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A few days later, he didnt collect on those tickets. on thursday, that was the thursday before the saturday where -- when the plane took off for beijing, just two days before, the iranian called again to this travel agency and said book my two friends on the cheapest flights to europe, and they booked them from beijing -- or from kuala lumpur, and the one on the austrian stolen passport to frankfurt. what were learning from this travel agency and from the police is that mr. ali regularly bought ...

But those are the latest details we have. >> i assume authorities in malaysia, theyre speaking to this individual, right? >> thats not clear at this moment. the travel agency believed that he had lived in thailand for a couple years. thats how they came to know him. he was a regular customer. but they say they believed he had moved back to iran, perhaps as much as a year ago. and he had contacted them on the telephone to back these particular tickets. and its not clear if he showed up himself in...

The voice ask data recorders from the missing malaysia airlines plane could provide the best hope of determining what went wrong. so far there is no sign of the plane, no sign of the devices. but what if an aircraft could beam information back to the ground during an emergency? any emergency? brian todd is joining us now to talk about that. brian, the technology for those so-called live black boxes, it exists. how does it work, and why is it available on all planes? >> well, it does exist, wolf....

Money. and, you know, one of the reasons is because we have accidents like this so rarely. but this did come up after the air france crash in 2009. that air france flight 447 that vanished over the atlantic ocean on the way from rio to paris. it took them two years, wolf, to find that black box. and thats when -- they didnt get the information about what caused the crash until well after they found that black box. so thats what theyre thinking of now. and this could be a way to do that. but it i...

Relocate to malaysia. back home in tks t, woods brother says he and the family want answers, whether the plane crashed, or was it an act of terror or even a hijacking. >> that would be a whole lot better than what weve been thinking. so im crossing my fingers that, you know, maybe theres a happy ending to this. you know, this is pretty fresh, and were processing it and weve just had a little bit of time to be together as a family. were pretty calm, were pretty strong. and, you know, were hanging...

The same -- some even had to be hospitalized. but wolf, were seeing this angst and hostility towards the media and the concern is that it is only going to get worse. on a street in the heart of simferopol, masked paramilitaries confiscated equipment from a tv station. filming across the road a bulgarian journalist who has suddenly been spotted. within seconds hes pushed to the ground. a gun aimed at his head. his assistant is then targeted. the militia take their phones and cameras before fleein...

>> honestly. and profuse apologies, whatever thats worth. >> thanks. >> anyone watching this program. thank you to all three of you. kirk bloodsworth, richard deter and jeffrey toobin. death row stories sunday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern. it is awesome. just going to leave it at that. thanks for watching, everyone. have a lovely weekend. "wolf" starts after a quick break. this is mike. his long race day starts with back pain... ...and a choice.

And prevents gum irritation. fixodent. and forget it. for the second straight day, unarmed military members from an unorganized -- on the ground with exclusive video of whats happening at the check point. matthew is joining us now with details. whats going on, matthew? >> reporter: wolf, thanks very much. well, those monitors from the osce, the organization for security and cooperation in europe, they were turned back, we were with them exclusively traveling from the mainland

All right. before you assume this is another crying wolf story about money and politics, you have to understand a statistic that im going to give to you that has turned a number of heads this week. campaign spending has just crossed a threshold that never seemed possible. house and senate campaigns have already spent more than $333 million. that includes outside groups, through january of this year. the outside spending on these campaigns, were talking about the koch brothers, other billionaire ...

And the united states is taking dramatic steps right now to try to deal with this crisis that so much is going -- so much is going on. lets go to crimea right now for the very latest in ukraine. the tensions there exploding, the reaction provocative to what the crimea parliament has just done. were on the ground in crimea. >> reporter: yeah, wolf. major developments here in crimea with the parliament voting in favor to hold a referendum that would ultimately decide whether crimea breaks away fro...