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Effects minimal considering the amount of russian force there and the danger is greater. so they are really talking about applying military force outside of ukraine to reassure those nato allies. >> jim sciutto, general myers, thanks very much. were learning exclusive new details about what could be the next phase in the search for missing malaysian airlines flight 370. just ahead, what top officials are now revealing about the investigation and the possibility of widening the search. plus, ...

Picture of the bottom of the ocean. >> reporter: and theres another advantage for the orion. one key capability is the ability to transmit images and data in realtime. that gets sent up here to a control room on the surface of the ship, where a pilot and copilot are watching it in real time, looking at the images, sometimes taking a screen grab and analyzing it on a different screen. if the orion spots something, its taken out and the curve is sent in. >> they are flood lights, basically, will l...

Today, divers managed to access the ships cafeteria where many of the passengers are believed to be gathered. kyung lah is not far from the search area. shes joining us live. what are you learning, kyung? >> reporter: wolf, i can tell you what were seeing is that the search has been active, its been ongoing, its happened throughout the night and now at daybreak you can see it happening right behind me. i want you to focus in on -- you see that yellow crane there? well, directly to the right of t...

Malaysian government hoping to force actions and answers. >> were certainly not getting any answers without it. >> reporter: answers may come only more slowly. a reset of the search under consideration, marinetraffic.com shows the sea floor mapping sms echo heading towards port. the u.s. navy says the principle search ship "ocean shield" was resupplied by the "cesar chavez" but cant be refueled at sea. the "ocean shield" may soon have to return to port. now, if it does have to come back to port,...

Perth, australia, and is following the latest developments. what is the latest, miguel? >> reporter: the latest is that the bluefin is down for its latest dive. well get a readout on that dive in about four or five hours as it typically happens. as it goes through the last bit of the promising area, if they cant find it there, they will have to go back to the drawing board and figure out a new plan. new pictures show bluefin-21 on the deck of "ocean shield," the best hope for finding missing mal...

>> yeah, theyre saying theres going to be heavy showers out there and the swells will get going. that will cause problems for ocean shield. certainly when the auv comes up to the top, the bluefin-21 and getting it connected to the ship and on to the ship, itself. as for the visual search, that will have the biggest effect on the visual search because the low cloud cover or white caps in the swells dont make their job easier. they may put that off for a day or two until the storm goes by. keep in...

>> and the effects of that tropic tropical cyclone can be pelt in the search area. it may impact the ship above the water, the ocean shield, but the bluefin, itself, works well under the water. the big issue is put it down in the weather, bringing it back up when theres bad weather. >> stand by for a moment. i want to go live to the staging area. cnns miguel marquez is joining us from perth, australia, with the very latest. what are you learning, miguel? >> reporter: we know if nothing is found ...

Joins me in new york. also, joined again by sea operations specialist tim taylor. good to see both of you. >> send me to new york and then they work me to death. >> thats what happens here. lets talk about this. where is jack and how big of a problem is jack going to cause? >> jack has made the entire sea search operation cease. not the bluefin, but everything thats on the surface. the surface of this ocean right now looks look a blender. the waves are 10, 15 feet. the winds are 60 miles, 80 mil...

We talked about this underwater search vehicle, the "ocean shield" still pulling this locator around here, trying to find the bottom, trying to find something here. and were talking about circling the area that we think it is, only about 4 miles around that radius. and this ship now, the "ocean shield" only going one half of a mile per hour looking for that. obviously, the autonomous vehicle right underneath it. rain across the center of the country, east coast good shape, lots of sunshine. bost...

Others. nothing of note has come up on those scans. but search leaders say they are still confident theyre in the right area. still, they may scale back or end entirely the underwater search in five to seven days. thats because the area theyre focusing on now, the area they will be focusing on for the next week is the area that has the best leads. the ones that theyve been able to further refine every single day from those four acoustic signals that "ocean shield" picked up last week. if they do...