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This southern arc. >> all right, steven, let me ask you about this, the news this morning, the new development that we're all laser focused on is the australian prime minister calling the malaysian prime minister just about 20 minutes ago and saying we have seen some objects, a circular object, a rectangular object, and we are going to have them in hand in the next few hours, if not tomorrow morning. that's what the malaysian prime minister's saying in his daily briefing just about 25 minutes ago. we have seen two debris fields so far that upon closer inspection, they have not been able to fin...

Contain eer falling off a ship thing. 78 feet, that is a big chunk of something. >> the big chunk of something, they're saying is about 79 feet long, the largest piece. there are two debris fields. does that sort of fit to what we could be looking at if this was wreckage? >> well, yeah. and i don't knowing the dimensions of the tail, i wouldn't be the tail. my speculation, of course, is that it could be a piece of the wing which makes sense. you know, that there is air trapped in the wing. which could be a very positive thing from the standpoint we could begin the accident investigation from t...

Everything that has been put on the table about this missing plane, can be ruled out at this point? >> let me make one correction for you. i have worked with the ntsb many decades but have never worked for them. >> okay. fair enough. >> i just want to make that correction. everything in my mind is on the table. i've been an accident investigator for something over 30 years. we do not have enough evidence in any one direction to rule anything out. so we are letting the evidence unfold. the search teams are doing exactly what we would hope they would do. they are looking at evidence as it's pres...

They can fly very long distance ps. but they're moving them down south into the southern indian ocean. they will move around as needs dictate when they get cloous clues about where debris fields may be. these air cat can respond much more rapidly and cover larger areas than ships can. if they find a debris field, they have to move in a ship very quickly to go look at it. but these aircraft can range for hundreds of miles. keep in mind, wolf, this southern indian ocean you to only look at the map to see the vast size. the indian ocean operation now being run by australia and the malaysia, a 25 ...

Search crews to the wreckage five days after it went down. the debris field was relatively contained. that shows it broke up when it hit the water before it sank 2 1/2 miles to the ocean floor. in 1996, twa flight 800 exploded in the sky near new york. debris scattered far and wide. investigators had to map out several debris fields. the cockpit sank, but the fuselage and wings scattered far because of how high up the plane was when it exploded. >> initial pieces of floating debris just give you a clue where to start looking and listening for the pingers, the transmitting devices that make a p...