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However, they've got a lot of great people helping them. they've got ntsb, boeing, faa, they have their own staff. it's just going to take time because there's a lot of different parts and pieces coming in. they're going to take a lot of people looking at over a period of time to sort out. >> and then you have almost sort of, jim, politics at play. i mean, i know diplomatic feuds, nothing new when it comes to searches like this, but beijing very angry with malaysia right now. we know the vietnamese have pulled out of searching, frustrated with malaysia. this has happened before. >> no question...

All right, you're looking at live pictures right now from kuala lumpur, where malaysian officials are updating the media about the search for flight 370. still a giant, giant mystery. these officials now are denying a "wall street journal" report that the plane may have been flying for four hours after it lost contact with radar. that would just have giant implications. it would mean the plane could have flown thousands of miles beyond where they're searching right now. and then the question would be why, why was it flying for four more hours? malaysian officials are denying that "wall street ...

In fact, on the other side as you look at that map there that peninsula out into the indian ocean. always looking for a needle in the haystack, right now needles in two hay stacks. questions about how quickly the malaysian air force shared that radar data we've been talking about and reporting on in the last 24 hours. >> jim sciutto, thank you very much indeed. bring in now science educator bill nye, jim tillman, aviation expert and fran townsend, cnn national security analyst and homeland security adviserer to president george w. bush. jim tillman, you're a very experienced pilot. yesterday...

Different areas, experts on weather, maintenance, on air traffic control, every aspect of it. >> reporter: there's no indication that the malaysians haven't done that and fiercely defend their handling of this. they only hold back information when there's more analysis needed. >> this is a crisis situation. it is a very complex operation and it has not always been easy. >> reporter: analysts say part of the problem could be cultural. there's been one coalition leading malaysia for decades. >> in the glare of international publicity. >> reporter: and it's not just the malaysian dealing with med...

Dozens of ships and planes have joined the search for the malaysian airliner now missing for six days. while eyes scan the waters, teams are also using high-tech tools to cover an area of nearly 36,000 nautical square miles. it's the size of portugal now. rene marsh is in washington with more. >> reporter: good morning. a lot to cover this morning. malaysian authorities have handed over both radar data and other information to the ntsb and faa. and the agencies have seen the data. based on that, they agree it was reasonable to extend this search area to the west of the peninsula. but the main ...