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Of the search zone with cyclone jack that was there a couple of days ago. thats something that could impact the officials out there as theyre trying to get the aircraft up in the air and go out towards the search zone. >> you dont know how much longer theyll continue with that air search? they did say earlier in april that it was going to wrap up the next couple of days. its been going for almost a week longer than when it was meant to wrap up. >> see what happens with that. thanks, pedram. th...

But still no sign of the 777. the object of interest found off the coast of augusta, australia, wednesday, another false alarm. a piece of metal bearing no leads. >> in the next few days well be talking to other entities to look at possibility of increasing the assets for the next phase. >> reporter: investigators now likely to widen the search area dramatically and import more equipment like the orion, the sonar system that can travel a mile deeper than the bluefin and stay under water for week...

Couldnt happen. bluefin going on behind the ocean shield. there are pings here. if is where they believe the plane went down, guess what happened about ten days after the plane went down? a giant cyclone. 160 miles per hour right over the area down here where that plane went. we believe at least if anything was sticking up, that sticking up stuff would have been blown off to the west. here you go. theres ping location. it could get into the new current and along the coast of australia. its certa...

Ill be back, 5:00 p.m. eastern, another special two-hour edition. newsroom with brooke baldwin starts right now. >> here we begin the hour with a potentially huge development. here we go. a quote, object of interest, has washed up on the coast of australia about 180 miles south of perth. it is a large piece of metal. one side is covered with fiberglass and rivets, similar to what could be found on the exterior of the airplane. it is being called serious but after six and a half weeks of false le...

Flight 370. and the weather that could get dicey. cnns michael holmes, live. good morning to you, michael. what is the latest? >> reporter: yeah, that is right, bill, the search is done right now. 80% covered and single nothing found. no sign of mh-370. no word on the data results from the latest mission, but the previous nine of course turned up nothing, bill. >> and talk to metro about the weather. we heard there were reports of a typhoon, is that still threatening? >> reporter: yeah, this is ...

>> reporter: yeah, that is right, bill, the search is done right now. 80% covered and single nothing found. no sign of mh-370. no word on the data results from the latest mission, but the previous nine of course turned up nothing, bill. >> and talk to metro about the weather. we heard there were reports of a typhoon, is that still threatening? >> reporter: yeah, this is a cyclone jack, hurricane jack you would call it in the u.s. it is breaking up and dissipating. but it is having an impact. it ...

Metal. the bluefin sonar scanning robot has come across nothing in ten dives covering more than 80% of its planned search area. though ships and planes have spotted plenty of ocean junk, nothing, not one piece, is related to mh-370. today, for the second day, aerial searches are halted because of that weather, specifically cyclone jack. in malaysia, authorities say they have finally completed a preliminary report on mh. 370. theyre not making the report public. the passengers families are unders...

Tropical cyclone jack heading into the region. how soon before the storm gets here? >> the storm is about 600 miles away and were seeing some thunderstorms beginning to develop ahead of the cyclone itself. we also know wave heights, according to the joint typhoon warping center, wave heights as high as four meters. once the storm gets here inside the next two days, wave height also be 7 to 10 feet on the water. so any visual search will be impacted. plenty of rainfall over this region as the sto...

Around where the second acoustic sound searchers hope was from one of those black boxes was picked up. that was back on april 8. the eight bluefin missions so far have covered about 2/3 of that area. now, it is an important week. the acting malaysian transport minister saying the searchers reached in his words a critical juncture. both he and the australian prime minister say the current search area will have been picked over in the next few days. despite no sign of the missing plane, the search...