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Flight. >> that's what the relatives of the 239 people on board the jet are hoping. if this debris is from the missing jet, then the waiting -- well, thevenot knowing -- the not knowing would be over and it would confirm their worst possible fear. loved ones who boarded a night flight to beijing and have not come home. catherine herridge is live in washington. now they're searching for these objects. anything? >> well, shep, it is a massive search on an historic scale at the ended of the earth after two large objects identified by the american satellite firm, digital globe, were found within 1...

Digital globe, the company that took them told cnbc this volume of imagery is far to vast to search floug real time. instead they relied on crowd sourcing volunteers. the companies say those number in the millions, which helped rule out broad swaths of the ocean. while those volunteers and professionals continue to hunt, investigators are honing in on this pinpointed search location in some of the world's most desolate ocean. the nts sb has previously said this was an area of special interest and that's because it's sort of in an intersection of where the jet could run out of fuel and six rela...

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Crowd sourced effort to hunt to flight 370. it was kicked off by a company called digital globe. a satellite company based out of colorado. last week they had the idea of uploading satellite images of the search grid into their site. they invited people to help keep an eye on those grids, the influx of interest is so big it overloaded the company's computers. we'll look at this power of the crowd. i'm going to go over and we're going to try right now to boot up this site and give us an expect explanation, ben ackerman. ben, tell us where this idea came from and what the precedents are for this...

And may also be a piece of debris. so why are we just now seeing these images? digital globe, the company that took them told cnbc this volume of imagery is far to vast to search floug real time. instead they relied on crowd sourcing volunteers. the companies say those number in the millions, which helped rule out broad swaths of the ocean. while those volunteers and professionals continue to hunt, investigators are honing in on this pinpointed search location in some of the world's most desolate ocean. the nts sb has previously said this was an area of special interest and that's because it's...