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After that, unfortunately, the next time little more cloud cover and some rain. >> what people dont realize, rick, this area they are searching is about 1500 miles off the coast of australia, which is like flying from washington to denver. for instance, the p-8 which is like like a souped up 727. its got to spent 2 or 3 hours and it has to return and refuel and thats another 1500 miles back. >> yes. that gives them a very short window that gives them actually out there doing that surveillance. h...

Military, u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel received a request from his malaysian counter part during a 30-minute phone call this morning to send high tech surveillance hydro phones, microphones that work under water a form of passive sonar. the problem, according to u.s. defense officials is those hydro phones need a narrow field to search. the u.s. military has already spent $2.5 million on the search and budgeted just $4 million total. the p-8 poseidon, that state of the art surveillance pla...

Between the to is interesting. we see the chinese image. we look after we look at that picture, see these images here. these were released by the australian minister. and, these are two items the chinese with one item. the one that is perhaps most interesting is the larger, that may or may not be the same piece of something floating out there. lets take a look at the area that theyre look. its off of perth, australia. its about 1500 miles southwest. now, heres the most interesting thing. we have...

New zealand. also a p-8 from the u.s., and c-130, and you also mentioned the chinese and the international contingent. two chinese aircraft expected on saturday. two japanese aircraft also expected on saturday. the whole point here is that this is the best lead theyve got, but they dont have any concrete evidence that in fact there is debris there. what they have are these two grainy satellite images taken now five days ago. five days ago, which purported to show something that could be big enou...

Secretary chuck hagel received a request from his malaysian counter part during a 30-minute phone call this morning to send high tech surveillance hydro phones, microphones that work under water a form of passive sonar. the problem, according to u.s. defense officials is those hydro phones need a narrow field to search. the u.s. military has already spent $2.5 million on the search and budgeted just $4 million total. the p-8 poseidon, that state of the art surveillance plane were told will not b...

Spokesman for the fleet in the philippines. good to talk to youering commander. thanks very much for joining us. tell us first about the decision not to send the p-8 tomorrow. >> well, its actually a fairly routine standard operating process. its plan maintenance. we watch the fatigue levels of our pilots and our air crew very carefully. along with the planes. so you cant keep a human being up for 24 hours, continuously. you cant operate an aircraft continuously. and thats not just the u.s. navy...

Of hope that the new wave of aircraft that are heading back out to that location may find whether the -- what the first set of eyes and equipment did not find, confirmation of that debris. so right now we have two 3-3 orion class aircraft that are over that area.so right now we orion class aircraft that are over that area. itss 10:00 here on the east coast. its 10:00 a.m. there in the morning. they are also accompanied by a civilian gulf stream aircraft. and they have the able to use some onboar...

Advanced aircraft, the p-8, part of the search in the indian ocean for the missing malaysian plane. searches in that area soç far turned up empty-handed. an amber alert for an 11-year-old abducted by his father in virginia and police believe he might be in extreme danger. it is being called the biggest i.r.s. scam ever. thousands of taxpayers across the country conned out of over $1 million. if you get a call claiming to be the i.r.s. just hang up. they usually correspond by mail. good to ...

We still dont know if those two fuzzy satellite images are pieces of the missing plane, but either way, it does seem like a few major countries are going all in to search that area for malaysia airlines flight 370. just today, china announced its sending three warships to the coast of australia, japan, and india, and also sending resources, new zealand -- the resources from new zealand, australia, and the u.s. are already there. joining me now, nbcs tom costello. whats the latest? >> the latest,...

>> i think its really just a matter of flight conditions and darkness, to be honest. its 11:00 at night there. you have now had today five planes in that search zone. you had three p-3s, these sophisticated submarine hunters with those radar -- with that radar technology. those coming from australia and new zealanzealand, also a p-8, very sophisticated, most modern sub hunter the united states has, and a c-130 cargo plane was out there as well, dropping these buoyant markers. the idea is they tr...