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Pauline. >> reporter: michaela, i want to introduce you to steven wong. he's from beijing. his mother, a retired chemistry teacher, is on the flight. steve and i have been talking the past couple of days off camera. steve, now you're ready to give your message to the world. initially you didn't want to do media interviews but now you've become so frustrated with what's going on. what exactly are you asking for on this day, day 18 as we wrap up this day? >> well, me and most of the relatives here are seeking for the truth, the truth about what happened to the plane and the truth about where it ...

Just talking about that last ping. i agree this is a exciting development. hopefully it will establish a tighter area where we can put the search and put the assets that will benefit getting this done quickly. >> thank you for being with us. we're going to talk much more about this. >> we will get back to our coverage of flight 370 in just a moment. >> first, to a story in washington state that needs our attention. the death toll keeps rising from a mudslide in washington state. officials says as many as 24 people have died. rescuers are working in conditions described as like wet quick sand. ...

Officials revealed 122 possible objects of debris. they caution it's not clear yet if they are from flight 370. some of the families are now taking legal action, initiating a multi-million lawsuit against malaysia airlines. here with us is justin green. i'll do my best to work through this with you. i want to get to the litigation that has been filed in a moment. but i think one of the questions remains for a lot of people, given the fact that they have not physically got their hands on the wreckage or debris, what can the families pursue in terms of litigation without that debris? >> the only...

To any possible one theory about how this flight may have ended? >> no, actually, it doesn't. it really doesn't help us at all other than just tell us that if these are airplane parts, obviously the airplane went in the water, but it doesn't tell us how it ended up in the water or if it went in under control versus out of control. so, still a long ways from being able to make that type of determination. >> that, of course, is even if these objects are ever found and if they are known to be connected to flight 370. i know you know that. jeff wise, the other key piece of information over the las...

Families of those involved, they'll say nothing is going to satisfy them until they get some declaration that this really is the debris field and find out. so is enough enough? depends on who you ask. the weather as we've heard has been so dramatic. the debris field has been moving or the fields of what we've been spotting from the satellites have been moving constantly that this is so critical to be able to put not just the eyes from the satellites and the aircraft, but to be able to pick up those pieces and identify that as part of the flight. >> i want to back up right now. the satellite ha...