recruiting for isis less than 25 miles from the white house. hello, i m rosemary church. hello, and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m errol barnett. thanks for joining us. this is cnn newsroom. it is 4:00 p.m. in seoul south korea, where the u.s. am is recovering from successful surgery after a bloody knife attack. mark lippit of about to give a speech when a man lunchled with a small knife, cutting his face. needed 80 stitches to close the wound. south korea s president calls it an attack on the u.s./south korean alliance. state media say the suspect of angry about joint u.s./south korean military exercises. he has been arrested before. back in 2010 he was detaineded after he threw a chunk of concrete at the japanese ambassador. let s bring in paula happenncocks now. joining us live from seoul. paula, a violent act during an otherwise typical breakfast meeting in a country where this type of violence is rare. what are we learning about the suspect and his views of the ongoing u.s./south korean military drills? reporter: this has taken many people by surprise. this is simply not something you expect to happen in south korea. it is although it s technically still at war with its neighbor, north korea it is a relatively safe country. and clearly the security surrounding this particular event reflected that, the fact that this man was able to bring knife into the venue. that he was sitting at the a table next to the ambassador. this man is in his 50s. he has a criminal record. he did, as you say, in 2010 troy to throw a concrete slab at the japanese ambassador to south korea. in that event, the ambassador was not injured. but the fact that he was able to attack an ambassador and then able to sit so close to another ambassador will raise many red flags and many questions. we also know that on his blog he showed the end of february he was actually protesting outside the u.s. embassy because of the joint u.s. military drills in south korea where he opposed. paula, we re just seeing some of the latest footage into n to us there. i want to ask but another development that we re getting in this hour. as it relates to a canadian pastor who has been missing since he went to north korea in january. his family and friends, of course, have been worried about his whereabouts. what are we learning? reporter: we heard from the family that they ve received communication from the government that he s being held in north korea. he went on january 30th to north korea. he s part of a church that has a nursery, orphanage there. he s gone hundred of times. he speaks korean and has a good understanding of the country. for some reason the family just got notification that he had been held by north korea. at one point, the family assumed that he had been caught up in the quarantine system to try and stop the spread of ebola. they had a strict 21-day quarantine period. became clear when he was not heard from, and he did not return home when he was supposed to that something else happened. at this point the information is from the family. we ll have to see when we get from north korea. paula hancock on two developing stories for us. i appreciate you pushing you through feeling under the weather this hour. i appreciate that. not sure if i ll be able to do the same these next two hours. we appreciate that latest information from paula hancocks thanks. we turn to india now where the government is banning a documentary about a savage rape and murder that triggered massive protests. india s daughter from the bbc includes a prison interview with one of the [ inaudible ] the documentary could encourage andin incite violence against women. we have more now on the controversy. and talk to us about what this rapist said exactly to trigger a ban on this documentary and how are people in india reacting to the ban and the government s justification for it? reporter: well, the government is saying that the reason they don t want the movie shown in yan is because they fear how the public will react. they don t want a law you ander situation here. the reason they are fearing a law and order situation is because of comments made bithe rapist which you can hear and see in the documentary are really controversial. now the government will not let us directly quote from the movie, but in the movie, the rapist shows very little remorse for what he did. he did say that he he does imply that the girl graduate on herself. he says that girls have no business going out late at night, around 9:00 at night. and he says if the girl had resist health care reform just let the rapists do what they had to do, she would have spared herself a beating. as you can imagine, these are controversial remarks. that s why the government of india has taken the step to began. the filmmaker, of course is furious and is urging the government to reconsider their decision. she says it s very important that the film is seen here because the film is just a response to what s happening in indian society. a lot of premsaying if there s one country that need to see this documentary it is india. so is there anything that the filmmaker can do to fight this ban? in other words, are indians ever likely to see this film in that country? reporter: it is on youtube. a lot of people started seeing it this morning because it is available on youtube at least for now. people have started to watch it. the filmmaker is appealing to the government. she made a direct appeal to the prime minister modi who she met once before. she s appealed and said look if you not the film is controversial, first of all, watch it. many of the people responsible for banning the film have not even stein. she says that s just unfair. you ve got to see the film first, then decide whether it s offensive or not. she says there s nothing offensive in the movie. there s nothing sensationalist in the movie. it s just reporting what s happened, it s interviews with the pemresponsible for what happened and every indian has a right to know what these rapists saying and thinking. you asked about how india is reacting. there s a lot of rage. people thinking we should not be giving the rapists any airtime. that by giving them a platform to express their views, that s the wrong idea. somebody social media has been ayou buzz with comments been abuzz with commence. somebody wrote and said when if instead of giving them a platform to express their voice they should be in solitary confinement. then there are people saying you you can t shoot the messenger. some say india is a country that should be down for its freedom of speech and expression so let the film be aired. people reacting strongly on both sides of the debate. indeed. shocking things that this rapist has said of course at the core of this. it s why he thinks this way. and that s what they really need attack at this point. reporting there from mumbai, many thanks to you. now a single police employee in ferguson, missouri, is out of a job after the u.s. justice department found systemic racial discrimination in the entire police force. two others are suspended, but a source close to the investigation tells cnn they will likely lose their jobs as well. the report claims the department unfairly targeted african-americans and used excessive force. a senator for the state says it s simply unacceptable. take a listen. i m outraged. i am outraged. i can t believe i knew these statistics we knew they are about 15% higher than what i thought they would be. people being ticket for walking on the secrete. i couldn t believe that i saw that. you re targeting people. in many ways it validates what we heard from the protesting residents last year saying this was happening all the time. some resigns do say this report helps them feel vin indicated. but they re still angry. cnn s sara sidner has more. reporter: ferguson officials responding to scathing federal report highlighting racism at its worst. we must to better not only as a city but as a state and a country. we must all work to address issues of racial disparity in all aspects of society. reporter: the department of justice investigation blasts ferguson police and its courts saying they helped lay the ground did work for the unrest that erupted after the police killing of michael brown. of course violence is never justified. but seeing it in this context amid a highly toxic environment, defined boy mistrusts and resentment stoked by years of bad feelings and spurred by illegal and misguided prak betices, it s not difficult to imagine how a single tragic incident set off the city of ferguson like a powder keg. reporter: the doj points to the statistics for proof. blacks in ferguson twice as likely to be searched in vehicle stops as whites, though whites were found to have more contraband. at least 85% of those pulled over arrested or ticketed for traffic violations, were black. and the justice department is saying it was money, not public safety that the department and city focused on. blacks paying the highest price. the city relies on the police force to serve as a collection agency for the municipal court, rather than as a law enforcement entity. reporter: that comes as no surprise to reverend derek robinson who became a protest leader in ferguson. he says ferguson police once pull him over saying his taillight out but then asked to search his car. and i told him no. i said that you have no reason to search my car. i will not. so then he began to say, well i will charge with failture comply. reporter: you got a ticket? yes, ma am. reporter: for failture comply? for failture comply. reporter: failure to fly with what? secretary of of the vehicle. reporter: resigns saying there were racist jokes, several targeting the president and first lady. one include a photo of bare-chested women dancing in what appears to be africa with a caption saying michelle obama s high school reunion. another shows president obama as a chimpanzee. and yet another says obama won t number office long because what black man holds a steady job for four years? let me be clear, this behavior will not be tolerate in the ferguson police department or any department of city of ferguson. reporter: the mayor said three people were put on administrative leave. one has already been termity inned. i know someone close to the investigation who told me that actually the other two will also no longer work for the ferguson police department. now hillary clinton says she wants the public to see her emails. she says this via twitter, that she s asked the state department to release them, and they will review them as soon as possible. this being sent just a few hours ago. the move comes ahmad criticism that the former amid criticism that the former secretary of state used a private e-mail account during her time in the post rather than a government e-mail. meanwhile, a u.s. congressional committee investigating the 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tourniquets. both the prosecution and defense agree dzhokhar tsarnaev helped carry out the april 15th 2013 attack at the finish line at the birth at the boston marathon. his defense attorney going as far as saying it was him who took part in the blasts. his team says the real question is why he did it, saying he was heavily influenced boy his brother, brother,. prosecutors made annish emotional plea to the the injury. laying the jury. laying out the events in graphic detail painting tsarnaev as a terrorist whose goal to have kill as many people as possible. the prosecution says the motive for the attacks can be found in the boat that ultimately became tsarnaev s hideout before his arrest. there tsarnaev allegedly wrote messages explains that he believed the u.s. government is an enemy of islam. now 12 jurors will have to decide whether tsarnaev is guilty of the 30 federal counts he s charged with. more than a dozen of which carry the death penalty. i m chris welch reporting. prosecutors also played never-before-seen footage of the aftermath of the attack for the jury. we want to warn you, the video may be difficult to watch. in this store, surveillance video shows employees turning clothing into tourniquets or t tourniquets, as many call them, to help victims. we have another clip to show that shows the wounded being treated on the street there where the marathon was to take place. you see blood all over the place. first responders trying to help. four people were killed in the bombings and the manhunt that followed. another 2 0 were 260 were wounded. new york city is adding two muslim holidays to its official school calendar. mayor bill de blasio says the city will become the largest school district in the u.s. to observe the days. the festival of sacrifice will be observed beginning in september, and the end of the holy month of ramadan falls during summer classes. the decision will affect some one million students in the city. about 92 million people are under some sort of winter weather warning, watch, or advisory across the u.s. right now. coming up a live report on this latest weather front. stay with us. we give you 24/7 access. you get instant credit alerts to keep you in sync. you can even lock and unlock your transunion credit report from your phone. and all that information feels pretty good. come to transunion.com and get in the know. economists around the world are paying close attention as china kicks off its annual parliamentary meetings in beijing. they re hoping to learn something as china reveals its priorities for the coming year. cnn s andrew stevens has more. we re all looking at the numbers showing china s economy. is it continuing to slow? is it showing a rebound? the golden number economists want to analyze, of course is gross domestic product, its forecast the gdp. what can we expect? reporter: that s right, the big number and one everyone looks at, the gdp number as you say is being forecast by the chinese government at 7%. that s the lowest target for some 15 years, down from 7.5% in 2014. gives you an idea of what chinese leaders are saying about the strength of the economy. not surprisingly it has been weakening. there s concerns about property the property market is slowing, there s not so much investment in the state sector anymore, and also the private sector isn t investing that much either. it is not, though, a cause to ring the alarm bells as long the economy continues to produce jobs and at the bottomen of thing, jobs is bottom end of thing, jobs is what it s about. economists i ve been speaking to says the 7% number is enough to keep producing jobs. it is a sobering number, the fact that the world s second biggest economy, a 10% growth story for so long has definitely started to slow. the other interesting part of this was the corruption story. now as you know there has been a purge on corruption in the past two years. and effectively the number two who gives the report every year this annual report on the state of the chinese economy, was firm about the corruption angle and what the government intends to do there. listen to what he had to say. translator: there s still much to be improved in the work of the government. government employees behave irresponsibly. shocking cases, corruption still exists and some government officials are neglectful of their duties holding on to their jobs while failing to fulfill their responsibilities. we must face these problems head on in times of peace. one must be alert to danger, in times of stable one must be mindful of the potential for chaos. we must prepare the weight of responsibility. reporter: certainly strong words there about corruption about the impact of corruption not just on the moral fiber but also on the economic growth story, as well. interesting, just one anecdote from that 14 senior military people the people s liberation army have been taken in for the investigation on corruption. one of them they sent investigators to his house, and those investigators found a ton of money. literally, a metric ton of cash in his house along with jewelry and all the rest of it. they re going after the military. expect also to be looking at the investigation widening into some of these big state-owned enterprises, as well. corruption is going the anti-corruption drive very much a part of the china economy story in 2015 as well. yeah. that is fascinating because there were questions as to how china would deal with corruption in a serious way. they seem to have been making examples of a few key top officials and are continuing to do that. andrew stevens joining us live from hong kong with the latest on the national people s congress in beijing. thanks. rosemary. in other stories we re following, a veterinarian detained in east timor for months is now back in the united states. 41-year-old stacy addison of greeted boy her family just a short while ago in polar, oregon. she had been in portland, oregon. she had been held without a charge in east timor for nearly 16 months. she was arrested in september after she said she unwittingly shared a taxi with a stranger carrying methamphetamine. u.s. secretary of state john kerry was among several top government officials who worked to secure her release. now if you were hoping to run in next month s marathon in pyongyang, hope you ve been training because you can now book your tickets. a beijing travel agency said north korea lifted its ban on foreign participants in the race. the government had banned all foreign tourists in october out of fear that the boyleebowl virus may come the ebola virus may come with them. this winter has been unlenning in the united states. guess what another storm on the way. this one could bring a bit of everything depending where you live. heavy snow ice, rain and flooding is possible. what a mixture. yeah. and it s huge as well. the slow-moving front will eventually extend some 2,000 miles. that s 1,300 dillometers, across the kilometers across the u.s. about 1 million people are under some winter weather warning, watch, or advisory. horrible. and our meteorologist, pedram javaheri, joins us with more. please tell us this is the last hurrah and then we will enjoy spring surely. i wish i could. what s funny about what errol said about running in pyongyang, the irony is you could probably run the marathon there but not in boston with what s happening with all the snow across the region. you know this pattern has been unusual, coldest, of course among the cold ever seasons we ve seen in the winter. among the snowiest for a lot of people across the eastern united states. this is what errol told you about over 92 million people impacted by the advisories all the way for the northeastern corner of the u.s. and of course this pattern has been long lived. so you know the aviation industry doesn t like this. over 5600 flights canceled. that was wednesday, preemptively over 2,100 cancel for thursday. this time around, this particular snowstorm is not going to be focus is not going to be focused on boston or new york but drop down toward washington philadelphia that s where the concern is for major cancelations. in fact, in d.c. we could see more snowfall than we ve seen in the last five years from a single snowstorm. certainly something will follow. a 1,-500-mile mile stretch. i found this interesting. 26 in dallas. 25 in memphis. go out toward pittsburgh 26 degrees again. so very little range in the temperature when you go west to east as the front is in place. notice icing also taking place across the region. focus on the state of mississippi. in the northern portion of the state of mississippi, 23 fahrenheit minus five celsius. just 300 miles to the south is 73 fahrenheit or about 2 celsius. 23 celsius. so incredible temperature range north to south as the front drops in. west to east not much in the way of difference in temperatures yet. but here goes the feature across the united states. again, icing going to be a concern across the northern portions of louisiana, on into mississippi. a quarter to half inch in spots, not far from jackson. this is going to be dangerous when it comes to accumulations, that sort of accumulation typically means power lines and trees coming down. we ll watch that. here we go. through thursday, friday into sudden, the next essentially 48 to 72 hours, we could see six to eight inches around new york city. similar amounts out of philly. similar moons again out of amounts again out of washington, d.c. this pattern does not look like it s going to come to an end. in fact, the next couple of hours, rain showers quickly give way to snow showers into the afternoon and evening hours around new york city where they could pick up as much as eight inches of snowfall. not done yet, guys. spring is, what, a couple days away? the 20th of march quick math 16 days. hope it s not a chilly one. we ll watch it. slow to come. thank you. still to come on cnn newsroom, two australians ahn sit in a maximum security facility where they re waiting for word on whether they will soon face an indonesian firing squad. the latest in a live report next. le, huh? listen, td ameritrade has former floor traders to help walk you through that complex trade. so you ll be confident enough to do what you want. i ll pull up their number. blammo. let s get those guys on the horn. oooo looks like it is time to upgrade your phone, douglass. for all the confidence you need. td ameritrade. you got this. a warm welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m rosemary church. i m errol barnett. let s update you on our top stories. the u.s. ambassador to south korea, mark lippert, is recovering from surgery after kbooi attack. media say the suspect was angry about joint u.s./south korean military exercises. lippert needed 80 stitches to close the wound on his cheek:the family of a canadian pastor says he is being held by the government in north. the reverend was scheduled to return to canada last month, but his family said they received notice to pyongyang via canadian officials this he is being detained. he s been to north more than 100 time. it s not clear why he s being detained but north korea has held a number of people in the past on religious ground. india is banning the broadcast of a documentary against a notorious rape in 2012. the bbc s india s daughter features an interviewer with one of the men convicted in the gang rape of a woman who later died from her injuries. the attack sparked massive protests. the government says the documentary could incite more violence against women. the bodies of all 33 workers killed in a coal mine explosion in eastern ukraine have been recovered. the blast happened wednesday in the rebel-health region of donetsk. the official news agency there hospitals that methane gas could be the cause. more than 150 workers were evacuated after the explosion. in another story we re following, two australians appear to be days away from facing death by firing squad in indonesia. the men convicted on drug smuggling charges have been behind bars for nearly a decade now. australia has repeatedly appealed for clemency for the pair. on wednesday, the men were moved to an island facility where the executions are carried out. the men will be given 72 hours notice of their impending appointment. but precisely when that is unclear. cnn has been closely following this developing story. we have more live from bangkok. how seriously are the indonesians considering this last-ditch tampa that we re hearing about to save the two australians from execution with this prisoner swapping is swap suggestion? reporter: we haven t had any official word from the indonesian side. we know that julie bishop the foreign minister for australia,s this she had a late night phone call tuesday her time with her counterpart, foreign minister from indonesia, to make one final appeal for a potential prisoner swap. she added that we want to do this with the parameters of the law under indonesia and australia. but we want to consider the fact that we might be able to do some kind of transfer or swap. of course, this has also been done many times before over the almost ten years that the two have been in jail. this time perhaps they re hoping that under pressure and appeals from not just the governments of australia, the prime minister, of course, as well way weighing in tony abbot. a lot of public pressure as well. things may change but so far no official word. she s saying she spoke on tuesday, it s now thursday local time here. so if they haven t responded yet, it doesn t seem particularly positive. and all the while, of course the men have been transferred to what s known as execution island. and we ve seen this morning, rosemary family members of other people on death row arriving at the island that is known locally as execution island just off the coast of javaa. it s a very isolated solitary island. it s hold one of the highest levels of security prison camps there. that is where the pair the two australians, andrew chan and foreign and others will face death by firing squad. it seems almost certain that that will go ahead. we not the pair s family are trying to make their way to the salon, as well. we re not sure if they re there yet. it is a one-way trip for prisoners there. the australian prime minister has requested an opportunity to talk with the indonesian president. how likely is it that his wish will be granted? reporter: we re keeping a close eye on president joeko widodo widodo s movements. they re n gentleman cart athey re keeping a close eye on his whereabouts. he s been locked in meetings all day, so too, has the foreign minister and attorney general. all crucial people involve in this. we understand he has some kind of public event later this afternoon. will reporters be able to speak to him we don t know. in become channel negotiation in back channel negotiation as far as tony abbot was concerned, he said he hadn t spoken to him. he had spoken to him last week. let s not forget the interviews that cnn did with widodo saying no compromise. no compromise. monitoring the situation in indonesia from her vantage point in bangkok. many thanks. iraq s military says its advance on the isis-health city of tikrit is gaining ground. this is a seasonal s view of the operation we re showing you now right from the ground. iraqi troops are backed by shia and sunni fighters as well as forces from iran. progress has been reported for three straight days despite running battles, roadside attacks, and suicide bombers. taking back tikrit is seen as dee protecting baghdad as key to protecting baghdad just 150 kilometers to the south:a man who says he is muhammad emwazi s father says there is no proof that his son is the isis executioner, jihadi john. u.s. officials and congressional sources told cnn last week that jihadi john is mohammed emwazi, a londoner born in kuwait. sam emwazi told a newspaper that there s no proof his son is jihadi john only rumors. he s threatening to sue anyone who believes otherwise. now the latest if a string of young americans being drawn to isis. federal law enforcement officials say they ve charged a high school student with helping the terror group. britain todd respects from washington. reporter: he allegedly help a man travel to syria to fight with isis, went on line to connect the recruit to the terror group. the alleged recruiter, a 17-year-old boy in the suburbs of washington according to a law enforcement official. the washington post reports the boy lives in woodbridge virginia. isis are putting out their propaganda message over social media, teenager are using social media more than any other demographic. it s no surprise that somebody who s 17 will become involve in pro-isis activities. reporter: fbi agents raided the townhouse where the alleged recruiter lives leading him outside in handcuffs according to the post. the fbi is not commenting. the boy is in custody and is charged as a juvenile. an official with the prince william county public schools tells cnn the young man is enrolled at this high school osborne park in man as virginia but manassas, virginia but is not currently attending classes. this follows other high-profile cases of young american being enticed to try to join isis. two men from the new york area including a 19-year-old picked up last month. a 19-year-old somali american from minneapolis grabbed at jfk airport before his plane was to leave for turkey. a law enforcement sources amed posted these tweets saying he wanted to become a jihadist and be a martyr. what prompts a young person to want to leave america and join isis? they usually are those this are very isolated very upset about one issue or another, and have, you know some variety of motivations. sometimes it s psychological other times it s family other times it s social. reporter: a top counterterrorism official said over the past year or two isis and other groups have gotten better at spotting potential recruits and younger and younger people are being recruited. this official said in the u.s. the fbi has seen children as young as 15 recruited by isis. brian todd, cnn, washington. both the united states and iran say progress is being made in nuclear talks, but more work remains. the iranian foreign minister and u.s. secretary of state john kerry wrapped up meetings in switzerland on wednesday. another round is scheduled for march 15th. iran and six world powers are trying to reach agreement on iran s nuclear agreement by the end of this month. without naming him, he referred to the israeli prime minister s speech to the u.s. congress. listen to this. we have one serious problem, that is there s a great deal of pressure being imposed boy war mongers, by scare mongers who are trying to prevent it by scare mongering tactics, by lying, 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[breath of relief] oh, what a relief it is. mommy! hey! a ferguson, missouri police employee has been fired after the u.s. justice department found racial discrimination in the police department and court system. two other are suspended, but a source close to the investigation says they will likely lose their jobs as well. the justice department did not bring charges against officer darren wilson who killed teenager michael brown last year. we re going to talk about this more in depth now with cnn political commentator mark lamont hill. he joins us from philadelphia. attorney general eric holder was clear in saying that there was racial bias in every level of law enforcement from the street to the courtrooms there in ferguson, missouri. are you seeing more relief that the truth is out, or frustration that it took the death of a teen to get the truth out? we re seeing equal parts relief and frustration. after hundreds of days of protesting people on the ground in fbi headquarters and around the country, indeed around the world, are excited and enthused to finally get some confirmation from the top that something went wrong here. we ve already known it on the ground, people are saying now the government now law enforcement agencies the top law enforcement agency is acknowledging it. at the same time there s a sense of frustration. despite the words, there s no systemic change yet. there s no acknowledgment that the ferguson police department will be disbanded or that they ll be rehiring police officers or that the st. louis police will take over. there s no sense here that there s going to be justice for the michael brown family although obviously civil action will likely be taken soon. these are the questions that are circulating. people are frustrated that they have the acknowledgment of injustice but no clear pathway toward justice. when we have seen so far, the ferguson mayor has come out saying that the racial bias will not be tolerated. we ve seen one police employee has been fired as a result. two have been suspended. we don t have the outcome of that at this point. but do you see that as just the first steps? what would you want to see come after this? we hope it s just a first step. the problems in ferguson aren t due to an individual bad act or officer. when you look at the percentage of black people pulled over and what types of black people are pulled over for. when you look at the misrepresentation of black people in arrests, charges, in sentencing, ex it looks like there s a systemic problem. when you look at the gap between racial demographics in terms of the population and in terms of the police force, again you see racial imbalance there that needs to be resolved. firing at an individual officer, putting out a press release, firing at the chief of police. all of those things are things that probably need to happen but they re only minor step. we need full-scale systemic change. what s interesting or ironic is that we are approaching the 50th anniversary this weekend of the march on selma. selma, alabama, one major as peck of the civil rights movement. aspects of the civil rights movement. as you make comparisons between the way the legal system was used during the time of the segregated south and what s happened in ferguson missouri you wonder is there the need for another civil rights movement on these specific issues? how many other federals are there? fergusons are there? reporter: the truth is there are fergusons every day around the country. it s not just about the death of a particular teenage boy or girl, it s about systemic problems with law enforcement, how black bodies are viewed in full public space. that s the challenge here. what we saw in selma was the spectacle of protest. we saw the as dr. king would say, the dramatization of a circumstance. we also saw a link between civil action and legal change. it wasn t just about the spectacle of the protests and sittin itless also about getting laws changed. we re not on the verge of another movement we re in the midst of another movement. there will be no charges against police officer darren wilson in the case of the death of michael brown. what are your views on that? well, i think it was always a hail mary it was always a long shot to see civil rights charges brought against darren wilson. although i believe that darren wilson of guilty and that hoe should haveum low been indicted and convicted, i don t think we have enough for civil rights violations because now we ve to decide he wasn t just a bad cop that made bad choices, illegal choices, but that he did it for particularly illegal reasons. that means we have to get into darren wilson s head in a way that we cannot. michael brown is defend and the officer defended himself the way a dead person could not. giving us insight from philadelphia. thanks. my pleasure. good night, malaysian 370. the final communication from malaysia airlines flight 370 before it vanished almost a year ago despite an extraordinary international effort. the search for mh370 has come up empty. tom foreman takes a look back at the plane s final moments. reporter: the mystery of flight 370 has unfolded in five terrible acts here. in the first one, it was completely unremarkable. the plane took off from coolkuala kuala lumpur supposed to be a routine flight to china where it would land around dawn. the second act occurred about 45 minutes in. that s when ground controller said they lost contact with the plane. subsequent analysis would suggest that the transponder was either turned off or stopped operating at that point. nonetheless, the plant was missing. that keyed the first search areas up toward vietnam. then came the third act. gradually officials let on that the plane had made a dramatic turn toward the west at the moment it disappeared and had been tracked by military radar for some time after that. this pushed up a whole new second of search areas to the west. then came act four in all of this. mathematical analysis of data transmissions between the plane and a satellite system suggested that in fact the plane had turned again and headed south and authorities were convinced it was somewhere along a great arc on the earth toward the southern part of the seas there. and in fact they started to focus on the indian ocean off the coast of australia. and that s where we are today in the fifth act of this terrible mystery. yes, they have found bits of debris from time to time. yes, they had pings beneath the water that they thought might be flight data recorders. none of which have been proven to be tied to the plane. after a year, the search goes beneath the waters in the indian ocean for any scrap to tell investigator where this plane wound up and maybe how it got there. still to come we have an uplifting story for you. one giant tortoise species has been brought back from the brink of extinction on the galapagos islands. babier toises found in the 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the wild on the island, something that likely hasn t happened since 1880. cnn s natalie allen spoke to an adviser from the galapagos conservatory to y toy to find out how they did it. reporter: lonesome george the last tortoise from the galapagos island apinta inspired people around the world help save the species in the 1970s when he was found all alone. and in 2012 george died without ever finding a mate. george was never interested in females, never reproduced. we were watching extinction happen for 40 years, and we knew it was coming, and we couldn t do anything. reporter: today there s new home for tortoises in glove gas. for the first galapagos. for the fifth time in a century, babies have been born in the wild on the island after decades of work from conservationists. lynna organized the trip to find them. indeed they found ten which means there s probably a lot more. baby tortoises are hard to find. reporter: the threat dates back to the 1700s and 1800s, during the days of pilots and whalers. whaler frequented galapagos, and whalers were responsible for removing probably up to 200,000 tortoises off the island. reporter: then there were invasive black rats which ate every last tortoise egg. the overall tortoise population plummeted from an estimated 300,000 to less than 20,000 until conservationists eradicated the rats about two years ago. now with the discovery of baby tortoises in the wild the species could be saved from extinction. one of the things i would say to everyone working in conservation is keep plugging away. you don t see successes daily, monthly, yearly. you can visualize them. if you keep working to the vision, you ll get there. reporter: it is slow going, much like the tortoises themselves. as for lonesome george s island experts say they re working to repopulate it with a very close genetic relative. if you wait 100,000 years we ll again have a pinta tortoise. saved from extinction. ise that good thing. incredible animals. a story in cnn 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from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news. reporting tonight, savannah guthrie. good evening. tonight, the video of a dramatic and deadly encounter between police and a homeless man in los angeles. officers shot and killed the man after a violent scuffle captured by surveillance cameras, cell phones and body cameras worn by two officers. tonight, authorities are examining all angles to figure out whether police made the right call in a split second or used excessive force. our report now from nbc s gabe gutierrez. and a warning, the video and audio are graphic. reporter: police responding to a robbery call in the neighborhood known as skid row when the violence suddenly erupted. the videos posted on social media show lapd officers confronting a homeless man. there s a scuffle. he s taken down, and officers try to cuff him. next, the sound of a taser. someone yells, drop the gun. then [ gunfire ] at least five shots from three officers leaving bystanders and witnesses in shock. i think it was kind of extreme. he didn t bother nobody. he didn t have no weapon. they just shot him. reporter: today, the lapd displaying enhanced still pictures said the man reached for an officer s weapon. this is an awful tragedy. but, you know, the officers took on the face of it reasonable steps to avoid it. right here. reporter: this is a spot where dennis horn took one of his cell phone videos. minutes before he says he captured these last images of the man known on the streets simply as africa. surveillance video from a nearby homeless shelter shows the suspect talking to police then entering his tent. that s when officers draw their weapons. now, four officers reporter: scott rees is a former s.w.a.t. officer for the lapd and expert on the use of deadly force. most of these situations are over between 2.5 and 3 seconds. and in that period of time you are going to be held to answer for years and years for those 2.5 to 3 seconds. reporter: tonight, on skid row a makeshift memorial is growing and so is the number of unanswered questions. police say the suspect was not carrying a gun of his own. the officers involved in the shooting are now on paid leave, two of them have been wearing body cameras. and investigators here are now beginning to look at that video. savannah. gabe gutierrez in los angeles. thank you. could the footage from those body cameras worn in l.a. help determine just what happened? across the country a growing number of officers are wearing them in the wake of high profile accusations of police misconduct. as tom costello reports now, the cameras can capture dramatic evidence from a vantage point rarely seen. reporter: from an officer shot in albuquerque [ gunfire ] to a police shooting in oklahoma. body cameras are proving to be a critical eyewitness for police and citizens alleging police misconduct. more than 5,000 departments are using or testing the cameras including big departments, not just the lapd, the nypd, d.c. and seattle. go ahead and place your hands behind your back real quick. reporter: las vegas police bought 200 cameras after community leaders demanded more police accountability. we need that trust. we need that support from our community. if this raises that, then that s where we need to go. reporter: every uniformed officer is now required to video record every citizen contact. and police insist the cameras capture what a bystander with a camera might not see. in this training scenario only the officer can see the man has a gun. don t touch that gun or you ll be shot again! reporter: nationwide cities and states are drafting new laws and procedures to ensure police can t delete or edit the video and, most importantly, to determine when should the camera be turned on. ideally from accountability standpoint, the cameras would be on all the time. but that s not practical and would raise very intense privacy issues for the public and for the police officers. reporter: one big challenge is simply storing and managing vast amounts of video data. how long video is kept depends on the case. a traffic accident just a few weeks, but a homicide investigation perhaps decades. already cameras have been used to discipline and exonerate officers. take care of yourself and be careful. thank you. we trust them and give them a gun and badge to do that. but this is a way to review what s happening if there s a complaint. reporter: and camera say advocates, have a funny way of ensuring police and citizens are on their best behavior. tom costello, nbc news, washington. israel s prime minister has arrived in the u.s. at a tense and critical moment. the u.s. trying to get a nuclear deal with iran to stop it from getting a bomb. and israel warning the u.s. a bad deal endangers its very existence. our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell is in washington where the prime minister will make his controversial address to congress tomorrow. andrea, good evening. reporter: good evening, savannah. prime minister netanyahu told supporters today he is not trying to be disrespectful to president obama. even as he prepares to lobby congress tomorrow against the president s negotiations with iran. embattled at home and facing re-election in only two weeks, benjamin netanyahu tried to play down his war of words with the white house but said he cannot remain silent about a u.s. nuclear deal with iran. that he says would let iran get a nuclear weapon. i have a moral obligation to speak up in the face of these dangers while there s still time to avert them. reporter: speaking to a powerful support group, america s pro-israel lobby, the combative israeli leader previewed what he will tell congress tomorrow. american leaders worry about the security of their country. israeli leaders worry about the survival of their country. reporter: the administration s pointed response, at the same moment john kerry in geneva was trying to close the deal with iran s foreign minister, a deal the president believes would make the world safer not more dangerous. there is a substantial disagreement in terms of how to achieve that. and what it boils down to is what s the best way to ensure that iran is not developing a nuclear weapon? reporter: the relationship between the two leaders at a new low. poisoned, u.s. officials say, by netanyahu s acceptance of a republican invitation to lobby congress against obama s iran policy. he s trying to kill the one thing that obama has that might redeem a weak foreign policy. reporter: some prominent no-shows tomorrow, joe biden is in guatemala. and almost 40 democratic house members and five senators will boycott. despite prime minister netanyahu s assertions, obviously what s taking place is extremely partisan. reporter: as to netanyahu s speech tomorrow to congress is destructive to the relationship president obama has said tonight its has been a distraction but in the meantime the negotiations with iran are going full speed ahead. savannah. andrea mitchell in washington, thank you. the war against isis continues to play out on multiple fronts tonight. a new online threat against twitter has surfaced. a warning that the company s co-founder himself would be targeted. and we re seeing a major offensive against isis militants tonight by the same forces that ran from them just last year, the iraqi army. we get the latest now from our chief foreign correspondent richard engel. reporter: the iraqi army with allied shiite militia are finally on the offensive trying to take back a city isis has held since june. and not just any city, they re going for tikrit, saddam hussein s sunni hometown. it s a crucial test to the u.s.-supported iraqi government. success here would renew hope that it can defeat isis. but if tikrit becomes an ethnic blood bath, shiite against sunni, iraq will be one step closer to all-out sectarian war. meanwhile, in london new details about the man once known as jihadi john. it turns out even as a student mohammed emwazi had friends who would grow up to become violent islamists including some who would die fighting for isis. he was deeply involved and deeply embedded with extremist circles in london long before he went to syria. reporter: and yet another turn in the propaganda war, an online threat against twitter co-founder jack dorsey and other employees of twitter which has been blocking isis propaganda messages. the threat from an unknown source has been repeated on accounts linked to isis. twitter says in a statement, our security team is investigating the veracity of these threats with relevant law enforcement officials. twitter has been taking down isis propaganda almost as quickly as the group has been posting it, apparently enraging isis. the group s followers posting online that your virtual war against us will cause a real war on you. savannah. all right. richard engel, thank you so much. tonight, tensions remain high in and around moscow one day after tens of thousands turned out to protest the killing of one of vladimir putin s most prominent critics, opposition leader boris nemtsov who was killed by an unknown gunman while walking on a bridge near the kremlin late friday night. security camera footage of that incident has surfaced amid questions as to whether other cameras in the area were working at the time of the murder. putin himself has announced he will personally oversee the investigation which is now under way. tonight, as we roll into march 18 days until spring, the season of misery providing no letup as another storm barrels across the country. 30 states are under winter weather advisories yet again. a whiteout coast-to-coast. nbc news meteorologist dylan dreyer has our report tonight. reporter: enough is enough, that s the feeling in boston today as residents woke up to more snow. bostonians like nanny nancy burns are fed up. it s frustrating. it s tiresome. it s become hard work just taking care of babies, hard work. reporter: the area punished by four major snowstorms in four weeks totaling nearly seven feet, crippling mass transit. it s unreliable. i can t use it to get to school or to work. reporter: it s miserable from retail to restaurant. we ve seen a 30% to 40% decrease in business. people just can t get here. they can t walk here. they can t park. it s been a tough winter. reporter: heavy snow is triggering roof collapses across new england. in norwell, massachusetts, more than a dozen horses had to be rescued this morning after this barn caved in. icy conditions were to blame for pileups from pennsylvania to virginia to missouri. just today nearly 4,500 delays and 1,300 cancellations. some stranded this weekend for nine hours in dallas. february goes down as one of the coldest ever on record in chicago, cleveland, bangor, maine, and syracuse, new york. in southport, new york, the deep freeze froze the waves along the long island sound. even sunny southern california couldn t escape a winter storm. huntington beach and boardwalk covered in hail an inch deep today. while in boston many are hoping march brings warmer days and a lot less digging out. and tonight, again, 38 states are under some sort of winter weather advisory. in the upper midwest, in the northern plains tomorrow we could see blizzard conditions, more because of blowing snow. and then we are going to see this storm bring snow, then ice, then rain to major cities like chicago. you ll see that during the day. then it spreads into the northeast as we go into tuesday night with accumulating snow before that changeover to ice and rain. then as we go into wednesday the storm clears out. we ll see a couple of showers up and down the east coast, rain showers. but baxter, kentucky, that s where we re going to see accumulating snow on the backside of this cold front. we could see as much as four to eight inches in kentucky, southern ohio and west virginia. 2 to 4 inches in the northeast. that is going to put us very close, savannah, to breaking that all-time record in boston. all right, dylan dreyer, thank you so much. tonight, a surprising admission from pediatricians. a new survey found nearly all of them have been asked by parents to delay and space out the vaccines given to their children. and most of them agree even though that goes against expert advice and could leave children vulnerable to disease. doctors said they didn t want to lose their patients. today we also learned the measles outbreak continues to spread. now 170 cases so far this year. a dallas nurse who survived ebola is suing the parent company of texas health presbyterian hospital accusing that hospital of failing to provide adequate equipment and training to staff dealing with the deadly disease and violating her privacy by releasing details on her condition. nina pham contracted ebola while caring for the first patient ever diagnosed with the virus on american soil thomas eric duncan, who died while being treated. pham says she continues to suffer from body aches and insomnia and has yet to return to work. new records on wall street, the dow and s&p finished at all-time high and the nasdaq closed above 5,000 for the first time since the dot-com bubble burst 15 years ago. a lot more news still ahead tonight including new concerns about the wood flooring found in so many homes across the country. a bombshell report has a major u.s. company under fire and questions about safety. and a shocking free fall caught on camera. tonight, we hear from the sky diver unable to open his parachute rescued while plunging to the ground. there is major fallout tonight for the company lumber liquidators accused of selling potentially unsafe products from china. tonight, the company is fighting back saying the flooring itself is safe. meantime, though, its stock is taking a beating, down 25% today. and as nbc s hallie jackson reports, a lot of worried homeowners are wondering what to do now. haley and matt just spent $2,500 on new laminate flooring from lumber liquidators. they loved it until about 24 hours ago. it s never a good feeling to find out that your kids are on a floor that could be potentially making them sick. reporter: now they re upset because their flooring looks similar to a product featured on 60 minutes in a report that questioned the safety of some of lumber liquidators chinese-made laminate wood flooring. 60 minutes says it commissioned lab tests that found levels of formaldehyde that exceeded levels. if it s toxic, i wouldn t want that in my house. reporter: on wall street stock lost some $300 million in value today alone. it certainly has to be one of the worst days in lumber liquidators history. reporter: the company recently warned about investors betting against the stock, known as short selling, spreading what it calls false attacks to make money. we will vigorously challenge any false allegations. reporter: and today the company s challenging the testing conducted for cbs calling the method improper saying its own testing is carefully documented and thorough. our products are 100% safe, says the company. adding, we stand by every single plank of wood and laminate we sell all around the country. we spoke with independent flooring consultant jim gould. put it into context. how concerned should customers be right now? if they have a floor that was recently installed, i would go back to the supplier and ask the questions of how can i be reassured that this floor is fine. reporter: they did. we re told their floor is fine, but they re not convinced. i want to make sure that, you know, the place we re putting our children is safe. and that s what we thought we were doing. reporter: for now, it s more fallout for this flooring company looking at its bottom line bottoming out. hallie jackson, nbc news, los angeles. and we re back in a moment with the surprise announcement today about one of the greatest sports superstars of all-time. the longest serving woman in the history of congress, democratic senator barbara mikulski of maryland announced today she will not seek re-election. she will retire when her fifth term ends in 2017. mikulski who is now 78 years old, was first elected to the house in 1976 and has served in the senate since 1987. forbes is out with its annual rankings of the rich, and a familiar name holds the top spot. the magazine says bill gates net worth rose to $79.2 billion up from 76 billion last year. he has topped the list, by the way, for 16 of the last 21 years. forbes says there are now more than 1,800 billionaires including some famous newcomers to the list. among them, nba legend michael jordan. we put the full list on our website. and a milestone to note tonight. when it premiered 50 years ago on march 2, 1965, the sound of music wasn t exactly an instant sensation with the critics. the reviews were decidedly mixed. but in the decades since the movie based on the broadway musical by rodgers and hammerstein has become one of the most beloved family favorites. when we come back, we will hear from the sky diver who suffered a medical emergency, lucky to be alive thanks to quick thinking in midair. and it was all caught on camera. finally tonight, the tale of the tape that has so many people talking today. a sky diver plunging to the ground unable to pull the cord and open his parachute after suffering a seizure midair. he was saved, and now he s telling his story. nbc s katy tur has our report. reporter: 12,000 feet from the earth, the only thing between christopher jones and the western australian ground, the courage to jump. as he had so many times before. but 22 seconds into this dive he says he was suddenly paralyzed by a seizure. unconscious and falling at 120 miles an hour. instructor sheldon mcfarlane shot towards him not wanting to rely on the automatic emergency chute. it took two attempts to grab jones and pull the rip cord. with 10,000 feet to go jones regained consciousness and managed to make a controlled landing. i said thank you very much, i think that s what i said. i said thank you for saving my life. yes. he couldn t have done a better job. it was just amazing. reporter: now mcfarlane is being hailed as a hero. just doing my job. doing what we train other people. reporter: 22-year-old jones took up sky diving when his epilepsy ruled out his dream of becoming a pilot. seizure-free for four years, his doctors gave him the go ahead. i ve always wanted to fly planes or i just wanted the feeling of flight. obviously, with my condition i can t stay a pilot. so i thought next best thing i can fly myself. reporter: about 5 million people have clicked on the death-defying fall giving jones 5 million reminders to keep his feet on solid ground. katy tur, nbc news, london. and that will do it for us on this monday night. i m savannah guthrie. i ll see you bright and early tomorrow morning on today. for all of us at nbc news, right now at 6:00 a 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is nbc nightly news. reporting tonight, lester holt. good evening and thanks for being with us. one was loaded with passengers and flying into the teeth of a snowstorm and nearly into icy waters. the other flown by a world famous movie star who nearly crashed into a row of homes. two plane accidents, both skirting the edge of disaster and still getting a lot of attention tonight for all the questions they raise about our safety. we ll get to the harrison ford crash in a moment, but we begin with new information about that delta airlines plane that slid off the runway at new york s laguardia airport yesterday. and there is new focus on the airport itself and whether it was safe to fly at the time. tom costello remains on that story for us tonight. reporter: inside a hangar at laguardia airport today the delta air lines jet that went off runway 13 in a snowstorm yesterday morning. its nose ripped off, the left fuel tank ruptured. overnight port authority crews used cranes to move the plane. by mid-morning the runway had reopened for traffic. also today further evidence the pilots thought they were in for a routine landing as they checked in with the tower, which reported two previous planes had just landed without a problem. and delta 1086 laguardia tower runway 13 cleared to land. an airbus and regional jet. did the thrust reversers play a role as the plane suddenly careened through a fence stopping just inches from the water. it s up to each airport to decide when to close runways due to weather. on thursday laguardia s airport manager car 100 was on the ramp supervising snowplow operations. he s the one who closed the airport after the crash. tower you copy. car 100. runway 13 is closed. reporter: today, my plane came in over that same ice-filled flushing bay. the city right on the water laguardia s shorter runways mean pilots must be at their best when they come in for a landing, especially if that water is splashing on to an icy runway. being about 7,000 feet long on both runways is a place you want to put the airplane on the ground very definitely, firmly. reporter: sitting in a window seat watching the crash unfold before her eyes, passenger jamie primuk sullivan. and then i saw the rocks. and then i saw the water. and it s at that moment that your mind goes what happens if you go into the water. do planes sink? do they float? will i ever see my kids again? reporter: tonight, the ntsb tells nbc news it has successfully downloaded the data from the cockpit voice and data flight data recorders and they have good data for the entire duration of the flight. they re hoping to talk to the pilots some time over the weekend at delta headquarters in atlanta. meanwhile, delta says it is now refunding the passengers the entire fare from their airline trip. lester. tom costello in new york tonight, thanks. now to that other flight gone terribly wrong. the small plane crash with legendary actor harrison ford at the controls. ford is expected to make a full recovery while investigators look for the reason his plane went down. here s nbc s miguel almaguer. reporter: today ntsb investigators trying to determine why this vintage world war ii plane plummeted out of the sky. i hope he s going to make it. losing altitude moments after takeoff, harrison ford had to act quickly. 53178 engine failure, immediate return. ryan 178 runway 21 clear to land. reporter: cell phones capturing the harrowing moments as ford goes down fast. the single engine plane clipped a tree, sliding onto a golf course next to the santa monica airport. golfers scrambled to pull ford from the wreckage. among them a spinal surgeon. he was wiggling about, he appeared to be conscious and there was fuel leaking. reporter: this was the route ford was flying departing runway 21 on a clear day then banking 180 degrees when he reported engine failure. ford was piloting from the rear seat. any time that a human being can survive an accident involving an airplane or any type of mechanical it s a good day. reporter: ford is a veteran pilot who s flown relief missions to haiti and once helped rescue a boy scout lost in yellowstone. the actor even joked about a 1999 crash-landing. what happened to your helicopter? it broke. this is the real indiana jones . i broke it. this is what you see every day, huhs? this is what i hear every day. reporter: just across the street from thursday s crash carlos gomez says he s lucky ford is a skilled pilot who avoided homes and may have saved lives. certainly what solved the situation so that only his life was at risk and not others. reporter: with family members saying ford had minor surgery for broken bones, he was brought here to ronald reagan ucla medical center where he was listed in fair to moderate condition. lester. all right, miguel, thank you. more encouraging news on the american economy today. we learned employers added 295,000 jobs in february. that makes 12 consecutive months of at least 200,000 jobs added. the first time that s happened since 1977. the unemployment rate dropped to 5.5%, that s the lowest since may of 2008. a troubling area of concern though remains hourly wages, which continue to stagnate. and a tough day on wall street, investors figuring that an improving jobs market proves means an interest rate hike could come sooner rather than later. attorney general eric holder said the justice department would use its full authority to reform the ferguson, missouri police department which could even mean dismantling it entirely. this after a blistering report alleged a pattern of racial bias among ferguson s authorities. so far two officials have resigned in the wake of that report. a third was fired. but as ron allen reports the problems may extend far beyond ferguson. reporter: now backed by the findings of a scathing federal investigation renewed demands for a complete overhaul of ferguson s police force. who killed mike brown! reporter: ferguson now among more than 20 police departments the obama administration has investigated for allegedly racist practices. from albuquerque to cleveland to newark, most agree to legally binding reform plans, consent decrees. but the justice department has sued at least four jurisdictions thats have resisted. analysts say constant oversight is essential. where the government has simply entered into an agreement and then basically walked away, i think we ve seen that doesn t work. reporter: but even in cities like new orleans, nearly three years under a consent decree critics say police still use excessive force, making illegal stops, searches and other misconduct. with more people watching, you know, i could only hope that it s going to get better. but i m still skeptical. because the problems have been here for a very, very long time. reporter: ferguson, population just over 20,000, is one of the smallest towns doj has investigated. and here with both the police and the courts under scrutiny, many worry about the town s future. ryan fletcher is a former mayor. what does it mean for this town to have this hanging over it now? well, it means economic development slows down. it might cause some residents to relocate out of ferguson. the united states state department of justice reserves all of its rights and abilities to force compliance. reporter: leaders say they ll cooperate but have not yet signed a legally binding agreement. while calls for change echo on the streets. ron allen, nbc news, ferguson. a federal grand jury could bring charges against a prominent senate democrat later this month according to sources familiar with the case. new jersey senator bob menendez is the subject of a corruption investigation after jet trips he took on a private plane of a florida eye doctor. federal prosecutors want to know whether menendez exchanged political favors in return. both the senator and doctor deny any wrongdoing. at the start of this newscast we told you about two very close calls involving airplanes. already we know a lot more about what happened to those planes than what happened to malaysia airlines flight 370 which almost exactly a year ago vanished, cloaked in mystery and suspicion. and while searchers hold out hope the plane will be found, for the families of the missing they re only memories and unanswered questions. i still remember just grabbing his hand saying be safe, see you later. and give him a hug. it s burned in my mind. reporter: james wood recalling the last time he saw his big brother philip. it was just a week before philip and 238 others boarded malaysia flight 370 from kuala lumpur to beijing. a flight that was initially reported as overdue. at that point i m just imagining here that you re thinking this is going to be bad news and we re going to get confirmation pretty soon. something, yeah. yeah. or either messed up, turned around, lost track of it. reporter: the plane didn t crash somewhere along it s planned route. instead it appeared it was flown into oblivion. that was the last message from mh370, 41 minutes into the flight, the mystery began. but now i m going to turn to the left. reporter: in a 777 simulator we duplicated the sharp left turn that came next sending mh370 on a mystifying journey, ultimately towards the indian ocean. is there anything that would make this plane make that kind of turn absent a human either pushing buttons on this computer or dialing in the autopilot? no. no. reporter: adding to the intrigue, the plane s transponder and other communications systems were disabled. it s really what s been described as the hook turn. that s where this event really started to develop from a normal routine flight to what has been deemed either an accident or an intentional act. reporter: early focus turned to the captain. authorities wondered if he was using his home flight simulator to practice the vanishing act. a friend tells nbc news he doesn t buy it. he would be the one trying to save the plane. reporter: while there are still only theories as to what happened onboard the plane, search vessels may be on track to finding it. after crunching satellite signals and aircraft performance data, experts believe it crashed within a 23,000 square mile arc along the south indian ocean. this is where a very high degree of certainty but not absolute certainty we know that the aircraft is going to be. reporter: in the meantime absent the discovery of any wreckage, james wood has not let his brother go. just tell me about your brother. the kind of guy he is. he s he was, he is, kind, generous. you re obviously struggling with present tense, past tense. where are you on this? both. logically i say past tense. but my heart still says present tense. the painful wait goes on for the families. in january malaysian authorities declared it an accident and declared the passengers and crew dead but offered no positive proof. meantime australian officials expect to end their current search operation in may. a busy night of news still ahead including our nbc news investigation. it s about a growing number of family doctors, gynecologists, even dentists performing certain cosmetic procedures with limited training. and patients may find out the hard way. and later the youngest person to stand and march with dr. king in selma returns tonight with a powerful message. we re back now with an nbc news investigation. with growing demand for cosmetic procedures in this country, more and more doctors, even dentists, are learning how to do them. but the concern here is they may not be getting enough training to do them safely. and patients may not know. we get more on this tonight from our senior investigative correspondent cynthia mcfadden. reporter: 57-year-old stephanie goelzer was a new grandmother. like a lot of women she decided to get a little botox. she went to the silhouette med spa in livermore, california. i wanted to just spruce up a little bit. reporter: while she was there the staff encouraged her to try other services as well. i did have a little spot in on my cheek. reporter: a little teeny red bump. yeah, it was pretty small. reporter: dr. tam nguyen is one of the owners of the spa. sugg he said he could fix the spot and get rid of two veins on her temple. he said i ll do all three for $200. reporter: what she didn t understand was that dr. nguyen is a family practice doctor, not a licensed dermatologist or plastic surgeon. he s one of an increasing number of family practitioners, gynecologists, even dentists taking weekend courses similar to this one to expand their practices to include cosmetic procedures. why? some say it s about the money. you can triple your revenue per patient per year. reporter: but sometimes according to dermatologists a handful of weekend courses just isn t enough. this is what stephanie s face looked like ten days after the procedure. it was a traumatic experience. reporter: your face was a mess. yeah, for three weeks i didn t leave the house. reporter: dr. nguyen s office agreed to refer her to a dermatologist, dr. jerome. he examined stephanie and says dr. nguyen should never have injected her face with the chemical he used. this procedure is called sclero therapy. it s used mostly for leg bands. reporter: he says the side effects for injecting the face with this chemical can be severe, including even blindness. this requires to be done by the experts of the experts. reporter: and that wasn t dr. nguyen. dr. nguyen told us he d been to six workshops or conferences that ran from two to four days long and participated in two other one-day laser courses. be careful with that prescription. reporter: he agreed to meet with us at his spa. so what happened? what went wrong? so my best estimate is that agent got outside of the lesion. reporter: it seems to me it would be clearly a mistake. not necessarily just because bruising has occurred doesn t mean that it s a mistake. reporter: so you stand behind the work? i do standby that. reporter: and you think that the seminars that you ve attended provide enough training to be able to do these really tricky procedures on people s faces? so it s the same training that even dermatologists get after they graduate. reporter: that s misleading, says this doctor. after graduating from medical school dermatologists have three years of intense training to treat the skin. you don t learn this in a weekend. reporter: as for stephanie goelzer, the scar on her face is almost gone. but the emotional scars she says remain. don t do what i did. be smart. do your homework. check out exactly what s being shot into your face. reporter: and who is doing it. now, dr. nguyen told me he s not doing it for the money but rather to help people and that the dermatologists are just upset that he and others like him are taking patients away from their business. now, the bottom line dr. nguyen is doing nothing illegal. but critics say he is misleading patients and putting them at risk. it s important. thank you very much, cynthia mcfadden. we re back in a moment with isis declaring war on history. seems these images may have only been the beginning. isis has sparked new outrage tonight with reports that it s systematically demolishing a priceless archaeological site. just last week we saw heartbreaking images of militants destroying irreplaceable artifacts in size occupied mosul. today s report says isis is bulldozing the ancient city of nip rud in northern iraq. these are file pictures. no video has surfaced. a top u.n. official called it a war crime, the deliberate destruction of humanity s cultural heritage. the legendary filmmaker albert maysles has died. films include rolling stones and give me shelter. beatles in 1964 arrival in america, behind the scenes and edith bouvier. and her daughter cousins of jacqueline kennedy in gray gardens. with his late brother, he focused on life as it happened and captured it on film. albert maysles was 88. when we come back, 50 years since the turning point in one of our country s greatest struggles. this weekend, the first family will travel to selma, alabama to mark 50 years since a monumental moment in the civil rights struggle. that day in 1965 while stunning in the violence inflicted on peaceful protesters, galvanized a movement. tonight, our kristen welker brings us the story of that march on selma as seen through the youngest eyes there that day. reporter: a painful past is coming back to life in selma today as people arrive from all across the country to remember what happened on this bridge 50 years ago. march 7th, 1965, bloody sunday. a group of activists risked their lives for freedom, equality and the right to be treated fairly. sheyann webb christburg was the youngest person there. she was just 8. rassism just unleash ood its brutality upon us. people had begun to be beaten down with billy clubs as if they weren t even human beings. tear gas had begun to burst in the air, and people had begun to run for their lives. i was running. trying to make my way back. reporter: she made it home that day, and two weeks later the marchers made it all the way to the capitol, montgomery, a 54-mile trek, a turning point in american history. how long? not long. reporter: and the man who inspired the movement also shared this moment with little sheyann. why are you marching? so we can be free and so all the people will be free and so troopers can t hit no one. can t help but to reflect and remember that moment being with such an extraordinary man. reporter: other activists now in their 60s, 70s and older say the march continues because of incidents like ferguson and the supreme court s recent altering of the voting rights act, undoing the crux of what they fought for. we have got to stay focused and move forward and show up to the voting polls. reporter: for sheyann it s about teaching the next generation about the people who paved the way for them, one person, one step at a time kristen welker, nbc news, selma, alabama. a day not to be forgotten and a reminder nbc news will have complete coverage of the commemoration in selma tomorrow. that s going to do it for us this friday night. i m lester holt. thank you so much for joining us. remember to spring forward and move your clocks ahead one hour before you go to bed saturday night. have a good night and a good weekend. captions by vitac www.vitac.com . breaking news this convicted sex offender is on the run. a live view from over the scene where police have been searching all afternoon in this area. thank you for joining us. i m janelle wang. and i m raj mathai. a lot of parts here. this started at san jose valley medical center. the inmate getting medical treatment made a bold escape. at this hour the surrounding neighborhood and a local day care are flooded with police officers. here s where it s happening, valley med at the intersection of a busy part of town especially right now during rush hour. the 280/880 interchange very close to san jose city college. peggy bunker is on the scene with the very latest. peggy? reporter: raj, you can imagine how busy it is here. this is a 40-year-old inmate. this is still an active scene from the air. however, here on the ground the streets have opened up. it all started earlier today when during or right after medical treatment, this inmate janelle carter got into a fight with a deputy and injured him in the shoulder. then the inmate ran out of the hospital. sheriff s deputies were not able to apprehend him. thus they are going door to door, yard to yard. this parti
remove poisonous gas from the area first. reuters also says at least 14 people are injured, and right now the cause of the explosion is not yet known. we will update you with any now information this hour as we get it of course. meantime, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu didn t pull any punches in his highly anticipated and controversial speech to the u.s. congress. he said the nuclear deal the u.s. and other countries are negotiating wouldn t stop iran from developing nuclear weapons you but actually may pave the way for it down the road. mr. netanyahu called iran the enemy. he blasted u.s. negotiators for promising to use sanctions and not doing more to stop iran s support for terrorist organizations. take a listen. now we re being told that the only alternative to this bad deal is war. that s just not true. the alternative to this bad deal is a much better deal. [ applause ] now the white house is firing back claiming there s nothing new in mr. netanyahu s speech. u.s. president barack obama challenged the israeli leader to come up with a viable alternative to the current approach. it was successful negotiating, then in fact this will be the best deal possible to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. nothing else comes close. sanctions won t to it. even military action will not be as successful as the deal that we have put forward. [ applause ] for more on mr. netanyahu s speech and reaction in israel, let s bring in cnn correspondent orrin lieberman. he is live in jerusalem. good to see you. so the reaction has been mixed in the united states where prime minister netanyahu came to lobby against a sitting president. and then have that same president fire back all seem so publicly all seen so publicly. where does this leave the u.s.-israeli relationship, and can the damage be repaired? reporter: good morning rosemary. we ve seen the same reaction here in israel where you have about half the people here and half the politicians supporting netanyahu s decision and half of blasting it as a bad idea. and that has been what you mentioned perhaps the number-one criticism we ve heard in fallout from the speech that netanyahu has done damage not only in the relationship between the u.s. and israel but also the relationship between the prime minister s office here in jerusalem and the white house. netanyahu chose his words carefully. he started by praising president obama and the white house and tried to make this not a partisan speech. here s what he had to say in his speech. i know that my speech has been the subject of much controversy. i deeply regret that some perceive my being here as political. that was never my intention. reporter: of course with two weeks until the israeli elections, there was no way the speech of going to be viewed as nonpolitical because of just the nature of how close the elections are and how close they re expected to be in terms of polling. lie kud, his party likud, his party, has been polling neck in neck, a few votes ahead of the rival of labor that team up in the zionist camp. that s the biggest rival coming up in less than two weeks now. the very point that i wanted to ask you about. prime minister netanyahu the saying that politics was never his intention. his speech to congress comes just two weeks before that critical election in israel. so how was his speech how s it being received in israel? did it boost his chances perhaps of re-election, or did it go the other way and perhaps backfire? reporter: the real question is what happens to the undecided voters which was about 20% of israeli voters. those that like netanyahu before certainly like him even more now. they viewed it as a charismatic, critical speech. those who didn t like him before certainly aren t changing their minds after the speech. they view it as purely political. it s the undecided voters who may have looked at the speech and thought it could shift them one way or the other. we have to wait and see. the politicians here the main rival for prime mior&ier, wasted no time. came out in a speech after netanyahu s speech and blasted the prime minister s decision to speak in front of congress and the damage he has done to the relationship with israel and the u.s. here s what he had to say. translator: the painful truth is that after the applause netanyahu remained alone. israel remained isolate and negotiations with iran will continue without the involvement of israel. this speech therefore greatly undermined the relationship between israel and the united states. even hertzog s location for the speech of symbolic. he said this in hue brew at the beginning over and over again, that while netanyahu is in washington he was in a small town which is a small town outside of gaza. a town this knows very well what it s like to live in constant worry. that in and of itself was a political move. that choice of where to give the speech to say here is where i am in the middle of where we worry about security the most in israel. so this speech perhaps it wasn t netanyahu s intention to make it political, but it s certainly become political now. indeed. a lot of politics and fallout. orrin lieberman reporting live from jerusalem, many thanks to you. a split opinion and reaction in israel. but over in iran you d be hard-pressed to find anyone who agreed with the israeli prime minister. tehran insists the nuclear program is peaceful, and the country has a right to develop it. here s fred pleitgen reporting from iran s capital. reporter: it s not a surprise that benjamin netanyahu s speech didn t get much live airplay in tehran. many here certainly followed what israel s prime minister had to say, and the vast majority didn t like it. america is trying to reach something with iran you know agreement. but netanyahu, israel is trying to make it like stop dog it they re banning us. reporter: nuclear negotiationsnegotiation s and the looming deadline for a framework agreement are among the biggest topics in iran these days. while most are cautiously optimistic, say they don t believe a deal will come through. are you confident that there will be an agreement? yes. reporter: why? because iran exists to finish this problem. also the america exists to finish this problem during the president obama. they made us lose hope in everything. i don t think so. i don t have belief in anything. reporter: tre mains unclear how much it remains unclear how much of its atomic capabilities iran is willing to give up in exchange for sanctions regular. most iranians believe their country has a right to develop a nuclear program, especially a peaceful one. nuclear technology is a thing of national pride for many here. if you talk to people, they ll tell you they badly want the sanctions to be lift so they can get direct investment into this country and have a chance for economic development. the southwest worried that iran could work to make a bomb if its uranium enrichment isn t effectively controlled. the iaea has said they don t have enough information to prove that the program is for peaceful purposes. some fear the fear is overblown. in a poll carried out in iran a month ago, 70% of iranians believe that the nuclear program is completely peaceful. and in addition to that, the fact that the religious authorities in iran have given fatwas against nuclear weapons adds to this argument. reporter: but fatwas will do tloitd ease the skepticism in western countries. while many iranians hope an agreement will come together that will ease their economic pain. fred pleitgen, cnn, tehran. and we will have much more reaction from mr. netanyahu s sweep whiching my interview with a former member of the israel defense forces. and that is coming up in our next half-hour of cnn newsroom. don t miss it. now two australian may soon face a firing squad in indonesia. andrew chan and myuran sukumaran were sentenced to death for leading the so-called bali nine. a group accused of plotting to smuggle heroin from indonesia to australia. the two men have been transferred to an island where they are expected to be executed. stand ground from sky stan ground from sky news in sydney joins us with the latest. things don t look good. what options are left for the australians, and when might their execution take place? reporter: it s been a decade-long ideal for andrew chan and myuran sukumaran since they were first arrested and then vicand then convicted of being ring leaders in a heroin smuggling smuggling group. all appeals have been rejected. there s one final legal appeal outstanding, and the lawyers are saying they hope that there s a stay of execution while that plays out. indonesian authorities are saying they want to carry out the execution as soon as possible. the moment they were move under heavy security from the prison in bali to the execution island in the eyes of many the clock has started to tick. there they ll be health in solitary confinement until they ve received 72 hours notice of facing the firing squad. in australia, the australian government continue to appeal for mercy. the foreign minister directed directly appealing to indonesia s president widodo to a stay of execution. and the prime minister tony abbott saying there are millions of australians ahn now feel be sick in their stomach. we abhor drug crime but we abhor the death penalti. we not the australians deserve to be punished but don t deserve to be executed. now the families are on their way to the island. during that period they will be able to meet family member speak to legal representatives and also receive past older care speak to any pastoral care, speak to religious representatives. the indonesians saying they want these carried out as soon as possible. in the words of the legal team that are representing the pair while there is life, there is still some hope. errol errol, rosemary? it s upsetting to watch this unfoal. prime minister on, got has spoken out forcefully and done so almost on a daily basis. why has he taken on the wish such force? he seems to have placed himself at the forefront of force to save their lives. and at this moment it appears that that didn t make a difference. reporter: there s been a lot of momentum billioning here in australia. a lot of simple theme as the date has drawn nearer, as attention has focused more on the plight of the two men, the prime minister has stepped up and become more forceful and direct in his language. he s made a direct appeal to the indonesian president, as well. it has fallen on deaf ears. the president in indonesia, widodo,ness to take a hard line on drug crime. it is something that plays very much to the indonesian public. it s very popular, a very popular stance for him to take. also brings into question here the indonesia/australia relationship. the largest close neighbor. it s a relationship that s gone through so many trying times. just last year indonesia withdrew its ambassador from australia amidst salgz of australia spy allegations of australia spying on the family. the prime minister tony abbot saying regardless of how people may feel about the impending execution he warnings that anger must not impede and undermine what is a crucial relationship. all right. reporting from sydney as options continue to be him for these two australians approaching the death penalty there in indonesia. thanks. still to come on cnn newsroom, a federal probe finds widespread discrimination against african-americans in the u.s. city of ferguson, missouri. we explore the root of the tensions between police and the community there. plus, the feds raid dozens of apartments in california which neighbors say were filled with pregnant women. great rates for great rides. geico motorcycle see how much you could save. 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unarmed teen. it had been brewing here for years. there was a broken trust between the government local police, and the community. reporter: thousands took to the streets as a nearly all-white ferguson police force tried to keep protests peaceful. though 67% of ferguson s population is black, there are just three black police officers in the city. three out of 53 officers. and their response tanks and teargas, riot gear and rubber bullets hardly bridged the racial divide in this community. this is not right! this is not right! we are trying to get unity, and this is what you all do? reporter: it only got worse from there. listen to what this officer says to protesters bring it. all you beep beep animals bring it. reporter: and there s more. ferguson police chief thomas jackson, who is white for days refused to release the name of the white police officer who shot and killed michael brown which only fuel more anger. we need for you to clean this up! if you are not part of the solution are you part of the problem! reporter: many found the police chief tone deaf. it s never been the intention of the ferguson police department or of any police department that i know of to intentionally target individuals because of race. if there is that happening, it s a crime, and it need to be addressed. reporter: it was never really an if. even before the michael brown shooting, missouri s attorney general found in 2013 that ferguson police were twice as likely to arrest african-americans during traffic stops as they were whites. that same report also found that african-americans were the target of 92% of searches and 86% of traffic stops. after the initial miscues in ferguson, captain ron johnson wlosh s black, was brought in to try to johnson who s black, was brought in to try to calm the protesters. our kids know they ll grow up in a better place and that their voice means something, no matter what your race is no matter what your age is. stop the killer cop! reporter: in a city where the police chief, mayor and five of the six city council members are white, promises like those tend to fall on deaf ears. randi kaye, cnn, new york. justice! we ll take a break now. still to come after repeated attempts, a landing at kathmandu s airport takes a path off the runway. details on the turkish airline s flight still to come. the thing we all dread, a difficult landing, a plane skidding off the runway this kathmandu. there were 224 people on board. thankfully officials say all of them evacuated safely. one passenger reported poor visibility. an airline spokesman said a small technical problem during landing send the plane into a grassy area. we re tracking developments and have the latest. of course we heard about this technical problem be. it appeared earlier when we talked last hour this the weather seemed to play a major role. have they changed their minds on that now? reporter: certainly low visibility seems to be the main reason here for the crash landing. it s been raining nonstop for the past two to three days. this is unusual at this time of year. this is a time when the skies are completely clear, a lot of trekkers and climbers from aboard come to nepal to try to go to everest and nepal having eight of ten highest mountains in the world. and this is the best time to come to nepal to see the mountains when the skies are completely clear. one official there said in the airport said this this plane actually circled kathmandu valley for about an hour and a half trying to land. one eyewitness, one passenger who was inside the plane we spoke to a while ago, said the plane tried to circled the kathmandu valley seven times. tried to land once, got close to the runway, and took off again. and then for about 45 minutes circled again the kathmandu valley and landed. that s when it crash-landed on to the runway skiddeded for 15 to 20 seconds according to the passenger and on to the grassy area which you re seeing in those pictures. and those, of course hitting nose, foushes hitting the ground. the front area seem to have collapsed. the evacuation slides are out, of course. all passengers have been evacuated safely. the airport now is shut for all international flights. rosemary? monitoring the situation there in kathmandu, nepal. many thanks to you. malaysia has formally declared the disappearance of mh370 an accident. and that infuriated family members of those on board because they had to hear about this from the media. yeah. and almost one year later, they say they are still being ignored by getting the government ignored by the government and malaysia airlines. we have the story. everything they do they seem insensitive about. we wonder who s who are they really who are they trying to help? themselves or us? translator: they are failing to tell you the truth. not only do we not get information of any substance, we don t get any response to our queries. reporter: at all? at all. reporter: one year after flight mh370 disappeared, the families of the missing say they re still being ignored by the malaysian authorities. sound like your mother would have been hugely proud of you to have this grace nathan s mother, anne daisy, office board. for almost a year she s kept silent. this announcement by malaysia s department of civil aviation on january 29 was the final straw. with the heaviest heart and deepest sorrow that on behalf of the government of malaysia, we officially declare malaysia airlines flight mh370 an accident. reporter: grace and other family members furious over how they had to find out about the announcement. we really don t care about how we feel, what we have to say. if they did, they would have asked how we felt about such an announcement being may. they would have talked to us first. none of that happened none of it. and for us to hear from the members of the media, first to receive a call saying can we come and record you when the declaration is made? and our response being, what declaration? we didn t know anything. reporter: the families dispute the declaration itself. this man whose son was one of 153 chinese nationals on board, rallied next of kin to fly to calla call to the city. the announcement has no legal pace basis he says, it s not effective. we want evidence. for sarah bejack, whose partner phillip was on 370, the facts have been impossible to come by. they still haven t produced the cargo manifest. they still haven t produced air traffic control records. they haven t given any rationale as to why they ve determined it to be an accident yet they have. reporter: asian authorities say they have not learned from what happened with the initial disappearance. if you look at the response to the international catastrophe, it s a shambles, absolute embarrassment to the country the way the leadership and the military responded to the situation. y understand why the world community accepted it. what about a year on have they learned their lessons? of course not. if anything they ve gotten worse. reporter: families say they will ton for access to information. they stayed in touch and plan their next moves on social media. do you feel that you are a lone voice or minority voice amongst the passengers family, or is this a majority view? i m sure i don t speak for every single person but i know whatever i m saying is definitely the consensus of a large majority of us. reporter: they draw strength from each other but their burden doesn t get lighter. we hope that they keep us informed. we not that s not a lot to ask for, to ask for transparency and to be treated in a humane manner. reporter: cnn, malaysia. now malaysian officials and malaysia airlines did not answer cnn s request for a response to what you heard there, how family of passengers say they are being treated. isis sparked fear and revulsion across the world with its violent videos. now another group is playing copy cat using some of the techniques to spread their twisted message. 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request your free decision guide. reliability, is now an american thing. introducing the all new chrysler 200 america s import. and a warm welcome back to everyone. you are watching cnn newsroom. i m rosemary church. i m errol barnett. our headlines begin with a developing story out of eastern ukraine. we not that at least 30 may have been killed in a mine explosion according to the reuters news service. local officials say they re trying to remove poisonous gas before they get to the site of the explosion. that s why we should note this is preliminary information. reuters reports at least 14 other people have been injured. all 224 people on board a turkish airlines flight were able to evacuate safely after the plane skidded off the runway in kathmandu. there was heavy rain at the time of the landing a passenger reported the plane attempted to land twice before but poor visible prevented it. israel s prime minister says negotiations underway with iran could pave the way for a nuclear nightmare. benjamin netanyahu addressed the u.s. congress tuesday saying a deal in the work would all but guarantee iran develops nuclear weapons. for over a year, we ve been told that no deal is better than a bad deal. well this say bad deal. it s a very bad deal. we re better off without it. and for more perspective on mr. netanyahu s speech and its impact we re joined by the director of the american jewish committee in israel and a former spokeswoman for the israel defense forces. thank you very much for talking with us. israel s opposition leader, isaac herzog, says every israel opposes a nuclear iran. he says prime minister netanyahu unnecessarily sabotaged israel s relations with the u.s. by deepening the rift with a strategic ally. is he right and of the speech worth the damage done to u.s./israeli relations? i don t believe so. i believe that the u.s. is israel s closest ally. just last summer where five million israelis had to seek shelter of thousands of rockets that were fired here by hamas from gaza, their lives were saved actually because of the help from the u.s. from the iron dome batteries and the intercepttors that were funded by the u.s. so i don t believe that this kind of nitty-gritty politics can really affect a strong and deep pact between israel and the u.s. actually this began in the 60s, of course. and so israeli politicians on the right, they have attacked isaac herzog for his comments and said his views will not serve him well politically. what does it mean politically, and what impact is mr. netanyahu s speech likely to have on the march 17 elections do you think? well, it s not a secret that netanyahu s party, the likud, has weakened in the last couple of weeks. and therefore there is no question that the timing of this speech has to do with this current campaign. i do believe that looking at the mood of the israeli streets, the speech of addressed maybe to those 20% in the israeli population that still did not decide who to vote for. in this aspect they do have some chance to vote for the likud following the speech so it was positive. herzog on the other hand tried to contradict the speech by speaking publicly 20 minutes after netanyahu finished his speech near the gaza border, trying to pretend as if he is a security expert. this i m afraid did not bring herring on any suspense. a lot of olympics breathe side. why did mr. netanyahu lobby so publicly against a sitting u.s. president and offer no alternative to the deal being worked out in regards to iran? what is his end game do you think? i think that netanyahu spoke out of an apocalyptic kind of feeling. he believes that he has to do everything in his power in order to save the people of israel. and you know what the end of the day, the speech is over. maybe the media will deal with it for another 24 48 hours. but the big question remains what will happen with iran next? what will happen next week? what will happen in march, 24 i think this is the critical issue. and most israelis in the streets and especially in two weeks when they will vote will go to the voting places and place their votes there. they re concerned with two things two primary things. the first one is security issues, especially security for israel. and the second would be economic welfare social issues. this is something of great concern here in israel. come march 17 we ll see if the speech in congress paid off for mr. netanyahu. thank you very much for joining us on cnn. pressure it. want appreciate it. want to get you the latest on the shadowing isis figure. his masked face and angry voice are all too familiar are from isis execution videos. now an advocacy group that works with convict religious extremists released a new clip. it s a 2009 phone recording of the man who would become known as jihadi john. he looked at me and he said muhammad, what do you think about 7 about 7/7? i said innocent people have been hurt. this is extremism. he said i said what happened is wrong. you know, what you want to say? if i make the last comeback i make it and i don t think i think what happen is wrong. it recording portrays a man frustrated by questions from law enforcement. the group says he felt houstoned by authorities but that may only be part of the story. when you re in an interrogation situation and are a radical you d be the stupidest radical alive to top to having extremist views with a law enforcement official. so he wanted to get out of the situation as fast as he can. some analysts say investigators targeted emwazi because they already knew he had links with terrorist groups. nigerian islamist group boko haram has taken note of the provocative messages released by isis. now they are beginning to mimic the violent isis videos. that s right. boko haram released a video showing the apparent beheading two of men similar to isis killings. we want to warn you some may find the upcoming report disturbing. diana magnay has the story. reporter: bodies executed one by one and then thrown into the river. militants doing wheelies in their tanks. and now this the apparent beheadings of two men by boko haram militants, posted on line. almost the mirror image of the beheadings isis has filmed and published on line since the summer. two distinct jihadi entities strikingly similar imagery. boko haram is an extremist group predates isis by several years. it s clearly been watching and copying the isis formula. since late last year upgrading the quality of its videos, adding the stamp of a production house and using the same islamic chance for soundtrack reporter: even down to the professed leader of boko haram assuming the role of teacher. the alcove setting, a mirror image of isis leader al baghdadi preaching in mosul. for boko haram, i think emulating islamic state is of a lot of benefit. obviously it gains the group prominence and places them on the same platform. as the islamic states. then we cannot discount the possibility that there are discernible linkages between the groups and that using islamic state s imagery and making references to the lord might be a preamble to a more established linkage between the two organizations. reporter: there s no clear evidence of any direct link yet. in its magazine dabiq, isis writes of groups including one in nigeria swearing allegiance but doesn t specify which. operational success is less easy to copy. and boko haram is capturing and seizing territory. it s not using the same governance tools as isis does. and it doesn t control the same kind of economic resources the oil wealth, that isis does. crucially so far, it doesn t have a trail of would-be foreign fires flocking its way. analysts say it may changedenting on how it s dealt with. if you see a more visible, more active international response from this, at that point, you could risk truly internationalizing boko haram which has to date actually been really more of a nigerian terrorist movement. reporter: for now, the u.s. and others are limiting their assistance to training and intelligence leaving the nigerian and neighboring power to take on the group militarily with hope this a regional force can succeed against boko haram where the nigerian army could not. diana magnay, cnn, london. a new film is on an online sensation in china. coming up, a closer look at the documentary on the country s air pollution and why it s just gone viral. gives you home security and control in a new and revolutionary way. introducing plug & protect from livewatch security, an easy to use wireless security system customized just for your home. control from any smartphone, tablet, or computer and monitored by professionals 24/7. go to livewatch.com to get plug & protect interactive security delivered to your door. arm or disarm your system from anywhere. lock or unlock your doors, turn your lights off or on even oversee your home with live video. with plug & protect your security system is configured, tested, and then 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effort to reach parents who have refused to let health care workers administer the polio vaccine to their children. first, what happens is that the workers go to the house if there s refusal, supervisors go. then if there s another refusal, respected members of the community will go to the house and try and convince the parents. these parents who have been arrested still refused after those continued efforts. really there s a lot of political pressure on nationally and internationally to address this issue to get the vaccine to the 2.7 million children in this province where these reaves were made that they receive it. and there s a real issue with how to get that done. there s rhetoric being spread that vaccines are a bigger evil than the controversial u.s.-led drone strikes. how can pakistani officials counter that kind of commentary? reporter: it is scary to have this threat of the taliban. and i m sure many parents feel that. and they perhaps feel there s eyes on them as the polio workers go to their home. and that s maybe why they refuse. public health officials have used many tactics. they try and get people in transit at bus stochs at train stops. when they re crossing to different cities, they try and get to the children that way. outside the eyes of people who might be watching. also they ve tried to recruit clerics who can discuss the vaccine and actually say it s a good thing. also popular politicians in the province like the imam he s led polio vaccine campaigns. so they re trying everything they can but it s hard to say what s going to convince one individual parent or the next. but officials really are trying these are, again, a last-ditch effort. yeah it s frightening when people agree with locking up parents because it s such an important issue. and of course if polio gets out, it continues to spread. michelle stockman live in islamabad on the story. thank you very much:now the debate over air pollution in china is heating up with a documentary that s gone viral. it s called under the dome and is produced by a well-known chinese journalist. she says she took on the subject because her daughter was born with a tumor. but critics say they re suspicious the video is a government public relations move. it s gotten over 100 million views since it went on line sudden. for more on the situation of solution, let s it turn again to our meteorologist pedram javaheri. it has been a constant problem for china. and it s difficult to see whether the government s doing very much about it. talk to us about the film. you know, it seems like coal is the culprit obviously. you go to 2013 360 million ton of coal were burneded in chen alone. more than every single country in the world combined. that tells you what s going on there. but just back last year 175 days in beijing in particular were considered unhealthy or hazardous. so do the math. that s almost every other day. dangerous air quality across portions of beijing. and it s expected that coal could exceed oil as well as the number-one energy in the world. coal and the factories the steal factories, as well, in homes the heating source for home. but let s show what s happening across portions of china. the setup certainly not good. when you have the most densely populated the most populated nation in the world in china the 500 million people that live north of the river, that s the area of concern. we know back in 1950 for a 30-year period the chinese government gave away free coal to people north of the river because that s climatologically where theest temperatures occurred across china in the winter months. studies have been done, and we know pollution levels north of that line some 55% higher in other portions of china. and all air pollution cutting life expectancy in this region by 5.5 years. so again you do the math not a good setup. we know the air equal index typically gets up to the hazardous category across this portion of the world. the good to moderate scale, that is very unusual to find. there it is this hour oddly enough. much of china is from shanghai toward hong kong sitting in the unhealthy scale as we speak. 20 times higher than what is considered holiday is what they routinely deal with across areas of china. so here it goes as far as the inversion. typically warmer air because it s less dense. gets to the top. the cooler, more den air at the surface traps the pollutants. that becomes the issue across here. guys we touch on how the official there have we touched on how the officials there have tried to put policies in effect. heavy our pollution of developed in 2013. a color-coded policy that says that schools have to be shut down if you have three consecutive days of unhealthy air and excavation on construction sites, they cannot continue. unfortunately it seems like they stretch the rules. so sometimes if business had to go on, business will go on with even polluted days. that s very unfortunate. everyone gotten used to wearing 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you find the aarp medicare supplement plan that s right for you. there is nothing that can make me feel worse than what i feel right now. and for what i feel for the family. we are so sorry that this happened to them. an apology there from radio deejay mel gregg. back in 2012 after a royal prank went terribly wrong. now the station she works for could lose its license. sydney station today f.m. sparked outrage when gregg and fellow deejay crank called a london hospital where kate middleton of being treated for morning sickness. the nurse who took the call later killed herself. it was tragic. on wednesday, australia s high court upheld a ruling that the broadcaster had broken the law. now today f.m. may lose its license or be taken off the air temporarily. and now more on the couple that you see there. prince william is wrapping up his week-long asia tour with a topic close to his heart felt wildlife conservation. the prince visited an elephant sanctuary before going on to speak about the importance of protecting them in the wild. elephants are being slaughtered at an alarming rate to supply the illegal ivory trade. mac foster joins us live from london to talk about the prince s most recent activities in china. max, let s start with an overall feeling of how this trip has gone so far. it is being drawn to a close now. what s the sense? reporter: i ve been looking at the chinese media actually. this is the sort of test really. s to whether william could tread the diplomatic line between the u.k. and china and to promote the cause that s are closest to him. the cause that is closest to him is the protect of endangered species. the problem he s discovered while in africa on that is the demand for illegal wildlife parts largely comes from china. chinese medicine. so using parts of endangered animals in chinese medicines, a huge, huge problem. that fuels a lot of the poaching in africa. he wants to address that issue but doesn t want to offend his hosts in china. they don t like to be told what to do. you have images there a successful project in china. a sanctuary for rescued asian jen elephants. so the way he s handling this is by promoting what china s doing positively in the area of conservation rather than being too negative. you mention he s about to hold a speech. that speech will be his last moment in this tour really. there s lot of speculation that he will address this issue which say risk for him. but hopefully the chinese will understand that from his point of view. apparently this discussion did come up with a meeting with the president, as well. so he s taking it pretty seriously and taking risks there. considering the risk it is fascinating. you re speaking of a diplomatic balancing act the prince will need to do. and bringing attention to the wildlife issue, particularly interesting because of what you mentioned. the demand, what keeps poaching going on the african continent is that demand mostly in china and other parts of asia. what might we expect then from him during his speech his farewell speech before he departs? reporter: i think it s a long-term process to make chinese people who use these medicines think about what they re actually doing. he did actually hook up with yao ming the famous sportsman from china. the basketball player. had a very successful campaign in china. i think perhaps modeling it on that. this was around shark fin soup. basically telling people in china this actually it doesn t have healing qualities that you think it does. and democrat dropped massively. that was with the support of the chinese government. so i think prince william will try and reflect the success of that campaign in relation to ivory for example. so that s what he s trying to do. and he is quite a powerful cultural figure in china. so he hopes that just by changing thoughts and feelings around illegal wildlife parts that will have the impact that he s looking for. it might do it. absolutely. max foster, thank you very much. appreciate it. you have been watching cnn newsroom. thank you very much for being with us these past two hours. i m errol barnett. i m rosemary church. stay with us. early start is next for viewers in the united states. for those watching elsewhere cnn newsroom with max foster begins after the break. have a great day. reliability, is now an american thing. introducing the all new chrysler 200 america s import. the dire warning from israel s prime minister creating new controversy this morning. warning congress that iran will acquire a nuclear weapon if white house negotiations end with a deal. but will benjamin netanyahu s unprecedented stance backfire? we have team coverage in washington, iran and israel ahead. morning, everyone welcome to early start. i m john berman. and i m christine romans. it is wednesday, march 4th. it is 4:00 a.m. in the east. reaction developing across washington to israeli leader netanyahu s capitol hill speech where he blasted a nuclear deal with iran. the prime minister holding nothing back in an address to a joint session of congress that drew repeated repeated standing ovations. the speech also drawing
city of tikrit. and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m natalie allen this is cnn newsroom. battered but okay. that is how harrison ford s son describes his father. the famed movie star now hospitalized after a plane he was piloting had an apparent engine failure and crashed on a golf course while ford was attempting to make a landing. ford suffered moderate trauma but was alert and conscious when paramedics arrived at the scene. cnn has more from the scene of the crash in venice, california. firefighters are here as well as investigators trying to figure out why the engine of this plane, a plane that harrison ford was piloting why it suddenly lost power. he did manage to make an extraordinary landing. this is a golf course. all of that green grass that you re looking at and that is the vintage plane. you can see that the nose has broken off but the body itself is relatively unscathed, perhaps why he didn t have any more severe injuries. witnesses pulled him out. his head was bleeding. they did take him to the hospital and he is listed in stable condition. the question is why that engined stalled. people who heard the plane take off actually heard that engine stop. he didn t quite make it to the airport but the people who live here in this neighborhood in this very densely populated area say they are very glad he managed to land safely here on this golf course. and earlier we spoke with the man from the neighborhood who heard the engine problems and said that noise is not that uncommon in this area. planes don t crash all the time obviously. i think the last one was about five year ace go that crashed right outside the house on the golf course as well. you hear them quite often. the engines go out a little bit but typically they come back on and everything is okay. but you think maybe today is another one that goes down. like today. tell me specifically what did you hear? the engine cut out but we hear that all the time. that s not that special. you hear that quite often and then typically the engine comes on again. sometimes they go on like when you have an old car exit doesn t run quite well? it s similar to that. the sound is similar to that. i don t know what these engines are like. i m assuming because there is a lot of old planes here that that s what happens. that sometimes the old ingins don t work. that guy is obviously used to this kind of thing. but cnn aviation analyst says harrison ford s piloting skills prevented the situation from escalating to something much worse. what happens is once you have a if you have a single engine airplane and you have an engine failure, if you re a good pilot you set it up in a glide slope. you are trained how you can get the most amount of mileage out of it with no engine. he obviously set it up for a good ratio but he just couldn t make the airport again. apparently he was coming back to land. and for that golf course to be there was extremely fortuitous. i lived in los angeles for years and you can t land on the freeways. and there s just nothing else there. it s lucky that the golf course was there and fortunate that he knew how to set the plane up for an unpowered landing, brought it down. pretty good piloting. and he s probably thanking his lucky stars in the hospital right now. this isn t if tirs aviation related incident for ford. in 1999 he had to make an emergency landing in a california river bed while flying in a held continuer with a flight instructor. now to another close call a scary landing at new york s laguardia airport. thursday the plane skidded off the runway and stopped just short of disaster. it s a terrifying image for everyone who flies. a delta passenger jet skidding off of a slick and snowy runway. the flight from atlanta was coming in for a landing and then lost control, ending up just feet from the water. as soon as we landed we feltd the wheels hit the runway and we did not feel the wheels take traction and we started to skid and we skid to the left side of the runway and we continued to skid. we literally were a couple feet away from headed into the water. 127 passengers aboard the plane were evacuated from the plane using emergency exits on the wings. port authority officials say the emergency chutes did not deploy. 24 were injured and three take on the the hospital. one of the passengers new york giants tight end shot this video. port authority issues dealt with a fuel leak from the plane. he is leaking fuel on the left side of the aircraft heavily. the other day, off the runway. the airport is closed. say again? and major headaches on the road. it was especially bad where hundreds of motorists were left stranded overnight and well into thursday. the national guard was sent into help. no deaths or injuries reported. people stranded on those highways are on the move again but now comes the cold snap of winter air. derrick is a busy guy these days keeping up with these storms. yeah. it s amazing. and to have two events like that of people getting stranded on the highways and the runway at laguardia, this is all from the same storm system. gency personnel to help with the situation that being the national guard and the snow just basically fell faster than the plows could keep up with it. and unfortunately, that s what caused the situation to just continue to get worse. the snowball effects to use an analogy. this is the swath of snow all the way to elizabethtown. and you see this darker shading of purple? that s indicating over 24 inches. you can see how that runs. basically perpendicular to your i-56 corridor that runs north and south by the way, we set a record two day storm total in lexington, kentucky. that has never happened before. louisville getting in on some of that. fortunately this storm is moving off the east coast. the snowfall has ended for all the major cities. just but now the cold air. it is headed our way. temperatures in atlanta, georgia. nashville predicted at 10:00 degrees but if it drops into the single digits that will be the coldest air temperature felt this late in the season since the 1800s. and natalie, i will leave it on a good note. 14 days until spring. yeah. but will we feel it? will it really come? that s a good question. let me look into my magic eight ball here. we will see it. i get the boot. already. those poor people in new york. thanks. iraqi forces getting help in the battle to retake the hometown of saddam hussein. we will tell you which countries are joining them to help win that city back. also ahead here isis continuing to bulldoze iraq s history. and south korea digging into the past of the man accused of stabbing a u.s. ambassador. we will look for possible connections to north korea. welcome back. you re watching cnn newsroom. the iraqi military is now on its fifth day in a push. the northern iraqi city is the hometown of former dictateor saddam hussein and it s a required winning step towards winning back isis held mosul further north. iraqi forces claim they are making gains and they are getting some help along the way. ben got within just a few kilometers of the frontd lines. tikrit is the target. heavy rounds fired into a city now the focus of iraq s biggest yet offensive against isis. the group overran the city last june. there are no signs of life there. many have already fled. we re at a base just two miles. 3.2 kilometers from tikrit. isis is just on the other side. that was an outgoing round. our visit was organized by the paramilitary force created when the iraqi army nearly collapsed during last summer s isis onslaught. increasingly they are playing a central role in the fight against isis. one of the commanders has learned a lot about isis s tactics. the basic strategy he tells me is to avoid face to face confrontations. they depend on explosive devices and snipers. the forces received training ammunition weapons, and high level battlefield advice from iran. our tour included a stop at this mosque east of tikrit. parliament members visiting the troops was quick to praise iran for its backing in the fight against isis. today the support is much larger than the iranian support which is limited. praise for iran mixed with criticism. and that really doesn t reflect well on them. the government has said it doesn t request assistance for the operation. if this operation is successful these fighters will take the credit. and we have this from the isis militants. apparently they have destroyed more ancient ruins in northern iraq. enior international correspondent joins me now with the latest from seoul where the attack happened and harsh words there from the north koreans. that s right. just within the last hour the man who was seen by have many witnesses stabbing the u.s. ambassador in the face and arm and hand early thursday morning. he was taken by south korean police to a courthouse to see whether or not he would receive an arrest warrant for this attack. and he was shawn in a wheelchair grimacing and briefly answered a few questions from a throng of south korean journalists who are asking if his attack was at all linked to north korea and asking him if he had traveled to north korea in the past and his response was no. it s nonsense. that denial that he has ever traveled to north korea comes in sharp contrast with what the south korean authorities have said. they say he has made multiple trips there. take a listen to this statement by a police chief here. he went to north korea seven times in 2011 he tried to build a monument to kim jong ii. we are investigating whether there is another power behind this attack. so basically investigating natalie there whether or not this was a loan wolf basically terrorist attack 0 but as you know there are none still one year later. and jodi arias will not face the death penalty. now there is a possibility she may get out of prison at some point. most of the products we all buy are 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e-mails sent within his department that ridicule black mothers and compare president obama to a chimpanzee. the calls for the chief s resignation are growing. we need a look into this. when we look at who s accountable we have to start at the top. chief jackson has refused our requests for an interview but in november he told out front that he would not resign. the justice department report paints chief jackson as one of the driving forces behind this. the report says officers competed to see how officers write the most tickets. it concluded that pro motions depended on citation revenue. chief jackson told the commander no discipline for doing your job. then there s the story of a commander who one day bragged about seeing a steady stream of people ten to 15 deep waiting in line for hours to pay traffic fines. he wrote the court clerk girls have been swamped and the city manager responded great work. chief jackson kept close tabs on the money. the chief celebrated raising citation revenue writing we beat our next biggest month by over $17,000. the city manager responded wonderful. in another e-mail jockson wrote his police force had passed the $2 million mark. the city manager wrote awesome. thanks. ng us. it is admitting that the courts are about the generation of revenue. until now the money was flowing freely but the citation revenue faucet might soon be just a trickle. cnn, ferguson, missouri. and cnn sarah talked with chief jackson on thursday and asked him what he thinks about the department of justice report and what he s going to do next. what do you think of the doj s report? i m still analyzing it. you re still looking? don t you think you should have known some of the things that came out? the racest e-mails. the numbers. were you just trying to bill people out of money instead of proteching them? okay. thank you. and i will be in touch. get ahold of jeff. i have talked to everyone. i have given you literally every opportunity. we have been talking for days and days and days. all we want is an an seasons from you. what do you think of this report and what are you going to co-about it? any idea what you re going to do about it? i m going to analyze the report and take action where necessary. sarah there tracking down the police chief. we ll wait and hear once he looks that what he has to say. jurors relive the moments after the deadly boston marathon bombings through the eyes of survivors on thursday the second day of testimony in the trial of the surviving brother. other witnesses recounted the carnage they saw, equating it to something out of a horror move tsarnaev is charged with 30 counts. three people were killed at the finish line and a fourth in the manhunt that followed two years ago. next why australia s government called indonesia s ambassador to complain about the lack of dignity shawn two men facing execution. more about that. plus a mob of protesters attack a prison in india and they were looking for one inmate 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government called the ambassador to complain about this picture saying it showed the lack of dignity shown to the condemned men. the photos were reportedly taken during the men s transfer to a maximum security facility. the police chief said he was trying to raise the men s spirits and didn t know the pictures were taken. this news came after indonesia ruled out a last minute request to spare these men from execution. let s turn to cnn s simon. nationals and indonesian nationals that also face death by firing squad. the lawyers continue to appeal to the court and the australian government too. she has been in touch with her indonesian counter part making an appeal for a prisoner swap. what we are seeking to do is have an opportunity to talk about options that might be available in the area of prison transfer or prison swap. absolutely no details but we are seeking an opportunity to explore every option that might be available to us. every avenue that might be available to save the lives of these two men. that conversation took place on tuesday. today, thursday local, the indonesian foreign ministry spokesperson told cnn that indonesia doesn t have legislation or laws or any other legal instruments that will enable the issue of a prisoner exchange to be conducted and they told cnn that that was already relaid to the foreign minister. and that is perhaps why she is suggesting a mem ran dan of understanding. australia is trying everything it can to halt these executions saying that the men were young when they committed the crime. yes they should be punished. they are rack r remarkable examples of prison reform they say. and of course we will continue to follow that story to see if they are indeed executed by indonesia. being shown inside the country and the film s creator says she is deeply disappointed by the government s response. they are afeared thoo this will lead to public disorder. i presume they mean protests. but you were shocked. essentially are you saying that officials in india are doing their own country a disservice by not allowing this documentary to be shown? 100%. and tragedy here is it s a missed opportunity for india to actually show by embracing the film which i had presumed that it would to show the world that india is as concerned as the rest of the world is to put gender equality on the agenda of the world right now. i want to go now to monica who has been following this story. she is live from mumbai and certainly you have reported in the past monica on some horrific rapes that have occurred in india. why does the indian government then find this film, which is trying to be transparent about an issue, so offensive? natalie, i think as a film maker pointed out, that the indian government is worried about creating a law and order situation. if you watch the film you will know that some of the content of the film is quite controversial and by that i m referring to the interview with one of the rapists and in the movie, we re not allowed to directly quote from him by government orders but he shows absolutely no remorse for his actions. in fact he goes on to suggest that if the victim had stayed silent while she was being raped, perhaps she would have been spared a beating. he goes on to say that the death penalty, which india has imposed for rapists after this gang rape that that perhaps won t help women going forward. he says earlier if people raped a woman they would leave her because she wouldn t really report the case or if she reported the case the punishment wasn t that severe but now a man who rapes a woman will kill her because he knows that there s the death penalty for a rapist. and he also says he implies that girls bring rape upon themselves. he says no good girls roam around the streets at 9:00 at night or frequent bars and nightclubs so it s these comments that are insightful and controversial and the government is worried that when these comments come out in the public sphere that it could create protests and a serious law and order situation in india. the government says that s one of the reasons they re banning it. they are also looking into how the film maker was able to get permission to interview the man who is currently in jail on death row. yes. at the same time it comes to be disappointing that the indian government doesn t see his despicable comments as a way to bring about dialogue and under understanding to help the society move on from the rape situation in the meantime there was a completely unrelated ins tent involving a rape inmate in prison. that s right. this took place on nurz evening. about 1,000 people gathered over there in the town to protest a rape they began to protest and marched angry towards the local police department where the suspect is being held and they stormed the police facility over there, broke down the cell dragged the alleged rapist out and stripped him naked and beat him black and blue. they beat him so severely that he died of his injuries on the spot before police authorities were able to get to him and to rescue him. pretty gruesome scenes outside the police facility over there. during the clashes the police used tear gas and bamboo sticks to try to control the crowd. they couldn t use that much force because many of the protesters there were young students. a very highly agitated crowd. the situation over there remains tense and i believe the area still under curfew. we just had on the screen that this case that you talk about might be more of an ethnic conflict than so much a rape. can you explain that? yes. because the two groups over there, the alleged rapists belong to a different group he is believed to be an illegal immigrant and there is tension between that group of that community and the local community who believe that you know people kwho have come from bangladesh are steeling their jobs. there has been tension between these two groups for a while. that could be one of the factors that has played into the scene. we appreciate it. thank you. well we have signs of progress when it comes to women s rights in afghanistan. a group of men, how about this scene? march to the streets of kabul wearing burkas. women were forced to wear the head to toe coverings. they are still common in some parts of the country. there was mixed reaction to the demonstration that came just ahead of international women s day, which is sunday. some men going and outwardly supporting women s rights in afghanistan. search crews still trying to find flight in 371, a year after the plane disappeared and through it all, families of those on board continue to cling to hope. that s next. i am totally blind. i lost my sight in afghanistan but it doesn t hold me back. i go through periods where it s hard to sleep at night and stay awake during the day. non-24 is a circadian rhythm disorder that affects up to 70% of people who are totally blind. talk to your doctor about your symptoms and learn more by 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that s correct. you talk to those family members and they can t believe it will be a year officially on sunday that a year on that they are still no closer to finding out the fate of their loves ones. there is going to be an interim report which will be released on sunday which may shed some light into what may have happened on flight 370 s final moments. we don t know what s going to come out of that. but certainly for the families they are looking for some sort of closure. we can t imagine just how difficult it has been for them. i was in koala lumpur and speaking to family members and the overriding thought was the fact that they are still caught in limbo. they can t move on until they get some sort of evidence of what happened to their family members. if it is there in the indian ocean, we can have closure and we can leave him at peace. right now i don t think he s at peace. if they do find i can put him at peace. you hear not just from her but from many, many families. i met the daughter of a woman who is on that flight. a young woman recently qualified and she was saying that there is just no joy in her life. she just goes through the motions every day now and it s this limbo that they can t escape from. they can t give up and they can t move forward. i can understand in so many ways. i know that lady said she calls her husband s cell phone still and it goes straight to voice mail. the fact that she does that says it all doesn t it? what of the investigation? how extensive is it? and what are officials saying if anything about whether they think this is a mystery that will f be solved? well they are obviously keeping a very open mind on whether this will be solved because it has now been a year and nobody could have believed that this time last year or in a couple days a year ago that we would still have so many questions. there is as we know there is the area of high interest. but that s still 60,000 square kilometers big. it s in one of the most remote parts of the world as we know. the mapping of the sea floor, which in some places up to 5,000, 6,000 feet deep. it s sort of half way complete ed ed. there has been no hint of debris. you talk to the people in charge of the search and they say that we are continuing and we re doing it in a very methodical manner. if this search is completed in this area and still no sign what happens then? and the families obviously have a very real fear that they will start scaling back this search and we may never know and that is a question which is being put to the authorities at the moment. not getting any clear answers on what happens if this search in this area is completed with no further clues as to what happened to 370. andrew i recall you were one of the correspondents there in perth covering all of these airplanes that could take off. there seemed to be a sense of hope that there would be something. and not one shred? 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