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So the waves are a little bit choppy and that can present some issues to launching some of the smaller craft that we use to deploy the side scan sonar from however, the fort worth is equipped with some larger versions of those crafts so they can handle a little choppier waves than the other ships we have. >> tell us about the equipment you are using the side scan sonar. >> reporter: it's a high frequency high scan sonar. it's called the tow fish system. it's designed to mount the bottom of the oaks floor. it provides highly accurate imagery for further analysis. it can find things as small as ...

>> reporter: obviously, we are dealing with a much smaller area here. we have a relatively good idea meaning in the scope of tens of hundreds of miles in the year that we are searching. this is an indonesian-led search. so the u.s. navy is just supporting. we will go wherever the ind notion government asks us to go and support. with mh-370 there wasn't whole lot of fidellty or certainty where that plane can go down. you use sonar that can handle much larger areas. >> have you been able to detect any of the penging from the plane's black boxes. >> so far, there haven't been detection of penging...

Areas. an american carrier group is now in place and running emergency supplies into japanese coastal towns. the uss "ronald reagan" was already in the area heading toward south korea when the earthquake struck friday. the ship's crews are filling american and japanese hell couldn't wers food and aid supplies. and we are getting dramatic new images of the tsunami hitting the california coast. dozens of boats sank. hundreds more damaged. they are in the process of cleaning up the damage now. some dredging equipment has also been brought in to help lift the boats from the oaks floor. -- from...