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On our broadcast tonight the mystery of light 37 day after three days and
several false alarms
the expanding search for the plane over water and now land
and what we're learning about the passengers on board carrying stolen
passports
without a trace how is it possible for a jumbo jet to disappear with no sign that
it was in trouble or of course
it's all about technology and there are limits
breaking his silence for the first time since that awful day in Newtown
Connecticut
the father of the gunman speaks out about his son and what he did
and Ice Age howard took a winner this severe to bring these sailors out of
hibernation
and back to a sport we rarely get to see that is not for the faint of heart
nightly news begins now
from NBC news world headquarters in new york
this his NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams
good evening tonight people the world over are asking the same question how is
it possible that a jumbo jet has disappeared without a trace
tonight the search has expanded over a large area for a large aircraft a Boeing
triple seven
among the safest ever made this one with 239 souls on board
there were false alarms over the weekend a fuel slick on the water what look like
an aircraft door
but they didn't pan out and now because they have to chase down
even the wildest possible theories the search continues on sea and on land
in case this aircraft went on flying even though it left no electronic trail
behind
tonight the search is being conducted by 10 nations
34 planes 48 vessels have been deployed in this
we begin our coverage tonight among our correspondents an expert's domestically
and overseas with NBC's
tom costello Tom good evening hi brian the mere fact that they haven't found
any trace of this plane yet is raising the possibility that they have been
looking in the wrong place
now with daybreak the search zone is expanding to also include the west coast
to Malaysia
and the waters off Indonesia off the coast of Malaysia the search for flight
370 has now entered its fourth day
dozens of ships helicopters and planes running bread like searchers in the
waters between Malaysia and Vietnam
so far nothing an oil sheen and debris spotted over the weekend ended up being
false leads now
see conditions are expected to worsen on board the USS Blue Ridge commander
William marks
that will make search conditions more challenging up I can tell you the
our radars are are very advanced and they can actually
the gate a lot less surface clutter I'll play it does present a challenge for
this big international effort the last reporter location for the Boeing triple
seven was over the water halfway between Malaysia and Vietnam
both Malaysia military radar suggesting the play may have started to turn back
the search zone is expanding to include malaysia's main land and now
the waters to the northwest our a who
by DA about won't be 35 a day
that any what then among the questions tonight why would the plane turn back
and why didn't the crew radio air traffic controllers a former senior NTSB
investigator says a sudden loss of cabin pressure
could have incapacitated the crew and passengers within seconds
while the plane continued flying you really have to start looking
at a trajectory paths at a speed and altitude that they were at
how far could this airplane girl well of course it had
seven-and-a-half hours a fuel on it but you have to be realistic you have to
come up with at least
R-rated descent if the plane went down on land an emergency transmitter beacon
should be sending a signal
but if the plane went down in the sea
underwater payers attached to the black boxes should be sending a homing signal
Duquesne si como Florida makes black box payers
these devices are designed to activate in the water once active
they produce a brief Paul's once a second for 30 days
at a depth of up to 20,000 feet
meanwhile the FBI is helping to analyze the palm prints up to individuals
were thought to have used the stolen European passports to board the plane
and BC justice correspondent pete williams authorities say that an Iranian
businessman who used to live in Thailand bought the tickets for the two men but
they say he wanted the cheapest fare possible that he did not mention
any specific flight me even though this man was from Iran
US officials say there is no indication so far this was terrorism
again the malaysians believe this plane had seven hours of you or more still on
board when it disappeared so that greatly expands
the range where this plane might be. but so far no reports from any eye witnesses
a plane crash or debris Bryant tom costello covers aviation for a starting
us off from our DC newsroom Tom thanks as always and for more on this we're
joined tonight by greg feith
but we saw in tom's PCs a veteran of these investigations
as a former senior air safety director with the NTSB also happens to be
a veteran pilot Greg you're in the business a ruling nothing out
though if this were submitted as a Hollywood script it will be rejected for
being too incredible
if we're looking for this overland doesn't that mean that we're
kind of the rising it could have been a situation like that
pro golfer Payne Stewart on board that small aircraft they were overcome by
something in the aircraft when on flying though in this case
with no electronic trail absolutely Brian you bring up a good point
with the fact that if this airplane had an explosive decompression
incapacitated the crew and the airplane was still capable of operating
then with autopilot the airplane to continue on
in anyone up a number of tracks and that's why the search area has got to be
expanded to include land
because if it goes into the jungle you could actually be enveloped
into the dense jungle and not really seen readily
we have a whole report on this later in the broadcast but are you as frustrated
by the limits of technology in this day in age as we civilians are
absolutely brian we've had this discussion over the years in the
industry
now there is new technology that is being incorporated and airplanes called
ATSB or automated
dependent surveillance broadcast it is gps-based
it is updating want every second with a lot of information but it isn't mandated
universally around the world right now great fight formerly the NTSB thank you
very much for being with us
again tonight for the families of the missing on flight 370
as you can imagine this has been an awful few days
imagine not having a shred of information about a family member
on that flight NBC's kearse a min says at the airport in Co all along poor
where flight
370 originated from here good evening
good evening Brian those who had loved ones on flight 370 have been waiting
at this airport for many days now but not just here
many more have been waiting in Beijing the aircraft final destination
in for family members are those on the missing plane
no answers who come for home but for some the frustration was tonight
downloadable
yeah moment airline officials in Beijing malaysians online use one man shouted
others maybe hard most of those aboard were Chinese
all Malaysian but they were passengers from a dozen other countries as well
including three from the United States feel it would have Texas worked for IBM
his brothers said on today beaches recently been home for a visit
it was a gift there we did get the same
a whole week and we got to spend some quality time eating
you know dinner were together mailing Ching
lived in Pittsburgh neighbors are heartbroken
I've been crying since I got the phone call great Candelaria houston was booked
on the flight
but canceled at the last minute I consider it the absolute providence of
God
by the grace of God I was not on that plane hundreds of others were
and here in kuala lampur tonight handles and prayers for the missing
what people want most our own sis
and at first light we plan to join one of those search-and-rescue
aircraft over the ocean looking for clues brian
are exactly what happened prior Simmons & Co all along *** again later in the
broadcast a special look at the frustrations of technology here
now to what's been our top story here much of the last two weeks the ongoing
crisis
in Ukraine there were shots fired at a ukrainian naval post in Crimea region
today
reports a unidentified man fired into the air before then taking over the base
it's the latest confrontation sense russian military group seize control of
the peninsula
meanwhile today nato announced it will start reconnaissance flights to the
south and west
monitoring the Ukrainian border with a wax aircraft
Ukraine is not a NATO member but Russia's actions have
all armed countries that are part of the Alliance
and were once part of the Soviet Union
we turn now to Syria where the brutal civil war is about to enter its fourth
year and where the devastating toll is being felt especially hard by the
children caught up in the conflict a new report out
says over four million children need humanitarian assistance
once and that more than one million have fled to neighboring countries
tonight as we kick off a series of reports on the forgotten children in
this war in Syria
our chief medical editor doctor nancy snyderman has made her way to Lebanon
just across the border
she's a hospital caring for the youngest have these victims Nancy good evening
good evening dry in this war has brought decimation
to the hospital structure and Syria and that's one more reason why
let many the Syrian to crossing into Lebanon I'm a small
32 that hospital with 27 incubators
which tells you that this is now a pediatric crisis mothers are getting a
prenatal vitamins
they're coming in malnourished that in preterm deliveries
had babies are very vulnerable in the last eight I have been here I've seen
more
birth defects that I saw during my entire residency
when I was the pediatrics it is an astonishing health care crisis
if we don't Texas soon as it had as a global
humanitarian crisis I'm not so sure about the future
serious going to be right now almost 18 percent
the people across the border are seen at the saw hospital
and it is bulging at the seams we're going to take you
behind the scenes at this hospital in surrounding refugee camps Brian
for first-time luck was amazing access
to highlight the Forgotten up this more
serious children Brian doctor nancy snyderman who was made her way to
Lebanon
doctor snyderman thank you our series ever report starts tomorrow morning on
today
and across all the broadcasts and platforms are
NBC News in this country it has been 15 months since a gunman walked into Sandy
Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut and started shooting
in classrooms that were for love six and seven-year-olds before killing himself
tonight for the first time we are getting new insights into Adam Lanza
from his father Peter
who spoke with journalist and author Andrew Solomon for an article in this
week's New Yorker magazine
we get our report tonight from our national correspondent Kate snow
Adam Lanza killed 20 young children six staff
himself and his mother how does Peter Lanza
live with that its incredibly difficult
he's followed sadness he only wishes he could go back in time and change it or
fix it
Peter Lanza sought out Andrew Solomon after reading his book
far from the tree in which Solomon read a chapter about the parents have
children
who commit unthinkable crimes does he feel like he's to blame
he doesn't feel like he's to blame he said even with all the information that
would put together since then
he doesn't see how he could possibly have seen it coming Solomon interviewed
Peter Lanza over 25 hours
the father painting a picture of a little boy who loved hiking
calling him just a normal little weird kid
at 13 he was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome a form of autism
his divorced parents worked for years to get him help
Peter Lanza now thanks to the *** burger diagnosis masked
deeper issues lotsa people have asked burgers
and/or autism and don't commit other horrific act
absolutely and I think his parents failed to realize and perhaps the
doctors failed to realize
how much darkness and evil was brewing in him because they were distracted by
the autism
as Adam grew more withdrawn his father says his ex-wife Nancy Lanza wanted
everyone to think
everything was okay he didn't know she was communicating with Adam
only by email his windows covered in black plastic
I didn't understand that Adam was drifting away Peter Lanza told Solomon
he continued to write Adam birthday cards but he last saw his son two years
before the Newtown shootings
he knew there were guns in the house but he wasn't concerned
he described teaching and contrived he said and it was the most cautious we'll
follow in person I ever met
he said it never occurred to me that he would break the rules around the town's
Peter Lanza which is now he'd pushed harder to see his son
even if it had caused fights it couldn't be worse than what did happen
you can't get anymore evil Lanza told Solomon
adding he wished his son had never been born
do you think Adam hated his parents
me and I think Adam he did everyone I mean he killed his mother
and his father said I know that he would have shot me in a heartbeat if you have
the opportunity
is that the reason that he shot 94 times was one for each class
months for Nancy once for Ryan once for me
months for himself Peter Lanza has met with two of the victims families and has
offered to meet them all he told Andrew he wants all parents to be
afraid %uh the fact that this could happen to them on our website with
posted
what he says are lessons Brian for parents may be the most disturbing story
in recent memory Kate snow thanks for your reporting tonight
still ahead for us tonight as the search intensifies for this missing jetliner
how it is with 2014 technology that it left without a trace
we're back as promised with more on this disappearance of light 370 and the
question that has emerged from the start when we first learned about a Friday
night
how is it possible a wide body aircraft has disappeared
without an electronic paying without a locator beacon without a trace of any
sort
NBC's Stephanie goss tonight on the limitations of our technology
the last known location in Malaysia Airlines flight 370
was over the South China Sea after that he disappeared
clear something many people don't realize every flight crossing a large
body of water
disappears at least for a little while throughout the journey
Tom Casey is a former International pilot for American Airlines
the only way in certain parts early the world where they are going to be able to
locate your position his by
knowing where your last position was in which an exposition
was predicted to be here's why radar only tracks planes when they're over
land
or at least within 120 miles above lawn
take a flight from New York on its way to Chicago radar can pinpoint the
plane's location
at all times along a two-and-a-half-hour trip
seven different control towers track the flight
but when a flight takes off from New York to London months it's beyond 120
miles offshore
the plane uses GPS to determine its exact location
and then has to communicate those cornet two controllers on the ground
for many birds around the world the gap between communications
can be as long as an our FlightAware provides live tracking for more than
75,000 flights a day
the reality is these airplanes are operating all parts of the world with
varying technology
and getting that data back to controllers is difficult
the technology does exist to track planes every second every flight
but it's not an easy solution it will require a lot more satellites and less
expensive
transmission update up on satellites which is a really on the horizon that
doesn't seem viable
so tonight what happened to Malaysia Airlines flight 370
remains a mystery does it make sense in 2014
that we talked about this it doesn't make sense that's something that's got
everybody you know
well scratching their head lowing where it went down
is only part of the battle is still have to figure out why
Stephanie OSC NBC News New York
will take a break we're back in a moment with the story of a man who actually got
to drive a Ford with the original
Henry Ford some remembrances tonight starting with William clay Ford who died
over the weekend he was the last surviving grandchild of Henry Ford
and once famously steered a car while driving in his
famous grandfather's lap he was a yale grad a Navy veteran who married a member
of the Firestone family
while he owned the Detroit Lions he never ran the company that bears his
family name
his older brother Henry Ford the second did instead he was a company man though
a major stockholder served on the board a ford motor for 57 years
William clay Ford was 88 years old
and build our near has died the man who served with him n Easy Company at the
2nd battalion
100 first airborne in world war two knew him better as wild bill
their exploits were popularized in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers
in which he was played by the actor Frank John Hughes
he lost his right leg rescuing a fellow soldier he was awarded the Silver Star
two bronze stars and a Purple Heart
South Philadelphia native Wild Bill guard near was 90 years old
when we come back tonight one upside of what's been a brutal winter for most the
need for speed
on a frozen she device
finally here tonight it was in the seventies and the dakotas this weekend
only to fall forty plus degrees with the next front
and the East Coast could get at least one more snow storm before this is all
over
for those in the second but it's been a miserable winter
from the great lakes to many major river so much is still frozen over
but that in itself is rare good news for one exotic beautiful and thrilling sport
tonight NBC's que teacher reports on the ice boaters
who are having a great season you
on a cold March morning the frozen hudson river was transformed into a
playground
congress' unbelievable of Nirvana
it the rush that is when you can get it at all
it's been a decade since the ice was a foot thick and strong enough to hold the
big boats on the hudson
nearly a century sense the rocket sale
built in 1888 the rocket was once the fastest thing on the planet
a body like crossbow with gifted with sales all supported on three
clean metal plate such a marvel
thomas edison film that in 1905 what's it like to see it good
all spent less the especially when you're work on it so hard
yeah in the basement a new jersey's North Shrewsbury ice boating Yacht Club
bomb polish lady years a meticulous restoration
piecing the craft back together yeah
and within champagne bottle
it was like got here you go
thirty to forty miles an hour and if you're lucky on
the blame on paid admin Gundam
wet conditions don't have to be just right they have to be
perfect first you need a whole lotta called
then some snow then some rain men even
more cold in India would on any you have too much work
and that precise combination almost never happened here
you have to be awful stubborn near sure though they've been chasing a strong
wind and hard freeze on this river for generations
here when every got a gram every poll on the ropes
every ride could be your last in my whole life
you learn it's now or never Katy tur NBC News
Red Hook New York go okay so that's one good thing about this winter that's our
broadcast on a Monday night
thank you for being here with us as we start of a new week I'm Brian Williams
we've course
hope to see right back here tomorrow evening goodnight
you