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Kyung lah. she's got the latest on the search. kyung? >> reporter: wolf, normally at this time in the morning we're talking about the waiting for the search to begin but the search is under way right now. it is happening under the water. there are two pinger locators. there is one from the u.s. navy being towed by the "ocean shield" and another being towed by a british ship. they are starting on one end of a 150-mile track and then they will converge upon each other and meet. it is frustratingly slow. they move three miles per hour. the u.s. navy says if there is a ping, they can hear it up to...

Tp transportation inspector general mary schiavo. private pilot miles o'brien. david soucie, the fact that basically i think five or six out of the ten planes searching has spotted some items in the water in this new search area, what does that tell you? >> makes me cautiously optimistic. hopefully that ship -- the ship being out there is more encouraging. at that point they'll be able to see what it truly is. >> richard, you think this debris area does seem more promising? >> yes. because you're looking for not just one piece, you're looking for several pieces. and when you and i were talking...

Has spotted some items in the water in this new search area, what does that tell you? >> makes me cautiously optimistic. hopefully that ship -- the ship being out there is more encouraging. at that point they'll be able to see what it truly is. >> richard, you think this debris area does seem more promising? >> yes. because you're looking for not just one piece, you're looking for several pieces. and when you and i were talking last night, even while the australians were announcing the change in the zone, they said four planes were already overhead and five of them have found objects today. no...

Internationally. >> right. >> david gallo, you've been -- you co-led the air france investigation. is this just the nature of these searches, that there's steps forward and steps back? >> yes, of course, anderson. but not of this magnitude. i'm still trying to understand they could have shifted the box for debris. for them to have shifted the debris box must mean they knew the relationship between the old impact area and the present -- the old debris area but they didn't find anything. i'm totally confused. >> when i first heard this, i thought, okay, this means they're moving because this is ...

24 hours it has certainly slowed things down and made search conditions very difficult. people in the debris area say it is like walking on quick sand or like walking on ice which is making things very difficult. about 200 people are helping out with the search right now. that includes teams from fema and from the national guard. also, a small group of local volunteers, people who are well trained are helping out. they have expertise with chainsaws and know the area well. many of them are helping look for their own friends and relatives. we know in at least one case one of the victims who was ...