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A ship in the water that can get to it. they have to bring it over the side and verify exactly what it is. then, only then, will we have a link that might be able to be traced to flight 370 itself and the all-important flight data recorders. carol? >> so frustrating. jim clancy reporting live from malaysia. i want to get a little more on where this new debris field was found and why it might be so important. lets check in with tom foreman. can you talk specifically about the debris that was spot...

And these objects may still be in the airplane and the storm may have actually broken them loose so, you know, its -- its yet to be seen exactly why they ended up where they are but lets hope they are pieces from the airplane. >> over the last several days weve reported similar stories, that satellite images showed some debris and everybody was hopeful and then nothing was found. how optimistic are you that one day soon someone will manage to spot something in the ocean and be able to retrieve i...

Special pingers and things way down at the southern end of this load. by the way, weve made this big so that you can see it here, but this plane within this overall search area would be nothing but a spec. so, carol, right now a race is on. first, to get to this debris and figure out if its the right stuff. secondly, to do the math to figure out if it is the right stuff, where did it come from because thats where the bulk of the plane would be under the water. that search has to go on. >> great....

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Again, small objects, pieces of rope. you talk to the pilots and they say we see a lot of debris down there and when we talk about seeing debris, when we tell the media about the debris were seeing, that means that it is potentially linked to flight 370. there is a lot of rubbish in the water down there so they have to be quite careful about what they look at and what they decide are objects of interest. so what we know is the satellite images show these 122 objects in the search zone. it corres...

Studiable space. the fact it was all together is good. this is where the search areas have been. this is where the debris has been found. it is definitely in the right area. they have to get there and actually touch the stuff to figure out if it is the right thing. we do know this. the nature of it, the idea of a lot of little pieces. look at this image of the twa crash if we bring this back from when they reconstructed that, the one that happened off new york. there are some big pieces that wer...

Into the southern indian ocean. as a result, of course, there was a reaction. today, we had 12 aircraft up over that area searching. they had some positive hits. they did not -- the aircraft were not able to confirm that any of the debris that they cited was directly linked to flight 370. this field operates or poses perhaps more hope. it is somewhat to the south of the limits of what the previous debris field or search area was thought to be. therefore, they are going to investigate it and inve...

Are among those still missing. now making this rescue effort so difficult, the sheer amount of mud and debris that came crashing down. the image on the left before the landslide and on the right after. the entire hillside now gone taking an entire town with it. and for the families hoping for news of their missing loved ones, the wait is devastating. george howe has more for you. >> if youve seen the maps and youve seen the extent of the devastation and the consistency of the mud, i can tell you...

An autonomous underwater vehicle scans the sea floor looking for the black box and debris. >> once the toad pinger locator finds the black box, this is the machine that can recover it, this remotely operated vehicle that can go very deeply in the ocean with manipulator arms can pick up all sorts of debris and the black bok box. this one recovered the black box for air france flight 447. >> with flight 370s pinger battery life ticking down each day, every moment is critical. >> until they recover...

A new dplglimmer of hope in finding malaysian flight 370. satellites show a possible debris field. 122 objects bobbing in the south indian ocean. until they can reach them, it will be impossible to tell if they are tied to the crash. it is a possible lead in a search that has not turned up a single piece of physical evidence. another tantilylizing clue, a mysterious half ping. it came in after the last transmission from the aircraft. that half ping is the so-called digital hand shake between the...