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In government. if you dont know what happened and you take a possibility off the table, youre making a mistake. so regardless of whether i think theres 99.9% chance of terrorism, if im the government leading that task force im saying keep going, check every lead. >> that brings us to this newest satellite image from the chinese government. what do you make of that? >> i think were following fragments, fragmentary information because we dont have facts. in terms of fact, you would want mechanical...

China has an army of sensors filtering information. this is the first time a u.s. first lady has traveled to china without a president. only the third time mrs. obama made an overseas trip since they moved to the white house. she and her daughters will head to the great wall tomorrow. it took almost two years to find the debris from air france flight 477 after it crashed into the atlantic ocean in 2009. it took cameras, computers and advanced technology to search the depths of the ocean. were ...

It was a white cap dissolving. getting back to that part of the ocean, correct me if im wrong if im wrong about this but i would imagine all these troubles are exacerbated in the southern ocean, the roaring 40s where the winds are constantly blowing, gail force winds. we have bad storms, bad visibility. it would be difficult to spot anything in those conditions. >> absolutely spot on, doug. not only is it 125,000 square miles, its also around 1500 miles off the southwestern tip of australia. tha...

But conditions are going to deteriorate over the next 12 to 24 as another storm moves in. this is the window of opportunity that search crews need to get in there and to investigate. of course, theyve been dealing with very harsh conditions. we dont have any land to break up these storms as it moves over the friction of the land. so the ocean can be very unforgiving with winds in excess of 40, 50 miles per hour and plenty of storm systems as they go into the fall and winter season here in this p...

Photo interpreter, 92 years old, still has a cia clearance. i said what do you make of the images released by the australian government? he said whats important is there are lots of images from this same area nld it will be important for photo interpreters to superimpose images of a 777 on these parts, cut and paste, basically, superimpose them and determine whether or not this is a plane. i assume that applies to this recent chinese image. is that what photo interpreters are doing right now in ...

>> we begin this news with the newly released images from that chinese satellite. china says its sending its ships to search that part of the indian ocean for debris. you may recall earlier this week when an australian satellite spotted possible objects in that ocean but nothing turned up there. were joined from bangkok with the very latest on the investigation. david? >> yes, its now over two weeks since that malaysian airlines jet went missing, but there is hope of a breakthrough of an announc...

This scenario. >> these magnetic detectors in this p-8 that were talking about, are they effective in heavy seas? can you see through the waves? i know you can see when a piece of debris is in the crest of a wave but in the trough of a wave, considering the wave heights in that part of the world, i would imagine its information that you dont see. >> i think the capability that you are talking about, doug, which is called the mad boom, its the magnetic anomaly detector is a boom that hangs off th...