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This would fall under that category. what makes it special right now is the fact that it is equipped with this sophisticated u.s. navy technology, the pinger locator, which we can rely on for about a week and needs a more narrow search area to truly effectively search. the reason why they waited this long is they were hoping to have a more narrow area to look, some sort of wreckage to say okay, we found this here. lets look at the ocean currents. lets see if we can try to figure out where this o...

The effort may be hampered by weather. ships finally retrieved objects from the search area today after three weeks of looking for possible objects that never materializes. as we look at this, i wanted to be clear that no link exists so far between these objects and the missing malaysian airliner. the objects could be sea trash. theyre hoping to find something. again, they could just be sea trash. lets bring in our panel of experts. nick mallos, les, miles obrien. you were making a point earlier...

Australia is massive. with the ocean currents in the part of the world with dangerous and unpredictable weather, where do you begin? we ask colleen keller. she helped track down air france flight 447. david glee is joining us. it seems not all of the countries are happy about sharing the information. and lawsuits are coming. who better to talk about that subject is arthur wolk. a firm that specializes in crash and litigation. the investigation has focused a lot on the pilot of flight 370. former...

>> atika, thank you very much. i want to check in with sarah in kuala lumpur. the malaysian government was very confident in the analysis done by satellite companies. investigators were searching in a different spot all week. are they just as confident now? >> reporter: look, its hard to know what to believe, right? this is the difficulty. the families have been going through this, first theyre confident, then the search shifts. this wasnt just because of the ocean currents. this was because the...

The helicopter can fly over the debris, look down and when it looks down, it can hover and go lower. maybe for the first time, get a sense of whether they are seeing debris or the garbage that gets caught up in here. the ocean currents go like this. theres a lot of garbage that gets caught and spins around. >> buoys have been dropped to mark places where the debris was found, but, those buoys, they are going to move around with the currents. >> yes, but this is high-tech. they have the ability t...

Kuala lumpur. the malaysian government was very confident in the analysis done by satellite companies. investigators were searching in a different spot all week. are they just as confident now? >> reporter: look, its hard to know what to believe, right? this is the difficulty. the families have been going through this, first theyre confident, then the search shifts. this wasnt just because of the ocean currents. this was because they looked at other data and decided if they did a different calcu...

If they recover pieces of the plane they have to find the air craft itself and the data recorder. the currents are different, the depth is different, and the skies are different. >> luckily. we have an area thats been reduced from 470,000-miles to 123,000 square miles as a search area, which is great. still a lot of ocean to cover. we do have ocean currents that are -- theyre ocean currents. they are shifting the debris feel farther northeast, which is great because its closer to land which wi...

Information and every time something comes into the bucket, its adding to your analytic picture. its adding to your knowledge of whats going on. and you get a better idea of honing in on possible alternatives. and youre also excluding possible alternatives, as you add more information into the problem set. >> the transportation administer of malaysia says all of the objects spotted earlier in some of those other satellite images, french, thai, chinese, australian, they could still be parts of th...

New search area. so it wasnt a total waste. the australians saying all of that stuff, the 122 pieces that were spotted by one piece of satellite, 300 spotted by another, thats all junk that has nothing do do with the wreckage. >> if in fact the malaysians are correct, that would be hard to explain. but based on the ocean currents. >> so you believe the australians are right? >> i do. >> peter, kwwhat about you? >> i think the australians are speaking straight. >> you have more confidence in the ...

Ones. that can buoy you up and raise your emotions and make you feel better about things. you are not as isolated. on the other hand, when the here oikic period ends and the media attention fades and the searches slow down and get called off and there is a greater fall. the initial loss and you come down from this. >> i cannot begin to imagine. >> heart breaking. >> absolutely. thank you so much. >> you got it. >> the search area for the missing plane as we have been reporting shifting 680 miles...