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Update in the Search for Missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370; Ferry Sank Off Coast of Korea; Drone Strike Targets Al-Qaeda Militants in Yemen; Boston Marathon Celebration Tomorrow

Aired April 20, 2014 - 15:00   ET

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Hello again, everyone. I'm Fredricka Whitfield.

These are the stories that are topping our news at this hour. New video showing the intense effort to find victims of the South Korean ferry disaster. Families are waiting, heartbroken as bodies are brought to shore and today some of the stunning last words from the crew that escaped is impossible.

Also today, a secondary strike killed more Al-Qaeda terror suspects. What we're learning about the attack in Yemen.

And a year after the Boston marathon bombing. A city gets ready to run again. Coming up we hear from some of the youngest victims who were so close to the blast last year.

Our top story, the death toll rises to 59 in that ferry that sank off the coast of South Korea. And we're getting new details about what happened when the ship was rolling over.

From a radio transcript released a short time ago, here's what we know right now. Divers are trying to inch through the sunken ferry hoping to find any survivors. But so far they're only coming across bodies. They're bringing those bodies back to shore one by one as heartbroken families watch. Today's death toll could go much higher, 243 people are still missing. Many of them are teens who all went to the same high school.

Families try to get from Jindo, the base of the search effort, to the capitol of Seoul. They say they want to tell the government about their situations, but they were stopped by police.

The captain, his third mate, and a crew technician all made it off the ferry and now face charges. Now a radio transcript may answer some of the questions as to what happened during this tragedy.

Here now is Paula Hancocks.

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Fred, officials have released more transcripts of the radio communications between the sunken ferry and to radio tower. Now, according to these transcripts the initial distress signal went out at 8:55 a.m. on Wednesday. And just one minute later at 8:56, an unidentified crew member of the Sewol said the ship rolled over a lot right now. Cannot move. Now, the communication lasted until 9:38 a.m. So 43 minutes after the initial distress signal and that is when communication was lost. But from these transcripts we can see the crew member said on a number of occasions the ship is listing too much. We cannot move.

Now, this appears to show just how quickly this ship listed and how quickly it sunk. And there have been many questions as to why more passengers have not been put onto the life rafts and the rescue boats that were on this ship. Also, the questions are still being asked as to why the initial order given to passengers was to stay put on this sinking ship.

Meanwhile, there were bodies retrieved more than a dozen retrieved from the ship this Sunday. They were brought to shore here at Jindo harbor and laid out in tents where the desperate families had to walk through and see if they could identify their child or their loved one.

A very heart breaking scene and given the number of missing passengers still, it is a scene that is likely to be played out in coming days as well.

Now, there are still hopes of finding survivors. Search and rescue officials say they're working under the assumption there will be survivors, but clearly hope is fading.

Back to you.

WHITFIELD: All right. Thank you so much Paula Hancocks.

Very tough situation. No survivors have been found since the 174 people were rescued on Wednesday.

All right, for the second day in a row a deadly air strike hit terror suspects in Yemen. Today, a Yemini government official says a suspected drone strike killed at least a dozen people including a number of Al-Qaeda militants. It happened in southwest Yemen right next to the site of yesterday's drone strike that killed ten suspected Al-Qaeda members. A source says Saturday's strike was targeting three well-known operatives linked to a terror training camp.

Sunlen Serfaty is following the story for us from Washington today.

So Sunlen, do we have any more detail about who was targeted?

SUNLEN SERFATY, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Fred, we still don't know if the hits today were high-value targets. Yemini officials say the targets could have been a training camp or militants on the move in vehicles.

Now, Yemeni government official confirms to CNN's Muhammad Jamjoom that the strike was a joint U.S.-Yemeni operation targeting what this official describes as the core of the strongest Al-Qaeda affiliates. This one, of course, operating in out of Yemen. The attack today took place in the southern part of Abyan (ph).

Now, as you can see here not that far from Saturday's attack in the Al-Qaeda province. Now, that confirms drone strike killed at least 10 Al-Qaeda militants and three civilians. Now sources say, it isn't unusual to have strikes this close together like this. But they often happen in successive days.

CNN's analyst Peter Bergen says this is the ninth strike in Yemen this year alone.

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PETER BERGEN, CNN SECURITY ANALYST: President Obama has launched incredibly aggressive campaign in Yemen. And that's because most people agree that the threat from Al-Qaeda and Yemen is the one that is most troubling to the United States right now.

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SERFATY: And Fred, the White House never comments about these sorts of classified mission. Back to you.

WHITFIELD: All right, Sunlen Serfaty. Thanks so much from Washington.

The underwater robot looking for flight 370 is now on its eighth mission. Ahead, I'll tell you what new obstacle the searchers will be facing the next couple of days.

And up next, the agony of families waiting for word on their loved ones in that South Korean ferry disaster.

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WHITFIELD: The death toll rose to 59 a short time ago in that ferry off the coast of South Korea. Bodies are being recovered as heartbroken families watch.

Here now is Kyung Lah.

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KYUNG LAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The first police boat returns from the search site. Parents waiting, bracing. They return one by one in identical plain white bags. Behind the screen, initial inspection. A blanket to cover and a short march back to land. Parents rush to the white tents to identify their children.

He must have said daddy save me, weeps this father. No one is immune to the sound of losing a child. As the families leave the tents, so, too, do the stretchers emptied. Returning to the gurneys that await the next boat. Another group of someone's children, another march back to the tents. Thirteen return in this group. But more than 200 are still missing. Gurneys on the left side of the dock, divers board ships to the right to continue the search to bring the rest home.

Kyung Lah, CNN, Jindo, South Korea.

(END VIDEOTAPE) WHITFIELD: Thanks so much To Kyung Lah for that very painful story.

All right. Now to this. Grief turning to a lot of hope one year after that Boston marathon bombing. Tomorrow is the start of the race. And it promises to draw more spectators than ever before. Security will also be at historic levels.

Our Brooke Baldwin is live for us in Boston with a preview -- Brooke.

BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Fred. Coming up, we will tell you this story. It's a pretty stunning story. The moment within one of the most iconic photos taken one year ago right there along the finish line. You will meet these two young boys who happen to be standing next to the youngest victim, 8-year-old Martin Richard. Hear their story today when CNN NEWSROOM continues.

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WHITFIELD: All right, welcome back to the NEWSROOM. Lots going on today. And Nick Valencia here with much more.

NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes. We are hear fill in on the headlines, Fred.

Happy Easter to you guys watching at home. Let's catch up on the headlines.

A mysterious shooting in Eastern Ukraine has left at least one person dead. The Russian groups say earlier this morning one of their road blocks was attacked when some gunmen robust an opened fire. (INAUDIBLE) has rapture up tension in the region. Ukraine's prime minister on the record show this morning blames all of the unrest in Russia on the president.

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ARSENIY YATSENYUK, UKRAINE'S PRIME MINISTER: President Putin has a dream to restore the Soviet Union. And every day he goes further and further and God knows where is the final destination. And he was very clear saying this stuff in his state of the union a few years ago. I consider it the biggest disaster of this century would be the restoring of the Soviet Union under the (INAUDIBLE) of president Putin.

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VALENCIA: Those protesters, by the way, are ignoring if he still sign a call for them to lay down their arms and vacate government buildings that they seized.

Malaysian airlines plane made an emergency landing after its landing gear malfunctions during takeoff. Boeing 737 was headed to India from Kuala Lumpur with 166 people on board after turning around were the train, was able to land safely back in Malaysia.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You don't react with Denzel Washington. You just sit back and be mesmerized by this talented person.

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VALENCIA: A lot of people would say the same thing about Rubin Carter mesmerizing. Rubin "Hurricane" Carter has died. Carter was middle- weight boxing contender strongly, convicted of triple murder in New Jersey in the 1960s. He spent 19 years in prison before a judge freed him in 1985.

Denzel Washington, of course, was nominated for an Oscar for portraying Carter in film "the Hurricane." He later worked who fear others wrongfully convicted and charged. Carter died in Toronto after battling prostate cancer. He was 76. And Denzel Washington just, a while ago, released this statement saying about Carter saying, God bless Rubin Carter and his tireless fight to ensure justice for all.

Crews are working to stop a slow-moving landslide running a resort town in Wyoming. Look at those pictures. A chunk of mountainside descending on the city of Jackson in the 100-feet deep in two football fields wide. Official don't know what triggered it, but possible causes are construction combined with unstable ground after a wet winter.

Here's a story that we brought to you yesterday creating a lot of buzz online. A high school student is on a three-day suspension for asking a woman to prom. But it was who he asked and how he did it that landed him in hot water.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Excuse me.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Miss America, will you go to prom with me?

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VALENCIA: Look at all his classmates cheering there for Patrick Farves, 18-years-old in York, Pennsylvania. He asked Miss America, Nina Davuluri, to prom during an appearance at his school. The school's administration was not amused immediately putting Farves out in school suspension. He later apologized and explained why he did it.

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PATRICK FARVES, ASKED MISS AMERICA TO PROM: I'm actually thankful for the punishment. I thought I was going, you know, I thought I was going to get prom taken away. I thought I might have not been walking at graduation or even out of school suspension or anything. I actually was happy with the punishment I got.

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VALENCIA: Pretty good kid. But Davuluri didn't seems to mind. She released this statement last night.

I was flattered by the gesture, although I am unfortunately unable to attend due to my travel schedule. I later learned the disciplinary action taken and reached out to the school in hopes they will reconsider their decision.

WHITFIELD: That's nice of her.

VALENCIA: So we called Miss America yesterday, Fred, to try to maybe coordinate something here, trying to help Patrick out, but after last night --

WHITFIELD: Well, now that we see the videotape, OK, he was a little bolder than we expected.

VALENCIA: So bold. All his friends around him.

WHITFIELD: Right. And the school simply said that he wasn't very -- what was the word they used? They didn't like his behavior.

VALENCIA: They didn't like his behavior.

WHITFIELD: Yes.

VALENCIA: Yes. They told him not to do it.

WHITFIELD: It wasn't proper conduct.

VALENCIA: He did it anyway. And he gained a lot of fans now. He's popular now on social media.

WHITFIELD: It's a good thing she had a sense of humor about it too. But I understand, scheduling conflict.

VALENCIA: You're available, though, Fred, maybe for prom,.

WHITFIELD: OK. He hasn't asked. All right, thanks. Appreciate that.

All right. Just over a year ago twin bombings killed three people and wounded hundreds more at the Boston marathon finish line. But the city's spirit of perseverance survived and grew even stronger. Tomorrow's race, in fact, will have more runners than last year and even more spectators.

CNN's Brooke Baldwin is in Boston with a look at how Boston has remained so strong and as you mentioned, you know, a million people now we're talking a million Boston strong.

BALDWIN: That's exactly right. One million spectators, the biggest that this race will have seen in its 118-year history. But I want to tell you at this hour a very specific story here about these two young men who were at this finish line on Boylston Street one year ago. They were out watching one of the mothers run this 26.2 miles and they happened to be captured in now what's really become one of the most iconic photos as you can see them standing next to who we know was 8- year-old Martin Richard and his sister Jamie who lost a leg in that blast.

Listen to their story.

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BALDWIN (voice-over): These two smiling children, Martin and Jane Richard, the face of that cruel day in Boston. A few feet away, the alleged bombers are about to strike.

AARON HERN, BOSTON MARATHON SURVIVOR: Kept looking over at the kids. And they're screaming and yelling for their parents to keep running. They were cheering them on.

BALDWIN: Martin just 8-years-old was killed. His sister Janie then seven, lost her leg. Moments before a bomb tore into their lives, captured in this haunting photo. But what happened to those other boys standing inches away?

HERN; To see where they were next to me and to find out.

BALDWIN: Aaron Hern is the boy to Jane and Martin's right. Next to him is David (INAUDIBLE). They were hit by a concussive blast.

ALAIN HERN. AARON'S FATHER: It felt like it was right on top of us. And then I -- he was in this cloud. I was just standing right over there.

BALDWIN: In the scramble, Aaron and David, were pulled apart, feet from Martin Richard.

HERN: I think it was Martin and it was over about five feet that way. And it was this lady trying to get him to stay up. And once in awhile when I have visions, that's one of the things in my visions I see. The woman trying to get the kid up.

DAVID YEPEZ, BOMBING SURVIVOR: I did not see what happened to him. I guess -- and I don't want to say I forgot, but there wasn't really any thoughts in my head at that moment.

BALDWIN: Even with his injuries, Aaron remembers seeing Martin.

HERN: I saw a boy over there on the concrete. And I looked at my legs and from my knees down was solid red of blood.

BALDWIN: At the hospital they felt relief that they had survived. A room away, the Richard family grieved.

HERN: I've always wanted to trade places with him, because I didn't think it was fair. But I do remember how lucky I am.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This was taken one week after your injury.

BALDWIN: David Yepez's ears are slowly healing. Though ear specialists had worried his hearing loss might become the worst of his injuries.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So there it is. A completely healed eardrum.

BALDWIN: Aaron's leg injuries are also on the mend.

HERN: I have my scars still. They're probably going to be there forever, but I don't have any problems. Once in awhile I'll have some stings.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Bless those that lost their lives --

BALDWIN: At the memorial, the boys found inspiration in seeing Janie Richard.

HERN: It was very inspiring to see her. I'll always have that in my head.

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BALDWIN: Thirteen years young to go through something like that is absolutely unimaginable. I tell you, speaking of Martin Richard. There is a foundation his family has set up. It is Mr8, eight being the age in which he died, Martin Richard 8. And so, a lot will be running, Fred, tomorrow morning in honor, of course, of the youngest victim.

I should mention that Aaron's parents will be running the marathon tomorrow. We know that Aaron actually won't be out on the street. He'll be surrounded by survivors in a controlled area. But he will certainly be cheering the 36,000 runners strong. That is 9,000 more from the previous year. And as we mentioned off the top, this is going to be the biggest race in terms of people ling the race route all the way to Boston, one million people -- Fred.

WHITFIELD: That is incredible. And incredible stories of strength from all those individuals involved.

Now you know, besides that human strength, you know, that's being exhibited in so many different ways, there's also going to be an incredible, I guess, vision of strength coming from law enforcement there too. That cannot be overlooked. How serious of a security step up is this one year later?

BALDWIN: Yes. I mean, obviously they're not messing around. No one's taking any chances this year. We know that the police presence were be among the race crowd and among spectators. You know, there will be plain clothed officers. We know they are doubling the police presence from races past.

Also zero bag policy this year. No backpacks, no rug sacks, even among spectators lined along the route. No vests. No clothing covering faces even in terms of liquids they'll be checking nothing more than one liter. So, incredibly careful, more cameras, more bomb- sniffing dogs.

Listen. I will be going to be out here tomorrow all day long reporting on this story. And the only thing I want to report on is smiling faces crossing that finish line. WHITFIELD: And an incredible show of strength of so many level there in Boston.

Thanks so much, Brook Baldwin. We'll be watching of course.

All right. The underwater robot is now on its eighth mission to scour the Indian Ocean. We'll bring you the latest on the search for missing flight 370 and tell you why there might be some big changes ahead for that search operation.

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WHITFIELD: The underwater robot searching for flight 370 has now started its eighth mission. The Bluefin-21 has been scanning the sea floor of the southern Indian Ocean for signs of the plane but so far nothing's been found. And now there could be a new obstacle for searchers.

Erin McLaughlin is in Perth, Australia with the latest on the search.

ERIN MCLAUGHLIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Fredricka, weather could become a factor with a tropical cyclone named Jack striking just north of the search area. Now, it's not making a direct impact, but forecasts are saying they can expect larger waves and swells over the next three days which may have an impact on the visual search for debris as well as the underwater search of the Bluefin-21 which as of this morning was on its eighth mission.

Now, seventh mission is completed, so far, not a single sign so far of missing Malaysian flight 370. It's managed to cover around 50 percent of this narrowed search area which is based on a 10 kilometer or six mile radius around the point of the second acoustic detection which was made on April 8th. It was the stronger of the four pings. And that's why they believe it's the most likely place that they are going to be able to find the black box.

Now authorities say they expect this portion of the search to be wrapped up in the next five to seven days. But again, that's weather dependent. It's also dependent on the Bluefin-21's performance -- Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: All right, Erin McLaughlin. Thanks so much in Perth, Australia.

All right, we'll take a closer look at the weather conditions for the searchers coming up in just a few minutes.

But right now, the scanning of the ocean bottom so far has turned up nothing. And the officials in charge of the search say this week, it will be time to reassess and regroup.

To get an idea, just what all of that could mean, let's bring in our panel today. Thomas Altshuler is the vice president of Teledyne marine system, CNN aviation analyst Mary Schiavo is a former inspector general for the U.S. department of transportation, she is now an aviation attorney who represents family suing airlines and crashes and disasters, and Peter Goelz is the CNN aviation analyst and former NTSB managing director.

All right. So when we hear reassessing, it sounds like going back to the drawing board. How far back Peter?

PETER GOELZ, CNN AVIATION ANALYST: Well, I think they should go right back to the beginning. I think they need to assemble a new team with fresh eyes to look at the raw data with a completely unbiased approach. And see if they come up with the same solutions as the first team. And secondly, they're going to have to look towards a longer term search which probably means bringing in total rays and we're in this for the long haul which is not surprising.

WHITFIELD: And so, Mary, do you think at this juncture is even worth bringing in new submersibles?

MARY SCHIAVO, CNN AVIATION ANALYST: Absolutely. But I think they do need to finish the mapping of this area first. As you describe, imagine drawing a six mile diameter circle around the ping areas and then putting a square around that. And that's what the submersible has to do. Has to cover all that area. And they really need to finish that first. I mean, by no means should they give up on that. But if that does not turn up the wreckage, then absolutely they should bring in more equipment and stand the search.

WHITFIELD: But then Thomas, how discouraging is it in your view if they were, you know, abandon the use of the Bluefin any further this week or just over the matter of a couple days more before pulling it out of the water.

THOMAS ALTSHULER, VICE PRESIDENT, TELEDYNE SYSTEM: Well, it's not really discouraging. I mean, the Bluefin robotic system, it's designed to get close to the bottom and do a pretty high resolution slow survey. So you don't want to really deploy it unless you have a good area or good target area. And I think what they're feeling is maybe that target area isn't quite as good. In a week they'll know that. Because if they turn up nothing, they'll have to reassess what the pings mean. And so, there are other systems. It could mean more underwater vehicles or as Peter stated, probably some deep towed side scan sonar or (INAUDIBLE) systems to try to expand the area surveyed.

WHITFIELD: Is reassess in your view also code for, maybe it's not here at all. Maybe those pings were false positives?

ALTSHULER: Well, it's hard to decipher code. That's always a challenge. But there is a risk that the pings were from other sources. There are other man-made systems that will radiate or will put out acoustic energy in those bands.

WHITFIELD: Peter, is that your view that there are other things that could radiate that kind of energy? Because when it happened there was so much excitement from Australian officials. And there were so many analysts that said there was anything else that would duplicate that same kind of frequency. Even if it meant any kind of device that were put on fish in the area. It's a different kind of frequency. And it can't be confused with anything. So what happened to all that covenant? GOELZ: Well, I think this investigation has been plagued by, you know, degrees of over statement. But in this case in terms of the pings, there were a couple of red flags that were raised. One was that one of the pings that they picked up was 17 miles from the other three pings. You're not quite sure what that meant.

And also that the pings that were being generated which were at a different megahertz than what the black boxes were supposed to produce. So there were a couple of red flags that might have been cautionary. But, you know, there was no question. They had to do this search. And as Mary said, they have to do it to its completion.

WHITFIELD: Mary Schiavo, Thomas Altshuler and Peter Goelz, thanks so much to all of you. Appreciate it.

ALTSHULER: Thank you.

WHITFIELD: Search crews have been spending long hours searching the Indian Ocean mile by mile. And in a minute we'll take you aboard one of those search planes as they try to find any trace of flight 370.

WHITFIELD: This week conditions may get even more difficult for searchers in the southern Indian Ocean. As Erin McLaughlin reported earlier from Perth, the weather is a threat in the search for the missing Malaysian airliner. Meteorologist Karen Maginnis is here to provide us with an update -- Karen.

KAREN MAGINNIS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Fred, it looks as if tropical cyclone Jack will be the biggest influence as far as the weather goes across this search area. This is tropical cyclone Jack. Here is at Western, coast of Australia. Now, this looks to be falling apart or decreasing in intensity fairly rapidly. It has been at a category 3, but it weakens considerably going into the next 24 and 48 hours.

Still really only impacting that extreme northwestern quadrant, but it looks beyond that 24-hour time period. We start to see the rain increase. Could be heavy at times. So we're not worried about rain. We're worried about the reduced visibility because of the rainfall as they send those aircraft flying in and out of this search area. But not just the reduced visibility. Then on top of that we start to see the wind that could be affecting this region as well. Not going to be very dramatic, but nonetheless between 20, possibly gusts up to around 40, maybe 45 miles an hour. So we continue to monitor this as it drifts its way fairly slowly towards the south.

Back to you.

WHITFIELD: All right, thanks so much, Karen. Appreciate that.

So as we just heard, weather conditions could complicate the search. To get a sense of what those long missions have been like, CNN's Miguel Marquez rode along with a crew that has played a key role in the surface search.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Another day, another search, another hope of finding something. Any scrap of debris related to Malaysian flight 370.

CAPT. TIM MCALVERY, ROYAL NEW ZEALAND AIR FORCE: It's our mission to find it. We want to be the crew that does find it, but it takes time.

MARQUEZ: Captain Tim McAlvery, some 30 search flights under his command. He's been everywhere from the South China Sea to the straits of Malacca and now here a thousand miles off the Australian coast.

MCALVERY: It is roughly in allegiance to the Canadian borders to Mexican border is the distance we've flown for two and a half hours on station and the climb out.

MARQUEZ: This New Zealand crew in a P-3 Orion its classified and sophisticated equipment made for hunting enemy submarines stare at screens and at the sea. Flying at times just 200 feet above the water. The plane's wingspan, 100 feet. They spot just about everything.

MASTER AIR CREW ANDREW BURROWS, ROYAL NEW ZEALAND AIR FORCE: But that's the nature of the game. We're looking for absolutely anything that could possibly be MH-370.

MARQUEZ: In past searching they've seen more. Examples was this, a tangle of fishing net or a tangle of straps from an airplane cargo hold.

This route the first so far to see an item and successfully direct a ship to plug it from the ocean.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We patrolled and detected a small red object that we believed to be not more than one meter by one meter.

MARQUEZ: The Australian naval ship first responded from 20 miles away. It launched a team in an inflatable raft the P-3 had enough fuel to stay on the scene and direct them to the object.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was a large basket or tray, the kind you would typically find in a supermarket holding 20 loaves of bread.

MARQUEZ: Not from MH-370. Another frustration. The mission goes on.

Miguel Marquez, CNN over the southern Indian Ocean.

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WHITFIELD: Also coming up as we look ahead to this year's Boston marathon, we'll go back one year and meet some of the FBI agents involved in the manhunt for the bombing suspect.

But first, this summer the CNN fit nation triathlon challenge culminates in the big race in Malibu, California.

CNN Chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta is busy training to get ready. But he still found time to chat with big loser trainer Bob Harper who had a new book out, "Skinny Meals: everything you need to lose weight fast."

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DOCTOR SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: You know, there's something about you a lot of people don't know, I think. You grew up on a cattle farm in Nashville.

BOB HARPER, BIGGEST LOSER TRAINER: That's right.

GUPTA: But still I know you're on board with this rule which we both say maybe go meatless at least one day a week, a meatless Mondays for example. Something that's become popular because habits are easier to change and stick to earlier in the week. How much of an impact do you think that makes for people?

HARPER: I say -- I preface this by saying I am a meat eater. And I get most of my protein from lean animal protein. I like people to go meatless especially people that aren't used to eating a lot of vegetables, not familiar with a lot of vegetables that are out there, how to prepare them. So it's like if I have you going meatless one day, it causes you to explore a set of foods that you probably aren't used to. And that's why in my book "Skinny Meal," I have so many vegetable options so you're not just having steamed broccoli because who wants to eat that all the time?

But I think it's important to get people to get more familiar with eating vegetables and know that vegetables just aren't French fries and corn.

GUPTA: Right. Which does seem to be the norm in a lot of places around the country.

HARPER: Unfortunately.

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WHITFIELD: All right. Live look right now at the Boston common this Sunday afternoon. Looks like a beautiful day there. Maybe perfect conditions for tomorrow as well. It is Patriots Day in Boston which mean this marathon is tomorrow morning. They're expecting record crowds and a record number of runners one year after the twin bombings there.

Those bombings killed three people and wounded hundreds more at the finish line. The race will be run with much tighter security, but what happened last year has not been forgotten. After the blast near the finish line, it was the search for the suspects that captivated the attention of everyone in Boston and quite frankly around the country.

CNN's Deborah Feyerick sat down with two of the FBI's top people who described the keys moments of the manhunt and how it all played out. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The force of the two blasts 12 seconds apart said it all.

What struck you about it?

STEPHANIE DOUGLAS, FBI EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Just the magnitude of it. It wasn't something small. It wasn't something insignificant.

FEYERICK: Within minutes more than a thousand police and federal law enforcement agents would embark on the largest investigation and manhunt of its kind in the United States.

By the time you got to the crime scene, this is really what it looked like, correct?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. There was a scene of utter devastation and carnage. There was evidence destroy all over the place.

FEYERICK: At FBI headquarters, chief of the national security branch, Stephanie Douglas, was keenly aware of the stakes.

DOUGLAS: We had to be concerned that there were other bombs or other co-conspirators elsewhere outside of Boston.

FEYERICK: Authorities knew at least one killer was on the loose but where and what next? By Tuesday investigators had started piecing together the pressure cooker bombs identifying them as similar to devices in an Al-Qaeda bomb making manual.

RICHARD DESLAURIERS, FORMER BOSTON FBI SPECIAL AGENT IN-CHARGE: We were collecting pieces of shrapnel that may contain inside the bombs, pieces of pressure cooker bombs, pieces of backpacks that have been used to contained the bomb.

FEYERICK: A major break in the case came less than 36 hours after the attack.

DOUGLAS: A couple people came from our counterterrorism division came in with a laptop like this and they said we think we know who did it.

FEYERICK: Of the more than 12,000 videos from businesses and marathon spectators, something unmistakable at the second blast site.

DOUGLAS: You see a man in a white ball cap, the cap, it has turned around backwards, walking into the frame of the shot.

DESLAURIERS: He places that backpack down on the ground, sliding it off his shoulder. A short time later, maybe 15 minutes later, he makes a cell phone call. And after that cell phone call concludes very shortly thereafter you hear the first bomb go off further down near the finish line.

Glances quickly to the left and then walks diligently and deliberately to the right. By 15 to 20 seconds after he departs, the view of the camera the second bomb goes off.

FEYERICK: That video has never been seen by the public but it is expected to be shown at trial in November.

What did that suggest to you when he took a cell phone call and walking away?

DOUGLAS: That there was another conspirator.

DOUGLAS: That co-conspirator was identified later that day, another crucial lead.

DESLAURIERS: And this video depicted the individual would then call black hat with white hat down Boylston Street, both of them carrying black backpacks.

FEYERICK: It has been three whole days and with the suspects still at-large, a game changing decision.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Today we are listing the public's help to identify the two suspects.

FEYERICK: Hours passed and yet no tips identified Dzhokhar and Tarmelan Tsarnaev by name. But for the brothers, things were about to unravel.

How important was it to you and to the bureau and everybody else involved in the investigation that the two suspects be taken alive?

DOUGLAS: Very, very important.

FEYERICK: But that's not what happened.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They have explosives. Some type of grenades. Three houses down here. Shots fired.

FEYERICK: Following an eight-minute fire fight in Watertown, police wrestled a wounded Tamerlan to the ground. His brother, driving in alleged stolen car tried to free him. Instead police say he ran him over. Tamerlan was fingerprinted and finally identified by name. His brother, Dzhokhar also shot who was discovered hiding in a boat after a day-long lockdown. He was less than two-tenths of a mile from where he had abandoned his vehicle.

He's got a sniper's rifle at his head?

DESLAURIERS: Yes. He was a threat.

FEYERICK: But he was still a threat.

DESLAURIERS: He was still on threat. We didn't know if he has bombs on him. We didn't know if he had weapons on him.

FEYERICK: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will stand trial in November.

Deborah Feyerick, CNN, Boston. (END VIDEOTAPE)

WHITFIELD: Again, CNN has full coverage of tomorrow's Boston marathon.

All right. Next, Britain's royal couple on holiday in Australia. Looks like they're no different from any other mom and dad. You think? Wait until you see their first family zoo visits with Prince George.

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WHITFIELD: All right, living longer and better is getting easier each day, thanks to how quickly medicine is advancing and soon you might be able to dramatically extend your life, in fact. But you have to get to the day that technology is actually available.

In the new episode of "Inside Man," Morgan Spurlock goes through a medical test to see if his body can make it to the future.

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MORGAN SPURLOCK, CNN HOST, INSIDE MAN: If I want to live forever, I have to get as healthy as humanly possible and fast.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Take a breath in and hold it.

SPURLOCK: So, Dr. Grossman will use the tests to create my personal road map to longevity.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This looks for plaque build-up in the coronary arteries.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm going to take a hair sample.

SPURLOCK: What is this for?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Toxin in your body as well as nutrient level.

SPURLOCK: And what is this?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is going to check the blood flow to the brain.

SPURLOCK: Look at my brain.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The next thing we're going to do is store the stem cells.

SPURLOCK: But Dr. Grossman is not just focused on the current well being. He is making a plan for the future and freezing my stem cells for the medical breakthroughs to come.

What will they be used for in the future?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The stem cells, it could use to print new organs like a new heart, new liver, any organ you want except a brain so far.

SPURLOCK: The one I need the most.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is going to test your body fat.

SPURLOCK: Like I'm getting jump started.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Ready? This is how you react to stress.

SPURLOCK: Wow. This is a very strange journey right now.

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WHITFIELD: That's the understatement of the day. Yes, it is, strange.

Watch all of that in the new episode of "Inside Man" tonight. Morgan Spurlock explores futurism and the quest for immortality at 10:00 eastern right here on CNN. It's part of an exciting prime time double header tonight because beginning tonight at 9:00, Anthony Bourdain takes on Las Vegas like you have never seen before.

All right. The Pope marked Easter Sunday at the Vatican today. Nearly 100,000 Christians have gathered in Vatican City this morning to celebrate Easter with Pope Francis. The pontiff led the Easter mass early this morning and gave his twice yearly blessing. During which he called for world peace and the end to social injustices.

And then there's the royal couple which attended Easter services this morning on their trip to Australia. And afterwards, they did something that many families around the world actually enjoy doing. They took their son to the zoo.

And as royal correspondent Max Foster reports, young Prince George had an up close encounter.

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MAX FOSTER, ROYAL CORRESPONDENT: Proud parents taking their boy on a trip to the zoo. And an encounter with a Billby. George, meet George. Not a coincidence, of course and the reason this wasn't any old trip to the zoo.

This Billby was named after this heir to the throne as was the enclosure. George seemed thrilled to receive a keepsake of his trip, a toy Billby and then again maybe not.

This, his second official engagement lasted less than half an hour before he was whisked away to nanny. Then, his parents carried on. Past the tree kangaroos and some non-indigenous species.

Then into an amphitheater with a view where they were treated to an animal show.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What enables her to catch (INAUDIBLE)--

FOSTER: The message here was conservation and is one that is close to the (INAUDIBLE) heart and the couple seemed to love it.

Well, there you have it, a royal skirting Kuala bear with the harbor, Sydney harbor in the background that extraordinary scene and another iconic historic royal moment.

(voice-over): And pictures that will also play into Australia's visual history. One that's still inextricably linked to a monarchy based on the other side of the planet.

Max Foster, CNN, Sydney.

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