Morning to all of you. A somber friday morning. Obviously were learning more and more developments of the shooting down of malaysian flight 17. Still so maep many more questions than answers. Big questions and heart breaking Little Details as we learn more about what happened. Heres what we know the latest this morning about the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight 17. Theres still no confirmation any americans were on board. For the dutch, a tragic toll. There were many dutch passengers. Many of them headed to an aids conference in australia. People of all nationalities on board lost their lives. Keep in mind this debris field is in the middle of an active war zone and six square miles is filled with wreckage items. Passports and suitcases. Eyewitnesses say many of the bodies found were still in their seats wearing their seat belts. And lots of questions about the socalled black boxes. The prorussian rebels were in control of that area and say theyve recovered most of those devices. Now
Offensive in venezuela to knock down protests and Big Bang Theory and what some are calling the biggest discovery in history. Im authorizing sanctions on russian officials and operating in the armed sector in russia and people who provide support to the russian government and if russia continuing to interfere we stand ready to impose further sanctions. Reporter president obama imposing sanctions against russia since the cold war and welcome to al jazeera im stephanie sy, friction between moscow and washington, the president froze assets of senior russian and ukraine officials linked to crimea and they followed suit with its own set of sanctions but russian president Vladimir Putin is not backing down and said they are an independent and sovereign state and in an hour from now he will address the parliament and putin will discuss his plan for making crimea part of russia and we will bring you the speech live when it happens. Tens of thousands of troops are gathering at the border of Eas
Just hours ago, president obama held a News Conference to announce harsh new sanctions on russian officials. Nbc bay area chase kane joins us. How tough is united statess stance on crimea . These latest sanctions are the toughest imposed on russian officials since the end of the cold war and that is raising eyebrows because of how russia could choose to respond. The European Union also imposed sanctions following yesterdays vote in crimea. Nearly 97 of voters there reportedly approved a resolution asking to be annexed into the russian federation. But those votes were cast with russian groups standing charge. Because of that, president obama did not even use the word election to describe those votes. The referendum in crimea was a clear violation of ukrainian constitutions and international law. And it will not be recognized by the international community. They mobilized 40,000 reserve troops, possibly preparing for battle with russia. In advance of any advanced combat, the white house
Thousands of miles. U. S. Navy ship uss kid will resume the search in a few hours in the straits and new york timesreports that there were no apparent cell phone calls from anyone abore the men after it was diverted. Search area itself covers 11 country to the southern indian ocean to the south. David curly on the story with the latest. Flying over the massive indian ocean american sub hunters looking and listening for flight 370. Race because onethird of the life of the battery of those pinging black box now gone 10 days into the search. As we reported much of the search moving south to australia following the so you were corridor of new map showing the possible last location of the malaysian triple 7. New details tonight about what happened in the cockpit. The final words from the flight all right good night came from the copilot. 38 minutes after take off. At 1 19 in the morning. Malaysian Officials Say they are analyzing the record to go see if the copilot was under stress. If some
And moved it. The mystery of flight 370 takes another turn. The changed flight path was programmed into an onboard computer. The u. S. Navy says it will reduce its effort in the search. Searching 7 million square miles. Vladimir putin has just signed a treaty officially making ukraines crimea region part of russia. Russia has offered a variety of arguments to justify what is nothing more than a land grab. Now ukraine, calling up troops preparing for possible conflict. A california man accused of threatening to bomb the l. A. Subway system has been arrested trying to cross the border into canada. Loren scott, longtime girlfriend of mick jaggar found dead, apparently committed suicide. Mick jaggar says he is completely shocked and devastated by the news. Kevin trudeau has been sentenced to prison for cheating investors. Barely hit by a commuter train going full speed. All that wind up the middle. Nails the umpire. He is down in a heap. Brad meyers is in a world of hurt. Orlando area Team