>> i have been speaking with law enforcement officials and they are telling me, you may be surprised to learn that it is something that does happen, specially among drug weapons, human traffickers. they will often try to use these stolen passports to board planes. here in the u.s., authorities routinely check passports for inbound and outbound passengers on international flights and a number of databases, including interpol's lost and stolen passport database. the numbers are really alarming here. check this out. out of 800 million searches a year, there are 60,000 hits of lost or stolen passports and more than 1 billion people fly every year worldwide without having their passports cross referenced with interpol's data base. there is no way of actually knowing how many of those passports were lost, stolen or counterfeit. >> pamela brown in d.c. with the latest on malaysian air 370. we are keeping an eye on that.