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Just on sheer will power. after that, its anyones guess. so very close coordination, every day you look at what we can do. you have to watch very closely. we have 700 sailors out here, young men and women of the u.s. navy we have to watch the fatigue level. we have to also watch fatigue on our equipment. so a person cant operate continuously for 24 hours. neither can a piece of equipment. so were looking at that now. we do have a chaplain out there, we have flown grief counselors out there, beca...

Sheer will power. after that its anyones guess so very close coordination, every day we look at what we can do. we have to watch very closely. we have 700 sailors out here, young men and women of the u.s. navy we have to watch the fatigue level. >> right. >> we also have to watch the fatigue on our equipment. so its hard to -- a person cant operate continuously for 24 hours. neither can a piece of equipment. we have a chaplain out there, grief counselors out there because its vehemently and phys...

But even those on the east coast of the u.s. and other worldwide, i like most of the world really have never seen anything like this. its pretty incredible. >> commander marks, i wish you the best. thank you. >> very welcome. thank you. back with us aviation journalist and former ntsb member john golio. you just heard from the commander major shift westward along with the indian navy now being asked to participate in the search. what do you make of that? the commander describing this as shifti...

Is, but overall this is not very deep water. im watching cnn to try to get a better view of where this is. >> so youre watching cnn to look at those images to get a better view of them to find out where they are? >> thats correct. but i should say, we have very smart people here, so i personally am looking at cnn, but we have other people reviewing all the information. >> commander marks, a lot of people appreciate very much what youre doing and we wish you the best to all the people under your ...

Continuously 24 hours a day and not give it maintenance and not rest it. so were looking very closely at personal and our commitmeequipm fatigue. we flew out chaplain and grieve counselors because its demanding on a personal level. were watching that very closely. >> a quick follow-up, jim sciutto has a question. >> commander marks, thank you very much. malaysian officials are telling our troops on the ground in malaysia that the primary search area is to the east side of the peninsula. u.s. nav...

Poseidon, latest. its premium maritime aircraft. it can travel 500 knots at high altitude. what it means, it can travel this distance, takes p-3 five hours, it can get to the search area in two hours. the nerve center of the p-8 is absolutely phenomenal. contrast heat sources. if theres a person on top of the ocean -- unlikely, if there is, contrast heat signature against the ocean, it can send out energy and recognize the shape of a ship and through algorithms it can understand what that is. it...

Receive returns from those. the focus is on the surface of the water. there we have very advanced radar systems and that is correct, if theres anything -- ill give an example, we found on our radar a small wooden crate and the radar is sensitive enough to pick that up. so if this p-3 or p-8 flies over something that size, it will certainly pick it up on the radar. >> now, commander marks, let me follow-up also. about your men and women, about your people who have been working round the clock. i ...