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"the end of the world or not." its actually about the effects of constantly screaming about the apocalypse and the panic from trump and what that does to the world. its a good read. foxnews.com/opinion. >> kimberly: you and van jones might want to do a interpretive reading. >> dana: i have anxiety about a few things. one of them is trash in the accumulation of it. in the great pacific, the garbage patch. thats the amount of plastic gathered since the 80s. three times the size of france. our mari...

>>going back to enormity of that big floating garbage patch, this is what president trump said today on the spending bill. >> it became so big because we need to take care of our military and because the democrats who dont believe in that added things that they wanted in order to get their votes. >> it became so big, became so unwieldy, no one thought they could stop it. cant be the way we govern and spend the taxpayer ♪ [national anthem]

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Preparation h. get comfortable with it. >>going back to enormity of that big floating garbage patch, this is what president trump said today on the spending bill. >> it became so big because we need to take care of our military and because the democrats who dont believe in that added things that they wanted in order to get their votes. >> it became so big, became so

Floating garbage. recently, a chinese ship in search of the airport came across trash instead. even sea life cant tell the difference. fish, sea lions, birds, they all ingest this junk thinking it might be food. >> you know, i hear this talk about there being 300-plus pieces from the aircraft. there are 300,000 plus pieces of trash already there. >> reporter: the indian ocean gyre is not the only one that exists, there are also two in the pacific and two in the atlantic. they form when ocean cur...

And this garbage patch is not just huge, it is on the move, traveling about half a mile per hour or about 12 miles per day and it may be carrying parts of the plane with it. >> it has moved away from the crash site, moved 150 miles by now. and it dispersed, as well. and it is joini inin ining back other debris. >> reporter: leaving the search planes to try to catch up. randi kaye, cnn. >> and we have a short break coming up, set your dvr so you never miss a show, you up next, the tools used to t...

Oceanographer at the university of new south wales in australia joining us via skype tonight. you are an expert in this part of the indian ocean. have you been surprised by the amount of ocean debris found, versus a lack of debris found from the plane? >> no, not at all. we have known a long time that especially the recent search area, the new search area they are looking at now theres a lot of debris there because it is close to what we call the garbage patch and thats where all of the garbage ...

Disrupt the search on the surface. again, if you look at computer models, there arent that many places in the worlds oceans where you actually concentrate marine debris. there could be one here. most of the time it spreads out over time and drifts with currents. honestly, i havent heard that. could be. unfortunately, our oceans are full of trash, particularly plastics. and, you know, you never want to see that. >> because you know that they dump a lot of garbage in the indian ocean. ships going ...

>> a lot of time when you use auvs you find a lot of garbage on the ocean bottom, things tossed overboards, barrels, cars, its amazing -- >> cars? >> yes. each one of these things requires you to put the camera on it. >> sure. >> to make sure its not what youre looking for. theyre so far out in an area thats not trafficked that much in the indian ocean, that i dont expect there to be a lot of these sort of false positives on the ocean bottom. while theres a garbage patch, if they start picking u...

Information of looking in a spot on the ocean floor and saying for certain there was nothing there helps you figure out where to look next. >> they send the bluefin down from a ship thats there in the indian ocean. its going to have a lot of wear and tear on the men and women on that ship. just staying out there. >> absolutely. but these are professional mariners. theyre used to going and spending months at sea at a time. that part doesnt worry me. as ellen said, the thing you have to start look...