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Case, on ice. >> good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. the search zone expanded a again after a week after the 777 went missing. the airport continued to transmit a ping to satellite hours after falling off radar. this indicates the jet liner could have traveled up to 2500 miles farther than originally thought. the question remains where in the world is it? joining me with the latest from around the globe, tom costello has been covering the investigation here in washington since it began. commander william marx, on "uss kidd" on the search. tom, where does this stand? the confusing fals...

Pings indicating that the search needed to be widened. >> it is confusing and even of those who have been in the weeds of this for the past week it's confusing. this is what we're talking about. there's malamalaysia, you have south china sea and plane was heading in this direction and let's expand it out. we'll show you how big this potential zone is where this plane potentially could have been. and here's the problem. they believe that the plane may have been headed out this way, in this direction because they are now pretty confident it did indeed make a u turn and come back. if it headed ou...

Spotted. he says locating the objects will be difficult and they could turn out to be unrelated. he says he has spoken to his malaysian counter parts. malaysia flight 370 had 239 people on board when it disappeared more than a week ago. joining us from washington is kerry sanders. what can you tell us? >> reporter: i just got an e-mail from navy commander william marx who has been han e handling this. the aircraft had been diverted down to perth. he's saying the u.s. navy p-8 is in the air on a regularly scheduled flight. it may be over the search area as we speak. excuse me. it's able to cont...