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Some kind of flots yam or jetsa that could be part of the boeing 777 aircraft thats been disappeared for nearly two weeks. >> talk about the satellite taking the image right now. is this australian intelligence? and how long do you think it will be until we get a better picture? will that come from one of the planes flying overhead? i understand commercial satellites are now redirecting their cameras. >> well, you know, theres a variety of different satellites that could be used, but the problem...

That puts it into perspective. we have been talking about the ocean currents. its interesting. i have a map that shows that. these are high rezilation and it looks like a bunch of colors right now. if we zoom in, the red is going down. those are strong currents. you see red arrows going up. those are strong currents. the lighter shades of green are where the wreckage is possible. it is in an area where there not that many currents, but all that has to happen is the storm system moves through and...

They would be brought back and analyzed, ships are actually on the way as well, and they would be able to hopefully get some of this debris. but the air will be radar efforts and photographic efforts that the point until the ships can reach it. we dont know how deep the waters are right here, but the average depth in that area of the indian ocean is about 14,000 feet. so it is a very complicated situation. >> absolutely. if this turns out to be debris from that airplane, the depth certainly adds...

The nav system, gone to lateral navigation and flown the aircraft down, climbed to a high altitude. 4,000 miles is not out of the realm of possibility but youveç had ten days of currents. if this is in fact the debris field. >> 1,700 miles off the coast in the southern indian ocean. what do we have there? >> first of all up north we have diego garcia, a u.s. base leased from the u.k. government. we have submarines, surface aircraft. we have a satellite system up there. we have a resupply syste...

Search theory. essentially whats happening, as they collect more and more information, they change the probabilities of where something might be. so whereas in the beginning it was probably near where it disappeared. now they have looked at all this information from satellites and from witnesses and from anticipated movements and radar, where this plane was going, how much fuel it had, and ntsb has come up with the idea that the -- one of the better places, higher probability is now this little ...

Concerned, were still talking about a big area and were still talking about an area that is concentrated toward the south. its a massive part of the indian ocean near australia. the australians are deeply involved in this, as is the u.s. navy. theyre using this poe -- poseidon aircraft. here is the complication, even if they find debris at this point, they would use ocean currents to try to figure out where the debris came from and try to determine where the point of impact would have been. this...

>> for whatever reason, very disturbing. thanks very much. were also learning more about the reasons why the search for the airliner is narrowing and why the focus is now on that far end of the southern search zone. lets go to barbara starr. what are you picking up over that, barbara? >> australia is searching a vast area, but right now, focus on about 117,000 square miles, big enough, isnt it, off that western coast of perth. the map really tells you everything you need to know about this. how ...

Many sources ive talked to who find it plausible that the plane is on the ground somewhere. they tend to -- and i know that others have heard this, barbara has heard this inside the pentagon. the leading theory being that the plane more likely to be on the bottom of the ocean than having landed safely somewhere. >> you agree with that safely? >> the plane is in the water and theres no other evidence that would contradict that. >> and the fact that no debris has surfaced, nothing is floating, the...

About it. here is what we know. we know the plane took off. right? we know that it flew for some 45 minutes to an hour roughly n then we know it completely vanished somewhere around here. now we know from last night the chinese took some pictures from somewhere over here, which they say they should have never released. those were some 140 miles away. that automatically raised questions about, could it really be that far away at the time they took these pictures or said they took these pictures? ...

In a haystack. thats why it might have been delayed. im just guessing of course. but its the first clue weve had so it gives us a place to focus. >> you agree also if the malaysian air force, which is a pretty good air force, the radar detection when it said it made a u-turn, that could be a simple mistake, inaccurate. >> it could be. you have to have positive identification of what that track is, who that is. if they just saw a radar return in the general vicinity make a left-hand turn, they do...