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Days that the search will continue but there is a caveat around that that of course being this priority search zone that is currently being scoured. 23,000 square miles in the southern indian ocean, 1,000 nautical miles off western australia. they are more than 40% through that area using four ships, sonar equipment. the terrain, as we know extremely challenging. we're talking about underwater mountains, volcanos trenches 4,000 meters deep. the concern, as you have referenced is that the families are fearful that if nothing is found in this priority search zone the search will be called off. y...

Phyllis sortor was captured where boko haram does not operate. they wanted a ransom of more than $300,000. u.s. officials won't comment on the release but say negotiations were involved. well it still seems impossible that a plane carrying 239 people vanished, but it did. and it's been a year since mh 370 disappeared and what happened to it remains a complete mystery. as suzanne malveaux reports, the search goes on. >> reporter: one year later and still nothing. the search team still insists the debris field is here on the ocean floor, a location they say satellite data reports to. above the...

Ocean floor, a location they say satellite data points to. above the water's surface, search crews are still weathering cyclones and 50 foot waves. below, mountains, trenches and volcanos make up the treacherous terrain. 40% of the priority search zone has been covered but no wreckage recovered. and with no real clues as to what happened to the boeing 777 after it lost radar contact less than an hour into the flight which took off from kuala lumpur theories abound. a recent "new york times" report cites investigators who favor the rogue pilot explanation, the suspicion that the captain or his ...

Are there signs ofifier or explosive residue, and what about the barnacles? will they provide a clue about the ocean path the debris might have traveled? >> it might be that they're carefully looking at what kind of species of barnacles they are, we can get a clue of where this piece of debris has been passed. >> oceanographers believe the debris could have been carried thousands of miles by the counterclockwise movement of the indian ocean, but coordinators still believe it likely wept down in the priority search zone off the coast of australia, an area they have been searching above water an...