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Explaining what the conditions are. they have been studying these images for days. they feel confident enough to look but beyond that, nobody is willing to take a step in term of what this debris is in until they find it. search conditions very difficult. it may be slow and coming for more information. richard, thank you for helping us understand. for reporting on the ground, let's get back to kate who is in malaysia. kate? >> reporter: it's been almost two weeks of complete agony for the families. how are the families coping with the news of this potential discovery? >> well, what we've heard...

It's now flying back. it does not see anything that confirms there is any type of degree there. at the same time, a p-3 goes out from the australian military. looks and he doesn't see anything and has additional problems because of the technology they are using with the weather. the u.s. doesn't really sort of have that problem but they don't see anything and now that aircraft is returning. i don't know the status of the p-3 from the new zealand navy. in addition to that, there is a c-130, a hercules, it flies low, slow, it's ugly, but what its goal is to get into the area where, hopefully, th...

The ocean current generally flowing counterclockwise across the indian ocean and the location we're looking at across the southern indian ocean, you would have the ocean current flowing from west to east. that would push any debris in an eastward direction. so the actual crash site which of course we do not know yet, that's not confirmed that that has occurred here in the southern indian ocean, but that could be generally about 180 to 250 miles to the west of what the satellite images have shown. and like you've heard, that picture is from march 16, so we have days away here. we're on march 20...

Officials pretty much debunking what australian officials who have a very good incredible setup according to steve rattner, they seem to feel they found something. what do you feel about the information that is coming? >> i think there has to be cautious optimism. when we got the information from the chinese and they showed this photo from space of this debris, whatever it was in the south china sea, everybody was hopeful. but i was very skeptical and i think others were as well because we had had so much traffic already in that area. we had already searched the area pretty thorough. then to h...

If you look at it from your expertise, what is z. thdoes tho you? >> there is always a possibility that it's debris from the wreckage. it's size is telling. it's a big piece of a plane to be floating. >> they're saying about 24 meters long. >> yes. which is 72 feet or something like that. >> and related to a plane, the boeing, would that fit with boeing wreckage? >> obviously it can't. but floating, you know, could be a wing. that's highly suspect as well. but in the ocean, a the love things can float. a lot of things can aggregate and group together. >> speaking of that, let's move on to the ...