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System. it gives you an idea of just how big it is. the australian defense minister flying to perth today, a lot of expectations we may get a little more information about the sightings by the royal australian air force yesterday. these two objects, one a gray/green color and one an orange color, within the target zone. but we didnt get anything on that. no further details on the search and how close they are at all. in fact, the only sort of point of this came from the vice minister of the arme...

>> you talk to u.s. officials all the time. what are they saying about the decision to say it is over, the people aboard the plane are dead? >> they say the malaysians made a lot of missteps here by not being transparent from the beginning. the u.s. says they are trying to book end this here but they understand why the people dont take everything they say so seriously. >> because they made so many blunders, the malaysians. >> what a tremendous credibility problem they made for themselves. stil...

Even ships in the area are being moved out of the worst rough seas with swells around 13 feet. that includes the australian navy ship the "success." now, this is the vessel that yesterday was sent to investigate two objects floating in the water that had been seen from the air, but they could not find them. >> were not searching for a needle in a haystack. were still searching for where the haystack is. >> reporter: electronic pings heard by satellite can only lead them to conclude that all 23...

Even ships in the area are being moved out of the worst rough seas with swells around 13 feet. that includes the australian navy ship the "success." now, this is the vessel that yesterday was sent to investigate two objects floating in the water that had been seen from the air, but they could not find them. >> were not searching for a needle in a haystack. were still searching for where the haystack is. >> reporter: malaysian government says new analysis of electronic pings sent by satellite cou...

Objects we saw which we reported just two days ago, and then add that to the satellite images which have been coming in, particularly from the u.s. and from china, and the picture continues to build. and this is why we are seeing so much activity not only in the air. today the biggest air force going out, ten flights out to that target zone today. and the chinese are virtually on target now in that area. the australians are already there with one vessel, and its going to be critical now in the f...

Remoteness part of the southern indian ocean. its an area where the weather changes quickly and violently. thats what these pilots and crews have been dealing with, deb, and it looks like theyre going to have to deal with that for at least another 24 to 48 hours. what they need, obviously, are more ships in that area. theres only one ship in the area at the moment, an australian naval vessel. it is in the target zone. it is not near where the debris was reported. more naval vessels are heading t...

It left perth about 1,000 hours ago. it has to sail out to that area. there is an australian warship, "the success," is on-target, in that target zone. its still a big area. were talking about 56,000 square kilometers, john. at this stage, we dont know how far the australians are away from that area where the debris was spotted by the plane. we dont know how far the chinese are away. theres a lot of vessels in the search for that area. there are three other chinese vessels. the british are comin...

Agency. and the crews reported seeing two relatively big objects with smaller ones around in a radius of several kilometers. that would be a big debris field. objects of great interest at the moment. that plane, that chinese water plane is heading back to perth. controlling that target zone. and for more planes to go back where it was. trying to verify what is in the water there. this is the second eyes-on report, if youd like, weve had in the last two or three days. we had a corporate jet, with...

An idea. now, if you are getting bad weather, visibility is absolutely critical here. and what were hearing from the planes coming back over the past 24 hours is visibility in some areas in that target zone, christine, virtually down to not quite zero, but very, very limited because the cloud, this low cloud that has been hanging around in some places is now down to sea level. its patchy. some areas are clearer. but the weather picture is for worse to come, so that is just making everything more...

But also by the drift patterns that you were talking about earlier? >> reporter: yeah, thats right, the drift patterns are incredibly important in this. again, such a remote area. its out of range of shipping lanes, for example. so, youre not going to see passing traffic, not going to see things like this. and remember, we are going 17 days now. this debris, whatever debris it is, will have drifted a significant distance. they can model drift patterns, looking at wind speeds, looking at the time...