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Northeast of the previous focus from this week. so why has the search area shifted so dramatically? here to break it down cnn aviation analyst and contributor to slate, jeff wise. good to have you here. let's jump into it. i want to read what they announced about the shift in the plane search focus. based on radar analysis indicating the aircraft was traveling faster than previously estimated resulting in an increased fuel usage and reducing the possible distance the aircraft traveled south into the indian ocean. what does that mean? >> confusing language. very confusing language. i want to so...

Game changer. the reason is that when they say they refined their radar analysis, they determined that plane was likely flying faster, which means it ran out of fuel, which means it's in a completely different location than they thought. still shifting much more to the north and east. what does that mean? it does make the search much easier, in the sense it moves it closer to shore. we've been told about the conditions out there, they're horrific on certain days. but it's hard to determine the credibility of what's come before, all of that evidence from satellites, is it debris, is it garbage,...

The latest information coming out overnight. welcome back to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm poppy harlow. it is friday morning, 32 minute past 4:00 a.m. here on the east coast. we begin with breaking news this morning. a huge change of direction in the hunt for missing flight 370. australian officials all but abandoning the current search area and shifting the focus to a new area of the indian ocean nearly 700 miles away. the course correction coming after new radar analysis determined the plane was actually flying faster than previously thought, burning more fuel, and presumably,...

And no radar expert, but it's been explained to me that radar blips are fairly simple. and that it seems, you know, it seems that they should have before now worked out that the plane was traveling faster as it traveled from flip a to blip b. it seems stagger, but we have to assume since they're experts that there was some good reason why they were conducting this search based on radar analysis so far further south and are now moving north. >> thank you very much for joining us with the latest tonight. thank you. >> you're welcome. coming up, president obama meets the pope. father james mart...

Moved to a new area of the indian ocean. this new area, 680 miles to the northeast. this is based on what australian officials say is new, credible evidence. four aircraft already over the new search zone has since returned and all ten planes and six ships now have new marching orders and are on the way there. they're now searching somewhere else entirely. why? well, new radar analysis suggests the plane was traveling faster than previous estimates. that means it was burning more fuel and would have flown a shorter distance in the indian ocean. let's get to cnn's andrew stevens. he's live in p...