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Then maps the bottom of the ocean floor and really is looking for wreckage. but that really moves at a walking pace and is a tedious situation. you really have to go down and get whatever it is they could see. this could take weeks even if they are in the right spot. anderson. >> yeah, michael holmes, i appreciate the update. and all the pings, and the wreckage cell, the call to what comes next when a debris field is actually located. now, in a moment well show you just how truly deep the ocean ...

Out of life, but the more signals they can get the better they can pinpoint precisely whats coming up from the sea bed which, dont forget, is almost three miles down. next thing they want to do is deploy a submersible vehicle, a kind of drone to put down there and take a look. its a walking pace and incredibly slow and the area they have at the moment is very large. it would take weeks if are the drone to search that, but the more of the signals they can get, the more they will be able to narrow...

I want go to perth, australia, the base of the operation of the search. michael holmes is on the scene with more. whats the latest there, michael? >> reporter: yeah, were going to have the search planes out again. more than a dozen of them, wolf. theyll be leaving in the sectithefection few hours. also, those ships, again, are going to be scouring the ocean today. something rene mentioned is really interesting. ocean shield joined now, we reported this to you yesterday, that it was headed to the...

Looking for wreckage. but that really moves at a walking pace and is a tedious situation. you really have to go down and get whatever it is they could see. this could take weeks even if they are in the right spot. anderson. >> yeah, michael holmes, i appreciate the update. the new pings and all they imply about locating the wreckage, a call to what comes next when a debris field is actually located. now, in a moment well show you just how truly deep the ocean is and the challenges conducting the...

They know theyre racing against the clock. seems to take a long time for them to make passes. why? >> and i will show you. bring out and you will see the tpl, the towed pinger locator. bearing in mind this has been 3,500 feet below. it is towing that much stuff behind it. it cant stop. if it stops the tpl will sink to the bottom. >> right. >> so it has to keep moving. it is moving, according to angus houston, at walking pace. so the interesting part about it is it takes about six hourses to do a...

For sub antarctic conditions. it can handle the roughest of waters, the biggest of waves. it is being fitted with a submersible robot and u.s. navy pinger locator to listen for those black boxes. >> once we get a detection from the pinger, we will put the underwater vehicle in the water to conduct a side scan to map the debris field. >> reporter: but the searchers must first locate surface debris from the plane to narrow the search area. an effort that has so far been fruitless. >> searching som...

Even if its on the surface and even if theres not too much glare or too many white caps to make you not see it could be moving at essentially a steady walking pace, carol. so in the period of time were talking about because its moving 24 hours a day, this may have moved 1100 miles. >> wow. >> thats a tremendous distance. so even if you look in the right place now, an hour later it is the wrong place and substantially the wrong place. thats why they keep moving the zones. below the surface, barba...

Much a regular walking pace. over the time, since the day the plane disappeared until today, it could have moved 1,000, 1,100, maybe 1,200 miles. when you talk about the beneath the surface, it gets more complicated. the currents on the surface are not necessarily the same as the currents below the surface. so then you have another layer of if it is sinking or if is partially underthe water as these pieces are supposed to be, is it being subjected to different forces? yes. you can go down there ...

Between tomorrow night, thursday night and sunday morning, florence may move only 150 miles. that is slower than a walking pace. two to three miles an hour. like harvey. the tropical storm force winds, youre starting to see how its broad eng out. a wave height was reported at 83 feet. is that -- thats mind boggling. so this system as it moves in you can see how far out 300 miles of tropical storm force winds. this is a relentless rainfall and believe it or not, willie m see more rain than washin...

Love this aimimage. its really telling a story. were seeing the heavy rain. have been getting hours of rain. lots of wind as well. you see the frame pop up at the end. the pink is indicating a tornado watch. we maybe have to contend with that too. as we go through the overnight hours, rain and wind gusts. we mention the rain. lots of rain so far. were looking at wind gusting at tropical storm force wind. were going to see that throughout the night. the worst time will be sun down tonight until s...