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Concrete idea whether theyre looking in the right place. but again, you go back and look at what we do know, megyn, for example the plane took off heading towards beijing, which was kind of northeast. we now know that it took a southern turn. and when you take a southern route, particularly in this case it took a southwest route that is consistent with where this debris or potential debris was spotted. so that is encouraging from that standpoint. but again, that is just one more situation that h...

In the hay stack out there, isnt it? >> >> it is. we are looking at a search area thats somewhere over 200,000 square miles. a lot of area to cover. >> do you have any help? any other nations have anything akin to the p 8 out there looking? >> absolutely, maam, the australians have two of their p-3s out here and new zealand has p 3, ac 30 in addition to a whole host of other nations providing assistance. >> right now the weather is holding and for the rest of the day, you are expecting good weat...

Hopefully they are in play. the smaller rovs, the remote sub, we have to get closer before we put them in the water to know what to look for. >> heres a question for you. 1500 miles from perth. all the way out to the area where the debris is, can refueling planes help keep search planes on target longer? they are going to have to refuel if they can. >> im not sure they really can. thats basically a 737 platform. >> i think they can. the p 3s, i dont think they can. >> that would help and brings ...

Tony nap beach college of aviation. from your perspective, assuming that nothing is found there, assuming that they cant find anything on the p 3s or the p 8s that could give them an indication of what was seen to on that satellite, where do they take it from there? >> if you go back to the beginning of this event, weve been trying to get the search area. last week it was basically a 360 dooeg type. over the weekend, it kind i have allowed us to narrow the search area a tribute. if this light is...

A.m. and one at 8:00 a.m. they have been talking about how difficult this area is to get there, 4 1/2 hours down there and only two hours to circle before they have to return. the weather down there considerably better but here its going to be tough as far as them taking off on time, wolf. >> you think the p-3s that the u.s. and australians and others have, its a bigger version of those surveillance, that they will be be able to take off? because youre absolutely right, the weather looks pretty ...

Were joined now by van gurly and peter goelz and fran townsend. van, you spent 26 years in the navy. so describe a little bit of the challenge that awaits those. >> the southern oceans are distant. its an isolated place and very hard to get to. the discussion is already -- >> for both planes and boats? >> for everybody. if you wanted to find the end of the earth, this is probably where you would start. >> really? >> so one is a very remote area. its hard to get assets in there. and then once you...

And two, an ability to define what theyre seeing on the surface, and either count it as debris or more importantly just count it off as garbage. so as they are looking now to the south, they have a high degree of confidence that theyll find something thats there, and theyll go to the next level of determining what it might be. >> kerry sanders, thank you. i want to bring if retired aviation analyst hager and tom bunn, good to have both of you here. picking up on what kerry said, robert, if the...

Some of it. >> kerry sanders is joining us. lets talk about the objects that have been described as credible, at least in leading search investigators to this portion of the indian ocean. there are two different satellite objects that appeared. one being ruffle 78 feet long and the other 15 feet long, correct? >> that cis correct. they were taken by satellite images. we are looking at photographs taken from orb bitting satellite with decent resolution but not the resolution you would like to det...

>> good morning, chris. well, they certainly got the investigative artillery going with the aircraft, the p 3s are scouring the surface of the water but its so far away, 1500 miles off the coast and that part of the oceaning is royaling. im not surprised that electronic means have been used, satellites to the discover this debris and nobodys had a sighting of it. but its encouraging. unhappily, the human dimension is coming to the forenow. this mystery has been prolonged for so many days, its ag...

Sensors on them would be a very good use of that asset. the one thing that drones dont do well are fly low at low altitudes. so if they have a cloud deck, lets say the cloud deck is 500 feet, the p-3s are able to penetrate the cloud deck and then fly just under 500 feet and continue to search. and that might be a little riskier for the drones. were not talking small drones. were talking like predator drones that have long duration 22 hours of air time. >> good point. ken christiansen, thanks ver...