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Expose vulnerabilities in american air travel? >> hopefully we've seen improved airline security around the world and a better way of tracking aircraft. we'll be looking at some of those systems like the black box and trying to determine whether we need beat better safeguards so pilots can't turn off the communication so perhaps the black boxes can transit signals rather than having to find them under an ocean. >> there is the idea of increasing the security in the screening of passengers, their passports, not just here in the u.s. but around the world. a number of times this weekend i spoke t...

Increased alert, israel taking action as concern about the missing plane grows. we're live in jerusalem with details of new terror fears. caught on camera, two men believed to be the pilot and the co-pilot passing through airport security. what will searches of their homes reveal? holding out hope. the partner of one of the three americans on the plane says she's convinced he's still alive. she talks to cnn about the excruciating wait for information. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." the search for the...

Doing? >> reporter: that is still the leading theory and police are scouring the pilots' homes. they are looking for clues. but their person of interests is expanding to the two people inside the cockpit to the 227 passengers traveling on board and now to the many staff who accessed the plane before takeoff from baggage handlers to technicians. >> that would not only include identifying the passengers and the crew that had touched that aircraft but also individuals associated with family members or friends or professional workers that might have some information relative to the mindset of the ...

Co-pilot or whoever was in the cockpit says all right, good night. i guess the malaysian air traffic controllers, peter, they just went to sleep. >> they weren't there. they should have sparked and said, where is malaysian air flight -- why hasn't it checked in? and the company should have sparked. >> the piece to that, also, is the transponder went off after all right, good night. so it would make it really difficult for the vietnamese air space to even be able to begin to identify on their radar who is this person because they cut off their identifier. >> stand by because there's a lot more ...

From that aspect, knowing there's a scientific perspective but such an emotional perspective these artifacts, remains for the families. >> i suppose the most you need is perseverance and patience because it takes a lot of time, in other words, to use the scientific method and develop the grid searches and to make sure you follow all the leads that you have takes a lot of time. but you're absolutely right. when you're under water and come around the corner and see that wreck site for the first time and you know there are americans missing and maybe right in front of you, your heart skips a beat...