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Tuesday, perhaps as early as wednesday morning before it lifts. as this happens, winds would be upwards of 55 to 60 miles per hour. the swells in the ocean here would be upwards of 13 feet high or three to four meters. we know the aircraft have fueled up so far today, multinational effort. there is the u.s. boeing p-8 poseid poseidon. i want to show you this, because this is the current perspective of the ocean in this region. the area of debris is very little in the way of ocean current us. about 0.2 meters a second, or about six miles a day. unfortunately, it's not just the currents, it's th...

The size of australia. it's not the only thing complicating matters for investigators. right now they also have to contend with the millions of pounds of garbage and other debris they find floating in our oceans every day. dominick is joining me now live in los angeles. this is a sad statement to how all the trash gets there. how much are we talking about? >> a massive amount, jamie. absolutely massive, the biggest problem with the search area, we're in the middle of what's known as the indian ocean garbage dump which is a class ali huge area of the indian ocean, where there's a lot of man mai...

It is extraordinarily. >> bill neely, thank you. kathleen, you ran data for us what it's like in the area of the search. what did you find that can be useful for the viewers? >> reporter: so i use satellite data to calculate surface current. this is currents in the top 30 meters just off the ocean so what the surface of the ocean is doing. we are looking at here is just a global map of what the currents look like around the world. but what we want to focus on today, of course, is down southwest of australia there. you can see there's this line of currents like a strong line of color. what th...

>> reporter: the question this morning are the remains of flight 370 somewhere out there in one of the most remote corners of the earth? did the plane simply fly until it ran out of fuel one day after australia released these satellite photos of what could be floating debris, the search zone was today targeted by aircraft from australia, the u.s., and new zealand. dropping buoy markers that transmit ocean current data. the australian prime minister this morning. >> it's about the most inaccessible spot that you could imagine on the face of the earth, but if there is anything down there, we wil...

12,000 feet on average, the indian ocean. the region we're looking at is very remote, very poor or little radar coverage out here. temperature wise weç are looking at a relatively warm ocean, temperatures between 70 and 80 degrees farenheit. the area of interest is not that warm. that is in general the indian ocean. we have to go much farther south. once we're south of 40 degrees latitude south you're going to be seeing temperatures drop off quickly. in this region temperatures could be as cool as 50 degrees farenheit. there is a disturbance moving through and that is making search here toug...