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>> yeah, they're saying there's going to be heavy showers out there and the swells will get going. that will cause problems for ocean shield. certainly when the auv comes up to the top, the bluefin-21 and getting it connected to the ship and on to the ship, itself. as for the visual search, that will have the biggest effect on the visual search because the low cloud cover or white caps in the swells don't make their job easier. they may put that off for a day or two until the storm goes by. keep in mind, the visual search is already very difficult given it's been so many days since this airlin...

>> and the effects of that tropic tropical cyclone can be pelt in the search area. it may impact the ship above the water, the ocean shield, but the bluefin, itself, works well under the water. the big issue is put it down in the weather, bringing it back up when there's bad weather. >> stand by for a moment. i want to go live to the staging area. cnn's miguel marquez is joining us from perth, australia, with the very latest. what are you learning, miguel? >> reporter: we know if nothing is found in the next couple days, as they work their way through this most promising area of the search zon...

Joins me in new york. also, joined again by sea operations specialist tim taylor. good to see both of you. >> send me to new york and then they work me to death. >> that's what happens here. let's talk about this. where is jack and how big of a problem is jack going to cause? >> jack has made the entire sea search operation cease. not the bluefin, but everything that's on the surface. the surface of this ocean right now looks look a blender. the waves are 10, 15 feet. the winds are 60 miles, 80 miles an hour. you couldn't find anything on the ocean because it's just all white caps. the surface...

We talked about this underwater search vehicle, the "ocean shield" still pulling this locator around here, trying to find the bottom, trying to find something here. and we're talking about circling the area that we think it is, only about 4 miles around that radius. and this ship now, the "ocean shield" only going one half of a mile per hour looking for that. obviously, the autonomous vehicle right underneath it. rain across the center of the country, east coast good shape, lots of sunshine. boston, d.c., great shape today. planes in the air, no delays at all. expect a couple bumps through the...

Others. nothing of note has come up on those scans. but search leaders say they are still confident they're in the right area. still, they may scale back or end entirely the underwater search in five to seven days. that's because the area they're focusing on now, the area they will be focusing on for the next week is the area that has the best leads. the ones that they've been able to further refine every single day from those four acoustic signals that "ocean shield" picked up last week. if they don't find anything in the next week, they say they'll have to go back to the drawing board and fi...