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Overcome just about anything. it was the worst possible situation for that ship to be disabled right by the eye of the hurricane. captain, what will you do today? where will you look? what s the plan? overnight, we had our three coast guard cutters out there. there are also three commercial tugs that are on scene, hired by the company. this morning, coming up here at first light we will have more aircraft on scene, coast guard c-130, hercules aircraft and air force c-130 as well as a navy p-8. we ll focus our search efforts on the smaller areas around the debris fields and do all we can to identify and search for any signs of life, any survivors. we wish you godspeed with all that. we know you have a herculean task ahead of you. thanks so much for making time for us, captain we appreciate it. over to michaela. the rain has stopped but the floodwaters and the threat level continue to rise in the ....
I want to just focus on the navy p-8 aircraft. that s a pretty sophisticated aircraft. we flew it very high up at 27,000 feet altitude so we could scan a very wide area. we covered 70,000 square nautical miles yesterday looking for the el fargo. based on all of that, for our search planning efforts we are assuming that the vessel has sank. we believe it sank in the last known position that we recorded on thursday. so what that means though, we just change our search planning efforts. we are still looking for survivors or any signs of life, any signs of that vessel. we are still doing that. so the search for survivors continues. yesterday, because of those favorable search conditions, we were able to see a lot of material that was at sea. a lot of things that came from a container ship of that size. ....
we re trying to piece together what this evidence possibly means. this could be the beginning of slowly piecing this puzzle back together so we can hopefully figure out what happened. what kinds of thing are you looking for in the next couple hours? well, as investigators we have to deal in physical evidence. if this is debris from flight 370, this would be the first piece of physical evidence that we have. actually something an investigator can put their hands on and try to piece it back together. give us a sense, and we know this is the largest aviation investigation. the largest aviation search in history. but what are the different things happening now? we ve been focusing largely on this navy p-8. because obviously they re over this area where we believe these ....