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Pilots. >> well, if you think about the satellite imagery thats coming in to the pilots, its generally a guide for where they can look but the waves and the wind currents of the ocean can move debris several miles -- dozens of miles before planes can actually get there. so when you think about how these planes execute these search areas, theyre given a general grid, so a box in which they have to search in. so if you think about it like mowing your lawn, you have your yard and you have to go bac...

Here that matters because theyre together and because there are small pieces. one of the concerns all along is that big pieces will tend to sink more, but all the small pieces fit the profile of things like asset cushions, things like that. theyll have to see if thats what it is. it fits the profile of what happens when planes hit the water. look at the reassembled wreckage of the tsa flight from in new york years ago. look how many small pieces were involved along with some big pieces. tragic i...

Without a confirmed piece of debris or a confirmed pinpointed location, search teams want to be ready for that, if and when it happens. they want to be ready to find the crucial black box and the pinger, that crucial piece of equipment you just mentioned that will help them do that. it has just arrived in the region. >> the u.s. navy has only two of these high-tech listening devices and one of them is now head together indian ocean to help find the missing plane. it is called a toad pinger locat...

Coming into cnn. this is the harrowing scene as rescuers pulled a 4-year-old boy out of the mud from saturdays landslide in washington state. the little boy was stuck in muck past his knees. the mud gripped him so tightly, his pants were pulled off. the rescuers finally freed him. making the 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 ...

Narrowed the window that much, it would greatly help them pinpoint where to look in the indian ocean. >> it will make all the difference in the world. i woke her up this morning to, i think, very good news. it finally may have something of substance that we could point to in holding our hands and examine to find out what really went down in this deal. im delighted to know that we found a debris field and im hopeful it is the right one. >> we keep talking about them finding debris fields, right? ...

Fresh in everybodys mind in the area, the local people in the area that may use those waters that can help us in the future. >> there is an australian ship that will soon be on the way to the general area where these satellite images are picking up debris. that ping detector, do you think theyll get there in time? >> 30 days is what the law says that the pinger has to continue to work. it could be 33, it could be 35 days so we could get lucky with a little cushion and help us have a bigger windo...

Link the debris to mh-370. >> special equipment from the united states. in australia now racing to the search sight. >> a toad pinger and its mission, to find the black box before the pingers stop. >> all of it in the size of denver, colorado. are we any closer to finding flight 370. youre live in the cnn "newsroom." . good morning. im carol costello. thank you so much for joining me this morning. breaking news and a significant headline in the search for flight 370. a very large possible debr...

Devastating landslide. they just cant get to them underneath all of the mud and debris. ana cabrera is on the story. >> reporter: good morning, carol. the death toll is still rising. there are still dozens of people missing. we will have the latest on this search and rescue as well as one familys painstaking struggle next. [ male announcer ] this is the cat that drank the milk... [ meows ] ...and let in the dog that woke the man