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New update in the search for Missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370

Aired April 12, 2014 - 15:00   ET

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: It is 3:00 p.m. on the east coast, noon out west for those joining us welcome to the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Fredricka Whitfield.

We start with the latest in the search for missing flight 370. The Australian prime minister said he is confident search crews have detected one of the plane's black boxes. And it all goes back to the four critical pings that have been picked up over the past week.

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TONY ABBOTT, AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER: They've been numerous, numerous transmissions recorded, which gives us the high degree of confidence that this is the black box from the missing flight.

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WHITFIELD: But will search teams be able to find the signal again? The prime minister said it's fading rapidly, and that could indicate the battery's powering the pinger are already dying or may already be dead.

The pings were first heard last Saturday and then again on Tuesday, but nothing has been heard since. On Saturday, four team ships and ten planes involved in the search more than 1,000 miles off the coast of Australia. Crews are focusing 16,000 square mile area. That's about the size of Massachusetts and Connecticut combined.

Let's start in Perth, Australia for the latest on the search. Matthew Chance is there live for us.

So Matthew, what is the focus of the search right now and how is that expected to change, perhaps, in the coming days?

MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, the focus of the search, Fredricka, is that area of 16,000 square miles, about 1,000 miles off the coast of Western Australia where the -- the various ships that are engaged in this search are carrying at their measurements and their sensing techniques underneath the water.

It is also an area close to where there is a separate search area which is where aircraft are flying through the skies monitoring closely the surface of the ocean to see whether they can find debris of the missing airliner. You see that every day, almost. The search area has been getting smaller and smaller. I think it's important to point out that's not because of any data they've received, any new data that's been received. It's simply because they've established these four separate acoustic events, four separate ping detections over the course of the past week. The last one was four days around and they have used that to triangulate this very rough area of the Indian Ocean, where they think the most likely places that the Malaysian airline went down.

And then they are going through that methodically by bit, bit by bit, to see if they can locate any further pings, locate any sign at all of any wreckage, locate the black box flight recorders from the Malaysian aircraft.

So far, they come up with nothing. And in fact as I just mentioned, in fact, it's been four days now since they recorded and detected any pings from the emergency beacons on those black box flight recorders. So I think there's a sense in which, you know, hope is diminishing somewhat, Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: And then what about the planes? They are still up in the air? What is it that they are able to do? How are they assisting in the search?

CHANCE: Yes. It's a kind of separate search, although there are some planes involved in the acoustic search as well dropping sonar buoys into the water to try to detect pings as well. But the majority of the aircraft that are involved in the multi-national search are engaged in a slightly different area to where the sonic search is underway. And that's because they're using current modeling to see where if the plane had crashed into that patch of the ocean, where the debris from it would end up, taken away by current, winds, things like that. So, they're in a slightly different area, more to the west of the sonic search zone -- sonar search zone.

And so far, you know, they're flying a lot. They're flying 11-hour shifts. Basically it takes three or four hours to get there, three or four to get back and they fly around the rest of the time. It is about 11 or 12 hours. So, it is a very long flight. But so far they haven't found anything they find to be linked to that missing Malaysian Airliner, Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: All right, Matthew Chance. Thank you so much in Perth.

So with the Australians expressing confidence that they've narrowed the search area, where do we go from here? And we go to our panel this hour. Aviation analyst Mary Schiavo is a former inspector general for the U.S. department of transportation. She is now an aviation attorney who represents families suing airlines in crashes and disasters. Rob McCallum is a CNN analysts and ocean search specialist and vice president of Williamson and Associates, and Captain Van Gurley, he is a retired Navy oceanographer and a senior manager at Metron Scientific Solutions.

Good to see all of you. So the pinging signals seem to be fading. It's been several days, four days since we've heard anything or at least officials heard anything. What is that telling us about perhaps the location of these pingers or could it be buried in silt? I wonder, Rob, if you could address this, you know, or is this as simple as the battery is dying?

ROB MCCALLUM, CNN ANALYST: I think it's as simple as saying that the batteries are starting to fade away now. They don't just cut off at a certain day. They gradually lose power and get weaker and weaker. I don't think the black boxes will be covered in silt, situated as they are on this broader slope. So, you know, we're getting to the time where we're going to lose pinger signal, and it's time to go and look in the water with sonar.

WHITFIELD: And so, is that your opinion as well, Captain, that before the pinger has really ended, for certain, is now the time to go ahead and bring in other, you know, submersibles? Other devices that might be able to detect any kind of activity from these pingers before they absolutely go dead?

CAPT. VAN GURLEY (RET.), SENIOR MANAGER, METRON SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS: Well, I agree with Rob that I think we may be reading a little bit too much into the lack of signals since Tuesday. The fact that we had very strong contact on Saturday over two hours held, and then reacquired the signal on Tuesday I think is the key point.

At this point, the batteries are, have either died or are about to die based on how the manufacturer rates their life span. In the next step, it will be to start the ocean bottom search, but that doesn't need to be rushed into and the Australians have been slow and deliberate to give every chance to hear one more ping, if it's still there, before they start the next phase, because those are mutually exclusive events. Once you start looking on the ocean bottom with the Bluefin you won't hear more pings because of the noise of that evolution.

WHITFIELD: And so, you know, Mary, can you introduce this Bluefin too late into the game? Do you need a little a little battery life in those pingers for it to be most effective, 0 is that really irrelevant here?

MARY SCHIAVO, CNN AVIATION ANALYST: Yes. For the Bluefin, they won't need or couldn't use pingers anyway. They are looking for -- literally looking on the ocean floor with sonar. They're taking ultrasound, if you will, of the floor of the ocean, looking for things that don't belong on the ocean floor. Like black boxes and wreckage.

I think the thing with the battery is more important for the Australians to be able to say look, we gave everything the best shot, and we rang every last wit out of the batteries and we couldn't get anything more. And then when they put the Bluefin in it, it doesn't matter because they have nothing to do with the pingers.

WHITFIELD: And the sound -- I mean, it is so sensitive this Bluefin, Rob. So that once you put the Bluefin in the water you really can't have any other apparatus that is, you know, in motion or being made useful. Does that include, you know, kind of putting the ships or whatever kind of vessels you have at sea there? Do they have to go quiet, engines off? I mean, how does this work?

MCCALLUM: No. You can deploy several assets at the same time, yes, and particularly if you're covering a wide search area, where the assets are not working close together. So, you know, you just appropriate on different frequencies.

So, it's a questioner now of whether we want to use AUVs and see those deployed, getting fine scale imagery over a relatively small area or whether we want to deploy deep towed sonar which produces less resolution but covers most areas.

WHITFIELD: What's most advantageous in this kind of setting?

MCCALLUM: Well, anytime you're scanning the -- the seafloor with sonar, it's a trade-off between resolution and range. The wider the area you cover, the less resolution, or the less quality, you get, if you like, to the imagery. If you want to hone the beam right in tight, you don't cover as much area but you get very, very good images. And so at the moment, I think there's a call for more wide ranging sonar so that we cover as much seafloor as possible.

WHITFIELD: All right. Rob McCallum, thanks so much. Captain Van Gurley and Mary Schiavo, thanks so much. Please stick around. We are going to talk with you later on in this hour as well.

All right, there is so much more to this very challenging search in the Southern Indian Ocean. We'll explore that, next.

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WHITFIELD: The search field for Malaysia airlines flight 370 has been narrowed significantly over the past few weeks. But there is still few miles between the surface and the floor of the Indian Ocean. And that present a massive challenge.

Here now is Ed Lavandera.

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ED LAVANDERA, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Plunging to nearly 15,000 below sea level is a journey into the mysterious abyss. A journey few humans can even comprehend. The Boeing 777 is about 200 feet white, 242 feet long and possibly so deep under the Indian Ocean that you'd pass the statue of liberty, the Eiffel tower and the tallest building in Dubai on the way down and still be only a fraction of the way to where the plane wreckage might be resting.

Keep plunging and you've entered a place sunlight can't reach. The pinger locator is well below that, 4600 feet below the surface. Marine biologist Paula Carlson says at these depths, marine life is unlike anything most people has ever seen.

PAULA CARLSON, THE DALLAS WORLD AQUARIUM: The deeper you go you find less and less. They have bigger cold tolerant. They have to have -- they might not even have eyes. They may be blind because they don't need to see. There's no light down there.

LAVANDERA: Keep going towards the ocean floor, and at 12,500 below sea level is where you'd find the wreckage of the "titanic" which took some 70 years to discover and where it still rests today.

And if it were turned upside down at 14,400 feet is where you hit the iconic peak of Washington state's Mt. Rainier. Only after all that would you reach the spot search teams believe the pings from the flight data recorder are coming from, 14,800 feet into the abyss.

If that doesn't capture the magnitude of this search, imagine what one oceanographer described d for us. He says picture yourself standing on top of one of the highest peak in the Rocky Mountains, looking all the way down and trying to find a suitcase, in the dark.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's not good.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Got a lot of failures here. We got a problem.

LAVANDERA: Only a handful of people have traveled to these staggering depths or even beyond. One of them is movie director James Cameron using a state-of-the-art vessel, he dropped 35,000 feet or about seven miles to the deepest place on earth. He's turning the scientific mission into a movie.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's that need to see what's there beyond the edge of your lights, to see the unknown for yourself.

LAVANDERA: The pressure at nearly 15,000 feet is crushing and very few manned submarines can even withstand it.

SYLVIA EARLE, OCEANOGRAPHER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: Only a half a dozen subs that can go to basically half the ocean depth with a number of countries having that capability. It gets to the point of, of collapse. It basically implodes. It just crushes.

LAVANDERA: Finding the plane is daunting, bringing it back from the deep, even more difficult.

Ed Lavandera, CNN.

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WHITFIELD: All right, difficult may be an understatement, especially when the batteries powering the pingers on the black boxes run out.

I want to discuss that with former NTSB vice chairman Bob Francis.

So, Bob, good to see you. Explain these challenges that lay ahead when this pinger, unless it has already, dies?

BOB FRANCIS, FORMER NTSB VICE CHAIRMAN: I think that they're just going to have to get the vessels that are capable of getting down there, and spend, and I believe it's going to be a lot of time, because there aren't that many resources. Fortunately, the pingers having come on gives a better idea of where these -- these things should be, but it's going to be a long, long time, and I think people, everyone's going to have to get used to that.

WHITFIELD: And when you talk about these pingers, at least the four pingers that were heard in the last week, and the distance between them being about 17 miles, is there a way without that sound, without hearing them to be able to kind of pinpoint where the focal point of those sounds could have been?

FRANCIS: I think if they don't have the data now, probably the answer to that is, no. On the other hand, there are a lot of really smart people that have been working on this, and somebody may come up with a way to -- to further identify exactly where it is. But I think it's going to be as it was with Air France, and we don't have anywhere near the advantage with this that we had with Air France. I think it's going to be a long, long trek.

WHITFIELD: Are you encouraged by anything that you hear in the realm of the submersibles, AUVs, all those that are made of -- that potentially are being made available for this search that perhaps that is those means are the only ways in which to find any wreckage, if indeed, it is under water?

FRANCIS: I think it's terrific what people have volunteered, basically the state-of-the-art worldwide has been volunteered and is going to be used. The question is whether this is sufficient to do it very quickly, and I would doubt that.

WHITFIELD: And, yes, investigators say they've heard the pingers, but I still say and use the word "if," if that plane is under water. Is there any doubt in your mind that this plane is submerged? Is there still a possibility in your mind that instead it may have hit land somewhere?

FRANCIS: There's no doubt in my mind.

WHITFIELD: No doubt in your mind that it's under water?

FRANCIS: Yes.

WHITFIELD: And how long are you seeing this journey? Right now there are so many countries that have dedicated its assets. Are they in it for the long haul, all of them, for months if not years?

FRANCIS: I think that -- I hopefully they're in it for years, and I think one of the other things you're going to see is that people are going to be focusing resources on research in these areas, and that there may be some significant leaps forward in terms of using the information that they currently have with perhaps some more sophisticated assistance.

WHITFIELD: And your former agency, the NTSB, apparently is working with Malaysian authorities at this juncture. To what degree do you believe that relationship is being built, and -- are you encouraged to know that the NTSB reportedly is involved?

FRANCIS: I am absolutely encouraged that the NTSB is involved. I have been somewhat outspoken about my, the fact that I've been less than impressed with the Malaysian, particularly, initially, management of the investigation. So I hope that they now and they apparently are now, taking advantage of the resources that are not available to them, but are available to a lot of other people.

WHITFIELD: Bob Francis, thanks so much for your expertise. Appreciate it.

FRANCIS: You're welcome.

WHITFIELD: All right. Straight ahead, who is paying for this massive search?

But first, violence escalates in eastern Ukraine. All that, next.

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WHITFIELD: We'll get back to the mystery of the Malaysian flight in a minute, but first other news.

Here's Nick Valencia -- Nick.

NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hey, good afternoon, Fred. Good to see you.

Let's start with the escalating tension in Ukraine. New reports of gunfire between police and pro-Russian activists in Eastern Ukraine, the latest on what's been a violent day in a Russian-speaking region, earlier another city, 20 gunmen in camouflage took control of a police building who reportedly open fire on to the building before entering the windows. Police inside were allowed to leave but three of them were reportedly slightly injured. The interior minister said this is an act of aggression by Russia and called an emergency meeting. The U.S. state department describes the situation as quote "worrisome."

And let's get to Northern California now where there are new developments in the deadly bus crash there, just outside of Sacramento. CNN affiliate KOBR spoke with witnesses who say the FedEx truck was on fire before it rammed into the bus. The bus was carrying students on their way to Humboldt State University to visit the campus. Ten people were killed, five of them high school students, and more than 30 were injured.

Pope Francis making news, making his strongest condemnation yet of the sexual abuse by catholic clergy. Friday, he asked for forgiveness and is pledging to impose penalties, what he called quote "men of the church who harm children." The pontiff fell said he felt compelled to personally take on you all the evil which some priest do. Post ne comments, representing ship from his previous statements on sexual abuse that some felt did not go far enough.

In this case, a really interesting one, Fred. A 9-month-old, yes, 9- months-old, boy in Pakistan, both have finger printed in connection with an intended murder case. He is no longer wanted by police. Good news for him. It began in February when members of the baby's family reportedly threw bricks at authorities who came to collect on a gas bill. Several officers were severely injured. No word on how and why the baby was implicated. And official involved in the case has been suspended.

Really bizarre case there in Pakistan. I don't know if it's impressive or just really weird that a 9-month-old was implicated in an attempted murder case, but bizarre.

WHITFIELD: I think I'll go with the latter. Yes, right. Many would agree.

All right, thanks so much, Nick.

VALENCIA: You bet.

WHITFIELD: All when Stephen Colbert takes to the mic from "late show with David Letterman," he'll leave his Colbert, the character behind. At least that what sink in. And while many are applauding the funny man's move, it's not all laughter from his critics.

Here's CNN Alexandra field.

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STEPHEN COLBERT, HOST, THE COLBERT REPORT: I've got to tell you, I do not envy whoever they try to put in that chair.

ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Stephen Colbert is he ready to take the microphone from David Letterman, the 2015 transition marking the end of a late show era.

DAVID LETTERMAN, TV HOSE: Paul and I will be wrapping things up and taking a hike.

FIELD: But Colbert's new beginning will also mark another kind of ending. He plans to retire Stephen Colbert the character. The conservative pundit he place on comedy central the "the Colbert report."

COLBERT: There is no bigger fan of Bill O'Reilly than Bill himself. But -- I am a close second.

FIELD: The routine has won him plenty of fans and, yes, some critics, including real-life conservative Rush Limbaugh.

RUSH LIMBAUGH, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: CBS is just declared war on the heartland of America. They've hired a partisan so-called comedian, t run a comedy show.

BRIAN STELTER. CNN MEDIA CORRESPONDENT: Colbert has been mocking conservatives a decade. I'm not surprised Rush Limbaugh isn't happy with the choice nor do I think Rush Limbaugh will actually tune in and watch Colbert. But I think a lot of other people will.

FIELD: And that is what CBS is counting on. But who is the real Stephen Colbert?

We caught rare moments of Colbert playing in straight in 2010 called to testify by a House judiciary subcommittee. COLBERT: Migrant workers suffer and have no rights.

FIELD: His heartfelt records stemming from some made for TV moments in a recurring segment on his show, Colbert spent a day in the life of a migrant working parking corn and picking beans.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And what's different about it?

FIELD: Colbert was thrown into the national spotlight when cast as a correspondent on the daily show with Jon Stewart.

JON STEWART, COMEDIAN: So -- the exciting news today is, I no longer need a cable subscription for the privilege of watching Stephen Colbert.

FIELD: But will late show viewers like the real Colbert, as much as the character he's played so well for so long?

As Dave Letterman gets ready to hands over the reins he's already speaking out publicly in support of Colbert saying he was flattered by CBS's choice for his successor and calls Colbert a real friend.

Alexandra field, CNN, New York.

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WHITFIELD: All right, so that is lighter side.

When we come back, we will talk more about the mystery surrounding Malaysia flight 370. So, who is paying for this massive search and how long will these countries continue to pick up the tab? We'll be right back.

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WHITFIELD: All right. It's now been 37 days since Malaysia airlines flight 370 vanished and the mystery that has unfolded since day one is astounding. All the twists and turns in the search and investigation have led search crews to the middle of the Indian Ocean. And it is where they detected four signals over the past week consistent with pings submitted by a plane's data recorder.

Well earlier, the Australian prime minister says he is confident the signals are from one of the missing flight's blacks boxes. And now crews are busy trying to find those signals once again to zero in on where the flight data or cockpit's voice recorders might be.

Australia's prime minister has described the search for flight for 370 as the most difficult in human history. And while the search area has been refined, quite a big deal, it's still a massive effort involving several countries and plenty of cutting edge equipment that has to be paid for somehow.

Here's Joe Johns.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) JOE JOHNS, CNN CRIME AND JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The search for MH-370 is quickly becoming the most expensive of its kind in history. The scope of which is unprecedented says a former lead investigator for the national transportation safety board.

FRANCIS: During the history of aviation, we have never had a challenge that even comes close to this.

JOHNS: More than two dozen countries, seven contributing the most and Australia taking the lead, 80 ships and 61 aircraft all part of the effort to locate the plane. The greatest challenge, the remote distances of the search.

FRANCIS: A tremendous percentage of the resources whether it is aircraft, ships or personnel are spending their time getting there and getting home.

JOHNS: And that comes with a hefty price tag. With some estimates suggesting a cost of $21 million a month. Most of the money coming from military training budgets. Some from humanitarian organizations and now from U.S. Navy operations.

For example, a Navy P-8 aircraft costs $4200 an hour to fly. The Pentagon originally designated $4 million search but has already spent 7.1 million on planes, ships and underwater surveillance equipment.

How does flight 370 compare to other aviation disasters? The two-year search for Air France 447 cost roughly $50 million. The TWA flight 800 investigation and recovery costs about 40 million. In 1996, one of the longest investigations the NTSB ever conducted.

Swiss Air 111 which went down off the coast of Nova Scotia in 1988. The search, recovery and investigation took four years and cost $39 million.

But what of the collateral cost of missteps and management of the investigation?

FRANCIS: Frankly, the Malaysian government hasn't handled this at all well. And that's clearly cost time and resources.

JOHNS: The many governments engaged in the search already own the assets including ships and planes. So one way for them to look at this is, at least, is an extended high stakes training exercise.

Joe Johns, CNN, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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WHITFIELD: All right. So, how will cost factor into the next stage of the search for flight 370?

Let's bring back our panel. Mary Schiavo, Rob McCallum, Captain Van Gurley and Bob Francis, welcome back.

So, there is reportedly a massive insurance policy on the Malaysian airlines as well. We understand somewhere in the realm of about a billion dollars. And in what way will this money be used, perhaps, Mary, to help reimburse some of these dozens of countries that have invested hundreds of thousands, if not millions?

SCHIAVO: Well, technically there are several different policies on the aircraft. There's a liability policy, which is usually about $1 billion, and that is to cover the losses of the passengers, both people in the air and, of course, not just the passengers, if there's any damage on the ground.

And, of course, there was also the coverage on the plane itself. Their hull insurance as I understand it. That may have already been paid and that was probably about $260 to $300 million.

But on the liability insurance, there have been cases in the cast, and I believe the a couple Indonesian crashes has resulted in the persons involved in the search and recovery, or search at first attempted rescue actually sued or went after the carrier and the carrier's insurance to help them pay for some of that. I don't anticipate the United States or Australian doing that here, but it's been done in the past.

WHITFIELD: Rob, how can countries like especially Australia say, we are in it for the long haul. I mean, clearly, the tab just keeps going up. How can Australia continue to afford this, given it is the lead country and dozens of countries that are committed?

MCCALLUM: Well, I think at the moment everyone's focusing on solving this mystery, and so the cost equation is not at the forefront. But there will be a phase shift over the next few days, as we you know, go from sending a dozen aircraft into the air each day, you know, bringing the search down to one or two or three ships towing sonar equipment.

WHITFIELD: And, Bob does that sound reasonable? That the cost equation cannot be at the forefront? Doesn't it seem the cost equation dictates how far an investigation will go?

FRANCIS: I don't think that -- I think you've got to be careful about the cost, and I'm sure a lot of people have pointed out that a great percentage of these resources that are being used are military resources. And they're learning not only are they training people, they're learning new ways to approach naval discovery.

So -- there's certainly -- there certainly should be and will be an effort to keep the costs down, but I don't hopefully -- hopefully that will not get in the way of getting the investigation done as quickly as it can be and finding the recorders.

WHITFIELD: So, Captain Gurley, are you in agreement with that? That especially as it pertains to military assets involved, that while much of what they are doing is training, and now they're in realtime exercises at this kind of, you know, it's coupled, this search also becomes part of crystallizing, you know, their training?

GURLEY: Well, there's always cost involved with stuff and in these operations not only the cost of operating the ships and aircraft there, but it's the things they're not doing, the other missions that are delayed right now.

But at this point, everybody is focused in getting to the answers of this mystery and getting to finality for the families. And those questions are really going to be held to the side until we can answer the basic questions here of where is that aircraft?

WHITFIELD: And then does it seem that Malaysia, while the origin of this investigation is in Malaysia, it seems so far they are having to foot, you know, the smallest portion of the bill? Is that right, Mary?

SCHIAVO: Well, it seems that way. Although they would have us believe that they are now reopening the investigation into 239 persons. And also they do have a lot to look at in terms of what happened with the radar. You know, what's going on between the civilian and military radar and all that. So they do have a lot of work to do, if they're doing it. So it's not that they haven't, you know, haven't been able to contribute anything.

But you know, when all is said and done, the whole cost of this operation is going to be important and extremely fortunate for one other thing and it is the total cost of this operation is going to be important when we do the cost benefit analysis, which we must do under U.S. law, to determine whether or not we will require airlines to have black boxes that download in flight, the glass boxes. Then the greater the cost, the more likely we'll get legislative and regulatory change. So we should keep track of these bills. They could come in handy for forcing change.

WHITFIELD: All right, Mary Schiavo, Rob McCallum, Captain Van Gurley and Bob Francis, thanks to you all. Appreciate it.

All right, more on the investigation into the search for this missing plane.

But next, if you've ever sent an e-mail or used a cell phone, you could be a victim of the internet bug called Heartbleed. What to do to protect yourself, next.

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I would see how upset the people were about their animals. You know, where is my pet? And then where is it going to go? These are people's children. They've just lost everything. They shouldn't, then, be forced to lose their pets as well.

We have a dog displaced by a fire, a Chihuahua. I'm headed to the scene now. We respond 24/7, 365 days a year. We do for pets what the Red Cross does for people. We went into the basement. Found the dog hiding behind something. Once the fire's under control, we're able to look for the animals and bring them out.

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WHITFIELD: All right, a very important programming note. Be sure to join Dr. Sanjay Gupta next hour. He has got a Special Report live from West Africa at 4:30 eastern time with the latest on the deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus.

And speaking of viruses, websites are racing to patch the Heartbleed bug. It's described as the worst security hole the internet has ever seen. The bug exposes all kinds of your data without leaving any trace of the crime.

Here's CNN money tech correspondent Laurie Segall.

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LAURIE SEGALL, CNN MONEY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER: Your bank account information, e-mails, passports. Some of the most sensitive information you store on the internet. You trust these companies to keep your data safe. But security researchers recently learned that information might not have been kept safe at all. A bug in the code that encrypts your personal information on websites may have been broken for two years, giving hackers lots of action to your personal data.

The bug is called Heartbleed. And it affected 80 percent of websites including big ones you've heard of. OK, Cupid, Amazon, Yahoo! So, what are we talking about here? Think about when you go to a Web site, https. Now, S means secure. And this is how you know you're going to a secure Web site.

Well, here is the eye-opening thing about this hob. In the last couple years if you've gone to these sites with that ad, for secure, that doesn't necessarily mean your information has been safe. Heartbleed led potential hackers utilized a tool that enables one computer to access another computer online. It is called the heartbeat check. With that app, the heartbeat check can force the computer to divulge secret information, including the keys to the encryption encoder. Once hacker have the keys to this, it is potentially game over. Your user names, passwords, all that sensitive data you felt was safe is potentially up for grabs.

Sorry to say, it gets even worst. The Heartbleed bug leaves no traces. So you have no idea if or when or if you've been hacked. Now, of course, these sites are scrambling to get rid the bug. But, here is thing. It might be days or even weeks before the entire web has been fixed.

So, what can you do about it? Well, right now you might actually have to sit tight because a lot of these websites are still trying to update their code and get rid of this bug. But once they have, you should definitely go in and change your passwords and as always be very cautious about the information you put out there.

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WHITFIELD: All right. Thanks so much, Laurie.

And as we just heard from her, we need to change our passwords. But which ones? Get out your pen and paper out right now. You don't need to change every password you have, because if a company yet hasn't updated its site, then any new password created could be compromised as well. You can change passwords for these on the screen. Among them, Google, You Tube, Gmail, Facebook and Yahoo!, Flickr and Wikipedia. Do not worry about Amazon, AOL, Apple, iCloud, iTunes. These banks, bank of America, Capital One, Chase, Citibank, and Microsoft and hotmail. Good luck on that.

All right, we will have more on the search for flight 370 coming up.

But first, you'll hear from Anthony Bourdain. A new season of "parts Unknown" premieres tomorrow. I will talk to him about the cuisine and culture in a very contention part of the world.

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WHITFIELD: All right, we'll get back to our coverage for the search for flight 370 in a moment.

But first, many of us don't like what they do and yet, still consume what they produce, the paparazzi. Admit it, a celeb caught in a bad moment you just might click on it. Well, to get that one second of impropriety can take hours of work for photographers.

Sunday CNN will go behind their cameras and show just how competitive the cult of celebrity can be. Here's the clip of the season premiere of Morgan Spurlock's "Inside Man."

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Talk to me. What's up?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Khloe Kardashian is at Stanley's with her mom.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm on my way.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just got word from one of his scouts that Khloe Kardashian is at a restaurant with her mom. So what is the story of Khloe and Lamar? Allegedly Lamar Odom has an addiction and Khloe is on the verge of leaving him. Whether that's true or not, nobody actually really knows for sure, but inside of every magazine this week there's some story pertaining to Khloe Kardashian, so it's a big one to get.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Should I try and stay back or should I get out of the car?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It draws too much attention to yourself, so it's better to just sit in the car.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm looking. I'm looking.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Backdoor.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Backdoor.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, wait.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let them part, please. Please.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get out the way.

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WHITFIELD: All right. Another world indeed and that's just one of the worlds that Morgan goes inside. From college athletics to cryogenics to cyber spying, watch Morgan Spurlock "Inside Man" the season premiere tomorrow 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time right here on CNN.

Also happening tomorrow, the premiere of Anthony Bourdain's "Parts Unknown." the new season debut Sunday night at 9:00. First up Anthony goes to India where a train ride up the Himalayans improves his grumpy mood.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Truth be told, I'm an angry bitter man when I board. I'm guessing they are going to show me to eat PF Chang along the way.

So little, the universal tourist. I'm going on a King Kong ride. While my stomach growls I become the kind of traveler I warn against, gripy, self-absorbed immune to my surroundings.

But as my brightly little colored trains heads up the hills known as the gateway to the Himalayas, my world view starts to improve. The unnaturally bright colors of India start to pleasurably saturate my brain. The views from the window of ridiculously deep valleys, 100- year-old bridges, it's, well, breathtaking.

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WHITFIELD: Wow. Indeed it is. Catch the view from the top this Sunday on "Parts Unknown" 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time right here on CNN.

All right, at the top of the hour, new developments in the hunt for the missing Malaysia airliner. Why is Australia's prime minister so confident that searchers are in the right area? We'll have a live report from Perth, Australia.

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