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Bear, but we have to find this airplane and we have to find it fast. >> yeah, absolutely, and they certainly havent found it fast at this point yet. what about the factoring in the difficult? how in the world do they do that at this point since it has been so long since this plane crashed? >> well, natalie, that is a really good question, because out there, there are three different currents. i mean, the sea is very large, swells out there, arrest well. we know that. and the search has been susp...

Filmed as coming from the 777. some could just be white caps, others may have sunk or been moved considerably by wind, waves and ocean currents. some could just be junk. theres that to contend with tonight. theres also the lingering question of what role if any the flight 370s captain played in the crash. tonight youre going to hear from a reporter whose source in malaysian law enforcement is telling her the captain may have become deranged or flipped out and is responsible for diverting the pla...

Sorry, to be able to make contact and physically identify these objects. now, ocean currents are ocean currents. they are going to continue drifting and carrying all this debris around this area. so theyre still looking at, even though theyre picking up debris, the potential that the point of impact could be thousands of miles away. and until they make contact with this debris, were still sort of in this capsule of time where were just waiting s. and as michael said, theyre collecting data. and ...

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...

Base today because of rough conditions. and the son of the planes pilot is speaking out in an interview with a malaysian newspaper. hes rejecting the speculation his father may have been involved in the planes disappearance. all of these latest satellite images are located in the same general area of the southern indian ocean. so does this mean searchers may be getting closer to finding the proverbial haystack as they say? or could this just be some random objects caught up in shifting ocean cur...

And really work in the water. theyre not going to get accurate sound readings. theyre not going to get accurate data readings. and it is that hurry up and wait situation for them. >> christine, theres one thing i do want to ask you about, and its something else i heard one of the experts in ocean debris mention. and that is that the debris field as the days move on gets bigger, which could be a good thing because it allows, you know, us not to perhaps miss a small debris field. but i would also ...

Somebody, anybody in the community. >> reporter: there are still more than 170 people missing but officials say they expect that number to change dramatically later today, largely because power has finally been restored to the city of darrington east of the landslide, improving communication. john and marci. >> thank you. now to the missing malaysian airlines jet. the weather improved and the search is on again. a dozen planes and two ships from six countries are combing a huge area in the sou...

Need to help those families figure out what happened to their loved ones. so search crews, they look and they look, and they find nothing. perhaps the debris is gone, perhaps it wasnt the debris we thought it was. today might be different. we have new images and its got our analysts talking. more than 120 pieces, not 2, not 3. and some of these pieces are very big. and theyre spread out over a huge area. if the predictions about ocean currents and wind are correct, thats also good news, because ...

Spotted? >> well, i think we had weather delays the last couple days, wolf. that was my understanding. it also may take time to do some photo interpretation on the satellite images to get them down and to look at them. going back to the comment about the ocean currents being pretty unpredictable, i know the australians have over 17 drift buoys in the water right now that are measuring actual currents, and that data would be invaluable in tuning the models to get the exact drift for this debris f...

Discovery, wolf, oebl p break weve been looking for according to some analysts but those objects are also scattered over an area the size of denver. the question now -- have the objects stayed close together or have the ocean currents and the weather turned against the search teams? malaysian officials called this the most credible lead they have. new images from a french satellite, 122 objects floating in the southern indian ocean. not far from other sightings that could be related to malaysia ...