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This is a very big deal. for days now we've been talking about and you've been seeing the satellite images of the debris fields. the prime minister of australia talking about a debris field. it's now moved 680 miles away. we'll be right back. hey there, i just got my bill, and i see that it includes my fico® credit score. yup, you get it free each month to help you avoid surprises with your credit. good. i hate surprises. surprise! at discover, we treat you like you'd treat you. get the it card and see your fico® credit score.

International collaboration with china, south kree, japan, australia, a number of other countries. we still need these planes flying so we can get a visual confirmation of a debris. once we do that our oceanographers have a formula where they reverse the environmental. the wind, the current, the sea state. they create a reverse plot that can then determine the point at which they think the plane crash landed. >> we want to bring in karen mcginnis now at the international weather center. once they identify these other debris fields. the current flows to help this plane go down. it is a big deal...

To denver before you even begin to search and you have got to get back. >> it's about 1700 miles i think from perth. obviously these debris fields have been found in a few different spots around this. certainly through some very rough conditions. be able to get that visual reference on it and weather conditions certainly better. satellites spots at least two different but large potential and let me emphasize the word potential debris fields. neither suspected debris field can possibly be said to contain parts of that jumbo jet. one potential debris field, 122 objects. the other potential debri...

Important find. i have one caution here. do bear in mind, all of the ocean out in here, according to all the people who know it, has the real potential to have different types of debris fields. so it doesn't necessarily mean this is from the plane. but if you go beyond that, here's the other thing that makes it hard to figure all of this. this is a map from the national oceanic and atmospheric administration imposed upon the world here with time lapses of it and the movement of different waves down here. and currents in the waters. so the area we're talking about is actually right in the edge ...

But it is still a tremendous amount of area in one of the remotest parts of the world. and it is getting to be winter down there. it is southern hemisphere but they're going into the fall and shorter days and heavier seas and colder weather. jenna: we heard conditions yet again were really rough, bob. so rough that we had to pull back on the search effort now. can you describe to us a little bit of the challenges that, as you understand them, as a pilot and the risks now posed to those that are out there searching? >> when you're down flying that low and there is that much icing condition, it ...