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>> sure. they're estimating that the wreckage is moving perhaps 100 miles each day depending on the wind. when you've got 30-foot seas, that really disburses a debris field. so they've got to get some luck, they've got to get a boat on the scene where they've got a picture. and i hope it's going to happen soon. >> and they desperately want to get the flight data recorder and voice recorder. still supposedly we are hoping pinging a little bit, but there may be only ten or 11 or 12 days left, mark, as you well know. >> yeah, i mean, we've heard various times that the pingers may have already sto...

The characteristics of their buoyancy. if you have a group of items that are more under water, they're going to be carried by the currents. if some of it's above the water or parts of it are, then the wind has the effect. so with the massive winds that you have in this area of the world and they've been going through, which are driving the weather, i would imagine that most of this debris, if it's staying together, is a little bit below the surface, not as much above the wind, that's why it's being pulled together by the current. >> you look at the navy reports, whenever they talk about what t...

Prepare. >> we're joined by tim taylor, a sea operation specialist and president of subsea services and ocean research corporation and mark weiss, cnn aviation analyst, retired captain with american airlines, only 20 years or so in the cockpit of an american airlines jet. i want to begin with you if i can, mark, just with this new information, a "usa today" report saying investigators in malaysia focusing more on the pilot. they're talking act evidence of premeditation. i should caution our viewers, u.s. officials telling us it's their information so far that they have not turned up any smokin...

Manufactured from 2015 forward. it doesn't help anything in the past. >> and there are 20,000 planes up there now. could take a lot of time to retrofit. speaking with mark weiss, our aviation analyst, longtime american airlines pilot, he made the point that a boeing 777 has more metal in it than the airbus, which was the air france plane, which has more composite, which is therefore more likely to float, making parts of the 777 less likely to float because that metal content. does that make sense to you? >> in some respects. i admire mark weiss -- i know him quite well and he's definitely the ...

We've had this press conference. listen to authorities and then we'll goat back to mark weiss on the other side. >> chief executive officer. local inspector general and police for the malaysian police force. ladies and gentlemen, members of the media, to start the press conference this evening, i hereby call upon hishammuddin bin hussein, acting minister of transport, to do his statement. sir, if you would please do us the honor. >> as the search for mh-370 continues, we remain focused on narrowing the search area. with such strong cooperation from our international partners, the challenge is ...