Came to an end. We were able to identify 122 potential objects. We have now had four separate satellite leads from australia, from china and france showing possible debris. It is now impaerative that we link the debris to mh370. Reporter as special equipment from the u. S. Arrives in perth australia. The countrys Prime Minister voicing optimism that something will turn up. A considerable amount of debris has been sighted in the area where the flight was last recorded. Bad weather has so far prevented any of it being recovered, but we are confident that some will be. Reporter that includes a blue fin underwater vehicle also a tow pinger locater used to detect signals from the data recorder. Dedicated to todays search at least five ships from 12 countries. They scour more than 600,000 square miles of ocean. This as new information emerges about flight 370s timeline. Experts say new satellite data indicates the plane may have sent out a partial signal around 8 19 the morning it disappeared. Maybe indicating the moment it went down. Lets bring in Andrew Stevens on what officials are saying about the saernl search. They just tweeted out that while these search planes finally got back up in the air today, theyve had two sightings. Three objects were spotted in a search. One spotted by a commercial aircraft. They said it looked like rope. Also they spotted a blue object clearly with the ramping back of of this search, they are going full speed ahead to try to find it. We dont know what the objects are of course. Reporter we are absolutely looking. We have 12 aircraft up there and five ships in the zone. These latest satellite images, that is the fourth set of images weve heard about. What malaysians are saying, they can narrow it down more and more just by calibrating where theyre getting reporter which is so key. Reporter absolutely. Theyre still going to get the kbrie eyes on. This is why the ships are so cruci crucial. Reporter theres a big difference from that and getting employee eyes on it from the air and the sea. Reporter interesting listening to the defense minister yesterday. You were talking to him. Horrendous weather conditions. We have this 24 hours, that conditions havent been adeal by a long way and its closing back in again. This part of the world is known for storms kicking up very quickly. It can change very quickly down there. They are saying its going to get ugly in 24 to 48 hours. Its just how Time Critical this is. If the beacons start working, you lose a big, big lead into where the main part of the wreckage is going to be. Reporter we can see, as i send it back, theyre trying as hard as they can in the narrow window that they have here. We have more site ks, but a sightings but a healthy dose of caution. Until they have identified and confirmed its from mh370, they cannot give anybody false hope. Potential important developments. Lets stay on the breaking news. Lets bring in the panel of aviation analysts here. Contributor and author gym wise. And former American Airlines pilot. Start with the news we just got in moments ago. A french satellite taking picturing spotted 122 possible pieces of debris ranging in size all the way up to about 70 feet. This to me sounds like not pieces of debris but something praps to a debris field. It does seem like that. The thing i like about that report, they said 70 feet. To me, that sounds like a wing still. Its logical to me that that wing would still be afloat at that time. I do believe im encouraged by the news. Big pieces ranging up to 70 feet, but again, surrounded by dozens and dozens of other pieces. Some of them brightcolored. We heard before they had seen orange things from the air perhaps. What does this indicate to you . Like david was saying, it certainly seems to be that this may be a potential debris field. I agree that that larger piece of metal that might be floating could very possibly be the wing. It had been out of fuel. It has air tanks in it that would allow it to float. The orange pieces definitely could be pieces of life jackets and other debris from the aircraft. So this is a good sign. All right, jeff. This picture was taken on march 23rd which was sunday. Today is tuesday. There is another bit of new information we just got in moments ago that the search planes flying today did spot some things from the sky. Three pieces of potential debris. Could be rope. Not sure. To me its surprising that they spot by satellite 122 pieces, but they cant seem to find that area again today. Explain that to me. This has been an on going theme of this investigation. Investigators are able to find debris in a satellite image. And then by the time thats processed and turned over to the investigators on the ground and in the airtime has lapsed. Now it takes time to get back out to that area. Theres drift, theres current. Were going to continue to have this problem. You can scan so much area in a satellite compared to being in a plane where you have to physically be there. Weve had a very poor success ratio of being able to go back out into the area and identify those those promising leads that weve found from satellite imagery. It is the biggest search effort to date. Is that enough . Can they reasonably expect to get to these pieces before they move on . I gets guess, if you ask the families of those involved, theyll say nothing is going to satisfy them until they get some declaration that this really is the debris field and find out. So is enough enough . Depends on who you ask. The weather as weve heard has been so dramatic. The debris field has been moving or the fields of what weve been spotting from the satellites have been moving constantly that this is so critical to be able to put not just the eyes from the satellites and the aircraft, but to be able to pick up those pieces and identify that as part of the flight. I want to back up right now. The satellite handshakes, the data they reanalyzed that allowed them to reach the conclusion that it ended in the southern indian ocean, theres one piece of information that came out. We had just heard it and trying to understand it. This news of a partial handshake. The satellites had been making them at regular intervals with the flight for hours and hours, but at the very end, there was a partial handshake. What does that indicate to you . To me, its the most exciting piece of information weve had in a long time. That last ping, they had been regular intervals. Then nine minutes after, it pings again. That tells me that the sat back in the back of the aircraft, top part of the aircraft, its sending out this signal. It talks with the satellite. What i think happened with the acars, it had been separated somehow. The sat com system takes information from other things as well. The idea there if theres any kind of emergency on board that aircraft, it cannot only go through the acars system, but it can go directly. So this indicates to me something happened. Electrical change, the engines had come offline. Jeff wise, this make sense to you, something at the end there, that it was trying to communicate with the satellite . Were really waiting for more information from inmarsat. I agree this is exciting news, not only for that partial ping, but we were given a lot more data about what transpired between the aircraft and the satellite and we also learned how inmarsat was able to use that information to deduce it has to be the southern route not the northern route. That was the basis for the stunning revelation from the malaysian Prime Minister that all these passengers must be dead. Breaking news just in now, sightings from a satellite of a possible debris field. Some 122 objects off the coast of perth, australia. Talk to me about the importance of this and how it could lead to that black box. You think it is crucial to find it and keep on looking until they do . It certainly is. It would help to facilitate and get this done so that we can perhaps put to rest what may have happened to that airplane. Finding that black box is critical. Determining whether this is a debris field. And again, we have to manage expectations. Weve been down this road before. With the hope that this could be the reel field that were looking for, then through the the math that theyve been doing with currents, we could perhaps backtrack and get a more exact area of where that aircraft debris would be and through the satellite imaging we were just talking about that last ping. I agree this is a exciting development. Hopefully it will establish a tighter area where we can put the search and put the assets that will benefit getting this done quickly. Thank you for being with us. Were going to talk much more about this. We will get back to our coverage of flight 370 in just a moment. First, to a story in Washington State that needs our attention. The death toll keeps rising from a mudslide in Washington State. Officials says as many as 24 people have died. Rescuers are working in conditions described as like wet quick sand. We are live in arlington, washington with that. Reporter good morning. We now know searchers are calling this not only a rescue operation but also moving into a recovery effort. They say now four days later, its unlikely to find survivors, they still believe in meryls. You get a sense theres a cloud of grief now blanketing this community. Its horrible. Reporter it has been the darkest four days of ray smiths life. My heart is broken. Its broken. She was my best friend. Reporter smiths daughter, summer, is among the missing. She was driving to work when the massive mudslide broke loose. There is a house on 530 and a big slide and it is covering the road. Newly released 911 calls capture the shock and panic that overtook this tight knit community. My neighbors house has been taken out and theyre trapped. Reporter four days into the search, people are still trapped. My family has been down there digging for her since saturday afternoon. Reporter she charged into the disaster zone. I wanted to rescue people. Reporter instead, the horror he witnessed now haunts him. Its no fun finding bodies. Its no fun doing any kind of work like that. Reporter smith has lost hope, but says closure can come only if summer is found. It just hurts so bad. It hurts so bad. I have 12 other children, but not one of them can replace one that you lose. Not one. Reporter your heart just breaks for these people. Your heart really heavy for all these families who are missing their loved ones. We do know officials have recovered 16 bodies. They believe theyve identified another eight victims in the debris. Hope to recover those bodies today. That brings the death toll to 24. Heart breaking when you look at out close this Small Community is. To another story developing this morning. Three secret Service Agents have been sent home from the netherlands for excessive drinking. One of them allegedly was found passed out. They were in amsterdam sunday in advance of the president s trip to the hague. Were live with the latest. A bit of an embarrassment for the agency . Reporter yeah. Something of a scandal and hardly the image the secret Service Needs to project to the world in its job of protecting the president on such a highprofile trip abroad. It seems that three of these agents might have been involved in a night of partying. The secret service isnt giving a lot of detail at this point, but did confirm that the three agents have been sent home to the u. S. For disciplinary reasons. This just reminds the world of that terrible scandal in twel when a number of secret Service Agents were involved in drinking, dancing and prostitution. Even the director of the secret service resigned not long after that. Since that case, the rules for them traveling abroad also changed. But clearly, something may have gone wrong in amsterdam. Thanks. I want to talk about something going on right here in the United States that is shocking. Shocking. Snow. Meteorologist Jennifer Gray with a look at this shocking forecast. It is shocking. But good news, for new york, it looks like we are going to stay very dry. The bad news is if you are on the cape because you are experiencing blizzardlike conditions there, a lot of snow, and more importantly, a lot of wind. As this thing moved up the east coast, d. C. 38 and numbers could be double that around the cape. Still a blizzard warning in effect for that area. It is going to move out by 3 30, 4 00 this afternoon. What were looking at for snow totals, could see 8 inches around the cape. 50 mile per hour gusts in boston. New york city today, 34 mile per hour gusts. So it is going to be very windy for today and tomorrow. Temperatures are going to be cold as well. 36 in new york today. Those temperatures do start to move up a little bit. We warm up by the end of the week. Unfortunately, a little bit of a rainmaker as we head into the weekend. Temperatures close to 70 degrees in atlanta on friday. So we do warm up by the weekend, but it looks like we could see a lot of rain. Dont you head back to atlanta this weekend . Good timing there, dear. Next up on new day, new leads in the search for flight 370 announced just moments ago. Potentially a large new debris field and could it lead to the wreckage . They lived. They lived. They lived. dad we lived. Thanks to our subaru. announcer love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. So when my moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis them. Was also on display, id had it. I finally had a serious talk with my dermatologist. This time, he prescribed humiraadalimumab. Humira helps to clear the surface of my skin by actually working inside my body. In clinical trials, most adults with moderate to Severe Plaque Psoriasis saw 75 skin clearance. And the majority of people were clear or almost clear in just 4 months. Humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. 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We do not know for a fact its within this search area theyve been looking at, but its a fair supposition. When i hear the news 122 pieces of possible debris, to me, that sounds like a debris field. Is that a correct description . It is a lot of debris, but it could be that this is all related to the aircraft still. Im not kiss counting that discounting that. It is possible and it is pretty common in this area to see debris gather into a certain location because of the currents underneath. The size of the debris ageing up to about 70 feet. That number keeps popping up. To me, that makes sense that thats a portion of the wing. But then the width keeps changing. And everybody says, how could it be 45 because the length of the wing is only about 30 feet or so. If that engine during a ditching or a landing of the aircraft, no matter how it goes, the engine would have come off the bottom. When it does, right behind that is the mounting brackets for e that back flap. It could potentially be going in and out. I should also say that some of the pieces that have been spotted by this french satellite are different colors, bright colors. Yeah and earlier if you remember yesterday reporting round, orange objects, which would be consistent with the prospect that it could be a raft. If the fuselage is taken apart, it could be inside. This is found in a 400 square mile area. Not as vast as the areas theyve been searching. If they can definitively say it was 20 kilometers, we might be able to get that tow fish out there and start looking for signals. Today its wednesday now. They were taken sunday. Today, those flights taking off from perth flying out over the search area here, they come back and say, weve only spotted three objects, nondiscrypt objects, possibly rope. Why are satellites taking pictures of things and the planes just cant find them . These conditions out here are changing constantly. So as the satellites taking the picture, theyre taking several. They have the option of selecting which one of those is the most clear. When youre out there in an airplane and looking at 20 miles, its hard, its really hard to try to figure out what it is that youre seeing even. Let alone you have 7 meter waves going up and down. It sounds simple, but you dont have that option like the satellite does of saying wheres the most calm time to be looking. We know how difficult of a task this is, but the number of pieces possibly spotted by this french satellite, 122. It could turn out to be nothing. But 122 pieces, would that be a lot if connected to an airplane . I wouldnt say its a lot. What surprises me that after all this time, if that were Just Aircraft debris, it would have been much more disbursed than that right now. Regardless, theres Something Holding it together. Something is keeping it in that 20kilometer area. If its going out, it could be in any direction after that. You bet theyll get those planes out there and the boats out there trying to find that area as soon as possible. Thank you so much. Thank you. David, john thank you so much for that. Next, we head back to perth australia. New details are really coming in by the minute as planes begin to return to the search area. Stay with us. To buy a passat tdi clean diesel. Husband so its like two deals in one . Avo during the salesperson 2 first ever exactly. Volkswagen tdi clean diesel event, get a great deal on a passat tdi, that gets up to 795 highway miles per tank. And get a 1000 dollar fuel reward card. Its like two deals in one. Hurry in and get a 1,000 fuel reward card and 0. 9 apr for 60 months on tdi models. Reporter welcome back to new day everyone. Im coming to you live from perth australia. We have breaking developments in the search for magazines flight 370. We learned that 122 pieces, they say, of possible debris were spotted by satellites on sunday. Listen to what the transport minister said. This was just moments ago. In one area of the ocean measuring some 400 square kilometers, were able to identify 122 potent