they did not find anything. they found a wooden pallet with strapping belts, pallets used in the airline industry but also used in shipping. it's not clear where this pallet came from. also malaysian authorities clarified what was in that last transmission from the acars communication system at 1:07 minutes before the plane had its last communication with the ground. officials say it showed nothing unusual and the plane was at that point still headed for beijing. that undermines the theory that the plane's computer was preprogrammed to take a different route before that 1:07 transmission. i want to go to our reporter in washington. he's been following that story particularly on this information since the beginning. what can you tell us about this development and how significant is it? >> jim, it's pretty significant. one of the reasons why there was a lot of focus on the pilot, and one of the reason why there's suspicion something went wrong in the cockpit was because there