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Indian ocean, the calculation it took one of two turns, that it flew either into the northwest into the bay of bengal off of india or it flew essentially to the southeast, further south towards the island chains down in the far indian ocean. these are hundreds of you miles now being searched but the critical thing, wolf, this now begins to narrow the search into specific areas. none of this is for certain. this is an analysis that they have done, based on the data that they have collected, based on what they know, what those pings were, how far the plane may have flown in those hours and what ...

Are getting now is from u.s. officials and remember it was earlier today malaysia time when they had the head of the investigation speaking to reporters and denying this report saying it was inaccurate and that is proven false. you had the contradictory statements coming out and when we first heard of this radar data, cnn heard of a senior military source and later officials in the prime minister's office saying that's not true. a lot of mixed signals and it's not just frustrating us. it's frustrating the investigators and they want to contribute with the investigation. one point as a matter o...

Looking at the last 24, 48 hours that shows the alternate path. malaysians had that data for a few days and weren't sharing it widely. one force, there's a force at work here. there's a lot of tensions in this part of the south china sea, territorial disputes. we're talking about a territory dispute in europe and ukraine and one over here over a lot of different island chains between china and japan and china and southeast asian countries. this is a sensitive area of defense and the chinese may not want to show its competitors in that part of the world or us, the u.s. the extent of its satelli...

Convinced it's the real deal. >> no question, and coming from china state tv, which would have connections with those chinese satellite organizations as well. but there's a back story here as well. as this is happening there is a massive territorial dispute going on in the south china sea not far over here. there are a number of island chains disputed between these countries. you have malaysia, indonesia, vietnam, china. you might understand and from a national security standpoint that china with the satellites ree vealing to the world how good those satellites are, how accurately they can dep...