11/03/2014 ABC World News with Diane Sawyer

of the other with all of the latest news. You have been watching Newsday

from the BBC. Now ABC World News. The latest on the stolen passports.

Fingerprints had been discovered and new theories about the moment that

the Malaysia Airlines flight disappeared. The powerful movement

to change one word in the future of America's daughters. After a panic

attack on live TV, a la Dan Harris tries to unlock the secret of

happiness for us all. Good evening. We begin this week

with thousands of people fighting to solve a mystery. How is a large

passenger plane, with 239 people aboard, simply vanish. Investigators

are racing against time to find any clue about why there was no SOS. One

minute the plane was tracked by radar and then, at this point, it

was simply gone. It is a daunting task of the search teams. The area

they are searching is roughly the size of California and growing by

the hour. Our reporter is on the ground. The plane has simply vanish.

The waters of the South China Sea, the search zone there was expanded

but with no clues. Dozens of ships and planes, including submarines,

are searching. Even sites that monitor nuclear weapons are being

asked if they saw an explosion the night the plane disappeared. On land

there is agony and demands for answers. Three Americans were on the

flight, a father from Texas and two small children. It all began one

hour into the flight, during the safest part of the flight. The sky

was clear, the safety record of the plane was excellent, and a veteran

pilot was in charge. But the plane disappeared. An oil slick which was

tested was not from the flight nor was a yellow object floating in the

sea. How could this be? The flight was tracked by radar as it soared

into the ocean but that radar only reaches about 250 miles into the

sea. The leash and military radar may have picked up the plane, saying

it may have turned back, but tonight that is not clear. Why hasn't the

plane had found? The search zone is massive, so if the plane left its

roots, turning a little to the left or right, it expands by thousands of

miles. The plane has black boxes in the waters are shallow, but

submarines and special ships need to be within five to ten miles to hear

that the signal. Today, investigators search for clues on

the two passengers who boarded using stolen passports. They bought their

tickets at the same time, at this travel agency. Suspicious? But few

answers. Why was there not a distress call? The pilots could have

called in by radio but they did not. Was there an instant catastrophe

which means they did not have enough time? All of that is a mystery.

Thank you. We could do to be possibilities. Was there terrorism

or a problem on the plane, whether structural or pilot error? We have

two reporters with us. Tonight the FBI is urgently trying

to find out why those impostors, one posing as this Italian man, used

stolen passports to get on flight 370. The API will compare

fingerprints and photographs recovered at the airport with those

of known terrorists. The fingerprints and stolen passports

represents tantalising clues. Stolen passports to not necessarily

indicate terrorism, however. They often used by drug smugglers and

other criminals. There are 40,000 passports stolen every year which

lives is very vulnerable not only to terrorist attack but other guerrilla

activity. Police in Thailand are questioning the owners of this

travel agencies which sold the tickets used by the impostors. We

have learned that they were purchased at the same time by and

Iranians add. That suggests that the men co-ordinated their activities.

The surveillance video of the suspects in the airport is a crucial

clue. FBI suspects hope to get that as well.

The other possibility, a malfunction so sudden that there was no chance

to call for help. Was whether in any way involved or human error?

Large passenger jet liners do not just disappear. Nothing causes an an

aeroplane to come down except something catastrophic. The list is

long. A study by Boeing show that nearly two thirds of aircraft losses

are due to human factors. Even without the wreckage, investigators

should be interviewing everyone who touched that plane. Those who loaded

food, pilots, maintenance staff, cargo handlers. There was improperly

stored cargo that led to a fire which brought down another jet in

the Florida Everglades. Elevate we need to keep an open mind, find the

wreckage of the black boxes and begin to solve the mystery. Verse

two black boxes which record the voices and data from the plane can

be critical. Those boxes from an Air France flight were recovered by a

submarine. They showed a sense of malfunction followed by a pilot

error led to the crash. They can tell us what happened but sometimes

not why. That was the case of this flight which went down off long

island that was not until all the recovered debris was assembled at

investigators could tell that the centre fuel tank exploded, it

ignited by a frayed wire. Tonight, flight 370 remains in the category

of unsolved mystery. Every crashed passenger plane in recent history

has been found. These pieces of debris, a seat or a piece of skin,

can yield many clues. But those black boxes only last about 30 days.

We will cover the story minute by minute. And now, back here in home

tonight, officials in California say they dodged a big one. A 6.8

magnitude earthquake. It struck last night, by one estimate lasting

nearly 40 seconds. The epicentre was 50 miles west of Eureka. No major

damage or injuries. 3000 people wrote in to say they felt it. Today,

some answers to a question asked by everyone in this country after the

shooting at the elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. For the first

time, his father reveals details about the son he says changed. Those

killer eyes, and today new insight into the minds behind them. Speaking

for the first time with New Yorker magazine, Adam Lansing's Father

Peter says he wishes his son was never born. His dad described him as

a normal, little weird kid. He didn't speak until he was three. So

sensitive to touch that his tags in his clothes had to be removed. His

father says autism was not responsible for the shooting spree.

Study after study shows that as burgers patients are rarely violent.

-- asbergers. The boy loved Sandy Hook school, but worsened as a team.

Today, the father finally warned other parents. This could happen to

them. And next we want to show you dramatic video of a rescue of a

hiker who plunged down a mountain in North Carolina. The National Guard

helicopter was called in to pull him to safety. Police say he was

rapelling down the mountain. He was conscious and clinging to a rock for

4.5 hours until help arrived and carried him away. At next, something

very personal from someone you know on world News. You are going to see

a panic attack on live TV. It started our Dan Harris on a journey

toward something that might make your life happier as well.

And next, a powerful group of people, rock stars, actors,

executives, and parents are united against the negative force of a

word. It can take hold in grade school and crack confidence for a

girl. The word is bossy. Our correspondent reports on the

uprising tonight. For an array of celebrities including Beyonce, today

a campaign is being launched to ban a word surprising in its power.

Bossy. Spearheading the effort, is the Facebook CEO and Disney board

member. We call girls bossy on the playground, other b-words words can

follow. Why does bossy matter? Words matter. We know that by middle

school, more girls than boys don't want to lead. Raise your hand if

anyone has ever called you bossy. So what is more important, to be liked

or to be a leader? To be liked. If you're a leader, your friends will

get mad at you and won't want to be your friends. In fact research shows

a direct link. For one third of the girls who don't want to be leaders,

it is because they fear being called bossy. When I was in ninth grade, my

teacher took my best friend aside and said she shouldn't be friends

with me because I was bossy. We are 17% of the board seats, 19% of the

US Congress. That is not enough for 50% of the population. We could cut

poverty in half. We think it all goes together. By banning the word

bossy, it is argued little girls will have one less obstacle to

overcome. A wake-up call for parents. If you have a smartphone in

your bag right now you might want to put it down. An undercover

investigation showed parents absorbed in their smartphones while

they were with their children. The more mum and dad were engrossed in

their phones, the more likely they were to react harshly to behaviour.

We learn that African elephant 's can not only distinguish between

human voices and other voices, they can identify men versus women,

adults versus children, even different ethnic groups. An elephant

can tell the difference between two tribes in Africa. The farmers who

are friends to the elephants and those who have been known to hunt

them. Researchers say the elephants have developed the ability as a

survival tactic and they are remarkably tactic. No matter how

similar the voices sound. Next tonight, imagine millions of people

watch your life come unglued. A panic attack on live TV. It happened

to Dan Harris. His journey of discovery brings us lessons about

all our lives. He tells us about it tonight. This is a very personal

story, as you know. Sometimes there are things holding us back from

being happy and we are not aware of it until life hits us over the head

with a frying pan. This is good morning America. Welcome to the most

embarrassing day of my life. This is me ten years ago, and the reason

this is the most embarrassing day of my life is not that it looks like I

have been attacked by a blowdry at and a can of hairspray, it is

because I am about to freak out on national television. One of the

world 's most commonly prescribed medication may involve a bonus. They

may also lowered their risk of cancer. It is too early to prescribe

it solely for cancer. At this point I am helpless, so I Bail, right in

the middle. Thanks very much, Dan Harris. Once the fear subsided,

humiliation set in. I knew with rocksolid certainty that I had just

had a panic attack on national television. Why would I tell you

this embarrassing story? Because it was the culmination of something

which had been building for years. Something I had never stops to

address. It is something we all battle, whether we have panic

attacks or not. Call it the voice in your head. It is the inner narrator

which can control us. Getting in the way of living the life we want to

lead. For this woman it was emotional eating. Eating was my

security rank it. And for this young doctor, it was a voice which stopped

him from focusing on one thing at a time. That massive cacophony that we

hear, deafeningly loud. Is it's surprising how long we focus on

these fixating voices? I'm surprised how long we spend wasting on the

voices in our head telling us we are not good enough. In my case, my

inner voice was pushing me to succeed. This is me in my late 20s.

I had my dream job but also had doubts about whether I was good

enough. My solution was to become a workaholic. After September 11, I

decided to cover war zones and get a taste of both the horror and

adrenaline of combat. After years of barrelling forward, when I finally

slowed down my mind revolted and I got depressed. In my free time I

briefly but stupidly again self-medicating. It was those

recreational drugs that almost certainly produced the now panic

attack. But losing it in front of 5 million people became a turning

point. -- on air panic attack. Going inside my mind is no longer going

behind enemy lines. After my journey, what I found was something

simple and completely free. It is done by executives, pro athletes,

and marines. It is not a miracle cure but makes you about 10% happy.

And give watching tonight. I will see you right back here again

tomorrow -- thank you for watching tonight. It had to happen

eventually, tomorrow -- thank you for watching

tonight. It had to after an hour wettest winter on record,