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And then we have eddys that can be like little whirl pools and really scatter anything in this area, so theyre the best in the business out there but they have a lot to work with, in terms of weather. >> hey, janice, let me ask you this, it seems like the current moves in a circular direction, but more importantly i have heard that the swells in that area can be as big as 30 to 40 feet, relatively small at six to eight feet, is that true? >> yeah, absolutely, i mean, this area of the world is ve...

They have to track all of those things. theyre trying to predict where they may have moved many, many miles away. >> and those clear images we got of the possible debris we got in yesterday, they came from tuesday. so how long, you know, has it been out there floating around, if it is part of the plane? has it sunk? how useful are these images in the first place, really? >> in that part of the world, the ocean currents, just the currents, not the wind, nothing else, the ocean currents kick debri...

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 plane. and as you can see t...

As white, square objects. ships headed to that area where the debris was spotted as australia continues to lead in this search today and follow up from sightings from satellites that came in over the weekend. what is so hopeful about todays sightings is that these objects were actually spotted by human eyes from these planes, not by satellite. watch this. >> this is the first time weve actually certified weve seen something and got a photograph using our camera operated off the front of anything...

Be there. would one of our detector airplanes beç able to hear the ping? >> i cant speak to if the aircraft would be able to hear it or not. the way ive utilized before is this side scan sonar deployed under the water, that will be able to hear it. but it need to be in fairly close proximity of the acoustic beacon to be able to hear and hone in on it. and theyll do another grid search just under water at that point to search for that signal. >> matt, i know its a leap because what you pointed ...

Weather. the gear can see through that weather. and the bottom line is that these aircraft with their gear onboard are designed to search for submarines. this is for anti-submarine warfare. theyre now deploying this equipment over the area to see if they can find that debris floating on the surface or maybe even just below the surface. im going to take a map here and take you down to the area that were looking at. so as you look at the map here, and i just sort of telestrate, thats the general a...

>> my first reaction looking at at the australians we are seem to be hearing from people on top of the thing and not with respect to the malaysians which not a respectful operation. its difficult to know what is out there and preliminary sightings and questions about what is really there. it certainly sounds like the most hopeful sign we have had in a long time since the beginning there might be something out there and consistent with the flight paths we have been talking about and we should tal...

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>> homes are swallowed in an instant. water roars six miles inland, devouring everything in its path. >> the tsunami has already engulfed some cities, fires breaking out due to the earthquake. >> cars are tossed about. we still dont know if passengers got out before the tsunami hit. just offshore, a giant vortex of ocean currents looks like something from science fiction,