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La cruz. here's what's happening. australia's prime minister says there's increasing hope of finding out what happened to a missing jetliner based on new satellite images. the siting of small debris and increased search capability. a barge carrying thousands of gallons of fuel collided with another ship off houston leaking oil. officials say it is being contained. and three people were killed, several others injured in a massive landslide in rural washington. i'm veronica de la cruz. let's get you back to "lockup." [ laughter ] >> wait a minute, we got sounds for you guys. >> do to running man...

So you have that circle, that radius there of search capability. and then really what's a game changer is today we have a mission with our latest technology in mixed-wing search aircraft. the most advanced search aircraft in the world. that range is into the thousands of miles. so that's land-based. going to take off from kuala lumpur area. that is looking west. so the initial track will look to the west. it will fly that direction, see what it sees with its surface search radar, and then fly back. >> commander william marks, spokesman for the navy's 7 fleet on the phone for us tonight. many t...

That plane had turned and flown in a western direction. >> the exact opposite towards beijing and it made a u-turn and flew over and keeps ongoing. maybe if you hear what the white house is now saying, maybe towards the indian ocean. >> at the time that plane allegedly disappeared off the radar, we didn't know whether the radar and the plane kept ongoing. it could track further, but it didn't. the plane went lower in altitude. if it kept that direction, it would have overthrown indonesia into the indian ocean and the depth of the indian ocean is much greater than the straights or the gulf of t...

Squawk in an emergency so that if the plane is in difficulty, they can squawk that it's under a hijacked situation. it would be very rare occasion where you would turn off the transponder, only in some sort of severe electrical situation. >> so there's a legitimate reason for a pilot to have that option? >> there is, but it's very rare. >> because there are two of these on a 777. >> it's very rare. it would be very seldom. >> i can't tell you how many people have sent me tweets asking me, why do these pilots even have that option of turning this off since it's so critical and i'm not sure we h...

Seventh fleet, which is helping in the search tells nbc news they now have no plans yet to change their search area after the chinese satellite imagery. joining me now is john cox, a former us airways captain for 25 years and now ceo of safety operating systems. and a former american airlines captain for 30 years. john cox, what do you make of these new satellite photos? >> well, i think it's certainly evidence we need to look at. there has been a lot of conflicting information, and as a good investigative team would do, they're running down each one of them as the information becomes availabl...