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That means the planes have to go very low and the admiral mentions terrain. there is no terrain. there is no terrain. its up in the air. not like the atlantic ocean where you have islands and two continents and things like that. you are heading toward antarctica there, right? >> well, thats facially right, bill. because when you are flying, you have to turn when do you search patterns. so if you want to balance getting low so you can see initially any floating debris but then when you turn, on t...

Under water, to really get the fidelity of the image so that you can see if its got markings or window holes or whatever, to call it an airplane. >> kerry, i know you have something you wanted to ask greg about. >> i was curious. if it turns out that the p 3s can find this debris and they have done some pretty extensive mathematics with the currents and everything from the ntsb to sort of suggest where this is flowing from, floating on the surface and moving. pictures were taken on the 16th. wer...

Its like looking for needle 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,...