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>> it would be interesting it see the images themselves soon hopefully. lets go to cnn justice reporter evan perez in washington. evan, this is the third set of satellite images to come out in just the past few days. but when these crews go out to, you know, do a visual confirmation of these items, these objects, theyre not there. whats the value here? >> well, you know, of the fact that it keeps getting, we keep getting images, we keep getting indications that there is some debris, i think, is ...

This area. that is what makes it so difficult. you know, until they can get some of this debris onboard a ship perhaps and examine it, they wont really know. but they have to keep looking, you know, victor. >> let me ask you this, evan, asking the u.s. for these hydrophones that can be significant, of course, because the locater beacons can start fading in a couple weeks. if you dont have a starting point, would they start using them anyway just randomly? >> were told they want to find debris in...

Jet. one of these ultralong range corporate jets going into the search zone. the only thing i could identify is this wooden pallet. theyve gone back there today and we havent heard if they found anything and only one plane has returned from todays search and that is the long-range surveillance ultrasophisticated surveillance. they didnt see anything, christi. >> we have an image just so people know what were talking about. andrew, i wanted to ask you because i noticed something in that statement...

Unprecedented situation. no one has seen an airliner like this simply disappear. so the malaysian government has struggled with something that nobody else has dealt with. for a lot of reasons the malaysians are very defensive about the criticism thats come. >> a good point. appreciate the update. thank you. now day 16 of this search for flight 370 and the question today is as it has been every day, are teams any closer to solving this? lets bring in now cnn aviation analyst miles obrien and fo...

Images? >> reporter: we dont know much at this point all we know is malaysias transportation minister announced in a statement today that they have received these images and immediately sent them on to the australian coordinating team in perth. we dont know what date these images were taken or even, you know, what this object could be. all we know is its an object of interest. we dont know the size. what they are going to have to do is compare it with the satellite images they already have. they...

Any other survivors. >> only safe way right now with the water building behind that big mud is to rescue people on top of the mud that are alive with helicopters and hoists and actually get them out of there. >> reporter: well, some people were rescued, others are still trapped under the tons of earth and debris. >> we have people that are yelling for our help and we are going to make, were going to take extreme risks to try to get them out of there. >> new information this morning from the nati...

Progress. >> well, you know, weve got more images. weve got to say, these are more clues in the puzzle that have to be confirmed on the ground, really, on the ocean, to be exact. in order to determine whether or not they have a direct link to flight 370. because, okay, its one thing to have a clue, some image that might be debris. we know its debris looking at the satellite images whether theyre coming from france, from china or from australian satellites. u.s. satellites and others have all bee...

Affiliates in seattle. this photo youre looking at, this puts it all into perspective here. that landslide coming down from the top of the mountain here. right in the middle of the photograph, that is the big concern right now. officials still dont know how many people are trapped under the debris. captured this video of the mudslide that came down right in front of his car. >> i was coming down the hill and i just saw the darkness, like somebody wants to grab you and everything was gone. >> rep...

To tell, victor. we have to be cautiously optimistic with these satellite views. there are several anomalies that can occur with satellite views. it could be the crest of the wave, it could be a shipping container, it could be debris that had fallen off a ship. we are actually conducting this search in an area that is a known large debris field. with the poor visibility and with the cloud structure, you have all sorts of problems in trying to interpret it. >> mary, we heard that the pa, you hear...

The plane or did it simply come from a passing container ship. this is why the search takes so long. even if you find debris, even if you find something that is potentially part of the plane, you have to get a salvage ship there to lift it up, take a look at it and test it and see whether or not it came from the plane. >> atika s had hubert, thank yo search crews start to narrow in and another clue send them in another direction, which is only complicating that. >> lets expand the conversation...