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It flew over the west of malaysia. this now led the united states to say okay, we will expand the search area with you. a u.s. navy ship and they had been searching near malaysia and closer to an eastern position and will go out into the indian ocean and begin to conduct a search out there. big caution in all of this. it's a confusing information. they said be careful, none is 100% yet. they will look at the indian ocean and see what they find. the bottom line is no one knows where this plane is. don? >> our chief national security correspondent. you said proceed with caution as

Is telling us that the search field has been expanded. barbara star is in washington. jim is our national security correspondent and mary is a former inspector general for the department of transportation and will join us in a moment. first to barbara. >> don, a senior u.s. official is now telling us that the u.s. has been told by the malaysians there were pings, if you will, in electronic information sent from what they believe is the airliner's imagines to satellites overhead. this is a data transmission that usually happens to send information about the engineers. safety and data informatio...

Partnering in the search and following leads where we find them. mary. >> i think what they are doing is taking two pieces of information that may not be accurate, but it's all they got. if you couple the sighting or one radar tracing that somebody saw on an island to the west of malaysia. they said the plane turned around and headed past malaise why near a small island. they have a heading. if you put that in connection with the engine information, true or not, whether it exists or not, the imagines may have run for four hours, you have two key pieces. a heading and a distance. with that i th...

Something catastrophic that occurred. the airplane might have broke apart. >> when you sat down, i wasn't really joking, but it may seem that way. where is this plane. where do you think this plane is? >> it's a tough one. what you are dealing with is a situation -- the airplane is highly sophisticated. boeing makes an incredible product. it communicates internally within itself. it also communicates to the airline and the dispatch and the maintenance facilities. something catastrophic had to occur in order for that communication to be cutoff. where it is, that's a tough question. >> i want to...

Are getting now is from u.s. officials and remember it was earlier today malaysia time when they had the head of the investigation speaking to reporters and denying this report saying it was inaccurate and that is proven false. you had the contradictory statements coming out and when we first heard of this radar data, cnn heard of a senior military source and later officials in the prime minister's office saying that's not true. a lot of mixed signals and it's not just frustrating us. it's frustrating the investigators and they want to contribute with the investigation. one point as a matter o...