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And all that matters. March madness gets under way today. 16 games spanning about 12 hours. A lot of college basketball. My pick, Michigan State bringing it home for me. Its been a while since i won my pool. On cbs this morning. Youre a very good puzzle solvers, but i dont know. Good luck. New baby buggy . New baby new oh. Here, put your hands put your hands this mornings eyeopener is presented by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. Gayle king is off. Good morning, norah. Good morning, charlie. A lot of worry and anticipation today. A big story. As you wake up in the west, we begin with what could be a major break for the missing airliner. Overnight, australian officials revealed satellite images picked up two objects in the indian ocean. They say the pieces floating just below the surface could be from flight 370. The debris was spotted in one of the most remote places on earth. 1,500 miles southwest of australia. Rebecca johns of our Partner Network 10 is at pierce air force base in perth where search planes took off today to that area. Rebecca, good morning. Reporter charlie, norah, some 26 countries have been searching for flight mh370, but since the search line has been downgraded from 2. 2 million square miles to just over 100,000 square miles, it appears we could have our biggest clues yet. Grainy satellite images taken sunday captured the two objects bobbing in the middle of the indian ocean. The larger of the two pieces measuring nearly 80 feet long, close to the size of a boeing 777 wing. This is a lead. It is probably the best lead we have right now. But we need to get there, find them, see them, assess them, to know whether its really meaningful or not. Reporter australias Prime MinisterBriefing Parliament urged caution. The task of locating these objects will be extremely difficult, and it may turn out that they are not related to the search for flight mh370. Reporter four military planes, including an american p8 sub hunter, was dispatched to the area to get a closer look. The objects are located in part of the indian ocean that measures up to 9,800 feet deep and was spotted just days after u. S. Officials helped narrow down the search. This is close enough to the National Transportation and safety boards assessed area to be a possible sighting. Reporter officials stressed strong currents and Poor Visibility will make for difficult task ahead. We may get a sighting. We may not. We may get it tomorrow. We may not. But we will continue to do this until we locate those objects, or were convinced we cannot find them. Reporter now, australian officials are currently redirecting the commercial satellite in the hopes of obtaining a Sharper Image of the objects. Meanwhile, a merchant ship is currently on the way through the search zone location with a very first closeup look as to what this object is. Charlie, norah . Thanks, rebecca. At least four military aircraft focused on the new area today, the search effort will resume at daylight. An australian search plane arrived last night. It did not find anything. An American Navy plane followed an hour later, then came air force crews from australia and new zealand. Also, a c130 is dropping buoys in the water to send back location data. A norwegian ship is now on the scene. But so far, it has not found any debris. The search area is thousands of miles from malaysia where flight 370 took off almost two weeks ago. Seth doane is in kuala lumpur where families of the 239 missing passengers and crew wait for word. Seth, good morning. Reporter good morning. Yes, families have had their hopes raised before, only to have something that was thought to be debris turn out to be nothing related to flight 370. Peter chong, the friend of the pilot, spoke with me on the phone earlier today, and he said it was kind of like being on a roller coaster. And today, he told me he felt like he was at the bottom with no sense of when it was going to go back up. Malaysias acting transport minister said today the lead out of australia appeared credible, but he urged caution. For the families around the world, the one piece of information that we want most, that they want most, is the information we just dont have, the location of mh370. Reporter for the families, its been an emotionally draining 13day wait for answers. At a meeting with Malaysia Airlines in beijing today, passengers relatives criticized the airline. Youre cheating us, cheating us family members, this man shouted. This comes after anger boiled over yesterday in kuala lumpur before the nightly press briefing. A group of chinese passengers relatives criticized the malaysian government for concealing the truth before they were pulled out of the Briefing Room by security. [ screams ] just after the plane vanished, we spoke with sarah bajc, the girlfriend of philip wood, the only adult american on board. The clothes in his closet are the worst. Reporter how so . I open the closet, and it smells like him. Reporter today, i emailed bajc to ask about developments out of australia. She replied, im anxious for news as the waiting is killing me. Im desperate to hear it is an airplane wing and there are survivors clinging to it, and one of them is philip. Im apprehensive it will be unrelated and the wait will just continue after many more hours of misery. I am prepared for dead bodies, she wrote, but i am not prepared for never knowing. It is the wait. It is the not knowing that is so excruciating, charlie and norah. Everyone here just wants answers. Seth, thanks. We want to look at where the investigation of the possible wreckage goes from here. Bob orr is in washington. Bob, good morning. Reporter good morning, charlie. Bob, what are the chances this debris is flight 370 . I think theres a reasonable chance, charlie, because this debris is in an area where we would expect to find it. The ntsb mapped a radar data it had and satellite data, they had projected flight paths. This would be at the extreme southern end of the southern projected flight arc. The one positive sign we can say so far without seeing this debris and physically retrieving it is that its in an area we would expect to find it. So that gives me optimism. Bob, added to that, the satellite imagery also suggests that one of those objects spotted was almost 80 feet in length. Could that be consistent with the wing of a boeing 777 that measures about 89 feet long . Yeah, its possible, norah. The wingspan for that entire plane is a couple hundred feet, 199 feet across. So its conceivable that what were seeing here is a large section of one of the wings. And one of the reasons why some people might be willing to go that far is because the wings are filled with fuel on takeoff, but this would be near the end of a very long flight, an those tanks would be empty. So its conceivable some panel from a large structure like a wing could be floating. But if thats true, and we dont want to get too far ahead of ourselves, because nothing as yet has been identified as part of this plane, if thats true, it might also tell investigators something about the way the plane hit the water and the way it broke up. Thats in the realm of speculation. Suggesting, in fact, if its that long, it might have been a landing they came in, rather than a deep dive . Its possible, charlie. I mean, this is something well have to look at after we verify its part of the airplane. If this is verified and it hasnt been done yet to be part of the airplane, this is just the beginning of a very long process. Because then, from here, were going to have to use scientific calculations of currents and wind speeds and the way those seas moved down there, in a very rough part of the indian ocean, to locate the primary wreckage field. If this is floating debris, this is not where most of the plane will be found. The primary wreckage field will tell us a whole lot more if we can find it, about how the plane broke up. And importantly, dont forget, thats where the black boxes are, and they could be very important in untangling this mystery. Bob, you pointed out the ntsb here from the United States now involved, now says this area is a very important area. You also reported yesterday that the fbi is now helping the malaysians look at that home Flight Simulator to try and find some of the missing data. Has the fbi found anything intriguing . So far, as far as i know, they have not, norah. What theyre doing is theyre going through that simulator, and also the computers of both of the pilots, the captain seen here and also the first officer, to determine whether they can find anything that hints at motive or preplanning. Theyre really interested in the simulator, because about a month ago, a month before the flight, i should say, some files were deleted. Now, that seems maybe suspicious. But we all have computers and we have memory problems, and you have to dump data to clear up space. But absent physical evidence, and we dont have any physical evidence, theyre going through the forensic side of this looking for motivations and clues. All right, bob orr, thank you so much. This search is concentrated in a remote part of the indian ocean in some of the deepest water on th planet. Cbs this morning contributor michio kaku is here. Professor, good to have you here this morning. Glad to be on the show. Lets talk about this area, because it is some 1,500 miles southwest of perth, australia, somewhat near islands of antarctica. This have a very remote part of the world. Its also very stormy. How difficult will this search be . Remember, its a race against time. The window of opportunity is closing very rapidly. This area of the indian ocean is quite turbulent, and even a gentle current of 5 miles an hour could create a debris field of hundreds of miles across. And remember that the black box has a beacon, but that beacon has a battery, a battery with a life of 30 days. And weve already lost two weeks. And so, the window of opportunity is closing very rapidly. Its a race to the bottom. But, professor, we have heard from Australian Authorities that this area could be about 9,000 feet deep. Air france was about 12,000 feet deep. Does that provide some promising information about finding this black box . Well, the black boxes are not designed to work two miles below the surface of the water. And in air france 447, it took two years two years to look at the black box, precisely because the beacon did not work. And so, here we have an opportunity. We still have two weeks to locate the beacon, to find the black box, because thats where the smoking gun is. The smoking gun is not the debris on the surface of the water. Its in the black box. And if we dont find it in the next few weeks, it means we are blind. Were blind, because theres no more beacon to guide our submarines, and well have to use robot submarines. Humans cannot operate two miles under the ocean. And then, professor kaku, i am fascinated by this satellite imagery that spotted these objects. Its from a Company Called digital globe, a u. S. Company. The images are from four days ago. Theyve been using crowd sourcing to look at the satellite imagery. Is there somebody now saying whats the satellite imagery from yesterday . Whats the satellite imagery from ten days ago . Theres got to be a lot of imagery of this space theyre poring over. Yes, so we dont have realtime photographs available immediately. And remember that the atmosphere and the weather conditions change. Right now, its quite turbulent in that area. Four days ago, we had a clear shot of the debris. Now its much less so, and thats why were dumping buoys in the area to measure the atmospheric conditions and the drift of the ocean currents. So literally, its a race against time, and the window of opportunity is closing very soon. Thank you, professor. Were staying on this story throughout the morning. Former ntsb chairman Mark Rosenker looks at how searchers will try to confirm that the debris is from flight 370. Thats ahead. Turning to the u. S. Response after russias takeover of crimea, president obama is ruling out military action in ukraine. In an interview wednesday with a san diego tv station, the president said russia violated International Law by seizing crimea, but the u. S. Does not want to trigger an actual war with russia. We are not going to be getting into a military excursion in ukraine. What we are going to do is mobilize all of our diplomatic resources so make sure we have a Strong International coalition that sends a clear message. President obama says engaging russia militarily would not be good for ukraine either. This morning, it appears russia will complete its annexation of crimea this week. Ukraine is now trying to evacuate its troops, with Russian Forces solidifying their hold on the crimean peninsula. Elizabeth palmer is in simferopol. Elizabeth, good morning. Reporter good morning, charlie and norah. As you say, the combined pressure of the u. S. And europe has not discouraged Vladimir Putin one bit. The formal process of annexing crimea is going through the Russian Parliament today and tomorrow. And it looks as if, as far as the russians are concerned, it will be a done deal by the weekend. Where just three weeks ago there was nothing but open road, ukrainian troops have set up a control point to check on traffic headed across the narrow neck of land that leads to crimea. And to keep an eye on proRussian Forces already dug in on the other side. On crimeas southern tip, in sevastop sevastopol, russian soldiers moved in, while the ukrainian soldiers who held up for three weeks were forced to surrender and leave with their bags hastily packed. This woman is a military nurse. So what are these guys going to do, do you think . Will most of them switch allegiances . No, never, she said. They will never swear an oath to russia. Theyd be traitors then, respected by neither side. Thousands of ukrainian soldiers all over crimea still stranded at their posts at bases and on naval vessels hope to avoid this kind of humiliation, being driven out by a new and unexpected enemy, the russians, with their possessions and their families, and nothing but uncertainty to look forward to. Now, we just heard that the russian and the Ukrainian Defense ministers are actually talking today. Thats some good news, because it will deescalate tension. But as to what will be offered these ukrainian soldiers, how theyll get them off the peninsula and what jobs they may be offered, absolutely no details yet. Charlie, norah . Thanks, elizabeth. Time to show you some of the mornings headlines. The dow is up this hour, but wall street journal says Janet Yellens first News Conference rattled investors wednesday. She suggested a rise in shortterm Interest Rates could come sooner than expected. Possibly in six months, after being at a record low since 2008. The New York Times says osama bin ladens soninlaw testified about a meeting with the terror leader hours after the 9 11 attacks. At his trial, the soninlaw said he met bin laden in a cave deep in the afghan mountains. He said he told bin laden told him they wont stop, and he felt bin laden was being too pessimistic. Houston chronicle say a raid on a home in houston uncover add stash house for schuman trafficking. 110 people were found imprisoned in the home. Five men are under arrest. Usa today looks at a study of new guidelines for taking statens. Those are the cholesterol lowering drugs. The report finds millions more americans could be eligible to take them. Just under half of all of those between 40 and 75 would qualify. And the boston globe reports on a protein that may guard against alzheimers disease. Harvard researchers looked at a protein called rest. People diagnosed with alzheimers were found to have lower levels of rest than those who did not have the disease. First Lady Michelle obama began a sevenday trip to china this morning. Its mrs. Obamas first trip there. Shes traveling with her daughters and mother. The first lady plans to focus on education and avoid politics. And it is 7 19. And ahead on cbs this morning, Russell Crowe turns to pope High Pressure beginning to weaken a little bit. Still, were going to squeeze in some warm sunshine in spots this afternoon but slightly cooler with a sea breeze. Clouds rolling through this morning even patchy fog at the coastline. This afternoon highs pleasant about 75 degrees in san jose. 73 in san rafael. And 72 degrees in santa rosa. Next couple of days well begin to cool things down with a stronger sea breeze right through the weekend. Chance of showers by tuesday. Annou this National Weather report sponsored by target. Expect more. Pay less. Our coverage of new developments in the flight 370 continues. Ahead, were going to return to malaysia, plus former ntsb chairman Mark Rosenker and Peter Greenberg on the debris that could finally bring some answers. The news is back in the morning here on cbs this morning. Stay tuned for your local news. Anc this portion of cbs this morni