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That showed about 300 objects, some as long as 40 feet. so the circumstantial evidence is building off one or two debris fields. yesterday we had fresh images from the french showi ining 122 objects and that was about 200 miles from where the thai satellite photographs were taken this week. so circumstantial evidence is building. the planes simply cant get there. and so far, there isnt a single piece of debris that has been positively identified, photographed close up, never mind recovered. so i...

Indian ocean? >> well, i think what you would see is that there are clumps of debris just as what were seeing now. so i also think this is an encouraging sign. you would see that theres debris fields that move away but within the debris fields there may be a few miles in diameter, you would see much higher concentrations of debris, yes. >> so if they identify this debris as being from the plane, wreckage, colleen, presumably it could be hundreds of miles away from the seabed where the actual pla...

Target, the weather has been so bad, the currents are so strong, the suspected debris fields are moving every single day. theres also the question of what exactly were seeing on the images at least in regards to the thai satellite there is the possibility that we could be seeing some white caps, some wave caps in that image. the reason for that is that you have when youre flying over the indian ocean as i did this past weekend, you look down what looks like debris is actually the tops of waves a...

A very confined debris field, like for instance, at the crash of the -- at the site where the plane crashed, within days, that just spreads out and out and out and out, and that continues for years and years. and it might be that some of the debris that came from this plane is actually in completely different oceans in a few months to a few years. >> so, when we talking about these debris fields, and we know that the satellite imagery weve seen from sunday, you know, some of this. by the time we...

Be able to look at the water and scan and look for debridebris. they are not able to see much either. until we get better visibility, our hands are tied. wean the satellites are seeing the debris fields or one big field. we cant get to it. thats a problem. >> lets take a listen to what they are saying. >> whether it was zero visibility, we have high risk flying additions and with the visibility the way it is, very low probability of seeing anything out there at all. >> thats the news here as far...

The same vicinity. will they zero in on any of that that drifts away with wild currents. what we know is this. flight 370 disappeared for two possible reasons. one is a catastrophic event and the other is something more nepharious. the pilots son is telling the newspaper i read everything online and ignored all the speculation. i know my father better. we may not be as close since he travels so much, but i understand him. lets talk about the debris field. chad meyers joins me and to me the pictu...

And as soon as the conditions improve and they can get better visibility, they will be looking as well. so the big challenge right now is getting to the area where the satellites say these debris fields are, identifying what the debris is. and then if we have found a possible crash site, well, then the real work begins to begin solving this mystery. >> well, it was a big headline yesterday when 122 pieces were spotted, and then yet again americans will cut to the headline that, you know, almost ...

And really work in the water. theyre not going to get accurate sound readings. theyre not going to get accurate data readings. and it is that hurry up and wait situation for them. >> christine, theres one thing i do want to ask you about, and its something else i heard one of the experts in ocean debris mention. and that is that the debris field as the days move on gets bigger, which could be a good thing because it allows, you know, us not to perhaps miss a small debris field. but i would also ...

Search planes are grounded until further notice. i want to focus on the pictures especially the one 300 possible shiny objects. joining us is jeff wise. nice to have you on. you are a science journalist and many of us are reading your pieces to see what you are seeing here. out of the gate, you look at the pictures and the clusters, if you will, of the possible debris fields, what do you see? >> when you look at it, its hard to recognize something that looks really airplane-like. you remember ai...

President vladimir putin but putin again swatted at those measures telling russian lawmakers moscow is developing a new credit card system to counter visa and mastercard which are denying services to the clients of the major russian bank hit with u.s. sanctions last week. >> i think this will simply lead to the loss of certain market segments for them, a market which is very profitable. >> reporter: united nations general assembly overwhelmingly passed a nonbinding resolution effectively declari...