Page 8 - Finding Debris News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

The satellite imagery, and i'm sure they take it from commercial sources and from government sources. they provide us with the best data that is available. if you want a detailed explanation, you would have to talk to them. >> how much the debris, potential the. spotted supports the current search area given that may have drifted from that area. >> referring to the new area, aircraft have only just arrived on scene today, so we will need to wait to see what emerges. in regards to the old areas, we have not seen any debris. i would not wish to classify any of the satellite imagery to this debri...

Catastrophic event and i think it is possible we will get a better sense in terms of number of people dead and the number of people missing. there is going to be a huge conference in a couple of hours. authorities are preparing everyone here in this area that the news is going to be quite bleak. they say that the death toll is going to rise significantly. at this point, you said, there are 17 confirmed dead. although we know that seven more people have been found in the debris. they just haven't taken the bodies out yet. those bodies near to be cleared by the medical examiner's office before t...

Whatever was in those satellite photos and seen by the aircraft on those early searches was not related to 370 and probably was not serious degree at all. >> that can be very frustrating. even though things have shifted, planes are in the air, people are looking for possible debris. at this point, has anything been found? >> not yet. they have only been out there for a short time this morning. yesterday they were grounded by the weather for a second time this week. they are trying to get ten aircraft out there today. they will be redirecting the ships. it will take longer to get them out, but ...

Curveball, carol. we'll just have to go with the flow here. this is the nature of search. you know, we started with it could be anywhere in the -- in that hemisphere of the world and we've narrowed it down to the southern indian ocean now. this is just -- you know, when new data comes in you have to roll and move to the new area. it's not throwing away efforts that say that we've searched in the south. we actually -- you know, we never picked up a piece of debris so to look at it that way, we really -- we never saw the airplane down there. the fact that new information has come up and moved us...

Searching through the debris. we are also talking about people that are untrained. community volunteers. >> when you say you are digging by hands, are you literally using your hands? >> yes, gloves on, garden tools. you try to move some debris and mud out of the way. you are literally, a handful of dirt at a time to get every board out of the way. it is so deep. it i six, seven feet deep. it is just roots, trees, wood, shards of glass, window frames. anything. those houses are blown into pieces. i can't believe it. >> you possibly can't tell, carol, but it is continuing to rain. we have a ligh...