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Of nearly 31,000 square miles. Planes from china, japan, south korea, australia, the u. S. And new zealand are searching for any trace at all of flight 370. Also a final partial ping from the plane eight minutes after the last complete transmission. What this clue could mean for the investigation. This all comes after furious families storm a Malaysian Embassy in beijing demanding answers. Plus the landslide in Washington State that killed at least 14 people. The death toll expected to rise. A N...

At the end of its fuel line, its in extremis. thats the point upon which the plane is going down. >> weve got john ostrow on the line now. can you hear me now? >> cane hear you. >> this report about the partial ping. i suppose the key interpretation of this, depending on who you talk to, is does it indicate perhaps more mechanical failure than a more nefarious reason for why the plane went down? >> thats the key to understanding this ping. really what investigators are looking at right now what ...

Actu sat operates. thats going to be an important guide for investigators moving forward as they figure out what exactly would cause a partial ping. >> john, ive spoken to you several times in the whole process of this three week now news story. richard yesterday when we spoke was saying he still believes nefarious reasons behind why this plane went down. what do you think from everything that youve seen and studied on this? >> honestly, piers, gun to my head i still dont know what happened. i d...

Like a pressure cooker here that we saw boil over in beijing with that protest, piers? >> david mckenzie, thank you very much. breaking news tonight on this investigation. the revelation of what theyre calling a final partial ping from flight 370. here to explain what it means is john ostrow of the "wall street journal." john, youre reporting tonight about this partial ping. how significant do the investigators think it is? can you hear me, john? i think we lost contact. richard quest, you kno...

Breaking news tonight, the "wall street journal" indicates there are strong indications of sabotage aboard flight 370. still many unanswered questions. im back with my panel. sort of go to john ostrow from the "wall street journal." rupert murdoch your boss tweeted "world seems transfixed by flight 370s disappearance." can you rule that out? i know you cant rule out anything. but is it beyond the realms of reality this plane has simply been taken off perhaps to somewhere like pakistan and has ju...

Analysis there. but what is your gut feeling with a lot of expertise in your locker about what you think is probably happened here? >> we have increasingly detailed theories based on very little information. its very hard to say. it is easy to reconcile the changes in altitude given the lack of fidelity of the ra radar. the malaysians wont say how good their radar is. thats a defense secret. its harder to reconcile the changes in direction. people will postulate, maybe there were lithium batteri...

And more than one person may be involved. manually changing the planes course. malaysian military radar showed the plane climbing and diving erratically after its transponder went dead as the "new york times" first reported. is it a sign of a fight for control in the cockpit? well get right to our breaking news. dramatic breaking news. joining me now cnns barbara starr at the pentagon, also "new york times" reporting matthew wald and john ostrow from the "wall street journal." john the "wall str...

Systems of taircraft from underneath the airplane? unfathomable to me. >> unfathomable. try to put some fathom into it for me. >> this airplane was flying over the ocean. radar is only good for about 200 miles from shore. so you dont have to fly at low altitude to be undetected once out get beyond the range of radar. as we discovered on 9/11 in this country and certainly in places like malaysia and thailand, there are not fighter planes waiting to scramble to chase unidentified aircraft. it just...