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The sun is up. we have a little bit afterof a drift in the winds. the waves arent 10 13 16 feet high. the ocean current has been moving northward. thats when authorities on the coast of borneo told local fishermen, do what you can on your daily catch to look. theyre also going to send teams here. this is not a pristine beach. this is not where we have sands. where in a distance you can see something drift an shoreon shore. this is heavy vegetation jungle like very marshy. with the runoff, anythi...

Following that, after the stall and the possible stall and aircraft falling to the ground at that point. >> mary, as these crews from several different countries look for this plane, they are also sadly being looking for a possible debris field. what would the debris field on the ocean floor look like? >> there would be two kinds of debris field. because weve talked about the fact that it appears -- and because its the only evidence that we have and it might be wrong -- it appears that the fligh...

Or 400 miles west of where theyve been using the locator. they thought thats where any floating debris would have gone on the tides and the storms and the ocean current. theyve decided theyre not going to find any now. theyre going to focus on this bluefin submersible. and angus houston said they are hopeful they might find something but they might not find anything. >> that was an interesting point. it seems to mark this lowering of expectations. of course, it was the politicians that have rais...

Five years of continuing searching. >> without breaks for winter and weather. >> let me get your take on this quickly. what would you be doing? you have a vast amount of searching under the sea. what would you do at this point? >> two things. the first is exactly what they are doing at the moment which is retro navigating back on the data they got from the hand shakes. the shift in the search area, i dont know why it is moved. i presume it is because they have reanalyzed some of the data they ha...

A needle in the haystack and its another when the needle keeps moving. now, one oceanographer we spoke with has animation model that could help search teams track the debris. hundreds of objects are spotted by satellites in a condensed area, giving new hope to search teams. but in the rough swirl of the southern indian, its been very difficult to find them. >> they drift with the winds and ocean currents and all things that are making this a very dynamic situation. >> reporter: gurleys team at m...

Tuesday, perhaps as early as wednesday morning before it lifts. as this happens, winds would be upwards of 55 to 60 miles per hour. the swells in the ocean here would be upwards of 13 feet high or three to four meters. we know the aircraft have fueled up so far today, multinational effort. there is the u.s. boeing p-8 poseid poseidon. i want to show you this, because this is the current perspective of the ocean in this region. the area of debris is very little in the way of ocean current us. abo...

The size of australia. its not the only thing complicating matters for investigators. right now they also have to contend with the millions of pounds of garbage and other debris they find floating in our oceans every day. dominick is joining me now live in los angeles. this is a sad statement to how all the trash gets there. how much are we talking about? >> a massive amount, jamie. absolutely massive, the biggest problem with the search area, were in the middle of whats known as the indian ocea...

It is extraordinarily. >> bill neely, thank you. kathleen, you ran data for us what its like in the area of the search. what did you find that can be useful for the viewers? >> reporter: so i use satellite data to calculate surface current. this is currents in the top 30 meters just off the ocean so what the surface of the ocean is doing. we are looking at here is just a global map of what the currents look like around the world. but what we want to focus on today, of course, is down southwest...

>> reporter: the question this morning are the remains of flight 370 somewhere out there in one of the most remote corners of the earth? did the plane simply fly until it ran out of fuel one day after australia released these satellite photos of what could be floating debris, the search zone was today targeted by aircraft from australia, the u.s., and new zealand. dropping buoy markers that transmit ocean current data. the australian prime minister this morning. >> its about the most inaccessibl...

12,000 feet on average, the indian ocean. the region were looking at is very remote, very poor or little radar coverage out here. temperature wise weç are looking at a relatively warm ocean, temperatures between 70 and 80 degrees farenheit. the area of interest is not that warm. that is in general the indian ocean. we have to go much farther south. once were south of 40 degrees latitude south youre going to be seeing temperatures drop off quickly. in this region temperatures could be as cool a...