Very little by not fixing an ignition problem that it knew about for years. At least 13 people may have paid with their lives. Hello, everyone. Im john berman. Im michaela pereira. It is 11 00 a. M. In the west and 8 00 a. M. In the east. We are getting confirmation all passengers are being cleared of any role in the incident with flight 370. Coming from malaysia inspector general. He reveals that the criminal probe has focused on hijacking, sabotage, personal and psychological issues. His investigators are saying all the passengers have been cleared. Were also learning the criminal investigation into the planes disappearance started on march 16th. Thats about eight days after the flight from kuala lumpur to beijing vanished with 239 people on board. That criminal investigation, despite the fact that all the passengers have been cleared, is continuing. New developments in the search for the wreckage. Authorities have again shifted that search zone. This time, they have moved it eastward. Closer to the australian coast. Lets get more on the criminal investigation. Nic robertson joins us from kuala lumpur. Nick, we see the passengers have been cleared of any criminal involvement in the flights disappearance. What about suspicious of the crew . Where does that leave things . Well, 12 crew members on board including the captain and the first officer and the investigations continuing according to the director general and the police. He said that they had talked to the wife and daughter. The police chief denied that and said it wasnt the case. The Investigation Continues to focus on all the members of the crew, all 12. The captain said they had taken 170 statements so far. He made it very clear there is a long way to go on this investigation. Investigating things like the cargo, who loaded it. Investigating things like, who prepared the food on board, who was responsible for that. Was there any tampering with the food, looking at ground crew as well. With he do know from officials, it is obvious. They say someone on board the plane took control of the plane and was therefore taking it. This is whats leading to this criminal investigation, micayla. The food aspect really caught my attention. Seems like they are grasping for things there. Malaysian authorities met with families of the chinese passengers. This has been a contentious relationship for weeks. How did it go today . Reporter a little less contentious. The families came out and said, weve made some progress. The head of Civil Aviation was there. The families were showed data thats been discovered along the way explained how the data is being used in the investigation. These sorts of things we were told that the process was very complicated. The families have complained they havent been able to ask questions. Today, they were able to ask some questions. The head of the Civil Aviation said that the families have been the officials have been able to answer all those questions. The families came out afterwards and said, yes, progress. Some questions answered but not all. Clearly, this he immediate to know a lot more these days. John, micayla. Nic robertson, following the investigation in kuala lumpur, thanks very much. More on the missing plane. In chile, sirens going off. The ground shaking. People running out of buildings. This as a huge 8. 2 magnitude earthquake rattled the coastal city of iquique. At this point, six people are dead. Thousands were forced to evacuate. Rescue efforts get underway. More bodies may be found. The Senior Vice President is in santiago, chile. Thats where it stands right now. Rolando, they know they are six dead but they anticipate that the death toll could climb here. Reporter thats absolutely right, micayla. The situation is that the two main cities are fine in general. There is damage but most of the buildings in those areas, because they are bigger and more modern, have a lot of earth quakes in the building. The problems that have occurred is between the two cities are a series of small towns and villages. They dont have any earthquake proofing. Two of those areas are cut off and they are try tog get that. We will have more on that in a couple of hours when the teams are able to get into the reasonable yregion. About an hour ago, the president of chile arrived in the area. We had a cnn chile anchor on the plane. The anchor told me the president was calm, outwardly calm at least, waiting to see what the situation was. When she landed, one of the first people she met with was the daughter of one of the six people that died. They spent a private moment together. She hugged her, shared a few words. She was visibly emotional, as you would expect under that kind of situation. Then, she continued her tour to see what the situation was in the entire area. Also, this morning, as you know, the pope is from argentina. The pope said he was profoundly saddened and praying for god to give eternal rest for those people who died. He was also asking for the loving protection of the patron saint of chile. Rolando santos reporting on the latest conditions in chile. We will be watching and waiting to hear more information. For folks watching at home, if you would like to help those affected about i this recent earthquake, go to cnn. Com impact. At this hour, senators on capitol hill with more tough questioning for General Motors ceo, mary barra and a Highway Safety official. Barra, the ceo of g. M. , asked to explain why her company dragged her feet for years replacing faulty ignition switches. The problem would cut off the engine and deactivate the air bags and power steering and brakes. It all comes too late for 13 people whose deaths are being blamed on the problem. Senator Claire Mccaskill called g. M. Out for what she called a culture of coverup. Even under the new g. M. , the company waited nine months to take action after being confronted with specific evidence of this egregious violation of public trust. This just in. The Supreme Court has removed ban on individual amounts donors can make to campaigns. This could have an Immediate Impact on congressional midterms. They did not change limits you can give to an individual campaign. What this ruling affects is the total amount you can give spread out over all campaigns. If you are very well think, you can give to a large number of campaigns with no limits. President obama leaves from michigan this hour. He is said to make a pitch for raising the federal minimum wage. He wants it raised to 10. 10. He has been pressing Business Owners to unilaterally raise their own wages if congress does not act. We have some sad news. The confirmed death toll on the Washington State mudslide has now risen. That number is now 29. Again, they are still searching and that number could go up for sure. The conditions there simply not optimal. They say the water and the floodwater has receded so they are able to get to some of the areas. Some three stories of mud and debris they are having to get through in some areas. Back to the search for flight 370. 26 days into the search and the search area shifted again. This time, slightly eastward. Malaysia airlines is stepping up security in the cockpit area, changing some of their rules. All 227 passengers as we just reported, malaysian officials have ruled them out as suspects. Overnight, several relatives of the planes chinese passengers met with malaysian officials. Some are still clinging to hope. I have to say that it may be 1 or even less than 1 but it was very little but i think there is still hope. A Family Member of one of the people on board the plane, steve wang. Joining us mary schiavo and jeff wise. Good to have you both. Mary, why dont we start with you. Lets talk about these new rules. Should we be reading into this this . Do they feel they have to be reactive to something specific to you . Are you talking to me . Im sorry. Mary, yes. Well, they are being reactive. They are being reactive to the situation. The new rules are good rules. They are rules that the us airlines has followed these. Each has implemented their own variation of the rules. They were guidelines and suggestions and directives after september 11, 2001. They are common sense rules. They add to security. In some ways, Malaysian Air is playing catchup with the other airlines that have these kind of rules in the cockpit already. One other thing we learned, malaysian officials saying they are investigating everything on board that flight including the food. They say they have to investigate every little thing. It sounds like they have nothing. They are just grasping at this point. Thats what has characterized this from the beginning. There has been no hard evidence of any kind in terms of motive, whose really behind this, why . Where they went. Yes, i agree. Once you start looking at the cutlery and what color the close were that people were wearing, they are grasping for straws. Any potential lead they will turn over that rock to see what is under it. Part of the frustration too is that this would be things that you would think would have been looked at early on in the investigation. You have been involved in countless investigations like this. Another piece of news we talked about right here is the fact that malaysian authorities ruled out all of the passengers. Yet, they are still talking about it being a criminal investigation that loops us around to territory we have looked at before and seems to point at the pilots once again. Early on, we had heard on the flight or on the air Traffic Control transcript and the recordings that they said it was normal. Pilot, which is perfectly the pilot not flying usually that handles the communications and now this week, they said they are not sure who was speaking. Again, if youre doing a criminal investigation, identifying the voices on the tapes as to who is in the cockpit is pretty basic and you do it right away by listening and having others that know them. It does seem like they pronounce it. It is a criminal investigation. Probably because they dont have anything else. Now, they are searching for whatever they can find to explain this. I just dont think they have anything. They rule out the passengers and make a sweeping Statement Like that and the same sweeping statement they think it is a criminal activity likely in the cockpit. It seems to me they make these broad sweeping statements and dont give us very much to back it up. Right. Thats a problem for investigations. Usually, you dont issue the conclusions. You can have daily briefings a tell the families of the passengers whats going on. It is really risky in any investigation to make a conclusion like that for two reasons. One, it can often be wrong. What happens when investigators make preliminary conclusions and announce them, there are several psychological effects that kick in, not the least of which you try to make your evidence fit your conclusion. They might be having that problem right now. There are a number of things you have to guard against in an investigation so that does not happen. It seems like it may be happening. They are trying to make the facts fit the conclusion that it is a criminal act. It may very well be a criminal act. There is just no evidence. Barry schiavo and jeff wise. If you would still like to get in on that action, you can tweet your questions to us. Hashtag, 370, qs. We are also on facebook thishour. 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In light of the mystery surrounding malaysian flight 370, decades old Aviation Technology is being called into question. There are many suggestions from a lot of places about what they could do, from putting cameras in the cockpit to streaming flight data in real time. If 100,000 flights around the world every day, if they are all streaming all the data from all the way from pushback to the destination, we may just end up swamped in an ocean of data. Once again with us, cnn aviation analyst, mary schiavo and jeff wise. Why cant we track every plane in the sky . Is this just a question about dollars and cents the airlines would be forced to spend . We could do it. We are already swamped in a sea of data. This would multiply it a lot. We have tiny, minuscule, microscopic amounts of data. We have seven pings. We have been able to reconstruct a lot, not everything but a lot about where this plane went. It is like a fraction of a period in your text message you are sending. It wouldnt require that much. The technology exists. Its available. Dont forget the problem. There was a lot of technology tracking this airplane. It was turned off. Thats a major difference. We are calling for more and more tracking, more and more identification on the one hand. It seems to me all the press and p. R. And political debate have been about that but we are sklg for something more intrusive. A lot of pilots dont want to be surveyed all the time and dont want cameras and microphones that are running 247, thats why the cockpit voice recorder is limited to two hours. What problem will it solve is the question. Every case has to be involved on its own merits. This is a unique case. Never lose sight of the fact that nothing like this has ever happened before. We dont know what happened here. Mary, i want to shift gears and quote chejeff. He has said we have gone from thinking they are going to spot debris. We would all be quite surprised at this point if one of those planes went back. It has been too many days of nothing here. You have been through these investigations. When do you wind down. How do you wind down if you are just not having success. At some point, it will wind down. It will keep it up until the black box is supposed to end. The weather will Start Playing and wrecking havoc as well. At some point, they are going to have to call it off. It is the intensity in keeping up the search and endless search. We are regrouping. We are going to research what we have thus far and we are going to look at the data and see where we can go from here. That will be the signal they are going to sift through what they have and then maybe when the weather clears up again. It would mean stopping through the winter, they will start again like they did with air france 447. I dont think that means all is lost. We should also point out this is a very expensive multinational proposition to conduct this search. The u. S. Alone has pledged some 4 million. Thats a drop in the bucket when you look at the larger cost of it all. Mary, jeff, will you stick around. They are coming in on twitter. Tweet your questions to our expert. 370qs. General motors, could it have cost customers their lives, costcutting measure. We will speak with a mother that says her daughter would be alive if g. H. Had made a simple, timely fix. Work with equit. Who work with regional experts. Who work with Portfolio Management experts, thats when expertise happens. Mfs. Because there is no expertise without collaboration. Mfs. mom when our little girl was we got a subaru. Its where she said her first word. little girl no saw her first day of school. little girl bye bye made a best friend forever. The back seat of my subaru is where she grew up. What . announcer the 2015 Subaru Forester girl what . announcer built to be there for your family. Love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. I am going to turn to a story that has so many of us outraged. General motors waiting years to fix a problem with the ignition switches. 13 deaths have been blamed on the problem. Lawmakers accusing the company of saving 57 cents to 2 per car by not fixing it. Ge General Motors officials not confirming or denying. When they redesigned it didnt meet the standards. Lawmakers are asking tough questions to mary barra. She has blamed the companys cost culture to the 2009 bankruptcy. Joining us now, renee, her daughter died in an accident in 2009 after she lost control of her 2005 chevy cobalt. You do now believe she would be alive if not for this ignition switch . Absolutely. It was confirmed last friday that her air bags did not deploy and it was a front impact. This happened years ago but it took until last week for you to come to this conclusion. Im a shame to say. I have been weak through this. I havent sat in the car or read a report but the story has been haunting me for two weeks. I told my children, maybe im crazy but this story wont stop. I made one phone call to my brother, who did see the car. I asked him, if the air bags had deployed. He said, he does not remember seeing them. First of all, you are not weak. You are a very strong woman. Thats not the order of things. Has g. M. Reached out to you . Have either of you heard from g. M. At all through any of this . No, just meeting the other night with mary barra. Mary barra apologized in front of congress. I know she had the meeting you were a part of it. Were you grateful to have that opportunity . Was she persuasive . No. Scripted. There was no of course, im sorry, for every parent, im sorry for your loss, im sorry for your loss, im sorry for your loss. Didnt feel any real warmth. What would you have wanted to hear from her . I would have liked to see a mothers real tears. She is a mother, as we are. She didnt even use any real emotion at all. I cant imagine that as a mother. One of the things that g. M. Has done that she did at that hearing, she is appointing ken fineburg. Is that how it is for you . Right now, that is no the a thought. Right now, we need to get these cars off the rack. There is still 2. 5 million. Mary berra needs to cut with the coverup, own up and get the cars off the road b