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Marseilles didn't seem so far away with an extraordinary landing capacity, a large airport with long runways. how does that equate? >> true. but they may have been very focused on the terrain and trying to be situationally aware of how close they were -- in other words, you can't just dial in marseilles and have the airplane head for it. you've got to know where the threat of terrain is. and that airport may not -- it may have had weather issues possibly. that's on the computer as an alternate, i'm certain of that. >> quickly, mary, chad reported the cloud ceiling is expected to be upwards of,...

Obliterated, dislocated was the word used in translation, that effectively there is just nothing left of this plane. and of course the sighting of human remains but no sightings so far of any survivors. and the announcement early that it is unlikely there will be any survivors. what you are seeing on your screen right now is exactly what it would look like in the united states if there were a crash. there would be a staging area that looked exactly like this, with responders and tents and emergency vehicles at the ready, a large zone set up and ready to go for whatever it is they come across. ...

Horizontally and vertical. so that's what creates that turbulence that's so extreme with these storms. here is a look at the satellite imagery. you can see a lot of cloud cover, a lot of storms out there. one storm in particular that was very near the plane happened to go up and collapse very quickly. so that will be something else that meteorologists will have to consider. otherwise taking a look at the forecast more showers and thunderstorm activity. it shouldn't be as bad as what we saw early on sunday morning, but any activity or precipitation could hinder any search and possibly rescue ef...

Charge in perth, lieutenant chandler. we know weather. how would you describe how it's going? >> crews are out doing what they are supposed to do, like you said. we were challenged yesterday with a low cloud ceiling. >> i think a lot of people wonder just exactly how you conduct a search. we know it takes four hours to get out there and you have two hours to certainly the area. what exactly do you look for? >> anything out of the ordinary. most generally looking at the ocean, rather monotonous and pretty much the same. looks the same. anything not supposed to be out there generally stands out....

>> the live pictures from the chopper continue to come in. on the right-hand side of the screen that's the tornado as it was developing. it was just before 4:00 this afternoon eastern time. so 3:00 there. we have lots of monitors coming in from all over the country and we were watching as this tornado just a little sliver of a thing came down out of a cloud and if you are a floridian and you live in the south. it's the kind of thing you might see come down over the gulf of mexico and just sort of slip into the water and again go back into the sky. it was just a tiny sky. cloud ceiling lowered ...