spied today. nothing so far. but as you say, very important now, they've got ships in the area. two ships in the area. and three more chinese naval ships very close by. so the search is being defined still, still, tantalizingly there is no evidence. there is nothing yet that we know of that suggest they have relocated these two promising areas. the chinese and australians bond found two areas indicating significant size objects. that was two days ago now. nothing new. >> and we know that some of the key search equipment from the united states has arrived but that's only useful if they're able to locate debris or at least a smaller field where it may be. tell me what the prime minister has said about the search possibly not being open-ended? >> reporter: yeah, let's just