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>> as we look at the days now since sunday we can see some of this debris floating -- what is estimated by some -- up to 60 miles from wherever its original location was. were now seeing debris at least from the last radar location that we had on record up to 60 120 miles, depending who youre talking to at the moment. what does that do to the difficulty of determining what happened to flight 8501? >> well, it does deepen the mystery a little bit, richard. were sorting through it. two things coul...

Meeting the eye. joining me is anne thompson, nbcs chief environmental affairs correspondent. anne, thank you for being here. >> sure. >> how big is this problem? >> it is a really big problem. what you can see is the least of the properblem. it is estimated that 20% of the trash in the ocean are big things that we can see, debris from fishing vessels or cargo containers that fall off of ships. the real danger are those piece is pieces of plastic made up what they call the garbage patches in the...

The families who have now waited so long and have yet to see any physical evidence that this aircraft is where the search teams strongly believe that it is. but this debris field, if there is debris floating, has been the target for 37 days. they keep poring over the data trying to figure out where the stuff might be. they just havent found it. somewhere out there, there is a plane, there are 239 people, and theres definite determination out here to find it for these families and find those peop...

That builds pingers say that the batteries are most likely dead or close to it. will ripley is following every step of the search in perth. will, why did they expand this visual search area? >> reporter: well, because they are continuing to fly out every day and they still havent found a piece of debris. they are constantly looking at the data, at the currents and they are trying to get a handle on where this debris field, if there is still debris floating, where it could be. they continue to se...

Crash search weve ever seen? >> yes. certainly. at least of this significance a commercial airliner like this one. again, you think about that crash off brazil. two days later, we saw debris floating. took two year and just a lot more data points there to work with. here this debris will have been floating, if, in fact, a big if it is debris, for nearly two weeks. it will have been adrift. youre dealing with very deep water. the clock ticking, as we know, on those black boxes we call them. cockp...

Theres a lot of information we can get about that. we may be able to determine whether it was a fuel outage or intentionally put in. a lot of information you could get not from a small piece but a set of debris. >> and david gallo, in terms of debris floating, obviously where the debris would be found 12, 13 days after an impact is not where the plane went in. i know on 447 it took two years to find the actual plane, and at first i think in one of the areas you guys searched it was in the opposi...

Crash search weve ever seen? >> yes. certainly. at least of this significance a commercial airliner like this one. again, you think about that crash off brazil. two days later, we saw debris floating. took two year and just a lot more data points there to work with. here this debris will have been floating, if, in fact, a big if it is debris, for nearly two weeks. it will have been adrift. youre dealing with very deep water. the clock ticking, as we know, on those black boxes we call them. cockp...