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Two years ago led to discovery of the black boxes. as anyone whos heard the safety lecture knows your seat cushion may be used as a flotation device and there also may be much larger pieces of the boeing 777 still out there waiting to be found and waiting to share the story of what happened on that flight with investigators. our aviation correspondent, rene marsh, taking a look at that. >> reporter: 3 million pars to a boeing 777 and after more than two weeks of searching, not one piece of fligh...

Sightings from a satellite of a possible debris field. some 122 objects off the coast of perth, australia. talk to me about the importance of this and how it could lead to that black box. you think it is crucial to find it and keep on looking until they do? >> it certainly is. it would help to facilitate and get this done so that we can perhaps put to rest what may have happened to that airplane. finding that black box is critical. determining whether this is a debris field. and again, we have t...

370 remains steadfast. as we have said all along, we will never give up trying to find the plane. in order to bring closure for the families and to establish exactly what happened to mh-370. australia, china and france have already released satellite images showing objects that may be related to mh-370. yesterday, on the 25th of march, the malaysian remote sensing agency, mrsa, received new satellite images from defense and space based in france. and these images were taken on the 23rd of march....

So as the satellites taking the picture, theyre taking several. they have the option of selecting which one of those is the most clear. when youre out there in an airplane and looking at 20 miles, its hard, its really hard to try to figure out what it is that youre seeing even. let alone you have 7 meter waves going up and down. it sounds simple, but you dont have that option like the satellite does of saying wheres the most calm time to be looking. >> we know how difficult of a task this is, bu...

These satellite images taken from the french satellite. the pictures were taken sunday, march 23rd. they show 122 pieces of possible debris ranging in size all the way up till about 70 feet clumped together in a relatively small area. what do you make of this? >> well, i think certainly this is very compelling. this is probably the first piece of evidence that we have that really starts to lend credibility to possibly that were finding some of the debris field. but cautious on tow mission would ...

David soucie and christine dennison, thank you to you as well. tom foreman will take us on a virtual tour of this area, of the indian ocean where the search is focused and we will learn more about the currents and what might actually be happening with 122 pieces three days later. we also have another developing story that were following for you. a huge and deadly mudslide in washington state. images for you now that are just heart-rendering shows how big and devastating this mudslide has been....

Fishing boats. so while we think of this as this vast expanse of ocean, all have quite an abundance of debris floating both at its surface and below. >> but 122 pieces in one specific spot. christine, ill get you to weigh in on this. we have talked a lot, you and me, about gyres and patterns, and on sunday, 122 pieces, that gives a lot of people hope. should they have that hope? >> i think so. i is ernl certainly do. and nicholas brought up a point which a lot of us forget. there is a lot of gar...

At least one of the objects is similar in size to an object spotted earlier. still, search teams caution they wont be able to confirm the debris came from the plane until ships are able to recover it. >> it must be emphasized that we cannot tell whether the potential objects are from mh-370. nevertheless, this is another new lead that will help direct the search operation. >> reporter: so far, none of the 122 objects seen by satellite has been spotted by search planes or ships scouring the area ...

Flight 370. new satellite photos they say show 122 objects in the southern indian ocean, not far from where satellites spotted potential debris. well keep you updated on this. it is 10:15 in the evening. the search is delayed yet again because of night fall. the search will continue at daybreak and well see what they find out then. martha: so president obama and the house intelligence committee unveiling their plan to overhaul the nsa spying program. the idea is to find a better balance with pri...

You pointed out, that are advocates for, or at least questioning the hobby lobby point, so its clearly become a gender issue, and i think what republicans and conservatives are trying to do is thread a needle they might not successfully do. >> good to see both of you again. thank you very much. check out myhealth care.msnbc.com for all your health care questions or tweet us the story usin using #myhealthcare. coming up, new hope and a new lead in the missing malaysian airlines plane. satellite...