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Disrupt the search on the surface. again, if you look at computer models, there arent that many places in the worlds oceans where you actually concentrate marine debris. there could be one here. most of the time it spreads out over time and drifts with currents. honestly, i havent heard that. could be. unfortunately, our oceans are full of trash, particularly plastics. and, you know, you never want to see that. >> because you know that they dump a lot of garbage in the indian ocean. ships going ...

Quicker than it created solutions. >> information from tom foreman. thanks very much. lets get some more now from ocean scientist and author ellen along with former naval oceanographer, van gerley. ellen, you remember the tsunami in japan. eventually some of the debris from the tsunami wound up in the west coast of the united states because of ocean currents and waves and whatever. is it possible some of the wreckage of this plane, if theres wreckage in the indian ocean, will wind up on the au...

...theres a lot of buyers for a house like yours. (dad) thats good to know. (mom) im so excited. im errol barnett, with rosemary church. >> now, the head of the australian-led search effort announced that two more underwater ping signals have been heard in the southern indian ocean. they are the first audio signals detected since two were heard on saturday. the latest pulses were picked up on tuesday by the australian vessel, the ocean shield. well, we have an expert on ocean currents with us ...

Being the first to figure it out. >> khalid, let me ask you, is there anything that we can be doing to sort of accelerator it from a water search stant or do you have to wait for that debris field or is there anything we can fan out to get going now under the water? >> no. i know. >> unfortunately. >> let me go to colleen on that. >> okay. i know the pinger are enroute to the new search area tomorrow. as soon as we can get them in the water, that will increase our chances of finding something on...

Their motivation is simply being the first to figure it out. >> khalid, let me ask you, is there anything that we can be doing to sort of accelerator it from a water search stant or do you have to wait for that debris field or is there anything we can fan out to get going now under the water? >> no. i know. >> unfortunately. >> let me go to colleen on that. >> okay. i know the pinger are enroute to the new search area tomorrow. as soon as we can get them in the water, that will increase our chan...

Be miles away and miles down. finding it will require submersible drones, like these. >> the computer models that we have done shows the debris has moved almost 500 kilometers away from where it would have originated. >> reporter: because its been so long? >> because its been so long and the currents are so strong. >> reporter: if you thought the first part of the search was long and difficult, get ready, because stage two theyll be flying blind on the ocean floor, deep are than where "titanic" ...

Likely to find would be the lighter things like wooden pallets or seat cushions, smaller pieces. i how would they find out how far its drifted, bob? >> they have computer modeling, woods hole did it in a crash five years ago. but computer models is computer modeling, you know. its not exact. thats still not certain it will take you back to the right place. and youve got to get awful close if you have any hope of hearing the pinging noise from the submerged black boxes. >> if they cant find the b...

We have storm watches for maine and south massachusetts. that green there, across the cape is a blizzard watch. gusts up to 60 miles per hour forecast out there. and they could see a foot of snow. here is a look at the computer model, all up and down the east coast. expect windy conditions tuesday into wednesday. it is going to be cold as well. lets head back inside. >> maria, were lucky that the center of that storm is way off the coast. otherwise it could be a snow bomb. >> absolutely. the sto...

There are people like the u.s. coast guard, theres a number of very, very sophisticated computer models that can take the actual wind, the actual current on the given days and then begin to build it backwards, to say, okay, this is the likely point of impact. from there, depending on the depth of the water, whats the current? where can we narrow the search down for the main body of the wreckage? >> what are the other pieces of investigation that are sort going on in parallel right now? while we ...

Miles awray from the start point, the point where we see the debris on the images. but she concludes its likely 40 miles east and 20 miles north of the start point. thats what her computer models tell her. and certainly, the people involved in the search are doing this kind of analysis as well. but how difficult, john, does it make it when you have a moving target like this? >> well, the first thing is once we find debris floating debris, then we have a starting point. right now, we do not have ...