focus on that, you get the very best people you can, and with radar, studying it, much of it is technological, a lot of it is art. knowing what to look for, particularly in this situation, where you had the transponder turned off, and you were dealing with raw primary returns. let me bring into this conversation mark anania. you said this is like looking for a needle in a garbage patch. i have been amazed time and again at these reports, oh, no, this was just garbage, in terms of how much garbage is in the ocean. speak to that issue. well, we re finding out every day just how much more garbage there is, not only in the indian ocean, in the north pacific, the south pacific, the north atlantic and south atlantic and dozens of other areas. what kind of garbage? most of it tends to be plastic, because plastic doesn t
it floats there for tens, maybe hundreds of years it stays in the ocean. and what you can find there is really anything you ve ever seen in a junkyard, right? it s all the way from floating beach balls to rubber duckies to maybe fishing gear to things like refrigerators. everything that is buoyant enough not to sink will just stay on the ocean there. floating garbage patch. erik van sebille, thank you so much for your insight this morning. we ll have more on the latest for the search as well as the other top headlines, a lot happening in the world, right after the break. co: i ve always found you don t know you need a hotel room until you re sure you do. bartender: thanks, captain obvious. co: which is what makes using the hotels.com mobile app so useful. i can book a nearby hotel room from wherever i am. or, i could not book a hotel room and put my cellphone back into my pocket as if nothing happened.
scenario. and that s overestimating how much the wind is pushing. so i was just trying to push the limits and say, if you had a seat cushion and it got blown along with the winds as well, how far would it go? more realistically, it would be those colors that are the pinks or the black. and that s still 100 miles or so, 100 to 200 miles, all depending on where you are from march 8th till today. kathleen, thank you. oh, i do want to also point out that this is an area of convergence. so it s this great garbage patch in this area. so it s going to be there is going to be a lot of garbage in this area just from all kinds of other places that all kind of collects up here. that s why there s going to be a lot of garbage spotted but not part of the plane. which they have been doing. kathleen, thank you. keep us posted. great. rescue efforts back here continue today over a week after that deadly mud slide ripped
least, the largest window of favorable weather may be hours away. this is a forecast that is always changing. let get a few more details on this. we talked about this is an isolated part of the world and the weather is fickle to say the least. you know, the stretch is definitely going to be the best since the search began. it s one of those unusual stretches of weather for this time of the year. but first i want to show you something we haven t talked about because of the trash patches around the world. there is five. one off the u.s. and one off the south america and in the north atlantic and the south atlantic. the one glaring difference the 122 objects found and the reason we get more credence and credibility to that object is this garbage patch is different
frequent happening. so losing containers, and another thing over there, it s a garbage patch. all the garbage for reasons which can be explained due to winds, the tides and open waters, there s lots of garbage which has accumulated over the centuries is over there. and it accumulates into a patch. i mean, i have i want to i think we have the message, that there s a lot of it. listen, we hope that they find something and in your case, i would imagine you hope that they find nothing. i would imagine you re still hoping that your sister is somewhere still alive, the passengers are somewhere and still alive. and i won t say tell me what your sister was like, but tell me what your sister is like, what kind of a person is your simser? my sister is a social worker.