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Theyve heard from them so they are looking to speak with 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 ships ...

Technology. >> it is a lot bigger than i thought. that is a substantial piece of machinery right there. our thanks to rosa flores. >> sorry. go ahead, rosa. >> reporter: i was going to say, one of the really good things about this technology, you get a lot of information in real time. as soon as this device is able to get close to the ocean floor, you are able to see a preliminary picture. then, you bring this device back. you connect it to a computer and then you get a high resolution picture o...

Do everything we can to finally locate some wreckage. >> reporter: an on or about grapher we spoke with built a computer model tracing the debris back from where they might have drifted from. a huge distance, the current moving 30 to 60 miles per day. the power of these ocean currents is one reason authorities are racing to recover and identify some parts of debris. the sooner they catch it, the simpler it may be to work out where it came from. and thats where theyre most likely to find the wrec...

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That tiny little ledge to the next balcony -- >> hes thinking at this point, thats my only hope. >> it was so hot where he was. you can could see it was so hot because that building was burning up. >> i have never seen anything like that. that is unbelievable. >> unbelievable. next up for us on "new day," we are following the breaking news from australia learning a few minutes ago of a possible debris field from flight 370. possible objects spotted off the coast. the includes were there today ...

Taylor now, because the other new information we have today are these satellite images which have now shown its the third time, actually shiite slooit images have picked up a big piece of debris, which could be a piece of the plane 75 feet in that range, that length. you know, judging by the locations of now three satellite images that have a piece roughly that size and your knowledge of the oceans, is it conceivable, is it credible that they could be images of the same thing? >> yes. i mean, th...

Forecast, we dont have our buoys out here to give us information we typically like to see. so we go by satellite and we do have the potential for more rain and wind across the region over the next 24 to 48 hours. the good news is as we get into the latter part of the work week, remember were 12 hours ahead of eastern time. we get into the clear weather, which is not typical of what you see this time of year. so they will have several days to assess perhaps if this is the debris from the missing ...

Promising leads and surface vessels cant find them? bobby skoelly was on the neighbor vi dive team that recovered wreckage of twa flight 800. >> the item could have sunk, it could have been blown completely off on a different course or pushed some place else and the ship will just never find it again. >> reporter: chinas government released this photo of an object that turned out to be a whale carcass but if any wreckage is found, a drift analysis map can help find the rest of the plane. data ma...

Dissipa dissipate, the other thing that i think is going to go for them is the fact the australians have been deploying marker buoys since they started the search on the 17th of march. that will help trace the ocean currents to back track the debris to the possible impact point, but thats going to be very, very difficult and our experience with air france 447, we found debris within five days and when we backtracked those to a likely spot, it gave us a very low confidence, broad area where the i...

And then south. but finding debris may be the easier part of this monumental search because beyond that, hurdles become amazingly high. first theyll use wind and ocean currents to see how far the debris drifted. when they agree on a general vicinity, sonar buoys can be dropped into the water to pick up pings from the black boxes or radio transmitters. but the pings can only be detected a mile away and the batteries only last 30 days. they could send manned or unmanned subs but the plane could be...