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Anymore. >> geoffrey, in your estimation, given this new information, how close are searchers to finding debris that they can confirm is from this plane? >> i spoke to some officials overnight, don, and there seems to be a greater level of confidence about the new coordinates that are being worked -- that have been worked through, using more data out of southeast asia. they weren't specific about what data they now had. but they seem to be a high level of confidence. we do know they took photographs yesterday. these debris items were spotted in total by about five aircraft. the photos are bein...

Given this new information, how close are searchers to finding debris that they can confirm is from this plane? >> i spoke to some officials overnight, don, and there seems to be a greater level of confidence about the new coordinates that are being worked -- that have been worked through, using more data out of southeast asia. they weren't specific about what data they now had. but they seem to be a high level of confidence. we do know they took photographs yesterday. these debris items were spotted in total by about five aircraft. the photos are being analyzed overnight in australia, and we ...

There are big gyres of garbage out there. and now comes news there's a second one. what are the odds that there are two very close circular areas of garbage as opposed to possibly a plane? >> yeah, i think that's a great point. as i noted yesterday, certainly there is a lot of debris already out in our ocean. and it's not uncommon to find, you know, small areas of where various forms of plastics and other form of floating rubbish aggregate. but particularly building on the satellite imagery from the french and now to wake up this morning and have another area and fairly close proximity with up...

Computer model, tracing the possible debris items back where they drifted from, a huge distance. the current moving 30 to 60 miles per day. >> you heard about the gulf stream. this is ten times the size of the gulf stream. the an arctic, because much it's wider and deep. >> reporter: the ocean can be a super highway. one year after the japanese tsunami, debris traveled more than 3,000 miles. this harley davidson washed up on a beach in canada. now it's in the harley davidson museum. these plastic chinese bath toys washed overboard in the pacific during a storm in 1992. they have since drifted ...

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