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The impression, if you will, that it would be somewhere off the korean peninsula. this aircraft carrier group at the best of times, a show of force against north korea. the carrier has no offensive realistic capability against a north korean threat. it was part of the messaging of the military to send it up that way. but still it stopped off australia. surprising a lot of people that it would make a stop along wait. cnn having reported that several days ago, wolf. >> good point. pentagon meanwhile also responding to a new military encounter with russia. tell us about that. >> that was yesterda...

657bb, that's bravo bravo connecting it directly to boeing. but talk about how we have the piece and the fragment with french investigators also a main search site with investigators in australia and how are they all telegraphing the process now of using reunion island as a ground zero for leading to more clues? >> reporter: this is multinational as you say. there were investigators here from malaysia france australia, boeing chinese officials. you have oceanographers helping with this trying to predict the currents and indeed they have been proved right. many of them said you can see an anti-...

That might have identified that as coming from mh-370. there was one number on that piece of wing flap 657bb that identified it as coming from boeing but not from mh-370. the other identifier could have been paint. every airline uses a unique paint on its aircraft and looking for paint fragments to be visible after 17 months in the sea that might have identified it. we don't know exactly what it was that made them conclude it was from mh-370. again, that's maybe what the paris prosecutor will say. so you know this is -- it's stunning news but in one sense it's not surprising if that makes sens...

Veering off course and just crashed into the sea? did it crash violently into the sea or did it glide down and indeed that's one of the things the analysts here looking at that wing part. they've been using an extremely powerful microscope that can increase the size of something by the factor of 100,000. they've been looking at the rips, the tears on that wing part to see is there anything that can show that there was an explosion or a fire or it hit the sea with a great force? nosedived in. anything to provide clues to the second and even greater mystery. we know now mh-370 crashed into the s...

Have marine bileologists looking at the barnacles, the shells on the piece of debris here and tell people the temperature of the water that the aircraft part was in an and the chemical composition of that water and could help pinpoint where the actual wreckage is. you have all these scientists and officials, investigators, police a multinational operation trying to solve the mystery and in australia you have in the indian ocean off the coast of australia, two ships dragging sonar and video along the bed of the sea at maybe 10 miles on a good day trying to find where those black boxes are, tryi...