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I assume theyre still using radar especially when something like the p 8 poseidon is part of the search. can you explain the idea behind really focusing on visual search as opposed to radar? >> sure. and really that came about because two days ago the weather was really bad. very low ceilings, a lot of fog. yesterday a lot better. but our philosophy is we take a balanced approach to use the optimal range of our sensors. if the optimal sensor is the radar they will go heavy on using the radar. ho...

I assume theyre still using radar especially when something like the p 8 poseidon is part of the search. can you explain the idea behind really focusing on visual search as opposed to radar? >> sure. and really that came about because two days ago the weather was really bad. very low ceilings, a lot of fog. yesterday a lot better. but our philosophy is we take a balanced approach to use the optimal range of our sensors. if the optimal sensor is the radar they will go heavy on using the radar. ho...

With planes and ships all converging in that area, attention turning to exactly how theyll look for a trace of the missing plane and white caps and tides and winds, and one answer might be satellite tracked buoys that can help. well get a live demonstration here tonight. luka, great to be with you. show us what youre doing. these are satellite buoys? how do they work? >> right. so what we have here is what we call a drifter. and this instrument is designed to do basically three things. we have a...

Better than i do and our viewers do. why is it so difficult out there to find a 777 given the technology? >> the first issue is the delay, so to speak, that we had between we didnt know which area to search and it wasnt really until about last saturday until a week after the disappearance of the aircraft that people knew we needed to focus on the southeastern indian ocean off the west coast of australia. i think the second factor is the challenges over a vast area of ocean, especially given the ...

For survivors. thats probably not probable at this point. but you want to look for that anyway. and then the second thing would be to look for that flight data recorder. then it goes from a rescue to a recovery phase. you can sort of slow down and do things correctly, but the race to get where the debris field, youre in the neighborhood, and then thats when your sensors go in the water to find the underwater locater beacon which makes ticking noises. but you need a sensor in the water to take ca...

Were going to attatake you ins and show why. while they wait for clearance, the crew goes own the plan to search 37,000 square nautical miles. the p-3 orion was originally designed for hunting submarines, but now looking for flight 370 in the indian ocean. the mission commander introduces us to some of the 11-man crew. this is the electronic operator. right now petty officer enriquez, in charge of running the radar system. >> reporter: youve already done five missions so far. can you run us thro...

System and the camera. the radar is a primary sensor for search. anything large in the water will show up on my radar. ill take the camera, zoom in on it and make sure that its nothing of interest. but if its something that might be of interest, then well drop down low and use observers, the flight station and our eyes just to make sure that its nothing that could be, you know, survivor wreckage or anything like that. >> atika shubert reporting. lets bring in the former assistant fbi director. p...

Russia and other places, that, the united states has too much control over the internet, which is a little ironic because they sensor the internet in countries like those. and the edward snowden revelations have given momentum to those folks to say, a-ha, the u.s. cant be trusted with that. there are all kinds of problems with that when you allow governments that sensor the internet and sort of withhold information from their citizens via the internet, giving them control of it, theres some prob...

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