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That if the plane is at the bottom of the sea, which is still the working assumption here, well past 40 hours, even the vice president of this country saying anything after that very unlikely we're going to see survivors. but miracles still do happen. 156,000 square kilometers. that's roughly the size of california. that is the search zone we're looking at. now, you mentioned smoke. smoke has been detected coming from an island within that search zone. they are on their way. search crews are on their way there. we're staying in pretty close contact with the search crews out of jakarta, and the...

Hours. john? >> andrew, this story is still developing and still breaking news here. but you mentioned they're trying to get helicopters into the area. there's problems with the weather, but there's more than 30 ships out there looking for debris. are they trying to get those assets in place to recover the debris? >> reporter: yeah 40 ships. obviously they would be trying. it depends again how bad the weather conditions are. they would have military vessels, which would be capable of dealing with high winds and rough seas no doubt about it. remember this area is -- the original search zone has...

Distances between where this debris is. so we're still trying to calculate the actual coordinates of where they're saying these objects are, robyn to where we last heard from the plane. but certainly, it is in the search zone. this has been a big search zone a search zone that has been getting beggar by the day, 156,000 square kilometers by now, about the size of greece. so it gives you an idea of where the search has been looking over a vast area. but now what we can say is that the government is coming out with talking about these objects, there was a conference held which is carried by loca...

Over. they want to know what has been found, and we still could be some sometime away from this because if helicopters can't get in there and the visibility is low and the sea is rough, it's going to make it difficult for the surface vessels as well. it could sink some of the objects, scatter the objectingsobjects. but there are 40 vessels in the search region. it is a big search region 156,000 kilometer search region. and they have been really methodically plotting and ticking off region after region. so they've gridded it out, if you like to make sure that they're not missing anything. wheth...

And you would think it would probably be contracting as the focus becomes narrower and narrower, but it is now expanding. 13 zones now under active investigation. it's a grid sort of formation. they, rescue teams are going to be going methodically through each of those. this is 156,000 square kilometers of search. that's roughly the size of california to give you an idea how big this is. the smoke has been confirmed. they are sending a team to investigate the source of that. we don't know yet. we have not been told by authorities whether they are actually at the site or not. smoke obviously is...