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Clearly hope remains they will either spot something on the surface or just underneath it. so far as we have discussed the hope has gone almost entirely unfulfilled. questions still exist, joining us, kevin mcavoy, part of the royal search effort. what can you tell us about the search effort? >> they had a no-fly day with the crews, basically no flying today and the crews doing maintenance with the aircraft. they did find some debris, but unfortunately it was not attributed to the missing plane ...

Here. ill stand here. thats 1,000 miles. thats about -- it could have drifted 1,000 miles. if you do three knots and 12 or 13 days, a knot every hour you have 1,000 miles. it could be out anywhere in this -- from there to me from there to you. were comfortable with that situation. this is how fast things are moving. there are variables. explain about how much water its in. >> thats a rough estimate. the data they need to collect if they -- it is an object from the plane, they have to take that o...

Any daily intel reports anymore, but it looks like weve taken the appropriate precautions. >> where is diplomacy, ambassador, hill, fit into this? the u.s. does have indirect contacts with north korea. the south koreans do. japan, china. but where should the u.s. be engaged right now, trying to ease it crisis? >> i think there are basically two tracks. one is with our allies, south korea and japan. i think its been very important that we reassure them, and that we not hold back on these annual e...

Korea and japan. i think its been very important that we reassure them and that we not pull back on these annual exercises. so if theres an air component to these exercises, we need to go through with that. because we really need to assure our allies. thats one track. the second track is of course with china. china, they may deny they have a lot of leverage with the north koreans, but they do. and theres a lot more they can do. a third possible track might be with the north koreans. but they hav...

Any daily intel reports anymore, but it looks like weve taken the appropriate precautions. >> where is diplomacy, ambassador, hill, fit into this? the u.s. does have indirect contacts with north korea. the south koreans do. japan, china. but where should the u.s. be engaged right now, trying to ease it crisis? >> i think there are basically two tracks. one is with our allies, south korea and japan. i think its been very important that we reassure them, and that we not hold back on these annual e...

Specific, you will have embeds and u.s. forces at the battalion level and military speak, let me translate that for you. thats closer to the front lines and that will allow them to call in more air support. theres going to be a heavier air component. already air strikes much higher. but thats the emerging strategy here. put those roughly 4,000 in. close to the front line and have them call in more air strikes. and hopefully that way you bolster the afghan forces. hallie? >> hans nichols live at ...