you would imagine there are other pieces out there. how much is underwater. has you can imagine the past 16 months have been incredibly difficult for anyone who had loved ones on board. all of that time their questions have gone unanswered as to what happened to this plane. sara sidner reports on theories that swelled ever since the jet vanished. good night malaysian 370. the last words anyone would ever hear from the ill-fated flight causing unimaginable grief. and unleashing theories from the technical to the sinister. among them, the pilot crashed the plane on purpose. investigators looked in to whether suicide could have been a reason. ultimately the international independent investigation committee said it found no indications that would cast suspicion on him or the crew. terrorism. did someone commandeer or hijack
5:30 in the morning local time bound for singapore. the jet had 162 people on board, including 18 children with a crew of seven. officials have left some ships in the water to comb the area off indonesia for that plane. officials say seven ships and two helicopters will search for the plane. heavy storms had been reported in the area just when that jet vanished. indonesian officials say the pilot requested to fly at higher altitude because of bad weather. the incident comes just ten months after air flight 370 vanished on its way to beijing with 239 people on board. joining me by skype our aviation correspondent richard quest.
syrians are voting for a president today but little doubt about the outcome. the current leader assad is expected to win. he has been locked in a three year civil war with rebel forces. human rights activists say more than 160,000 syrians have died as a result. scientists plan to release detailed information about a mysterious noise, possibly that of an ocean impact reported by two undersea receivers about the time the jet vanished. they say the noise did not come from an area of the indian ocean where crews have been searching for the plane. lead scientists say there is a one in 25% chance that the noise is related to the malaysian jet, but it is a chance worth taking. president obama spends the day in poland as he begins a three-nation european visit. mr. obama is expected to urge leaders there to keep up the pressure on russian president putin over his threatening movements toward ukraine. president and putin scheduled to visit france on friday to mark the 70th anniversary of d-
an honor student vicious ly attacked in the hallway of her own school. critics call it a gun law bill. giving near free rein in bars and airports. we will have the debate this hour. get ready to see a lot more of this. national weather service warns a violent weekend is ahead. well, we are so glad to have your company on saturday morning. saturday. you can get up and be lazy. i m christi paul. you have made it to the weekend. welcome. i m victor blackwell. 8:00 on the east coast. this is new day saturday. we are waiting to hear from president obama. he is attending a state dinner in kuala lumpur in
officials. overnight i spoke with sara whose partner, phillip, was on the plane and she s fed up with the way things are being handled. actions speak louder than words. the briefings have been a joke. at the beginning they had officials at the beginning would laugh at questions produced by families and they would not answer the questions. it s been a recurring theme. the patience level of the family group is gone. we ll have more on that interview in just a few minutes including what she thinks the truth may be on what happened to that plane. i think it s mind-boggling for a lot of people that not a single piece of debris has been found in the 49 days since that jet vanished. i want to take you live to perth, australia, right now. erin mclaughlin is there. let s talk about this initial search for bluefin-21. we know that there s an