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Entities together to provide unity of effort during a response. We need general spiese. Okay, thanks. I would offer a little bit from an institutional perspective at the tactical level in the marine corps. Thats an area where we could use some improvement. Our forces deployed to the western pacific certainly understand this, and they pass it on among themselves. The forces we deploy from Southern California and the east coast that float into theater understand Disaster Assistance and humantarian response very well. That hasnt quite migrated itself into the institutional arena in terms of force...

More than three weeks since flight 370 vanished, a number of rocksolid crews, still remains now at zero. Lets 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, its going to be very hard to see any potential debris. But thats not stopping the search. There are already four planes up in the air. The chinese aleutian should be reaching if not...

Feet. Searches of the area resumed today after a delay caused by bad weather. But the last planes have now returned to base without finding anything definitive. Meanwhile, specialized equipment for the United States arrived in australia today. The equipment includes a blue fin underwater vehicle that would be used if and where officials discover where the plane went down. A possible debris field is raising hopes of locating flight 370, but officials warn, finding anything from the plane could still take some time. Lets bring in our cnn correspondent, will ripley, joining us from perth, austral...

For us. Its something that we do Pay Attention to, of course, as we deploy overseas. Not necessarily forces we have here in the states. We do understand Immediate Response, rolling out the gate to help our neighbors in an immediate nature, but i think not so much in terms of mobilization and deploying inside our country. So, this is an area where opportunities like San Francisco fleet week will allow us for, and i believe at some point really incorporate this in some internal doctrine that will benefit us in the event that this is a requirement inside the u. S. Thank you. This morning secretar...

Indian ocean. Some do appear to be big, the size possibly of a wing. Some a little smaller, perhaps the size of a seat. We are able to identify 122 potential objects. Some objects were mitten length, others as much as 23 meters in length. Some objects appear to be bright, indicating solid material. These images that were focusing on were taken by a french satellite sunday. The objects are about 1600 miles from perth in australia. And the debris field itself is believed to be scattered across some 150 square miles. This is a big area. We have been saying this, time and time again, but the other...