeared off radar all together. now, the pilots, their political believes, their motive. malaysian officials said they found nothing suspicious on the pilots home flight simulator or e-mail. some believe an electrical fire disabled communication. the pilot punched in the new coordinates, but they died from the smoke. no one could get inside and the plane crashed hours later. some fishermen report a je...

Who was just trying to take down the plane, why they didnt just put anyti put it in the ocean and why they took it in the other direction. on everything on this story we learn a little bit but have more questions. im still kind of stumped myself. >> mary, the whole suicide thing you say based on past incidents of that it doesnt fit any kind of profile. >> no. im not surprised they didnt find anything at the pilotss homes. ive worked on many cases where the pilots were suspect. it turned out to b...

For a dramatic left turn off the flight path. >> when it comes to that dramatic left turn,there are people in rural malaysia who claim to have seen flight 370 almost exactly where that turn is thought to have taken place. abcs bob woodruff went to track them down. >> reporter: we travel to the tiny fishing village of kota bharu to find witnesses who say they saw the plane. could these have been the last people to see flight 370. so, you two both witnessed this plane? a group of men aboard this b...

>> theres some speculation there, youre wright. the skies are crowded. there was only one of the reasons we have a problem here that we havent got a better direction in this area that is 3 million miles is because there was only one satellite at that point, we didnt triangulate, but this is a plane that was well outside the flight path, that wasnt matching any other of the transponders, if you will, and they isolated this plane basically in the middle of the indian ocean. thats the best theyve g...

These statistical tools are not magic but may help make it more efficient and more smarter. >> you would start on, what, the presumed flight path, the last turn, something like that? >> anything you have. information from the satellite. the key things about these tools is youre always questioning your assumptions and incorporating new information. these are tools that help you take some of the error and guesswork out of how to incorporate it. >> what about motives or possible scenarios in which ...

Will, based on the acar system, the maintenance system, going dark, and then the transponder going dark as well, eric. >> hey, katherine, its andrea tantaros. who played the message that they received, that the data was changed through acars? do we know it came from a dispatcher, where did we get the information everybody is talking about today? >> the acar system for a layperson, this is a maintenance system onboard most of the boeing flights. it offered an upgraded system, but the basic system...