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Australia. andrew stevens is there. andrew, what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, those images we are looking at, which have been the center of what the maritime officials are calling the strongest lead so far, actually came from australian satellite intelligence. they picked these up, and they were described, actually, at the press conference with the coordinators of the search as being indistinct, and they certainly are indistinct. we know the biggest measures about 80 feet long, but we can...

Time, quite a lot of time, actually, for people actually in vessels to get there, john. >> now, andrew, when it comes to getting eyeballs on the scene, like you mentioned, talk about some of the difficulties, whether it be weather or whether it be sunlight, to get at least the aircraft hovering over these pieces of debris. >> reporter: well, its just about everything you care to mention. you mentioned two there. theres about four hours of daylight left in that target zone, and there has been pla...

Related to the search. following specialist analysis of this satellite imagery, two possible objects related to the search have been identified. >> now, these are the actual satellite images of the two floating objects. they are raising hopes. but again, right now, just hopes. it needs confirmation before there is any reason to believe that they are pieces of flight 370. i want to bring in andrew stevens live in perth, australia. this is the closest land point to where this search is now going o...

24-hour relief staging post. aircraft can fly in all day and all night. weve been seeing that as well. as far as the cleanup and the misery and the work piling up for the rescue teams and the relief teams, its an enormous task. the debris here, theres an overturned baggage trolley. overturned cars, the place is in complete darkness. it is squalored. meanwhile, chris, the task of finding and bearing the dead continues. more misery on the ground, as some relief efforts are are halted overnight whe...

Miles north of here served as an active planning and propaganda production base. three other mosques wfr also described as facilitating the training of recruits. its long been the suggestion of the united states that london over the last 20 years has become an important staging post for terrorists and these cables are now raising serious questions about why the british government did not act more quickly in tackling the enemy within. but it seems that theres still some reluctance to confront rel...

Anymore about these individuals? >> the official in norway are saying they are wont reveal at this point what country or location these men may have been targeting. its not clear if norway was a target itself or if it was being used as a staging post for a larger plot. they do say they were planning this attack with powerful bombs. a u.s. counter terrorism official in washington says they were one node in a larger network connected to that plot in new york and to bomb that mall here in evening 4...

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