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These debris fields are two to three stories high that,ry compacted with brick after brick and there are certainly bodies beneath all of that rebel. it will be a long time before they are able recover all of the bodies here mica. >> nbcs miguel almaguer in nepal. thank you very much. coming up is it elizabeth warren, jim webb martin omalley the person now ready to challenge hillary clinton for the democratic nomination in 2016? that and much more when "morning joe" comes back.

In fact, the national atmospheric and oceanic administration made these models. this is basically the debris fields moving gradually eastward. its just that we continue to see the debris piling up on the west coast of the united states or the west coast of all of north america. what the biologists found was the debris left over from the tsunami was about 5 million tons, about 70% of that or 3.5 million tons expected to sink over time. but what weve seen is this continuous washup of things, like ...

Thorough search of the ocean bottom to find is the debris field in total like we did on twa flight 800. we ended up with three distinct debris fields that told us a lot about whapt happened to that aircraft that it came apart in three different sections and thats what they need to do now and then as they find these debris fields they move the sonar off to do -- continue their search and then they get the remote operated vehicles and the divers into those debris fields and do an eyes-on that part...

Objects of which there are still remnants of war fought down there. ships, planes. there is a lot of debris down there that may not be this aircraft. >> allen, do you agree with that? are we possibly looking at debris from something random? >> well some of the things appear to be from the -- obviously the passengers are. i should also say that i -- one of the other first investigations i did for nsb was a 727 that crashed into the pensacola bay. and that aircraft hit at 11 feet a minute a very h...

Transiting that area right now. in a way theyre going through a crime scene at 10 20 miles an hour. im wondering what they see. we need more debris from the surface. im sort of amazed that we havent heard more about debris fields at this point. >> well supposedly its monsoon season. of course, most of us in the united states dont experience that. what would that be like for those searching in the water? >> im sure its horrible. they should see something. i would think that they would see -- ther...

This disaster following lessons learned on the mh-370 aircraft which disappeared. of course this is not managed or run by the malaysian government as the malaysia airline was. this is a privately owned company. it will be i imagine, more sensitive toward its customers and customer relations. hopefully it will handle it in a far better way than the malaysian government did. >> from where we have seen so far, there have been relatively compact debris fields. what does that tell you how this plane ...

The investigation starts a week into it, weve got the location of the debris. there are three major debris fields. this was a huge potential crime scene. the debris is at 130 feet of water and the command center is set up at the coast guard station a long island. and we start the process in conjunction with ntsb recovering the pieces of the plane and the bodies up from the ocean. we were really looking to see if any of the bodies that were intact had any signs of an impact of terrorism. then we ...

Panel al l lagas. >> i want to get at the debris fields. always be speculation as to what it was just based on the signals intelligence. get at the deprefields. you start finding out what sort of explosive residue was there hopefully start finding parts of the missile and get significant answers. >> apparently there wasnt a fire. does that make a difference at least we are hearing early reports. no fire on the ground. >> im not sure that it makes that much of a difference. it could be a variety ...

The investigation start as week into it. we got the location of the debris. there was three major debris fields. this was a huge potential crime scene. the command center is set up at the coast guard station in long island and we start the process in congestion with ntsb while bringing the pieces of the plane and the bodies up from the ocean. >> we were really looking to see if any of those bodies had a sign of impact of terrorism and put where that body was on the airplane. it was very necessar...

Tight cluster of spots. ironically, this is much closer to the area that searchers were looking at originally before those pings which have now been discounted threw everybody off. this is closer to the area where there were the satellite images, talking about possible debris fields, all of that kind of thrown out when the area shifted north. now we could see it shifting south again as the search continues for this plane and the 239 people on board. >> will, there was -- there were so many resou...