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As long as it could take. let me add this. we are all waiting to see if the debris they pulled out of the water amounted to anything and thus far it was just trash. i feel like so far, we are three weeks out and the real spotlight of this story is trash in the ocean. thats it. ocean junk. >> that is kind of the story. what the prime minister is saying is we need to give the families closure and in order to do that, we need to find a piece that is identifiable. that could happen two years from no...

Garbage jire. many pieces of debris that have nothing to do with the crash. the uncertainty of the origin of these objects puts a level of doubt into this. >> lets take it a step further, talking about that ocean junk, thats a possibility, one. another possibility people brought up on twitter, remnants from the japan tsunami or pieces -- i know it is not a popular shipping channel, but perhaps something that had fallen off a ship. are those viable possibilities? >> those are viability possibilit...

It could be ocean junk. we dont know. and its very frustrating. but we dont really know where this plane is at this point. its all speculation. >> and people are wondering, as youve said, this is credible. but -- >> very credible. >> but everyone is spending a lot of money and resources and so far, you know, nothing -- >> the exact words, forgive me. and speaking on the search, prime minister tony albert said on sunday we have now had a number of very credible leads. >> which leads us to -- >> v...

Massachusetts, and youre doing it by air. this is a huge massive undertaking. the wood en pallets, yes, it ca take six wooden pallets onboard. we dont yet know if there were any wooden pallets onboard that plane but to talk about how you b ubiquitous they saw a wooden pallet. turns out there was no wooden pallet on the air france plane. it was just more ocean junk. more stuff out there. this is really important. one piece, the piece that was spotted on chinese satellite is thought to be here. yo...

We talked about that a little bit. go on. >> it would be ideal if we had something that we could say, okay this is coming from this area. but its -- we dont know if this plane is even under water. so we dont know what this debris is. it could be ocean junk. we dont know. and its very frustrating. but we dont really know where this plane is at this point. its all speculation. >> and people are wondering, as youve said -- the australian prime minister said this is credible. but -- >> very credible...

Time window. they are working against time. as people point out that the clock is ticking, were 15 days into it. we have 15 days left to pick up the ping from the black boxes. and you have weather, which they are also going into a seasonal change. >> and also over time, floating objects could sink. >> theres a large possibility it could be ocean junk, for lack of a better word. unfortunately we wont know that until we have eyes at sea that are going to pick this up and identify it and let us kno...

Search, has been trying to manage expectations, because whatever is in those images could be parts of flight 370. but could also be ocean junk. maybe something thats fallen off a cargo ship, for example. add to all that, there is a low-level warning of a tropical cyclone north of australia. betty, back to you. >> all right. thank you for that. and i would like to bring in oceanography expert arnold gordon to talk about the satellite image adding a new wrinkle. professor, what can we tell from th...

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