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Anything floating on the ocean surface. maybe like three miles off of the coast, i said to him, like that intertube right there. and he said, yeah, go over there. >> i said to my cousin, hey, man, this a sick joke? we thought that it was a doll tied to an intertube. >> and then i see the hand move and i go, hurry, go, go, go, and before i can blink my eyes my cousin is not in the boat anymore and he is screaming, it is a baby. >> and when i reached over, he grabbed me by the neck and tried to ki...

Hurricane but it is intensesifying as it is moving in. so you are having a storm surge up under that center low pressure and expands out on the ocean surface. the water level rises and the more powerful that pressure follows the winds around the circulation, the higher the rise. once you get up above category two status, you really start worrying about dangerous storms, three foot to five foot to in this case the potential for 12 feet storm surge. >> when folks say 12 foot storm surge, were talk...

Families who lost loved ones on board that plane. just so happened to also be a military trained pilot, a former marine helicopter pilot. what is the status right now on the two prongs of whats going on right now -- compensating those family members and searching for that missing plane? >> well, let me just tell you, representing the families, the family really only care about one thing, which is the search effort. and right now, theyre searching a priority area in the southern indian ocean. tha...

Search crews have now recovered the bodies of 30 victims. some of the victims were still strapped in their seats. the airasia jet carrying 162 people crashed last sunday while flying in indonesia to singapore. the plane ran into bad weather just before it was lost from radar. and some aviation and some aviation experts say the pilot may have landed the jet on the ocean surface only to have it sink in the high seas. and right now ships from several countries, including the u.s., are scouring the ...

Flying too slow to sustain flight, my feeling is it got caught in some extreme thunderstorm updraft, something of that nature that caused this upset and this problem, of the disappearance. >> okay. well either way, there might be answers provided on that ocean surface in the coming hours. we know helicopters have been sent out to look for this possible debris. appreciate all of your analysis jeffrey thomas joining me there live from perth australia. hes the editor in chief of airline ratings.com...

Ships, i believe to the precise area to pick up these objects out of the water. >> i think thats whats so dangerous in reporting this, also whats so frustrating and anxiety-ridden for the families and loved ones. there is a sense that people want to jump on any information thats out there. the authorities, no doubt, want to provide some sort of answers. and as we heard and as we saw with mh 370, youve got to be so careful with these false leads, this wishful thinking clues. how difficult is it t...

Night. they got bad again in a big long line across the same area that the plane was lost. in the same area that theyre looking if:. all these guys and women are out there looking for the plane. so 11:00 at night in the dark theres very little rain fall. in the morning hours things pop up and there you go. storms in the middle of the search area. tomorrow night, clear. the next morning, stormy. its just an exact opposite of what we would love here. what wed like to see is clear skies, no wind. b...

Flight 370, more than three months after the flight went missing. >> after taking off from kuala lumpur. at the request, australia has been leading the search. the plane is thought to be resting in australias air search area. the search remains a highly complex operation and involves vast areas of ocean, and can rely on only limited data and aircraft flight information. from the little available data, specialists at an early stage calculated that the aircraft entered the sea, close to a long but...

Larger area. 23,000 square miles. unlike the bluefin, theyll deliver data without having to come to the surface after each mission to download that data. also, theres new word that aerial searches will be suspended. >> i am now required to say to you that it is highly unlikely at this stage that well find any aircraft debris on the ocean surface. by this stage, 52 days into the search, most material would have become water-logged and sank. >> joining us now, jeff, ill start with you. do you agre...

Live this morning. the search for the missing malaysian airlines jet is about to enter a new phase. crew haves been searching for 52 days now and they found nothing. now australias prime minister is saying the search could last up to eight more months. >> it is highly unlikely at this stage that we will find any aircraft debris on the ocean surface. therefore, we are move iing fro the current phase to a phase which is focused on searching the ocean floor over a much larger area. the aircraft p...