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Vanished malaysian airlines jet. one of the passengers with a stolen passport was seekinging asylum in europe. they do not believe he has ties to a terrorist group and are in touch with his family. the search is expanding now four days later with 239 people still missing. the leplanes last location is the south china sea. tom costello has the latest. >> reporter: the search has entered its fourth day. dozens of ships, helicopters and planes running searches. so far, nothing. oil sheen and debris...

Something small as say a basketball in the water. jenna: youre. >> were very good finding things like this. that is what we do. i should point out its a huge area and, as time goes by it actually expands because of the wind and currents and so now were up to hundreds of miles. so and time is not on our side. as time goes by it gets bigger and bigger. jenna: any news, commander marks? we heard now we know of false reports of debris being found. is there any sign today of any location where this p...

Boarding with these stolen passports because security experts say millions upon millions people are doing it every year. we really cant really jump to conclusions yet, jenna. jenna: good point to make. david, thank you very much. the u.s. navy in the meantime announcing it is sending a second destroyer to help search for the missing plane. commander william marks joins us live on the phone from the south china sea on the newbie uss blue ridge supporting the operation. commander marks, many of us...

About just what this search entails. commander marks, thanks for joining us. we appreciate you joining us. later in the program well speak with a former ntsb officer to what investigators may do to locate the plane. remarkable, they can find a basketball on radar in open water but cant find a piece of this plane. jon: they dont have a clear fix where it was when it disappeared. its a bush ocean out there. jenna: what a mystery? jon: here is a question, could your baby save your life? brand new s...

>> this is the biggest challenge at all, greta, is to locate those signals which need to be fixed. once that happens, the ocean shield will possibly lower the blue fin under water to try to locate any wreckage on the sea floor. as you rightly say, we are talking about a huge depth of water. well more than 10,000 feet deep. we are still a long way off from actually locating any wreckage, it all depends on whether those signals can be detected or rather traced back to where they are originating. >...

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Or was there still -- some sort of catastrophic event on the plane where they lost all electronics and navigation and ability to communicate and did the pilots then try to make it back to malaysia in theory become incapacitated and plane kept on flying? a lot of theories out here and we havent even gotten into all of the 007 james bond theories about the plane landing on some island somewhere. you can see how right now the focus is only on what we know and what we know is a plane was last seen h...

See pieces the size of a basketball. the spokesperson said the images seen may have been cargo containers that fell off a ship. the search has cost the military $2.5 million so far. and an official said they only set aside just $4 million for the mission. in a phone call between u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel and his malaysian counterpart, this morning the malaysians asked for high tech surveillance equipment, a type of sonar, sean. >> just to clarify it was about 125,000 square miles that w...

See pieces the size of a basketball. the spokesperson said the images seen may have been cargo containers that fell off a ship. the search has cost the military $2.5 million so far. and an official said they only set aside just $4 million for the mission. in a phone call between u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel and his malaysian counterpart, this morning the malaysians asked for high tech surveillance equipment, a type of sonar, sean. >> just to clarify it was about 125,000 square miles that w...

From hong kong, commander william marks, u.s. public affairs officer with the 7 fleet aboard the u.s.s. blue ridge taking part in the search thats under way right now in the end can ocean. welcome. great to have you here, sir. thanks for joining us. >> youre very welcome. >> what can you tell us about the latest efforts right now that are under way to find this missing jetliner? what destroyers are involved, and the latest information that youve been working with? >> so 7 fleet has a number of a...