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Scenario. and thats 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 thats 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 its th...

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. its one of those unusual stretches of weather for this time of the year. but first i want to show you something we havent talked about because of the trash patches aroun...

Frequent happening. so losing containers, and another thing over there, its a garbage patch. all the garbage for reasons which can be explained due to winds, the tides and open waters, theres 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 theres 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...

To note in this region. this is known as the indian ocean jir. one of three jirs that is home to a substantial area of a garbage patch. historically this area is known to trap millions of tons of debris, a lot of times being very small, confetti-like in nature, not to say that a large item could not be found. but this region has been knowned to trap debris and the currents are very slow. >> good to know. thank you for joining us for this special edition of cnn newsro newsroom. so that was our fi...

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