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Cushions or anything else floating on top of the water, a big fuel slick, anything like that. all these nations are involved and brought along a significant amount of assets. we have about 30 different ships involved 15 airplanes. still, this is a tremendous area to cover and it's complicated by this simple fact. look at the weather out here. this was the weather when the plane went down and they've had bits and pieces of the same kind of weather happening out there now. so all of those planes all of those ships trying to search out there, they're encountering the same sort of circumstances th...

>> right. and when you travel around the world, you know, many of these cargo ships and cruise ships just throw garbage over the side. they flush their tanks. they do all kinds of things that are terrible for the environment. but they don't care. and if they think they're in international waters, that debris can drift in and, you know, land on the coast of any of the countries involved. so that's another frequent thing, just standing on the coastline, you see junk come pouring ashore that some ship dumped out at sea. >> and we micssed the opportuniy to try and find a fuel slick. it's broken up...

A massive search effort over the waters south of vietnam yielded no evidence of wreckage or debris despite several false alarms. families of the 239 on board are waiting for information. joining me now is nbc's foreign correspondent keir simmons and tom costello from washington. tom, bring us up to date on the false alarms and what you know. >> much of the evidence that we thought we were getting over the weekend, my point as to where the plane is has turned out to be false. the fuel slick spotted by the ve vietnamese came from a ship of some sort. the debris over the weekend was nothing from ...

from the airline used the word crash in their discussions with the families? >> not so far, jim. they are being very cautious of any linkage of the fuel slick that is spotted by a vietnamese reconnaissance plane and the crash of mh 370, and so they are not linking the two together at the moment. as you point out, having that sort of evidence in that region, does give a very, very worrying tone to the developments which will occur over the next few hour hours. what we do know is that two chinese warships have been dispatched to that area. one of them is called a dock loading ship, and it is ...

Short flight, less than an hour in a small plane even such as the one gone missing, but that's a very large area of sea to search and they've been using boats and using divers and they've been using planes and come up with nothing so far. >> greta: i take it, this is a small plane so not carry a lot of fuel, but i take it there's no sort of fuel slick on the tor top of the water, nothing to indicate the plane went down. >> nothing at all. the last communication with the plane, and coming back to the venezuela mainland was ten nautical miles away from the archipelago and no sign at that time th...