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Controlled camera from the international space station to get images of any possible plane debris sites. as far as aircraft in the air, especially the lockheed-built p-3 reconnaissance planes, the united states, japan, china and new zealand have deployed the p-3s. the p-8, the sophisticated version, come courtesy of the united states. >> barbara starr joins us right now. barbara, give us a sense of this arsenal being deployed. >> well, you know, it's not just the equipment, but the number of countries that have come together in this very unexpected coalition. this is the size in the coalition ...

Mc-130s. these are not the sub hunters or not as cape blg as the p-3s but they can be refueled in the air with aerial tankers and stay on station. they can only scan, look, they don't have the radar and the infrared like the p-3s have. but that is something somebody should ask for and ask for quickly. because we have to find the wreckage to lead us to the black boxes to lead us to the surface wreckage. >> right. matthew, quickly weigh in here. >> yeah. find the wreckage. that's first and foremost. at that point, the two other searches begin for the flight data recorder and then everything else...

An aircraft carrier can operate, and it would be paced that would give them an opportunity to spend more time on target. i'm excited about what we're hearing tonight about a 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 refu...

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...

Start. but we've talked about a needle in the hay stack. right now we're looking at a needle in nebraska. we may find a needle in a hay field, but once we find the hay stack, then i'm quite confident f we do it in the next few weeks when the pingers are operational, we'll be able to find it, particularly if the u.s. navy send has fleet of their p 3s to that area. we have a few new areas. but the orions, we have 150 in inventory. we could get dozens of those to that area, couple dozen, anyway, quickly. >> sean, we've been told we have 29 vessels out there searching and that 25 of them are pursu...