Multination Situation News Today

Two objects the australian satellites have seen and now french satellite imagery. all we know it is in the southern part of the search zone. they are all coming together. its interesting because a few hours ago the australian prime minister came out with what i would say is a pretty bullish statement saying there is still so little known about what is there, what may or may not be there. let me just read you this quote. i think its quite interesting. we had a number of very credible leads and th...

Talk about the search planes. more in the sky today than they were yesterday. they are up against some rough weather out there. >> yeah. really rough weather. what that means is it will take up a lot more fuel and time. theyre not going to be able to such in the same way they would have. when you these really choppy waves, its harder to tell what youre looking at. staring out into the ocean and if you get the huge waves, its possible to confuse it for a small piece of debris. not just looking fo...

Malaysians some credit they are dealing with a multination situation. imagine trying to get data on those chinese passengers from the chinese authorities. not exactly the font of transparency. you look at the passengers and everything in the hold. then you do this data pull. you try to get information on the flight path from all the various nation. youre talking about military radar in some cases, capability that a lot of nations dont want to give up. malaysians have had some issues and didnt he...

Australia. the jet recorded it found no sign of debris. it had a hard time out there, descend to 300 feet because of the weather, were told. an australian team, however, it was able to spot more pallets. now, those pallets are used in aviation, we should point out. theyre also very common in shipping. >> yes, theyre very common in shipping. the search team is larger. larger than yesterday. eight planes from four countries scouring the waters in the southern indian ocean with an emphasis on what ...

There in australia of the australian maritime safety authority, jong young, that warships are on the way to the area, as well. tell us what you know about the resources that are en route. >> well, theres a tremendous amount of resources. i mean, we got over a dozen countries that are contributing now. you have countries that dont often get along. the japanese, for instance, will search alongside the chinese. you have countries that have all kind of disagreements and putting those aside and are s...

To be on its way at this moment to u.s. authorities also that are involved in the searching. obviously, this is more good news. you know, if theres more satellite images perhaps showing some debris, this gives them more hope that perhaps theyre searching in the right area, which is a big, big relief because, as you know, this has been going on for more than two weeks now and nothing much has been found. >> australian officials say today that mostly its a visual search, but, of course, these team...

South of kuala lumpur and over the indian ocean. that sounds like a lot, but put that in context with the size of this search area. >> honestly, on a scale, a small percentage. thats what we can do. >> reporter: even getting to our search area will take three and a half long hours. the 11-member crew takes turns sleeping in cramped corridors or even on the floor so everyone is ready to tackle the tedious task ahead. we shut down one of the engines to conserve fuel and descend to as low as 300 fe...

Morning, emergency search and rescue teams are following cries for help in washington state. and theyre taking, as they describe them, extreme risks in hopes of digging survivors. look at this. digging survivors out of this wreckage. a massive land slide happened northeast of seattle. now, at least three people have been killed. three others, including a 6-month-old baby are in critical condition. and the deep and deadly mixture of rocks and trees and mud and all the wood you see there. it means...

Expert yesterday talk about the fact that everybody was trying to distinguish, if we can bring it back up on the screen. what that satellite image yesterday was. was it a wing based on its dimensions. but an expert yesterday was saying this is a piece of debris that is a lot of little pieces stuck together like overhead bins and seat cushions that are intermingled with wire and other things. the fact, if this could be part of 370 and its been out there for two weeks in the water since this plane...

Shatter effect, breaking into thousands of small pieces. a mid-air explosion like twa flight 800 would produce larger pieces of debris and a wider debris field. a third scenario, when ethiopian airlines flight 961 tried to make a controlled landing in the indian ocean in 1996, the plane broke into large pieces. what sinks and what floats depends on the part of the plane and the material its made of. >> most of the cabin feurnishins made out of plastics and thermal plastics and some composite mat...