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The ntsb, from the faa, from other governments who are working on this now and it just takes time. i guess i would say we all need to be patient. as impatient as we are, and certainly the families are, to have news of their loved ones. its going to take a long time to work our way through this. >> i think those of us who are outsiders to this technology, who are just sort of consumers of air travel, dont know the ins and outs of it. we think of radar as omniscient. we think of radar as something...

Flight path out towards the west. but to be frank, theyre not saying -- nobody has actually come out and said definitively, yes, it is to the west and the indian ocean. and theyre quite properly -- and this is crucial. theyre quite properly, the malaysians, investigating both. because until there is a hard fact one way or the other, they really have to deploy assets both in the south china sea and in the indian ocean and elsewhere. >> weve got to look all over the place, a huge, huge operation. ...

Breaking news coverage continues in the search for the malaysian airlines flight which disappeared one week ago at this hour. a u.s. official tells our barbara starr that radar movements show erratic movements happened. they tell barbara they believe the jet likely went down in the indian ocean hours and hours away from where it was supposed to be flying. this is classified analysis which shows it may have taken one of two different paths. tom foreman is "out front." tom, this latest reporting t...

. more on the top breaking news story tonight. huge developments in the flight 370. a u.s. official just telling our barbara starr that radar showed erratic movements of a plane that they believe is flight 370. those movements happening in the early morning hours when the flight disappeared off radar. "the new york times" is reporting that the missing airliner experienced significant changes in altitude after it lost contact with ground control. "the new york times" is saying according to mala...

They can simply paint an object, not tell a lot more about it. were all over with your theories. which one do you want to start with first? >> lets start with mechanical failure. >> yeah. >> and i think the one thing it seems like we -- the one thing that hasnt been disputed is the loss of communication. that is the one thing that it seems is hard confirmed. all the stuff about the flight path, all the stuff about it flying five hours. talk me through what are the different communication systems...

Went down. news reports saying vietnamese military had spotted two oil slicks in the south china sea. they believed those oil slicks were from the missing plane. within a couple of days, though, no, they got to those oil slicks, they tested them. those oil slicks did not contain jet fuel. those oil slicks are not related to the missing plane. in those same few days, more clues. two different objects, pieces of debris seen floating in the gulf of thailand and initially offering, again, some hope,...

Anderson. and officials here have not disputed that. what they have said is they were waiting for the n tsb and faa to look at all the radar records. theyve got multiple radar stations that were tracking an unidentified aircraft on that flight path right after flight 370 simply vanished into thin air. anderson? >> jim, stay with us. i want to bring more voices to baron this information. chief national security correspondent jim sciutto and barbara starr broke the news about those pings. jim, let...

Goldfarb, former chief of staff for the federal aviation administration. >> good evening, chris. >> good evening. there are so many conflicting reports pinging around, i thought maybe we would sort of start at the most basic and build out what we actually hard confirmed beyond a shadow of a doubt know. can we do that? >> maybe. its a complete and utter mess. there is no investigation. if there was, it started yesterday when finally the malaysian authority worked with ntsb and the faa and boeing ...

There might have been something on radar that cant be accounted for west of the flight path, that one has at least led to some further course of investigation for what thats worth. "the new york times" reporting today several american agencies are looking at radar data from the malaysian military. no word yet they have found anything, but they are looking and having some data set to look at is at least something. and also on that "wall street journal" story today the paper did retract the part a...

The search is expanding further east. it may have been flown deliberately toward the indian ocean and it could have stayed airborne for up to five hours after losing contact with the ground. the malaysia airlines are not elaborating on details. the credibility of malaysian officials have taken a serious hit. >> its been confusing from the first moments flight 370 went missing. a day later, after issuing six statements, a new time on when it was lost, 1:30 a.m. where did it go? the flight path a ...