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Completely different set of coordinates to take this thing well away from where we're looking right now. >> don, on the floating runway thing, about the station time, there has been progress made today. i understand the reporting that malaysia is asking for u.s. refueling capability, so that should help the amount of time these aircraft are able to stay on station. >> p-8s can be refueled in flight, the p-3s cannot be refueled in flight. if you're sending an aircraft carrier, you're sending a lot more assets down there, because you're sending a carrier group. >> when we come back, we'll check ...

After days of searching need to rest. greta? there is so much sen trace on the southern routes, indian ocean with the p-8s and p-3s and the images from these satellites is anyone paying aany attention to that northbound route. >> i'm sure somebody is paying attention to the northern route. our sources tell us they are focusing right now on the southern route. in fact, they are sort of catching their breath after the initial first week where they were scouring even looking for run whys out in the middle of nowhere. again, the focus right now on the southern corridor. nothing very positive com...

A quarter billion dollar piece of machinery, the americans' gear out there currently searching right now. for all that we see here, i think there are only nine people that actually man this technology. >> yeah. there's nine people on board and they've all got various roles. you've got three people responsible for the radar. this thing has got -- has got what's called a synthetic appear tour radar. we have all heard of the primitive primary radar that sends out pulses and pings back. this can send out an energy pulse and recognizes what a ship is or aircraft through its al although rhythmic sys...

We still don't know if those two fuzzy satellite images are pieces of the missing plane, but either way, it does seem like a few major countries are going all in to search that area for malaysia airlines flight 370. just today, china announced it's sending three warships to the coast of australia, japan, and india, and also sending resources, new zealand -- the resources from new zealand, australia, and the u.s. are already there. joining me now, nbc's tom costello. what's the latest? >> the latest, they still have spotted nothing out there, of course, and now it's, what, 10:30 at night in tha...

>> i think it's really just a matter of flight conditions and darkness, to be honest. it's 11:00 at night there. you have now had today five planes in that search zone. you had three p-3s, these sophisticated submarine hunters with those radar -- with that radar technology. those coming from australia and new zealanzealand, also a p-8, very sophisticated, most modern sub hunter the united states has, and a c-130 cargo plane was out there as well, dropping these buoyant markers. the idea is they transmit constant data about the sea currents and the ocean conditions, and that information transmi...