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Bright current. you can see some of the most powerful currents in the world. thats just a graphic interpretation of how the current could be carrying whatever debris might be out there. then of course theres the cloud cover. so the satellites may see something one day. today, the clouds come in, they cant see bebeneath the clouds. sometimes the satellites cant even see through the clouds themselves. the surface vessels are still out there searching. >> right. but they havent managed to get to on...

Liabilities on behalf of malaysian airlines. >> jeffrey thomas, theres good weather today, and seem to be the same intensity if not more to locate the plane. are you hopeful that they will find something soon? >> look, we are very hopeful that they will find something soon. in fact, more airplanes are arriving every day. some from korea and india are coming shortly. so, were very hopeful that in the next couple of days theyre going to get a positive sighting and identify the debris fields with 3...

Narrowed the window that much, it would greatly help them pinpoint where to look in the indian ocean. >> it will make all the difference in the world. i woke her up this morning to, i think, very good news. it finally may have something of substance that we could point to in holding our hands and examine to find out what really went down in this deal. im delighted to know that we found a debris field and im hopeful it is the right one. >> we keep talking about them finding debris fields, right? ...

Lost and that none on board have survived as you will hear in the next hour. theres going to be a lot of talk about the prime ministers statement and how short they were and how little information was provided, wouldnt you say, ian? >> its not a great way of putting across such a devastating piece of news. im trying to explain to a family that there is some rather abstract new technical model that shows that their relatives went down in the indian ocean is not something -- is not a great way of ...

Missing plane. they will then have to trace it back using these models, using all of the technology available. those planes can search in the dark, no doubt about it. theyre equipped to search in the dark, but theyre going to get images. theyre not going to get i.d., a positive i.d. of what those images are. the best they can do is get images back, they can drop locator buoys in, and the planes and the ships the next morning at daybreak can get back out there and find out what it was. but weve a...

This southern arc. >> all right, steven, let me ask you about this, the news this morning, the new development that were all laser focused on is the australian prime minister calling the malaysian prime minister just about 20 minutes ago and saying we have seen some objects, a circular object, a rectangular object, and we are going to have them in hand in the next few hours, if not tomorrow morning. thats what the malaysian prime ministers saying in his daily briefing just about 25 minutes ago. ...

Contain eer falling off a ship thing. 78 feet, that is a big chunk of something. >> the big chunk of something, theyre saying is about 79 feet long, the largest piece. there are two debris fields. does that sort of fit to what we could be looking at if this was wreckage? >> well, yeah. and i dont knowing the dimensions of the tail, i wouldnt be the tail. my speculation, of course, is that it could be a piece of the wing which makes sense. you know, that there is air trapped in the wing. which co...

Everything that has been put on the table about this missing plane, can be ruled out at this point? >> let me make one correction for you. i have worked with the ntsb many decades but have never worked for them. >> okay. fair enough. >> i just want to make that correction. everything in my mind is on the table. ive been an accident investigator for something over 30 years. we do not have enough evidence in any one direction to rule anything out. so we are letting the evidence unfold. the search ...

They can fly very long distance ps. but theyre moving them down south into the southern indian ocean. they will move around as needs dictate when they get cloous clues about where debris fields may be. these air cat can respond much more rapidly and cover larger areas than ships can. if they find a debris field, they have to move in a ship very quickly to go look at it. but these aircraft can range for hundreds of miles. keep in mind, wolf, this southern indian ocean you to only look at the map ...

Search crews to the wreckage five days after it went down. the debris field was relatively contained. that shows it broke up when it hit the water before it sank 2 1/2 miles to the ocean floor. in 1996, twa flight 800 exploded in the sky near new york. debris scattered far and wide. investigators had to map out several debris fields. the cockpit sank, but the fuselage and wings scattered far because of how high up the plane was when it exploded. >> initial pieces of floating debris just give you...