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Wonderful job and i appreciate you're coming on this evening. thank you, commander marks. >> thank you. all of our sailors appreciate it. >> live from the blue ridge, the command vessel of the seventh fleet of the united states. let me take a break. there are all kinds of things breaking tonight. we asked people a question, how much money do you think you'll need when you retire? then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. i was trying to, like, pull it a little further. [ woman ] got me to 70 years old.

Wonderful job and i appreciate you're coming on this evening. thank you, commander marks. >> thank you. all of our sailors appreciate it. >> live from the blue ridge, the command vessel of the seventh fleet of the united states. let me take a break. there are all kinds of things breaking tonight. lots of opinions. we'll sum them up after this. ♪ ♪

You get a sense of why here. it's not smooth sailing at times. the ocean is smoother right now thankfully. it's not likely to stay that way. commander william marks spokesman for the u.s. navy's seventh fleet joins me by phone. >> commander marks, the u.s. p 8 poseidon it's not searching tomorrow or today due to routine maintenance. based on what you know, when is it expected to return to the search? >> usually we take a day or two for the planned maintenance. it's a regular thing. we watch the fatigue level of both the air crew and the plane very carefully. so you can't run people 24 hours a ...

We've been talk about how favorable the conditions have been today for the search for flight 370. that's the exception not the rule. take a look at what it's looked like in the past. this is video from a leg of the volvo ocean race last year passing through that area. this is from last year. but this search area last spring gives you -- it's a part of the southern indian ocean around 40 degrees south latitude known as the roaring 40s. you get a sense of why here. it's not smooth sailing at times. the ocean is smoother right now thankfully. it's not likely to stay that way. commander william ma...

Degrees south latitude known as the roaring 40s. you get a sense of why here. it's not smooth sailing at times. the ocean is smoother right now thankfully. it's not likely to stay that way. commander william marks spokesman for the u.s. navy's seventh fleet joins me by phone. >> commander marks, the u.s. p 8 poseidon it's not searching tomorrow or today due to routine maintenance. based on what you know, when is it expected to return to the search? >> usually we take a day or two for the planned maintenance. it's a regular thing. we watch the fatigue level of both the air crew and the plane ve...