That front, david . Wolf, the very latest is, i mean, yes, you call it denial, but they see it as clinging on to hope. They say they havent seen any direct evidence that this plane went down. So still they believe their loved ones might be alive. The trauma of waiting. For weeks hundreds of family members of those on board flight 370 have been stuck in a hotel in beijing, a Pressure Cooker of grief and emotion. When they were told the plane went down, some via text message, it was overwhelming. Then grief boiled over into anger. These families have banded together and leaders like steve wang have emerged. Without physical evidence, he believes his mother could still be alive. But the wait is weighing on them all. Well, it is a hard time. All of us are exhausted, both mental and physical. But we just have to wait. Reporter retired u. S. Air force colonel Gordon Peters has deep experience helping families deal with trauma. He calls the situation terrible. They have no closure. Theyre not able to say lets deal with this, lets discuss it. They still have confliction of is my loved one alive, are they really dead . Those sense of loss just keep perpetuating. Reporter often family members are stuck inside this Conference Room for hours each day. Many tell me they still believe their family members are still alive, even if logically the chances seem quite remote. They go to bed at night and they probably logically know its happening, but they dont want to give up. They want to have the good moments with their life. They want to continue to hope for the best. Reporter and in a culture where family is everything, they are the refusing to give up because the consequences are just too great. Well, my mom used to say that where there are people there are family. But one is lost. Reporter wolf, im told these families get this hard evidence, they tell me that they wont believe it, so theyll be stuck in this cycle of trauma. Such a sad, sad story. David mckenzie in beijing, thank you very much. Just ahead, were going to ask our own Richard Quest about what seems to be some increased optimism that searchers will find something in the indian ocean. There he is. So our business can be on at ts network for 175 a month . Yup. All 5 of you for 175. Our clients need a lot of attention. Theres unlimited talk and text. Were working deals all day. You get 10 gigabytes of data to share. What about expansion potential . Add a line, anytime, for 15 a month. Low dues, great terms. Lets close new at t mobile share value plans our best value plans ever for business. Bentastefree andr, dissolves completely. And unlike other fibers, youll only know youre taking fiber by the way Good Digestive Health makes you look and feel. Benefiber. Clearly healthy. Save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. D Everybody Knows that. Well, did you know pinocchio was a bad motivational speaker . 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If you look over the last few days, whether it was the chinese pictures from satellite or the french pictures or overnight the thai pictures where 300 objects have been seen in the water, you start to conclude that actually it cant be much longer because were now talking about many hundreds of objects that are now swirling about. Of course, the distances are large, but the assets being flown out there, seven, eight, nine, ten planes, several ships, does lead, i think, to greater encouragement from those ive spoken to that they will not only manage to locate the objects from the satellite, that the satellite saw, theyll be able to get a buoy down to mark them and the ships will be able to pick something up, wolf. We heard from athena jones and others that the batteries on the socalled black boxes that send out the ping and theres only a few days left for that ping to be going out that ping may not even be in existence any more, the batteries may not have been stored properly. Tell our viewers what youre hearing about this because they really need to retrieve the flight data and the cockpit voice recorder. Yes, theyre absolutely stuffed without them, frankly, in terms of trying to work out properly what happened. So they do need them. But if these batteries, as has been alleged by one person who did an audit of Malaysia AirlinesStorage Capacity in kuala lumpur, if these batteries on the pingers were stored in hot and humid conditions, then that may have degraded their operation capacity. So we may already be looking at batteries that have not actually got the full charge. If thats the case, which would be extremely serious, Malaysia Airlines hasnt commented on this. The manufacturers of the pingers say theyre designed to work in all sorts of extreme circumstances, but the truth is we dont know. Malaysia airlines has to come up and say these pingers with these batteries were properly stored. If there is any question, wolf, that they were not properly stored and that impinged on their operational performance, well, that would be a very, very disappointing news indeed. For the moment, were jumping ahead of ourselves. We still need that first piece of debris which will lead to a debris field which will then take us down to where the final wreckage is. As you know, there is technology out there. There are devices where they could stream all that information on those recorders so that you wouldnt even need to search for the bottom of the sea for any wreckage for those recorders, but they havent been installed in a lot of these planes. Why is that . Two reasons, firstly, air regulatory hasnt been approved yet. The correct dots on the is and the ts havent been crossed. The regulators havent come to an agreement fully on what the mode will be. And secondly, cost. Not only do you have to put the equipment on the planes, to stream it you have to buy the data. And these look, i cant even believe im talking about cost when youre talking about losing an aircraft with hundreds of people on board, but if you take one of the big u. S. Carriers with, say, six, seven, 800 aircraft, youre talking about a vast amount of data because these recorders do take thousands of parameters and churn out the data. Now, if youve got to put that out like you did with the space shuttle, like you do with spacecraft, youre talking about starting to talk about a sizable cost to the operation. I know, wolf, how can you compare that with the loss of 240 lives and the loss of a major aircraft . I guarantee you one thing from this. This particular incident will become the case study and will bring about major changes in aviation. You can take that to the bank. Theyll need to learn the lessons from this so they dont repeat this down the road. Were standing by for new development. Stand by with us. 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Well, were hearing the village and if you look around its not much more than a collection of a few houses and a few shack. The russian board ser that way, literally just a few hundred yards. We came here already dark and we really dont know what is going on on the other side of the border. What the pentagon is telling us is right now on that eastern border of ukraine and russia up to 40,000 Russian Troops have massed. The Ukrainian Governments assessment is even more alarming. They say that their Intelligence Report show 88,000 Russian Troops are digging in their on the other side. They say in just the last two days to a city about 20 miles away from here, the russians have brought in Railway Trains packed with troops, packed with tanks as well. They say there are tank units there. They say there are helicopter, attack helicopters across there, and they also say that there are some of those elite parachute units there as well. Worringly both say the troop buildup has increased over the last few days and they also say that some of those russian units are now so close to the border that if they did decide to roll into ukraine, there would be zero warning. That means there would be no heads up, those tanks, those attack helicopters and those troops could be inside of ukraine proper before either the pentagon or the Ukrainian Government had any prior warning, wolf. Any Ukrainian Military on the ukrainian side of the border, would there be, in other words, any resistance . Well, what we have seen as we came up to this border area, a number of beefedup Border Patrols. They were checking our after dark, we did have a chance to talk to a couple of the Border Patrol agents here and he says there are more people, more agents that have been brought in from kiev and other parts of the country. Also, some of the local villages here say that in the last few days, members of selfdefense militias, civilian groups have come here, although those in the last few hours have withdrawn. But look at crimea and look what happened there. The ukrainian troops just folded in the face of the russian advance. One by one they surrendered and, in fact, now the Defense Ministry says 75 of the ukrainian troops who were in crimea defected to the russians. Very much in the balance as to whether the Ukrainian Armed forces would be able to resist a russian advance much more advanced military force, wolf. Carl penhall, be very over there on the border between ukraine and russia. Here in the United States and washington state, searchers are digging down through the equivalent of several stories of mud and debris and trying to reach. At least 24 people are dead and 90 others remain unaccounted for. Lets go to george howl who is on the scene with the very latest. George . Wolf, our cnn camera today got a firsthand tour of the mudslide there. The damage, the devastation. Officials describe it as beyond imagination. Those search and rescue teams are still on the ground sifting through the mud and we continue to hear these incredible stories of survival and painful realities of loss. The road here spreads out into these areas. Reporter these are the latest pictures from the disaster zone. The mud in many places some three to four stories high that came crashing down from the hillside and within a matter of seconds, one square mile of what once was a community now coated and covered. Gary mcpherson remembers it felt like being in a blender. Instead of making a margarita, you just kept mixing it and mixing it and when it got going fast enough you took the top off. Reporter gary is among the many rescued saturday when the wall of mud hit his farm. He says he and his wife, linda, were sitting in their reclining chairs and before he knew it, he was in the fight for his and her life. His air force training kicked in. Stay calm, try to find a way out. He grabbed a stick. Stick to the north until i dont have any more stick there and i kept waving it. Reporter a rescuer saw that stick and pulled him to safety. All gary could think about was trying to save linda. She didnt make it. There are so many stories of heartbreaking loss in the oso mudslide. The rising number of those who died. The missing and those who survived. The search and rescue effort continues in this area, but the outlook for finding anyone alive is grim. Theyre digging through the different piles. Theres guys looking in holes. As you notice out here, theres lumber. There are trees, actually, trees, mud, dirt, residences, cars, motor homes, boats. Everything that everyone would have in a neighborhood is now strewn out here. Reporter mcpherson said the mudslide threw his home more than 100 yard away. Obviously, losing linda. Reporter changed forever. At that point, we are expect agnews conference here in the next couple of hours to get the latest information, but the numbers that we understand, at least 24 people, wolf, died in this mudslide and the number of missing and unaccounted for remains at 90. Of course, as we get any new information well update it and pass it along. What a heartbreaking story that is, george howell, thank you. President obama announced that his administration is getting closer to its goal of enrolling 7 Million People for the Affordable Health care act. Enrollment is past 6 million, something of a moral victory and later the obamacare website massive problems when it first went online last october. Monday, by the way, is the deadline to enroll for this year. The latest on the hunt for flight 370. Thanks to a break in the weather, the search is now resuming. 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