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Are they of no value at all? maybe not. one australian official is downplaying their significance. >> we have not seen any debris. we have not wished to classify any of the satellite imagery as debris nor would i like to classify any of the few visual sightings that weve made as debris. thats just not justifiable from what we have seen. >> but the malaysian transport minister says the new search area, quote, could still be consistent with objects spotted by those satellites thanks to ocean drift...

>> on the planes, you have lots of rectangular things and rectangular things dont occur in nature. you have food service carts, cargo containers in the plane, potentially, pieces of luggage, rectangular equipment on the plane. you have a lot of things on aircraft and ships too that dont have rounded edges. in nature, things are kind of rounded. so it is encouraging that they find things that wouldnt just be out there, like clumps of seaweed. one time, they had found a whale carcus. the shapes an...

He are not going to see more than that. they are trained to keep their emotions in check as much as possible and keep doing their job. it is not going to be time to celebrate anything in terms of finding debris until a piece has been fished out of the water and examined and identified as being part of the airplane. >> tom fuentes, thanks as always. >> thank you, carol. nutrients and essentil also found in mothers milk. purina puppy chow. ...return on investment wall isnt a street... isnt the onl...

Breakdown of when the new zealand plane spotted that debris and when the p.a. spotted this debris. i can tell you that the white debris that was spotted by this one, one of them appeared to be circular. then, others were various shapes that were also light. thats one of several in this particular sighting, the way the pilots and crew member explained it to us. one patch of white debris, an orange string and a blue bag. >> as youre looking out the window and youre seeing this debris, you are prob...

Thats a huge difference. you have real time observation of objects in the water, not five--day-old reports. >> richard, five different planes spotted this debris. i know there is a chinese ship in the area. it is nighttime now. it will still be hard to find even though there is a ship in the general vicinity, right? >> look, i was optimistic with the thai satellite objects but for the same reason that im optimistic about these. the more reports you get, the more optimistic you can become. so, in...

Information available. >> to narrow down the search area, what league do you think is most credible aside from finding debris? this question is for. are we looking at other things? >> the question about search, and i think mr. young should answer first. >> i should start by saying that the two primary methods that we have had so far are these analyses, which are about the movements of the aircraft. that is the best information we can have. anything we have about the movements of the aircraft cre...

And the distance to look for possible debris? >> well, its closer to perth, which means it will take less time to get out there. that area is also a little calmer than where they have been searching previously. but its a huge area. its still 155,000 square miles, which is vast. in many respects, its reading between the lines of that press conference what they were saying. we are back to square one. this is the most credible information that we now have, then it means that everything we have seen...

Down off the coast of south america and that ended up out in the middle of the atlantic ocean there, the surface debris was spread out mainly on a trail of three miles, a very limited scope compared to anything were talking about here, and when they finally went down and did the side scan sonar and found the debris, it would have covered a few football fields, the actual thing youre looking for where the data recorders are and everything else. let me bring it out and thrust it out in the room. w...

Resolution. it was worth investigating, but i think it spoke volumes that we never actually spotted this stuff from the aircraft. the way the analysis has gone so far just to recap is the satellite pings put us in the southern hemisphere. they should have taken that and overlaid it with the aircrafts endurance based on the radars last hit. theyve just refined that calculation. were narrowing in using the data we have. now if we can pick up some debris to corroborate it, well be in the ballpark. ...

For debris. this plane did spot some debris. there was a bit of excitement but the plane got very, very close to the ocean. some white debris. an orange rope, a blue bag, but it wasnt significant enough to say it was connected to the plane at all. the ship was dispatched to these coordinates just to make sure. there were a couple of other sightings by two other countries that we heard from the pilot but as far as we can tell, there hasnt been anything that would be unusual that appears to be any...