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More than three weeks since flight 370 vanished, a number of rock-solid crews, still remains now at zero. let's get to atika shubert, shall we, standing by live in perth on the west coast of australia. atika, from what you have seen, how many planes are in the air now and how big of a concern is the weather? >> reporter: the weather is always going to be a big concern. as you point out, with the low clouds hanging over, it's going to be very hard to see any potential debris. but that's not stopping the search. there are already four planes up in the air. the chinese aleutian should be reaching...

Listen for a pinging noise. that's all but impossible. that also, of course, makes it difficult for the air crews to, you know, identify anything in the churn, as it were. so it becomes, you know, pretty much impractical and really frankly dangerous to search under conditions like that. god forbid something gets hurt in the effort to find this wreckage. there is a, you know, it's a difficult balance given the emotions and the stakes for the families. but at a certain point, mother nature is going to win. >> yeah. and, you know, bobbie, it's not just what we see on the surface, the rain, the cl...

Indicates the plane was traveling faster than was previously estimates resulting in increased fuel usage and decreasing the possible distance it traveled south into the indian ocean. >> also this new area here has turned up something incredible. finally we can report the first non-satellite sightings of potential debris. separate planes out of ten spotted something. this is a picture of that something. multiple objects we are told. various sizes and colors. our correspondent who has been working the story out of perth. she was on board one of the really sophisticated planes, p 8 and she hersel...

Investigation continues intensively on passengers, cargo, ground crew, anybody that had access to that airplane. so they haven't ruled all of the other possibilities out in terms of somebody doing bad things on that aircraft, or to the aircraft. >> criminal activity or mechanical failure, those are still obviously the two areas where they're investigating. peter, these latest satellite images that we're seeing seem to suggest more and more potential debris, wreckage from the plane, floating around there some place. >> you're right, wolf. these are some of the first images that i've felt are so...

>> this is "new day" with chris cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. >> good morning. welcome to "new day," thursday, march 27th. it's 8:00 in the east. i'm alongside john berman in for chris cuomo. another possible big field of debris has been spotted by satellite in the indian ocean. thai satellites picked up about 300 object pos tentially linked to the plane. 120 miles west of where more objects were spotted earlier this week. >> search planes were out today but they were called back because of the bad weather. they'll have to wait before they go out again to search the area. six shi...