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These debris fields are two to three stories high that,ry compacted with brick after brick and there are certainly bodies beneath all of that rebel. it will be a long time before they are able recover all of the bodies here mica. >> nbc's miguel almaguer in nepal. thank you very much. coming up is it elizabeth warren, jim webb martin o'malley the person now ready to challenge hillary clinton for the democratic nomination in 2016? that and much more when "morning joe" comes back.

In fact, the national atmospheric and oceanic administration made these models. this is basically the debris fields moving gradually eastward. it's just that we continue to see the debris piling up on the west coast of the united states or the west coast of all of north america. what the biologists found was the debris left over from the tsunami was about 5 million tons, about 70% of that or 3.5 million tons expected to sink over time. but what we've seen is this continuous washup of things, like abandoned see vessels, houses, even i've heard reports of a harley davidson washing ashore. this i...

Thorough search of the ocean bottom to find is the debris field in total like we did on twa flight 800. we ended up with three distinct debris fields that told us a lot about whapt happened to that aircraft that it came apart in three different sections and that's what they need to do now and then as they find these debris fields they move the sonar off to do -- continue their search and then they get the remote operated vehicles and the divers into those debris fields and do an eyes-on that particular part of the aircraft if it turns out to be aircraft debris. and then they can also search fo...

Objects of which there are still remnants of war fought down there. ships, planes. there is a lot of debris down there that may not be this aircraft. >> allen, do you agree with that? are we possibly looking at debris from something random? >> well some of the things appear to be from the -- obviously the passengers are. i should also say that i -- one of the other first investigations i did for nsb was a 727 that crashed into the pensacola bay. and that aircraft hit at 11 feet a minute a very high sink rate. but it was largely intact. it looks if these pieces actually came from the aircraft a...

Transiting that area right now. in a way they're going through a crime scene at 10 20 miles an hour. i'm wondering what they see. we need more debris from the surface. i'm sort of amazed that we haven't heard more about debris fields at this point. >> well supposedly it's monsoon season. of course, most of us in the united states don't experience that. what would that be like for those searching in the water? >> i'm sure it's horrible. they should see something. i would think that they would see -- there have been breaks in the weather patterns. if you look at marinetraffic.com, there's a stea...