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They're seeming to find here from satellite, is the debris here, the potential plane that, credible enough to discount the search areas that we were looking at prior to today? >> reporter: well, to the point that australian officials were asked a similar question said they are really shifting most of their focus to this area. so they seem relatively confident that there is a high likelihood this could be debris from the aircraft and a lot of that has to do with the perceived size. they think it's about 80 feet or so, which may be consistent with wreckage from an airliner the size of a boeing 7...

Offer a lot of caution here. this search is about 3,000 miles south of kuala lumpur. that is more than half way to antarctica, a big distance to be covering. there are still so many questions. we'll look for the answers from our experts and correspondence around the world. let's start with andrew stevens who is in perth, australia, covering this for us. andrew, is there any estimate how long it will be until we really do have eyes on the debris? >> it's going to be a very difficult question to answer. the weather conditions are changing and chafrging rnging r kate. we had a tweet from a survei...

That is where the focus is right now, australia's prime minister, tony abbott, saying that from satellite information they have identified two pieces of debris, possibly, possibly, that is not verified. they're trying to identify what the debris is. as you know if you have been following this case now for 11-plus days we have been here before. we have chinese officials or at least what they said was satellite data showing wreckage from an aircraft. that turned out not to be the case. so we caution all of these reports because they are very early. this just starting to break about half an hour ...

So that is a plus in terms you wouldn't have a lot of ships. it is a location of one of these gyres where things collect. so there is a lot of debris that may be in the area even though there are not a lot of ships in the area. >> which brings us back to this point. it's not a big shipping area. this is a vast area. look, give you perspective, the royal australian forces who are searching this marine services, they basically have said this is the most remote part of the world that you can get to. this is it. it is bold. it's big. it's deep. and it's frankly in the middle of nowhere. >> right. ...

Bringing the navy subchasers or radar ships into this field is the only way to find that debris. they are taking off from new york and flying to denver and then doing their search in denver and then coming back to new york. it's a huge distance and they are covering a huge area out there. you can't see with a naked eye debris on seas like that. 25 knot winds and nine-foot swells so they have all of the radar electronican assistance ty can and they have it. the downside is the human dimension is beginning to come into clear focus for all of us who have been focused on the mystery and that is tr...