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However, theyve got a lot of great people helping them. theyve got ntsb, boeing, faa, they have their own staff. its just going to take time because theres a lot of different parts and pieces coming in. theyre going to take a lot of people looking at over a period of time to sort out. >> and then you have almost sort of, jim, politics at play. i mean, i know diplomatic feuds, nothing new when it comes to searches like this, but beijing very angry with malaysia right now. we know the vietnamese h...

All right, youre looking at live pictures right now from kuala lumpur, where malaysian officials are updating the media about the search for flight 370. still a giant, giant mystery. these officials now are denying a "wall street journal" report that the plane may have been flying for four hours after it lost contact with radar. that would just have giant implications. it would mean the plane could have flown thousands of miles beyond where theyre searching right now. and then the question would...

In fact, on the other side as you look at that map there that peninsula out into the indian ocean. always looking for a needle in the haystack, right now needles in two hay stacks. questions about how quickly the malaysian air force shared that radar data weve been talking about and reporting on in the last 24 hours. >> jim sciutto, thank you very much indeed. bring in now science educator bill nye, jim tillman, aviation expert and fran townsend, cnn national security analyst and homeland secu...

Different areas, experts on weather, maintenance, on air traffic control, every aspect of it. >> reporter: theres no indication that the malaysians havent done that and fiercely defend their handling of this. they only hold back information when theres more analysis needed. >> this is a crisis situation. it is a very complex operation and it has not always been easy. >> reporter: analysts say part of the problem could be cultural. theres been one coalition leading malaysia for decades. >> in the...

Dozens of ships and planes have joined the search for the malaysian airliner now missing for six days. while eyes scan the waters, teams are also using high-tech tools to cover an area of nearly 36,000 nautical square miles. its the size of portugal now. rene marsh is in washington with more. >> reporter: good morning. a lot to cover this morning. malaysian authorities have handed over both radar data and other information to the ntsb and faa. and the agencies have seen the data. based on that, ...

World. there are land and sea disputes between china, malaysia, these southeast asian countries that create military questions about the capabilities in that area. when the satellite images came out yesterday, for china to release satellite photos, although now it appears they werent showing wreckage of that site, that shows military capabilities of china in that area, an area thats watching very closely. same with the radar data from the malaysian air force. that shows their ability to track, o...

Combination of information that has searchers changing their focus somewhat to the west of the peninsula. not just the data from the airplane engines, but also the radar data that the air force put out and we have been reporting in the last 24 to 48 hours. in addition that, a sense of the full range of this plane and that it had about seven hours of newel it and if it took the direction indicated, this is as far as it might be able to go. that is giving them the scope of their search. its my und...

>> malaysian air force. >> right. people have questioned that. experts ive talked to say theres a lot of reasons that that doesnt look too reliable. but it was worth looking at. yesterday we had this floating piece of wreckage that looked to a lot -- >> chinese satellite image. >> looked to us to be way too big to be any part of the structure because the heavy part, the big parts of the structure dont float. then we had this report of this engine monitoring data and that technology is certainly ...

Malaysian government and chinese government, the two involved in this. chinese had so many on the plane. it was a malaysian airliner. its frustrating for us, but must be for the investigators as well. theres so much inflicting information and interpretations of that information. >> ntsb and faa are on the scene to get more involved. can you tell us more about that? >> i think thats key. we have heard from the authorities in malaysia a call for help. even on interpreting the data. they had troubl...

To said the navy ships will move out over the indian ocean and some officials say they wont. well have to see what happens. >> "the wall street journal" had a similar report, although they have since corrected that report. explain to us the difference and the significance. >> well, their correction. they say rather than the data being transmitted back to ground, theres a system on the plane thats constantly sending data back throughout periodically. the data didnt go to the ground but it went up...