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I.d. it is essentially someone looking with binoculars. it is a layered approach. it all depends on the environment. these planes are very sophisticated. right now, im sure all the air crews are preparing for tomorrow morning led by the australian government in terms of where these planes are flying. im sure everyone is waiting for tomorrow morning to get a plane in the air and get some ships really close to that. were also waiting, in case we need to deploy our pinger locator. >> i am going to ...

Debris that appeared earlier on australian satellite images. then theres this, a visual spotter doing a fly-over and one of these australian planes says he saw several small objects, including a wooden pallet, floatifloat ing wind twithin the defined search area. attached to the planes black box. [ clicking ]area. attached to the planes black box. [ clicking ] it appears ominous. a frantic search as the battery life on this search is set to run out in less than 14 days. so there is no doubt that...

Far it is, when it gets there, it will have some on-station time left. and that on-station time is where it can do a pattern search going back and forth and recover that box or a chunk of water. so it is encouraging. were getting some pretty good ranges out there. im encouraging that were now covering the southern sector which at first it wasnt covered very well by assets. so you know every day that goes by and we cover another 15,000 square miles, its a positive. >> commander, good luck to you....

777. the united states is one of them. a navy ship with specialized helicopter on board is in the northern indian ocean. recon jets flying mission day and night. like every other search group over the past ten days, they have found nothing yet. on the phone with me now, a spokesman for the u.s. seventh fleet, navy commander, william marks, on board the uss blue ridge. i understand you are in the south china sea. tell our viewers how the navy is searching for something you are not even sure is th...

Round. well do 800 exercises every year with 36 countries in the region just so when this happens we can immediately step in, we have the relationship already, we can communicate and we can execute the plan. it doesnt matter what happens. >> commander william marks of the united states navy seventh fleet, commander, well check back with you tomorrow. thanks very much for all of your help. >> youre welcome. thank you. coming up, a new timeline raising new questions about the airliners disappear...

Immediately move in, coordinate with all these other countries and execute the plan that we trained for and thats what were doing now. >> were proud out there. commander william marks thank you so much for joining me this morning. >> thank you. we do have a bit of break being news out of california. a large earthquake was felt there. paul, what happened? >> well, it was significant enough to rattle my house and a couple of yards. the other indicator is a backyard pool started sloshing with wat...

Specially when you consider the size of the area. we have some very intelligent pilots and air crew out there. they are making the best of it. >> commander william marks, thank you. we know you are very busy. we appreciate you taking the time to come here. we want to bring in our meteorologist, chad myers. this search area just keeps expanding, doesnt it? >> it does. >> i want to ask commander marks. he is here in the south china sea. none of them, either one of those ship is is really where the...

Navys seventh fleet told me just a little while ago. >> the "kidd" and its helicopters have covered as much of the andaman sea as we can. we feel weve searched that area just to the west and south of burma. were not going to find anything out there, we think. when you have a destroyer out there doing 10, 15 knots at a time, thats really not the most effective platform for the entirety of the indian ocean. so we said we got together, we said lets move a p-8 down to australia, well leave our p-3 i...

The radar signal. so that could be wrong. so theres this cacophony of speculation, and that should be expected. but lets look at the facts as we know them and start with the folks on that aircraft and figure out their motivations and associations were. thats where we need to bend our elbows right now. >> as we reported, at least is our understanding, malaysian authorities have not searched the houses of either one of the pilots and the research theyve done with two fake passports they said was l...

So you have that circle, that radius there of search capability. and then really whats a game changer is today we have a mission with our latest technology in mixed-wing search aircraft. the most advanced search aircraft in the world. that range is into the thousands of miles. so thats land-based. going to take off from kuala lumpur area. that is looking west. so the initial track will look to the west. it will fly that direction, see what it sees with its surface search radar, and then fly back...