We can often see tropical cyclones, which we saw jillian about two weeks ago. so things are pretty calm for now. but we do expect to see the waves getting a little bit larger the next 48 to 60 hours. we ll see an increase in the cloud cover. and it ought to be becoming more breezy, and of course that will increase the swells here on the ocean surface quite a bit. the winds will be picking up as we head in towards our wednesday. we would see them up towards 30 to 40 kilometers per hour. and here on the ocean s surface over the weekend, very, very calm. this is the hms perth. and you can see how calm the waters are compared to what they normally would be this time of year. and the unmanned submersible, the bluefin-21 has a lot of geography here to explore. you can see it s a sloping bottle of the ocean. it s more rolling hills and a
Family members. i would be interested to get some sort of reaction to this news, this information from the news conference. the change of face. reporter: i received out to a couple of family members after that news conference in perth. the reaction has been muted and cautious which is pretty consistent with the reaction we ve been seeing for the past couple weeks. one person whose sister was on the plane said i m tired of this. they re playing games. he is clearly very frustrated. he reiterated what he s said many times before. he wants more specific information, more concrete data. we talked with a man whose wife is on the plane. and he said i care about the new developments and the news every day. but this kind of development is not what i m most interested in. he said my wife was on the plane. what i care about the most is concrete developments like finding some sort of debris and finding where the passengers
Isn t given to raising false hopes. he said it is the next best option but it will be a long and tedious process. as i say, to search that for one day, i mean, if people have been to manhattan, for example, imagine looking for a laptop that might be buried. we re talking about these black boxes. imagine looking for a laptop that maybe built in silt in the dark over the whole area of manhattan. that s just one pass. they ve got their job cut out for them. i suppose their biggest hope is that they might find a large piece of wreckage. that will give them something they can work with. the ocean shield does have the assistance of hms echo. it has a two kilometer wide scanning ability. looking for anything hard on the ocean floor that could prove to be wreckage. the magnitude of this search operation is just extraordinary. hard to grasp statements. making holmes reporting there live from perth, australia. just after 3:00 in the afternoon
I appreciate your being here. we all grieve in different ways. and i wanted to tell people thank you. i want you to know. i came to the scene very, very quickly. i was there before the police and before the ambulance and i was informed immediately that they were in heaven. and i know that they re in heaven together. the mother there of the man killed. the mother of the 14-year-old, and the daughter of the man killed there. just heart breaking stuff. we re going to take a very short break. you are watching cnn newsroom live. still ahead, we will take you live to perth for the latest on the search for flight 370. turn around every now and then i get a little bit hungry and there s nothing really good around turn around every now and then i get a little bit tired