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Certainly have a storm system on the approach here. we think it's going skirt the southern tier of the search area. you see a lot of clouds pushing in. and certainly can't rule out an isolated thunderstorm in the region, but visibility going to be reduced. that's the main concern. i don't see much in the way of wind impact in the area. that's the areas where we had the search initially, a couple of weeks ago. so conditions in that regard really not as bad as we've seen them. want to talk about the search area,s in very close approximpr to an area known as the wallaby plateau. we know ping dete...

Gullies and canyons, and the ocean silt, as much as ten meters in height and thickness. really complicating when it comes to locating the flight data recorder and also debris that may have sunk, where it goes down to 20,000 feet. and ping detection, 7,000 feet deep. in the plateau region, as well. so plenty of range and t topography to work with there. so there is the region where we know it is in the tens of meters as far as thickness is concerned. what a lot of officials here have touched on, when you talk about the meters, 30-plus in silt, the sound will be deflected. as a typical bed rock ...

About compared to the indian ocean. 260,000 square kilometers, roughly the size of romania is the the search zone. so when you go in for a closer perspective, the areas we're talking about beneath the sea's surface, this is what we're looking at. depths as low as about 20,000 feet. ping detection, 14,700 feet. getting down towards, really, the lowest points of this portion of the indian ocean. so we know the officials there saying this is doable, it certainly is possible to find this. they have the technology to do so. but it is a very challenging setup based on what we know and what we don't ...

Commander, mr. houston, is going to have to reprioritize these assets and make a judgment call. >> how so? >> if it's the pinger, does he send in the maritime surveillance aircraft? is that enough to say yes or no or does he deploy a submarine and sending down there? it's a priority sort of -- >> les brings up a point he brought up earlier where he said it's been 24 hours since we heard about this so-called ping detection that they heard. and so far we have heard no confirmation from the chinese government and nothing else. we've heard about it. that's suspect, mary. >> it is. and plus, they -...