Course and an area with no significant land masses. So the focus is still on finding that aircraft. We have just learned that that search is expanding. Its pushing further east and further west. The u. S. Is also trying to help. They are sending in the uss kidd to the indian ocean. And also activity on the sea floor hours after the plane went missing nearly one week ago. We are turning to our reporters all around the world. We will start with jim clancy in kuala lumpur. Reporter let me give you a little bit of perspective on what were talking about about the deliberate track the plane took. Malaysian officials are in a press briefing right now. They told us that the pilot may have attempted a turnback. Transponder went off. They can turn that off if they think theres a short and its causing a problem. Maybe thats why they turned it off. They had a problem. Then the pilot turned. They think he was trying to turn back to come back right where i am. But he didnt make the turn sharp enough. Suddenly nothing. We dont know what happened in the cockpit. But that same course carries on. Yes, it passes over the andaman islands, but it doesnt have much significance and obviously there was no attempt to land there. There would have been places right here in the malaysian peninsula much closer to land in an emergency. All of this really has setoff alerts today. Listen. Breaking this morning, reuters citing unnamed sources that it was deliberately flown towards the andaman islands. We went from a chest board to a football field. Reporter thats just what the malaysian government is doing. Using radar to follow the likely course of the plane. A senior u. S. Official told cnn that malaysian authorities believe they have several pings from the Airlines Service data system in the four to five hours after the last transponder signal suggesting the plane flew toward the indian ocean. Both india and the u. S. Dispatching ships. This after satellite images emerged giving families of the missing false hope that pieces of the vanished aircraft had been found. Today, new intel from chinese researchers reporting a sea floor event roughly 72 miles from the planes last location and an hour and a half after the plane dropped off radar. Adding that the event could have possibly been caused by a plane impacting the south china sea. Theres still not a shred of evidence that it crash landed anyplace in that search area. Reporter one week after vanishing and the Multi National pursuit continues. You look at the families. They were angry today in beijing. They were demanding answers. As they hear the various theories coming out, they support the hijack theory. That gives them a glimmer of hope that perhaps they would see their families again. Back to you. This is an agonizing wait for those families to be sure. All of this points to several big questions. Among them, were flight instruments deliberately shut down. Did someone on that plane try to land on that remote indian island. Cnn correspondent barbara star. We know the u. S. Is aiding by sending the uss kid to the indian ocean. The Indian Military also now joining the search. In fact, the u. S. Navy 7th fleet saying they have now finished their first sweep out into the indian ocean, about a thousand miles out finding nothing so far. Look, all of the theories are being looked into, but as they say, first, they have to find the aircraft. They have to find the wreckage and get includes from the Aircraft Data about what did bring it down. U. S. Officials saying they do believe theres a great probability that it is somewhere on the bottom of the indian ocean, even though that search now expanding out to the south china sea. Its fair to say the u. S. Focus will remain to the east of malaysia for now. Barbara, thank you very much for tracking this down for us. Lets bring in the former Inspector General of the department of transportation as well as Richard Quest, our inhouse aviation expert. Lets do this the most efficient way. Instead of going each report, mary, lets begin with all the new universe of information, reporting and speculation, give us what you believe is the best course of suspicion right now. It focuses on what we know and that is the transponder and other equipment on the plane stopped sending signals. Theres not a shed of evidence that somebody turned it off. We know signals stopped and we have the pings from the aircraft further on. We should never jump to the conclusion that it was hijack because it still points to some sort of catastrophic problem on that plane. If someone was still flying the plane to survive that and keep that plane going. In the past other accidents, weve jumped to conclusion on terrorism and it wasnt, such as twa 800. If they had gone with that, we would have left a potentially a very dangerous situation on an airplane uncorrected. Thats why we must stick to the facts. All we know is the transmission stopped. We dont know that someone turned them off. Lets unpack that a little bit. What youre saying is whatever sources reuters says they have about it being turned off isnt something thats overwhelmingly convincing to you. Mary is talking the voice of common sense this morning. All we have is a series of facts. One plus one plus one and it does not necessarily add up to half a dozen. What we have here is the fact that the plane appeared to fly waypoints. These way points, think of the interstate of the sky. Theyre the junctions that you fly from one to the next. Theyre like buoys in the ocean. Absolutely. You go from one and your flight plan maybe told you turn left at air point x. All we know about what reuters are reporting is that this plane flew way points. Could that be done by auto pilot. Absolutely. We dont know that these things were turned off separately manually by a person. We just know that they went off. Thats suggestive of a massive decompress sieve event as it is anything deliberate or terrorism, right . Thats really what i think it is. If you jump to conclusions, you miss the potential to save untold lives in the future and correct problems that otherwise will be lost. Lets take another step and keep common sense going here. What happened with egypt air is fueling a lot of the confidence and speculation about this being a terrorist act. But that doesnt mean its compelling. We have another example, the golfer payne stewart. The plane continued on for several hours because the engine wasnt de commissioned by what happened. This is the airliner where the pilots became overwhelmed by decompression, but the plane also carried on. Mary reminds us to keep coming back to this point. The eventual cause of these incidents was something deep in the technology of the aircraft. The chain of events began. And that led to unknown and untold consequences. Heres the question of the day and one that has not been asked, at least by me. What is your take on this . We do not know what was in the belly of that plane. We have not heard about the cargo manifest. Isnt it possible at least if not increasingly probable that that plane was carrying something that was haz material, causing a massive decompressive event . Isnt that in the realm of possibility . It certainly is. But what we need to know is if malaysia air followed the modern property contr protocols for inspection. Youre talking about something in the belly of the aircraft. Yes, it is possible. We have not heard what was the cargo. It was a flight we have from to beijing, so it would have had good cargo capacity. In the press conference we just heard in kuala lumpur, the malaysians now say they are sharing information we dont normally share on grounds of national security. Until now, the criticism by the u. S. Has been, were just getting their interpretation of the raw data. Theyre not letting us see the numbers and charts and graphs. Now it seems that the malaysians are handing over the raw data. In other words the u. S. Are doing the analysis. This intelligence committee, they want to know what was in the belly of the plane. Theyre going down that road of speculation, so i think theres something to it. As we leave this segment here, were going to stay with this throughout the morning, in fairness to them, this theory of this dramatic turn in flight and it wound up leading to the demise of people on board, the malaysians have had this theory for days now. Since the beginning. As you said, we will stay on this certainly for that missing airliner, but we want to look at headlines right now. Secretary of state john kerry is in london for lastminute talks with sergey lavrov. The goal is to stop russia from trying to annex it into ukraine. They are expected to become part of russia on sunday. Right now, a massive russian troop build up along the border. He fears Russian Forces may be preparing for a largescale invasion. Want to go live in crimea. Nick . Reporter this really is crumple time in london. Will john kerry have any influence at all on russian policy here when he meets lavrov. The focus of this meeting seems to be shifting. Now we have this 8 1 2 thousand strong russian army, many say to familiarize these troops with that territory. Thats causing a lot of nerves. I think many consider whats happening here in crimea a bum deal. The issue now with one day in the clash between pro russian and pro ukrainian rallies and 17 people injured last night, is that violence going to make russia intervene. Crim crimea, i think that decision is being made. Were looking to see if diplomacy is dead or if well see very tough sanctions from the United States and that could spark another freezing in this new cold war many are talking about here. Thank you very much. We are busy testing new reports about the Malaysian Air flight this morning. Were trying to get you the best information on what may have happened. But theres other news to tell you about this morning. A lot going on, chris. President obama meets at the white house are a group of immigration activists pushing for reforms that dont seem likely to have this year. This comes as he ordered a review of deimportantation practices deportation practices. The president receiving pressure on this issue from some in the immigrant community. Reporter thats exactly right. The president has been under inincreasing pressure. These groups say that even as the white house and democrats try to Push Congress to pass Immigration Reform, they say the president himself can do more to stop these deportations that are tearing families apart. Some activists are even calling the president the deporter in chief. They are looking to see how they can do it more humanely, but also within the confines of the law. The dream Action Coalition said that actions speak louder than press releases. You get a sense there that theyre going to be keeping this pressure up on this white house. John . Passengers on a philadelphiaft. Lauderdale flight describing immediate panic and a fairly orderly evacuation. The u. S. Airways flight blew a tire on takeoff and the pilot just decided to abort. Look at the pictures here. 149 passengers and five crew members evacuated. An eighth body pulled from the rubble in new york city following a massive gas explosi explosion. Several people still unaccounted for. Federal investigators are on site waiting for the all clear to inspect the gas pipe that may have caused this crash. Airbag failures in two gm models led to 303 deaths from 2003 to 2012. The auto maker should have taken action sooner. Gm calls the findings flawed. They are already being investigated to faulty ignition switches linked to 13 deaths. Investors are hoping for a market rebound this morning. It plunged to onemonth lows overnight after concerns in ukraine and chinas declining economy. Pointing slightly higher after the dow sliding thursday. The nasdaq and s p also suffering sharp declines. Were going to return to the search for flight 370, but we want to get you the weather today. Indra . We still have a lot of cold air in place, but the big story is going to be these morning temperatures that are really freezing out there. A little clipper is going to be making its way through the north. Maybe a little bit of a chance of snow, most likely rainover night. Its going to keep the old air around just for another day or so. Freeze warnings all the way down to the south where many places are seeing temperatures in the 20s and 30s and it is march, guys. Just 37 d. C. New york city waking up at 23. A hint of good news is on the horizon. Thats all that matters, right . Were going to be warming up. D. C. Goes up to 58 today. Even new york city will rebound to 46. Saturday will be even nicer. Notice rain in the south . This is what were going to have to be watching as we go through the weekend. We have Severe Weather threat by tomorrow. Austin, dallas, looking for a chance for thunderstorms and isolated tornados. Thats going to be the new story. By sunday night in through monday, a lot of people thinking about st. Pattys. Doesnt mean good news. I dont think anybodys going to be troubled by that rain. Green rain, does that count . Rain makes rainbows. Much more on the miss tear just disappearance of malaysian flight 370. Conduct amid all the confusion they caused since the jetliner fan issued. And what can we conclude from all this reporting now that its revealed it may have been flying for hours after it disappeared from radar screens. Were going to talk to a retired air force general on what he makes of the situation ahead. Welcome back. Breaking new details on the mystery of Malaysia Flight 370. The search is expanding further east. It may have been flown deliberately toward the indian ocean and it could have stayed airborne for up to five hours after losing contact with the ground. The Malaysia Airlines are not elaborating on details. The credibility of malaysian officials have taken a serious hit. Its been confusing from the first moments flight 370 went missing. A day later, after issuing six statements, a new time on when it was lost, 1 30 a. M. Where did it go . The flight path a major point of confusion for six days. Malaysian officials said it first vanished in the south china sea. Another Malaysia Official said it wasnt correct. Theres a consistent failure to get the most Accurate Information before the worlds best experts who i assure you are there ready to help. Malaysian police say they searched the home of the pilot a day later. Malaysian officials searched the homes are not true. Now sources close to the family say police have been outside the captains home, but havent gone inside. They are constantly giving conflicting accounts, holding back on information, cant control the flow of information. And if american officials were in charge you would have every aspect of it. Theres no indication the malaysians havent done that and theyre fiercely defending their handling of this. This is a crisis situation. It is a very complex operation and it has not always been easy. Analysts say part of the problem could be cultural. Theres been one coalition managing malaysia for decades. They havent had to account for themselves in the way they have to now in the view of international publicity. So much scrutiny because theres so few answers. The predominant theory of the plane is one theyve been that watering almost from the beginning. As well as new questions and answers coming up. We do have late breaking details on the search. Were going to take a break. When we come back, theres new reasons to suspect that it flew for hours. If so, does that point to a possible hijacking . There could be a better explanati explanation. Youll get that from an expert. [bell rings] [prof. Burke] at farmers,we make you smarter about your insurance,because what you dont know can hurt you. What if you didnt know that Home Insurance can keep your stuff covered,even when its not at home . Or that collisions with wildlife on the road may not be covered. And what if you didnt know that you could be liable for any accidents on your property . The more you know,the better you can plan for whats ahead. Talk to farmers and get smarter about your insurance. We are farmers bum pa dum, bum bum bum bum. Welcome back to new day. Theres a lot of news this morning. Lets get to john berman for the headlines. Breaking over night, reuters reporting that the plane was flown a few hundred miles northwest of the planes last known location. American experts are using satellites to try to find flight 370. A senior official told cnn there is a significant likelihood the plane is at the bottom of the indian ocean. Thats based on signals from after the plane lost contact but apparently kept flying 2,800 miles off course. See floor point though this a different area than the u. S. Is now searching. Thousands of Russian Troops are conducting war games along ukraines eastern border. Secretary of state john kerry is trying to head off the vote. He is in london right now for discussions with sergey lavrov. At least six people dead after it turned violent. The suspect ran and was i killed by police on the scene. Ra shaud owens will face two counts of capital murder. His brother told the statesman that austin was performing a club under the stage name, killing all beats rnlts firefighters are giving the all clear this morning after a leak scare at a halifax place. That compound is used for nuclear use in missles. All the employees were scanned. They all turned up clean and were now told, in fact, there was no leak. Return now to the top story, the search for Malaysian Airline flight 370. Lets talk about this with general michael hayden, former member of the cia. Thank you very much for joining us this morning, sir. Good morning. Lets go through a checklist of what you believe are possibilities, probabilities or things that are more of a distraction. The chance this plane made a dramatic turn in course, do you believe that is a good suggestion at this point . Its certainly one of the high pothcys we should follow. Seems we get one each morning. There seems to be some evidence. But, chris, we have to keep in mind, none of this is definitive. These are data points that seem to suggest one direction or another. Theyve all got to be checked out to see which of those actually leads to the truth. Right now, isolated data points and a lot of theories. Isnt it true that a dramatic turn like the one that is hypothesized could have been done by a pilot just as easily as auto pilot . I think thats correct. But again, we dont know. Look, i learned in my old profession in intelligence theres a difference between a secret which is something you really learn hard to discoverable and knowable and a mystery. When we think about the idea of terrorism, is there any