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According to u.s. officials as well as australian officials they are now focusing more, they believe, they think its more likely the plane went along that southern cross border and thats where they are trying to narrow the search right now. a lot of new developments as always with missing flight 370. take a look. this morning malaysian officials coming forward with new information on search efforts on missing malaysian flight 370. >> its now truly an international effort. we are working on narro...

>> -- the search and rescue operation. we are looking at narrowing the search corridor by firstly gathering satellite information. secondly, analyzing radar data. thirdly, increasing air and surface assets. and fourthly, increasing the number of technical experts. we are also taking further steps to address the needs of the families at this very difficult time. i will start by giving a brief operational update. and as we have said, the search for mh-370 involves technical and diplomatic challeng...

Lead in the search areas closest to their countries. on air and surface assets, ive spoken to almost all asean leaders to request further support, including assets with deep ocean surveillance detection capabilities. we also asked our international partners who have assisted as before to take another look at their primary radar data. in the northern corridor, we have divided the search area into seven quadrants. each of the seven quadrants is 400 nautical miles by 400 nautical miles, or 160,000 ...

Crashed off the coast of fort lauderdale. two others have been confirmed dead. just two hours ago, authorities there holding a press conference. listen to what they had to say. >> right now were continuing our search efforts with surface assets and aviation assets. well continue those until mid-morning. well switch out crews and well definitely go throughout the day and reassess the evening. >> the private jet took off after it dropped off a patient in broward county. the plane was on its way ba...

Questions you may have about the case. >> paul, real quick, you were first on scene, when you first got out there what did you see? >> shortly after 8:00, received a report of a downed aircraft port everglades. upon arriving on the scene, us, state and local assets, we saw a debris field. i would say pretty small at that point. some of the fuse lage we were able to see. we confirmed that was what we were looking for. thats all we saw. >> were you one of the buns who found one two of the bodies i...

washington. this is very serious. theyre not telling us where these jets were scrambled from but you know it is serious when they scramble two aircraft to bring in a civilian passenger jet. >> reporter: yeah. the two f-15s for scrambled about 40 minutes before this plane landed in bangor. there are a couple nearby bases that could do that, but norad confirmed they did use two f-15s to accompany this plane, which is a boeing 767. us airways flight 787 onto the ground in bangor, maine. b...

Based and it operates under water. they put out these listening devices and they can listen for the ping. you begin to get the surface assets. the first kind of assets that will get there will be air. i think this will require patience. the time when the first plane can get there as i interpret is a little difficult to figure out the time differences. he said 8:00 a.m. thats sometimes off. this is going to require patience. thats for the first plane to get there. the planes get there and they ta...