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Search like that. with a person in the water, you're not looking for a person you're looking for a head which is very very small for a person in the water you really like a space between the grid lines to be about a tenth of a mile. when you're talking 30,000 square miles, that's an awful lot of search area. so then you really have to decide whether you want to cover more area or you want to be efficient in one small area. it's a tough call. you have to look at the weather and you have the gulf stream pushing them north and the winds the last couple of days have been out of the southwest. that...

Narrow. 820 feet wide when you get into the close zone of the canyon. they placed a grid line with the room they have to work with. one helicopter directing other helicopters in the grid lines. that is to drop personnel to the floor. the concerns are the winds. thursday and friday. the prevailing winds like to stay at the ridgetops. when you get within the mountain side a narrow grid line and a lot of personnel across the region that will be a major concern when it comes to the hazards across the central mediterranean. the forecast could bring in winds gusting up to 50 miles per hour across th...

The reason i say it would be undoable, impossible to search 20 million square miles, look at what has to happen in these search areas. if they want to search one of these areas, even though they have more than 40 ships out there, close to 40 aircraft, satellite imagery, what they have to do with each of the grids, they have to start by going in and making grid lines. then one at a time these boats and planes and satellite passes have to go over and mark off every little square. as the water moves, you have to go back and check it again. bear in mind, this is six days now. something that came d...

Commence this rescue operation? >> well, let me, first of all, go ahead and make a comparison. in alabama, you know, we saw a tornado that struck a populated area that was not geographically located near major urban centers. now, what we have here in joplin is an urban area that was hit, you know, right through the center of town. however, we are geographically located near springfield, missouri, and kansas city, missouri and kansas city, kansas. the first responders that have come to joplin have been just amazing. the tier 1s have just been doing it phase line by phase line. initially what yo...

Phase by phase, and they're going to go down grid lines, down individual blocks and individual houses, they're going to have cadaver dogs, they're going to have fiber optic cameras, they're going to be in there and searching for these people and it's just been incredible right here. >> from what you've seen, ford, has the operation been as fast as it could have been. are you impressed by the speed of the response? >> yeah. i am absolutely impressed here. i think with alabama, we learned a lot. here, we've kind of brought a different angle. in alabama, we were working mainly in the rural area. ...