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Thank you very much. we have to get back to our top story. search planes hunting for debris from a missing malaysian jetliner calling it quits for tonight as crites question cost of involvement, malaysian government and how long militaries will stay involved. a question for jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. jen, lets start with first the what the big news is today, satellite images. how do these australians obtain these images no one else seemed to have? >> what's interesting, jenna, australians obtained these satellite imanswer from commercial satellite company digital globe, images co...

The fbi has offered to send a much larger team. and officials tell fox they think that that offer would likely eventually be accepted, if evidence starts to point overwhelmingly towards an intentional situation, greta. >> all right. the biggest break seems to come from this commercial satellite. what is the pentagon saying about that? are we all way too hopeful about this? >> well, it is interesting, the digital globe, commercial satellite company out of longmont, colorado has been playing such a key roll in all of this. just a few minutes ago they released new map and imagery which gives us a...

Work. and finally green is the new red this spring when it comes to grading tests. teachers in mounts bay academy in the united kingdom have been told to throw out their red pens because red is, quote, a very negative color. instead, they will grade in green and leave positive comments as they go. this is not the first school to ban red to spare student feelings over harsh markings but an education expert says students actually prefer red ink because it's easier to read. the search for flight 370 is now in its 13th day, and with american resources increasingly going towards that effort que...

This is. they can send information. >> they cack. airliners and military aircraft have engine health monitoring systems like this. now, for example, i flew an airplane during flight training that had a rolls-royce engine, the same -- the company that moves the 777's engines, and the plane i flew also had an engine health monitoring system that would gather information during flight, and then once we landed the information was looked at by pointers -- maintainers. here's a picture of the monitoring system. this is on a rolls-royce engine, and this unit senses vibrations to pick up possible prob...

Thousands. >> by the millions. it's called crowd sourcing and now two million people are involve. a company in colorado, digital globe, have five different satellites and they're taking images before the plane went missing and after the plane went missing and asking people to compare them. for example, this is a picture of the gulf of tie -- thailand and these are the search boats and asking people to scan these, go on to a web site and then go over them. look at the next one. people go on and if say see something they think might be suspect they tag them. this one on the left, someone thought...