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The australian defense ship "oceanfield," is en route to the search zone, towing a u.s. navy pinger device, which can detect a black box up to 20,000 feet below the surface. this section of the ocean is no deeper than 10,000 feet. tony abbott said the search would continue indefinitely, despite no solid leads. >> until we locate some actual wreckage from the aircraft, and then do the regression analysis that might tell us where the aircraft went into the ocean, well be operating on guesstimates,...

Families have been given false hope. >> you know, and thats the sad thing, and as weve talked on this air for better than three weeks, you know, credible, its the words that these folks are using, credible leads, which raises that optimism and hope, only to be let down. and there has to be a reality check, and with, you know, all the talking heads and all of the folks that are providing information, you have to use words cautiously. when i was working doing value jet and a variety of other accid...

Do you think its possible we could never find any debris, greg? >> it all depends on how the aircraft broke up, alex. thats the big question here. if if it was a high-speed impact with high energy, then you fragmented the airplane into small parts, they will, you know, tend to float for a while. some of the heavier stuff, especially if its got honey comb type merle material, will eventually get water logged and sink. if its a slow speed and you have large pieces of the aircraft, they could float...

coast of australia and the objects cannot be confirmed, nor discounted as being part of flight 370 until they are analyzed. nbcs keir simmons is joining me now from kuala lumpur. so keir, what do we know about these objects and where will they take them? >> reporter: alex, they have been prolonged for these two ships, one australian, and one chinese. and thats where the hope perhaps fades a little. because its not confirmed by nbc news. but two chinese media outlets are saying that the...

>> and, greg, we have had airplanes in the new search area spot debris. we dont know whether its from the airplane or not. but as of yet we havent been able to actually go with a ship and retrieve any debris from the ocean. what will the sort of logistical challenges that theyre running into from spotting something from an airplane to actually going and retrieving it? >> well, the one thing about spotting from an airplane now is that theyre able to drop buoys, theyre seeing it from the airplane ...

So until they retrieve it they wont know for sure if any of that is from flight 370 and to date we still have no concrete evidence, concrete meaning physical evidence, that flight 370 went down in this area and guess what? its now three weeks -- three weeks -- since flight 370 with all of those people on board disappeared from kuala lumpur to beijing. guys, back to you. >> tom costello, thanks so much. we now bring back to the show former ntsb investigator greg feith. we now have v two search ...

The airplanes can stay on station longer, that will give us a better opportunity to actually verify that that i have seen during these last reconnaissance runs. >> greg, thanks so much for jumping in with your expertise. ian, its mid night in perth or later. thanks for being with us, we look forward to the chance that maybe well get information on what the spottings were. the number of children with an autism spectrum disorder is rising. as you know we have focused intensively with autism on t...

We should know more about it tomorrow, andrea. >> greg, maybe you can help me understand how the radar could be re-evaluated 21 days into the disaster and if this confirms with the fact that there are military secrets here in satellite data and you have the t thais and indians and chinese and americans and australians and not completing cooperating and not giving their most high definition radar pictures, satellite pictures, rather because of military secrecy. >> well, the first thing, andrea, i...

Had been off by hundreds of miles in their search of the southern indian ocean. they are combing a new area today, five aircraft already spotted objects of interest they say in that new area where they suspect the plane may have run out of fuel and crashed. the new search zone is 680 miles seeflt of where a fleet has been searching all week. this latest credible lead bringing the search back to square one, joining me now is ian williams from perth australia and on the phone, greg feith. how coul...

miles northeast in the indian ocean. >> the search is on there right now. in fact, a new zealand plane has just returned here reporting an object of interest. >> governor chris christie meets the press this afternoon after his offices paid lawyers exxon rate him of wrong doing. the federal and state investigations, it is far from case closed. good day, im andrea mitchell in washington. the death toll from the landslide in washington has risen to 17. 90 people are still not accounted ...