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Controlled camera from the international space station to get images of any possible plane debris sites. as far as aircraft in the air, especially the lockheed-built p-3 reconnaissance planes, the united states, japan, china and new zealand have deployed the p-3s. the p-8, the sophisticated version, come courtesy of the united states. >> barbara starr joins us right now. barbara, give us a sense of this arsenal being deployed. >> well, you know, its not just the equipment, but the number of coun...

Mc-130s. these are not the sub hunters or not as cape blg as the p-3s but they can be refueled in the air with aerial tankers and stay on station. they can only scan, look, they dont have the radar and the infrared like the p-3s have. but that is something somebody should ask for and ask for quickly. because we have to find the wreckage to lead us to the black boxes to lead us to the surface wreckage. >> right. matthew, quickly weigh in here. >> yeah. find the wreckage. thats first and foremost....

An aircraft carrier can operate, and it would be paced that would give them an opportunity to spend more time on target. im excited about what were hearing tonight about a completely different set of coordinates to take this thing well away from where were looking right now. >> don, on the floating runway thing, about the station time, there has been progress made today. i understand the reporting that malaysia is asking for u.s. refueling capability, so that should help the amount of time these...

After days of searching need to rest. greta? there is so much sen trace on the southern routes, indian ocean with the p-8s and p-3s and the images from these satellites is anyone paying aany attention to that northbound route. >> im sure somebody is paying attention to the northern route. our sources tell us they are focusing right now on the southern route. in fact, they are sort of catching their breath after the initial first week where they were scouring even looking for run whys out in th...

Start. but weve talked about a needle in the hay stack. right now were looking at a needle in nebraska. we may find a needle in a hay field, but once we find the hay stack, then im quite confident f we do it in the next few weeks when the pingers are operational, well be able to find it, particularly if the u.s. navy send has fleet of their p 3s to that area. we have a few new areas. but the orions, we have 150 in inventory. we could get dozens of those to that area, couple dozen, anyway, quickl...

Completely different set of coordinates to take this thing well away from where were looking right now. >> don, on the floating runway thing, about the station time, there has been progress made today. i understand the reporting that malaysia is asking for u.s. refueling capability, so that should help the amount of time these aircraft are able to stay on station. >> p-8s can be refueled in flight, the p-3s cannot be refueled in flight. if youre sending an aircraft carrier, youre sending a lot m...

After days of searching need to rest. greta? there is so much sen trace on the southern routes, indian ocean with the p-8s and p-3s and the images from these satellites is anyone paying aany attention to that northbound route. >> im sure somebody is paying attention to the northern route. our sources tell us they are focusing right now on the southern route. in fact, they are sort of catching their breath after the initial first week where they were scouring even looking for run whys out in th...

A quarter billion dollar piece of machinery, the americans gear out there currently searching right now. for all that we see here, i think there are only nine people that actually man this technology. >> yeah. theres nine people on board and theyve all got various roles. youve got three people responsible for the radar. this thing has got -- has got whats called a synthetic appear tour radar. we have all heard of the primitive primary radar that sends out pulses and pings back. this can send out...

We still dont know if those two fuzzy satellite images are pieces of the missing plane, but either way, it does seem like a few major countries are going all in to search that area for malaysia airlines flight 370. just today, china announced its sending three warships to the coast of australia, japan, and india, and also sending resources, new zealand -- the resources from new zealand, australia, and the u.s. are already there. joining me now, nbcs tom costello. whats the latest? >> the latest,...

>> i think its really just a matter of flight conditions and darkness, to be honest. its 11:00 at night there. you have now had today five planes in that search zone. you had three p-3s, these sophisticated submarine hunters with those radar -- with that radar technology. those coming from australia and new zealanzealand, also a p-8, very sophisticated, most modern sub hunter the united states has, and a c-130 cargo plane was out there as well, dropping these buoyant markers. the idea is they tr...