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Analyzing all the evidence. and grieving pilot. new information about the planes captain, including his flight record and a very personal loss only days ago. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. im brianna keilar. youre in "the situation room." >> this is cnn breaking news. we have breaking news this hour. the search for a missing airasia passenger plane is due to get back under way and expand to cover four additional areas. its...

Grow more hopeful that they are closing in on a find. >> we are at this point much more optimistic than we were even a day or so ago and then certainly many more times optimistic than we were a week ago. >> reporter: the hunt for night 370 now focused on the smallest area yet. its about 2200 square miles, or roughly the size of west virginia. thats about 25% smaller than it was the day before. and has narrowed dramatically from a few weeks ago. as investigators pour over the latest clues, cnn is...

Intending to for whatever reason ditch the plane in the indian ocean. >> now, the bottom line here is according to this report investigators essentially creating data in the absence of data. all this means is that indonesian radar didnt pick up an airplane. >> how can this play into the investigation? >> malaysia is still saying this is a criminal investigation. last week they said they cleared all 227 passengers. since then the investigation has centered on the cabin crew including the planes c...

Reporting. private individuals can sue in civil court for libel and slander. though a practicing attorney doesnt see the government escalating tensions with the media. >> you see these statements, which perhaps it is political in nature. you have to show that were not just taking it, we will give it back if need be. whether they should actually take that action, do be completely honest, i doubt that they will take that cost. >> reporter: legal issues aside the politics of flight 370 are extremel...

Some time, and as i said, the intensity of our search and the magnitude of our operations is increasing, not decreasing. >> the teams are still focusing on an enormous area in the indian ocean. about the size of the state of wyoming. that is kuala lumpur and here is the search area. investigators say radar information suggests that the jet went down somewhere around here. but more than a thousand people in ships and planes have not found a single piece of this wreckage, and, frankly, theres no s...

Planes captain. joins us now from kuala lumpur is the reporter for the newspaper "usa today" that reported this news. mahi, thanks for joining us. give us the new information that youve come up with, based on your sources in cue all kuala l. what have you learned about the pilot and his alleged role in the disappearance of this flight? >> reporter: well, my source, who has been clued in from the first day of this investigation, who has been a part of the investigation from the very first day tol...

They are not there. out there in perth, australia, planes are getting ready to take off to resume after a days delay because of horrible weather. also, ill interview the reporter behind a rather controversial article citing a malaysian police source linking the planes disappearance to directly the planes captain and why the pingers powering the black box may already be dead and what that could mean for the investigation.