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Let's get some more on the breaking developments for the several of flight 370. a news conference is expected fairly soon in australia with what officials are describing as a, quote, big announcement. joining us on the phone is commander william marks aboard the "uss blue ridge," the command ship. thanks for joining us. do you know what this, quote, big announcement is going to be? >> no, i do not. we're giving our morning reports here, friday morning in the asia-pacific. i'm just as interested as you. i'll be watching cnn. >> we'll have coverage of that immediately once we hear what that big ...

Objects turned out to be fishing gear. the malaysian minister will travel to hawaii to seek additional u.s. help. levy is on board the blue ridge the command ship in the pacific ocean. good evening, sir. >> good evening, greta. thanks for having me. >> thank you for joining us. how far out at sea are you? are you at the 1100-mile mark from perth? >> i'm currently in the western pacific. we are -- i'm currently about 5,000 miles from the search area, actually. we are in the command ship in the western pacific just actually off of japan at the moment. >> so, what is your job? what are you doing ...

Objects turned out to be fishing gear. the malaysian minister will travel to hawaii to seek additional u.s. help. levy is on board the blue ridge the command ship in the pacific ocean. good evening, sir. >> good evening, greta. thanks for having me. >> thank you for joining us. how far out at sea are you? are you at the 1100-mile mark from perth? >> i'm currently in the western pacific. we are -- i'm currently about 5,000 miles from the search area, actually. we are in the command ship in the western pacific just actually off of japan at the moment. >> so, what is your job? what are you doing ...

Can you hear me, sir? >> yes, piers, thanks for having me. just to clear up, i'm on board the command ship but we're currently in the western pacific. we're nowhere near the search area. >> i'm sorry. wa i was misinformed on that. but what is your knowledge of what will be going on today in terms of this search? >> well, what we've done, in a couple of hours we have a p 8 that's going to be taking off out of perth. and to conduct its search mission. it will take about three hours to get on station where it will approximately have about three hours of search time before having to return back to...

>> the search area is here based on the last one of those reports. what would likely happen to the aircraft after that. and it has then been moved to account for water movement and weather. >> reporter: the malaysians hinting they may have additional clues. >> i can confirm that we have received some radar data, but we are not at liberty to release information from other countries. >> reporter: and what about that northern sector, those 11 countries in asia? well a search still goes on there, but no verified reports of any aircraft crash or landing. so as the days go on, at least u.s. official...