from the independegovernment. we will continue this special coverage with my colleague in washington. thank you so much for watching. i'll be back here tomorrow. in the meantime, the lead with in the meantime, the lead with jake tapper starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com files were deleted before february 3rd from that flight simulator. will the fbi be able to recover these files? if so, what secrets could they hold? i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." the world lead for a time, it seemed as the search area would never stop expanding, but now, the australians are narrowing the search in the southern indian ocean. also -- a mother of one of the missing passengers pushed beyond her limit because she says malaysian authorities are keeping her in the dark.