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Hysterical reaction. screaming and crying and people fainting. it was horrible. the mayor of surabaya was also in there. she managed to get the television turned off. the scenes must have been of an unimaginable heartache and pain and anguish. now we do know it was the flight. the grim task of recovering the bodies starts and piecing together what happened. >> andrew quickly, 5:04 p.m. where you are. how much more daylight? how much longer can they be out there and recover bodies and know where ...

Just going to be devastating for so many of them. 162 people on that flight. what happens now, john is that the search and rescue are diverting all their resources into that area. there is also a team of divers making its way to the crash site. we estimate it looks like its probably about between 100 and 150 kilometers offshore from the western side of borneo. so it may take some time for divers to get there. and also how long its going to take for surface vessels to get there. but that is now t...

Over. they want to know what has been found, and we still could be some sometime away from this because if helicopters cant get in there and the visibility is low and the sea is rough, its going to make it difficult for the surface vessels as well. it could sink some of the objects, scatter the objectingsobjects. but there are 40 vessels in the search region. it is a big search region 156,000 kilometer search region. and they have been really methodically plotting and ticking off region after re...

Greece. the effects were widely spread. they had been refocused. we need to get surface vessels to the area. the helicopters, as you have been saying are there. they are starting to recover bodies. there is a lot of work to be done there, obviously. the vessels are there. they can continue through the night. the waters are shallow. we are being told around 40 meters. we are trying to independently verify that. if they are that shallow, it will be a much easier task recovering the wreckage and bo...

It was over open sea. and if it was in trouble shortly after that, which is the working assumption. there are a lot of vessels working. were four hours into this search on the second day and still no sign yet. >> and andrew you mentioned the search it is of course now daylight where you are, which makes searching easier than it has been the last few hours. what sort of efforts are involved? this is a multinational search effort. >> thats right, michael. there are vessels coming from malaysia sin...

Down somewhere not related to where that ping is? >> the surface vessels that are searching in terms of the black box and the pings will be looking in a distinct area. >> right. >> the area were focusing on today is based on ocean modeling and drift markers, we dropped those several days ago. and its actually showing that the currents in the area are not moving as much as we thought. so the separation of those two areas is not unusual. >> right. i understood your point. my colleague richard ques...

Satellite images, all of those turned out to be "other things." our matthew chance is live in perth, australia, for us this morning. matthew, i know that they have a submarine, and then they also have two ships that are equipped with this high-tech gear out on the search now. what is the latest? >> reporter: yeah, thats right. the latest is that this subsurface phase of the search operation has really gotten under way with the presence of that british nuclear submarine the "hms tireless." its eq...

That we will not rest until we have done everything we humanly can. >> and theyre doing that now with that, as we said, intensive effort looking for any debris, any sign of what happened to this aircraft. still very much under way, john. >> matthew, very quickly, its just after oclock in the afternoon in perth. whats the latest on todays smerj. >> well, the various aircraft, weve seen eight aircraft according to the australian controllers and the search operation teams that have been in the skie...

>> we are skeptical but i hope what theyve got is some slight indication of a ping that directs their surface vessels with the towed son n sonar. thats what im hoping for. that its not just supposition. >> if theaf ping from one of the flight data recorders, that would be a big announcement. >> huge. that would be worth saying its a big announcement. >> because at that point, tom, you could really direct the search to a specific location and hopefully locate it. >> wolf, if they are announcing t...

They spotted seeing different colored objects in the new search. our kyung lah was with the crew on one of the planes. they said she saw an orange rope and a blue bag but cautioned that this area, this part of the ocean certainly has a lot of garbage. it is hard to say if it has anything to do with flight 370. >> i want to show you something a military plane from new zealand spotted today. you can see that rectangular object in the water right there. right now, it is nighttime in perth, australi...